Heritage & Culture

Explore Peterborough’s rich and exciting heritage from the comfort of your browser, with The Moment’s Historic Peterborough section.

Illuminating Longthorpe

One of Peterborough’s great historic treasures is Longthorpe Tower but until this year, opportunities to visit it were limited....

A Spooky Night At The Museum

Peterborough’s most haunted building is reputed to be the City Museum. Which is why our very own Richard Gunn...

THE VIKINGS ARE HERE!

Peterborough Museum plays host to a very special exhibition this summer, focussing on how the Vikings stamped their influence...

Stamford: the town that lives history

Richard Gunn tells the story of Stamford, one of Britain’s best-loved and best-preserved old towns and explains quite how...

The History Man

If there’s a ‘face’ of local heritage, then it belongs to Stuart Orme, Vivacity’s Interpretation Manager. RICHARD GUNN meets...

Beautiful Burghley

RICHARD GUNN visits Burghley House near Stamford, probably the finest of England’s surviving Elizabethan houses, and tells its history...

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