History and British Heritage Events

 Children´s Holiday Workshop - A Face Of Time, Moyse´s Hall - Bury St Edmunds

Learning from the newly displayed timepieces and paintsing make a sundial and a portrait. Booking essential 01284 706183...

 Children´s Holiday Workshop - Anglo-Saxon Crafts, Moyse´s Hall - Bury St Edmunds

Using basketry skills from the Anglo-Saxons, make a model fish. Booking essential 01284 706183....

 Children´s Holiday Workshop - Design A T-Shirt, Moyse´s Hall - Bury St Edmunds

With fabric pens and paints, design a museum t-shirt using inspiiration from the Moyse´s Hall collections and architecture. Booking essential 01284 706183...

 Children´s Holiday Workshop - Looking At Pottery, Moyse´s Hall - Bury St Edmunds

Look at pots through the ages and paint a porcelain vase. Booking essential 01284 706183...

 Children´s Holiday Workshop - The Victorian Fossil Hunter, Moyse´s Hall - Bury St Edmunds

Why did people collect fossils? Look and handle some that collectors in the past may have found and make a fossil to take home. Booking essential 01284 706183...

 Children´s Holiday Workshop - Victorian Mosaics, Moyse´s Hall - Bury St Edmunds

Looking at the Victorian period design a mosaic of Victorian patterns still seen in many homes today. Booking essential 01284 706183...

 Fleet Air Arm Museum 

Where museum meets theatre.The Fleet Air Arm Museum is guaranteed to change your perception of aircraft museums.The Museum’s award winning Aircraft Carrier Experience is where Museum meets theatre. You’ll be ‘transported’ by helicopter to the replica flight deck of the aircraft carrier HMS ARK ROYAL.On board ...

 Jermyn Of Rushbrooke - Lecture, Moyse´s Hall - Bury St Edmunds

Anthony Adolph, co-presenter of Channel 4´s Extraordinary Ancestors and most recently BBC1s Gene Detectives looks at Jermyn´s family who were Lords of the Manor of Rushbrooke, near Bury St Edmunds. His book ´Full of Soup and Gold: the life of Henry Jermyn´ will be available on the day. Booking essential. 01284 70618...

 Living History Day - Everything Mediaeval, Moyse´s Hall Museum - Bury St Edmunds

Join ´The Whittinghams´ exploring the 15th century through Henry VI personal household. Try your hand at mediaeval script, make and dress in armour, learn about mediaeval herbs and more....

 Murder In The Red Barn - Lecture, Moyse´s Hall - Bury St Edmunds

Join Ron Murrell for an account of this well-known story and see items displayed in the museum. £3.60 adults/£3.10 concessions. Booking essential 01284 706183...

 Northampton and Lamport Railway, Northampton And Lamport Railway - Northampton

The Northampton & Lamport Railway is a steam and heritage diesel operated tourist railway located in the Northamptonshire countryside just 5 miles from Northampton, within easy reach of the motorway network.A number of special events take place throughout the year, including three visits from Thomas the Tank Engine...

 Selective Remembrance: A Very British View Of The First World War - Lecture, Moyse´s Hall - Bury St Edmunds

Taff Gillingham, military historian and advisor for several television documentaries (including Bad Lads Army and The Trench) looks at the First World War and attempts to re-dress the balance. Booking essential 01284 706183...

 The Benedictine Abbey: Arches And How You Make One - Lecture, Moyse´s Hall - Bury St Edmunds

Using inspiration from the architecture of Moyse´s Hall, come and find out how the arches were built, with Brian Ansell, stonemason. Booking essential 01284 706183...

 There´s More To Buttons Than You Think - Lecture, Moyse´s Hall - Bury St Edmunds

Let Sigrid Josefowski, button collector, tell you stories about buttons. Booking essential £3.60 adults/£3.10 concessions. 01284 706183...

 Victorian Week, Moyse´s Hall - Bury St Edmunds

A week of Victorian activities including workshops on Victorian Life, Victorian Toys, polishing the silver and shoes, dressing up, quizzes. Guided tour with a Victorian gentleman on Tuesday and Thursday at 2.30pm. Telephone for exact timings and to reserve places. 01284 706183...

 Witchcraft Tour, Moyse´s Hall - Bury St Edmunds

Join museum staff for a tour and tales of witchcraft incorporating items in the museum. Booking essential 01284 706183...

 Boscobel House and The Royal Oak, Boscobel House - Boscobel

Boscobel House was built around 1632, when John Gifford of Whiteladies converted a timber-framed farmhouse into a hunting lodge. The Gifford family were Catholics, at a time when the religion was outlawed. Tradition holds that the true purpose of Boscobel was to serve as a secret place for the shelter of Catholics in t...

 1066 Battle of Hastings Abbey, Hastings Abbey - Battle

There’s one date in English history that everyone knows – 1066, the year the invading Normans defeated the Anglo-Saxons at the Battle of Hastings. Visit Battle and explore the historic battlefield and the ruins of the abbey that William the Conqueror later built to atone for the bloodshed of the Norman Conquest. You c...

 Abbey Pumping Station

Abbey Pumping Station is Leicester’s Museum of Science and Technology, displaying Leicester’s industrial, technological and scientific heritage. Situated adjacent to the National Space Centre, the two attractions tell the story of over 200 years of science and technology from the early days of steam and industry, to s...

 Abbot House Heritage Centre

You´ll be tickled pink when you visit Dunfermline´s award-winning Abbot House Heritage Centre. The most venerable house in Scotland´s ancient capital is conspicuous not only for its authentic pink livery, but for its enchanting and atmospheric visitor experience.For the better part of a millennium, pilgrims have bea...