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Mary Beard: 'Ancient bread sparked my fascination with the past'
Dame Mary Beard brings her latest enthralling show about the Romans to York this week, exploring the lives of those often left out of the history books. Laura R...

Dr Adam Parker, Curator of Archaeology at The Yorkshire Museum, holding a 2000 year old Iron Age Bronze Terret Ring just one of the many items found in this hoard.

How you can get the rare chance to see Iron Age hoard found in Yorkshire

A metal detectorist on a beach.

More than 100 pieces of treasure found in Yorkshire in a single year

Dame Julia Hoggett addresses the event

Alternative Investment Market 'crucial to future of UK economy', LSE boss says

Dr Andrew Woods (left) and Dr Adam Parker examining some of the Iron Age artefacts, found in 2021 by a detectorist

Iron Age artefacts found in field to go on display in Yorkshire

Director of the British Museum Nicholas Cullinan at Cliffe Castle Musuem, Keighley where Ice Age Art Now, a British Museum Partnership Exhibition, is on display. Picture: Jonathan Gawthorpe

Big Interview with Dr Nicholas Cullinan, director of the British Museum

Rosie Barrett, collections manager at Beck Isle Museum in Pickering looks at Francis Nicholson lithographs in the new exhibition space hosting What's in Store'. Photograph by Tony Johnson.

Exhibition to allow visitors glimpse behind the scenes of Yorkshire museum

The Ryedale Hoard.

The metal detectorists digging up the past from beneath our feet

Doncaster Young People part of the 'Where We Are...' Project.

'Who We Are': Young Doncaster voices explore identity in new exhibition

The gold and garnet artwork was found near Pocklington - an area famous for archaeological discoveries

Delight as charity wins race to keep 1,400-year-old artwork in Yorkshire

The Film Festival Guild-sponsored ‘British Animation Film Festival 2025

North Yorkshire animation company Owl House Studios, scoops prestigious film awa...

Professor Tom Moore, head of archaeology at Durham University, holding up a decorative copper alloy finial

Iron Age hoard discovered in Yorkshire could unlock ancient secrets

Collections & House Officer Iona Hart view the new art exhibition 'The Botanical World of Mary Delany' in partnership with the British Museum in the Reddihough Gallery at Beningbrough Hall, York. Photograph by Tony Johnson.

The wonderful world of 18th century botanical artist Mary Delany

Laura Turner, curator, preparing the Mary Delany photgraphic artworks. Picture: National Trust/Gareth Buddo.

The 18th century artist who created hundreds of botanical works in her 70s

York Minster. (Pic credit: Marisa Cashill)

York Minster named among best attractions in the UK in Tripadvisor awards

Janice Smith, exhibition curator looking at items on display as part of the collection. Picture By Yorkshire Post Photographer, James Hardisty.

The Yorkshire antiquarian and archaeologist who was a man ahead of his time

Dave Sonik Jordan (right) and Raymond Harper with the cannon retrieved from the river.

Magnet fishers find cannon in river in what is believed to be a UK first

LONDON, ENGLAND - AUGUST 8: Police restrict access outside the British Museum on August 8, 2023 in London, England. The Metropolitan Police said they were called to Museum Street at 10AM after a reported stabbing. A man was subsequently taken to the hospital with a stab wound and another was arrested on suspicion of Grievous Bodily Harm. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)

Breaking British Museum stabbing: Man injured and another arrested

Archaeologist Prof Martin Carver from the University of York is rebuilding Sutton Hoo's Ship, pictured at his home at Ellerton, East Riding. Image: Simon Hulme

Sutton Hoo archaeologist rebuilds Anglo-Saxon 'ghost' ship to sail through York

Pushing paper at Cooper Gallery in Barnsley

Ad Feature WATCH LIVE: Pushing paper art exhibition virtual tour and curator Q&A

"Snail man", a mount which may have "a form of medieval meme", which was discovered in Pontefract. (Pic: Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service)

Silver-gilt mount dating back hundreds of years found in Yorkshire
A “snail man” mount which may have been “a form of medieval meme” has been discovered in Yorkshire.
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Castle Howard

Castle Howard and York Minster make Lonely Planet top 500

Protesters throw statue of Edward Colston into Bristol harbour during a Black Lives Matter protest rally, in memory of George Floyd who was killed on May 25 while in police custody in the US city of Minneapolis.

Slave trader Edward Colston has left my family with this moral dilemma – Yorksh...

A Tudor-era ring found in a field in Fulford, near York

Treasure found in North West Yorkshire on 24 occasions in 2019

Malham Cove

The Yorkshire Dales has been named on a Lonely Planet list of the best British e...

From the outside: The Coral Room, a chic all-day bar and restaurant.

London hotel review - The Bloomsbury

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Why Edvard Munch’s The Scream is an image for the modern age

The gold armlet dating from 4,000 years ago

Metal detector strikes gold finding 4,000-year-old buried treasure in Yorkshire ...

The gold armlet is worm - for the first time in 4,000 years

Detectorist strikes gold finding 4,000-year-old jewellery in East Yorkshire fiel...

A historic picture of Doncaster Grammar School.

YP Letters: Doncaster and the historic heritage that helps build a town's pride ...

FUN WITH ART: Laura Farrell, from Nunnington Hall, hangs illustrations by William Heath Robinson. PIC: Bruce Rollinson

Nunnington Hall '˜privileged' to display work of The Gadget King

Some of the coins. Pictures supplied by Wakefield Coroner's Court.

Roman coin treasure hoard found in Wakefield garden
A treasure trove of Roman coins was unearthed in the garden of a Wakefield house.
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Brooch. Image supplied by Wakefield Coroner's Court

Metal detectorist unearths brooch deemed to be treasure

Jennifer Smith with the spoon

Welcome home for the spoon with a tale to tell

Wakefield Coroner's Court

Historic gold ring found in Pontefract declared to be treasure

The Hepworth Wakefield.

The Hepworth wins major award and picks up Â£100,000

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Hepworth Wakefield named Art Fund Museum of the Year - with Â£100,000 cheque

Alketa Xhafa Mripa in her Refugees Welcome installation.

The art installation where you can take tea with a refugee

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Travel review: A weekend in central London

Family trip to museum costs almost as much as weekly food shop

Simon Wallis (director) The Hepworth Gallery

Wakefield gallery's chance of Â£100,000 prize in prestigious art contest

A silver and gold hoard (927 AD) found in the Vale of York in 2007 and acquired jointly by the British Museum, the Yorkshire Museum and Harrogate Museum. Picture: Trustees of the British Museum and York Museums Trust.

Seven best archeological hoards found in Yorkshire

York Minster was the third most visited cathedral in the country last year, according to ALVA's figures. Picture by James Hardisty.

Four Yorkshire attractions make UK top 100 list

Jorvik reopens in April 2017

Culture clash as Viking life is relived in 21st century York

Picasso pictured visiting South Yorkshire almost 70 years ago - now his work is on show at Barnsley's Cooper Gallery.

VIDEO & 360 PHOTO: Picasso Linocuts exhibition opens in Yorkshire at Barnsley Co...

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World's greatest artists go on show

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Minister won't step in to help Bradford museum

David Oxtoby with one of his works of art

The Bradford Mafia: When art world looked to Yorkshire

All that glitters: The West Yokshire Hoard was unearthed in a Leeds field

Video: Anglo Saxon gold from a Leeds field goes on display

Viking warrior Mark Smith weighs part of the Vale of York Hoard, as part of the 'It's a Jorvik Life' at the Yorkshire Museum in York.

Picture : Jonathan Gawthorpe

Treasure hoard gives inspiration for kids’ activities

A headless statue of the river god Ilissos found in the Parthenon in Athens, Greece nearly 2,500 years ago

Elgin Marbles row reignited as British Museum opts to lend statue to Russia

James Berry (left), the managing director of the Myers Group.

Myers launches expansion drive

Katherine Baxter, Curator of Archaeology at Leeds City Museum

The empire strikes back

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Mummies to reveal new body of evidence in museum show

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Wraps come off warship for Vikings exhibition

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Viking warship goes on show

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Call for a Northern House of Lords

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Viking hoard found in Yorkshire is a “nationally important discovery”

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Treasure hunter unearths Bronze Age axe heads in field

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Spotlight on artist who took long look at Japanese street life

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