Royal Photographic Society Documentary Photographer of the Year 2021 Touring exhibition can be seen at Chippenham Museum until 12 November. The RPS Documentary Photographer of the Year is an international competition attracting exceptional visual storytellers from across the world. Documentary photography is a unique medium that communicates the human condition seen through a moment in […]
HM Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire and Swindon, Mrs Sarah Rose Troughton, paid her deepest personal respects and said her final goodbye to Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, at the historic monarch’s funeral in Westminster Abbey yesterday (19 September). The Lord Lieutenant was a guest alongside her husband Mr Peter Troughton CVO CBE, joining world […]
Longleat Sky Safari 2022, 9-11 September
Wiltshire Council has completed work to improve and protect the natural and historic environment along a byway that follows the Fosse Way, a Roman Road.
Over 100 hot air balloons are set to take to the skies above Longleat in Wiltshire as part of its spectacular Sky Safari (9-11 September). Now in its fifth year, the three-day festival features daily mass launches, night glows set to music and a host of other fun activities including model balloon flight demonstrations, street […]
The Vanity of Small Differences, an exhibition of six huge tapestries by the celebrated contemporary artist Grayson Perry, is now open at Salisbury Cathedral. Each of the 2m x 4m tapestries, inspired by William Hogarth’s The Rake’s Progress, charts a stage in the ‘class journey’ made by young Tim Rakewell (a wry reference to Tom […]
Chalke Valley History Festival 2022, opened by HRH The Duchess of Cornwall on 20 June
The Duchess of Cornwall will introduce the first event of The Daily Mail Chalke Valley History Festival 2022, ‘Rediscovering Women in History’, a discussion between authors Philippa Gregory and Alison Weir. On arrival, The Duchess will be received by HM Lord-Lieutenant of Wiltshire, Mrs Sarah Troughton and welcomed to the Festival by Cllr Tom Hitchings, […]
The festival at Salisbury Cathedral is themed around the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee and the Cathedral’s past and present, with a strong emphasis on the environment as well. Centrepieces are a replica of the Queen’s Coronation Robe created with dyed grasses and gilded dried plant material, and the Royal Nursery re-imaged in pastel colours, using a […]
Four thousand years before Stonehenge was constructed, land within the World Heritage Site was covered by open woodland, with meadow-like clearings, inhabited by grazing animals and hunter-gatherers, according to new research by the University of Southampton.
