Stonehenge
The Wiltshire Wall of Remembrance, featuring thousands of commemorative crosses, is available for display in community venues across the county as part of its First World War centenary tour. The Wall of Remembrance was created as part of a project for schools which took place across the county in 2014, with thousands of children making […]
In a letter dated 2 November 1757, the 1st Earl of Shelburne asks his son, William: “What wou’d you give to know the Consequences of the Visit of the famous Mr Brown, & the fruit of the 30 guineas which I gave him? He passed two days with me, & eat & drank, at rather […]
Fiona Bruce and the Antiques Roadshow team were at Bowood House and Gardens near Calne on June 25, 2015.
Major Tim Peake is the first British astronaut to leave Earth in more than two decades. After 186 days in space for his Principia mission on the International Space Station, he returned to Earth at 10:15 on 18 June 2016, landing in Kazakhstan with commander Yuri Malenchenko and NASA’s Tim Kopra in the Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft. On landing, […]
Young people who want to take part in a national scheme that helps them make a difference in their community and pick up life skills along the way, are being offered support from a new opportunity in Marlborough. Each year more than 2,000 Wiltshire young people, aged 14 to 24, take part in the Duke […]
