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The Future of Wheat: How Science Could Reinvent a Top Protein Source
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The Future of Wheat: How Science Could Reinvent a Top Protein Source Though seemingly unremarkable, wheat is the culmination of a fascinating genetic story—and heralds a scientific revolution that could reshape how we farm and how we tackle chronic disease.
Wheat has never truly been a wild plant. ’Bread wheat co-evolved with humans’ ...
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How we’ve refreshed the V&A From the Collections pages Our From the Collections pages have served as gateways to these narratives, offering curated explorations...
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Summer 2025 at Young V&A As the school holidays draw to an end, this summer has seen visitor numbers to our free permanent displays consistently above target at Young V&A.  We got off to a rousing start in early August,...
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Concerts on centuries-old musical instruments: a 1970s experiment Imagine visiting the V&A and stumbling across a free concert of early music, performed on centuries-old instruments, inside an 18th century music room. This was the vision of an experimental concert series launched at the...
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The Youth Collective Takes Over Library and Archives Discovery Day On 22 August 2025, the fourth Library and Archives Discovery Day welcomed 846 visitors to the V&A. Four enthusiastic members of V&A Youth Collective joined the library and archives team to co-produce this event. The...
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The V&A and its Jewish heritage: A day of learning from objects and stories in... As Dr Tristram Hunt, Director of the V&A, reminded attendees of the one-day symposium held at the museum in November 2024, a discussion of Jewish cultural heritage and its links to the museum was ‘essential’....
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Shakespeare family will found by historian
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Shakespeare family will found by historian A 1642 will which caused a legal row about William Shakespeare’s property in Stratford-upon-Avon has been discovered at The National Archives.
The will made by Thomas Nash on 25 August, 1642 was found in a box of Chancery documents from the ...
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Shining a light on accessibility in exhibitions At the Victoria and Albert Museum, accessibility and preservation go hand in hand – and nowhere is that more evident than in our current Design and Disability exhibition. Each month, on the final weekday, we...
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Wind in their sails: £750,000 grants boost for archives
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Wind in their sails: £750,000 grants boost for archives Design plans for Titanic, sketches by Raymond Briggs and gig posters by Martin F. Bedford will all be more accessible thanks to cataloguing grants.
Archives Revealed has just awarded more than £750,000 in 16 separate grants to archives across the UK.
Recipients ...
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Remembering Dame Stephanie “Steve” Shirley
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Remembering Dame Stephanie “Steve” Shirley In her extraordinary life Dame Stephanie ‘Steve’ Shirley (16 September 1933, 9 August 2025) overcame adversity and defied gender stereotypes, becoming a trailblazing entrepreneur in the male-dominated world of computing.
Her pioneering all-female software firm created flexible work practices decades before ...
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 Future of Food: Can human ingenuity feed 10 billion people sustainably by 2050?
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 Future of Food: Can human ingenuity feed 10 billion people sustainably by 2050? With the crises of biodiversity loss and climate change combined with social inequality and nearly two billion more mouths to feed by 2050, the Science Museum’s new exhibition is timely.  
Future of Food  invites visitors to explore a new future for the global ...
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New accreditation awards to archive services
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New accreditation awards to archive services Following a recent Archive Service Accreditation Panel, the UK Archive Service Accreditation Committee is pleased to announce that the following archive services have been accredited for the first time:
Science and Industry Museum
North Lanarkshire Archives
The Science and Industry Museum is part ...
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Latest release of Cabinet Office and Prime Ministers’ papers
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Latest release of Cabinet Office and Prime Ministers’ papers We have digitised 200 files which have been released by the Cabinet Office.
This release includes previously retained files from the Prime Minister’s Office covering Tony Blair’s administration. It also includes records from the administrations of Margaret Thatcher and John Major.
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Mission patch competition winner announced at UK Space Conference
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Mission patch competition winner announced at UK Space Conference At the UK Space Conference this week we announced Troy Elsworth, aged 12, as the winner of our national competition to design the mission patch for the first in-orbit test of plasma thrusters made by Magdrive, a UK space company.
Troy ...
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Rain in Five Minutes
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Rain in Five Minutes One day, your weather app may ping you with a local alert: rain in five minutes.
That is one of the tantalising prospects raised by artificial intelligence, according to Kirstine Dale, the Met Office’s Chief AI Officer and Principal Fellow for Data ...
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Discover out-of-this-world objects on our new trail in collaboration with Disney and Pixar’s Elio
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Discover out-of-this-world objects on our new trail in collaboration with Disney and Pixar’s Elio For centuries, people have called out to the universe looking for answers—in Disney and Pixar’s all-new feature film Elio, the universe calls back! The cosmic misadventure introduces Elio, a space fanatic with an active imagination and a huge alien obsession. ...
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Pac-Man turns 45
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Pac-Man turns 45 The undisputed granddaddy of gaming mascots turns 45 this month so here’s a look at why we’ve all been in the throes of Pac-Mania for the past four decades.
My love for the little yellow circle started in a very analogue ...
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Exploring Space at the Science Museum 
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Exploring Space at the Science Museum  The final weeks of Exploring Space bring to an end a gallery that first opened back in 1986 under the name Exploration of Space. For the best part of 40 years it has proved to be one of the Science ...
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Il Blog del Sistema Musei di Roma Capitale
Il Blog del Sistema Musei di Roma Capitale
Le Lupe di Roma La Lupa Capitolina, conservata nei Musei Capitolini, è una scultura in bronzo del V sec. a.C., realizzata con tecnica della cera persa che raffigura una lupa che ha da poco partorito, come indicano… Continua a leggere →
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Il Blog del Sistema Musei di Roma Capitale
Il Blog del Sistema Musei di Roma Capitale
MUSEO DELLA REPUBBLICA ROMANA E DELLA MEMORIA GARIBALDINA Ormai da anni la Sovrintendenza Capitolina mette a disposizione dei cittadini e dei turisti spazi espositivi e collezioni d’arte ad entrata gratuita con l’intento di promuovere la conoscenza e la fruizione di realtà… Continua a leggere →
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