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The Future of Christmas dinner
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The Future of Christmas dinner Farmer Giles’s establishment – Christmas Day – 1800. A festive nineteenth century Christmas Day with mistletoe, ham, and Christmas pudding. The large family looks jolly as they sit around the table enjoying a feast.
Christmas carries the weight of centuries of ...
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Christmas 1604 ledger shows Shakespeare top of the bill
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Christmas 1604 ledger shows Shakespeare top of the bill A set of accounts from James I’s Master of the Revels which record one of the first performances of Shakespeare’s Othello in the run-up to Christmas 1604 will be on show at The National Archives from 12 January-5 February.
Edward Tilney’s ...
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V&A East Youth Collective Redefining Access: Taking up Space Written by Fazela Khatun, Community Engagement Assistant (STEP Internship), August 2025 What does it mean to take up space as a young person from East London within the arts and cultural sector? This is the...
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back2back: Common Manifesto by V&A East’s Youth Collective Written by Fazela Khatun, Community Engagement Assistant (STEP Internship), December 2024 In December 2024, the V&A East Youth Collective held a special event called Common Manifesto. It took place at Bow Arts and was part...
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Winter at Young V&A Winter Market In true festive spirit, Young V&A held its inaugural Winter Market on the last weekend of November. The Town Square was taken over for two days, featuring stalls from emerging and established UK-based...
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Voices of the V&A: The Curators’ Lives Oral Histories Archive What is the Curators’ Lives Archive? Within the institutional archives of the V&A sits a little-known collection of oral histories. Aptly named ‘The Curators’ Lives’, this project was devised by Research Fellow Linda Sandino and,...
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Tidy Fix for Messy DNA: One Tool to Tackle Thousands of Genetic Diseases 
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Tidy Fix for Messy DNA: One Tool to Tackle Thousands of Genetic Diseases  For all the fanfare about the huge potential to treat and even cure disease, the uncomfortable truth is that precision editing of the human genetic code, or genome, remains a cottage industry.  
Each of the more than 200,000 known harmful DNA mutations in humans typically requires its own ...
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Tim Peake: Celebrating 10 years since blast off
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Tim Peake: Celebrating 10 years since blast off Around 3,500 miles away, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, ESA astronaut Tim Peake, NASA astronaut Tim Kopra and their commander, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, were squeezed inside their tiny Soyuz capsule, readying themselves for launch and the start of their 6-month mission ...
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Parliament’s Archive Collections Now Accessible at The National Archives
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Parliament’s Archive Collections Now Accessible at The National Archives From today, visitors to The National Archives can request access to records from Parliament’s Archive which are now housed at Kew.
The Beaverbrook Library Collections which has historically been the most requested set of records, will be available first. It comprises ...
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Rare chance to see Jane Austen’s will in Love Letters exhibition
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Rare chance to see Jane Austen’s will in Love Letters exhibition Two hundred and fifty years after her birth on 16 December 1775, Jane Austen fans will have a rare chance to see her will in The National Archives’ Love Letters exhibition, opening on 24 January.
The novelist was only 41 when ...
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Bosie’s passionate plea for lover Oscar Wilde in Love Letters exhibition
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Bosie’s passionate plea for lover Oscar Wilde in Love Letters exhibition A passionate plea for clemency from Oscar Wilde’s lover Lord Alfred Douglas goes on show in The National Archives’ Love Letters exhibition, opening in January.
The letter addressed to Queen Victoria on 25 June 1895 begs her to exercise her “power ...
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How to Build A Synthetic Human Chromosome
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How to Build A Synthetic Human Chromosome The idea of writing the entire human DNA sequence, or genome – once beloved of futurists – could vastly expand biology’s scope. It would let scientists test how genome architecture affects function; help recreate the genomes of our ancestors; engineer bespoke cellular factories for drugs or novel materials; ...
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The National Archives Updates Service Fees
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The National Archives Updates Service Fees From 2 February 2026, The National Archives will increase fees for some services as we bring charges in line with current delivery costs. This is the first increase since 2019.
The changes affect fees for document copies, research and search services, ...
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Project to bring voices of enslaved people to life
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Project to bring voices of enslaved people to life  
The National Archives is working with international academics to make the largest collection of first-person testimony of enslaved people from the Caribbean in existence – the Reports of the Protectors of Slaves – accessible to researchers anywhere in the world.
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Science Museum Christmas gift guide 2025
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Science Museum Christmas gift guide 2025 From cosmic Christmas jumpers to plush space pups and remote-control rovers, our gifts are truly out of this world!  
Best of all, each purchase supports the Science Museum’s mission to ignite wonder in future generations. 
So, are you ready for lift-off? Here’s ...
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How lasers and atoms could change the future of computation
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How lasers and atoms could change the future of computation When you step into the quiet, temperature-controlled room at the National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC) in Harwell, Oxfordshire, the first thing you notice are the three great black boxes, each containing a prototype quantum computer.  
They are clad with shutters, partly ...
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Why Space Needs Explaining
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Why Space Needs Explaining Many people think of space as a distant place — a realm of rockets, astronauts and moon dust, but it’s actually as close as your phone. Every GPS route, financial transaction and weather forecast depends on the satellites that soar ...
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Marking World Stroke Day
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Marking World Stroke Day Around the world, 1 in 4 people will have a stroke at some point in their lives.  
A stroke is when blood stops flowing to a part of your brain, caused by a blockage or rupture of a blood vessel. Without ...
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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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