Heritage Open Days 2022: What’s on in South Yorkshire
This September, explore some of South Yorkshire’s most historically interesting places for free with Heritage Open Days.
A royal welcome at Elsecar
As the UK gets set to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee in June, we look back at past royal visits to the historic South Yorkshire village of Elsecar.
Keeping heritage at the heart of Conisbrough
The magnificent limestone circular keep that is Conisbrough Castle has dominated the skyline for 850 years, creating one of South Yorkshire’s most striking landscapes. But while the exterior can be seen for miles, how many people know of its historical importance to not only our region, but also the country?...
Lest we forget the Yorkshire Trench
Can you help save the Yorkshire Trench in Ypres, Belgium, from imminent collapse?
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: ‘Mother of Inoculation’
Edward Jenner is rightly remembered as the ‘father of vaccination’, but Mary was the ‘mother of inoculation’, taking the first steps in preventative medicine 75 years before him.