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Stonehenge bought at auction 100 years ago today

Posted on: September 21, 2015 by Alexander Herman

Can you imagine a monument as precious to the British as Stonehenge being sold at auction? Well, it happened 100 years ago today at an auction in the town of Salisbury. The winning bidder, a barrister named Cecil Chubb paid £6,600 for it (supposedly as a present to his wife), then three years later bequeathed it […]

Lake District to be put forward for World Heritage status

Posted on: January 10, 2014 by Ruth Redmond-Cooper

The Government has announced that the Lake District will be put forward as the UK’s next nomination for World Heritage status under the UNESCO 1972 Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage. The purpose of this Convention was to establish “an effective system of collective protection of the cultural and natural […]