The UNESCO World Heritage symbol – set in the cobblestones of Stall Street – is something Heritage Services chief Stephen … More
Category: Heritage & History
For the record
Bath Record Office has announced the completion of their externally funded project ‘Preservation and Change in a World Heritage Site: … More
Beef-steak, Roman earbuds and an angel.
This morning l gazed upon the face of an angel, saw what the Roman version of an ear bud looked … More
Shop Roman style
The Roman Baths Shop will celebrate Museum Shop Sunday on 25 November 2018 with costumed Roman characters, product samples, and … More
How city could benefit from seeing double. But suffer from a lack of loos!
Bath could benefit from a rare double-listing as a World Heritage site as part of an international Great Spas of … More
Great War centenary
This year, Remembrance Sunday 11th November also marks exactly one hundred years since the Armistice that ended the First World … More
The writings on the wall.
Its wasn’t the first book to roll off the local Akeman Press but Andrew Swift and Kirsten Elliott’s ‘Ghost Signs … More
Rare Roman find at Abbey
Hot on the heels of unearthing part of a mediaeval tiled floor – while engaged on the Footprint Project at … More
Make it more of a People’s Museum?
It’s great that Bath has hot springs, Roman remains and Georgian architecture to bolster its prestige and provide a tourist … More
Stirrings at the Corn Market
Something is stirring amongst the stagnant scaffolding surrounding Bath’s 19th century Corn Market at the town end of Walcot Street. … More
Final showing for WW1 Remembered
People are being encouraged to take a last look at a unique free exhibition which, over the past four … More
Spring cleaning in autumn.
Of Bath’s three naturally-heated thermal springs, the largest rises in the King’s Bath – part of the Roman Bath’s tour … More
More secrets from under the floor.
I find myself getting familiar with the ‘Scott Layer’ – a 1 metre thick layer of rubble under the floor … More
Mending the cracks in our history.
Phase One of Bath Abbey’s multi-million-pound Footprint Project has involved the lifting of several hundred memorial stones from the floor … More
Women at war
The First World War was a conflict on a scale never experienced before and one in which a regular army … More
It’s your heritage.
Venues across Bath and North East Somerset will open up their doors in September as part of an annual, nationwide … More
Behind the scenes.
A chance to look behind the scenes at a multi-million pound project to secure the unique floor of Bath Abbey … More
What future for the meadows?
Whitehall cut-backs in local government funding – and the increased demands on social services from us all living longer – … More