• miniature royal portrait, was bought at a house clearance sale by the National Portrait Gallery.In Norfolk, a small find related to the sport of hawking revealed a royal connection.
    • The announcement of an impending dig at Manchester’s Hulme Barracks came in June – hence the image at the head of this post.
    • The 800th anniversary of Magna Carta will be marked in 2015 by bringing together the four surviving original copies.
    • One of the largest collections of original posters from World War I is to be digitized and made available online.


    Over to you, leave a comment below.
    Which one of these 5 news items do you find most intriguing?