In a case which has echoes of the ongoing row over the sale of the statue of Sekhemka, Staffordshire University is facing growing criticism after it announced that it intends to sell a valuable

  This Sunday 12 July, one year on from the controversial sale of the internationally important funerary statue of the Egyptian Court Scribe, Sekhemka, the street outside high end auctioneer Christie’s resounded once again

Following the apparent funding cut climb down by Chancellor George Osborne over the proposed axing of the Imperial War Museum’s education service, campaigners hope that the IWM’s Library Service has now also been saved. 

After several days of increasingly bloody headlines for the Ministry of Defence in newspapers ranging from the Guardian to the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail

Already facing severe criticism from the heritage world over the apparent commercialisation of the wreck of HMS Victory 1744, UK Secretary of State for Defence Michael Fallon is facing another heritage related row which

When a group of the most important finds from the Staffordshire Hoard went on display at Birmingham Museum in 2009 an astonishing  65,000 people waited in line, sometimes for hours, in what many would

Trade Union Prospect has welcomed a partial victory in its campaign to prevent damaging cuts at the Imperial War Museum Group.  Faced with substantial cuts to the Museum’s grant in aid from the Government,

A briefing note published by the Institute for Archaeologists reported that local authority archaeology provision has seen an 18% decline in posts since 2008.  Now it has emerged that another local authority archaeological service