Wow, what a month July turned out to be! It's usually a quiet sort of time for us as we run some archaeological tours of the Peak...

This time last year I took a little road trip to Suffolk to visit some heritage and get some material for the blog. It was a mixed bag,...

High on Biddulph Moor sits a structure from the time of the first monuments created in Britain. The Early Neolithic saw the beginnings of...

We are based in the beautiful Derbyshire Peak District and for archaeology there are few better places to live! Here we can see a wide...

The Anglo-Saxons have certainly left their mark in history and our landscape, and while there is a great deal of scholarship on the...

January sees the annual Derbyshire Archaeology Day where members of the public have the chance to catch up with some of the most...

For may people, especially if you live in Derby, the name Mackworth is synonymous with a large, mostly post-war housing estate on the...

Nestling in the Derbyshire Peak District between Bakewell and Buxton sits the unassuming parish of Taddington & Priestcliffe. Most people...

Of course everybody has heard of Stonehenge; is there anyone you know who hasn't? Nearly as many people have visited it, but not nearly...

It's time to announce the dates for this year's CPD days for teachers. We are offering two workshops this year - Prehistory in the Peak...

Links to the Primary National Curriculum - History: Teaching ‘Changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age’ is now firmly part...

In addition to running workshops for schools, one of the things we do is work with groups on community heritage projects. This summer we...

This is the latest book by Prof. Alice Roberts who is the Chair of Public Engagement in Science at the University of Birmingham, but...

The past year has given us the opportunity to catch up on our reading, with books both old and new being devoured eagerly! Of the new...

Why has this gate gone out of use? One reason is it’s dimensions are such that it is too small to accommodate modern farm vehicles. Even...