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The Light: New Durham museum announces August opening date

Former Durham Light Infantry Museum and Art Gallery transformed after decade-long closure

War photographer Lee Miller’s house gains charitable status

Newly formed charity aims to safeguard collections and grow site as a centre for UK surrealism

Making an archive sing

Simon Stephens visits the Red House in Suffolk, the former home of composer Benjamin Britten and his partner, the singer Peter Pears

Wiener Holocaust Library appoints new co-directors

Christine Schmidt and Barbara Warnock to lead archive institution

Royal Engineers Museum seeks duplicates of valuable D-Day files lost in van theft

Almost 2,000 technical documents relating to Mulberry Harbours destroyed in criminal incident

What’s in a name?

Tracing ancestry through a surname uncovered a complex history shared by many, writes Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann

‘Bad Bridget’ archival research project inspires Hollywood movie

Study exploring lives of Ireland’s emigrant women led to groundbreaking exhibition at Ulster American Folk Park

Bookworm

From contemporary art's relationship to the environment to Black Victorian Britain

Sound and vision: David Bowie Centre opens at V&A East Storehouse

Ziggy-era guitar and unfinished musical among items available for public to access for the first time

Changing the record | Archives in the 21st century

In an age of turbulence and digital revolution, archival practice is changing at a rapid rate. How are the nation's record-keepers adapting and innovating for this brave new world?

Q&A | ‘There was silence and an unknown ‘thing’ that wasn’t discussed’

As a new exhibition opens inspired by Holocaust testimony, artist Laura Nathan tells us how her works were informed by her experience as a third-generation survivor

Pride of place | Staffordshire History Centre, Stafford

A perfect dip into local history