Discovery visits with costumed storytelling and hands on historical investigation has helped Osborne House on the Isle of Wight win the prestigious Sandford Award, the industry’s top accolade from the Heritage Education Trust…
A painting bought by Queen Victoria for £200 in 1841 and which hung in her dressing room at her home, Osborne House on the Isle of Wight, until her death in 1901, will now return to the very same room after 100 years. Thanks to The Island Friends of Royal Osborne and The Art Fund, La Siesta…
Dr Robin McInnes, who runs Isle of Wight-based consultancy Coastal and Geotechnical Services, had the idea to combine his two passions, geography and a love of art, to test his theory that we could learn a lot about coastal evolution over the centuries by examining paintings, drawings, prints and engravings…
Events took place in Cowes to mark the 375th anniversary of a brave group of pioneers who left the Isle of Wight and set sail on The Ark and The Dove….
Share A Victorian Christmas At Osborne House on the Isle of Wight. Osborne House offers a glimpse of what Christmas was like in the 19th century, featuring everything from traditional trees to Dickensian characters. View photos…
Today is World Toilet Day, a day to celebrate the humble, yet vitally important, toilet and to raise awareness of the global sanitation crisis. Imagine life without a toilet, no toilets in your home or at work, no public toilets, no toilets anywhere…
Ninety four years on the 1914 Christmas Truce Football match was replayed this week in France. On Armistice Day 2008, officers and soldiers remembered those who gave their lives in battle by playing a football match where, on Christmas Day nearly 100 years ago, British and German soldiers played football together in no man’s land in a rare day of humanity amidst the horror of war…
Thousands of people from all over the country came to Southampton, to say goodbye to QE2. She arrived at the Queen Elizabeth II Terminal, after a slight delay from running aground off the Isle of Wight…
