WIDER restoration plans at the Anderton Boat Lift have been temporarily shelved to prioritise getting the iconic structure operational again.

Cheshire and Warrington have approved a bold strategy to restore nature and biodiversity.

Ling’s research on Pompeii set houses in their urban context, near the clatter of artisans and the stench of dung from livestock stables

Step back in time and discover the secrets of Chester’s famous Rows with Miles the Mason, our lively Tudor re-enactor and your tour guide.

As the saying went, all roads once led to Rome—and those roads stretched 50% longer than previously known, according to a new digital atlas published Thursday.

Exogamous marriage alliances involving royal women played a prominent role in the conversion of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms to Christianity in the seventh century AD. Yet the large number of well-furnished female burials from this period suggests a broader change in the role of women. The authors present the results of isotopic analysis of seventh-century burials, comparing male and female mobility and the mobility of females from well-furnished versus poorly/unfurnished burials. Results suggest increased mobility during the Conversion Period that is, paradoxically, most noticeable among women buried in poorly furnished graves; their well-furnished contemporaries were more likely to have grown up near to their place of burial.

It resembles a perfume bottle and a Latin inscription on it suggests it had a religious function.