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Join our Bath Half Herd and commit to raising £200 to help families in rural Africa to grow their own futures! Sign up today to join our Bath Half Herd for just £10!  The Bath Half Marathon is a fast flat course, taking runners down both sides of the river Avon and avoiding all the hills surrounding the city. This is ...more

Dorothy House Hospice Care – Bath Half Marathon 2020 The Bath Half Marathon 2020 takes place on Sunday 15 March 2020 and is the most popular city centre road event in the UK. We’d love you to join Team Dotty and be part of it! We are delighted to announce that Dorothy House has 100 Silver Bond places. These are ...more

Are you a fan of football? Have you heard of Pele? Have you ever wondered what happens in a conservation lab? At the Swindon and Wiltshire History Centre it’s not just books and paper we have to care for. Hidden in its offices is an object conservation lab that also tackles modern materials, such as a pair of Pele’s ...more

Spring is the season to get back out into the garden! You’ve probably visited other people’s gardens as a pleasant outing or to gain inspiration for your own, but have you ever visited the archive? Join Archivist Naomi Sackett as she takes you on a garden tour through the archive stopping at Stourhead, Iford Manor, ...more

Are your family holiday snaps fading? Have pests nibbled the only image of your Victorian great-grandmother? Are you struggling to store those glass lantern slide photographs you inherited? Book in to our workshop and join archive conservator Sophie Coles to learn about the best way to look after your photographs followed ...more

Workhouses, prisons and asylums could be very grim places – they conjure up images of Oliver Twist, hard labour and ice baths. They could also be very un-Dickensian: some workhouses even gave tobacco to their inmates or paid for the men to be shaved by a barber. The records of these institutions can give you an invaluable ...more