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A spectacular, once-in-a-lifetime pageant brought the streets of Salisbury to life with a carnival of colour as Wiltshire celebrated the birth of our nation’s present day liberties 800 years on from the sealing of the Magna Carta. The celebrations took place on the evening of Monday 15 June, eight centuries to the day since King John […]
Arundells, the home of former Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath in Salisbury, has reopened to the public for the 2015 season. It’s an exciting year because the house will, for the first time, stage two exhibitions and inaugurate a new exhibition space. Exhibitions In July it will be 50 years since Sir Edward became the […]
Visitors to the Salisbury Museum this summer will be treated to a highly original and fascinating exhibition on JMW Turner. Newly discovered facts and a wealth of material never previously assembled together will revise the traditional outline of Turner’s formative years. ‘Turner’s Wessex: Architecture and Ambition’ will reveal new insights into Turner’s ambitious and innovative […]
Neil MacGregor, director of the British Museum and author of The History of the World in 100 Objects, is delivering the first lecture in Salisbury Cathedral’s 2015 Magna Carta Lecture series this Friday, 6 March, when he is also formally opening the Cathedral’s new Magna Carta Exhibition. Macgregor’s lecture, entitled ‘Making the Magna Carta We […]
Salisbury Cathedral – home to the finest preserved of the four original copies of Magna Carta – celebrates the 800th anniversary of the historic charter as it launches a new exhibition telling the story of its creation and enduring legacy. The new exhibit takes visitors on a journey of liberty and justice woven throughout the […]
BBC Time Team and Coast presenter Professor Alice Roberts has opened Salisbury’s new state-of-the-art Wessex Gallery of Archaeology at Salisbury Museum
Saturday, 12 July marks the Grand Opening of Salisbury’s new world-class £2.4 million Wessex Gallery of Archaeology at Salisbury Museum in Wiltshire, by BBC Time Team and Coast presenter Professor Alice Roberts. Join in on an action-packed day of celebrations, special events, amazing displays and demonstrations – free to the public – from 10am to […]
The Royal British Legion’s Wiltshire county parade and rededication took place in Salisbury on 8th June 2014. An annual event, this year it also commemorated the 70th anniversary of D-Day. The servicemen and their standard bearers marched along Blue Boar Row, Queen Street and New Canal to St Thomas’s Church where the service of rededication […]
Horatio’s Garden at Salisbury Hospital will be open to the public as part of the National Garden Scheme on Sunday 11th May. The garden was designed by Cleve West, seven-time RHS gold-medal winner who was awarded Best in Show at the Chelsea Flower Show in 2011 and 2012. The mixed planting has been put together […]
Beautiful Horatio’s Garden can be found at Salisbury District Hospital near the spinal unit.
