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The British Museum is delighted to announce that it has recently acquired a set of rare Anglo-Saxon sword hilt fittings with th

The Torc is an exceptional piece of craftsmanship, even by today’s standards and two thousand years ago it would have been even

An exquisite pair of late 15th-century altar paintings, on oak panels, believed to have furnished a chapel at Westminster Abbey

An exceptional portrait of Elizabeth Gunning, Duchess of Hamilton (1733-1790) by the Scottish painter Gavin Hamilton (

The selection includes gifts, bequests and purchases of national importance, along with others of more local interest.  Da

Formerly  preserved in family ownership at The Chanter’s House, Ottery St Mary, Devon,it has now been purchased for the na

Samuel Richardson, the Novelist (1684-1761), Seated, Surrounded by his Second Family, 1740-41, will go on display at T

This collection, at the Windermere Steamboat Museum, is the most significant of its kind anywhere in the world and includes the

At £985,000 it is the biggest collection purchase made in the Museum’s 125-year history, and was made possible through a grant

The manuscript was accepted by HM Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax via the Acceptance in Lieu scheme managed by MLA and al