Britain's Corner Shops: The Thriving Heartbeat of Our Communities

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https://britaindirect.co.uk/category/culture/britains-corner-shops-the-thriving-heartbeat-of-our-communities

Real Bread Revolution: Local Bakeries Revitalise Britain's High Streets

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https://britaindirect.co.uk/category/culture/real-bread-revolution-local-bakeries-revitalise-britains-high-streets

The Lake District: Britain's Landscape of Imagination & Cultural Impact

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https://britaindirect.co.uk/category/culture/the-lake-district-britains-landscape-of-imagination-cultural-impact

The Proms: Britain's Revolutionary Approach to Classical Music for All

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https://britaindirect.co.uk/category/culture/the-proms-britains-revolutionary-approach-to-classical-music-for-all

The Guardian: ‘We’ve scratched the surface’: mission to digitise UK public art reaches 1m entries. “…the UK’s public art collection is a wonderful and varied thing.It is huge, as demonstrated by the charity Art UK, which has announced it has reached a million artworks on its database and appointed a new chair who said: ‘We’ve only scratched the surface.'”

British Library: The British Newspaper Archive reaches 100 million pages. “This week the British Newspaper Archive hits the milestone of 100 million digitised pages. We in the British Library news team are celebrating this achievement and our long partnership with Find My Past by picking a few highlights from the BNA.”

British Library: The UK Web Archive: continuing our work behind the scenes. “Despite recent challenges, the UK Web Archive team remains dedicated to safeguarding the nation’s online heritage. We are hoping to restore the UK Web Archive towards the middle of 2026.”

Arts Professional (UK): Cultural treasures worth more than £59m enter public collections. “This year saw museums and archives up and down the country receive cultural gifts given up in exchange for tax relief, with objects spanning an ‘impressive range’, said Arts Council chair Sir Nicholas Serota.”

BBC: Carlisle United heritage archive to go digital. “Exhibition pieces celebrating the 120-year history of Carlisle United will be digitised to ‘better share them with fans’. The Backing the Blues heritage project won a national Sporting Heritage Award earlier this month for its exhibitions, workshops and activities.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/04/bbc-carlisle-united-heritage-archive-to-go-digital/

British Library: 75 Years of the BNB (and bewitching Narnia books). “In 2025 the British National Bibliography (BNB) marks its 75th anniversary, and following a period of unavailability the database has now been fully restored to users. Read on to discover more about this service, its landmark anniversary and its restoration.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/03/british-library-75-years-of-the-bnb-and-bewitching-narnia-books/