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Lovers reunited through heritage craft as portraits go on display at Oxburgh Hall. After decades apart, a young honeymooning couple have been reunited, their portraits lovingly restored and now displayed together at Oxburgh Hall in Norfolk, home of the Bedingfeld family for 500 years.

Three paintings commissioned at time of Gunpowder Plot return home

In this episode we visit Sheringham in North Norfolk with National Trust Head Gardener Alan Power

In this episode we visit Fenton House and Garden in Hampstead in North London to learn about their extraordinary collection of historical instruments.

Samuel Johnson’s Books at Felbrigg Hall

A new carpet has been laid at Carlyle’s House, Chelsea in one of the largest re-display projects at the property since the mid-1970s.

Newly-conserved rare dolls’ house reveals 300-year-old secrets of British high society

An immersive exhibition at the National Trust’s Ickworth in Suffolk is, quite literally, shedding new light on the Italianate house’s architectural and artistic treasures

A carved 15th-century sculpture displayed on top of a cupboard at the National Trust’s Anglesey Abbey in Cambridgeshire has been discovered to be a unique reliquary bust, previously thought to have been lost to the art world

From Albrecht Dürer to John Piper, new exhibition of paintings from the Ashmolean looks at how the skies have been depicted in art. Exhibit runs until March 18 at Petworth in Sussex