University of Leicester archaeologists have discovered a Mesolithic Stone Age weapons factory on a building site near Melton in Leicestershire.

The work of experimental British composer Cornelius Cardew and the Scratch Orchestra has gone on show at the The Drawing Room in London.

The Ninth DaDaFest kicks off on November 17 2009 with dozens of performances and exhibitions taking place across the North-West.

An East Cleveland quarry where now-extinct fossils were found and an ancient woodland in Durham full of historic relics will use £100,000 of Lottery funding to involve the public in their transformation.

Six historic houses in London have officially launched a partnership, called the London Shh... alliance, in a bid to pool resources and broaden their activities and visitor pull.

Edinburgh's Scottish National Portrait Gallery is to receive £2 million in funding from the Monument Trust to assist with its ambitious refurbishment project.

One of six artists will take the contemporary crown in the Midlands when Leicester City Gallery announces the winner of the annual £2,000 Attenborough Prize today (November 12 2009).

Heritage body the National Council on Archives has announced a theme of Take Flight for the sixth year of the Archive Awareness Campaign, a nationwide programme of events revealing some of the country's unseen histories.

Heritage Minister for Wales Alun Ffred Jones has announced grants totalling more than £600,000 to 13 sites across the country to mark the 25th anniversary of Cadw, the Welsh equivalent of English Heritage.

Service records of 99,000 RAF fighters - including the deadliest pilot of all time - are being made available online for the first time by The National Archives.

The first oil painting by Picasso ever bought by National Museum Wales is set to go on display in a new exhibition of still life paintings from the mid-20th century.

Steampunk, the strange world of late Victorian imagined contraptions and automata, is being celebrated in a lively and popular exhibition at Oxford's Museum of the History of Science.

Dozens of digital and creative arts groups in Liverpool will be given office spaces in a redevelopment of the city's Baltic Triangle area after funding bodies announced a £5.2 million investment in the scheme.

Need a one-stop online resource about the Cold War? Then try What Lies Beneath, from the Imperial War Museum and part of the Their Past Your Future project.

Two festivals, a Theatres Trust in Liverpool and Manchester's Whitworth Art Gallery will compete for the £10,000 Lever Prize after being announced on the final shortlist by a panel of business leaders.

An 11-foot ice wall has been erected outside the German Embassy in Belgrave Square to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

The Imperial War Museum is marking the 20th anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall with an online exhibition exploring the British experiences of the Cold War.

From interactive quizzes and online pot making to writing a spotter's WebQuest guide to Greek Temples - we've got a round-up for you of the best online ancient Greek resources from UK museums.

Oxford University is marking this year's Armistice Day by launching the first online collection of the manuscripts of Siegfried Sassoon, focusing on his war poetry.