In June 2017 it is 251 years since Captain Cook made his historic landing in Marlborough Sound in New Zealand. Captain James Cook became a Captain in the British Navy, rising through the ranks after starting as a Mariner and mastering the art of navigation to become a...

In 1976 plans were afoot for the development of the Coppergate Shopping Centre in York. It was agreed that due to York's known abundance of buried treasures, archaeologists should move in prior to the build. What they quickly discovered set the building of the...

You would never expect to find any connection between a Chocolate Orange and some fine furniture, yet Noel Terry – a relative of Joseph Terry who set up a famous chocolate factory in York – spent his lifetime collecting exquisite Georgian clocks and furniture. Terry’s...