Video: Newark Civil War Centre opening celebrations

Nice montage of video and photos capturing the opening weekend of the National Civil War Centre.

National Civil War Centre to open this weekend!

Artist's impression of some of the displays.

The new £5.4m National Civil War Centre in Newark is set to open in the Grade II* Old Magnus Building this Bank Holiday weekend (3-4 May), with nearly 1000 re-enactors gathering to commemorate the deadly sieges of the 1640s.

Other highlights include living history camps, 17th century medicine, craft displays and arms drills ...

Cromwell Museum update

Cromwell, warts and all. © Copyright Tiger (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Huntingdon's Cromwell Museum, under threat from council cuts, has won a reprieve ...

Cromwell Museum under threat

The Cromwell Museum in Huntingdon, housed in the old grammar school where Cromwell once studied. Photo: © Copyright Michael Trolove (CC BY-SA 2.0)

The Cromwell Museum, opened in Huntingdon in 1962 as a place to interpret the legacy of the Oliver Cromwell, is set to close for funding reasons unless alternative arrangements can be found (STOP PRESS: decision due in February - sign the petitions now!) ...

National English Civil War Centre wins funding!

The bridge over the Queen's Sconce in Newark. © Copyright Richard Croft (CC BY-SA 2.0)

A £3.5m Heritage Lottery Fund bid to establish a National English Civil War Centre in Newark has been approved.

The award will provide the majority of the funding towards the estimated £5.4m project, which will transform Newark's Old Magnus Buildings into the Centre by September 2014 ...

National Civil War Centre at funding bid stage

A computer-generated impression of what the Centre might eventually look like. Image: © Campbell & Co.

Newark and Sherwood District Council has submitted a further bid for £3.5 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund to establish a National Civil War Centre in Newark.

The bid is the second stage of the process after the council was awarded £200,000 to develop the proposals ...