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 ...

Blickling, the Hobarts and Norfolk

The south front door at Blickling Hall.

Below are some photos taken recently in the snow at Blickling Hall, Norfolk.

Little is written about the largely 17th century house during the English Civil War, though the affiliation of the owning family is suggested through a number of sources, including a letter penned by Cromwell: the first letter to be published in a contemporary newsbook ...

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 ...

Repair work to begin at Newark Castle

Newark Castle. Photo: David Ingham (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Newark Castle, partially destroyed by the siege of 1645-6 - the third and final siege of the English Civil War - is undergoing a structured series of repair works.

The recommendations were made after two areas of the castle grounds were fenced off to the public due to risk of falling masonry ...