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Completing last year's centenary prelude about 'A Forgotten Princess', join heritage detective, Sundeep Braich, in remembrance of Princess Irene Duleep Singh, the actual last-born Princess of Punjab, exploring heritage, belonging, and identity.

A guided tour of Romsey Abbey including a visit to the Ringing Chamber. Explore this beautiful building and learn about its 1000-year hisitory with its links to royalty. Discover the fundamental part it played in the development of Romsey.

A selection of items from the collection can be seen on a guided tour of about 1 1/2 hours at 1000 on 11th and 14th September. Numbers are limited to 6 on each tour so entry is by pre-booked tickets only and ID must be provided.

The Lower Don Valley was the powerhouse of Sheffield's heavy steel industry and Attercliffe was where its workers lived. Though many buildings have disappeared what remains is a fascinating insight into the life of a once-thriving community.

Join us as Abbey House nears 100 years as a museum to celebrate people's everyday memories of this unique space, from the building and its displays to the people who worked & visited here. A talk with a chance to contribute your own memories for 2027

Ordinary lives, ordinary people? What were the lives of Accrington residents like in times past.

A rare opportunity to see inside one of Bedfordshire’s premier landmarks and places of worship. Rich in history and architectural splendour.

Alternative Music of Leeds is a self-guided city centre audio trail exploring the major moments of Leeds' alternative music heritage. Discover passwords and codes to unlock stories at each location.

Anna Sewell House in Great Yarmouth is the birthplace of the Black Beauty Author Anna Sewell. Redwings Horse Sanctuary took on guardianship of this special building in 2022.

This walk and talk will explore the more interesting architectural aspects of the small coastal harbour of Langstone, gateway to Hayling Island.

Join us for a unique architectural tour of the iconic Sainsbury Centre and the surrounding Sculpture Park, including a behind-the-scenes exclusive look at the famous Crescent Wing corridor!

Have you ever wondered how we look after your history? Come visit Buckinghamshire Archives where we'll take you behind the scenes to see our strongrooms in this guided tour. From gossiping priests to royal charters, who knows what you'll discover?

Join us for free entry to Arlington Court as part of the Heritage Open Days and take part in one of free outdoor history walk and talks or cellar tours (which are not usually open to the public).

A free art trail map distributed around Leeds, indicating local art and crafter's work in shop venues within the architecturally rich and diverse heritage arcades and shopping malls of Leeds City Centre.

A specially curated exhibition for Heritage Open Days 2026 showing unseen works by Anthony Hobson, Roy Wilson, Helen Lohmann, Dame Ellen Terry, Frederick Lanchester, Alice Cobert and Peter Eugene Ball.

A free exhibition chronicling the books, articles and cartoons written by A H Patterson

Display of local history documents, maps and photos. History of community and lives of servicemen in two World Wars. Research of graves in the churchyard and Aston Hall links to Capability Brown. Research into mining fatalities in local collieries.

See the biggest, the smallest, the fastest, the most expensive, & ‘Lawnmowers of the Rich & Famous’ from King Charles & Princess Diana, Queen’s Royal Rock legend Brian May to Top Gear's James May, and many mower!

A self-guided audio tour of Birkenhead, exploring the shipbuilders, dockers and ferry workers of the Mersey.

A self-guided audio tour of Blackpool, exploring the staff who keep the resort running: landladies, theatre workers, tram drivers and pier hands.

Brighton's seafront in working clothes: from Brighton Station and the Royal Pavilion kitchen to the Town Hall basement, West Pier, the Grand and the Fishing Museum, tracing the capstans, footplates and service stairs that kept the resort going.

Hear Cambridge’s working town behind the colleges: bedders lighting staircases, bargees on the river, booksellers, brewers, printers, market traders and carriers on a self-guided walk from Magdalene Bridge to The Mill.

A self-guided audio tour of Colchester, exploring the silk weavers, oyster fishers and garrison workers of Britain’s oldest recorded town.

A self-guided audio tour of Coventry, exploring the weavers, watch-makers, ribbon trade and car-workers who built the city.

A self-guided audio tour of Durham, exploring the masons, miners and cathedral craftspeople who built the city.

A self-guided audio tour of Exeter, exploring the cathedral craftspeople, ship workers, watermen and traders of the city.

A self-guided audio tour of Gloucester, exploring the tailors, pin-makers, dockers and cathedral keepers of Gloucester.

A self-guided audio tour of Guildford, exploring the wool trade, cathedral keepers, locksmiths and the workers along the Wey.

A self-guided audio tour of Harrogate, exploring the spa workers, hoteliers, pump-room attendants and gardeners of the Victorian resort.

A self-guided audio tour of Ipswich, exploring the dockers, shipwrights, brewers and merchants of the port.

A self-guided audio tour of Kingston upon Hull, exploring the trawlermen, dockers, fish-house workers and bargees of the Humber port.

A self-guided audio tour of Lancaster, exploring the warehouse clerks, mill workers, dock hands and prison warders of the city.

A self-guided audio tour of Leeds, exploring the city at work: the dawn bell of Kirkgate Market, the White Cloth Halls, the bandsaw trade, music-hall streets and Leeds Bridge.

A self-guided audio tour of Liverpool, exploring the working life beneath the Liver Birds: dock gates, clerks' floors, sailors' homes, strike grounds and the streets that built the port.

Northampton’s boot and shoe story in your headphones: from Market Square and St Crispin’s at All Saints to factory fronts, the Guildhall and the shoe museum at the old prison.

Norwich Audio Tour: At Work follows 17 stops from Strangers' Hall to Dragon Hall, tracing weavers, clerks, shoemakers, bargees and merchants through the city’s one-square-mile working past.

Oxford Audio Tour: Behind the Gown follows 17 stops from Folly Bridge to Oxford Castle, tracing the boatyard, wharf, market, brewery yard and shopfronts that kept the city’s colleges supplied.

A self-guided audio tour of Preston, exploring the cotton weavers, dockers and clerks of the Lancashire town.

A self-guided audio tour of Reading, exploring the Huntley & Palmers biscuit workers, brewers and clerks who built Reading.

Follow Sheffield’s working streets from Broomhall to Leah’s Yard, hearing cutlers, grinders, chapel congregations and the Little Mesters in the places where they worked, prayed, printed and traded.

A self-guided audio tour of Southport, exploring the dockers, fishermen and seafront workers who built the resort.

A self-guided audio tour of Stoke-on-Trent, exploring the potters, kilnsmen, decorators and miners who fired the Six Towns.

A self-guided audio tour of Warwick, exploring the people who fed, clothed and served the castle town behind the famous walls.

A self-guided audio tour of Winchester, exploring the millers, cathedral craftspeople, market traders and workers of the cathedral city.

A self-guided audio tour of Wolverhampton, exploring the lock-smiths, japanners, steelworkers and small-shop trades of the Black Country town.

Visitors can experience Avebury Manor's new offer 'Avebury as Home' for free on Friday 18th and Saturday 19th September. The Manor Gardens, Alexander Keiller Museum, and Avebury stone circle tours will also be free over the two days.

Be a part of something special and make your mark on Finchley's rich history! We will be conducting tours of our Grade II* listed church and churchyard to celebrate Heritage Open Days.

An opportunity to see the interior of historic Hungate Church (Methodist and United Reformed) and find out about its long history

Join committee members of the Cemetery Friends on a 90 minute tour. You will hear stories that link the Victorian history of Leeds to the people who are buried there and see the hundreds of Guinea Graves

Join us at The Corn Hall Diss this Heritage Open Days on a guided tour and discover its hidden heritage.