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This stunning holiday home in Dorset tends to be booked up all year. To ensure the house and its story connects with as many people as possible though, the team saves space in the calendar for rare, but very special (and popular!) open days.

Over 10 years this local society has been developing a fantastic, creative hub of festival events. Their History Rock Snake really captured people's attention locally this year, while online they have 'visitors' as far afield as Australia with their series of films, which can showcase places and stories inaccessible any other way.

From Roman soldiers to a Regency era ferryman, the rich history of African people in our country is a long one. A project in the North East has been researching these stories, sharing them through a range of resources and events – including a taster walk over our festival. As we couldn’t attend the walk we asked them to share a few stories here, highlighting the wonderful work they do and resource they are creating.

This national support network has been working with us since 2019. Drawing on our festival theme and amazing organiser network, each year they develop and deliver a series of talks, both in person and online, to help promote the history and potential of women in engineering.

From a dazzling cloak to the portrait of a Curling Captain there is more to our sporting heritage than you might think. Sport is a huge part of our culture, but its place in our heritage has sometimes been overlooked. Earlier this year though we came across a brilliant network working to change that. As they lead us in celebrating National Sporting Heritage Day, their Founding Director is here to introduce their work and some amazing sporting heritage collections you can visit.

Over the festival, alongside managing the media channels and taking turns with 'helpdesk duty' it's really important for the team to see events in action. It helps us to support organisers locally and reconnect with the festival experience as visitors, to see where we might do more to help in future. From the pinkest event to pen nibs hidden in doors, here's a quick taste of where we went and what we discovered this year.

The good, the bad... and the bunting! Our amazing festival is over for another year, but we couldn't visit all the thousands of events, so we need you to tell us - how did it go?

Take a Walk up the much renovated Beverley Road with local historian, Hillary Byers

Experience a fishy event with tour guided Paul Schofield and see what you can catch.

In August 1578, during her East Anglian progress, Elizabeth I stayed in Norwich for a week and attended a service at the Cathedral, where her Boleyn ancestors are buried. This tour focuses on contemporary and other visible reminders of this visit.