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The London Borough of Newham Heritage Service is a public service run by the London Borough of Newham.It runs the Newham Local Studies and Archives Library in Stratford, London and administers the Newham Photos website [1] and the former collections of the Passmore Edwards Museum and the North Woolwich Old Station Museum, both now closed.
In 1966, C. A. 'Peter' Newham described an alignment for the equinoxes by drawing a line between one of the Station Stones with a posthole next to the Heel Stone. He also identified a lunar alignment; the long sides of the rectangle created by the four station stones matched the Moon rise and moonset at the major standstill.
The project received a $1 million grant from the US Institute of Museum and Library Services, [5] from which the Indianapolis Museum of Art is working to apply folksonomy to its collection, [6] and is one of a number of related projects currently working to make art more accessible and to find its role in the digital age. [4] [7]
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The President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH) is an advisory committee to the President of the United States on cultural issues.It works directly with the White House and the three primary cultural agencies: the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), as well as other federal ...
In 1993, both the setting and the presentation of Stonehenge was described as "a national disgrace" by the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee. The criticisms were several: two major roads ran close to the monument, one of which cut the processional Avenue; a large car park lay nearby; the pedestrian access to the monument was via a shabby underpass, and the visitor facilities were very ...
The "altar stone" at the center of Stonehenge likely originated in present-day Scotland, a study found. That's more than 450 miles away, raising questions about how ancient humans ...
In 1944, he became Assistant Keeper of Archaeology at the Ashmolean Museum. In 1949, he was appointed a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh . Atkinson directed excavations at Stonehenge for the Ministry of Works between 1950 and 1964.