This was given to the Grandad of one of the children at school for volunteering to run a youth club,which he did for for over 25 years.We found it very interesting to learn about the medal and ...

Two well known Stewartry residents were presented with the British Empire Medal on Friday. Nigel Scott from Gatehouse and David McMath from Castle Douglas learned they were to receive the accolade ...

The need to create trophies and medals for Para athletes arose at the Stoke Mandeville Games – the predecessor of the Paralympic Games and Paralympic Winter Games – which began in 1948. While today, ...

“The exhibition is a collection of little ... position in the establishment by presenting his Order of the British Empire (OBE) medal, which he wishes stood instead for “Order of British ...

The 1,700 pieces of world-renowned Chinese ceramics constitute the largest donation in the British Museum’s nearly 300-year ...

He was awarded a British Empire Medal (BEM) in 1988 and in 2022 he ... Earlier this year he curated an exhibition at the Beacon Museum in Whitehaven to mark the RNLI's 200th anniversary.

Robert Frost famously wrote, “Nothing gold can stay.” A new exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum in New York, which is dedicated ...

A Falklands War veteran has been awarded a British Empire Medal for his voluntary work to help his fellow veterans. Denzil Connick, 66, from Blackwood, was honored in King Charles III’s first ...

Richard Meade, who died in 2015 aged 76, became the first British rider to win an individual Olympic title at the Munich Games in 1972. It was his third gold medal out of three, making Mr Meade ...

The volume of problematic artifacts Locke uncovered in the British Museum’s archives illustrates the fundamental importance ...

Photo / NZ Herald A military mission of a different kind is under way: to reunite a World War I medal with its whānau. The British War medal was found on the ground in a car park at Ōhope Beach ...

Female athletes have lost nearly 900 medals to transgender rivals competing against them in women’s sporting categories, an eye-opening United Nations report has revealed. The study — titled ...