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| March 2025 | English Heritage announced planning permission for a 'Learning Centre' and 'Neolithic classroom' near the visitor facilities, scheduled to open in autumn 2026. |
| 2024 |
Wild Hunt
Lucy Holland published 'Song of the Huntress', a historical fantasy novel featuring a gender-swapped version of King Herla leading the Wild Hunt.
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| August 2024 | Researchers from Curtin University published research in Nature identifying the origin of the Stonehenge Altar Stone as the Orcadian Basin in northeast Scotland, approximately 700 km from its current location. |
| July 2024 | A further legal challenge was made in the High Court against the road tunnel. |
| July 2024 | Incoming Labour government announced the tunnel would 'not move forward'. |
| June 19 2024 | Climate protesters from Just Stop Oil sprayed orange cornflour powder paint on three standing stones. Activists Niamh Lynch and Rajan Naidu were arrested. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak condemned the act as a 'disgraceful act of vandalism'. English Heritage investigated and found no visible damage to the stones. |
| February 2024 | High Court in London rejected a fresh bid by campaigners to stop construction of the road tunnel. |
| October 24 2023 |
The Wicker Man
Titan Books published 'The Wicker Man: The Official Story of the Film', a behind-the-scenes book by John Walsh containing new interviews and materials about the film, licensed by StudioCanal.
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| July 2023 | Despite previous legal challenges, the Transport Secretary Mark Harper approved plans for the road tunnel. |
| July 2023 | Department for Transport approved plans for a road tunnel, despite previous legal challenges. |
| 2022 | The National Heritage Lottery Fund (NHLF) granted funds to the National Trust to acquire an additional 170 hectares of the Stonehenge Landscape, continuing the grassland reversion scheme. |
| November 27 2022 | Won Best Feature Film at the British Academy Children's Awards, with Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart, and Paul Young representing the film. |
| January 2022 | Archaeologists announced the discovery of thousands of prehistoric pits around Stonehenge through an electromagnetic induction field survey, with some pits dating back approximately 10,000 years and containing hunting tools. |
| 2021 |
Wild Hunt
German folk band Versengold releases the song 'Die wilde Jagt' as the first single from their 2022 album Was kost die Welt.
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| 2021 | Tomm Moore confirmed in an interview that there are no current plans for a Wolfwalkers sequel, following the pattern of his previous films The Secret of Kells and Song of the Sea which also did not have sequels. |
| December 20 2021 | StudioCanal released the Blu-Ray box set in the UK and Ireland. |
| December 14 2021 | GKIDS and Shout! Factory released the Region A Blu-Ray box set in North America. |
| October 2021 |
Clíodhna
Clíodhna is released as a playable goddess in the video game Smite, representing the Celtic pantheon as an assassin character.
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| July 4 2021 | Won Best Film at the Irish Film & Television Awards. |
| June 2021 |
American Horror Story: Roanoke
Sarah Paulson was interviewed for Awards Chatter podcast by The Hollywood Reporter, where she expressed regret about filming the Roanoke season of American Horror Story.
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| April 25 2021 | Wolfwalkers was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the Academy Awards, with Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart, Paul Young, and Stéphan Roelants as nominees. |
| April 16 2021 | Won multiple Annie Awards, including Best Animated Feature - Independent, Best Character Design, Best Direction, Best Production Design, Best Voice Acting (Eva Whittaker), and other nominations. |
| March 19 2021 | Re-released to select theaters in North America, starting with Angelika Film Center in New York. |
| February 2021 | Archaeologists discovered extensive Neolithic and Bronze Age artifacts during excavations for a proposed highway tunnel near Stonehenge, including Bronze Age graves, late Neolithic pottery, and a C-shaped enclosure. |
| February 28 2021 | The film was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the Golden Globe Awards. |
| January 4 2021 | Nominated for Best Animated Feature Film and Best Animated Female categories by the Alliance of Women Film Journalists. |
| 2020 |
Wild Hunt
Jim Butcher published 'Battle Ground', the final Dresden Files novel featuring the Wild Hunt.
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| 2020 | The film was nominated for Best Animated Feature Film at the Academy Awards, Golden Globe Awards, and BAFTA Awards, highlighting its critical acclaim. |
| 2020 | The film won the Satellite Award for Best Animated or Mixed Media Feature, recognizing its artistic achievement. |
| December 18 2020 | Wolfwalkers won Best Animated Film at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards. |
| December 16 2020 | Wolfwalkers is released theatrically in France. |
| December 16 2020 | Theatrical release in France by Haut et Court. |
| December 13 2020 | The film was named Runner-up for Best Animated Film by the Boston Society of Film Critics Awards. |
| December 11 2020 | Wolfwalkers debuted on Apple TV+. |
| December 11 2020 | Debuted on Apple TV+. |
| December 2 2020 | Theatrical release in Ireland, delayed due to COVID-19 pandemic cinema closures. |
| December 2 2020 | Wolfwalkers is released theatrically in Ireland. |
| November 2020 | Approval announced for a four-lane tunnel to take traffic below the Stonehenge site, with mixed support from archaeologists, environmentalists, and local stakeholders. |
| November 13 2020 | Theatrical release by GKIDS in the United States and Canada. |
| October 26 2020 | Theatrical release by Wildcard Distribution in the United Kingdom. |
| October 23 2020 | Wolfwalkers won the Narrative Feature award at AFI Fest, recognizing the film's outstanding achievement. |
| September 12 2020 | Wolfwalkers premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival. |
| July 2020 | A study led by David Nash of the University of Brighton conclusively identified the origin of Stonehenge's large sarsen stones as West Woods near Marlborough, Wiltshire, using chemical analysis of a core sample originally extracted in 1958. |
| 2019 | Evidence of Megalithic quarrying was discovered at Welsh quarries, confirming that the bluestone was deliberately quarried by humans rather than transported by glacial action. |
| 2018 | A strontium content study of bones revealed that many individuals buried around the time of construction had likely originated near the bluestone source in Wales. |
| September 8 2018 | Apple acquired Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart's Wolfwalkers from a script by Will Collins, with the film being an original concept created by Moore and Stewart featuring a unique 2D animation style. |
| 2017 |
Wild Hunt
Larry Correa published 'Siege' in the Monster Hunter International series, featuring the Wild Hunt as a fey phenomenon.
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| 2017 | Excavations by Professor Parker Pearson at Waun Mawn began, suggesting a potential origin for Stonehenge's bluestone circle with similar size and solstice orientation. |
| 2017 |
American Horror Story: Roanoke
Won Best Special Make-Up Effects at the Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Awards, with winners Eryn Krueger Mekash, Michael Mekash, and David Anderson.
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