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Citadel Sessions: Art at the Western Heights
Explore your creativity and connect with your local area in this art session at The Citadel Café. No experience needed. Delivered in partnership with Dover District Council, with support from Historic England. Made possible by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, with thanks to players of the National Lottery.
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Early Man is the latest stop-motion animation adventure comedy from director Nick Park. To celebrate the release of the film, we're hosting a series of special events at our historic places across the country. Follow the clues and complete our Early Man adventure quest this February half term.
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Animating Stonehenge: Setting the scene for the ‘Early Man’ film
We caught up with animator Andy Symanowski to find out how Early Man brings the Stone Age to life. Andy has worked with Aardman for over twenty years on projects like the Academy Award®-winning Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit and Shaun the Sheep.
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Members' Event: Experience Yorkshire: Saltaire Walking Tour
Join us on a walk through the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Saltaire, one of the earliest examples of a model village, picturesquely nestled on the banks of the River Aire and the Leeds-Liverpool Canal.
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Meet The Man Who Saved Kenilworth Castle
Kenilworth Castle in Warwickshire is known for its links to Queen Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley, but less is known about the man responsible for keeping Kenilworth open to the public.
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Margoth: A Cross-Dressing Medieval Spy
In 1265 a female royalist spy, dressed as a man, gathered vital intelligence on a rebel army which was camped outside Kenilworth Castle. We explore what light this episode sheds on cross-dressing and espionage in medieval England.
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A brief description of Silbury Hill, the largest prehistoric man-made mound in Europe
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First Indian to win a popular election to the UK Parliament receives Blue Plaque
English Heritage has today (10 August 2022) unveiled a blue plaque dedicated to Dadabhai Naoroji, an Indian Nationalist and the first Indian to win a popular election to Parliament in the UK. Dubbed the ‘grand old man of India’ and described in his Times obituary as ‘the father of Indian Nationalism’, Naoroji made seven trips to England, and spent over three decades of his long life in London. His plaque marks the red-bricked semi-detached house in Penge, south London, that was his home around the turn of the twentieth century.
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Blue Plaque commemorating anthropologist Andrew Long at 1 Marloes Road, Kensington, London W8 6LQ, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
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Blue Plaque commemorating natural philosopher Thomas Young at 48 Welbeck Street, Marylebone, London W1G 8EZ, City of Westminster.