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Passionate presents show Queen Victoria in a new light
Romantic and risqué birthday presents exchanged between Queen Victoria and Prince Albert will be on display at Osborne on the Isle of Wight on Friday (24 May) as English Heritage celebrates the 200th anniversary of their births. Celebration: Victoria & Albert’s Birthdays at Osborne will provide an intimate glimpse into the private romantic lives of the royal couple at their seaside retreat.
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Installation of Tintagel Castle's New Bridge Begins
The new footbridge at Tintagel Castle is beginning to take shape, as sections of the dramatic steel crossing have started to be installed at the coastal site ahead of the castle re-opening summer 2019.
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Names of 400 First World War Conscientious Objectors Revealed for the First Time
The names of 400 conscientious objectors who passed through Richmond Castle in North Yorkshire during the First World War will be revealed for the first time.
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Names of 400 First World War Conscientious Objectors Revealed for the First Time
The names of 400 conscientious objectors that passed through Richmond Castle in North Yorkshire during the First World War will be revealed for the first time, English Heritage announced today (Friday 19 July). The 400 names are included in the new museum at the castle which opens next week.
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Unsung Heroes of Dunkirk Evacuation Revealed on 80th Anniversary
Dunkirk 1940: The Making of the Miracle – English Heritage's online event tells the story of the evacuation day-by-day
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Kitchen renovations and Gastric woes at Muchelney Abbey
Meaning 'great island' Muchelney Abbey overlooking the Somerset levels today seems pretty idyllic. But, says English Heritage - as the charity revisits the lives and living quarters of Muchelney’s monks for a reinterpretation of the historic site this summer - when a relaxation of Papal law in 1336 allowed twice weekly meat consumption, life for its medieval inhabitants wasn’t quite so heavenly.
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Kitchen renovations and gastric woes at Muchelney Abbey
English Heritage reveals new interpretation at Somerset abbey, with new research pointing to a dedicated meat refectory (or ‘misericord’) and the mixed blessing it provided for medieval monks.
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Historic windows which have witnessed and illuminated some of our most renowned history, from the attempted escape of Charles I and the revolutionary experiments of Charles Darwin to the final days of Queen Victoria, are now at risk, English Heritage warned today (28 September), as the charity revealed the catalogue of threats causing the decline of windows in England’s most significant historic buildings. From the heat and the rain, to the shortage of heritage carpentry skills and the varying quality of modern wood, these historic artefacts are beginning to deteriorate and decay. Over one million pounds’ worth of repairs will be needed in the next five years and English Heritage has today launched an appeal to support the conservation of these irreplaceable emblems of ancient skill and craftsmanship.
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London Blue Plaque for Social Justice Campaigners Ellen and William Craft
The plaque marks 26 Cambridge Grove in Hammersmith, where the Crafts settled and campaigned for social justice following a daring escape from enslavement in Georgia, USA.
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Ellen and William Craft, African-American freedom fighters who made a daring escape from enslavement in Georgia, USA, and fled to Britain in the mid-19th century, have today been commemorated with an English Heritage London blue plaque. The plaque marks 26 Cambridge Grove, a mid-Victorian house in Hammersmith where the Crafts settled and raised their family, using their home as a base to campaign for abolition, radical reform and social justice.