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Founded almost 900 years ago, Furness Abbey was once the largest and wealthiest monastery in north-west England. Today, its evocative ruins bear witness to the lives of the monks who worshipped and lived there between the 12th and 16th centuries.
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Edith Cavell was a British nurse who, as matron of a hospital in Brussels, enabled hundreds of Allied soldiers to escape the German occupation during the First World War. She was caught, put on trial and shot executed in October 1915. Her death sparked international outrage and she became an important symbol – not only wartime sacrifice, but of forgiveness, too.
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For 400 years Brinkburn Priory was home to a community of Augustinian canons, who attracted the patronage of leading local families.
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20 Questions Quiz: The Battle of Hastings and the Norman Conquest
Test your knowledge of the Battle of Hastings and the Norman Conquest
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A history of Pevensey Castle, originally a Roman fort, refortified by the Normans after William the Conqueror landed there in 1066, and later a great medieval castle.
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Use this gallery to explore all the public London statues in the care of English Heritage. They represent various individuals throughout British history including monarchs, from Charles I to Edward VII, nursing heroes Edith Cavell and Florence Nightingale, and explorers Sir John Franklin and Captain Scott.
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Sir Arthur Harris was a senior officer throughout the Second World War, most notably in charge of the RAF’s Bomber Command (1942–6). Faith Winter’s statue of Harris was erected outside St Clement Danes Church in 1992 as a memorial to him and over 55,000 men of Bomber Command who lost their lives in the war.
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Robert Clive, later Baron Clive of Plassey, played an early part in the establishment of British imperial control of India. He became the effective ruler of Bengal, and was a controversial figure in his own time. As a founder of the Empire in India he came to be lionised by many in Britain as a hero, a view of him that has been called into question in more recent years.
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Florence Nightingale (1820–1910)
One of the most recognised names in modern British history, Florence Nightingale was a key figure in the development of modern nursing and healthcare practice. Arthur George Walker’s statue of Nightingale shows her as ‘the Lady with the Lamp’, a nicknamed she earned on her nightly inspection rounds in the Crimea.