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English Heritage visitor numbers rocket at ‘hidden local gems’ in 2021
Pandemic prompts the nation to discover the heritage on their doorstep. Smaller historic attractions such as Barnard Castle and Boscobel House record best ever years in 2021.
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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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NO TRICKS, JUST TREATS: TRY A MEDIEVAL SOUL CAKE AS ENGLISH HERITAGE CASTLES STAY OPEN AFTER DARK
English Heritage has re-created medieval sweet treat for Halloween From Battle Abbey and Framlingham Castle to Eltham Palace, an “unlucky” 13 English Heritage sites are offering the special historic treat to trick or treaters Trick or treat sessions run from 28-31 October
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15th century painting confirmed as Botticelli
A painting long thought to be a later imitation of Sandro Botticelli’s famous Madonna of the Pomegranate has been revealed to be a rare example by the artist’s own workshop, English Heritage has revealed today.
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15th century painting confirmed as Botticelli
A painting long thought to be a later imitation of Sandro Botticelli’s famous Madonna of the Pomegranate has been revealed to be a rare example by the artist’s own workshop, English Heritage has revealed today (28 March). The discovery was made while the painting was being cleaned by the charity’s conservators and the work’s true colours – hidden under more than a century of yellow varnish – will be revealed when it goes on display at Ranger’s House in Greenwich on 1 April.
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Appeal for the Return of Iconic Bell to Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings
Charity calls for the return of the Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings iconic 18th century bell, as site reopens under the care of English Heritage.
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Blue Plaque commemorating singer Freddie Mercury at 22 Gladstone Avenue, Feltham, London TW14 9LL, London Borough of Hounslow.
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NEVINSON, CRW (1889-1946) & NEVINSON, Henry (1856-1941)
Blue Plaque commemorating Artist and Journalists Henry Nevinson and his son CRW Nevinson at 4 Downside Crescent, Hampstead, London NW3 2AP, London Borough of Camden.
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The Women’s Freedom League was a suffragist and equal rights campaigning organisation that worked on the principles of passive resistance and non-violence. Formed after a split in the Women’s Social and Political Union, it had its former headquarters at 1 Robert Street, Strand, which is marked with an English Heritage blue plaque.
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Uniquely Eltham combines one of the largest and best-preserved medieval great halls in England with a luxurious and idiosyncratic house and garden of the 1930s.