Search Results
1755 results for publications
News
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.
News
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.
News
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.
Page
GOLDIE, Grace Wyndham (1900–1986)
Blue plaque commemorating Grace Wyndham Goldie, pioneering television producer and BBC executive, at Flat 86, St Mary Abbot’s Court, Warwick Gardens, London.
Page
Blue plaque to the barrister and campaigner for women’s rights Helena Normanton at 22 Mecklenburgh Sqaure in Camden, London.
Page
Voluntary social worker Mary Hughes lived amongst some of London’s poorest people and converted a former pub into a refuge. This building, at 71 Vallance Road, Whitechapel, bears a blue plaque commemorating her.
Page
Novelist Georgette Heyer was best known for her regency romances and detective fiction. She is recognised by a plaque at the house where she was born, 103 Woodside, Wimbledon.
Property
Coombe Conduit is made up of two small Tudor buildings connected by an underground passage.Water was once supplied to Hampton Court Palace via this tunnel.
Property
The remains of the house of a prosperous Blakeney merchant, with a fine 15th century brick-vaulted undercroft. Later the guildhall of Blakeney’s guild of fish merchants.
Page
ROHMER, Sax (1883–1959) a.k.a. Arthur Henry Ward
Popular writer Sax Rohmer was commemorated by a blue plaque in 1985 at his former home at 51 Herne Hill.