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England’s painted past is at risk, English Heritage warned today (24 September), as the charity revealed the catalogue of threats causing the country’s precious wall paintings to deteriorate and decay. From the damp English climate, to failed early 20th-century restoration attempts to the very buildings they are housed in, these irreplaceable artworks – some even older than those in the Sistine Chapel – risk disappearing from view altogether. English Heritage has today launched an appeal to support the conservation of these irreplaceable treasures.
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Now that so many of our sites can be enjoyed again, we asked our Members for their favourite sites in a few different categories, including best sites for a picnic, top five historic gardens and the most popular places to visit for our younger Members.
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KITCHENER, Field Marshal Horatio Herbert, Earl Kitchener of Khartoum (1850–1916)
Blue plaque commemorating army officer Field-Marshal Earl Kitchener at 2 Carlton Gardens, St James's, London SW1Y 5AA, City of Westminster.
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Blue Plaque for Artist Barbara Hepworth
English Heritage has unveiled a new blue plaque commemorating one of the 20th century’s greatest artists and ground-breaking sculptor, Barbara Hepworth, alongside her first husband and critically acclaimed fellow sculptor John Skeaping.
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First World War Nurse Identified
A First World War nurse who cared for injured soldiers at Wrest Park in Bedfordshire, the first wartime country house hospital, has been identified for the first time, English Heritage announced today (24 November). Researchers at the charity were contacted by Canadian Carol Jephson who recognised her grandmother Olive Buller in photographs of the hospital shown on BBC’s Antiques Roadshow. English Heritage had put a call out in 2018 and colourised a selection of photographs in the hope that relatives of the nurses might come forward.
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Romans to blame for no-body-hair trend, says English HEritage
From painful waxes to irritating shaves, we can trace the modern obsession with hair removal back to the Romans, English Heritage has said today (24 May), as the charity displays a collection of tweezers used to remove armpit hair from Roman men and women in a new museum at Wroxeter Roman City, Shropshire – a Roman town once as large as Pompeii. Amongst over 400 artefacts, most of which have never been on display, other objects related to Roman cleanliness and beauty practices include a strigil (skin scraper), perfume bottles, jet and bone jewellery, make-up applicators and amulets for warding off evil. The new museum at Wroxeter opens to the public tomorrow.
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SASSOON, Siegfried (1886-1967)
Blue Plaque commemorating writer Siegfried Sassoon at 23 Campden Hill Square, Holland Park, London W8 7JY, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
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WILBERFORCE, William (1759-1833)
Blue plaque commemorating William Wilberforce - politician, philanthropist and anti-slavery campaigner - at 44 Cadogan Place, the house where he spent the last ten days of his life.