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Blue Plaque commemorating illustrator Walter Crane at 13 Holland Street, Holland Park, London W8 4NA, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
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Birdoswald Roman Fort - Hadrian's Wall
Enjoy an adventure in Roman Britain with fantastic defences and displays.
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Chosen by Queen Victoria as a holiday retreat and by the Normans for one of their medieval defence forts, the Isle of Wight is an island fit for rulers and royalty.
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Historically, same-sex female attraction or sexual contact was not a criminal offence. Because it wasn’t recognised, evidence for lesbianism or female bisexuality is often difficult to find. However, in the 18th century, among fashionable women, a cult of same-sex ‘romantic friendship’ was accepted, even if to some contemporary observers it appeared ‘queer’
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England's story has been made and shaped by the places where it happened, from palatial ruins that once hosted lavish Royal parties to ancient monuments that may have marked out the turning of time.
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Princess, abbess and miracle worker, St Milburga lived when the peoples of Anglo-Saxon England were being converted to Christianity. As the second abbess of Wenlock, she ruled over a community of both monks and nuns.
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History of Cawfields Wall, Milecastle and Turret
This well-preserved length of Hadrian’s Wall, where it crosses Cawfields Crags, has an impressive milecastle at one end and the foundations of a turret at the other, near Caw Gap.
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The Somerset v Stewart ruling in 1772 was a landmark case in the progress towards the abolition of slavery in England, and brought the injustice of the slave trade and slavery to the attention of the British public.