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Yehudi Menuhin and Claudia Jones join suffragettes Emily Wilding Davison and Princess Sophia Duleep Singh among those being commemorated by English Heritage in 2023.
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1816: The year the sun nearly died - English Heritage Blog
To celebrate this year’s winter solstice, we’ve teamed up with the Science Museum to explore the ways that humans have made sense of the sun throughout history.
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Mary Katherine Middleton lived at Belsay Hall in the early 20th century. She was one of the early women candidates for Parliament, standing in 1924 as a Conservative candidate for Wansbeck, Northumberland. Her story reveals how the pre-war period and the First World War fostered new opportunities for women in politics in the 1920s, the barriers in their way, and the legacy of the first women to stand for Parliament.
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Muchelney Abbey was first founded in the Anglo-Saxon period, and today its buildings and history provide valuable insights into monastic life between the 7th and 16th centuries.
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One of the most intriguing objects excavated at Launceston Castle is a large whale vertebra. What kind of whale was it from? How and why did it end up at Launceston? How can it be dated, and what can it tell us about the lifestyles of the castle’s royal owners and their guests?
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Goodrich Castle is a now ruinous Norman medieval castle situated to the north of the village of Goodrich in Herefordshire, England, controlling a key location between Monmouth and Ross-on-Wye.
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Learn more about Stonehenge as a site for a series of spectacular dahlia shows in the 1840s.
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James Chappell was a black servant in the household of Christopher Hatton, the owner of Kirby Hall, Northamptonshire. His heroic actions after an explosion on Guernsey in 1672 were enshrined in family and local legend.
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Discover how the inhabitants of English Heritage properties throughout the ages coped with winter.
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Among the greatest monasteries of the Welsh Marches, Wenlock Priory was refounded soon after the Norman Conquest on the site of a 7th-century double monastery, which housed both monks and nuns.