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Is this the earliest family photo taken at Stonehenge?

An 1875 photograph believed to be the earliest family snap taken at Stonehenge will go on display for the first time today, as part of a new exhibition chronicling 150 years of visits to the ancient monument.

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England United

England United - from Kane to Sterling, English Heritage brings together over 32,000 surnames on the England flag and says, “we all play a part in shaping England’s future"

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Did the builders of Stonehenge feast on sweet treats at midwinter?

English Heritage creates Neolithic Mince Pie recipe inspired by evidence of foraged fruit. Neolithic mince pies on the menu at Stonehenge this December

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Astronomer Couple Receive English Heritage Blue Plaque

English Heritage commemorated the Astronomers, Walter and Annie Maunder, with a blue plaque today (Wednesday 16 March). As well as their important work on sunspots, solar photography and the debunking of the canals-on-Mars myth, it was their avowed aim to make astronomy more accessible to women as well as amateur astronomers. The plaque marks 69 Tyrwhitt Road in Lewisham, where the couple lived from 1907 to 1911, having previously lived at number 86. It was during their time on Tyrwhitt Road that they published the 1904 sunspot article, with its famous ‘butterfly diagram’. They were at this address, too, when they wrote The Heavens and its Story, making frequent references to the nearby park and favourite stargazing spot, Hilly Fields.

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Enid Marx to Receive Blue Plaque

Celebrated for her industrial textile designs for the London Underground, designer Enid Marx will be commemorated with a blue plaque today (5 April). English Heritage will unveil a blue plaque at number 39 Thornhill Road, the mid-nineteenth century house where Marx lived and worked for more than thirty years. Her purpose-built studio in the back garden remains in much the same condition as she left it nearly 25 years ago. Marx shared the house with her partner, Margaret Lambert and friends Eleanor Breuning and Grace Lambert. Eleanor Breuning continues to live at the house today.

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English Heritage Conserves Home of Extraordinary Elizabethan – Bess of Hardwick

Hardwick Old Hall’s plaster friezes saved for the nation

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English Heritage honours first female mayor of a London Borough with blue plaque

Ada Salter commemorated in London 100 years after her appointment as Mayor of Bermondsey  Patron of the Salter Centenary, Dame Judi Dench, describes Salter as “a champion of environmentalism” 

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English Heritage honours first female mayor of a London Borough with blue plaque

Ada Salter commemorated in London 100 years after her appointment as Mayor of Bermondsey

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Stonehenge pays homage to historic flower show

Dahlias will return to Stonehenge for the first time since 1840s

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English Heritage’s first visual art fellow stages new exhibition at Belsay Hall

Ingrid Pollard MBE has created new work in response to one of Northumbria’s grandest houses; Belsay Hall as part of the charity’s new creative programme