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10 surprising facts about the Wrest Park Collection Store
The Wrest Park Collection Store is a treasure trove home to over 160,000 objects from ancient pottery to 18th century staircases. Rose Arkle tells us more.
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Find a Norman Castle to visit near you. The Normans built castles across England to administer and control local populations, and many still exist. While the original timber structures are no longer visible, their foundational earthworks remain, and later stone structures now mark the sites of powerful post-conquest Norman architecture.
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A brief history of Mount Grace Priory, the penultimate Carthusian foundation in England and the last monastery to be founded in medieval Yorkshire.
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Goods and skills must have been bartered or exchanged in prehistoric Britain from early times, but very little evidence has survived. The advent of farming in about 4000 BC brought with it the earliest surviving traded goods: stone-headed axes.
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The structures that survive from prehistory might not be what we’d normally think of as architecture. But these buildings still inspire awe today, whether through the mysteries of their meaning, the intricacy or scale of their design, or the ingenuity of their construction.
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Bayham Abbey Collection Highlights
Ranging from shackles to restrain criminals to a costly glass bowl that displays the owner’s status, objects found at Bayham show that not everyone who came to the abbey in the Middle Ages had the same experience.
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Follow in the Footsteps of Women Who Made History
Pioneering women are commemorated with blue plaques in London, and many of them can be found within a short walk of each other. Use our guide and take a walk to discover the places where these women lived, worked, and made a difference.
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From Arthurian legends to secret Second World War tunnels, test your knowledge of the castles in our care with this just-for-fun quiz
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Landscape design is nothing new. Neolithic people linked complexes of person-made monuments into artificial landscapes, often incorporating natural features like rivers, springs and hills.