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As restless spirits start to stir this Halloween, we asked our fearless Ghost Tales guides to share a few of their spookiest stories from our haunted houses, abbeys and castles.
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Deal Castle and Walmer Castle are two surviving fortresses built to guard the Cinque Ports on the East Kent coast. Use our suggested activities, reading and video resources to explore the story of these fortresses, their inhabitants, and the area they guarded.
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Boscobel House became a place of refuge for the future Charles II, who in 1651 concealed himself in an oak tree near the house in order to evade Parliamentarian forces. Read about his dramatic escape and find out more about Boscobel’s later history as a working farm.
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Find ghoulishly great-value days out at our Halloween events taking place across the country.
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Founded in 1169, Lanercost Priory lay in the turbulent and violent border region between England and Scotland, which was to dictate its fortunes over the next 400 years.
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Early Medieval: Power and Politics
This period saw the evolution of what was essentially a nation of warlords, whether Romano-British or Anglo-Saxon, into a country organised into distinct kingdoms. Eventually the individual kingdoms were unified under the Kings of Wessex into the kingdom of England.
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Put your knowledge of Hadrian's Wall to the test with this quiz about the royal connections of our sites.
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Farming had been around in Britain for some 4000 years by the time of the Roman conquest, so much of the natural wildwood that once covered these islands had already been cleared. The landscape the Romans found was one of cultivated fields and pastures, scattered farmsteads and settlements, and surviving islands of managed woodland.
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20 Questions Quiz: Women's History Month
Test your knowledge with our quiz for Women's History Month