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Today, Friday July 16th, visitors to Audley End House in Essex will be able to see an important 16th century Dutch painting, known as The Vegetable Seller, reinstated to the historic house’s art collection for the first time in 60 years. It is also the first time in centuries that the painting will be seen as it was originally conceived, having been restored to its former glory by conservators at English Heritage over the past two years.
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Former Cooper Car Company honoured with blue plaque
The unveiling of the blue plaque attracted a number of vintage Cooper cars in support including a 1955 Cooper T39 Bobtail.
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One of the most complete surviving Dominican friaries in England, later converted into a Tudor house and cloth factory. Notable features include the church and fine scissor-braced dormitory roof.
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The Women’s Freedom League was a suffragist and equal rights campaigning organisation that worked on the principles of passive resistance and non-violence. Formed after a split in the Women’s Social and Political Union, it had its former headquarters at 1 Robert Street, Strand, which is marked with an English Heritage blue plaque.
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Uniquely Eltham combines one of the largest and best-preserved medieval great halls in England with a luxurious and idiosyncratic house and garden of the 1930s.
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A summary of research on Eltham Palace, which recently has focused on the social history of Eltham, especially during the Courtaulds’ period of residence.
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History of Jewry Wall, Leicester
Built about AD 160, the Jewry Wall in Leicester once formed the wall between the exercise hall and the bathing suite of the town’s public baths, and is one of the largest remaining Roman masonry structures in Britain.
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Pendennis Castle was an important artillery fort from 1539 until 1956, defending the naval and mercantile anchorage of Carrick Roads and the port of Falmouth.
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Test your knowledge of the English Heritage Blue Plaques scheme with our mini quiz.