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Blue plaque commemorating writer PG Wodehouse at 17 Dunraven Street, Mayfair, London W1K 7EG, City of Westminster.
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LOUDON, Jane, née Webb (1807-1858) & LOUDON, John (1783-1843)
Blue Plaque commemorating landscape gardeners John Claudius and Jane Loudon at 3 Porchester Terrace, Bayswater, London W2 3TH, City of Westminster.
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The history of Hadrian’s Wall at Heddon-on-the-Wall, where the Wall was built to the original broad gauge and is one of the best preserved stretch of Wall built to this plan.
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New Technology Unlocks Old Buildings
Previously unseen artefacts, rarely opened archaeological stores, and hard-to-see masterpieces are today revealed for the first time online thanks to a major new partnership between English Heritage and Google Arts & Culture.
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Whitby Abbey has re-opened to the public following a major £1.6 million re-interpretation project by English Heritage – including a new museum and new interpretation around the historic site.
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First World War Nurse Identified
A First World War nurse who cared for injured soldiers at Wrest Park in Bedfordshire, the first wartime country house hospital, has been identified for the first time.
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Six new blue plaques for women
1 April 2021 – The crystallographer and peace campaigner, Kathleen Lonsdale has today been celebrated with an English Heritage London Blue Plaque, on the 50th anniversary of her death. Kathleen Lonsdale is the first of six illustrious women to be commemorated by English Heritage with a London Blue Plaque in 2021. Other recipients include social reformer Caroline Norton, designer Jean Muir, former slave and campaigner Ellen Craft, barrister Helena Normanton and Diana, Princess of Wales.
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English Heritage announces six more blue plaques to women for 2021
1 April 2021 – The crystallographer and peace campaigner, Kathleen Lonsdale has today been celebrated with an English Heritage London Blue Plaque, on the 50th anniversary of her death. Kathleen Lonsdale is the first of six illustrious women to be commemorated by English Heritage with a London Blue Plaque in 2021. Other recipients include social reformer Caroline Norton, designer Jean Muir, former slave and campaigner Ellen Craft, barrister Helena Normanton and Diana, Princess of Wales.
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Blue Plaque for lawyer who enshrined ‘war crimes’ in international law
The lawyer Hersch Lauterpacht, who played a key role in prosecuting the Nazis at the Nuremberg trials and whose belief that sovereign states should be held accountable for crimes against their own people led to lasting change in international law, has been commemorated with a blue plaque at his former home in Cricklewood, north west London.
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Stonehenge and the A303 - Consultation Response
English Heritage, Historic England and the National Trust respond to the proposed A303 Stonehenge tunnel.