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Medieval Season at Battle Abbey Timetable
Join us at Battle Abbey for six weeks of medieval themed fun and activities. Discover the fearsome beasts that inspired the illuminated manuscripts of English monasteries, and come face to face with medieval villains and the punishments they endured. With a different theme each week, there's plenty to keep your little lords and ladies occupied this summer.
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Untold Stories – Poetry at English Heritage
Untold Stories is an ongoing poetry programme that explores new ways to bring poetry to English Heritage sites. The programme so far has included the commissioning of new poems related to English Heritage sites, a poetry exchange, the launch of our poetry fellowship, and a public competition that offered opportunities for everyone to explore our past through poetry.
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Marble Hill Revived: Your Questions Answered
We’ve had a very positive response from most people to our proposals for Marble Hill, but we’re aware of some concerns.
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Groundbreaking female archaeologists
Find out about some of the groundbreaking female archaeologists who worked on sites now cared for by English Heritage, and discover how their investigations have enriched our understanding of the past.
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History of Birdoswald Roman Fort
A history of Birdoswald Roman Fort, one of 16 forts built along Hadrian’s Wall and with some of the best-preserved defences of any Wall fort.
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Goodrich Castle is a now ruinous Norman medieval castle situated to the north of the village of Goodrich in Herefordshire, England, controlling a key location between Monmouth and Ross-on-Wye.
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As well as being Darwin’s family home for 40 years, Down House was where he developed and tested the theories published in his book ‘On the Origin of Species’. The garden was Darwin’s ‘living laboratory’ where he could conduct hundreds of experiments on the natural world. We look at some of these garden experiments and how they informed Darwin’s world-changing ideas.
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Launceston Castle dates from the early years of the Norman Conquest, with construction beginning in 1068. Sitting on a high hill overlooking the surrounding area, it was a symbol of Norman power and served as a reminder of the authority of the Earls of Cornwall, and from the 1300s, the Dukes of Cornwall. In the mid-thirteenth century it was remodelled by Richard, Earl of Cornwall. Over its history, the castle has been an administrative centre, a prison and even a pleasure garden. It was also one of several sites used by U.S. forces during World War II. Use our suggested activities and resources to better understand the story of Launceston Castle.