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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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Working from Home: English Heritage Style

While English Heritage’s historic properties across the country remain closed, its curators, gardeners and conservators have gone the extra mile when it comes to working from home.

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Unsung Heroes of Dunkirk Evacuation Revealed on 80th Anniversary

Dunkirk 1940: The Making of the Miracle – English Heritage's online event tells the story of the evacuation day-by-day

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Spring Cleaning the Old-Fashioned Way

Historic home cleaning methods can be more effective than modern techniques, English Heritage said today (19 March), as it released a new video of its Victorian Youtube star Avis Crocombe revealing her top tips. The conservation charity has been experimenting with the historic techniques of using milk on flag stone floors and using bread to remove dirt from wallpaper as part of its annual spring clean while Mrs Crocombe shows how similar methods can be used in your own kitchen.

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Romans to blame for no-body-hair trend, says English HEritage

From painful waxes to irritating shaves, we can trace the modern obsession with hair removal back to the Romans, English Heritage has said today (24 May), as the charity displays a collection of tweezers used to remove armpit hair from Roman men and women in a new museum at Wroxeter Roman City, Shropshire – a Roman town once as large as Pompeii. Amongst over 400 artefacts, most of which have never been on display, other objects related to Roman cleanliness and beauty practices include a strigil (skin scraper), perfume bottles, jet and bone jewellery, make-up applicators and amulets for warding off evil. The new museum at Wroxeter opens to the public tomorrow.

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PEARSON, Sir Arthur (1866-1921)

Blue plaque commemorating the newspaper publisher and philanthropist Sir Arthur Pearson at his former home at 21 Portland Place, Marylebone, W1B 1PY, City of Westminster.

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Why were women written out of history? An interview with Bettany Hughes

For Women's History Month, award-winning historian, author and broadcaster Dr Bettany Hughes explains why women were written out of history.

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What to grow in a medieval herb garden

The infirmary herb garden in a medieval monastery grew a range of medicinal herbs - here are 9 plants that you’d find there that you can grow at home today.

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Collections Explored: Wallpaper in The Architectural Studies Collection

We often say 'if walls could talk' but wallpaper can sometimes tell more stories than you'd think. Rose Arkle explains why we collect and conserve it.