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2024 March: World Heritage SitesQuiz
Test your knowledge of the World Heritage Sites in our care with this quiz.
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Kids make history by 'taking over' Stonehenge this summer
For the first time in its 4,500-year-old history, children are invited to step inside the stone circle at Stonehenge and discover it without any grown-ups, as part of English Heritage's new Kids Takeover summer season.
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Blue Plaque for 'NYE' Bevan and Jennie Lee
Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan and Jennie Lee, respectively founders of the NHS and the Open University – as well as husband and wife – were today honoured with an English Heritage Blue Plaque at the house in Chelsea where they lived when the National Health Service Act became law in November 1946.
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Discover Dover Castle's mighty Great Tower, built by order of King Henry II and now home to a lavishly recreated medieval interior with live historic interpretation.
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St Hadrian of Canterbury played a pivotal role in the early history of the English Church. He was born in North Africa and travelled to Italy – most likely as a refugee – before making the journey to Canterbury. He was abbot of the monastery of St Peter and St Paul (later St Augustine’s) in Canterbury, between 670 and 709.
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A Chalk Goddess: Real or Fake?
The Grime’s Graves ‘Chalk Goddess’ is an iconic figure discovered in 1939 during the excavations of one of the deep mines at the site. Many questions have been raised about the authenticity of the figurine as its discovery is not well documented. We explore this intriguing object and learn more about the mysteries that surround its origin.
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Experience almost 1000 years of royal history as the kids run free across the grounds of Carisbrooke Castle.
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Margaret Brotherton was a wealthy and influential noblewoman, whose business acumen, as well as a series of untimely deaths, made her one of the richest women in England.
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Explore Osborne's walled garden, first established at the estate in the 1700s and then used by Victoria and Albert to grow trees, shrubs and flowers for the Osborne estate.