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Celebrating Queen Victoria and Prince Albert’s birthdays at Osborne, recreating a historic crossing at Tintagel Castle, and opening a new museum at Whitby Abbey are just some of the highlights at English Heritage sites in 2019, the charity announced today (Tuesday 19 February 2019).
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Bauhaus visionaries honoured with blue plaque
A blue plaque for three pioneering art teachers has been unveiled on a daringly modern 1930s Isokon Building in Belsize Park.
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Missing Piece of Stonehenge Returned
A piece of one of the enormous sarsen stones at Stonehenge has been returned to the ancient monument, English Heritage announced today (8 May). The prehistoric stone ‘core’ was removed during archaeological excavations in 1958 and its existence remained largely unknown for the next 60 years. The core will now join English Heritage’s collection of more than 500,000 artefacts and may help to uncover the source of the stones that form the instantly recognisable trilithons and outer circle of Stonehenge.
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Champion for women's education and Indian independence receives blue plaque
The London home of Margaret Noble, or Sister Nivedita as she was known, has been commemorated with a new blue plaque
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Blue plaque commemorating first woman to sit in Parliament, Nancy Astor, at 4 St James's Square, St James's, London SW1Y 6JU, City of Westminster.
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Ruins of the late 12th-century church of a small nunnery of ‘white ladies’ or Augustinian canonesses. Charles II hid nearby in 1651, before moving to Boscobel House.
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The Victorian era spans the 63 years of Queen Victoria’s reign over Great Britain and Ireland from 1837 until her death in 1901. It was a period of rapid advancement in science, industry and the arts, and saw great political and social reform. Many of these advancements have helped to shape the world as we know it today.
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History of Wharram Percy Deserted Medieval Village
The history of Wharram Percy Deserted Medieval Village, which flourished during the 12th and 14th centuries and was abandoned soon after 1500.
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Facilities at Down House – Home of Charles Darwin
Facilities at Down House – Home of Charles Darwin