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WHISTLER, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903)
Blue Plaque commemorating painter James Abbott Mcneill Whistler at 96 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London SW10 0DQ, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
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WHISTLER, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903)
Blue Plaque commemorating painter James Abbott Mcneill Whistler at 96 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London SW10 0DQ, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
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Sources for Farleigh Hungerford Castle
A list of the main sources of information on Farleigh Hungerford Castle, including manuscript and visual sources, antiquarian accounts and the latest research reports.
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Seminal Match Girls’ Strike of 1888 commemorated with English Heritage Blue Plaque in East London
One of the most important strikes in modern British history has been commemorated by English Heritage with a blue plaque today (5 July 2022). The blue plaque was unveiled at the site of the former Bryant and May match factory in East London where in early July 1888 around 1,400 of the predominantly female workforce walked out in protest at the dismissal of a number of their co-workers.
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A brief history of Bolsover Castle, an extraordinary aristocratic retreat created in the 17th century.
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Magic, Medicine and the Middleham Jewel
How a 15th-century amulet discovered at Middleham Castle in North Yorkshire reveals the complex relationship between superstition and theology, spell-casting and prayer, in late medieval England.
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English Heritage Conserves Home of Extraordinary Elizabethan – Bess of Hardwick
Hardwick Old Hall’s plaster friezes saved for the nation
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Stella Reading honoured with English Blue Plaque
Women’s Voluntary Services founder memorialised at their London headquarters Royal Voluntary Service diaries of wartime women go online
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Picturesque moated castle built in the 1370s. Held for the King during the Civil War, falling to Parliamentarian cannon in 1645: the gun-damaged wall finally collapsing on Christmas Day 1910.