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Halloween Half-Term Fancy Dress Competition T&Cs
Halloween Half-Term Fancy Dress Competition T&Cs
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English Heritage introduces ‘hour of contemplation’ at its former monasteries
English Heritage is launching an ‘hour of contemplation’ at its monasteries in a month-long trial this autumn. From 22 September until 22 October 2021, English Heritage will be encouraging visitors to turn off notifications on their phones, finish up their conversations and enjoy the final hour of public access to its abbeys and priories in contemplative quiet, enabling them to experience these spiritual buildings as they were intended.
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THE BATTLE OF HASTINGS RETURNS
Tickets are now on sale for the one and only Battle of Hastings re-enactment, returning by popular demand after a hiatus in 2020.
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Known as ‘The Grandparent of Skyscrapers’, Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings is an internationally important historical site. It is the multi-storied iron-framed building in the world, first used as a Mill and then a Maltings, it was operational until the 1980s.
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Discover the very battlefield on which the most famous conflict in England’s history was fought.
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New portrait of Queen Victoria’s African goddaughter goes on display at Osborne
A new painting of Sarah Forbes Bonetta, the daughter of an African ruler who became Queen Victoria’s goddaughter, has been unveiled at Osborne, the Queen’s seaside home on the Isle of Wight. English Heritage announced today (7 October 2020) that it will also be commissioning portraits of other historical black figures associated with the charity’s sites and whose stories like Bonetta’s, have been previously overlooked. The painting of Bonetta by artist Hannah Uzor is on display at Osborne throughout October – Black History Month – and will then return on display next spring as part of English Heritage’s wider series of portraits across several sites.
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10 things you need to know about the 1066 march to Battle of Hastings
An epic re-enactment march kicks off in York this weekend in the run up to the Battle of Hastings, marking 950 years of the Norman Conquest
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New Neolithic and Bronze Age exhibition curated in partnership with British Museum
Powerful, ceremonial objects—including among the most prized objects in the British Museum’s collection of ancient Britain and Europe—will go on display at Stonehenge
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Take a journey through a year of seasonal garden highlights at Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's island palace of Osborne.