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Find out what's on at Pevensey Castle, a great family fun day out in the East Sussex countryside.
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Meet The Man Who Saved Kenilworth Castle
Kenilworth Castle in Warwickshire is known for its links to Queen Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley, but less is known about the man responsible for keeping Kenilworth open to the public.
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The Cinque Ports and the Lord Warden
Walmer Castle is the official residence of the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports – five places that were all formerly major ports on the south-east coast. Lords Warden were highly influential figures, with important military and political powers. The role still exists to this day, although it is now purely ceremonial.
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Description of Pendennis Castle
The castle defences are a rich amalgam from an artillery fortress operating throughout the period 1539–1956
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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 with an English Heritage blue plaque today. 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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Hans Sloane was a physician whose vast accumulation of biological specimens and artefacts formed the basis for the British Museum’s collection.
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This charming well-house of around 1500 stands over an ancient spring, believed to cure whooping cough.
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The world’s first iron bridge was erected over the River Severn here in 1779 by Abraham Darby III. Costing over £6000, the bridge was cast in his Coalbrookdale foundry, using 378 tons of iron.
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Silchester Roman City Walls and Amphitheatre
Originally a tribal centre of the Iron Age Atrebates, Silchester became the large and important Roman town of Calleva Atrebatum.