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Bored during Christmas? Try these 4 festive Victorian things to do
If you're bored over the holidays, take inspiration from the Victorians. Keep the family entertained with these ideas and beat boredom the Victorian way.
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Scenically placed beside the river Severn in Shropshire, the ruins of Buildwas Abbey are among the most important Cistercian remains in England.
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English Heritage Challenge Events
Help support English Heritage and challenge yourself by signing up for a charity running place. Play your part in giving England’s heritage a future. You'll help over 400 places withstand the forces of nature and safeguard their stories long into the future.
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Lydford Law and Parliamentary Privilege
From a Tudor ‘tinner’ to a 21st-century footballer: how the Privilege of Parliament Act can be traced back to the ghastliness of prison life at Lydford Castle in Devon.
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The Dilessi Massacre and a Gothic Revival Masterpiece
How the death of a young English aristocrat taken hostage in Greece inspired the building of St Mary’s Church, Studley Royal.
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History of Stanwick Iron Age Fortifications
A brief history and description of Stanwick Iron Age Fortifications, the excavated remains of an Iron Age rampart and ditch.
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Ronnie Scott awarded English Heritage blue plaque
Jazz musician Ronnie Scott has been honoured with an English Heritage blue plaque today (Thursday 24 October), in Chinatown, Soho. The plaque marks the site of the first Ronnie Scott’s club, ahead of the 60th anniversary of its opening.
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New interpretation and trail at the medieval village of castle acre
A family trail and new displays explore the lives of monks and villagers from Castle Acre in Norfolk.
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Self-taught Victorian physicist celebrated with English Heritage blue plaque
The physicist, mathematician and electrical engineer, Oliver Heaviside, has been commemorated with a blue plaque, English Heritage announced today (22 April 2022). Heaviside’s biographer, Paul Nahin, once noted that his work on how to make a decent telephone cable plays a vastly greater role in our everyday lives than does the work of Einstein. The plaque marks the terrace house on Camden Street that Heaviside once described as “heaven in comparison” to his family’s previous house. It was here that the budding Victorian scientist continued with his self-education after leaving school at 16 and where he later worked on his ground-breaking interpretation of James Clerk Maxwell’s Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, bridging the gulf between the theory of telecommunciations and its practice.