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Writer Martha Gellhorn Receives English Heritage Blue Plaque
The war correspondent and writer Martha Gellhorn (1908-1998), who reported on conflicts from the Spanish Civil War to the Vietnam War, has been commemorated with an English Heritage blue plaque.
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Enid Marx to Receive Blue Plaque
Celebrated for her industrial textile designs for the London Underground, designer Enid Marx will be commemorated with a blue plaque today (5 April). English Heritage will unveil a blue plaque at number 39 Thornhill Road, the mid-nineteenth century house where Marx lived and worked for more than thirty years. Her purpose-built studio in the back garden remains in much the same condition as she left it nearly 25 years ago. Marx shared the house with her partner, Margaret Lambert and friends Eleanor Breuning and Grace Lambert. Eleanor Breuning continues to live at the house today.
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Mass-Observation headquarters commemorated by English Heritage
New blue plaque to mark hub where thousands of volunteer diary entries were sent, read and recorded
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Sources for Scarborough Castle
A list of the main written, material and visual sources for our knowledge and understanding of Scarborough Castle.
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Audio Tour of De Grey Mausoleum
Use this audio tour to find out about the fascinating lives of generations of the De Grey family of Wrest Park, buried in one of the greatest collections of funerary monuments in England.
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History of Merrivale Prehistoric Settlement
The group of prehistoric monuments at Merrivale, where a Bronze Age settlement site and an earlier, Neolithic ritual complex lie side by side, is one of the finest on Dartmoor.
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Explore the rich history of Framlingham Castle and its journey from a Norman powerhouse to a 17th-century home for the poor.
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Speaking with Shadows: Series 1 Episode 6
Speaking with Shadows is the podcast that listens to the people that history forgot. In our final episode, Josie Long explores the diverse and complex cultures of Birdoswald Roman Fort on Hadrian's Wall – once a meeting place for communities from across the Roman Empire.
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History of Jewry Wall, Leicester
Built about AD 160, the Jewry Wall in Leicester once formed the wall between the exercise hall and the bathing suite of the town’s public baths, and is one of the largest remaining Roman masonry structures in Britain.