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Wrest Park Collection Highlights
Highlights from the collections at Wrest Park, including family portraits and garden statuary.
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Sources for Mount Grace Priory
A list of the main sources of information for current knowledge and understanding of Mount Grace Priory.
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Dido Elizabeth Belle was raised as part of an aristocratic family in Georgian Britain. She was born in the Caribbean in 1761, the illegitimate daughter of a black woman named Maria Bell and Royal Naval officer Sir John Lindsay. Dido spent much of her life at Kenwood House on Hampstead Heath in North London.
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Musical comedians Flanders and Swann honoured with English Heritage Blue Plaque
Musical comedians Michael Flanders (1922-1975) and Donald Swann (1923-1994), who delighted West End audiences with their humorous hit songs in the 1950s and 60s, have today (5 September) been commemorated with an English Heritage blue plaque. The plaque was unveiled at 1 Scarsdale Villas, Kensington, in the garden studio of which the pair once lived and worked.
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Our collection relating to Battle Abbey tells the story of the Battle of Hastings, the Norman Conquest, and a medieval monastic community. Use these objects at home or in the classroom to inspire cross-curricular learning and further your research.
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Lying in the entrancing valley of the river Derwent, Kirkham Priory was founded 900 years ago, during an era of monastic reform. For over 400 years it was home to a community of Augustinian canons.
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History of the Chapter House and Pyx Chamber, Westminster Abbey
These two beautifully preserved medieval rooms, on the eastern side of the Westminster Abbey cloister, have been put to state as well as church use during and since the Middle Ages, including as a meeting place for Parliament.
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From 1939 until 1945, Britain and Allied forces battled against Axis forces in the Second World War. Via English Heritage sites and blue plaques, learn about life in the military, and how civilians found their everyday lives impacted.