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5 Top Tips For Writing A Valentines Love Letter
English Heritage Curator, Rowena Willard-Wright gives her top tips from history to help you re-discover the lost art of love letters this Valentines Day.
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History of Great Witcombe Roman Villa
The rich farmland of the Cotswolds made it a popular area to live during Roman times, and Great Witcombe was a particularly luxurious villa with some spectacular mosaic floors.
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What to grow in a medieval herb garden
The infirmary herb garden in a medieval monastery grew a range of medicinal herbs - here are 9 plants that you’d find there that you can grow at home today.
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We have gathered together advice from teachers, education experts and historians on how to approach history as a subject. They share their hints and tips for how to convey a sense of time, how to interrogate sources and where to look for support on the different topics on the curriculum.
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'Slide' through History at Framlingham Castle this February half term
6 metre slide opens from Framlingham Castle's wall walk and 7-year-old Jack Love from Worlingworth wins competition to be first visitor to have a go.
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For just over a year King Charles I was held captive on the Isle of Wight, primarily at Carisbrooke Castle. From there, he took part in numerous negotiations with the English and Scottish parliaments, failed in several escape attempts, and only heard afterwards about the uprisings of the Second Civil War in the summer of 1648.
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Rievaulx reconstructed: How are interpretation images drawn?
How do you turn the ruins of a place like Rievaulx Abbey in Yorkshire into accurate reconstruction images? We asked the architect who has done just that.
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Meet the girl who visited every site in the Monopoly game
Meet 14 year Samantha, a young history lover who has just completed a challenge to visit every site on the English Heritage special edition Monopoly board.
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Hurst Castle provides a remote escape by the sea with plenty of things to do and see! Built by Henry VIII; one of the most advanced artillery fortresses in England.