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A brief history and description of Weeting Castle, a rare surviving example of a 12th-century manor house
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English Heritage announces Blue Plaque for Peter Cushing on Star Wars Day
Peter Cushing (1913-1994), the actor best known by many for his performance as Grand Moff Tarkin in Star Wars, is to be honoured with an English Heritage Blue Plaque.
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Early professional female landscape gardener receives English Heritage blue plaque
Fanny Wilkinson, believed to be Britain’s first professional female landscape gardener, and a campaigner for the protection of open space in London, has been commemorated with a blue plaque, English Heritage announced today (7 June 2022). Marking the façade of the flat on Shaftesbury Avenue, where Wilkinson lived and worked between 1885 and 1896, the plaque will look out onto the small open space that she laid out over 130 years ago, just a few months before moving into the flat. In reference to the spot outside her future home, she recommended that, 'if some trees were planted, or seats placed on it, it would be a great boon to this crowded neighbourhood'.
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2000-YEAR-OLD MOSAIC FOUND AT BURIED ROMAN CITY
Rare mosaic discovered at Wroxeter Roman City depicts sea creatures
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English Heritage honours golfing legend Henry Cotton with Blue Plaque
Henry Cotton, three-time British Open winner, becomes first golfer to be honoured by the scheme.
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Hadrian’s Wall: History and Stories
Hadrian's Wall was a rich and vibrant place. It was a border, but it was also a place where borders were crossed. Here, soldiers and civilians from across Europe and North Africa met, traded and served together at the north-western frontier of the Roman Empire.
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Between 1870 and 1914, 102 American women married into the British peerage, and many more into the upper classes. Throughout their history, they have collectively been referred to as ‘dollar princesses’ – a problematic term that dismisses the individual women behind the marriages. We delve deeper into the stories of four such women to find out more about the individual behind the heiress.
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IRVING, Washington (1783-1859)
Blue Plaque commemorating American writer Washington Irving at 8 Argyll Street, Soho, London W1F 7TF, City of Westminster.
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IRVING, Washington (1783-1859)
Blue Plaque commemorating American writer Washington Irving at 8 Argyll Street, Soho, London W1F 7TF, City of Westminster.
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1066 Battle of hastings, Abbey & Battlefield Access
Access to 1066 Battle of Hastings, Abbey & Battlefield