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The most English week in history?
This week marks the Queen's 90th birthday, St George's Day and the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare.
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Explore the rail of costumes and pick your Halloween persona! Gather the family and take some spooky selfies.
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The fascinating story of Clifford's Tower will finally be told thanks to a major investment by English Heritage into this York landmark.
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On the centenary of John Singer Sargent’s death, we are gathering together, for the first time, 18 of his magnificent portraits at Kenwood. All depict women who were part of the transatlantic marriage phenomenon of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when American heiresses married into the British aristocracy. Heiress: Sargent’s American Portraits features some of Sargent’s finest works and reveals the important contributions these women made to politics, the arts and society. With loans coming from institutions in Washington, Boston and Houston as well as private collections on both sides of the Atlantic, the exhibition will offer visitors the rare opportunity to enjoy Sargent’s brilliant works in the splendour of Kenwood.
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Meet The Man Who Saved Hadrian’s Wall
John Clayton (1792-1890) was the town clerk of Newcastle upon Tyne, a lawyer and antiquarian. His contribution to excavating and protecting Hadrian’s Wall has often been overlooked, but without him we could have lost much of this transnational World Heritage Site.
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Ranger’s House and Admiral Hosier’s Ghost
Why the death of Admiral Francis Hosier, builder of Ranger’s House, and the devastation of his fleet, became the subject of a scathing musical attack on the government of the day.
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History of King Charles’s Castle
A brief history and description of King Charles's Castle, a Tudor artillery fort that was later occupied by Royalists during the Civil War.