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Three pioneering women receive blue plaques
Plaques celebrate BBC’s first Black woman producer and trailblazing women interior designers
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The General, The Scientist & The Banker: The Birth of Archaeology and the Battle for the Past
Darwin’s theory and an archaeological discovery, broke the Biblical version of history. This exhibition shows what happened next, as archaeologists try to save Britain’s prehistoric sites.
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HUDSON, William Henry (1841-1922)
Blue Plaque commemorating naturalist William Henry Hudson at 40 St Luke's Road, Westbourne Park, London W11 1DH, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
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The General, The Scientist & The Banker: The Birth of Archaeology and the Battle for the Past
Darwin’s theory and an archaeological discovery, broke the Biblical version of history. This exhibition shows what happened next, as archaeologists try to save Britain’s prehistoric sites.
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NATIONAL UNION OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE SOCIETIES
The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) is commemorated with a blue plaque at 22 Great Smith Street, Westminster, where it was based from 1910 to 1918.
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NATIONAL UNION OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE SOCIETIES
The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) is commemorated with a blue plaque at 22 Great Smith Street, Westminster, where it was based from 1910 to 1918.
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HUDSON, William Henry (1841-1922)
Blue Plaque commemorating naturalist William Henry Hudson at 40 St Luke's Road, Westbourne Park, London W11 1DH, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
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15th century painting confirmed as Botticelli
A painting long thought to be a later imitation of Sandro Botticelli’s famous Madonna of the Pomegranate has been revealed to be a rare example by the artist’s own workshop, English Heritage has revealed today (28 March). The discovery was made while the painting was being cleaned by the charity’s conservators and the work’s true colours – hidden under more than a century of yellow varnish – will be revealed when it goes on display at Ranger’s House in Greenwich on 1 April.
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England’s painted past is at risk, English Heritage warned today (24 September), as the charity revealed the catalogue of threats causing the country’s precious wall paintings to deteriorate and decay. From the damp English climate, to failed early 20th-century restoration attempts to the very buildings they are housed in, these irreplaceable artworks – some even older than those in the Sistine Chapel – risk disappearing from view altogether. English Heritage has today launched an appeal to support the conservation of these irreplaceable treasures.
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George Saunders, the 2nd Earl’s architect from 1794–6, built a dairy for the Earl’s wife, Louisa at Kenwood House.