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Description of Harrows Scar Milecastle and Wall
A description of Harrows Scar Milecastle and Wall, one of the highest surviving parts of Hadrian’s Wall.
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Description of Dunstanburgh Castle
Dunstanburgh Castle was built on an impractically massive scale, particularly its great south gatehouse, but much of the area inside its curtain walls was always empty and unoccupied.
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A summary of the main sources for our knowledge and understanding of Pendennis Castle
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MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Blue Plaque commemorating composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at 180 Ebury Street, Belgravia, London SW1W 8UP, City of Westminster.
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Lambert Simnel and Piel Island
How a Yorkist claimant to the English throne failed to usurp Henry VII in the final chapter of the Wars of the Roses – but gave the people of Piel in Cumbria their most enduring legend in the process.
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Henry V and His ‘Pleasance in the Marsh’
How Henry V escaped the burdens of kingship with the help of a secluded lodge across the mere at Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire.
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Enid Marx to Receive Blue Plaque
Celebrated for her industrial textile designs for the London Underground, designer Enid Marx will be commemorated with a blue plaque today (5 April). English Heritage will unveil a blue plaque at number 39 Thornhill Road, the mid-nineteenth century house where Marx lived and worked for more than thirty years. Her purpose-built studio in the back garden remains in much the same condition as she left it nearly 25 years ago. Marx shared the house with her partner, Margaret Lambert and friends Eleanor Breuning and Grace Lambert. Eleanor Breuning continues to live at the house today.
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Blue Plaque commemorating the illustrator of Rupert Bear, Alfred Bestall at 58 Cranes Park, Surbiton KT5 8AS, Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, London.
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History of Benwell Roman Temple
A history of Benwell Roman Temple, which lay within the civilian settlement outside the fort at Benwell on Hadrian’s Wall.
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Everything you need to know about St George and the Farleigh Hungerford mural
St George: martyr, mythical hero, trusted intercessor and a focus of community cohesion —there's so much about the saint (in fact and legend) that makes him an ideal patron for modern England.