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Working from Home: English Heritage Style
While English Heritage’s historic properties across the country remain closed, its curators, gardeners and conservators have gone the extra mile when it comes to working from home.
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London Blue Plaque for Social Justice Campaigners Ellen and William Craft
The plaque marks 26 Cambridge Grove in Hammersmith, where the Crafts settled and campaigned for social justice following a daring escape from enslavement in Georgia, USA.
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Ellen and William Craft, African-American freedom fighters who made a daring escape from enslavement in Georgia, USA, and fled to Britain in the mid-19th century, have today been commemorated with an English Heritage London blue plaque. The plaque marks 26 Cambridge Grove, a mid-Victorian house in Hammersmith where the Crafts settled and raised their family, using their home as a base to campaign for abolition, radical reform and social justice.
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Thornborough Henges, the 'Stonehenge of the north', reunited
One of Britain's most significant prehistoric monuments – Thornborough Henges in North Yorkshire – is now finally reunited. With the generous support of The National Heritage Memorial Fund, Jamie Ritblat and family, and The SCS Trust, English Heritage has now acquired the monument's third and final henge.
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Romans, Victorians and the World Wars top the list of the UK's favourite eras, new research shows
While many on social media may be thinking daily about the Roman Empire, the World Wars (1914-1918 & 1939-1945) came out on top (15%) in a new study released today looking at the UK’s favourite historical era.
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Modern Bayeux Tapestry Unveiled
New illustration depicts the top 10 moments in English history, chosen by children across England. Take part in the competition to design the final panel of the illustration.
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Modern bayeux tapestry unveiled
New illustration depicts the top 10 moments in English history, chosen by children across England. Take part in the competition to design the final panel of the illustration.
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Mary Macarthur celebrated with first Blue Plaque of the year
English Heritage unveils first blue plaque of the year for trade unionist and women's rights activist Mary Macarthur on the eve of International Women's Day
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Eight-year-old appointed English Heritage's child executive officer
After a nationwide search involving hundreds of applicants, English Heritage has today appointed a CEO with a difference to help make the wishes of thousands of children come true this summer.
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A brief history and description of Egglestone Abbey, a house of Premonstratensian canons which struggled repeatedly with poverty and the threat of Scottish invasion.