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Here’s how you can see your own halo at Rievaulx Abbey

Discover your unique Brocken Spectre at Rievaulx Abbey with a new light installation by artist Charles Monkhouse in April.

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Re-Discovering Walmer's Lost Pleasure Grounds

Find out more about the exciting project currently underway at Walmer Castle, supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and seeking to reinstate 19th century pleasure grounds designed by William Pitt the Younger and his niece Lady Hester Stanhope.

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Hadrian's Wall Home To Families Not Just Military Men Says English Heritage

Previously unseen Roman cremation urns containing the remains of a young woman and a five year old - potentially mother and child - have gone on display at Birdoswald Roman Fort.

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2000-Year-Old Roman Gateway Reconstructed at Richborough Roman Fort

A reconstructed Roman gateway and rampart providing panoramic views across Richborough Roman Fort and Amphitheatre in Kent will open to the public tomorrow, English Heritage announced today (18 April).

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New Neolithic and Bronze Age exhibition curated in partnership with British Museum

Powerful, ceremonial objects—including among the most prized objects in the British Museum’s collection of ancient Britain and Europe—will go on display at Stonehenge

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Anonymous Hadrian’s Wall excavators celebrated in new exhibition

New research has identified 11 of the labourers who helped uncover Corbridge Roman Town Call out to the public to help identify the many more men who have remained anonymous for 100 years Historic photographs seen in colour for the first time

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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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Five Minutes With Historical Performer Kate Vigurs

What does a historical performer do? How do you bring alive the stories of thousands of women during WWI? And what is a FANY?

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Operation Clothes Moth Survey Results Revealed

Results from English Heritage's clothes moth survey have been revealed, after the charity called on the public to monitor the pests in their own home.

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English Heritage announces six more blue plaques to women for 2021

1 April 2021 – The crystallographer and peace campaigner, Kathleen Lonsdale has today been celebrated with an English Heritage London Blue Plaque, on the 50th anniversary of her death. Kathleen Lonsdale is the first of six illustrious women to be commemorated by English Heritage with a London Blue Plaque in 2021. Other recipients include social reformer Caroline Norton, designer Jean Muir, former slave and campaigner Ellen Craft, barrister Helena Normanton and Diana, Princess of Wales.