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Excavation and Restoration: Stonehenge in the 1950s and 60s
The years between 1950 and 1964 saw an explosion of research and conservation activity at Stonehenge, and restoration made the world's most famous prehistoric monument much easier to understand.
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Travel back in time to the Industrial Revolution
Here are the English Heritage sites to visit to take part in your very own industrial revolution.
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Learn Along with us: Operation Dynamo
Learn along with us as we explore the story of Operation Dynamo and understand how Dover Castle played a role in this heroic rescue.
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England’s First Official Queen: Mary Tudor
Explore the story of how Mary Tudor became the first to be crowned Queen of England at Framlingham Castle in 1553.
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Human Henge: how can historic landscapes be good for you?
Exploring links between landscapes and mental wellbeing, the Restoration Trust's Human Henge project used Stonehenge as the setting for cultural therapy.
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In 597, St Augustine arrived in England to convert the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity. Virtually every modern description of this mission mentions Queen Bertha of Kent. She has gone down in legend as the Christian queen who influenced her pagan husband, King Æthelberht, in Augustine’s favour. But who was Bertha?
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John Seely and Paul Paget were partners both in life and in one of the most noteworthy architectural firms of the interwar years. Their architectural masterpiece was their transformation of Eltham Palace, a medieval palace on the outskirts of London, into an Art Deco mansion, completed in 1936.
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For more than a century after the Battle of Hastings, all substantial stone buildings in England were built in the Norman style, which was superseded from the later 12th century by a new style – the Gothic.
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William the Conqueror imposed a total reorganisation of the English Church. He had secured the Pope’s blessing for his invasion by promising to reform the ‘irregularities’ of the Anglo-Saxon Church, which had developed its own distinctive customs. Throughout the medieval period the Church was a pervasive force in people’s lives.