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Family Days Out this May Half-Term
Looking for ideas for family days out for May half-term? Whether you're planning a local adventure or exploring somewhere new, there are plenty of family-friendly things to do across the country.
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Test your knowledge of our properties' literary links with our quiz.
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Blue plaque commemorating SOE agent Noor Inayat Khan at 4 Taviton Street, Bloomsbury, London, WC1H 0BT, London Borough of Camden.
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Blue Plaque commemorating musician Lionel Tertis at 42 Marryat Road, Wimbledon, London SW19 5BD, London Borough of Merton.
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How to Take Tea like a Georgian
Food Historian Annie Gray explores the history of Georgian tea-taking, and how it became what we now call Afternoon Tea.
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The wonderfully complete 14th century brick-vaulted refectory undercroft - later a cottage occupied until 1902 - of a small Augustinian priory.
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How Bram Stoker’s visit to the harbour town of Whitby on the Yorkshire coast in 1890 provided him with atmospheric locations for a Gothic novel – and a name for his famous vampire.
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Make your own history with us this Easter. Take part in our rewarding adventure quests until Sunday 19 April, or just enjoy a great-value family day out.
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A history of the medieval Thornton Abbey, which later became a college for priests, a 17th-century private residence and the site of 19th-century temperance rallies
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The remains of the house of a prosperous Blakeney merchant, with a fine 15th century brick-vaulted undercroft. Later the guildhall of Blakeney’s guild of fish merchants.