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Eltham Palace Collection Highlights
Highlights from the collections at Eltham Palace, including furniture purpose-built for Stephen and Virginia Courtauld's house, and works of fine and decorative art.
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The Three Trials of Knighthood at Goodrich Castle
Join us at Goodrich Castle in the summer holidays for The Three Trials of Knighthood. Young squires will test their balance, aim and creativity through a series of exciting knight challenges.
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Experience spring with all of its scents, shades and sounds with a walk around one of our historic gardens.
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Situated on a remote and exposed shingle spit which commands the Needles Passage between the Isle of Wight and the mainland, Hurst Castle is subjected to immense forces of wind and tide. In February 2021, a section of wall on the 19th-century east wing of the castle collapsed, after the sea exposed and undercut its foundations. Our team are now hard at work on a major project to protect and bring stability to the castle.
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Find out how, at the time of Stonehenge, people connected with others and with the world around them by making and sharing objects.
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Butlers were key members of the Victorian household. Do you think you're up to the task of leading a staff? Find out what this varied job involved.
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D-Day Deception: Operation Fortitude South
In 1944, Dover Castle’s tunnels played a supporting role in Operation Fortitude South, the elaborate deception that concealed the true location of the Allied invasion of western Europe from the Germans.
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Cartimandua was the ruler of the Brigantes, an Iron Age people of northern Britain, and the first documented queen to reign in part of the British Isles. She ruled over a large area and became an important ally of the Roman Empire during the conquest.
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The Ladies of Llangollen Portraits at Audley End
Two prints in the collection at Audley End depict Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, who set up home in 1779 and lived together for 50 years. Discover what the prints can tell us about contemporary fascination with their lives and relationship.
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In October 2018, we started work on a new footbridge at Tintagel, recreating the historic crossing from the mainland to the headland.