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Social justice activist, Olive Morris, gets an English Heritage blue plaque
English Heritage has commemorated activist and housing rights campaigner, Olive Morris, with a blue plaque in Brixton. Morris dedicated her short life (1952–1979) to speaking out on behalf of oppressed and exploited people.
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A brief history of Hardwick Old Hall, one of the most innovative houses of the Tudor period, built by Bess of Hardwick.
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A pageant master, theatre producer and actress who only played male parts, Gwen Lally was also renowned for her striking appearance and masculine style of dress.
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A supply of fresh water was essential for a well defended stronghold like Carisbrooke. For hundreds of years the castle's resident donkeys have drawn up water in the well house. Visit the castle and delight in the demonstrations of the donkeys working the 16th century tread wheel.
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Take a look at some of the inspiring figures in London’s history who fought to open up new opportunities for women.
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Marital Strife and Anthropoid Coffins at Farleigh Hungerford
How one castle’s remarkable concentration of horrors offers insights into crime and punishment in the Tudor period, bizarre Stuart embalming practices, and macabre – and disgusting – thrill-seeking in the 19th century.
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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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Past Lives:Pioneering dentist Lilian Lindsay in London
The accomplishments of Britain’s first female dentist are commemorated by a blue plaque, which also had to overcome adversity of a different kind.
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• Yehudi Menuhin and Claudia Jones join suffragettes Emily Wilding Davison and Princess Sophia Duleep Singh among those being commemorated by English Heritage this year
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Behind the scenes at Stonehenge The Oddy Test
Melanie Coussens explains how she looks after all the many artefacts that are on display at Stonehenge.