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Henrietta Howard’s Garden at Marble Hill
The garden at Marble Hill is a rare surviving example of a garden laid out in the early 18th century, a period of transition in landscape design. Discover what makes it so important and how English Heritage has restored the key elements of it.
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Among the greatest monasteries of the Welsh Marches, Wenlock Priory was refounded soon after the Norman Conquest on the site of a 7th-century double monastery, which housed both monks and nuns.
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James Chappell was a black servant in the household of Christopher Hatton, the owner of Kirby Hall, Northamptonshire. His heroic actions after an explosion on Guernsey in 1672 were enshrined in family and local legend. Find out more about his life and legacy.
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History of JW Evans Silver Factory
The old workshops of the JW Evans Silver Factory, in the heart of Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter, are still crammed with tools and equipment as if the workers might return at any moment. But the skills of the specialist craftsmen who worked there throughout the 20th century are now almost a forgotten memory.
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History of Warkworth Castle and Hermitage
The history of Warkworth Castle, one of the most important in northern England, and the nearby medieval rock-cut chapel known as the Hermitage.
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History of Lullingstone Roman Villa
The history of the Roman villa at Lullingstone, which is remarkable both for its state of preservation and because of the evidence it retains for Romano-British Christianity
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Founded soon after the Norman Conquest, for over 600 years Launceston Castle (Kastel Lanstefan) was the most important fortress and centre of government in Cornwall.
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Eugenics – meaning ‘good breeding’ – was coined in 1883 by Sir Francis Galton to describe ‘the science which deals with all influences which improve the inborn qualities of a race’. We explore the controversial and changing ideas about eugenics, and some of the figures with blue plaques who supported or opposed it.
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A history of Portchester Castle from its origins as a Roman fort of the Saxon Shore in the 3rd century AD to the present day.
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Uniquely in England, Denny Abbey was successively occupied by three different monastic orders – Benedictine monks, Knights Templar and finally Franciscan nuns. Each of these communities shaped the monastic buildings to suit their way of life.