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Luxury Interiors: 5 London Properties with a ‘Wow’ Factor
From gold plated bathrooms to dining rooms adorned with crystals, a visit to our London properties will give you a taste of “bling” across five centuries.
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Make the most of the warmer weather to enjoy our sites, from exploring country houses with beautiful historic gardens to historic hikes in the impressive landscapes of Hadrian's Wall country.
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Spring has most definitely sprung and now is the perfect time to spend a day out where history happened. Here are our highlights and top picks for April.
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Ranger's House is a Georgian villa that today houses the Wernher Collection, amassed by the 19th-century businessman, Sir Julius Wernher. This world-class art collection is made up of over 700 works, including paintings, sculptures, tapestries and more. Each object reveals much about the making, meaning and movement of art throughout the world. Use these objects at home or in the classroom to inspire cross-curricular learning and further your research.
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If you're looking for rainy day ideas, take at look at some of our favourite activities or check out the map of our rain-proof places to visit.
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The gardener, botanist and plant collector Robert Fortune is commemorated with a blue plaque at 9 Gilston Road, Kensington, where he spent the last two decades of his life.
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At the start of the Georgian period, parks and gardens had formal layouts with well-defined axes and avenues. But the growing fashion for scenery, accompanied by theories on nature and on how painterly principles might be used, led to more naturalistic designs that were an early expression of the Romantic movement.
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The gardener, botanist and plant collector Robert Fortune is commemorated with a blue plaque at 9 Gilston Road, Kensington, where he spent the last two decades of his life.
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The gardener, botanist and plant collector Robert Fortune is commemorated with a blue plaque at 9 Gilston Road, Kensington, where he spent the last two decades of his life.