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Sources for Birdoswald Roman Fort
A full list of the main sources of information and further reading on Birdoswald Roman Fort.
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Margoth: A Cross-Dressing Medieval Spy
In 1265 a female royalist spy, dressed as a man, gathered vital intelligence on a rebel army which was camped outside Kenilworth Castle. We explore what light this episode sheds on cross-dressing and espionage in medieval England.
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Sir Arthur Harris was a senior officer throughout the Second World War, most notably in charge of the RAF’s Bomber Command (1942–6). Faith Winter’s statue of Harris was erected outside St Clement Danes Church in 1992 as a memorial to him and over 55,000 men of Bomber Command who lost their lives in the war.
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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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History of Temple Church, Bristol
Bristol’s Temple Church is so called because the original church was built by the Knights Templar, perhaps the most famous of the medieval military orders. Their round church here was later replaced with a larger, more conventional rectangular church, whose leaning tower and walls survived bombing in the Second World War.
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History of Royal Garrison Church, Portsmouth
From its origins as a hospital founded in about 1210–14 to provide shelter and relief for the poor and for travellers to stay, for over 800 years the Royal Garrison Church has had an evolving role within the Portsmouth community.
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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.
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Aldborough Roman Site Collection Highlights
Explore the collection highlights of Aldborough Roman Site, with finds ranging in date from prehistory to post-medieval. They include rare and unique coins, ceramics, glass vessels, animal bone, mosaics, architectural stonework and stone sculpture.