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Meet artist Alan Kitching, one of the world’s leading practitioners of letterpress typographic design and printmaking.
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Apsley House was the home of the Duke of Wellington and is a national shrine to the victor of Waterloo, filled with artworks from across Europe celebrating the duke’s victory against Napoleon in 1815.
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Description of Corbridge Roman Town
The exposed English Heritage site (about 1.8 hectares) represents only a tiny fraction – the central nucleus – of the Roman town built around the site of successive forts.
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ARCHER, John Richard (1863-1932)
Blue Plaque commemorating civic leader and pan-Africanist John Richard Archer at 55 Brynmaer Road, Battersea, London SW11 4EN, London Borough of Wandsworth
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Suffragette princess commemorated by English Heritage
Blue Plaque to Princess Sophia Duleep Singh unveiled at Faraday House, Hampton Court
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THE QUEEN MOTHER'S PRIVATE APARTMENT REVEALED FOR THE FIRST TIME
Walmer Castle, seaside retreat beloved of The Queen Mother, opens Lord Warden's private apartment from Saturday 23 March
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THE QUEEN MOTHER’S PRIVATE APARTMENT REVEALED FOR THE FIRST TIME
Walmer Castle, seaside retreat beloved of The Queen Mother, opens private Lord Warden’s apartment from Saturday 23 March
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Blue Plaques to tell stories of working class experience
English Heritage will commemorate the Match Girls’ strike with a blue plaque later this year. The plaque will mark the place in Bow where around 1,400 women walked out of the Bryant and May match factory in 1888 in protest at the dismissal of three co-workers, low pay and dangerous working conditions. Working with white phosphorus, the employees were in danger of developing ‘Phossy jaw’, a disease that could cause catastrophic injuries, disfigurement and even death.
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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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Art Installation at Housesteads Roman Fort
In celebration of Hadrian’s Wall’s 1900th anniversary, English Heritage has installed a contemporary and colourful take on the original Roman gatehouse at Housesteads Roman Fort – one of the Wall’s best preserved and most important sites.