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One of the earliest purpose-built artillery blockhouses in England, this brick tower was built in c.1398-9 to command a strategic point in Norwich’s city defence.
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A pretty four-arched late medieval bridge, spanning the River Kennett on the old route from Cambridge to Bury St Edmunds.
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5 Things You Might Not Know About Gingerbread
Gingerbread is a tasty regular in our nation’s bakeries and is enjoyed throughout the year. But did you know that Queen Elizabeth I once served her guests miniature gingerbread versions of themselves? Or that medieval gingerbread didn’t actually contain any ginger? Read on to find out more about the many different iterations of what we now call gingerbread.
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Blue plaque commemorating botanists Sir Joseph Banks, Robert Brown and David Don who lived at 32 Soho Square, Soho, London W1D 3AP, City of Westminster.
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Blue plaque commemorating botanists Sir Joseph Banks, Robert Brown and David Don who lived at 32 Soho Square, Soho, London W1D 3AP, City of Westminster.
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Blue plaque commemorating botanists Sir Joseph Banks, Robert Brown and David Don who lived at 32 Soho Square, Soho, London W1D 3AP, City of Westminster.
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Belsay Awakes project has rejuvenated the gardens, carried out vital conservation work, delivered a brand new woodland play-and-learn area with an outdoor classroom as well as a second tearoom in the previously unused coach house. This project has been made possible thanks to National Lottery players & The National Lottery Heritage Fund with support from Garfield Weston Foundation, The Foyle Foundation & other generous donations.
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Why do we eat pancakes on pancake day?
Join Food Historian Sam Bilton as she explores the history of the celebration, and details an 18th century recipe for a kind of pancake pie for you to try at home – the ultimate Shrove Tuesday treat!
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Chairman's Lecture: Charles Darwin's living laboratory at Down House
In 1859, while living at Down House in Kent, Charles Darwin published his theory of natural selection in his book On the Origin of Species. The garden at Down House was Darwin’s ‘living laboratory’, where he conducted hundreds of experiments on the natural world. In her lecture on 7 February, Emily Parker, landscape advisor, took us behind the scenes of the project to reveal more about those experiments and the role they played in informing his groundbreaking theories.