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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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New blue plaques for photography trailblazers Christina Broom and John Thomson
Britain's first female press photographer, Christina Broom, and early photojournalist, John Thomson, commemorated by with blue plaques.
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New blue plaques for photography trailblazers
Britain's first female press photographer, Christina Broom, and early photojournalist, John Thomson, commemorated by with blue plaques.
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2000-YEAR-OLD MOSAIC FOUND AT BURIED ROMAN CITY
Rare mosaic discovered at Wroxeter Roman City depicts sea creatures
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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.
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Blue Plaque commemorating Frederic Chopin's last performance after leaving the house at 4 St James's Place, St James's, London SW1A 1NP.
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PR Amelia Edwards receives English Heritage Blue Plaque
Amelia Edwards (1831-1892), pioneering Egyptologist, writer, and co-founder of the influential Egypt Exploration Fund, has been honoured with an English Heritage blue plaque at her former home in Islington, London.
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A new footbridge for Tintagel Castle
A competition to design a new footbridge at Tintagel Castle has been launched today (Thursday, 18 June 2015) by English Heritage.