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Green Medicine: Gardens, Scent and Wellbeing at Wrest Park
To celebrate the National Garden Scheme's Gardens and Health Week (3-11 May 2025), English Heritage garden trainee Ben shares his research into how gardens can lift our mood through the power of smell.
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Hans Sloane was a physician whose vast accumulation of biological specimens and artefacts formed the basis for the British Museum’s collection.
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An Introduction to Tudor England (1485–1603)
England underwent huge changes during the reigns of three generations of Tudor monarchs. Henry VIII ushered in a new state religion, and the increasing confidence of the state coincided with the growth of a distinctively English culture.
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Parking at Stonehenge during the Summer Solstice
English Heritage introduced a number of new changes this year, intended to make the Solstice greener and more enjoyable for everyone.
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Carlisle Castle to host iconic poppies as part of 14-18 now tour
English Heritage is pleased to announce that it will present Weeping Window by artist Paul Cummins and designer Tom Piper at Carlisle Castle from 23 May to 8 July 2018 as part of the final year of 14-18 NOW’s UK-wide tour of the iconic poppies.
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Find out how you can apply for grants of up to £5,000 to support exciting projects at some of the free to visit sites in our care.
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History of Kit’s Coty House and Little Kit’s Coty House
These two huge stone structures, 450 metres apart, were built nearly 6,000 years ago as burial monuments, to hold the bones of some of Britain’s earliest farmers.
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This ‘avenue’ originally of around 100 pairs of prehistoric standing stones, was raised to form a winding 1 1⁄2 mile ritual link between the pre-existing monuments of Avebury and The Sanctuary.
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Classic Neolithic causewayed enclosure, with three concentric but intermittent ditches. Large quantities of animal bones found here indicate feasting, animal trading or rituals, or perhaps all three.