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Make jousting an Olympic sport

As Team GB heads to Rio, English Heritage calls for jousting to be recognised as an Olympic sport

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English Heritage invests £1 Million to preserve Hurst Castle

Conservation has started to restore a castle in Hampshire that was used up until the Second World War

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Jean Muir, dressmaker and fashion designer, celebrated with English Heritage Blue Plaque

A blue plaque honouring Jean Muir, the celebrated dressmaker and fashion designer, has been unveiled by her house model, friend and loyal customer, Joanna Lumley.

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Self-taught Victorian physicist celebrated with English Heritage blue plaque

The physicist, mathematician and electrical engineer, Oliver Heaviside, has been commemorated with a blue plaque, English Heritage announced today (22 April 2022). Heaviside’s biographer, Paul Nahin, once noted that his work on how to make a decent telephone cable plays a vastly greater role in our everyday lives than does the work of Einstein. The plaque marks the terrace house on Camden Street that Heaviside once described as “heaven in comparison” to his family’s previous house. It was here that the budding Victorian scientist continued with his self-education after leaving school at 16 and where he later worked on his ground-breaking interpretation of James Clerk Maxwell’s Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, bridging the gulf between the theory of telecommunciations and its practice.

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Summer Solstice at Stonehenge 2022

English Heritage is inviting people to watch Summer Solstice at Stonehenge from home this year as the sunset and sunrise is live streamed. Visitors to the site are asked to respect the stones and think green.

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Colourful art installation at Hadrian’s Wall puts a new spin on a Roman gatehouse

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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English Heritage unveils 1000th London Blue Plaque

English Heritage has unveiled London’s 1000th blue plaque . The latest addition to the London blue plaques scheme will mark the former London headquarters of the suffragist organisation, the Women’s Freedom League (WFL). One of the few parts of Robert Adam’s Adelphi development to survive, this three-storey building at number 1 Robert Street in Westminster was the WFL’s bustling base of operations for its longest and most active period.

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Leading stage actress of 20th century commemorated with blue plaque

Actress Dame Peggy Ashcroft, remembered at her childhood home

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Dame Peggy Ashcroft commemorated with a blue plaque

Actress Dame Peggy Ashcroft is remembered at her childhood home in Croydon with a blue plaque.

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Abram Games Receives English Heritage Blue Plaque

One of the most important graphic designers of his generation, Abram Games, has been commemorated with a blue plaque today (3 April). The plaque marks the house in Golders Green that was his design studio, plus a workshop for his mechanical designs and a busy family home from 1948 until his death nearly half a century later. It was here that he designed the iconic Festival of Britain symbol in 1951, an emblem that was seen country-wide on posters, badges, stationery, street decorations, medals, tickets, and even embossed on soap and chocolate.