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Blue Plaque commemorating Author P.L. Travers at 50 Smith Street, Chelsea, London SW3 4EP, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
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Significance of Rochester Castle
Rochester Castle is one of the best-preserved examples of Norman architecture in England, and was a key strategic fortification in conflicts between monarchy and nobility
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Significance of Lullingstone Roman Villa
The significance of Lullingstone derives from the importance of the Christian evidence from the site and the exceptional preservation of some parts of the villa, especially the mosaic floors.
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Blue Plaque commemorating Author P.L. Travers at 50 Smith Street, Chelsea, London SW3 4EP, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
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John Osborne, the revolutionary post-war playwright, has today been awarded an English Heritage London Blue Plaque, exactly 65 years after his seminal play Look Back in Anger was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre on 8 May 1956. The plaque marks 53 Caithness Road in Hammersmith, the terraced red-brick property which was his London base at the time he wrote Look Back in Anger, arguably his best-known work and inspired by his life with his wife, actress Pamela Lane, in the very same building.
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Ahoy! English Heritage recruits its first female pirate
Sword fighting 18-year-old Freyja Eagling will be the first woman to pick up a pistol and choose a life of piracy with English Heritage.
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Blue Plaque commemorating Author P.L. Travers at 50 Smith Street, Chelsea, London SW3 4EP, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
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Kenilworth Castle: History and Stories
Kenilworth Castle is one of the great historical sites of the United Kingdom. Many of the buildings remain unaltered since Elizabeth I’s reign, and the spectacular ruins reveal much of the castle’s medieval and Tudor past as a royal residence.
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Astronomer Couple Receive London Blue Plaque
Walter and Annie Maunder, champions of amateur astronomy, have been commemorated with a new plaque by English Heritage. The plaque marks 69 Tyrwhitt Road in Lewisham, where the couple lived from 1907 to 1911.
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Ahoy! English Heritage recruits its first female pirate
A female pirate will take to the rigging at English Heritage properties for the first time this summer, the charity announced today (Tuesday 19 July 2022). Sword fighting 18-year-old Freyja Eagling will be the first woman to pick up a pistol and choose a life of piracy with English Heritage. Starting at Pendennis Castle in Cornwall on Tuesday 26 July, Freyja will also visit Dover Castle in Kent and Scarborough Castle in North Yorkshire as part of English Heritage’s new series of summer events, Pirates!