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18th Century Anti-Slavery Campaigner awarded English Heritage blue plaque
The anti-slavery campaigner Ottobah Cugoano has been honoured with an English Heritage blue plaque. The plaque marks Schomberg House at 80–82 Pall Mall, where Cugoano, a former slave himself, was employed as a servant by artists Richard and Maria Cosway. It was while living here in the 1780s that Cugoano wrote the book, Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Humbly Submitted to the Inhabitants of Great-Britain, one of the first black-authored anti-slavery books to be published in Britain, and – of its era – the most radical in its arguments.
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Second World War heroine honoured with blue plaque
English Heritage will today (28 August) unveil a blue plaque to the Second World War spy, Noor Inayat Khan. The new plaque will mark the house on Taviton Street in Bloomsbury that was her family home when she left for Nazi-occupied France in 1943 as an undercover radio operator. She was killed at Dachau concentration camp in 1944, having revealed nothing to her captors, not even her real name.
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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.