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A range of English Heritage holiday cottages with access to gardens
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Carscapes: How the Motor Car Reshaped England
The motorcar transformed England's towns and countryside, changing our working and living patterns, our landscapes to carscapes.
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Apsley House is significant as a national memorial to the Duke of Wellington and to Britain’s triumph over the Napoleonic threat, as well as an important gallery of decorative and fine art.
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A summary of the main written and visual sources for our current knowledge and understanding of Apsley House.
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Queen Victoria's Hindustani Diary on Display for the First Time
A diary showing how Queen Victoria learned to write Hindustani under the tutelage of her Indian servant Abdul Karim will go on display to the public for the very first time at Osborne, her Isle of Wight home, English Heritage announced today (Friday 15 September).
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Darwin family treasures return to scientist’s home
A keepsake box that once belonged to Charles Darwin’s daughters containing family mementos associated with the great scientist has been donated to English Heritage, the charity announced today (24 February) on the 150th anniversary of the publication of his book, The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex (1871).
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A new photography exhibition showcasing fresh perspectives by young photographers on four historic sites will open at Wrest Park in Bedfordshire on 5 August. England’s New Lenses – an exhibition developed by Shout Out Loud, English Heritage’s national youth engagement programme, in partnership with Photoworks and supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund – sees the photographers respond to English Heritage sites across the country: Wrest Park in Bedfordshire, Tintagel Castle in Cornwall, Middleham Castle in Yorkshire and Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland.
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The spectacular Waverley Abbey Yew, thought to be over 500 years old, whose roots grow out of Britain's first Cistercian monastery has been crowned Tree of the Year in the Woodland Trust’s 2022 competition.