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Rare medieval tiles on display again
Cleeve Abbey re-opens after conservation work to protect 13th century tile pavement. A new shelter allows visitors to view the detailed heraldic tiles, while also protecting them from the elements.
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A feast of finds uncovered at Tintagel Castle
Evidence of fine dining, wealth and luxury at Tintagel Castle as archaeologists return to site to continue investigations.
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Olympian Victoria Pendleton learns to joust at Kenilworth Castle
Double Olympic gold medallist Victoria Pendleton has become English Heritage's newest jouster, undergoing tuition at Kenilworth Castle.
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Victorian nursery unveiled at Audley End House
From April, visitors can explore the never-before-seen Victorian nursery in one of England's greatest country houses. A hidden world of privileged children, their nursery maids, governesses and tutors has been re-created by English Heritage from the household accounts, diaries and watercolours. Young and old will be able to experience the rooms as they were originally intended, try on period costumes and play with replica Victorian toys.
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Sir Kenneth Clark, the art historian and broadcaster best known for the landmark 1969 BBC TV series Civilisation, has today been commemorated with an English Heritage London blue plaque. The plaque marks 30 Portland Place in Marylebone, Clark’s home during the 1930s when he became Director of the National Gallery and was knighted. The Grade II-listed property became a hub for artists and fashionable society during this time, with Sir Kenneth and his wife Jane hosting glittering parties attended by guests including Winston Churchill and Vanessa Bell.
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New blue plaque commemorates sanctuary for stranded South and East Asian women
A house in Hackney which, in the early twentieth century, sheltered hundreds of stranded and sometimes abandoned South and East Asian nannies – known as ayahs – has been commemorated with an English Heritage blue plaque, the charity announced today (16 June).
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Seminal Match Girls’ Strike of 1888 commemorated with English Heritage Blue Plaque in East London
One of the most important strikes in modern British history has been commemorated by English Heritage with a blue plaque today (5 July 2022). The blue plaque was unveiled at the site of the former Bryant and May match factory in East London where in early July 1888 around 1,400 of the predominantly female workforce walked out in protest at the dismissal of a number of their co-workers.
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Romans to blame for no-body-hair trend, says English HEritage
From painful waxes to irritating shaves, we can trace the modern obsession with hair removal back to the Romans, English Heritage has said today (24 May), as the charity displays a collection of tweezers used to remove armpit hair from Roman men and women in a new museum at Wroxeter Roman City, Shropshire – a Roman town once as large as Pompeii. Amongst over 400 artefacts, most of which have never been on display, other objects related to Roman cleanliness and beauty practices include a strigil (skin scraper), perfume bottles, jet and bone jewellery, make-up applicators and amulets for warding off evil. The new museum at Wroxeter opens to the public tomorrow.
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Evidence of Lost Saint: Uncovered
A previously overlooked entry in a 15th-century manuscript has been uncovered by English Heritage, providing new evidence that one of medieval England’s most influential figures, Thurstan was, contrary to belief, a saint. The document – a service book from Pontefract Priory - lists St Thurstan in a calendar of saints' feast days observed at the monastery.