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Find out about arranging a special pre-booked out-of-hours visit to the Stone Circle.
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Start planning your outdoor adventures at special places across the country and get exploring this February half-term.
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The history of Osborne, the private home of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert on the Isle of Wight, built as an escape from court life in London and Windsor.
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Blue Plaque commemorating world champion racing driver Graham Hill at 32 Parkside, Mill Hill, London NW7 2LH, London Borough of Barnet.
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Blue Plaque commemorating developer of office copying machinery David Gestetner at 124 Highbury New Park, Highbury, London N5 2DR.
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In the Victorian period the growth of the railway network made it possible to transport food from the countryside to urban markets much more easily, greatly improving the quality of produce available there. But there was still no cure for most diseases, and life expectancy remained stubbornly low.
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Victorians: Power and Politics
Although England in the late 1830s was still ruled by a propertied upper class, there had long been a degree of social mobility. It was enough, at least, for Britain, unlike its continental neighbours, to ward off revolution.
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Victorian Britain was both the greatest power in the world and the least militarised, with a standing army far smaller and less influential in public life than those of France, Prussia, Austria or Russia. Its military shortcomings were starkly revealed by the disastrous Crimean War (1854–6) and Boer Wars (1880–81 and 1899–1902).
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Blue Plaque commemorating revolutionary Karl Marx at 28 Dean Street, Soho, London W1D 3RY, City of Westminster.
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Blue Plaque commemorating actor Richard Burton at 6 Lyndhurst Road, Hampstead, London NW3 5PX, London Borough of Camden.