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Working from Home: English Heritage Style
While English Heritage’s historic properties across the country remain closed, its curators, gardeners and conservators have gone the extra mile when it comes to working from home.
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Members' Week recipes: Sugar plate
Cook up a taste of the past with these recipes from Dr Annie Gray and Kathy Hipperson's 'A Right Royal Street Party' Members' Week event.
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Research on Harrows Scar Milecastle and Wall
A summary of excavations and research relating to Harrows Scar Milecastle and Wall, and of the remaining gaps in our knowledge.
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If every English Heritage Member signed up to Gift Aid, it would mean almost £2m more for the protection of the historic environment.
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Why were women written out of history? An interview with Bettany Hughes
For Women's History Month, award-winning historian, author and broadcaster Dr Bettany Hughes explains why women were written out of history.
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Legendary Joust at Bolsover Castle
Experience the exhilarating spectacle of speed and skill as four legendary knights compete for honour and glory in the grand medieval joust at Bolsover Castle.
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Hark! English Heritage Reveals Christmas Carols are Being Sung to the Wrong Tune
Move over Mariah Carey and make way Wham!; traditional Christmas carols have endured the test of time in celebrating the festive season, but not as we know them. In fact many of these historic songs were actually sung to very different tunes. English Heritage has been exploring the many misconceptions about this historic tradition, and why most of what you think you know about carols is probably wrong!
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Stonehenge builders feasted on Scottish pork and beef but couldn’t handle their milk
A new exhibition at Stonehenge will showcase the diet of the prehistoric community who built the ancient monument 4,500 years ago, revealing that our ancestors feasted on pigs and cows transported to the Wiltshire site from as far away as north-east Scotland. Within these feasting ceremonies, milk played an important symbolic role however as the builders of Stonehenge were lactose intolerant, they had to turn the milk into cheese and yoghurt in order to consume it. As the new English Heritage exhibition makes clear, food miles and food intolerances are far from being modern phenomenon.