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5 Clocks Which Tell the Story of Time
In celebration of all things ‘time’, we’ve ticked off our top 5 examples of timekeeping tools that can be found at English Heritage sites across the country.
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Wanted: Child Executive Officer
English Heritage, the charity that looks after over 400 historic places across England, from Stonehenge to Hadrian's Wall, has today launched a nationwide search for its first ever CEO (Child Executive Officer).
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Due to the phenomenal success of the Waterloo 1815 - The Battle for Peace exhibition, installed at Wellington Arch to mark the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, English Heritage has extended opening dates. Instead of closing in November, the exhibition will now continue to wow visitors until 24 March 2016.
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A rare orchid, closely related to those that informed Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, has been restored to the scientist’s former garden at Down House in Kent by English Heritage. Following two years of careful conservation and management by the charity’s gardeners and volunteers, Down House’s violet helleborine orchid population has doubled in number and is currently enjoying its best flowering season in living memory.
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Knights' Tournament at Warkworth Castle
Go back in time and get up close to the action as rival knights compete in the ultimate test of strength and skill at the Warkworth Castle Knights’ Tournament.
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Blue Plaque commemorating poet Sylvia Plath at 3 Chalcot Square, Primrose Hill, London NW1 8YB, London Borough of Camden.
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Sources for Heddon-on-the-Wall
A list of the main sources of information for current knowledge and understanding of Hadrian's Wall at Heddon-on-the-Wall.
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History of Chesters Bridge Abutment
The remains of the two successive Roman bridges at Chesters encapsulate some of the main developments in the history of Hadrian’s Wall.
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Marital Strife and Anthropoid Coffins at Farleigh Hungerford
How one castle’s remarkable concentration of horrors offers insights into crime and punishment in the Tudor period, bizarre Stuart embalming practices, and macabre – and disgusting – thrill-seeking in the 19th century.