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Between 1917 and 1918 Private Arthur William David Roberts (1897–1982) kept a diary of his military service, later using his daily entries to write an extended narrative of his experiences in France. His story remained unknown and unpublished until a chance find 20 years after his death.
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Maria Verelst (1680–1744) was a Dutch artist working in Britain in the first half of the 18th century. Her works can be found at Audley End. It was unusual for a woman to be a professional artist at this time and many of Verelst’s paintings have previously been misattributed to her male contemporaries. During the recent conservation of three Verelst portraits at Audley End, we have looked closely at the artist’s processes and learnt more about how her technique can be distinguished from other artists of her time.
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Robert Clive, later Baron Clive of Plassey, played an early part in the establishment of British imperial control of India. He became the effective ruler of Bengal, and was a controversial figure in his own time. As a founder of the Empire in India he came to be lionised by many in Britain as a hero, a view of him that has been called into question in more recent years.
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Commissioned in 1630, the statue of King Charles I which now stands in Trafalgar Square, London, was sculpted by Hubert Le Sueur and intended for the 1st Earl of Portland’s new gardens at Mortlake Park, Roehampton. Charles I was King of England, Scotland and Ireland between 1625 and 1649. He is mostly remembered for his conflicts with parliament which led to the English Civil Wars (1642–51).
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Edith Cavell was a British nurse who, as matron of a hospital in Brussels, enabled hundreds of Allied soldiers to escape the German occupation during the First World War. She was caught, put on trial and shot executed in October 1915. Her death sparked international outrage and she became an important symbol – not only wartime sacrifice, but of forgiveness, too.
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Florence Nightingale (1820–1910)
One of the most recognised names in modern British history, Florence Nightingale was a key figure in the development of modern nursing and healthcare practice. Arthur George Walker’s statue of Nightingale shows her as ‘the Lady with the Lamp’, a nicknamed she earned on her nightly inspection rounds in the Crimea.
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Sir Arthur Harris was a senior officer throughout the Second World War, most notably in charge of the RAF’s Bomber Command (1942–6). Faith Winter’s statue of Harris was erected outside St Clement Danes Church in 1992 as a memorial to him and over 55,000 men of Bomber Command who lost their lives in the war.
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Today few are aware that Stonehenge had an aerodrome nearby between 1917 and 1921. Find out why it was here and how its removal marked the first step in the transformation of the Stonehenge landscape.
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Animating Stonehenge: Setting the scene for the ‘Early Man’ film
We caught up with animator Andy Symanowski to find out how Early Man brings the Stone Age to life. Andy has worked with Aardman for over twenty years on projects like the Academy Award®-winning Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit and Shaun the Sheep.
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History of Gainsborough Old Hall
Gainsborough Old Hall is a medieval manor house in Lincolnshire, the surviving structures built by Sir Thomas Burgh II in the late 15th century. The hall was the seat of the Burghs from 1430 until 1596, and then sold to the merchant Hickman family, who resided there until around 1730. Its later history is a fascinating mix of residential use, workshops and businesses, a theatre space and civic institutions.