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English Heritage has today relaunched its education programme for 2022, in a bid to encourage more schools to take advantage of the benefits of school trips to children’s wellbeing and cross-curricular learning. The programme incorporates both free school trips and expert-led paid-for Discovery Visits at the hundreds of historic sites in the charity’s care.
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Licking Stones at Carlisle Castle
In the summer of 1746, 90 prisoners were kept in Carlisle Castle's dungeons. How did they survive? Discover the gruesome story of Carlisle's licking stones.
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Social justice activist, Olive Morris, gets an English Heritage blue plaque
English Heritage has commemorated activist and housing rights campaigner, Olive Morris, with a blue plaque in Brixton. Morris dedicated her short life (1952–1979) to speaking out on behalf of oppressed and exploited people.
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Significance of Wellington Arch
Wellington Arch is one of London’s two triumphal arches, built following the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815, and is one of London’s most distinctive monuments
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Research on Battle Abbey and Battlefield
A summary of the present state of research on Battle Abbey and Battlefield, together with records of excavations and gaps in current knowledge.
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English Heritage tackles parental isolation
families, English Heritage, bonding benches, isolation
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History of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Thetford
This ruined church was part of a medieval monastery known as the Priory of the Holy Sepulchre, one of only six English houses of this small monastic order.
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Significance of Housesteads Roman Fort
The rich archaeological and epigraphic record ensures that the evidence from Housesteads remains central for all studies of the history and archaeology of the Roman occupation and for later periods