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Queen to screen: meet Victoria and Abdul's costume designer
We talk to the costume designer for 'Victoria and Abdul' about the queen as a fashion icon and her vision for the upcoming film.
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Discoveries and excavations at Tintagel Castle – summer 2016
After a three week dig at Tintagel, the Cornwall Archaeological Unit has made some promising finds as English Heritage archaeologist Susan Greaney explains.
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Our lead historican, Dr Andrew Hann, has worked with the genealogists at Findmypast to uncover more of Auberon Herbert's story.
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Blue Plaque for Churchill’s Favourite Spy
English Heritage has today (16 September) unveiled a blue plaque to Christine Granville, the Polish Second World War special agent who Winston Churchill once called his "favourite spy". The new plaque marks 1 Lexham Gardens Hotel (then the Shelbourne Hotel) in Kensington – the hotel was Granville’s London base after the war, in the centre of the city’s post-war Polish community.
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English Heritage Challenge Events
Help support English Heritage and challenge yourself by signing up for a charity running place. Play your part in giving England’s heritage a future. You'll help over 400 places withstand the forces of nature and safeguard their stories long into the future.
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The Role of Women on Hadrian’s Wall
The women who once lived on Hadrian’s Wall are often forgotten. We asked curator Frances McIntosh to explain what life for women in Roman Britain was like.
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How do you look after Roman treasures?
Leesa Vere-Stevens tells us about her conservation work at Corbridge Roman Town on Hadrian's Wall – and why her job requires a chisel and a forklift truck.
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Karl Marx: the London connections
September 2017 marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of the first volume of Das Kapital, Karl Marx’s famous critique of capitalism. In this blog, blue plaques historian Howard Spencer explores Marx’s life in London, and tells us about five other political exiles commemorated with a plaque.