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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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Beacons, special events and new exhibitions mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day
Today, 6 June 2024, marks the 80th anniversary of Operation Overlord, also known as the D-Day landings in Normandy, France. English Heritage is running a range of events to celebrate and commemorate the sacrifice of all those involved in D-Day across our sites.
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English Heritage Highlights Ten Key 2018 Anniversaries
The end of the First World War, women getting the vote and the donation of Stonehenge to the nation are amongst the top ten historical anniversaries in 2018, according to English Heritage.
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Layout and Facilities of Custodian's House, Pendennis Castle
Layout and Facilities of Custodian's House Holiday Cottage, Pendennis Castle
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On the centenary of John Singer Sargent’s death, we are gathering together, for the first time, 18 of his magnificent portraits at Kenwood. All depict women who were part of the transatlantic marriage phenomenon of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when American heiresses married into the British aristocracy. Heiress: Sargent’s American Portraits features some of Sargent’s finest works and reveals the important contributions these women made to politics, the arts and society. With loans coming from institutions in Washington, Boston and Houston as well as private collections on both sides of the Atlantic, the exhibition will offer visitors the rare opportunity to enjoy Sargent’s brilliant works in the splendour of Kenwood.
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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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Middleham Castle was once home to Richard III; through his childhood, as a squire, and adult years as Duke of Gloucester and King. The ruins stand to a good height on three of the four sides and the layout of a central tower with four outer walls makes it the ideal place for students to explore and understand the basic ground plan of a castle and how it was designed to display wealth and power to the surrounding populace.
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Description of Clifford’s Tower
A description of Clifford’s Tower, one of York’s best-known landmarks and once the keep of medieval York Castle.
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A summary of research to date on Clifford’s Tower, which has been much discussed in the context of the development of English castles.
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Description of Dunstanburgh Castle
Dunstanburgh Castle was built on an impractically massive scale, particularly its great south gatehouse, but much of the area inside its curtain walls was always empty and unoccupied.