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Built in the late 14th century more as luxury residence than fortress, Donnington Castle was pressed into service in the English Civil War, when the Royalist garrison endured a 20-month siege.
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Founded almost 900 years ago, Furness Abbey was once the largest and wealthiest monastery in north-west England. Today, its evocative ruins bear witness to the lives of the monks who worshipped and lived there between the 12th and 16th centuries.
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Introduction to Georgian England
The Georgian period saw Britain - dominated by England - establish itself as an international power at the centre of an expanding empire. And accelerating change from the 1770s onwards made it the world’s first industrialised nation.
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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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The four centuries between William of Normandy’s victory over King Harold at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 and Richard III’s defeat at Bosworth in 1485 witnessed great changes in England – including in culture, religion, language and architecture.
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Description of Conisbrough Castle
A description of Conisbrough Castle, which is dominated by its great cylindrical keep, built in the late 12th century.
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Sources for Harrows Scar Milecastle and Wall
A list of material, visual and written sources for Harrows Scar Milecastle and Hadrian's Wall east of Birdoswald Roman Fort.
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Kenilworth Castle has an unusually long record of academic research, including archaeological investigation, and the early 21st century has seen a flurry of new research.
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A brief history of Thetford Priory, one of the largest and richest religious foundations in medieval East Anglia