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COPEMAN, Sydney Monckton (1862-1947)

Blue Plaque commemorating immunologist Sydney Monckton Copeman at 57 Redcliffe Gardens, Chelsea, London SW10 9JJ, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

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First Indian to win a popular election to the UK Parliament receives Blue Plaque

English Heritage has today (10 August 2022) unveiled a blue plaque dedicated to Dadabhai Naoroji, an Indian Nationalist and the first Indian to win a popular election to Parliament in the UK. Dubbed the ‘grand old man of India’ and described in his Times obituary as ‘the father of Indian Nationalism’, Naoroji made seven trips to England, and spent over three decades of his long life in London. His plaque marks the red-bricked semi-detached house in Penge, south London, that was his home around the turn of the twentieth century.

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Evidence of Lost Saint: Uncovered

A previously overlooked entry in a 15th-century manuscript has been uncovered by English Heritage, providing new evidence that one of medieval England’s most influential figures, Thurstan was, contrary to belief, a saint. The document – a service book from Pontefract Priory - lists St Thurstan in a calendar of saints' feast days observed at the monastery.

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Charles Darwin's gift from Karl Marx goes on display at Down House

Given to Charles Darwin by admirer Karl Marx, the newly conserved copy of Das Kapital was abandoned and remains uncut and unread 150 years later

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Cell Block Graffiti at Richmond Castle

This gallery highlights a selection of the graffiti drawn by conscientious objectors to the First World War who were imprisoned at Richmond Castle in 1916.

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Significance of Stokesay Castle

A description of the architectural, archaeological and historical significance of Stokesay Castle

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SHAW, Richard Norman (1831-1912)

Blue Plaque commemorating architect Richard Norman Shaw at 6 Ellerdale Road, Hampstead, London NW3 6BD, London Borough of Camden.

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Piers Gaveston, Hugh Despenser and the Downfall of Edward II

The short reign of Edward II is commonly seen as a disastrous period in English history. Edward, faced military defeats, political crises and civil war. The king’s downfall was due in part to his reliance on his ‘favourites’, Piers Gaveston and Hugh Despenser, who were rumoured to be his lovers.

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SHAW, Richard Norman (1831-1912)

Blue Plaque commemorating architect Richard Norman Shaw at 6 Ellerdale Road, Hampstead, London NW3 6BD, London Borough of Camden.

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Berry Pomeroy and the ‘Other’ Seymours

How an extravagant but unfinished castle tells a story of family rivalry and competitive housebuilding in 17th-century England.