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Blue Plaque for Churchill’s Favourite Spy

English Heritage has unveiled a blue plaque to Christine Granville, the Polish Second World War special agent who Winston Churchill once called his 'favourite spy'

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Freddie Mercury awarded English Heritage Blue Plaque

New plaque marks family home of Queen frontman Beloved musician remembered ahead of what would have been his 70th Birthday Freddie Mercury's sister unveiled the plaque alongside Queen guitarist Brian May

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First chief of the secret intelligence service (MI6) Honoured with Blue Plaque

Sir Mansfield Cumming, the first Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, has been commemorated with an English Heritage blue plaque at his former London home and office. The current Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, Alex Younger, unveiled the blue plaque to his predecessor.

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Blue plaque for raymond chandler

Raymond Chandler, author of 'The Big Sleep' and 'The Long Goodbye', has been honoured with an English Heritage blue plaque on his childhood home in London.

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Blue Plaque for 'NYE' Bevan and Jennie Lee

Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan and Jennie Lee, respectively founders of the NHS and the Open University – as well as husband and wife – were today honoured with an English Heritage Blue Plaque at the house in Chelsea where they lived when the National Health Service Act became law in November 1946.

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Blue Plaque for Ernst Gombrich: Antony Gormley salutes inspirational art historian

E.H. (Ernst) Gombrich, the art historian and author of The Story of Art, one of the most popular and famous art books ever written, will be honoured with an English Heritage Blue Plaque this evening (Thursday 15 October 2015).

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Eight ghosts - Eight authors - eight historic sites

English Heritage announces a new collection of eight chilling ghost stories Mark Haddon, Jeanette Winterson and Sarah Perry are among those inspired by English Heritage properties across the country

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Meet English Heritage's latest jouster: Olympic Champion Victoria Pendleton

Victoria Pendleton launches English Heritage’s Medieval Knights Season

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A new bridge for Tintagel Castle - Competition winner announced

The team led by Ney & Partners Civil Engineers and William Matthews Associates win the competition to design a new bridge for the Cornish site.

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Pioneering civil engineer Ardaseer Cursetjee Wadia receives English Heritage London blue plaque

Ardaseer Cursetjee Wadia, the ground-breaking 19th century civil engineer and shipbuilder, has today been awarded an English Heritage London blue plaque. The plaque marks 55 Sheen Road in Richmond, the impressive villa that Cursetjee and his British family moved to upon his retirement in 1868.