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Experience almost 1000 years of royal history as the kids run free across the grounds of Carisbrooke Castle.
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Between Christmas and New Year 2023, we invited you to submit your photos to our end-of-year #EHCaptured competition. Hundreds of you did and we loved looking through all of your submissions. Entries were shortlisted by our Social Media team, before the overall winner and runners-up were selected by an award-winning photographer. Congratulations to the winners who will receive some special prizes from the English Heritage Shop.
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Enjoy 400 great days out with English Heritage, from mighty castles to peaceful abbeys, and from grand country homes to atmospheric prehistoric monuments.
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We're shining the spotlight on the reasons why our teams love the historic buildings and sites that we care for and taking a closer look at the hidden histories of these fantastic places to visit.
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Top 10 Summer Events which Bring History to Life
Lucy Hutchings, Head of Events at English Heritage, chooses her top 10 summer events that bring history to life.
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Ancient festive feasts: midwinter celebrations at the time of Stonehenge
Lizzie Wright looks at some of the clearest archaeological evidence found so far for prehistoric midwinter feasting, from Durrington Walls, near Stonehenge.
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For more than a century after the Battle of Hastings, all substantial stone buildings in England were built in the Norman style, which was superseded from the later 12th century by a new style – the Gothic.
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William the Conqueror imposed a total reorganisation of the English Church. He had secured the Pope’s blessing for his invasion by promising to reform the ‘irregularities’ of the Anglo-Saxon Church, which had developed its own distinctive customs. Throughout the medieval period the Church was a pervasive force in people’s lives.
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The Norman Conquest was achieved largely thanks to two instruments of war previously unknown in England: the mounted, armoured knight, and the castle. The former was a key factor in William the Conqueror’s triumph at Hastings, while the latter dramatically militarised the English landscape.