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Explore the ways in which Stonehenge has been experienced by its many visitors, through historical souvenirs, guidebooks, postcards and photographs.
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Servants or skilled professionals? Women in domestic service
Historically, many careers for women were in the home – but some women in domestic service broke the mould. As part of our Women in History series, Dr Andrew Hann investigates how.
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Blue plaque commemorating children's writer Enid Blyton at 207 Hook Road, Chessington KT9 1EA, Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, London.
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Our senior historian, Paul Pattison, has worked with the genealogists at Findmypast to uncover more of John Glasson Thomas' story.
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Blue Plaque commemorating performers Michael Flanders and Donald Swann at 1 Scarsdale Villas, Kensington, London W8 6PT, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
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Blue Plaque commemorating performers Michael Flanders and Donald Swann at 1 Scarsdale Villas, Kensington, London W8 6PT, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
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History of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Thetford
This ruined church was part of a medieval monastery known as the Priory of the Holy Sepulchre, one of only six English houses of this small monastic order.
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Conscription and Conscience in WWI
How conscription came about, what happened to the men who applied for exemption, and the legacy of the WWI conscientious objectors.
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Tilbury Fort in Essex is one of the finest surviving examples of 17th-century military engineering in England. It was in nearby West Tilbury that Elizabeth I famously rallied her makeshift army awaiting the Armada in 1588.
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Stonehenge in the 1930s and 40s: Protecting the Landscape
As part of our series on the care of Stonehenge since 1918, tracing the care and conservation of Stonehenge since 1918, Mark Bowden looks at how the Stonehenge landscape changed in the 1930s and 1940s.