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Thanks to the generous support of members and visitors, we've been able to bring the story of Rievaulx to life with an exciting project to transform the abbey's museum.
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English Heritage has today relaunched its education programme for 2022, in a bid to encourage more schools to take advantage of the benefits of school trips to children’s wellbeing and cross-curricular learning. The programme incorporates both free school trips and expert-led paid-for Discovery Visits at the hundreds of historic sites in the charity’s care.
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English Heritage Collections Highlights
English Heritage cares for more than a million objects spanning more than 5,000 years of history. We do not operate a central museum. Instead, we try to make sure that we display objects that were used, found or were originally displayed at the sites where you see them.
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Make the most of the warmer weather to enjoy our sites, from exploring country houses with beautiful historic gardens to historic hikes in the impressive landscapes of Hadrian's Wall country.
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Test your knowledge of our sites by identifying them from photographs, with a little help from your 2020 Members' Handbook.
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Mary Katherine Middleton lived at Belsay Hall in the early 20th century. She was one of the early women candidates for Parliament, standing in 1924 as a Conservative candidate for Wansbeck, Northumberland. Her story reveals how the pre-war period and the First World War fostered new opportunities for women in politics in the 1920s, the barriers in their way, and the legacy of the first women to stand for Parliament.