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For the first time in 350 years, visitors to Kenilworth Castle can scale the heights of the tower built to woo Queen Elizabeth I.
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English Heritage Challenge Events
Help support English Heritage and challenge yourself by signing up for a charity running place. Play your part in giving England’s heritage a future. You'll help over 400 places withstand the forces of nature and safeguard their stories long into the future.
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The Role of Women on Hadrian’s Wall
The women who once lived on Hadrian’s Wall are often forgotten. We asked curator Frances McIntosh to explain what life for women in Roman Britain was like.
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Karl Marx: the London connections
September 2017 marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of the first volume of Das Kapital, Karl Marx’s famous critique of capitalism. In this blog, blue plaques historian Howard Spencer explores Marx’s life in London, and tells us about five other political exiles commemorated with a plaque.
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Blue Plaque for Churchill’s Favourite Spy
English Heritage has today (16 September) unveiled a blue plaque to Christine Granville, the Polish Second World War special agent who Winston Churchill once called his "favourite spy". The new plaque marks 1 Lexham Gardens Hotel (then the Shelbourne Hotel) in Kensington – the hotel was Granville’s London base after the war, in the centre of the city’s post-war Polish community.
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What happened to the #Battle1066 characters?
Throughout 2016, we've been posting from eight different Twitter channels, each representing different areas of medieval society. You can look back on the action by searching for #Battle1066, or read a month-by-month round up starting here in January.
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How do you look after Roman treasures?
Leesa Vere-Stevens tells us about her conservation work at Corbridge Roman Town on Hadrian's Wall – and why her job requires a chisel and a forklift truck.
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Secrets of Richborough Roman amphitheatre revealed during excavation
A cavity in the arena wall at Richborough Roman amphitheatre in Kent, has been revealed to be a carcer, or cell for holding people and animals, English Heritage has revealed today (28 October). The discovery was one of a number made during an archaeological excavation of the Roman amphitheatre by the charity including the almost complete skeleton of a purposefully buried Roman cat, and traces of painted decoration to the plaster face of the arena wall; the first known instance on any Roman amphitheatre in Britain. Other finds from the excavation also reveal that Roman settlement at Richborough may have continued right across the town until the very end of Roman rule at the turn of the 4th/5th century. This excavation will form part of a major refurbishment and re-presentation of the site and museum which will take place this winter and open in summer 2022.
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Untold Heritage: Young Photographers Initiative Launched
Young people are invited to share images of forgotten or overlooked heritage and join expert-led photography workshops as part of a new initiative by by English Heritage and Photoworks.