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Month: December 2015

21 December 2015
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A Brief Introduction to… Castles of Legend

Castles were never just defensive structures. They were also centres of administration and justice, but above all they were the power bases and homes of the feudal elite.Read more
16 December 2015
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England’s Hidden Space Heritage

English astronaut Tim Peake began his 171 day stay on the International Space Station last December.Read more
11 December 2015
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8 Last Minute Christmas Gifts For Heritage Lovers

We’ve picked a selection of our favourite heritage gifts for those with a passion for the past.Read more
4 December 2015
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7 Fine Examples of Georgian Buildings

Georgian is an adjective usually associated in the popular mind with refined furniture, elegant clothes, buildings of deceptive simplicity, decorous prose, mellifluous Classical music and country houses set in agreeably designed landscapes.Read more

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'Dear Royal Festival Hall, I miss you.' This Valentine's Day we want to know about the #BuildingsYouLove and couldn't live without: click the link in our bio to find out more and tell us using the #BuildingsYouLove
To celebrate Valentines Day 2019, we asked @thehistoryguy which building he couldn’t live without. He chose Battle Abbey: the site of the Battle of Hastings, calling it 'the most famous of battlefields, the most consequential of battles. This is my Valentine. Always will be. It is where I feel in love with the past. Its colour, import, tragedy and drama. It’s where I have returned year after year, programmes, podcasts, live shows, re-enactments. I have ridden a horse across that field, hauled a spear, clambered through the ruined abbey and baked 11th century bread.' Click the link in our bio to find out more and tell us about the #BuildingsYouLove
'The Barbican is an intoxicating time capsule in design. I’ve always felt a great surge of appreciation and real comfort for Brutalist architecture' To celebrate Valentine's Day we asked @russelltovey to write a love letter to the one building he couldn't live without. Click the link in our bio to find out more and tell us about the #BuildingsYouLove Russell chosen the Barbican: the Brutalist icon at north eastern edge of the City of London. Listed at Grade II, the estate is home to schools, flats, maisonettes, terraces and the @barbicancentre Designed in the 1950s and built over the following decades it has a distinctive pick-hammered concrete exterior, which is loved and loathed in equal measure.
Two cottages, both round in plan, with thatched conical roofs. Built in the early Nineteenth Century by Hugh Rowe in Cornwall, village lore holds that the cottages were built on a round plan so that the devil had no corners of the building to hide in. There were originally five of these round cottages in Veryan, all built by Rowe to house the five daughters of local missionary. John Gay © Historic England Archive, 1950s

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