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7 February 2019

6 sensational surviving Tudor country houses

The tumultuous Tudor period lasted from 1485 until 1603, and saw huge changes brought about by three generations of monarchs and the break away from the Catholic Church.Read more

31 January 2019
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A brief history of ships’ figureheads

Ships’ figureheads have a long history embodying religion, symbolism and superstition.Read more

18 January 2019
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A brief introduction to Brutalism

Loved and loathed, revered and reviled: Brutalism remains one of the most controversial and misunderstood architectural styles of the 20th century.Read more

11 January 2019
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A spotter’s guide to Victorian architecture

Named for the 63 year reign of Queen Victoria, the era 1837 – 1901 inspired unprecedented social, intellectual and technological change.Read more

26 December 2018
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Top blogs of 2018

In case you missed them, here are our most-read blogs of 2018. Thanks for following, we’ll be back with more great-reads in 2019.Read more

18 December 2018
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What archaeology can tell us about the history of migration in England

To mark International Migrant’s Day 2018, we take a look at 7 archaeological and historical objects that help to tell the history of migration in England.Read more

14 December 2018
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Home from the war: what happened to disabled First World War veterans

Around 2 million soldiers, sailors and airmen came home with some level of disability: over 40,000 were amputees; some had facial disfigurement or had been blinded.Read more

11 December 2018
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5 unusual endings for London’s Thames bridges

There has been a crossing at the site of London Bridge almost as long as there has been a city of London; Saxon crossings, Roman crossings, the fabled medieval crossing of 1209 brimming with buildings, pubs and shops.Read more

23 October 2018
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6 things you may not know about POWs in England during the First World War

Prisoners were interned in hundreds of locations across England, ranging from purpose-built camps holding thousands of men, to locations that held just a few individuals. Read more

16 October 2018
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9 places that tell the story of early flight

The first formally recognised, sustained, powered, heavier-than-air flight in the UK took off 110 years ago.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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