6 Steps to Finding Out Your Home’s History Online
You can trace the architectural history of your house through old maps, photographs and written records, and many of these useful resources are online.
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8 Historic London Shopfronts
London streets are lined with colourful shops, clamouring for our attention. Many are of considerable age, and have survived forContinue Reading
5 Things You Need to Know About Listing
Listing is the term given to the practice of listing buildings, scheduling monuments, registering parks, gardens and battlefields, and protecting wreck sites.
Ballooning in Bowler Hats: Early Images From Victorian Skies
We have recently acquired the earliest surviving aerial images of England, discovered last year at a car boot sale. They were takenContinue Reading
Top 5 Heritage Blog Posts of 2015
A recap of our most read Heritage Calling posts from 2015.
7 New Discoveries about Stonehenge
Stonehenge and its surrounding landscape have seen an unprecedented amount of research in the last decade. One of the mostContinue Reading
Picturing the Blitz: Images of England at War
The National Buildings Record was born in the Blitz; hurriedly created in early 1941 to photograph and document the historic fabric of England before it was lost forever. T
7 of England’s Best Seaside Wonders
Here are seven listed structures that sum up the English seaside experience.
Secret Underground Cities: Nottingham
1000 years ago Nottingham was known as Tigguocobauc: the house of caves. It’s likely the first caves were carved beneathContinue Reading
Top 5 Heritage Blog Posts of 2014
5. Lost Railway Stations Earlier this month, we celebrated the release of Simon Parissien’s new book on English Railway stationsContinue Reading