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.
Balloons and Bowler Hats: Early Images from Victorian Skies
The Shadbolt Collection contains the earliest surviving aerial images of England.
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 since 2005. One of the most significant strandsContinue Reading
Picturing the Blitz: Images of England at War
Explore images from our archive of English cities that faced destruction during the Second World War.
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