A display and interactive digital exhibit tells visitors all about this incredible find of treasures. The Corbridge Hoard is an almost 2,000-year-old Roman time capsule. The well preserved objects ...

The dedication of the chapel to St Catherine of Alexandria is rare, but her cult was one of the most popular in medieval England. As the chapel overlooks the sea, it is likely to have been used as a ...

Please take a moment to read our Supplier Charter – this sets out our own commitments and expectations for any supplier that we work with. This is a binding part of any contract and we carry out ...

It is far from certain that these structures were tombs rather than multipurpose shrines. The presence of the dead is no guarantee of the original usage, as is shown by medieval churches: these ...

A forge had been established along the banks of the river Derwent by 1719. It converted ‘pig’ iron into malleable wrought iron that could be worked by a blacksmith. In 1753, Derwentcote produced 150 ...

Roman Britain endured for over three and a half centuries, as long as the span which separates us from the English Civil War. Over fifty varied sites in our care reflect its story from the invasion of ...

The Franciscan friary at Gloucester was founded in 1231, but in about 1518 a prominent local family, the Berkeleys of Berkeley Castle, paid for the church to be rebuilt in Perpendicular Gothic style.

It's not just people who have trekked across the Iron Bridge. Take a look at this elephant, who famously marched across the bridge to promote the Chapman's Zoo-Circus in 1932. As part of its ...

From the most famous date in English history at Battle Abbey to Dover Castle's darkly atmospheric secret wartime tunnels, English Heritage in the South East offers so many great places to visit. More ...

Situated just outside the city walls, St. Augustine’s Abbey was originally created as a burial place for the Anglo-Saxon kings of Kent, and is part of the Canterbury World Heritage Site, along with ...

William Holman Hunt was a 19th-century painter and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. The Lady of Shalott – his final and best-known work – was completed while he was living at 18 ...

You can find statues and monuments we care for all over central London. The oldest, a splendid bronze statue of King Charles I on horseback by the great sculptor Hubert Le Sueur, has faced down ...