10 Eccentric English Customs, Traditions and Ceremonies (and …
Apr 28, 2021 · All over England, customs, traditions and ceremonies brighten our lives throughout the year. The Christian calendar, pre-Christian era practices and the continual cycle of the seasons have influenced many.
The Story Behind the World’s First Telephone
29 July 2022. Comment 1. Scottish-born Alexander Graham Bell (1847 to 1922), developed the world’s first working telephone, receiving a patent from the United States Patent Office 7 March 1876. Reputedly, the very first successful words using his new ‘instrument’, as Bell called it, were spoken by him to his associate Thomas Watson who ...
Explore England’s Hidden Past from the Air
Dec 6, 2021 · The long shadows cast by the low winter sun highlight the earthwork remains of medieval arable farming in Todenham, Gloucestershire. These earthworks, known as ridge and furrow, survive in fields that are now used for pasture. In places, modern ploughing has flattened the remains, but aerial photographs taken in the 1940s show that ridge and ...
2021 - The Historic England Blog
10 posts published by Emily McLean, Historic England, Robin Page and Gary Winter in the year 2021
10 Historic Sites to See in Margate - The Historic England Blog
Aug 17, 2023 · 5. The Old Town and the Tudor House. A handful of 16th and 17th-century buildings survive in Margate’s ‘Old Town’, providing a glimpse of the town before it became a seaside resort. The earliest buildings in Margate survive in the streets around the Market Place, the heart of the historic town.
Explore Heritage From Your Own Home – The Historic England Blog
Nov 16, 2020 · World history is your oyster with The British Museum’s Museum of the World. Travel as far back as 2,000,000 BC through intimate studies of artefacts from the museum’s collections. Highlights include a silver lyre from about 2600 to 3000 BC and an Anglo-Saxon glass beaker, one of the earliest examples of Frankish glass production.
Photographing the First World War on the Home Front
Nov 7, 2024 · Life on the home front. Food shortages and rationing became the norm, and women took on roles traditionally held by men, becoming engineers and working in factories, farms, and offices. Cities and towns faced air raids, and public spaces became military training grounds, hospitals, and even munitions factories.
2020 – The Historic England Blog
How to Recreate an Archive Photograph. Carrie Marks, Imaging Technician Trainee for our John Laing Breaking New Ground project, decided to re-shoot some of the old photographs in the collection to highlight how the buildings have changed (or not) over time. 14 September 2020 2. A brief introduction to Historic photography Second World War.
Top 5 blogs of 2019 – The Historic England Blog
Dec 12, 2019 · In case you missed them, here are Historic England’s most-read blog posts of 2019. Thanks for following Heritage Calling, we’ll be back with more great reads in the new year.
2015 - The Historic England Blog
10 posts published by Historic England in the year 2015. Britain’s first WI was formed in Wales in September 1915, and the first in England followed soon afterwards, at Charlton, West Sussex.