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English Heritage signs up its first female pirate

Freyja Eagling, 18, has been practising her sword fighting for more than a year.

The Independent UK

Match Girls’ Strike of 1888 commemorated with blue plaque in East London

In July 1888 around 1,400 of the Bryant and May match factory’s female workforce walked out in protest.

The Independent UK

Inside the lair of the She-Wolf of France: why you should visit Castle Rising

Norfolk seat of the Plantagenets and once home to Isabella, wife of King Edward II, this fortress is a trip that satisfies the mind, lifts the spirit and takes its visitors back in time

The Guardian - UK

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Viral tweet shows blue-plaque home of Chorlton’s own Danger Mouse

The show had millions of viewers during its run

Manchester Evening News

Chineke! Junior Orchestra to mark 250 years since landmark legal slavery case

The Chineke! Junior Orchestra is made up of ethnically diverse musicians aged between 11 and 22.

The Independent UK

Summer solstice crowds flock back to Stonehenge after Covid hiatus

Pagans and party-goers head back to Salisbury Plain in their thousands as site reopens for annual festivities

The Guardian - UK

Gardeners’ World host unveils blue plaque for first female landscape gardener

Fanny Wilkinson paved the way for women to enter the gardening profession.

The Independent UK

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Queen projected onto Stonehenge to mark Jubilee - prompting widespread mockery

ENGLISH Heritage has been widely mocked online after it projected pictures of the Queen onto Stonehenge.

The National (Scotland)

Tributes to the Queen light up Marble Arch and Stonehenge for Platinum Jubilee

Images of the Queen throughout her 70 year reign have been beamed onto the side of Marble Arch and Stonehenge to mark her Platinum Jubilee.

Evening Standard

Man sick of paying for electricity moves into windmill and says he won't pay bill again

James Forsyth, 66, Swaffham Prior, Cambridgeshire, bought the 1830s windmill and hopes it will be functional by 2023, cutting out his £200-a-month electricity bill

Daily Mirror

To buy or not to buy: Sir Laurence Olivier’s childhood home is for sale in Dorking

The legendary English actor spent the first three years of his life in the four-bedroom house.

Evening Standard

'Vampire' couple from North East help break Dracula world record

More than 1,300 goth enthusiasts have descended on Whitby for an event celebrating the 125th anniversary of Bram Stoker's Dracula

Chronicle Live

Record-breaking vampires at Whitby Abbey mark 125 years of Dracula

A fanged crowd of 1,369 broke the Guinness World Record for vampire gatherings in celebration of Bram Stoker’s classic novel

The Guardian - UK

Henrietta Howard’s historic Georgian villa to open to public after restoration

Decades of disrepair reversed at Marble Hill, home built on the Thames for king’s mistress and court society figure

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Evening Standard

Fit for a princess: rare flat for sale in famous Earls Court mansion where Diana lived before marrying Prince Charles

The £3.15 million apartment in Coleherne Court is available for the first time in 30 years.

The Guardian - UK

Stonehenge exhibition explores parallels with Japanese stone circles

Objects never before seen outside Japan will be part of show on similarities to Jōmon monuments

The Guardian - UK

Polish historians solve 80-year mystery of wartime graffiti at Essex mansion

Exhibit to display stories of six men who left their marks on the walls of Audley End House during the second world war

Wales Online

Skulls and bones unearthed in Devon caves belonged to some of Britain’s earliest humans

Listed as a scheduled monument by English Heritage in 1999, the exact position of the caves remain a highly guarded secret

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Newcastle music festivals still possible despite row over turning parks into 'outdoor nightclubs'

Urban Green Newcastle has backtracked on suggestions that new council restrictions make it impossible to hold festivals following the cancellation of This is Tomorrow

Daily Mirror

Whitby seeks to break new world record for largest gathering of vampires

The famously gothic seaside town of Whitby is about to make an official Guinness World Records attempt for the largest gathering people dressed as vampires

The Guardian - UK

Whitby Abbey seeks budding bloodsuckers to break vampire record

English Heritage announce bid to stage world’s largest gathering of people dressed as a vampire at site that inspired Bram Stoker

The Guardian - UK

English Heritage brings Roman town’s lost Edwardian navvies to life

Exhibition identifies 11 of the forgotten labourers who uncovered Corbridge Roman town on Hadrian’s Wall

The Independent UK

Designer behind London Underground seat fabric honoured with blue plaque

The designer was also commissioned to create the 1953 design for the postage stamps which marked the start of the Queen’s reign.

The Guardian - UK

The Duke of Wellington led men in battle… but preferred intelligent women

The Iron Duke had lovers but his platonic friends meant most, a new UK exhibition reveals

The Guardian - UK

‘Bridgerton factor’ sends visitors flocking to English stately homes

Hit Netflix show responsible for renewed interest in filming locations around the country, industry says

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