Heritage and History

Historic Scotland Diamond Jubilee Ticket Giveaway

admin@heritageandhistory.com (Heritage and History .com) — Thu, 17 May 2012 10:17:00 +0000

60 free tickets are being offered by Historic Scotland to 69 ticketed attractions in celebration of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.

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Highlanders Museum £130,000 boost

admin@heritageandhistory.com (Heritage and History .com) — Thu, 17 May 2012 09:23:41 +0000

The Highlanders’ Museum at Fort George near Inverness has been awarded a grant of £130,000 by Historic Scotland.

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2012 Search for UK’s ten most endangered buildings

admin@heritageandhistory.com (Heritage and History .com) — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:53:40 +0000

The Victorian society is calling on people across the country to nominate endangered Victorian or Edwardian buildings in their local area.

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Can you identify this baptismal font?

admin@heritageandhistory.com (Heritage and History .com) — Thu, 10 May 2012 07:59:37 +0000

Can you help identify this stone font in Southeastern Wisconsin, USA?

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Underground Structures of the Cold War – The World Below

admin@heritageandhistory.com (Heritage and History .com) — Thu, 03 May 2012 10:00:00 +0000

Books on the history of fortifications are plentiful. Medieval castles, the defensive systems of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the trenches and bunkers of the First World War,...

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The End of Glory – War & Peace in HMS Hood 1916-1941

admin@heritageandhistory.com (Heritage and History .com) — Tue, 01 May 2012 11:00:00 +0000

There have been many fine books written on HMS Hood, the glory of the Royal Navy, while television and cinema have also taken the subject to their heart. No book, however, has ever offered the...

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Tracing Your Ancestors from 1066 to 1837

admin@heritageandhistory.com (Heritage and History .com) — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 11:00:00 +0000

The trail that an ancestor leaves through the Victorian period and the twentieth century is relatively easy to follow – the records are plentiful, accessible and commonly used.

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Winston Churchill – Portrait of a Unique Mind

admin@heritageandhistory.com (Heritage and History .com) — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:00:00 +0000

Dr Andrew Norman approaches Churchill’s state of mind from an entirely new medical angle, disproving the commonly held views of medical experts. Lord Moran, Winston's doctor, who was a physician not...

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The German 88 – The Most Famous Gun of the Second World War

admin@heritageandhistory.com (Heritage and History .com) — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:00:00 +0000

The German 88 mm guns became the most famous and feared artillery pieces of the Second World War. They appeared in a whole series of forms ranging from anti-aircraft to anti-tank and tank-guns,...

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Holidays in Victorian England

admin@heritageandhistory.com (Heritage and History .com) — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:00:00 +0000

Margaret B. was an ordinary middle-class English girl of the late Victorian era, not wealthy but comfortable.

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