English Heritage

To celebrate World Poetry Day, we're launching ‘A Heritage Portrait of England’ in collaboration with The Poetry Takeaway. ✍️ Over the next few months, The Poetry Takeaway is taking to the road to create unique, made-to-order poems, with people local to Temple Church, Bolsover Castle and Hylton Castle. Join us at one of these sites, as we celebrate together the everyday in the everyday - where your words come to life and stories are shared. A Heritage Portrait of England is a pilot project that will help to shape our ambitions for a national project in 2026–28, and is a collaboration between English Heritage and The Poetry Takeaway. Join us and have a bespoke poem created just for you: https://brnw.ch/21wRtUe

🎙️ Why is youth engagement essential in the heritage sector? At Shout Out Loud’s recent Gateways Into Heritage event, we asked speakers and guests to share their thoughts! 💭 This event, led by our youth engagement team, brought together young creatives, heritage professionals, and partner organisations for talks, panels, workshops, and performances to showcase the power of collaboration and creativity in shaping the future of heritage. Find out more about the event from Katy, a Shout Out Loud Young Producer, here: https://lnkd.in/d_4ddNCF

Our first blue plaques of the year are up! 🔵 Today we are commemorating both the first Black woman producer at the BBC, Una Marson, and the pioneering female interior designers, Agnes and Rhoda Garrett. With more than 1,000 London blue plaques already across the capital, we can’t wait to unveil even more this year to honour the notable women and men who have lived or worked in them.

Happy International Women's Day! Today, we celebrate women—past and present—who have shaped history and continue to drive change for a fairer, more inclusive world. From medieval queens to WWI nurses, their stories continue to inspire us. Find out more here 👉 https://brnw.ch/21wRbRr #IWD25 #AccelerateAction

We’re excited to reveal that new research by our expert conservators suggests this mysterious portrait could be Lady Jane Grey 👑 From the underdrawings and the dating of the wooden backing to the deliberate scratching of her eyes, ears and mouth, our research provides compelling evidence that this portrait might be the only painting of the ‘Nine Days Queen’ painted during her lifetime. 🎨The portrait and 7 other historic paintings will go on display at Wrest Park from today. Read more ➡️ https://brnw.ch/21wRalG

We were delighted that our CEO, Nick Merriman, was invited to give a keynote speech at The Heritage Alliance's Heritage Day annual conference. Nick shared some examples of English Heritage’s work as a charity to support positive social and economic impact, including our work to support learning for children and young people and our work to help communities connect with treasured local landmarks. 🏰 During his speech, Nick also explained our mission as a charity to ensure ‘heritage is for everybody’ and how we are working to ensure that communities that have traditionally been under-represented amongst our visitors can experience the benefits of engaging with their local heritage – including through our work with the Trussell Trust to support free visits for food bank users to their local English Heritage site. 🧑🤝🧑

We’re delighted that The National Lottery Heritage Fund have awarded us a £4.5m grant on behalf of the Berwick Barracks Partnership for the Living Barracks Project.    The Heritage Fund grant will go towards the conservation and refurbishment of the East Barracks Block, where The King's Own Scottish Borderers Museum sits. New gallery spaces will be created to house Berwick’s important Burrell Collection, the KOSB Museum and other town collections.    The funding will also support a programme of community outreach and collections care.

We’re excited to announce a number of our new London blue plaques for 2025 🔵 This year, some of our plaques will celebrate a selection of cultural icons and how their creative achievements have helped shape the capital. 🎭 🎸⭐ From Audrey Hepburn and Marc Bolan to Alicia Markova and Una Marson, these new plaques will recognise individuals from a range of artistic fields and their impact on London’s cultural landscape.

We're excited to announce the latest speaker for our 5x15 event next month! 🥳 Double MOBO Award winning artist, YolanDa Brown (OBE), will be joining our fantastic lineup to talk about her favourite London blue plaque 🔵 Our other amazing speakers include Philippa Gregory, Meera Sodha, Gavin Pretor-Pinney and John Simpson 🎤 📅 13 February 2025 📌Conway Hall, London 🎟️ Tickets available ➡️ https://brnw.ch/21wQiRm

Find out how your organisation can support our Million and More Appeal and help to preserve over a million historic artefacts 👉 https://lnkd.in/emDPePzW 📩 Interested in how your company can get involved? Reach out to us at: CorporatePartnerships@english-heritage.org.uk. Thank you for your support, West & North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce.