Category: Historic Houses

• Historic Houses: Sir John Soane’s Museum, a Victorian Wonder

  

  Spring is in the air, and it felt like a perfect time to revisit the Historic Houses series. This tends to be the time of year us Brits start to make plans, as the weather gets (generally) better and the days are now longer again. Years ago I visited Sir John Soane’s Museum in London,…

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  April 15, 2023

  Historic Houses

  Ancient History, Antiquarian, Architecture, British History, Early Modern, Early Modern England, Early Modern History, English History, history, London, London History, London Museums, Museums

• Historic Houses: Harvington Hall, House of Secrets

  

  One of my favourite pastimes, you probably will not be surprised to hear, is visiting historic sites. Working in heritage, writing history books and running a history blog is apparently not enough of a history fix for me, so my weekends are often spent exploring more history! I am very lucky to live in the…

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  August 12, 2022

  Historic Houses

  Architecture, British History, Catholicism, Elizabeth I, Elizabethan, English History, Harvington Hall, Historic House, history, Reformation, Tudor, Tudor England