Take virtual tours of these seven filming locations from your favourite period dramas.
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4 Country Houses that took on new roles in World War Two
To mark VE Day 75, here are four country houses with fascinating stories about how they contributed to the war effort on the World War Two home front.
7 Places Around The World You Can Visit From Home
Explore the world around you from the safety of your armchair with Google Arts & Culture and their virtual tours.
5 Museums You Can Enjoy From Home (Part 2)
Enjoy museums from home and history from home with this fantastic virtual content on offer from these 5 museums.
5 Museums You Can Enjoy From Home (Part 1)
Enjoy museums from home and history from home with this fantastic virtual content on offer from these 5 museums.
The Lightner Museum: A Curious Place in St. Augustine
Welcome to the Lightner Museum, a museum in which the architecture and spaces within the building are as interesting as the collection itself. When we planned our trip to St. Augustine in Florida I was so excited to go and have explore this place, because I’m not sure where else you could be viewing nineteenth-century…
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Visiting Biltmore, the North Carolina home of the Vanderbilts
Welcome to Biltmore, the spectacular home of the Vanderbilts in Asheville, North Carolina – although it may seem hard to imagine this fairy-tale mansion as a family home, when it has a total of 250 rooms! Ready to see inside? It’s even more impressive than the French chateau-inspired exterior suggests… Here is one of my…
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Visiting the Aiken-Rhett House, Charleston
Welcome to Charleston, South Carolina, and the Aiken-Rhett House. I’ve been so excited to get exploring the US and their house museums, and the Aiken-Rhett House certainly did not disappoint. What was so interesting about the Aiken-Rhett House was the focus of the visitor interpretation: so much research has been done into the enslaved members…
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Favourite Historical Visits of 2019
Happy New Year! And as well, happy new decade! I’m excited to get researching and blogging for the year and have lots of ideas – but I wanted to start off the year by looking back at some of my favourite historical sites I’ve visited in 2019… Jane Austen House Museum, Chawton I’ve loved Jane…
Moving to Savannah…
So two weeks ago, we swapped Sheffield and the UK for Savannah, Georgia, and the US. We’ve moved for my fiancé’s job and I’m going to spend the first couple of months finishing off my PhD. This move has been a long time in the making and with that, packing up our flat and trying…
