100 Years of High Street Shopping from 1880 to 1980
A decade-by-decade glimpse of shops and shopping through photographs from the Historic England Archive. read more
English Heritage
Women Architects Who Helped Shape England
Women have always influenced domestic design but it wasn’t until 1898 that the first female architect was admitted to the Royal Institute of British Architects. read more
Early Photographs of Cycling in the 19th Century
Penny-farthings, tricycles and ‘sociables’ — get to know the different types of early bicycles through these newly discovered archive photographs. read more
What Was the English Landscape Movement?
Art and antiquity influenced garden design in England in the Georgian era. read more
What is a Tin Tabernacle?
Pre-fabricated churches, often called ‘iron churches’, ‘iron chapels’ or ‘tin tabernacles’, were developed in the mid-19th century. read more