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The Natural History Museum (NHM) is home to life and earth science specimens comprising some 70 million items within 5 main collections: Botany, Entomology, Mineralogy, Palaeontology and Zoology. The museum is a world-renowned centre of research, specialising in taxonomy, identification...
The history of King Charles Street.
The Secretary of State has today announced plans for an independent Public History project relating to the Troubles in Northern Ireland
Details of individuals with historic claims to take part in the Coronation have been revealed.
In this section you can read short biographies of notable people and explore the history of government buildings. You can also search our online records and read articles and blog posts by historians.
Key changes made to the statistical series since 2012.
Historic Royal Palaces (HRP) manages Britain’s unoccupied royal palaces: the Tower of London, Hampton Court Palace, the Banqueting House, Kensington Palace and Kew Palace. HRP is a public corporation of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport .
How to get the flood history for a postcode area or property in England.
Historic England is the government’s statutory adviser on the historic environment, championing historic places and helping people to understand, value and care for them. HE is an executive non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport...
A brief history of the Ministry of Defence (MOD) and the Old War Office from the 16th century.
Vehicle tax exemptions and MOT exemptions for vehicles built or first registered before 1984.
The history of Lancaster House.
Historic data for the period 2001 to 2007 by quarter and by year.
10 Downing Street, the locale of British prime ministers since 1735, vies with the White House as being the most important political building anywhere in the world in the modern era.
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