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English Heritage's Red Guides are so much more than guide books. They bring history to life, putting each site in its historical context with vintage photographs, watercolours, reconstructed period floor plans and interviews with people who were part of the history.

We’re delighted to confirm that the first phase of our reopening will begin on Saturday 13 June, when we will be opening six of our staffed sites: Battle Abbey, Beeston Castle, Brodsworth Hall and Gardens, Kenilworth Castle, Old Sarum and Wrest Park. Find out more about our sites that are reopening and book tickets here.

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Members Handbook 2020/21

The English Heritage 2020/21 Members' and Visitors' Handbook is an informative guide to all the English Heritage sites and activities throughout the year. This year’s cover artwork ha...

£10.95

Guidebook: Stonehenge

Stonehenge is one of the best-known ancient monuments in the world and its global importance is reflected in its World Heritage Site status. Although its exact purpose remains a mystery, this magnific...

£6.00

Guidebook: Dover Castle

Dover Castle is one of England’s oldest and most famous fortresses. A medieval castle forms its core, but from the 1740s onwards its outer defences were dramatically reshaped in the face of the ...

£5.50

Guidebook: Tintagel Castle

Famous across the world for its links with legends of King Arthur and his knights, the craggy headland of Tintagel is, in reality, the setting for over 1,500 years of human habitation. Since the Mi...

£6.00

Guidebook: Battle Abbey

The Battle of Hastings, 14th October 1066, was the most famous battle fought on English soil. William the Conqueror built Battle Abbey on the spot where King Harold died, and it thrived as a Benedicti...

£5.00

Guidebook: Beeston Castle

The medieval ruin of Beeston Castle stands on a rocky summit 500ft above the Cheshire plain. Splendid views extend from the Pennines in the east to the mountains of Wales to the west. The fortificatio...

£4.00

Guidebook: Brodsworth Hall and Gardens

Brodsworth Hall is an outstanding example of a Victorian country house. Built and furnished between 1861 and 1863 by Charles Sabine Augustus Thellusson the house has survived with most of its original...

£4.50

Guidebook: Kenilworth Castle

Kenilworth Castle is one of the great historical sites of the United Kingdom. It was a royal castle for most of its history, and its walls enclose a series of outstanding works of medieval and early R...

£5.50

Guidebook: Old Sarum

Old Sarum is one of the most fascinating historic sites in southern England. There was originally an Iron Age hillfort here, and later a royal castle and a great cathedral. This guidebook includes a t...

£4.00

Guidebook: Wrest Park

Wrest Park is an exceptional rarity. Its grounds contain one of the few remaining formal gardens of the early 18th century and the house is a near unique example of English architecture following the ...

£5.50

Guidebook: Hadrian's Wall

Stretching for 73 miles across northern England, Hadrian's Wall is the most important monument of Roman Britain, and the best-known frontier of the entire Roman Empire. It was built on the orders ...

£5.50

Guidebook: Kenwood - The Iveagh Bequest

Kenwood House is a striking neoclassical villa on the edge of Hampstead Heath. The house was bought in 1754 by William Murray, a distinguished lawyer, who became Lord Chief Justice in 1756. He commiss...

£5.50

Guidebook: Audley End

‘The rooms are high and hung with beautiful tapestries: the beds amply decorated with golden velvet and silk bed hangings and covers.’ From the account of the visit of Johann Ernst, Duk...

£5.50

Guidebook: Osborne

The private home of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert was more than just a refuge from court life: it gave the couple the chance to indulge their interests and express their tastes. It is truly their c...

£5.50

Guidebook: Whitby Abbey

High on their windswept headland, the imposing ruins of Whitby Abbey dominate the busy harbour town below. Originally founded in the seventh century and ruled by the renowned Abbess Hild, the first mo...

£5.00

Guidebook: Pendennis Castle And St Mawes Castle

The castles of Pendennis and St Mawes were built by King Henry VIII. They were part of a chain of coastal forts created when Spain and France threatened to invade England in the 16th century. For...

£4.50

Guidebook: Goodrich Castle

Superbly sited high above the River Wye, Goodrich Castle is one of the finest and best preserved of all medieval English castles. This guidebook is richly illustrated with photographs, maps and histor...

£4.00

Guidebook: Deal Castle

Deal Castle is the greatest of the three artillery forts created in the 16th century by Henry VIII to protect the important naval anchorage known as the Downs off the Kentish coast. This guidebook, wh...

£3.50

Guidebook: Birdoswald Roman Fort

Birdoswald was one of 16 Roman forts built to guard Hadrian’s Wall – the north-western frontier of the Roman Empire. This strategic location, on a high promontory overlooking the Irthing v...

£4.50

Guidebook: Eltham Palace

Eltham Palace is a building of striking contrasts. Behind the elegant façade is a stunning Art Deco mansion, built around the great hall of the medieval Eltham Palace. Eltham was initi...

£4.50