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Eltham Palace

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Eltham Palace is a large house in Eltham in the Royal Borough of Greenwich, in south-east London, England. [1]

73 relations: Alone (Jessie Ware song), Anthony van Dyck, Antiques Roadshow, Antony Bek (bishop of Durham), Any Questions?, Art Deco, Artists Rifles, Best-Shaw baronets, Bishop of Durham, Brideshead Revisited (film), Bright young things, Buttery (shop), Charles II of England, Charles Sargeant Jagger, Cheryl (singer), Civil Defence Service, Courtauld Institute of Art, Crown Estate, Death on the Nile, Edward II of England, Edward III of England, Edward IV of England, Eltham, Eltham railway station, English Civil War, English Heritage, Erasmus, Florence and the Machine, Froot (song), Ghost, Great hall, Gucci, Hammerbeam roof, Haunted house, Henry IV of England, Henry VIII of England, High Heels and Low Lifes, Homefront (TV series), House of Tudor, Hustle (TV series), I Capture the Castle, James Franco, Jessie Ware, John Evelyn, Jousting, Lemur, List of British royal residences, List of sub-regions used in the London Plan, London, Mah-Jongg (lemur), ..., Manuel II Palaiologos, Marina and the Diamonds, Minstrels' gallery, Mottingham railway station, Nathaniel Rich (soldier), Order of the Garter, Palace, Palace of Placentia, Parachute (Cheryl song), Revolver (2005 film), Royal Army Educational Corps, Royal Borough of Greenwich, Samuel Courtauld (art collector), Scandinavian design, Shake It Out, Stephen Courtauld, The Blitz, The Daily Telegraph, The Gathering Storm (2002 film), The Truth (2006 film), This Morning (TV programme), Thomas More, Tiltyard. Expand index (23 more) »

Alone (Jessie Ware song)

"Alone" is a song by English singer-songwriter Jessie Ware.

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Anthony van Dyck

Sir Anthony van Dyck (many variant spellings; 22 March 1599 – 9 December 1641) was a Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England, after enjoying great success in Italy and the Southern Netherlands.

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Antiques Roadshow

Antiques Roadshow is a British television show in which antiques appraisers travel to various regions of the United Kingdom (and occasionally in other countries) to appraise antiques brought in by local people.

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Antony Bek (bishop of Durham)

Antony Bek (also spelled Beck and Beke; died 3 March 1311) was a medieval bishop of Durham.

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Any Questions?

Any Questions? is a topical debate radio programme in the United Kingdom that has been broadcast since 1948.

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Art Deco

Art Deco, sometimes referred to as Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture and design that first appeared in France just before World War I. Art Deco influenced the design of buildings, furniture, jewelry, fashion, cars, movie theatres, trains, ocean liners, and everyday objects such as radios and vacuum cleaners.

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Artists Rifles

The Artists Rifles is a regiment of the British Army Reserve.

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Best-Shaw baronets

The Shaw, later Best-Shaw Baronetcy, of Eltham in the County of Kent, is a title in the Baronetage of England.

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Bishop of Durham

The Bishop of Durham is the Anglican bishop responsible for the Diocese of Durham in the Province of York.

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Brideshead Revisited (film)

Brideshead Revisited is a 2008 British drama film directed by Julian Jarrold.

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Bright young things

The Bright Young Things, or Bright Young People, was a nickname given by the tabloid press to a group of bohemian young aristocrats and socialites in 1920s London.

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Buttery (shop)

In the Middle Ages, a buttery was a storeroom for liquor, the name being derived from the Latin and French words for bottle or, to put the word into its simpler form, a butt, that is, a cask.

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Charles II of England

Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685) was king of England, Scotland and Ireland.

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Charles Sargeant Jagger

Charles Sargeant Jagger (17 December 1885 – 16 November 1934) was a British sculptor who, following active service in the First World War, sculpted many works on the theme of war.

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Cheryl (singer)

Cheryl Ann Tweedy (born 30 June 1983) is an English singer, songwriter and television personality.

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Civil Defence Service

The Civil Defence Service was a civilian volunteer organisation established in Great Britain by the Home Office in 1935.

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Courtauld Institute of Art

The Courtauld Institute of Art, commonly referred to as The Courtauld, is a self-governing college of the University of London specialising in the study of the history of art and conservation.

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Crown Estate

The Crown Estate is a collection of lands and holdings in the United Kingdom belonging to the British monarch as a corporation sole, making it the "Sovereign's public estate", which is neither government property nor part of the monarch's private estate.

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Death on the Nile

Death on the Nile is a book of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 1 November 1937 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year.

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Edward II of England

Edward II (25 April 1284 – 21 September 1327), also called Edward of Carnarvon, was King of England from 1307 until he was deposed in January 1327.

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Edward III of England

Edward III (13 November 1312 – 21 June 1377) was King of England and Lord of Ireland from January 1327 until his death; he is noted for his military success and for restoring royal authority after the disastrous and unorthodox reign of his father, Edward II.

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Edward IV of England

Edward IV (28 April 1442 – 9 April 1483) was the King of England from 4 March 1461 to 3 October 1470, and again from 11 April 1471 until his death.

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Eltham

Eltham is a district of south east London, England, within the Royal Borough of Greenwich.

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Eltham railway station

Eltham railway station is in the Well Hall area of Eltham, South East London, within the Royal Borough of Greenwich.

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English Civil War

The English Civil War (1642–1651) was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians ("Roundheads") and Royalists ("Cavaliers") over, principally, the manner of England's governance.

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English Heritage

English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a registered charity that manages the National Heritage Collection.

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Erasmus

Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (28 October 1466Gleason, John B. "The Birth Dates of John Colet and Erasmus of Rotterdam: Fresh Documentary Evidence," Renaissance Quarterly, The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Renaissance Society of America, Vol. 32, No. 1 (Spring, 1979), pp. 73–76; – 12 July 1536), known as Erasmus or Erasmus of Rotterdam,Erasmus was his baptismal name, given after St. Erasmus of Formiae.

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Florence and the Machine

Florence and the Machine (stylised as Florence + the Machine) are an English indie rock band that formed in London in 2007, consisting of vocalist Florence Welch, keyboardist Isabella Summers, and a collaboration of other musicians.

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Froot (song)

"Froot" is a song by Welsh singer Marina Diamandis, known professionally as Marina and the Diamonds.

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Ghost

In folklore, a ghost (sometimes known as an apparition, haunt, phantom, poltergeist, shade, specter or spectre, spirit, spook, and wraith) is the soul or spirit of a dead person or animal that can appear to the living.

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Great hall

A great hall is the main room of a royal palace, nobleman's castle or a large manor house or hall house in the Middle Ages, and continued to be built in the country houses of the 16th and early 17th centuries, although by then the family used the great chamber for eating and relaxing.

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Gucci

Gucci is an Italian luxury brand of fashion and leather goods, which is owned by the French holding company Kering.

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Hammerbeam roof

A hammerbeam roof is a decorative, open timber roof truss typical of English Gothic architecture and has been called "...the most spectacular endeavour of the English Medieval carpenter." They are traditionally timber framed, using short beams projecting from the wall on which the rafters land, essentially a tie beam which has the middle cut out.

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Haunted house

A haunted house or ghosthouse is a house or other building often perceived as being inhabited by disembodied spirits of the deceased who may have been former residents or were familiar with the property.

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Henry IV of England

Henry IV (15 April 1367 – 20 March 1413), also known as Henry Bolingbroke, was King of England and Lord of Ireland from 1399 to 1413, and asserted the claim of his grandfather, Edward III, to the Kingdom of France.

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Henry VIII of England

Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) was King of England from 1509 until his death.

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High Heels and Low Lifes

High Heels and Low Lifes is a 2001 action comedy-drama film starring Minnie Driver, Mary McCormack, Kevin McNally, Mark Williams, Danny Dyer and Michael Gambon.

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Homefront (TV series)

Home Front was an interior design "makeover" TV show airing on the BBC, on par with American television's This Old House and Martha Stewart.

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House of Tudor

The House of Tudor was an English royal house of Welsh origin, descended in the male line from the Tudors of Penmynydd.

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Hustle (TV series)

Hustle is a British television crime drama series starring Adrian Lester, Robert Glenister and Robert Vaughn.

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I Capture the Castle

I Capture the Castle is the first novel by the British author Dodie Smith, written during the Second World War when she and her husband Alec Beesley (also British and a conscientious objector) were living in California.

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James Franco

James Edward Franco (born April 19, 1978) is an American actor, filmmaker, and college instructor.

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Jessie Ware

Jessica Lois Ware (born 15 October 1984) is an English singer and songwriter.

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John Evelyn

John Evelyn, FRS (31 October 1620 – 27 February 1706) was an English writer, gardener and diarist.

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Jousting

Jousting is a martial game or hastilude between two horsemen wielding lances with blunted tips, often as part of a tournament.

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Lemur

Lemurs are a clade of strepsirrhine primates endemic to the island of Madagascar.

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List of British royal residences

British royal residences are palaces, castles and houses occupied by members of the British royal family in the United Kingdom.

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List of sub-regions used in the London Plan

Greater London is divided into five sub-regions for the purposes of the London Plan.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Mah-Jongg (lemur)

Mah-Jongg or Jongy was a ring-tailed lemur who was owned by Virginia and Stephen Courtauld.

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Manuel II Palaiologos

Manuel II Palaiologos or Palaeologus (Greek: Μανουήλ Β΄ Παλαιολόγος, Manouēl II Palaiologos; 27 June 1350 – 21 July 1425) was Byzantine Emperor from 1391 to 1425.

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Marina and the Diamonds

Marina Lambrini Diamandis (born 10 October 1985), known professionally as Marina and the Diamonds, is a Welsh singer and songwriter.

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Minstrels' gallery

A minstrels' gallery is a form of balcony, often inside the great hall of a castle or manor house, and used to allow musicians (originally minstrels) to perform, sometimes discreetly hidden from the guests below.

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Mottingham railway station

Mottingham railway station is a station situated on Court Road between Eltham and Mottingham, in the Royal Borough of Greenwich, south-east London.

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Nathaniel Rich (soldier)

Colonel Nathaniel Rich (died c. 1701) sided with Parliament in the English Civil War.

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Order of the Garter

The Order of the Garter (formally the Most Noble Order of the Garter) is an order of chivalry founded by Edward III in 1348 and regarded as the most prestigious British order of chivalry (though in precedence inferior to the military Victoria Cross and George Cross) in England and the United Kingdom.

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Palace

A palace is a grand residence, especially a royal residence, or the home of a head of state or some other high-ranking dignitary, such as a bishop or archbishop.

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Palace of Placentia

The Palace of Placentia was an English Royal Palace built by Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, in 1443, in Greenwich, on the banks of the River Thames, downstream from London.

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Parachute (Cheryl song)

"Parachute" is a song by English recording artist Cheryl.

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Revolver (2005 film)

Revolver is a 2005 British-French crime thriller film co-written and directed by Guy Ritchie and starring Jason Statham, Ray Liotta, Vincent Pastore and André Benjamin.

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Royal Army Educational Corps

The Royal Army Educational Corps (RAEC) was a corps of the British Army tasked with educating and instructing personnel in a diverse range of skills.

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Royal Borough of Greenwich

The Royal Borough of Greenwich is a London borough in south-east London, England.

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Samuel Courtauld (art collector)

Samuel Courtauld (7 May 1876 – 1 December 1947) was an English industrialist who is best remembered as an art collector.

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Scandinavian design

Scandinavian design is a design movement characterized by simplicity, minimalism and functionality that emerged in the early 20th century, and which flourished in the 1950s, in the five Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden.

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Shake It Out

"Shake It Out" is a song by English indie rock band Florence and the Machine, released as the first official single from their second studio album, Ceremonials (2011).

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Stephen Courtauld

Sir Stephen Lewis Courtauld, MC (1883–1967) was a member of the wealthy English Courtauld textile family (he was the son of Sydney Courtauld (10 March 1840 – 20 October 1899) and Sarah Lucy Sharpe (1844-1906) and youngest brother of Samuel Courtauld, founder of the Courtauld Institute of Art).

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The Blitz

The Blitz was a German bombing offensive against Britain in 1940 and 1941, during the Second World War.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Gathering Storm (2002 film)

The Gathering Storm is a BBC–HBO co-produced television biographical film about Winston Churchill in the years just prior to World War II.

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The Truth (2006 film)

The Truth is a darkly comic murder-mystery satirising new age therapy.

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This Morning (TV programme)

This Morning is a British daytime television programme that is broadcast on ITV.

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Thomas More

Sir Thomas More (7 February 14786 July 1535), venerated in the Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist.

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Tiltyard

A tiltyard (or tilt yard or tilt-yard) was an enclosed courtyard for jousting.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eltham_Palace

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