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Dr.
Simon Thurley is a leading architectural historian, a
regular broadcaster on television and radio and the Chief
Executive of English Heritage; the Government’s principal
advisor on the historic environment in England. This is a new website, and a few sections are still incomplete.
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Simon
Thurley is a historian with a mission, he believes passionately
that our past informs and shapes our future, and that to make a
great future for everyone we need to understand and care for our
past. Since he was a child he has been investigating English
history; some of his earliest efforts digging in his parent’s
garden discovered important Roman remains. After reading History
at university and completing an MA and PHD he has devoted his
career to working with history, archaeology and architecture
always seeking to explain to the public at large why history
matters.