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A history of remembrance

An English Heritage exhibition atop Wellington Arch explores six London memorials

2 August 2014

9:00 AM

2 August 2014

9:00 AM

One fight that seems to have been won is that spearheaded by the War Memorials Trust to preserve the thousands of memorials — monuments, statues, plinths, tablets — erected across the country to honour our war dead. Through conservation grants and hard graft, and a clampdown on the scrap-metal trade, many decaying and vandalised memorials have been rescued.

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