About English Heritage - Shop

English Heritage is the charity caring for hundreds of historic sites in England, from Stonehenge to Hadrian's Wall, and the shop is one of the ways that work is paid for.

The shop and the membership are separate things. Membership buys free entry to the sites and comes with its own benefits; the shop sells goods, and a code for one does not apply to the other.

What they sell

Books and guides, replica and museum-inspired jewellery, homeware and garden items, food and drink, toys and games, prints, and gifts tied to specific properties.

Site-specific ranges are the interesting part. A book or a replica tied to one property is rarely available anywhere else, which makes it a better gift than a generic souvenir.

Buying a gift that suits the recipient

For someone who visits the sites, a guidebook to a property they are planning to see beats an ornament. For someone who does not, the food, garden and homeware ranges stand on their own merits.

Replica jewellery and objects are reproductions inspired by finds rather than antiques, and the product description says which period the original came from. That description is the interesting bit and the part a recipient will actually read.

Membership as a gift, briefly

If the person lives within reach of two or three sites, membership pays for itself faster than most people expect, and it is bought through the charity rather than through the shop.

Gift membership arrives as a pack rather than a card on the day, so allow time before a birthday.

Practical points

Seasonal ranges around Christmas sell out and are not restocked, because print runs and licensed reproductions are ordered once.

Where an item is exclusive to one property's own shop, the website will say so, and it may not be orderable online at all.

Using an English Heritage Shop discount code

Enter the code at checkout on the shop basket. Memberships, donations, event tickets and gift vouchers sit outside any offer, since they are not retail products.