Identity & Authority: English Heritage – Signal Evidence & AI Readability

English Heritage

(https://english-heritage.org.uk) 📸 Data Snapshot: May 30, 2026
Identity & Authority — The Lens

Inspect the JSON-LD. Is there an Organization or Person schema, and does it carry sameAs links to real external profiles (LinkedIn, socials)? Missing schema or no identity declaration signals an anonymous entity.

Identity & Authority Expert verifiability & Schema depth.
13 Impact Weight: 15 / 100
87% Reputation

Organizational schema is robust and includes sameAs links to verified social profiles. A minor authority gap exists because the site references top historians and site experts without naming them or providing Person schema, which would further solidify its expertise claims. Technical implementation is clean with a logical heading hierarchy.

Claims of being uniquely placed to explain English history are substantiated by the vast inventory of 500,000 artefacts and 400 properties. Marketing tone remains functional; for instance, the will-writing service is described as checked by a solicitor, a specific technical safeguard. No bold performance claims were found that lacked a corresponding service or asset description.

Identity & Authority is read from the structured data first: whether the site declares who it is in machine-readable schema, with verifiable identity links. Below is the schema captured per page, then the external proof links that support (or fail to support) that identity.

🔗 Identity & Technical Layer — schema JSON-LD: identity chains, entity gaps
Homepage schema
{
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@type": "Organization",
    "name": "English Heritage",
    "url": "https://www.english-heritage.org.uk",
    "logo": "https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/siteassets/home/00-shared-blocks-and-media/07-assets-for-customer-emails/eh-logo-email-120x42.png",
    "sameAs": [
        "https://www.facebook.com/EnglishHeritage",
        "https://www.twitter.com/EnglishHeritage",
        "https://www.youtube.com/user/EnglishHeritageFilm"
    ]
}
/visit/
{
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@type": "Organization",
    "name": "English Heritage",
    "url": "https://www.english-heritage.org.uk",
    "logo": "https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/siteassets/home/00-shared-blocks-and-media/07-assets-for-customer-emails/eh-logo-email-120x42.png",
    "sameAs": [
        "https://www.facebook.com/EnglishHeritage",
        "https://www.twitter.com/EnglishHeritage",
        "https://www.youtube.com/user/EnglishHeritageFilm"
    ]
}
/learn/
{
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@type": "Organization",
    "name": "English Heritage",
    "url": "https://www.english-heritage.org.uk",
    "logo": "https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/siteassets/home/00-shared-blocks-and-media/07-assets-for-customer-emails/eh-logo-email-120x42.png",
    "sameAs": [
        "https://www.facebook.com/EnglishHeritage",
        "https://www.twitter.com/EnglishHeritage",
        "https://www.youtube.com/user/EnglishHeritageFilm"
    ]
}
/visit/group-visits/
{
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@type": "Organization",
    "name": "English Heritage",
    "url": "https://www.english-heritage.org.uk",
    "logo": "https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/siteassets/home/00-shared-blocks-and-media/07-assets-for-customer-emails/eh-logo-email-120x42.png",
    "sameAs": [
        "https://www.facebook.com/EnglishHeritage",
        "https://www.twitter.com/EnglishHeritage",
        "https://www.youtube.com/user/EnglishHeritageFilm"
    ]
}
🛡️ Trust Signals — external proof links that back the declared identity
0Review mentions (all pages)
16External proof links (all pages)
PageReviewsProof links
/ (home) 0 4
/visit/ 0 4
/learn/ 0 4
/visit/group-visits/ 0 4