Author: mikenevell

I am the Industrial Heritage Support Officer for England, based at the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust.

Heritage Science Data Service – Survey

The National Heritage Science Forum (NHSF) are launching a new survey to investigate user needs to inform development of the Heritage Science Data Service (HSDS). The NHSF is undertaking a User Needs consultation on behalf of HSDS, as part of the Research Infrastructure for Conservation and Heritage Science (RICHeS) programme. RICHeS was launched in October 2024,…

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National Mills Weekend 2025: Film Now Live

National Mills Weeekend, run by the wind and water mills section of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB), was establised 20 years ago, and for the last five years SPAB has produced a film to introduce the event. 2025’s film is now live. This year’s event runs over the weekend of the…

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On Display! Improved Display and Security Museum Grants Now Open

Several Museum Development England regions are offering grants of up to £5000 to help museums improve security and display conditions of their collections and loans through the On Display! initiative. The On Display! grants are a national programme of public funding from the UK Government through Arts Council England, distributed by Museum Development providers across…

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AIA 2025 Annual Conference in Bradford: Booking Now Open

The 2025 Association for Industrial Archaeology (AIA) Annual Conference returns to its traditional format of weekend talks and the AGM, followed by 3 days of tours. The venue is Bradford and it will run from 5th to 10th September, with flexible booking for the weekend and following tour days. Thanks to the Patrick Nott bursary,…

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Carbon Literacy for Musuems Course

Museum Development England, in partnership with Manchester Museum and The Carbon Literacy Project, has developed an online Museums’ Carbon Literacy Toolkit that is free to access by all museums. It is being delivered by the Museum Development teams across England, with the support of the Museum Carbon Literacy Officer. It will run online from the…

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Heritage Art Risk Capital Fund 2025

Historic England’s ‘Heritage at Risk Capital Fund is a special 1-year, £15 million, fund to give grants to heritage at risk, helping people to save the historic sites in England that are most important to them. Designed to be spent in areas with an index of Multiple Deprivation of 1, 2, or 3, this funding…

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Historic England Snapshot Survey on the Collection of Developer-Funded Archaeological Archives Published

Historic England’s Snapshot Survey on the Collection of Developer-Funded Archaeological Archives has now been published as a Historic England Research Report. Conducted as part of the Future for Archaeological Archives Programme, the survey gathered data on whether repositories were collecting, as well as capacity and collecting limitations. The results were also mapped to identify trends…

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