Historic England Updates Local Heritage Listing Guidance

Historic England has published the third editon of its ‘Local Heritage Listing: Identifying and Conserving Local Heritage. Historic England Advice Note 7’. Local heritage lists are ‘lists of non-designated heritage assets (NDHAs) which, due to their local heritage significance, have been identified as being of value to a particular place and the community who live…

SW Museum Skills Online: Essentials in Application Writing

This free on line course on 10th & 17th June is designed to build skills in writing strong applications for funding, an essential element of running any industrial hertiage site. Over two sessions, the training will provide helpful information and tips to build skills in writing strong applications for funding – whether grants from trusts/foundations…

Industrial Heritage Today: Conservation & Community Event, April 23

On Thursday 23 April 2026, as part of the celebrations for the International Day for Monuments and Sites, the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) UK is holding a discussion event titled ‘Industrial Heritage Today: Conservation and Community’ at the London Canal Museum. This will also mark the launch of ICOMOS UK’s new National…

Museum Development North: Introduction to AI in Museums

Museum Development North are running a free online training session on 30 April providing a short introduction to Artificial Intelligence (AI) in museums. It is aimed at museum staff, volunteers, and trustees wishing to find out more about AI, and how their organisation might respond to these emerging technologies. The three-hour session will cover: To…

Science Museum Group & RICHeS Survey – Empowering Safety

The Science Museum Group is running a Collections Hazards project, ‘Empowering Safety‘, funded by RICHeS (the UK’s Research Infrastructure for Conservation and Heritage Science). The ‘Empowering Safety’ project aims to increase knowledge and guidance around hazards in museum collections through targetted training, which is especially relevant for industrial heritage sites. As part of the project…

Early Engines Database Finds New Home With the AIA

The Early Engines Database of eighteenth century steam engines has a new permanent home, courtesy of the Association for Industrial Archaeology (AIA). The database is a record of the steam engines constructed in the United Kingdom up to the end of the year 1800. It records only the first erection of each engine, (although what…