London Transport Museum is organising a free seminar at the Museum Depot on Saturday 1 June 2024. The purpose of the seminar is to bring together people working with heritage to discuss the growing problem of a skills shortage in maintaining operational historic vehicles. The aim is to discuss various approaches to skills preservation with…
Category: industrial heritage
New Report on Museum Closures and Deprivation in 2024
The latest research from the Mapping Musuems project, based at UCL, uses the Index of Multiple Deprivation to ask whether museums in England are more likely to close in areas of higher deprivation? This question is especially relant to industrial hertiage sites open to the public which are often sited in area sof fomer industry….
CBA ‘Trowel & Error’ Survey Live
The Council for British Archaeology (CBA) is running a survey exploring people’s experiences and understanding of archaeological content and outputs. The aim of ‘Trowel & Error: Figuring out the past together through archaeology’ project is to help the CBA and the archaeological community to better understand what varying audiences hope to gain from archaeology. There are…
Lottery Funding to Highlight Northern England Lead Mining History
The North Pennines National Landscape (NPNL) team has been awarded £2m of lottery funding to chronicle the history of lead mining in Northern England through the ‘Land of Lead and Silver’. Along with the £2m National Lottery funding, the NPNL said a further £576,000 would follow from other funders, including £221,000 from Historic England. The…
Claymills Research on Use of Biofuels in Lancashire Boilers
Comparative tests by the Claymills Pumping Engines Trust (CPET) across the three final ‘steaming weekends’ of 2023 and the first ‘steaming weekend of 2024, suggests that the use of biofuel in heritage Lancashire boilers is both possible and can be cost-effective (no more expensive than current coal costs), using rape seed briquettes. CPET is a…
Industrial Heritage in England Survey, 2024
The IHSO project is pleased to announce that Heritage Innovation have been appointed to undertake a re-survey of the c.600 publicly accessible and protected industrial heritage sites in England. This appointment follows an open tender process managed by Historic England. The 2024 resurvey follows on from earlier projects delivered by PLB Consultancy in 1998, and by Sir Neil Cossons in 2008. These bodies…
New Historic England Report Highlights Extent of Heritage & Cultural Property Theft
In March 2024 the results of research looking at the scale and extent of heritage and cultural property crime in England was released. This has been compiled by Historic England and National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC), members of ARCH (Alliance to Reduce Crime Against Heritage). The ‘Heritage and Cultural Property Crime’ report was funded by…
ABTEM Sector Support Consultation
ABTEM (The Association of British Transport and Engineering Museums) is a subject specialist network for all things engineering and transport collections based and is full of knowledgeable members eager to help each other and the wider museum community. ABTEM needs your help as they are keen to discover what the sector needs and the challenges…
IHSO Project Seeks Consultant to Carry Out Rapid Survey of England’s Industrial Heritage Sites
Historic England has awarded funding to the Industrial Heritage Support Officer for England (IHSO) project to commission a new survey of the circa 600 industrial heritage sites in England that are open to the public. Applications are now open for consultants to apply to carry out the survey. There are around 600 nationally designated industrial…
Museum of the Gorge, Ironbridge, Re-opens
At the beginning of February 2024, the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust’s Museum of the Gorge reopened after major conservation and restoration work. The building was built in 1840 as a river warehouse for the Coalbrookdale Company for the onward transport of its goods down river to Bristol and beyond. It became part of the Museum in…
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