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…
Category: industrial heritage
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…
SWWERIAC 2025: South Wales & West of England Regional Industrial Archaeology Conference, 26 April
SWWERIAC 2025: South Wales & West of England Regional Industrial archaeology conference, 26 April
New Heritage Tool Box for West Yorkshire
The West Yorkshire Combined Authority, Heritage Network, and Locality are launching a new support scheme for heritage organisations in the region. The programme aims to help build resilience and capacity in the community and grass-roots heritage sector in West Yorkshire through a toolbox of learning sessions on several key topics. Heritage organisations operating within the region are invited to…
Mills Archive Trust ‘Caring for Your Collections’ Webinars in May & June
Do you have old records that need looking after? Then, the Mills Archive Trust’s ‘Caring for your collection’ webinars are designed to help anyone look after archival documents, from photographs and papers, to digital files. The cost is £50 for the two seminars. Part 1: Overview, Arrangement, Description – Sat 24 May 2025, 2:00-4:00 pm…
Historic England Emergency Planning Training Needs Analysis Survey: Your Chance to Take Part
Historic England’s Emergency Planning team are inviting organisations and professionals to complete an online training needs analysis survey. By taking part in this survey, you can influence what further training and guidance HE will provide to those who play a role in emergency preparedness, response and recovery within our historic environment and the heritage sector,…
Government Urged to Rethink Refusal to List One of Manchester’s Oldest Surviving Textile Mills
The Georgian Group, SAVE Britain’s Heritage and The Council for British Archaeology have joined together to challenge the Department for Culture, Media, and Sport (DCMS)’s decision not to list one of Manchester’s earliest surviving cotton mills, Medlock Mill. In a highly unusual move, Lisa Nandy rejected the advice of Historic England, the government’s statutory adviser…
‘Deep Roots, Dark Earth: Freeminers of the Forest of Dean’ -New Video From Forestry England
A new documentary from Forestry England delves into the life of the freeminers of the Forest of Dean. For centuries, the freeminers of the Forest of Dean have held a rare and ancient right, to mine coal wherever they find it beneath the forest floor. Freemining in the Forest of Dean was formally granted by…
‘Mills Transformed – Stories of Mill Regeneration’ Book Launched
A new book has been published on the regeneration and restoration of historic textile mills. Entitled ‘Mills Transformed – Stories of Mill Regeneration’ https://johnhudsonpublishing.com/mills-transformed/. it is written by Neil Horsley with a forward by Charles Smith (Policy Director, Historic England). The volume looks at the regeneration of textile mills in northern England and is richly…
AIA 2025 Spring Tour to Catalunya Now Booking
The 2025 Association for Industrial Archaeology Spring tour is to Catalunya in Spain, from the 12th to the 18th May, and booking is now open. Catalunya tends to value most the heritage that distinguishes it from the rest of Spain, so the Romanesque and Gothic architecture, largely built while the rest of the Peninsular was…
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