Roots & Branches is an award-winning, environmentally-driven collaborative project between Museum Development England (MDE), The Carbon Literacy Project and Manchester Museum. Managed by Museum Development North (MD North), MDE are continuing the project for another two years with a programme launching in June 2024 and continuing until March 2026. Managed by Museum Development North (MD North), MDE are continuing the project for…
ERIH WORK it OUT #7: Registration Closes 30 June 2024
There is still time (just) to register for the 7th edition of ERIH’s award-winning dance event WORK it OUT featuring industrial heritage sites across Europe. For ERIH members or potential ones – this is a great opportunity to address new and, most importantly, young target groups and promote themselves as part of a pan-European community….
Wave of Vandalism Hits Heritage Railways
This spring has seen a series of vandalsim incidents on hertiager railways across England. Heritage railways are paricualrly vulnerable to such occurances due to the difficulrly of secure long linear transport industrial monuments which can run for many kilometers. The focus for such attcks is often the goods yard where rolling stock and locmotives are…
Mill Archive Trust Water Power Appeal
The Mill Archive Trust needs your help to preserve waterpower records from erosion and protect this knowledge for the future. Their previous appeal has helped them to preserve the work of past watermill and hydropower experts.The latest appeal is to help them with cataloguing and preserving several new collections which have been gifted to the…
Proposed Lifting of Permitted Development Ban in National Parks and AONBs Abandoned
Just before the UK General Election was called on 23 May 2024, the Government announced that it had abandoned plans to lift a ban on the use of a new Permitted Development (PD) policy in national parks and landscapes. While the new PD policy that will enable the conversion of agricultural buildings and barns into…
(Industrial) Heritage on the Brink – New Report From the Heritage Alliance
A new report from The Heritage Alliance highlights the severe financial threats facing the heritage sector. Following 18 months of data gathering, the ‘On the Brink: Heritage in the the Cost of Living Crisis‘ report demonstates how new challenges in energy bills, staffing, public engagement, and funding, have deepened cracks in the foundations of the sector…
Free Heritage Skills Seminar at London Transport Msuem, 1st June
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…
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…
Industrial Heritage Support 