Historic England and Getty have collaborated to produce the Greater London Historic Environment Record (GLHER), which consists of 90,000 entries collected over the course of 40 years, and will be available for anyone interested in learning more about archaeological sites, historical buildings, industrial sites, national parks, and more in the Greater London Area. Visitors to…
Museum Data Services Launches
Funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies and the UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the Museum Data Service (MDS) officially launched this September 2024. It brings together over 100 million object records from 1,750 accredited museums and other collections across the UK, unlocking an invaluable resource for researchers, educators, curators, and content developers. The MDS is…
Carnforth Railway Heritage Centre Closes
The Carnforth Railway Heritage Centre is to close on 10th October 2024.It is best known for featuring in the 1945 movie ‘Brief Encounter’, directed by David Lean and starring Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard, which inspired the remobavtion fo thesae station buildings in the 1990s and early 2000s. The Centre became part of the working…
Heritage Carbon Literacy Training, October 2024
There are a few places left on the final scheduled Heritage Carbon Literacy training being held online on 15 and 16 October. Supported by Charterted Institure for Archaeologits (CIfA) and delivered by Historic England, in partnership with the Carbon Literacy Trust, these training sessions are aimed at small to medium sized enterprises, such as industrial…
Historic England Digitise Air Pictures Portleven Collection
Historic England has published (October 2024) the Air Pictures Portleven Collection – a unique collection of interwar aerial images taken by little known aerial photographer, Arthur William Hobart, which has been newly digitised by the Historic England Archive. The collection features 242 black and white aerial images showing the national landmarks, towns, industrial sites, construction…
British Newspaper Archive Add More Free to View Newspaper Pages
The British Newspaper Archive, in partnership with the British Library, have made available another one million pages to view online free, meaning that over four million newspaper pages are now freely accessible for researchers to explore. Newspapers form an important source of data for researching historic industries and the people who worked in them during the…
Save the Date for Railway 200 Says HRA
The Heritage Railway Association (HRA) is appealing to heritage railways, tramways, and museums up and down the UK to build the 200th anniversary of the Stockton and Darlington Railway into their plans. With exactly two years to go until the anniversary of the famous opening of the railway linking coal mines in the Shildon area with…
Historic England Chair Argues that Historic Buildings Can Provide 670,000 Homes
The chairman of Historic England, Lord Neil Mendoza, recently argued that the country’s historic buildings can help to tackle the housing shortage. Writing in The Times on the 2 September 2024, Lord Mendoza drew on research undertaken by Historic England to show that converting some of the country’s historic buildings into housing would foster economic…
The Arc Register of Specialist Historic Environment Professionals Goes Live
Four professional heritage practice associations have joined forces to develop and launch a new online initiative called The Arc, to help those responsible for, or working on, historic places or objects, such as industrial heritage sites, to quickly find specialist historic environment professionals. CIfA (Chartered Institute for Archaeologists), CIAT (Accredited Conservationists), Icon (Accredited Conservator-Restorers), and…
Historic England Call for Proposals for AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnerships
Historic England and English Heritage have announced their 2024 Call for Proposals for Round 4 of their AHRC funded Collaborative Doctoral Partnership programme. The programme provides funding for collaborative PhD studentship projects which support the work of the two organisations. Proposals must match one of HE’s published CDP Priority Research Areas 2024. These are: The deadline for proposals…
Industrial Heritage Support 