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…
Tag: Heritage Crime
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…
Historic England Publishes Heritage Crime Guidance Documents
Historic England has published their Heritage Crime Risk Assessment guidance, which outlines how heritage professionals with minimal experience of risk management and crime prevention can assess risks and implement measures to address them. This comes alongside the release of their Heritage Crime Interventions, which aims to help agencies that are responsible for handling heritage crime….
Lockdown Industrial Heritage Vandalism is Rare – Fortunately
The news that Avoncroft Museum has been vandalised on its first day back open to the public (2 May), is a reminder that industrial heritage museums face more challenges than the effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Data gathered by the IHSO project on vandalism on industrial heritage during lock down since March 2020 shows that…
Industrial Heritage Support 