14/11/2012
New Study on England’s Schools 1962-88
English Heritage has published England's Schools 1962-88 , its first major study of post war schools in the country. By providing a clear account of how pedagogical ideas, construction technology and architectural trends prevalent in the decades following WWII have shaped the way different types of schools were built, the study aims to inspire the present generation of school designers and inform the current debate on investment across England's school estate.
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12/10/2012
Hunt for Grade II buildings at risk
English Heritage has launched the Heritage at Risk Register 2012 and announced an ambitious programme to find out how the one major element of our heritage not already covered by the Register – the nation’s Grade II listed buildings - can be assessed. Adding those found to be at risk from neglect, decay, damaging alterations or dereliction to the national or local At Risk Registers would be a first step to securing their future.
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25/06/2012
Britain from Above
More than 15,000 images from one of the earliest and most significant collections of aerial photography of the UK have been made freely accessible online to the public for the first time.
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14/05/2012
EU Funding for Neolithic Dating Project
A five-year collaborative project between English Heritage and Cardiff University that aims to construct a more precise chronology of Neolithic civilisations in Europe has been awarded a grant of €2.5m from the European Research Council.
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30/03/2012
Historypin
English Heritage has signed up to use the tools available through Historypin, to upload many of its historic images.
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30/03/2012
New Blood in Traditional Building Skills
Twenty-four trainees have newly graduated from the £1.7m Traditional Building Skills Bursary Scheme, a pioneering work-placement programme that started four years ago to help address the skills shortage currently being encountered in the heritage sector.
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20/02/2012
New Historic Photographs Exhibition
An exhibition of one of English Heritage's major historic collections of photographs is now on. An Age of Confidence, Photographs by Bedford Lemere & Co is on at the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Wirral, until 7 May 2012.
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19/10/2011
Industrial Heritage at Risk Revealed
The largest ever research project into the condition of England's industrial heritage was published today (Wednesday 19 October, 2011) by English Heritage together with its annual 'Heritage at Risk Register'.
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16/09/2011
3D Stonehenge Model Unveiled
A detailed survey of every stone that makes up Stonehenge using the latest technology, including a new scanner on loan from Z+F UK that has never before been used on a heritage project in this country, has resulted in the most accurate digital model ever produced of the world famous monument.
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08/09/2011
Britain from Above: getting aerial images from 1919 online
Last Autumn English Heritage, and our partners the Royal Commissions on the Ancient and Historical Monuments for Scotland and Wales, were awarded £1.75m from the Heritage Lottery Fund to help conserve and catalogue part of the Aerofilms Collection and make the photographs available online.
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26/07/2011
16 London Underground Stations Listed At Grade II
16 London Underground stations have today (26 July 2011) been listed at Grade ll by Tourism and Heritage Minister John Penrose, on the advice of English Heritage. They include several of the tube stations designed by Leslie Green whose 'ox-blood' red tile facades pioneered the use of a strong and consistent corporate image which is recognised around the world.
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14/07/2011
New book on Dartmoor’s heritage
English Heritage has charted the evolution of Dartmoor's rich archaeology and stunning landscape over millennia in a new book that emphasises the human activities that have shaped the landscape.
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13/06/2011
New photography acquisition - capturing local and family history
Our latest photography acquisition is a beautiful photograph album dating from 1872. The leather album is covered in high quality filigree silver panels which are engraved with the names of Julius and Theodora Knoop. Other engravings on the cover include their wedding date of 1847 in Cheltenham and their 25th anniversary date of 1872 in Bremen, Germany. Most likely a silver wedding anniversary gift, the album contains 30 large prints relating to the life of the couple showing their homes and workplaces in England
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08/06/2011
Kevin McCloud Champions Plymouth's 20th Century Heritage
A new book on the post war city is published today by English Heritage. English Heritage is calling for Plymouth's centre to be designated a conservation area. Kevin McCloud is in Plymouth today (8 June) launching a new book Plymouth: Vision of a Modern City, published by English Heritage. The book challenges some deeply held views of the city and champions the post war architecture of the city.
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06/06/2011
Britains First Construction Boom
A ground-breaking scientific dating project led by English Heritage and Cardiff University has succeeded in dating prehistoric features down to a margin of decades instead of centuries. By applying this method to a type of early Neolithic earthwork called causewayed enclosures, it has revealed that Britain experienced a frenetic period of monument building in the decades after 3,700BC, with the country's first big monuments being erected some 1,000 years before Stonehenge was created.
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29/03/2011
Call for papers: The architecture of historic ports
English Heritage is supporting an international workshop in the School of History, University of Liverpool, to be held on 23-25 June 2011. The subject of the workshop is 'The Social Life of Port Architecture: History, Politics, Commerce and Culture'. Contributions are invited from those working on historic and contemporary architecture, social history and the regeneration of waterfront spaces.
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24/03/2011
Industrial Heritage at Risk
English Heritage is embarking on a project to find out how much of the country's industrial heritage is at risk of neglect, decay or even demolition and to raise the debate about what needs saving and how. It will reveal the results of its Industrial Heritage at Risk research, including what the public think, in October this year at the launch of the annual English Heritage Heritage at Risk register.
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18/03/2011
Bone analysis sheds new light
New isotope analysis and forensic facial reconstruction undertaken by a team led by English Heritage has shed new light on the doomed 1845 British voyage of Arctic exploration led by Sir John Franklin, in which all 129 people on board perished.
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09/02/2011
Chiswick Camellia Festival 2011
Following a £12.1m restoration of the gardens, Chiswick House & Gardens Trust is launching a new festival to celebrate the world famous Chiswick Camellia Collection, believed to be the largest collection in the western world
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24/11/2010
What Did The NMR Ever Do For The Romans….?
2010 sees the 1600th anniversary of the nominal end of Roman Britain which lasted more than 350 years. In tribute to this anniversary we offer an introduction to some Roman sites as featured more fully in the News section of the Pastscape website and illustrate some of English Heritage's online resources to whet your appetite.
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26/10/2010
New Book Explores Origins of Silbury Hill
A new book on Silbury Hill published by English Heritage has shaken up some long held assumptions about the construction and purpose of this mysterious structure, the largest prehistoric man-made feature in Europe.
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22/10/2010
The Shakespeare Centre is Listed
The Shakespeare Centre, The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust's headquarters, library and archive in Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon has been listed at Grade II by the Tourism and Heritage Minister.
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15/10/2010
Sale of Plymouth Civic Centre
Plymouth Civic Centre is being put up for sale by Plymouth City Council. English Heritage has part funded a feasibility study with the Council to explore the future of this striking Grade II listed building.
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27/07/2010
Future of Magnificent Garden Secured
The Sleeping Beauty of England's Landscape Gardens – Wrest Park in Bedfordshire – will awake from its slumber next year, thanks to a major grant of £1.14m from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF).
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26/07/2010
Neolithic Building Discovered at Marden Henge
English Heritage archaeologists have uncovered a ceremonial building, thought to be 4,500 years old during a 6-week archaeological excavation at one of Britain’s most important but least understood prehistoric monuments, Marden Henge in Wiltshire.
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07/07/2010
Heritage at Risk 2010: Historic Building Rescues Slowed by Recession
The Heritage at Risk Register 2010 published today (Wednesday 7 July) by English Heritage shows a significant slow-down in the number of Grade I and II* buildings being saved from neglect and decay prompting fears that England might lose the very thing which makes it most special in the eyes of the world and could help to underpin economic recovery.
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09/06/2010
2 Commissioner Posts Announced
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport is seeking to appoint individuals with expertise in i) Education/Community Engagement, and ii) Local Authority Representation as Commissioners of English Heritage.
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24/05/2010
English Heritage's Historical Archive Catalogue Now Online
For the first time the public will be able to search online a catalogue describing more than a million historical photographs and documents relating to England's historic buildings and archaeological sites held by the National Monuments Record (NMR), English Heritage's public archive.
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