Recent Military Heritage

Cold War

 English Heritage has undertaken a study of Cold War sites, including a subsequent assessment of surviving sites, which is available from Historic Environment Records and the National Monuments Record. The Cold War study was published in 2004: entitled Cold War; Building for Nuclear Confrontation, 1946-89. The book is available from the English Heritage bookshop. A series of more detailed studies of particular sites can be accessed at the National Monuments Record - Spadeadam (Cumbria) for example, where we also worked with a video artist to capture the character of the place, and the process of recording it. English Heritage staff are also involved in an archaeological study of the Cold War peace camps at Greenham Common. Details of this project are available at www.greenhamcommonground.org.