Historic Environment Records
Historic Environment Records (HERs) are the mainly local authority-based services used for planning, but they also operate a public service and play a role in education. These records were previously known as Sites and Monuments Records or SMRs: the name has changed to reflect the wider scope of the data they now contain.
New HER Guidance
Informing the Future of the Past: Guidelines for Historic Environment Records (Second Edition), edited by Paul Gilman and Martin Newman.The essential set of working guidelines appropriate to all HERs, large and small, and for all staff, volunteers and students involved in managing, running, using or supporting an HER.
NMR services for HERs
- HER News items: and information via the Heritage Gateway;
- HER Forum: twice yearly meetings with presentations and discussion sessions on issues relating to HERs and an email discussion list;
- Audits: English Heritage provides grants to HERs to carry out wide-ranging audits of their content, resourcing and services to assist them in making improvements;
- Working party: hosted by EH jointly with other professional bodies including ALGAO;
Free licences: to hold copyrighted data from the NMR; Support and advice: for IT companies working with HERs, and on a range of issues including data standards, database design, GIS and funding bids.
For more information please refer to our 2 Information sheets:
Historic Environment Records, A guide for Users (pdf, 211KB)
Services for Historic Environment Records from the NMR (pdf, 266KB)
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