Heritage Open Days (HODs), England’s largest festival of history and culture, returns from the 9th -18th September 2022. This year, with support from players of People’s Postcode Lottery, HODs is celebrating Astounding Inventions up-and-down the country. Each year, places in England throw open their doors and give people the chance…
The project has now raised over £126,000. The project to buy and renovate the Millom home of the Cumbrian poet Norman Nicholson has chalked up a major success thanks to the Architectural Heritage Fund. The AHF, which works to promote the conservation and sustainable re-use of historic buildings for the…
The Staff and Trustees of the MacDougall of Dunollie Preservation Trust, who operate Dunollie Museum, Castle & Grounds in Oban, Argyll are delighted to announce that they have received £114,854 from the National Lottery Heritage Fund for a year-long project focused on Gardens, Links and Digital (GLAD). The project, which…
The prestigious Sussex-wide heritage and architectural awards called for new entries today, as the Sussex Heritage Trust launched in its 24th Awards year. Nine categories are available to enter from residential projects through public and community to ecclesiastical and landscape schemes. The Awards aims to represent the highest quality new…
Audio recordings of the Cumbrian poet Norman Nicholson reading his own work are now available to anyone who downloads the walking trails app which was launched by Norman Nicholson House last year. This new addition to the app features two of Nicholson’s most loved poems, The Shadow of Black Combe…
To ensure full accessibility for all HTN members and as a strategy in case of further Covid-19 related lockdowns, our 2021 conference was delivered both online and in-person. Our theme this year focussed on Recovery, Sustainability, Wellbeing. In some ways they appear to be separate topics, but at HTN we…
While it’s understandably been a year of honours dominated by those receiving them for services to healthcare and the Covid-19 response, the heritage sector has not gone unrewarded. We are particularly delighted to learn that Darren Barker, managing director at Great Yarmouth Preservation Trust has been awarded an MBE for…
Campaigners hoping to restore Colchester’s Jumbo water tower are celebrating an historic agreement which gives them control of the landmark building. The building’s owner, Paul Flatman, has agreed to lease the Grade ll* listed water tower to North Essex Heritage for 150 years. The deal will help kickstart the long-awaited…
We are proud to announce that Heritage Trust Network has been awarded our first certificate confirming our commitment to becoming a disability confident employer. Our Disability Confident Committed Level 1 Certificate shows that we are working to become more disability confident so that we can better attract, recruit, retain and…
The shortlist of finalists for the Visions of Climate Heritage competition, where members of the public can help tell Scotland’s climate story, has been revealed Striking landscape photography, detailed sketches and evocative paintings are among the entries that have been shortlisted for the Visions of Climate Heritage competition announced today (Thursday 16 December). Capturing scenes of environmental degradation, pollution, changing landscapes and extreme…
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