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August 12, 2011 1 Comment

BEFS Congress 2011 Valuing Places: why, what, how?

BEFS are holding a Congress on Thursday 8th September 2011 Roxburghe Hotel, Charlotte Square, Edinburgh to debate the value of good place-making and

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August 7, 2011 0 Comments

‘Secret garden’ Wrest Park reopens after restoration

The 90-acre park in Bedfordshire contains ’300 years of garden history’ and boasts Versailles-style viewsWrest Park restoration – in pictures

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August 2, 2011 0 Comments

Heritage fund to be shared across 11 British areas

Heritage Lottery Fund, potentially £18.3m, to go to some of Britain’s most spectacular landscapes such as Morecambe BaySee a photo gallery of the lottery landscapes

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July 14, 2011 0 Comments

British Library seeks £9m to buy oldest book in Europe

Library launches appeal to purchase 7th-century Cuthbert Gospel, which it has had on loan since 1979

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July 11, 2011 0 Comments

Arm museum guards to prevent looting, says professor

US academic calls for armed guards to protect heritage sites from theft and damage in midst of conflict or disaster

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July 11, 2011 2 Comments

Roman town of Venta Icenorum site bought for public ownership

Unusual move with English Heritage, National Heritage Memorial Fund and other money helps to preserve buried archaeological site in Norfolk

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July 5, 2011 0 Comments

Incisor raiding: Viking marauders had patterns filed into their teeth

Archaeologists say filed patterns in teeth of Viking warriors found in mass grave in Dorset may have been to frighten opponents

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June 30, 2011 0 Comments

British Museum remains UK’s top attraction for fourth year running

Amid celebrations, staff are having to clean kiss marks off the display cases of museum’s latest heavenly exhibition

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June 29, 2011 0 Comments

Archaeologists furious over councillor’s ‘bunny huggers’ jibe

Tory council leader threatened to overturn principle that developers must pay for archaeological excavation

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June 21, 2011 0 Comments

Hadrian’s Wall dig unearths Roman refugee camp

Team finds hundreds of unusual buildings likely to have housed natives seen as traitors by tribes in what is now Scotland

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June 21, 2011 0 Comments

Badge dug up in field is medieval treasure

Scrap of twisted silver found by metal detector in Lancashire will be part of British Museum’s exhibition of reliquaries

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June 17, 2011 0 Comments

Broadgate centre not worth listing, says culture secretary, paving way for UBS

Jeremy Hunt refuses to protect 1980s complex in City of London, enabling British Land to build new HQ for investment bank UBS

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June 15, 2011 0 Comments

British Museum wins Art Fund prize

Britain’s biggest prize for museums has been awarded to the biggest of them all – the British Museum, which won for its BBC-partnered A History of the World, a series charting the millennia through 100 objects.

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