Recent research shows that built heritage has a measurable benefit on people's wellbeing. If people live somewhere where there are historic buildings, the DCMS Culture and Heritage Capital Programme has calculated that the built heritage gives them a wellbeing benefit equivalent to £515 per person per year.
It's easy to forget that websites and the internet consume huge amounts of electricity - more than the UK's annual consumption, and CO2 emissions from the internet are equal to or greater than worldwide aviation emissions. Alarming! But my website is very low-carbon...(click to read more)
Smell is often overlooked in heritage interpretation, but it is a powerful sense which, along with taste, is strongly connected with memory. Odeuropa have recently launched The Olfactory Storytelling Toolkit which is a comprehensive guide to working with smells - pleasant and malodorous - in museums and heritage venues.
The University of Oxford’s Centre for the History of Childhood has published a toolkit about how museums and other heritage sites can best interpret childhood. Children were around in history just as much as adults (obviously!) but their stories are not told so often. Read more about the toolkit here.
- Rest Under the Stars
- An outside view
- Easy Read
- New Heritage Schools case studies
- What do teachers want from museums?
- The revolutionary Fergie tractor
- Rest under the stars
- The Fergie Tractor
- An A to Z of 25 years, part 2
- An A to Z of 25 years
- New Evaluation Principles from the Centre for Cultural Value
- Railway Resources
- Good News for Heritage
- New Questions for New Times
- Canny Chanters Chopwell Arts
- Heritage Schools evaluation report 2018/19 launched
- Kings Seat hill fort
- Heritage Centre Bellingham
- Who are our visitors?
- Places of Worship for Community Wellbeing
- Snapping the Stiletto
- Dementia Friendly Heritage
- Martin Luther King in Newcastle
- Art up your tab
- Museums Change Lives
- Charred timber cladding for the Kielder wildlife hide
- New wildlife hide for Kielder
- Martin Luther King - Freedom City Launch
- On tenterhooks
- Heritage Schools wins Europa Nostra award
- Glass Beats
- Leeches and Stories of Glass
- Selma - the right to vote
- Kinder Transport Memorial, Liverpool Street Station
- Goulash Cannon and Tin Helmet
- Remembrance
- Making glass at the National Glass Centre
- The Canary Girls
- Recycling from the First World War
- The Talented and Colossal Mademoiselle D'Jeck
- Visitor Studies in Split, Croatia
- On the border of Slovenia and Hungary
- Culture Matters
- Slovenia
- Repositories of technology
- A piece of Hungarian social history
- Museum + Heritage Show; Arts Professional
- Evaluation training in Slovenia and Croatia
- Iron Applause in Central Europe
- Escaped Circus Elephant!
- Gold from Afghanistan and Foundling fabrics
- The Old Herring Factory, Djúpavík
- Contemporary art from North Korea
- Nicola appointed to Board: Kuratórium
- Workshop in Hungary
- Evaluation Training in Hungary