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Places of Worship are one of the measures of community wellbeing in the Co-op's new Community Wellbeing Index. The index uses Culture, Heritage and Leisure as one of nine indicators of what makes a place good to live in and gives scores for 28,000 communities across the UK. Most important about this is that culture and heritage are valued and included as indicators, which is unusual compared to other wellbeing frameworks.
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Delighted to be working with community groups and Essex museums on Snapping the Stiletto, which is researching collections to find stories about inspirational Essex women. Snapping the Stiletto marks 100 years since some British women were able to vote (those over 30 years old and either owning property themselves, or married to someone who did) , 90 years since all women aged 21 got the vote, and 50 years since female workers at Ford's Dagenham factory sucessfully achieved equal pay. Follow our progress on the Snapping the Stiletto website as the stories unfold.
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As increasing numbers of people are developing dementia, the Alzheimers Society and several heritage organisations have produced a very practical guide: [Link removed 12/12/23 as no longer available on the external website]. Beamish Museum does a lot of work with people who have dementia, and as part of the northern launch of Rethinking Heritage, they set up two tea tables - one is dementia-friendly, and the other less so.
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It's 50 years since Martin Luther King came to Newcastle (13 November 2017) to receive an honorary doctorate from Newcastle University for his work for civil rights. In his acceptance speech, he spoke about the three urgent and great problems of racism, poverty and war. Watch his speech here http://freedomcity2017.com/ - scroll down the page to find it.
- 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