Plans for a £600m redevelopment next to Waterloo train station by the south bank of the Thames in London have moved forward after the UK Communities and Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles decided not to order a public enquiry into the project….
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A project to restore Strawberry Hill—Horace Walpole’s whimsical Gothic Revival villa in southwest London—is one of 30 projects to receive a prestigious cultural heritage prize administered by the European Union and Europa Nostra.
The mid…
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Unesco has launched a $ 11m rescue project for Timbuktu, following a meeting in Paris on 18 February. Key heritage experts travelled from Mali to report on the damage to ancient manuscripts and historical sites in the ancient city, which lies on the…
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As a man was jailed on 15 August for stealing thousands of pounds worth of lead from the historic Newstead Abbey, once home to the poet Lord Byron, politicians called on cultural organisations to support a proposed law to tighten the regulation of…
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Concern for the cultural heritage of Mali is growing after militant Islamic fundamentalists desecrated a 15th-century tomb of a Muslim saint in Timbuktu in May, and threatened to destroy other tombs as well as anything else they perceive as being…
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Archaeologists are up in arms over the Ministry of Defence’s (MoD’s) decision to transfer the management of an 18th-century British warship to a newly formed charitable body, the Maritime Heritage Foundation, which has entered into an agreement with…
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A decade-long campaign led by Turkish archaeologist Ahmet Yaras to prevent the Turkish government from flooding the ancient Roman spa town of Allianoi is one of 28 initiatives to receive a European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage/Europa Nostra…
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Conservation societies are up in arms over the widespread, and in many cases unnecessary, demolition of historic buildings in Christchurch, New Zealand, following a series of earthquakes in the region. The government’s plans to demolish 50% of…
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In the 22 months since a catastrophic 7.0 magnitude earthquake rocked Haiti, heritage professionals from the US, Canada and Europe have worked non-stop with their Haitian colleagues, through cholera epidemics and political upheavals, to salvage…
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Archnadzor, a grassroots organisation of preservationists and Moscow citizens concerned about the Russian capital’s waning architectural heritage, has warned that the city’s historic buildings remain under threat under Mayor Sergei Semyonovich…
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