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Welcome to the new Heritage Open Days blog!

Here we’ll take you behind the scenes of running this amazing festival and introduce you to some friends along the way.

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Adventures in volunteering

Posted on 6th June 2018 by Archie Manister-O'Neill

It’s Volunteers Week so who better to write a post than one of our amazing family of volunteers. Archie was a star member of our team last year and we’re….

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Guest Posts

Waving hello

Posted on 31st May 2018 by Guest Writer

For our 2018 Unsung Stories commission we had an ambitious vision: a nationally significant but locally engaged project. Not an easy ask but I am delighted to say….

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Your starter for ten

Posted on 18th May 2018 by Sarah Holloway

Connect the following: 701. Strong. Goodwill. Gingerbread. Stars. Nope, not the latest security password format recommendation, but answers to common questions I get….

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Introducing… The Arts Society

Posted on 15th May 2018 by Guest Writer

(Happy 50th!) This week some friends in the sector are having a birthday bash; so we asked Chief Exec, Florian Schweizer and team to tell us more about their work, their….

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Introducing… Historic Houses*

Posted on 26th April 2018 by Sarah Holloway

*WARNING - these houses contain real people, not just portraits of them! England's heritage is pretty special and wonderfully diverse: it's a….

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HODs news

Stepping out from the shadows: lesser-known suffrage champions

Posted on 9th February 2018 by Sarah Holloway

Pankhurst and Fawcett are names you’ve probably heard, at school, or in the media this week. But what about Ford, Smyth or Brown? Just some of the other….

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Unseen but unceasing - Women in engineering

Posted on 30th November 2017 by Sarah Holloway

This week I was introduced to the stories of some notable women who helped shape their fields – but also countless others whose names are not recorded. So for them….

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Connecting trees and people

Posted on 28th June 2017 by Guest Writer

Led by the Woodland Trust, more than 70 organisations from across multiple sectors have joined forces to lead society in creating a Charter for Trees, Woods and People….

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Tour de HODs

Posted on 27th April 2017 by Heritage Open Days

Events are a great way to discover amazing places. This year’s Tour de Yorkshire cycle race is an opportunity for the millions of watching spectators to explore….

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Get out to visit heritage places!

Posted on 1st February 2017 by Guest Writer

Did you know that 2017 is the anniversary of the death of Palladian architect James Paine, of independence for India and of the Great Storm of 1987?  Each of these….

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