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Welcome to the Heritage Open Days blog!

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

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Ring out the bells this Heritage Open Days

Posted on 8th September 2016 by Nicola Graham

Ever wondered who was behind the nostaligic peal of wedding bells? Ever wondered what it would be like to ring one? You can this Heritage Open Days! Tonight, from….

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NADFAS are on board!

Posted on 27th July 2016 by Guest Writer

NADFAS is a membership organisation and charity which supports local Decorative and Fine Arts Societies. Each local Society brings together like-minded individuals to….

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Historic England Needs Your Help to Uncover England’s Missing History

Posted on 19th July 2016 by Guest Writer

The List (the National Heritage List for England) has almost 400,000 entries: barrows and bunkers, palaces and pigsties, plague crosses and piers, tower blocks and….

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Gardens Trusts: fan clubs for our heritage landscapes

Posted on 8th July 2016 by Guest Writer

We are famously a nation of garden lovers, but for the Gardens Trusts, this love of gardens does not simply end with pretty plants, but rather extends into heritage and….

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Best British Buildings - the lead up to Stirling

Posted on 5th May 2016 by GDPR Remnants

When myself and a colleague presented at last week's Birmingham Heritage Open Days Fair, I started to think that I might have bitten off slightly more than I could….

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Gardens and more with the Capability Brown Festival

Posted on 23rd March 2016 by Guest Writer

This year we’re celebrating the 300th anniversary of the birth of Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown with a whole festival of events taking place around the….

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Ten things you never knew about bell ringing

Posted on 11th December 2015 by Guest Writer

1. Church bells are the loudest musical instrument in the world – the original heavy metal band. 2. Bells can be as small as your hand, as heavy as a truck and….

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Explore Britain’s Heritage – new maps bring over 100 datasets to life

Posted on 23rd September 2015 by Guest Writer

I've been leading the RSA's work over the last six months to answer a deceptively simple question: where in England has the most heritage?  To do this we….

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