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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 along the way.

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Eleri’s Doorstep Discoveries

Posted on 26th September 2019 by Eleri Thomas

After six months of volunteering with HODs, reading and writing about all the incredible events taking place, it was great to finally experience….

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Inspiring Creativity

Posted on 23rd September 2019 by Sarah Holloway

What's starred on films big and small, hosted rock concerts, inspired artists and brought communities together? Not a trick question here - but perhaps….

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Who’s that girl?

Posted on 6th September 2019 by Sarah Holloway

She illuminated a cathedral but until this year if you googled her name, you wouldn’t find much. A project we’re partnered with is helping to change that….

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Introducing… C4Urselves

Posted on 30th August 2019 by Sarah Holloway

An invitation to see and share the extraordinary in the ordinary. How much do people know about the places you love, and how fast do they change? At HODs we love to….

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Introducing… Britain on Film

Posted on 19th August 2019 by Sarah Holloway

Are you eagle-eyed? Love location-spotting? Then our good friends at The BFI have a mission for you! Cue up the Mission Impossible….

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Scenic Railways

Posted on 12th August 2019 by Sarah Holloway

'Are you ready for adventure?' asks Alice Mannion from the Association of Community Rail Partnerships as she takes us round the regions by rail.….

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Take 5 with the Team

Posted on 2nd August 2019 by Sarah Holloway

This week HODs HQ is all about the boxes… parcels of promotional materials going out and huge blue removal crates coming in – it’s a bit like tetris in….

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BLOG: Curious Collections

Tunbridge Wells in 6 remarkable objects

Posted on 22nd July 2019 by Sarah Holloway

Did you know that Tunbridge Wells was once considered a 'frontier town'? That it was the first to create a town wide phone system? That the museum mascot is a….

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Introducing…The Festival of Archaeology

Posted on 8th July 2019 by Sarah Holloway

From the glamor of Indiana Jones to the iconic stripy jumpers of Time Team’s Mick Aston, archaeology is full of icons and thrilling adventures. But it’s not….

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A Night to Remember…

Posted on 3rd July 2019 by Andrew Henderson

Wow – what a night our 25th party in London was! 170 organisers, colleagues and friends joined us as we kicked off the first of 7 celebrations happening up and down….

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