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

Posted on 19th July 2016 by {cf_organiser_first_name} {cf_organiser_last_name}

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 {cf_organiser_first_name} {cf_organiser_last_name}

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 Lucy Grierson

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 {cf_organiser_first_name} {cf_organiser_last_name}

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 {cf_organiser_first_name} {cf_organiser_last_name}

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 {cf_organiser_first_name} {cf_organiser_last_name}

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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