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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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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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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 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 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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