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Fears over Derwent Valley’s Unesco status as museum prepares to close

Strutt’s North Mill Museum will shut in September after loss of council grant

Greek wildfires threaten Unesco World Heritage site of Olympia

Historic sites at risk of damage in dangerous Mediterranean heatwave following IPCC climate warning

Stonehenge ruling prompts debate among heritage community

Opinion divided on next steps after high court quashes planning permission for tunnel

‘We’re thrilled’: Wales’s slate landscape becomes World Heritage Site

Bid to recognise region’s 1,800-year history of slate mining was a decade in the making

Stonehenge could be placed on Heritage In Danger register

Warning comes as first legal challenge against the planned tunnel is rejected

Campaigners await verdict on whether Stonehenge tunnel is unlawful

Two legal challenges warn of dangers to heritage site and environment if scheme goes ahead

Unesco hosts meeting of culture ministers to discuss Covid-19 pandemic

Cooperation and the need for emergency funding were key themes of the discussion

On my bookshelf | The Conservation of Cultural Property, Museums and Monuments Series Vol XI, by Unesco

This wonderful book was first published in 1968, with a minimal, white, soft cover, an ahead-of-its-time typeface, and lower-case printed title. It is one of my most used – falling apart, edges worn – publications.  It is beautifully written, with black-and-white illustrations, a learned book – and easy to read. I bought it in Durham, …