Commemorations for this year’s 500th anniversary of the Battle of Flodden in Northumberland have been boosted by plans to expand the network of sites associated with the event.
Flodden 1513, the organisation that is coordinating the anniversary, announced last week that it wanted to increase the project’s Ecomuseum from 12 regional sites to 40 locations covering the whole of the UK.
Ecomuseums, which started in France in the 1970s, link together various sites to preserve the heritage and traditions of local communities around a central theme.
Flodden 1513 director James Joicey said: “An Ecomuseum is a loosely-structured vehicle through which local communities can manage their own heritage, by conserving their traditions and resources themselves and encouraging everyone to learn, visit and enjoy the sites.”
The new sites for the Ecomuseum range from Linlithgow, Stirling and Edinburgh Castles in Scotland, to the conserved hull of the Mary Rose in Portsmouth and the Ord of Caithness.
“These are all sites intimately linked to the battle and together tell a rich story about Flodden,” said Flodden 1513 project coordinator Alistair Bowden. “For example, the Mary Rose was employed to bring English troops and equipment to Newcastle.”
The Flodden Ecomuseum has been supported by £1m from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
The Battle of Flodden was one the last great medieval battles and led to the death of 15,000 Scots and English soldiers.
The Flodden 1513 Ecomuseum is the first cross-border ecomuseum in the UK. There are more than 600 Ecomuseums worldwide.
www.flodden1513.com
Flodden 1513, the organisation that is coordinating the anniversary, announced last week that it wanted to increase the project’s Ecomuseum from 12 regional sites to 40 locations covering the whole of the UK.
Ecomuseums, which started in France in the 1970s, link together various sites to preserve the heritage and traditions of local communities around a central theme.
Flodden 1513 director James Joicey said: “An Ecomuseum is a loosely-structured vehicle through which local communities can manage their own heritage, by conserving their traditions and resources themselves and encouraging everyone to learn, visit and enjoy the sites.”
The new sites for the Ecomuseum range from Linlithgow, Stirling and Edinburgh Castles in Scotland, to the conserved hull of the Mary Rose in Portsmouth and the Ord of Caithness.
“These are all sites intimately linked to the battle and together tell a rich story about Flodden,” said Flodden 1513 project coordinator Alistair Bowden. “For example, the Mary Rose was employed to bring English troops and equipment to Newcastle.”
The Flodden Ecomuseum has been supported by £1m from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
The Battle of Flodden was one the last great medieval battles and led to the death of 15,000 Scots and English soldiers.
The Flodden 1513 Ecomuseum is the first cross-border ecomuseum in the UK. There are more than 600 Ecomuseums worldwide.
www.flodden1513.com
