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Posts Tagged as ‘heritage’
July 4, 2009
UK Heritage Bill dropped AGAIN!
In December the Architects website reported the dropping of the Heritage Bill
http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=3129091
Cross party condemnation as Heritage Protection Bill dropped
3 December, 2008 By Will Henley
MPs from all three main parties have criticised the government’s axing of the Heritage Protection Bill from next year’s parliamentary programme, amid claims historic buildings are being put at risk.
The dropping [...]
May 18, 2009
Past Horizons – Issue 8 online Now
Full version http://publications.pasthorizons.tv/?id=pasthorizonsmay09
PDF Version http://www.scribd.com/doc/15572373/Past-Horizons-May-2009-Issue-8
Editorial
Challenge yourself.
News stories from around the world.
The Great Arab Revolt Project
Archaeology in the Jordanian desert through the eyes of volunteer Susan Daniels.
Bamburgh Research Project
Archaeology is in itself a destructive process and as a result needs to be fully recorded. The media department at the Bamburgh Research Project was created to experiment [...]
March 25, 2009
World Heritage and Science workshop in London
Many Scientific achievements such as agriculture and industrialisation have been recognised on the World Heritage List, while other areas relating to scientific knowledge are under-represented, particularly the natural sciences (physical sciences including astronomy, chemistry, and geology, and biological sciences). A distinguished panel
of speakers will explore these issues and highlight the wealth of associations between milestones [...]
March 15, 2009
Past Horizons Magazine issue 7
Past Horizons Magazine
Issue 7 – March 2009
David and Maggie (editors: Past Horizons) would like to welcome you back (has it really been 2 months!) This is a packed edition and I think with every issue, we actually enjoy it more, and hope you do too!
http://publications.pasthorizons.tv/?id=pasthorizonsmarch09
for the super dooper version!
http://www.scribd.com/doc/13225737/Past-Horizons-March-09
for the online Pdf version
Artezian
An ongoing excavation [...]
February 16, 2009
Nighthawking Report
New Survey Reveals Low Levels of Prosecution and Crime Reporting
A survey commissioned by English Heritage and supported by its counterparts across the UK and Crown Dependencies has revealed that the threat to heritage posed by illegal metal detecting, or nighthawking, is high but arrest or prosecution remains at an all time low and penalties are [...]
January 15, 2009
Past Horizons – Issue 6 – Heritage Volunteer Journal
The latest issue..
to see the full interactive version, with videos..
http://publications.pasthorizons.tv/?id=pasthorizonsjan09
Past Horizons Magazine
Issue 6 – January 2009
Survey: Beyond the City Walls of Jerash
Surveying the hinterland of Jerash, an ancient Decapolis City in Jordan has become a race against time to discover and map as many sites as possible, many of which are being lost to development.
Colouring [...]
January 8, 2009
Past Horizons archaeology
Past Horizons Archaeology .. http://www.pasthorizons.com/shop – sister company to the trusted BAJR website
We know what you want because we use the tools, and have done for over 25 years. Why choose cheap when you can have quality.
Add to that a fab free magazine http://www.pasthorizons.com/ magazine a Heritage video site http://www.pasthorizons.tv/tv and even a site that [...]
December 26, 2008
Activists celebrate as insurers pull plug on £1.1bn Turkish Ilisu dam
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/24/ilisu-dam-insurers-environment-turkey
Read all about it!
…Insurers delivered a victory for environmentalists and dealt a body blow to Turkey’s economic regeneration plans yesterday by pulling the plug on a bitterly contested dam project that critics claimed would wreck habitats, displace people and drown ancient archaeological treasures….
Basically, in terms of heritage, this dam (like others alreay constructed.. ie the [...]
November 28, 2008
Past Horizons Journal Archive
http://www.scribd.com/group/24742-past-horizons-archaeology-magazine
A new Document group that holds all the pdf versions (5 so far) of the new online free journal of archaeology, conservation and heritage.
To see the full and visually stunning version.. with video, live links, sound and pageflip! Go here:
http://www.pasthorizons.com/magazine/
Choose an issue, and read, an online magazine with a difference.!
