Reinventing the Seaside: Blackpool in Context

Wednesday 22 and Thursday 23 April 2009 Blackpool Winter Gardens Blackpool Blackpool’s special history is rooted in its significance as the world’s first working-class seaside resort and its development into a unique centre of popular entertainment. Today, still synonymous with fun and excitement, Blackpool constitutes an exceptional cultural landscape – a living, evolving expression of [...]

Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Festival

27th -28th September 2008 The first The first Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Festival was held in 2005 and its aim was raise local awareness and appreciation of the unique heritage of the Ironbridge Gorge. Each year, the Festival has gone from strength to strength and last year several thousand visitors, along with traders and entertainers, came [...]

Mining Landscapes, a Controversial Heritage

13th-15th November 2008, Centre Historique Minier (Mining History Centre) of the Nord-Pas de Calais region The Nord-Pas de Calais’s Centre Historique Minier and CILAC came together to jointly organize an international symposium relating to all types of mining operations in France and abroad. Historians, geographers, heritage curators, engineers and political leaders will compare points of [...]