Cultural Heritage
Europa Nostra UK has submitted a formal response to the planning application (ref: 18F/3247) to redevelop Waterloo Dock. We have a series of concerns, which are set out in the our letter, copied below. World Heritage Status The reasons for the world heritage site and related policies have been set out in the heritage statement […]
For 2019, the Europa Nostra Annual General Meeting and associated events was held in the historically rich World Heritage city of Edinburgh.
Europa Nostra UK has been asked to support the campaign to save Liverpool’s famous Waterloo Dock from a highly destructive planning application.
Egyptian Halls, an Alexander Thomson building completed in 1872 that stands prominently on Glasgow’s Union Street is included in the shortlist for Europa Nostra’s 2020 7 Most Endangered Programme.
The Local Awards Ceremony for Yr Ysgwrn which took place aptly on Armistice Day Monday 11 November 2019 on site was a combination of celebration for the winning of a EU Prize for Cultural Heritage/Europa Nostra Award 2019 in the Category of Conservation and a moving powerful remembrance for those who died in the First World War.
Lester Borley, who has died aged 88, was Secretary-General of Europa Nostra (1993-96) and Chairman of Europa Nostra UK (2009-12).
Hunkered on the southern slopes of the Cwm Prysor valley in the heart of Snowdonia stands Yr Ysgwrn, a dignified farmhouse, listed Grade II* since the late 1980s.
The Europa Nostra 2018 AGM and Conference took place in Oxford over three full days in September. The event was kindly sponsored by The Leventis Foundation.
Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, which has been at the forefront of astronomical research for many decades, was awarded World Heritage Site status on 7th July 2019, thus becoming the UK’s 32nd World Heritage site.
2018 was exceptional in that the annual Europa Nostra Congress was absorbed into the first ever European Cultural Heritage Summit – ‘Sharing Heritage, Sharing Values’ – in the designated European Year of Cultural Heritage.