Monday, May 31st, 2010
These are our links for May 25th through May 31st:
- Forward – a history of the Bimringham Disability Resource centre – Published online for the first time: "Resourcefulness is etched into the very heart of Birmingham Disability Resource Centre. Its founders and supporters were people of enormous resourcefulness and determination in their quest for equal opportunities, education and dignity. This book is dedicated to them and to all those who have had to strive to be recognised for their abilities and their potential"
- Spaghetti Gazetti: BIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL GARDENS CELEBRATES ERNEST HENRY WILSON (1876-1930) – "The son of a railway worker living on the outskirts of Birmingham, Ernest rose from nursery boy to the pinnacle of his career, the Directorship of Harvard University’s Arnold Arboretum. He spent his formative years living and working in Edgbaston and trained at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens.."
- Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, West Midlands – Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery – "Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery and Stoke Potteries Museum are seeking expressions of interest for several Conservation opportunities for professionals and students as part of the conservation of the Staffordshire Hoard"
- World Heritage for the Nation: Information for applicants for the new UK tentative list – In case any of you are interested: "The UK Government will be convening a panel of experts to consider applications for inclusion on a new Tentative List of sites for potential nomination to UNESCO for World Heritage status and to make recommendations to Ministers by the end of 2010. The Government would therefore like to invite expressions of interest from qualified individuals with knowledge of cultural and natural heritage to participate on the panel of experts, which will probably number 7-10 members."
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Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
These are our history related links for March 22nd from 22:55 to 23:22: Some will be about Birmingham heritage others wont:
- Flatpack Festival 2010 – Event – More films about buildings – You can't beat a bit of windswept decay and there's plenty of that in Pollphail (dir: Matt Lloyd), a snapshot of a remote Scottish village built for workers who never came. Closer to home, Take Only Photographs, Leave Nothing But Footprints (dir: Dale O'Keeffe) offers us a quick peek round the Battery Building in Selly Oak before it was demolished, while Eva Weber's Steel Homes is about the storage containers where people stash their lives away. In Synchronisation (dir: Rimas Sakalauskas) buildings from the Soviet era are released into space, and we close with two time-lapse murals shot at FAME festival in Italy last summer, one from Birmingham's Beat 13 and the other a collaboration between Blu and David Ellis.
- Complete our online website survey for your chance to win a DVD « MACELive – What do you want from the Media Archive for Central England website? This survey asks for your feedback
- Heritage crafts at risk | UK news | The Guardian – "In 2003, Unesco – the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation – adopted a Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage, including "traditional craftsmanship", which argued that any effort to safeguard traditional craftsmanship should focus not on preserving craft objects, but on "creating conditions that will encourage artisans to continue to produce crafts of all kinds, and to transmit their skills and knowledge to others". More than 100 countries signed up. Britain did not."
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