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The project aims to improve skills and service delivery within the Scottish archives sector. Funding of £513,400 has been awarded to help the Scottish Council on Archives to provide 18 traineeships over the next three years, working in partnership with archive services across Scotland. The ‘Opening

The Inner Forth Landscape Initiative (IFLI) will use the funding over the next four years to help protect historic sites, connect fragmented wildlife habitats, improve access routes, and provide learning and volunteering opportunities. The IFLI will run in an area stretching from Bo’ness and Rosyth

The project will use local archives, letters from Wilfred Owen himself and oral histories to create a smartphone app to be used on the heritage trail which charts the time spent by Wilfred Owen in Dunsden. A booklet, new interpretation boards along the trail, exhibitions and an official launch event

The full scale replica of the Vulcan, the world’s first iron-hulled boat, arrived at Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life in Coatbridge today (Thursday 27 March) and will soon capture the imaginations of visitors as a major heritage attraction. Named for the Roman god of forge and fire, the

The initiative to transform St Cecilia’s Hall in Edinburgh has been awarded £823,500 by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). The award is a key part of the University of Edinburgh’s £6.5million vision to create a centre for the study, display and enjoyment of instruments which date back to the sixteenth

This was announced by the Head of HLF Scotland, Colin McLean, this week. The funding, which is distributed through HLF’s Townscape Heritage Initiative (THI) programme, was confirmed by HLF following a stage two application submitted by Fife Council last year. It will complement the £1m already

The funding will help take forward plans for the park, and support work on a second application for £4.2million of HLF funding to deliver the Seven Lochs vision.The Seven Lochs Wetland Park will span the Glasgow City and North Lanarkshire boundary between Easterhouse and Coatbridge. The area can

The public archaeology project aims to record the fragile, nationally important heritage of England’s coast and the foreshores of its tidal estuaries. Dramatic changes in weather patterns, demonstrated all too clearly by recent storms, floods and tidal surges, threaten to destroy irreplaceable

Harvey’s Foundry Trust has been awarded £4m from HLF to conserve and adapt for commercial use the remaining derelict Grade II listed buildings at the 19th-century Harvey’s Foundry in Hayle, Cornwall. This new grant will unlock the potential of the final two historic buildings on the site. It will

The state-of-the-art Battle of Bannockburn visitor centre will open its doors to the public tomorrow (1 March 2014). This joint project between the National Trust for Scotland (NTS) and Historic Scotland supported by a Heritage Lottery Fund grant of £3.94m – commemorates the famous battle which took

The iconic Royal Festival Hall organ at Southbank Centre will be heard for the first time in public for nearly a decade on 18 March 2014 following its complete restoration and reinstallation by the Durham-based organ builders Harrison & Harrison, the company that built and installed the instrument

There were once natural wild flower meadows in every parish – today only 2% of the meadows that existed in the 1930s remain. Nearly 7.5million acres of wildflower meadow have been lost so far and they are still being destroyed. The Save our Magnificent Meadows Project: A £3million project which will