The Commonwealth Heritage Forum shares updates from across the globe and the Commonwealth, this round featuring four articles with news from Afghanistan, St Helena, London’s East End and Kolkata.
Commonwealth Heritage Forum writes:
We have four exciting articles to share in this Issue of our Newsletter. The first is by Jonathan Rider, on the richness and vulnerability of cultural heritage in a largely Christian region of Afghanistan, on the border with North West Pakistan. Next, we have an article by Peregrine Bryant on the work we are doing in partnership with others on the historic architecture of Jamestown, St Helena. This is followed by a Call to Action from The Twentieth Century Society, who are campaigning in London to save the unique architecture of a community centre built by an all female collective of Bengali architects, for the Asian community in London’s East End. This is framed by Meg Kirkpatrick’s Review published in Building Design, highlighting a collection of photographs taken in Kolkata in 1990, which demonstrate the rich variety of Kolkata’s architectural heritage; from grand palaces and government buildings, to smaller residences and community hubs built in the style of the ‘Bengali Renaissance’.
