The latest issue of English Heritage (EH) Research News, is online magazine on research updates, focuses on the links between heritage and the economy.
The current issue features an article by Duncan Melville on methods for assessing the economic value of the historic environment.
Additional articles include:
- England’s earliest surviving open-air school
- Shared services: assessing the phenomenon
- The Viking-age cemetery at Cumwhitton, Cumbria
EH Writes:
In this issue we report on a wide range of research, from policy-related initiatives focusing on the development of tools for calculating the economic and social value of heritage, to projects undertaken in response to major infrastructure developments, such as the proposed electrification of the Midland Main Line.
There are also intriguing items on individual buildings and sites including a piece on England’s earliest surviving open-air school in Birmingham. Alongside our in-house research work we also fund important research by others through our National Heritage Protection Commissions Programme. Without this programme it is doubtful that the remarkable and highly threatened Viking-age cemetery at Cumwhitton in Cumbria (discussed on pages 16-19) would have been excavated, analysed and recorded.
