{"id":16623,"date":"2017-09-08T17:25:59","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T16:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=16623"},"modified":"2017-09-08T17:25:59","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T16:25:59","slug":"heritage-open-days-englands-largest-festival-of-history-is-from-7-10-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=16623","title":{"rendered":"Heritage Open Days England\u2019s largest festival of history is from \u00a07 \u2013 10 September"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/heritage_open_days2017_website080917.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-16624\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/heritage_open_days2017_website080917.png\" alt=\"Heritage Open Days website 080917\" width=\"250\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>Heritage Open Days is England&#8217;s largest festival of history and culture, bringing together over 2,500 organisations, 5,000 events and 40,000 volunteers. Every year for four days in September, places across the country throw open their doors to celebrate their heritage, community and history. It\u2019s your chance to see hidden places and try out new experiences between the 7 \u2013 10 September \u2013 and it\u2019s all FREE.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>England\u2019s largest and most diverse festival of history is expanding again this year, focusing on hidden stories and historical secrets from thousands of towns, villages and regions across the country.\u00a0 We\u2019re opening up everywhere from artists\u2019 studios to nuclear bunkers, revealing hidden gardens and historic houses, and telling the stories of those who lived, built, worked and died in them.<\/p>\n<p>At the heart of this year\u2019s festival are four \u2018Unsung Stories\u2019; newly-created events, made possible by funding from players of People\u2019s Postcode Lottery, focusing on personal histories from the LGBTQ community. \u2018This is a landmark year for us,\u2019 says Annie Reilly, Manager of Heritage Open Days. \u2018We have artists looking at Alan Turing with a fresh lens and uncovering the love story of WWII soldiers Gilbert and Gordon, as well as the story of the first mosque in England, and the opening of secret tunnels used by mills workers in Shipley.\u00a0 History is stories, all our stories, and this year, more than ever before, Heritage Open Days is a celebration of that.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Download the full press release with details of event highlights from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritageopendays.org.uk\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heritage Open Days is England&#8217;s largest festival of history and culture, bringing together over 2,500 organisations, 5,000 events and 40,000 volunteers. Every year for four days in September, places across the country throw open their doors to celebrate their heritage, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=16623\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16625,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16623\/revisions\/16625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}