World Heritage UK’s 2024 webinar # 7 – Towards a Narrative for Industrial World Heritage
July 16, 2024
Number 7 in a series of 7 webinar talks, on the UK’s World Heritage Industrial Heritage Sites
Date & Time: Tuesday 23rd July 2024, starting 7pm, ending 8pm (UK time), on Zoom
Topic: After previous webinars from six Industrial World Heritage Sites, this webinar will be a discussion about the need for narrative for industrial World Heritage, what it might include, what the pitfalls could be, and how we go about securing it.
Your speakers will be Brandi Hall-Crossgrove from Ironbridge WHS and Prof. Ian Wray from Liverpool University’s Heseltine Institute.
Brandi is a 20th Century Central & Eastern Europe Historian, World Heritage Site Manager and Researcher. She is a trustee of World Heritage UK and the chair of the Industrial World Heritage UK Sub-Group. She is also a ICOMOS-UK Trustee and the co-chair of the ICOMOS Industrial Heritage International Scientific Committee.
Ian is the author of ‘Great British Plans; Who Made Them and How They Worked’, a columnist for Context magazine and a 50 Shades of Planning podcaster. He is Honorary Professor at Liverpool University’s Heseltine Institute and Professorial Fellow at Manchester University’s Planning School. He chairs the Liverpool Waters Conservation Board and was Chief Planner Northwest Development Agency 2000-2010.
Tickets for this talk are £5. Or if you would to see all 7 talks, a series ticket is £25. If you pick a series ticket, you will be sent YouTube videos to the previous 6 webinars.
To book, please click here.