List members have expressed interest in learning more about the Landscapes of War project, for which a recorder post, based at the NMR and match-funded by the Historic Environment Enabling Programme (HEEP) is to be recruited via Trust for Wessex Archaeology.

 

The Landscapes of War project is a Culture 2000 project of the European Union. The aim of the project is to record and disseminate information on heritage of 20^th century conflicts, both on land and at sea in the project partner’s areas; under the banner of ‘Remembering Conflict in 20^th century Europe’.

 

In addition to English Heritage other partners in the project are: Coventry University, the Regional Government of Calabria, Italy, “Conisma”, a consortium of Mediterranean maritime scientific specialists, Bluimage, an underwater exploration and filming company; the Hanseatic City of Rostock, Germany, two Spanish cultural agencies- the Conseli Valencia de Cultura and the Federació Valenciana de Municipis i Províncies, and the French Centre de Conservation du Livre.

 

The main outcomes of the project are to move towards producing inventories for the relevant areas and to make these searchable on line via a dedicated Landscapes of War website, the target date for the culmination of the project is May 2009.

 

The post at the NMR will be recording from a large corpus of grey literature to build on the existing material in the NMR’s inventory that will then feed in to the Landscapes of War project, (as well as the PastScape and Heritage Gateway Websites). The project will thus put the English 20^th century conflict datasets in a European context.

 

The main English Heritage contact for the project is Dr. John Schofield, a champion of 20^th century studies and Head of English Heritage Military Programmes.

 

Kind regards

Robin Page

 

English Heritage

Acting Projects Team Leader

Datasets Development

Heritage Data Management

National Monuments Record Centre

 

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Regards

Bruce