Press Releases

Manchester is to team up with Barcelona this September at the Catalan city's iconic La Mercè festival - which each year attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors into the city for a 4-day…

An enduring icon of engineering & culture and recognised the world over, The Forth Bridge celebrates its 135th anniversary on 4 March 2025.

The English Riviera UNESCO Global Geopark is proud to announce that its partner, South Devon College, has been awarded the coveted Green Gown Award for Sustainability Institution of the Year.

RIEGL UK, a leading supplier of LiDAR scanning equipment, is hosting the Heritage Geospatial Symposium event on 27 March 2025, in the Hospitium, York.

Heritage Day is a leading annual sector conference, run by the Heritage Alliance for over 10 years.

A new report, published by the UNESCO Chair team in Cultural Property Protection and Peace at Newcastle University…

The UK National Commission for UNESCO (UKNC)…

The UK National Commission for UNESCO (UKNC) has officially launched its new website (www.unesco.org.uk)…

UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme (IHP) has designated Birmingham’s Upper Tame catchment as an Ecohydrology Demonstration Site.

The UNESCO Chair in the Protection of Human Rights Defenders and Expansion of Political Space, led by Professor Paul Gready and based at the Centre for Applied Human Rights (CAHR) University of York…

Edinburgh World Heritage has announced Megan Veronesi’s appointment as Interim Director.

Our Climate Change & UNESCO Heritage pilot sites have been working hard to unlock new learning about the stakeholder and data landscapes local to their UNESCO site…