RESCUE – The British Archaeological Trust

AGM and Open Forum 2008

In a change of venue the 2008 RESCUE AGM and Open Forum will be held jointly with the Council for Kent Archaeology on Saturday 19 th April at the Sevenoaks Community Centre, Cramptons Road, (off Otford Road) Sevenoaks Kent.

The Community Centre is near the Bat and Ball Station and easily accessible from the A25 and the M25. It is hoped to have speakers talking about RESCUE’s long running campaigns at Verulamium and Stonehenge as well as contributors on Kentish archaeology.

Full details will be given in the Spring issue of Rescue News, but make a note in your 2008 diary now.

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NEWS TOPICS

• Minister responds on archaeological storage and access problems
• Heritage protection for the twenty-first century
• Understanding the future: priorities for England ’s museums
• Culture, Media and Sport Committee - Caring for our Collections
• Validation of planning applications
• Conservation principles for the sustainable management of the historic environment
• Protecting, preserving and making accessible our nation's heritage
• English Heritage Research Strategy 2005 – 2010
• Understanding the future: museums and 21 st century life
• Better Places to Live - RESCUE's response
• Thornborough henges - RESCUE's response
• Review of Heritage Protection: The way forward
• Museums in crisis - An outline of the RESCUE position
• Response to Review of the National Monuments Record
• Response to the Historic Environment Records consultation paper
• A response to 'Protecting our Historic Environment: Making the system work better
• Ripping up History
• Crownhill Down
• Iraq's Threatened Archaeology
• 17^th Century Warship, HMS Sussex

RESCUE's views on:

• The Town Planning Green Paper and Associated Consultations
• Stonehenge - the current situation

Today and tomorrow are built on yesterday
The past is the foundation for the future
It is all around us and beneath our feet
It belongs to all of us

It is fragile and cannot be replaced