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The show will go on as the DCMS lists The Futurist Cinema in Birmingham
The Victorian Society is delighted that the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, and Historic England, has accepted our Birmingham & West Midlands Conservation Adviser’s request to…
The Victorian Society welcomes its new Membership Manager
The Victorian Society is delighted to welcome its new Membership Manager, Jack Edge. Jack will devise and implement the charity’s membership strategy. He will be seeking to increase, and support,…
The Victorian Society welcomes its new Fundraising Manager
The Victorian Society is delighted to welcome its new Fundraising Manager, Anna Tham. Anna will devise and implement the charity’s fundraising strategy. Anna’s work will include developing relationships with…
The Victorian Society welcomes two new Conservation Advisers
The Victorian Society is delighted this quarter to welcome both a new Northern Conservation Adviser, Tom Ollivier, and a new Southern Conservation Adviser, Morgan Ellis Leah. Tom Ollivier – Northern…
First major study of the Victorian polymath Matthew Digby Wyatt
Matthew Digby Wyatt (1820-77) was a Victorian figure with wide-ranging accomplishments as an architect, administrator, designer, artist, writer and connoisseur. He was a member of the distinguished Wyatt family of…
The Victorian Society objects to needlessly damaging proposals for major Isle of Wight church
Plans for the important Grade II*-listed All Saints church in Ryde have led the Victorian Society to object in the Portsmouth Consistory Court. The Society advocates a more responsive and…
Update on the demolition threat to part of the Stephenson’s Works in Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Following recent dialogue with the developers, two of the national amenity societies are raising continued serious concerns over proposals to demolish part of the workshops of the pioneers of railways…
Part of railway pioneers the Stephenson’s works in Newcastle face demolition as celebration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of the modern railway begins
Three of the national amenity societies are objecting to proposals to demolish part of the workshops of the pioneers of railways and locomotives, George and Robert Stephenson. The amenity…
A letter from the Victorian Society’s Director to the Church of England’s Head of Mission for Pastoral and Church Property
RE: GS2934/2935 Mission and Pastoral Measure and Mission and Pastoral Regulations I write ahead of tomorrow’s discussion at General Synod on proposals to recast the legislative framework that governs pastoral…
Joint Statement on Mission and Pastoral Measure and Regulations
Discussion of the Makin Review and the sufficiency of the Church of England’s safeguarding procedures is quite rightly at the top of this week’s General Synod agenda. Few are aware,…
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