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Last chance to see the Herkenrode Glass in Lichfield Cathedral |
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 At the end of July the glorious East End of Lichfield Cathedral will be
boarded up in preparation for the removal of the internationally
importantsixteenth century Herkenrode glass to renovation workshops,
and the restoration of masonry which surrounds and supports it. The
medieval pinnacles and buttresses are so weathered that the failure of
any one buttress could lead to a catastrophic collapse of the wall and
roof and the shattering of the glass.
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9th Indoor Air Quality Conference |
 Abstract submission and registration period is now open for the 9th Indoor Air Quality meeting (IAQ2010), which will be held in Chalon-sur-Saône (Burgundy, France) from the 21th to the 23rd of April 2010 is now open.The deadline for submitting an abstract is November 15th.All information on IAQ2010 is available on their website:
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The Clothworkers' Foundation - Travel Bursaries |
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Awards of up to £1,000 to help qualified conservators to attend events
directly relevant to their discipline.Bursaries will be awarded
throughout the year, subject to availability of funding.Please visit their website for further details.
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First Clare Hampson Scholarship Awarded |
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 The first Clare Hampson Scholarship has
been awarded to Dafni Kyropoulou, a recent MSc graduate of Cardiff University.The Award will enable Dafni to complete a research project she initiated
for her thesis on the effect of dust ingress into library books. Caroline Checkley-Scott - Chair of Icon Book
and Paper Group - made the announcement at the Group’s AGM on 11th March. Caroline said, ‘making this award gives us the opportunity to celebrate the life and
memory of Clare Hampson and the huge contribution that she made and
continues to make to our profession’ - read more on the Book and Paper Group web pages; there will also be an interview with Dafni in
May's Icon News.
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Archive Collapse Disaster |
 The collapse of the Historical Archive of Cologne on 3rd March buried more than a millennium's worth of documents under tons of rubble. Archivists conservators and historians hope something can be salvaged, but the future of the city's past is grim. Disaster struck in Cologne on Tuesday, last week,as the building housing the city's Historical Archive suddenly collapsed.
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Science & Heritage Programme Grants |
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The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Engineering and
Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) are taking forward a joint
£8.1m programme entitled Science and Heritage to support leading-edge
research which will explore new ways to understand the cultural and
physical nature of heritage and prepare society for the challenges
that cultural heritage will face in the 21st Century. The AHRC / EPSRC
Science and Heritage Programme announces two competitions
for funding, full details of which will be published soon:
Interdisciplinary Research Grants and Post-doctoral Fellowships. Further details on other activities under
the Science and Heritage Programme, and the research already funded,
can be found at: http://www.heritagescience.ac.uk/index.php?section=1
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