Britain's Industrial Heritage seeks World Status
A number of British Heritage sites have been nominated for recognition by UNESCO
When Mrs Thatcher took Britain out of Unesco in 1985, the UK’s list of World Heritage Sites, which Unesco administers was frozen. A couple of months after Labour’s election victory, Britain rejoined Unesco and Chris Smith’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport began dusting down its list of possible further British sites. Greenwich and Edinburgh quickly joined the club; then last summer the DCMS published a ‘tentative list’ of possible further nominations.
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