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TEDxUoChester Salon: Understanding Heritage and Heritage Crime, reporting and prevention
TEDxUoChester Salon of June 2024 explored the preservation of heritage in both the West Midlands and the Welsh Marches on the 7th of June, Friday. Whether through royal sites like Shrewsbury Castle and St Mary's Shrewsbury or the wider historic buildings of portable antiquities, policing, or even the built environment - this live event compared strategies for heritage preservation and recording whilst considering new discoveries and present threats from heritage crime in urban and rural contexts.
Here, our event had two sessions where the first explored how recording, community engagement, policy, and partnerships are vital in responding to threats to urban sites, church buildings, and other heritage sites. This includes recent partnerships to restore the Medieval windows at St Mary Church, Shrewsbury.
In our second session, we explored rural crimes against heritage assets and correct reporting and crime prevention as suggested by the Rural Policing and Portable Antiquities Scheme Finds Liaison. This was then followed by a round table discussion as the role and vigilance of ordinary people, local communities, volunteers, academic and student researchers, as well as amateur and professional specialists are vital in accurately identifying, reporting, and recording heritage crime to find solutions.
Session 1: Heritage Crime and Building Preservation: Churches and Secular buildings in the Built Environment
Morn Capper, Archaeology, Museums and Heritage, University of Chester
Rachael Abbiss, Project Officer (St Mary's Shrewsbury), Churches Conservation Trust
Andy Wigley, Policy and Environment Manager, Shropshire County Council
Session 2: Understanding Rural Heritage: Reporting Rural Heritage Crime
Jonathan Lightfoot, Rural and Business Crime Officer, West Mercia Police
Clara de Sousa Cunha and Teresa Gilmore, Portable Antiquities Scheme
With Paul Jeffery, National Listing Manager, Historic England
What is TEDxUoChester Salon?
This is a small, recurring gathering that keeps a TEDx community engaged between regularly scheduled TEDx events.
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized (subject to certain rules and regulations).