Understanding Ullswater - Thursday June 10th 7.30pm
Thu, 10 Jun
|Zoom
Jamie Lund, Archaeologist and Cultural Heritage Advisor, National Trust talks about The English Lake District World Heritage Site and the National Trust. More details below. You can register for the event by contacting Tim Clarke at timclarke01@gmail.com.
Time & Location
10 Jun 2021, 19:30
Zoom
About the Event
FOUW is very happy to announce that Jamie Lund will give the next talk on the above theme in its ‘Understanding Ullswater Evening Talks’ Programme for 2021. Jamie witnessed the build up to the inscription of the Lake District as a UNESCO’s World Heritage Site in 2017. He has been Deputy Chair since 2018 of the WHS Technical Advisory Group which advises the Lake District Partnership how to sustain the Outstanding Universal Value that is unique to the Lake District.
His talk will illustrate how a concern for landscape conservation within the Lake District led to the founding of the National Trust and inspired the international National Park movement. He will also discuss how the WHS inscription has affected policy and management by the National Trust and the wider Lake District Partnership. Jamie Lund started his career as a field archaeologist and joined the NT in 1998, becoming their survey…
