Catalogue description Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and predecessors: Historic Buildings: Registered Files (HSD series)

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Details of PF 297
Reference: PF 297
Title: Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and predecessors: Historic Buildings: Registered Files (HSD series)
Description:

This series contains records relating to the development of legislation; relationships with UNESCO, the Council of Europe, the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England and other heritage organisations; papers relating to the Historic Hospitals taskforce; heritage policy across a variety of issues, including monument protection, listed building policies, sustainable communities, street furniture, tourism and historic gardens, as well as proposals for world heritage sites.

Date: 1992-2000
Related material:

For related files of predecessor bodies see

WORK

HLG 126
Former reference in its original department: HSD
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department for Culture, Media and Sport, 1997-2017

Department of National Heritage, 1992-1997

Department of the Environment, 1970-1997
Access conditions: Records not yet transferred
Immediate source of acquisition:

Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Custodial history: Department for the Environment 1992; Department of National Heritage 1992-1997; Department for Culture, Media and Sport 1997-2017; Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport 2017-present.
Administrative / biographical background:

In 1992 policy responsibility for heritage matters was transferred to the Department for National Heritage from the Department of the Environment. In October 1994 responsibility for the Conservation Unit (a specialist team which advised government on the upkeep of the historic fabric of their buildings) was transferred from the Department of the Environment to the Department for National Heritage.

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