archive 2009

DCMS appointment

21/09/2009

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21 September 2009

Dr Tracy Long has been appointed by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) as a non-executive board member.

This is not just any listed building...

21/09/2009

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21 September 2009

Marks and Spencer’s Pantheon Store in London’s Oxford Street, was today granted Grade II listed status by Culture Minister Barbara Follett, following advice from English Heritage.

Barbara Follett puts temporary export stop on ‘exceptional’ 16th century Dutch Mannerist masterpiece by Cornelis van Haarlem

17/09/2009

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17 September 2009

Culture Minister Barbara Follett has placed a temporary export bar on a painting of Saint Sebastian by the Dutch artist Cornelis van Haarlem. This will provide a last chance to raise the money to keep this striking painting in the United Kingdom.

Barbara Follett puts temporary export bar on watercolours of 19th century ‘medieval’ tournament of ‘outstanding significance’ to Scottish social history

15/09/2009

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15 September 2009

Culture Minister, Barbara Follett, has placed a temporary export bar on a set of twenty watercolours by James Henry Nixon depicting scenes from The Eglinton Tournament, an important event in nineteenth-century Scottish social history and British artistic taste. This will provide a last chance to raise the money to keep the watercolours in the United Kingdom.

29 UK Cities in the running so far to be ‘City of Culture’ in 2013

10/09/2009

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Phil Redmond to be Chairman of judging panel

Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw today announced that 29 cities and local areas from across the UK have already put themselves forward as potential candidates to become the first ever UK City of Culture in 2013.