UNESCO IN ENGLAND WIDER VALUE of UNESCO to the UK 2 England is home to 101 UNESCO sites and projects as well as a dynamic network of experts working in UNESCO’s fields of competency 55 12 77 48 11 54 75 50 76 85 51 9 34 59 83 49 3 53 6 79 33 44 58 30 5 29 73 46 8 64 78 35 7 52 65 67 41 21 26 63 56 69 16 15 47 42-43 66 80-82 45 36-39 14 68 4 27-28 22 86 13 71 61-62 17-19 20 70 31-32 60 2 84 40 25 1 74 23 24 57 10 72 2 UNESCO Designation No. Names Biosphere Reserves 2 1 Brighton and Lewes Downs 2 North Devon Creative Cities 7 3 Bradford City of Film 4 Bristol City of Film 5 Liverpool City of Music 6 Manchester City of Literature 7 Norwich City of Literature 8 Nottingham City of Literature 9 York City of Media Arts 10 Global Geoparks 2 English Riviera Global Geopark 11 55 North Pennines Global Geopark 12 77 48 12 11 Memory of the World 55 Narrative Created Through Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen’s Photography and 54 75 Programme Amber’s Films (Amber Collective) 13 The Roman Curse Tablets from Bath (Bath & North East Somerset Council) 50 14 Appeal of 18 June 1940 (BBC Sound Archives) 15 Cura Pastoralis of Gregory (Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford) 76 85 51 9 Manuscript Collection of Shota Rustaveli’s Poem “Knight in the Panther’s 34 Skin” (Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford) 59 83 49 3 The Gough Map (Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford) 16 53 GPO Film Unit collection, 1933-1940 (British Film Institute) 6 Hitchcock’s Silent Films (British Film Institute) 79 33 Peter Worden Collection of Mitchell and Kenyon Films (British Film Institute) 44 58 17 30 5 1215 Magna Carta (British Library) 29 73 Historic Ethnographic Recordings, 1898-1951 (British Library) 46 18 8 GPO Film Unit collection, 1933-1940 (British Postal Museum & Archive) 64 19 BT Research Centre Collection, 1878-1995 (BT Heritage) GPO Film Unit collection, 1933-1940 (BT Heritage) 78 35 7 20 Canterbury Cathedral Collection (Canterbury Cathedral) 52 65 21 Churchill Archives (Churchill Archives Centre) 67 22 Charter of King William I to the City of London (City of London Corporation Archives) 41 21 Robert Hooke’s Diary, 1672-1683 (City of London Corporation Archives) 23 Thomas Hardy Archive (Dorset County Museum) 26 63 56 69 16 24 Dean & Chapter Exeter Library Manuscript (Exeter Cathedral) 15 25 Winchester Pipe Rolls (Hampshire Record Office) 47 42-43 66 26 Hereford Mappa Mundi (Hereford Cathedral) 80-82 45 36-39 14 27 68 4 Battle of the Somme (Imperial War Museum) 27-28 22 86 13 71 61-62 17-19 20 70 28 Membership Application Certificate (Institution of Civil Engineers) 31-32 60 29 1215 Magna Carta (Lincoln Cathedral) 30 Letter from George Stephenson (Liverpool Record Office) 2 84 40 25 31 London County Council Bomb Damage Maps (London Metropolitan 1 Archives) 74 23 The Great Parchment Book of The Honourable The Irish Society, 1639 24 (London Metropolitan Archives) 32 Archive of Charles Booth’s Inquiry into the Life and Labour of the People in 57 10 London, 1886-1903 (London School of Economics Library) 33 72 The Correspondence Collection of Robert Owen 1821-1858 (National Cooperative Archive) 34 Robert Stephenson and Company Archives (National Railway Museum) UNESCO Designation No. Names Memory of the World 35 Medieval Records of St Giles’s Hospital, Norwich (Norfolk Record Office) Programme 36 Bill of Rights, 1689 (Parliamentary Archives at the Palace of Westminster) Death Warrant of King Charles I, 1649 (Parliamentary Archives at the Palace of Westminster) Documentary Heritage of the Women’s Suffrage Movement in Britain, 1865-1928 (Parliamentary Archives at the Palace of Westminster) 37 Arthur Bernard Deacon, 1903-1927 (Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland) 38 The Royal Institution Laboratory Notebooks of Michael Faraday (Royal Institution) 39 Papers of the Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck, 1823-1854 (Royal National Lifeboat Institution) 40 1215 Magna Carta (Salisbury Cathedral) 41 Shakespeare Documents (Shakespeare Birthplace Trust) 42 Royal Mail Archive, 1636-1969 (The British Postal Museum and Archive) 43 Children’s Society Archive (The Children’s Society) 44 Peterloo Relief Fund Account Book (John Rylands University Library at the University of Manchester) 45 Domesday Book (The National Archives) Dutch West India Company Archives (The National Archives) Registry of Slaves of the British Caribbean, 1817-1834 (The National Archives) Shakespeare Documents (The National Archives) Silver Men: West Indian Labourers at the Panama Canal (The National Archives) 46 Wedgwood Museum Archive (The Wedgwood Museum) 47 Documentary Heritage of the Women’s Suffrage Movement in Britain, 1865-1928 (The Women’s Library) 48 Tyne & Wear Shipyards Collection (Tyne & Wear Archives and Museums) 49 Diaries of Anne Lister (West Yorkshire Archive Service) West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum Records, 1814-1991 (West Yorkshire Archive Service) 50 Dorothy Wordsworth’s Journal (Wordsworth Trust) 51 Wakefield Court Rolls (Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society) UNESCO Chairs & 16 52 Chair in Adult Literacy and Learning for Social Transformation at the UNITWIN Networks University of East Anglia 53 Chair in African Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Bradford 54 Chair in Archaeological Ethics and Practice in Cultural Heritage at Durham University 55 Chair in Cultural Property Protection and Peace at Newcastle University 56 Chair in Analytics and Data Science at the University of Essex 57 Chair in Geoscience and Society at the University of Plymouth 58 Chair in Media Freedom, Journalism Safety and the Issue of Impunity at the University of Sheffield 59 Chair in Gender Research at Lancaster University 60 Chair in Higher Education Management at the University of Bath 61 Chair in ICT for Development at Royal Holloway, University of London 62 Chair in Intercultural Studies and Teacher Education at the Institute of Education, University of London UNESCO Designation No. Names Chairs & UNITWIN 63 Chair in New Media Forms of the Book at the University of Bedfordshire Networks 64 Chair in Political Economy of Education at the University of Nottingham 65 Chair in Water Science at the University of Birmingham 66 UNITWIN Network in Global Pharmacy Education Development at the School of Pharmacy, University College London 67 UNITWIN Network in Humanitarian Engineering at Coventry University Learning Cities 1 68 Bristol, Member of the Global Network of Learning Cities World Heritage Sites 18 69 Blenheim Palace 70 Canterbury Cathedral, St Augustine’s Abbey, and St Martin’s Church 71 City of Bath 72 Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape 73 Derwent Valley Mills 74 Dorset and East Devon Coast (Jurassic Coast) 75 Durham Castle and Cathedral 76 English Lake District 77 Frontiers of the Roman Empire: Hadrian’s Wall 78 Ironbridge Gorge 79 Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City 80 Maritime Greenwich 81 Palace of Westminster and Westminster Abbey including Saint Margaret’s Church 82 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 83 Saltaire 84 Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites 85 Studley Royal Park including the Ruins of Fountains Abbey 86 Tower of London Published by the UK National Commission for UNESCO October 2017 UK National Commission for UNESCO Secretariat 3 Whitehall Court London SW1A 2EL United Kingdom +44 (0) 20 7766 3491 www.unesco.org.uk Any part of this publication may be reproduced without permission but with acknowledgement Printed by Smith & Watts Print, www.smithwattsprint.co.uk Copies: For additional copies, contact the UK National Commission Secretariat Copyright @ UK National Commission for UNESCO 2017 ISBN 978-0-904608-06-9 (Print) Cover image: The Crowns engine houses at Botallack Mine, part of the UNESCO Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site. Photo: Ainsley Cocks. Contents 1 The value of UNESCO affiliation 8 2 Biosphere Reserves 10 3 Creative Cities 16 4 Global Geoparks 22 5 L’Oréal–UNESCO For Women In Science 26 6 International Hydrological Programme 31 7 Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commissions 34 8 Memory of the World 36 9 UNESCO Chairs & UNITWIN Networks 46 10 World Heritage 53 11 UNESCO in England 62 UNESCO in England 7 THE VALUE OF UNESCO AFFILIATION The Man Engine at Lemon Quay, Truro. Photo: Ainsley Cocks. 8 The value of UNESCO affiliation The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) is the UN agency with global responsibility for protecting cultural heritage internationally (including in conflict zones), coordinating the tsunami warning system, setting and monitoring Education 2030, leading the UN’s Scientific Advisory Board and monitoring press freedom to name just a few of its global functions. But what is the impact, influence and relevance of UNESCO in England? The UK National Commission for UNESCO’s (UKNC) survey1 of UNESCO affiliated organisations in the UK identifies three core benefits of UNESCO membership to England and the UK as a whole: 1. Financial value: UNESCO projects in England generated an estimated £79 million1 from April 2014 to March 2015 through their association with UNESCO; 2. Wider, non-financial value: By leveraging the powerful UNESCO brand and collaborating with the global UNESCO network, England’s UNESCO sites and projects can access new programme, partnership and funding opportunities and influence key decision makers; 3. Support for government priorities: UNESCO-supported activity in England complements a broad portfolio of UK Government priorities and contributes to a wealthier, fairer, smarter, healthier, safer, stronger, and greener England. The UKNC uses these research findings to provide targeted support to current and prospective UNESCO designations to help them unlock the full potential value of their involvement with the Organisation and bring the full benefits of UNESCO to the UK.