UK Blue Shield

We are the British branch of a global NGO working to protect cultural heritage during armed conflict and disaster.

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🛡️This week we’re highlighting the Blue Shield UK Illicit Trafficking Working Group.

They bring together heritage, law enforcement & market specialists to raise awareness of illicit trade.

🌍 Read more on LinkedIn: https://t.co/BLixAvizCF

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🎶 Intangible cultural heritage strengthens communities and resilience.

💃This week we highlight the work of the Blue Shield UK Intangible Cultural Heritage Working Group.

Read the full post on our LinkedIn:
https://t.co/gzaZSAGWEe

#IntangibleHeritage #CulturalHeritage

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Social justice is about fairness, identity and belonging. Protecting cultural heritage preserves stories, traditions, and places so everyone’s history is valued.

#WorldDayOfSocialJustice #SocialJustice #HeritageForAll #CulturalHeritage #HistoryMatters

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🥞It’s Pancake Day

From flipping pancakes to contested races, traditions like this are living, intangible heritage.

Help shape how the UK defines living heritage. Take part in the consultation: https://t.co/qycWeC3uG7

#PancakeDay #LivingHeritage

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Today marks the anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution 2199 (2015) which condemns the destruction and looting of cultural heritage and bans the illicit trade in objects linked to conflict.

Protecting cultural heritage protects people and identity.

#BlueShield

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📢 In case you missed it…

You can now watch Dr Tom Pinfold’s lecture for Blue Shield UK’s Conflict & Military Activity Working Group:

🎥 What does the weaponisation of cultural heritage mean for the UK, and how will the military be involved?

👉 https://t.co/KKrncwJq0N

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We will be highlighting the Climate Change Working Group’s work on our LinkedIn page this week. Follow us there to learn more about how we protect cultural heritage from climate risks. #WorldWetlandsDay #BlueShieldUK #ClimateRisk

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In the wake of World Wetlands Day we recognise wetlands’ role in building resilience for heritage, nature and communities. Blue Shield UK’s Climate Change Working Group identifies how climate change threatens tangible and intangible cultural heritage.

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🕊️Today marks the first International Day of Peaceful Coexistence.

🏦Protecting cultural heritage helps keep stories, identities and shared histories alive, especially in times of conflict.

At Blue Shield UK, we protect culture because it matters for peace.

#CulturalHeritage

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📢 Join us on 23 Jan at 12:15 for the final webinar in the Conflict Webinar Series.

🎙️ Dr Tom Pinfold explores what the weaponisation of cultural heritage means for the UK and the role of the military.

🎟️Reigster for free: https://t.co/7ki1eKbkmf

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⚓️This week we are spotlighting Blue Shield UK’s Underwater Heritage Working Group and their recent position paper on the 2001 UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage.

🌊Read more: https://t.co/VpZGgUVAx2

#BlueShieldUK #UnderwaterHeritage

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On this day in 1920, the Treaty of Versailles came into force, ending WWI and its extensive heritage destruction, and creating the League of Nations, a landmark step in international cooperation to prevent future conflict. 🕊️🌍

#OnThisDay #WorldHistory #CulturalHeritage #WWI

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📢 Join us on 23 Jan at 12:15 for the final webinar in the Conflict Webinar Series.

🎙️ Dr Tom Pinfold explores what the weaponisation of cultural heritage means for the UK and the role of the military.

🎟️Reigster for free: https://t.co/7ki1eKbkmf

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🖼️🏛️#OnThisDay in 2017, the 1954 Hague Convention, its two Protocols, and the Cultural Property Act 2017 entered into force in the UK, signifying the nation’s commitment to protecting cultural heritage in conflict and peacetime.

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“It is our object today, Gentlemen, to lay the foundations of what I may call the Red Cross of cultural property”

🇺🇳Luther Evans, Director-General of UNESCO, 1953

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#AntiCorruptionDay is not just about money. Corruption can put cultural heritage at risk through illicit trade.

At Blue Shield UK our Illicit Trafficking Working Group works to protect heritage from looting smuggling and unlawful export.

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This week, Blue Shield joined @DCMS at the Second Protocol Committee to advocate for stronger international protection of cultural heritage.

#Dubrovnik #BlueShield #CulturalProtection

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On this day in 1991, Dubrovnik’s Old Town was heavily shelled, causing severe damage to its cultural heritage.

The destruction was later prosecuted as a war crime.

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Such tragedies revealed gaps in safeguarding heritage during armed conflict and led to the 1999 Second Protocol to the 1954 Hague Convention.

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Today, protecting heritage means being prepared.

At Blue Shield UK we work with museums, archives and historic sites to build emergency plans so cultural heritage survives for future generations.

#BlueShieldUK #HeritageProtection

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🔥On this day in 1697, St Paul’s Cathedral held its first service after the Great Fire of London.

🏛️Christopher Wren’s cathedral symbolised resilience, renewal and the safeguarding of heritage.

#OnThisDay #CuturalHeritage