Audience Exploration and Testing Brief: Climate change, archive and inclusion content

Historic England (HE) is the public body that looks after England's historic environment. https://historicengland.org.uk/. We are perhaps best known for managing the National Heritage List for England, the official government register of nationally protected historic buildings and sites or monuments. This includes almost 400,000 items, ranging from prehistoric monuments to office blocks, battlefields, and parks.

1/ Historic England firmly supports urgent climate action and has a broad programme of work to help manage this change. Our Corporate Plan sets out our Climate Action priorities and the activities we will carry out to deliver them, and we expand on this in our climate change strategy.

2/ We have an Archive including a unique collection of aerial photographs. We hold over 12 million photographs, drawings, reports and publications from the 1850s to the present day, covering the whole country. Over a million of our records can be searched online.

3/ Part of our strategy is to expand our reach and underscore that heritage is for everyone. We have content on the heritage of a range of people with protected characteristics and also advice on inclusion for other organisations. We have a number of projects that are aimed at working with younger people.

4/ We offer advice on heritage-led regeneration, supporting growth, keeping historic buildings in use and making for better places for people to live, work and experience.