The Heritage Portal Newsletter #13 2022

Visiting historic Hanover via Springfontein

A Short History of the Talana Glass Factory

Dark tourism disaster and the terrible Laingsburg flood of 1981 (archive)

Notices

• Oldest University Press in South Africa releases Centenary Catalogue of New and Backlist Publications

• Nomination of candidates to serve as council members of SAHRA

• Do you need funding for a heritage project?

• 2022 Annual Golden Shield Heritage Awards Winners Announced

• Roger Fisher presents at the GIFA Heritage online lecture series

• Little Foot - Lecture by Prof Ron Clarke - 23 April 2022

• Visit Goede Hoop Masonic Lodge - 23 April 2022

• The Ox Wagon - Unique icon of South Africa - 3 May 2022

• Battle of Ellis Park (Blue Plaque)

• Get feedback on building plans (The Heritage Directory)

• Shell House Cape Town (Artefacts)

In other news

• Judge blocks KZN World Heritage Site land invasion bid

• Report on the state of South African graveyards

• Fight for River Club development to continue with another fierce court battle

• Expect more name changes for towns and streets in South Africa

• Blue Plaque for Heidelberg’s Standard Bank Building

• Return to Jeppestown’s City Hall

• The 100-year-old story of South Africa’s first history book in the isiZulu language

• This is the sound of the suburbs: A bike essay

• Earliest evidence for Maya calendar may have been found in Guatemala

• Meet the 1,300 librarians racing to back up Ukraine’s digital archives

• See Inside the World’s Skinniest Skyscraper

• Largest-ever repatriation of cultural artefacts from a Scottish museum given green light

• End of the line? Vintage train journeys at risk as coal supply fails