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Monthly Archives: January 2016

Digital Engagement

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, January 28, 2016 — Media, broadband and creative industries

Ed Vaizey was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries in May 2010 and promoted to Minister of State for Culture and Digital Industries in 2014.

We published our digital inclusion strategy two years ago. Now is a good time to reflect on what’s been achieved and consider what to do next. We have invested heavily in basic digital skills.  Both the Department for Business Innovation and Skills and NHS England have put in place programmes to improve the skills of…

Remembering the First World War

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, January 18, 2016 — Uncategorized

It’s likely that your brain automatically brings up images of the trenches on the Western Front when I ask you to think about the First World War. But I always go straight to the North Sea, where my grandfather battled the German fleet on 31 May 1916 in one of the war’s most brutal conflicts.…

Worth its weight in… silver

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, January 11, 2016 — Culture

Philippa Glanville is a leading authority on silver and decorative art and a member of the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art, an independent advisory body providing guidance on whether an item that requires an export license is of national importance. Here Philippa explains the significance of two of the latest items…