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Specialist insurer Ecclesiastical is sponsoring a nationwide campaign to unearth England’s most historic hotspots, launching today.
The insurer has got behind the year-long project from Historic England, which is calling on the public to help it draw up a list of the top 100 buildings and places which have witnessed ground-breaking moments in our country’s history.
Irreplaceable: A History of England in 100 Places, will include 10 categories focusing on 10 places, which will be whittled down from the public nominations by a panel of expert judges including Cambridge classicist Mary Beard, former MP and historian Tristram Hunt, and Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson.
A YouGov poll commissioned to kick-start the campaign found that many lack knowledge when it comes to where major moments in England’s history happened. Just 12% of people knew Manchester as the place where the first atom is widely thought to have been split, with 32% saying it happened in Geneva, Switzerland.
Mark Hews, CEO of Ecclesiastical Insurance Group, said the insurer was delighted to support the campaign, adding that he hoped “everyone in the insurance industry [will] get behind it by nominating the places close to their hearts and spreading the word.”
“Ecclesiastical is proud to be trusted to protect so much of England’s irreplaceable heritage, being the leading insurer of Grade I listed buildings in the UK, as well as protecting palaces, castles and World Heritage Sites that are recognised by billions of people worldwide,” he said.
You can find out more and vote for the places you love on Ecclesiastical’s website.
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