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1 A
Sub-Programme Name
Sub-Programme Number 11112.410
Corporate Objective
Activity Type and Programme
Sub-Programme Description
New Frontiers: The recent past
1A: Ensuring that our research addresses the most important and urgent needs of the
historic environment
RESEARCH A2: Spotting the gaps: Analysing poorly understood landscapes, areas and monuments
Projects developing fundamental evidence base for later 20th-century historic environment
where understanding of both potential and contribution of the resource is complicated by issues
of timescale, perception of potential and significance and inherent link to modern landscapes.
Examples might include:
• Subject research (transport, infrastructure, military, landscape)
• Contextualisation of trends and movements in architecture
• Establishment of significance of specific sub-periods
Reason for EH Support Critical requirement to develop understanding of how to engage with material less than 60
years old to avoid significant loss through ignorance, and to focus resources only where needed
Research categories NABS SETI Primary purpose Frascati Definition Research Areas
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2.2 C Oriented-Basic Humanities
Will inevitably cross-cut on a range of Programme A1 Sub-Programmes, but used here
specifically for late 20th-century projects
Sub-Programme Name
Sub-Programme Number 11112.510
Corporate Objective
Activity Type and Programme
Sub-Programme Description
Reason for EH Support
New Frontiers: Clarifying poorly understood chronologies
1A: Ensuring that our research addresses the most important and urgent needs of the
historic environment
RESEARCH A2: Spotting the gaps: Analysing poorly understood landscapes, areas and monuments
Projects researching key periods of transition between major traditional cultural periods, or
dating major cultural shifts within periods. The purpose is to establish a more reliable map of
the transition period into which to mesh new research projects, and the focus is on specific
questions of dating. Academic partnership is effectively essential. Examples might include:
• Precision dating of transitional period evidence
• Precision dating of monument construction or burial traditions
• Assessment of cultural indicators for transition
Provision of dependable national chronologies to provide framework for commercial field
investigation
Research categories NABS SETI Primary purpose Frascati Definition Research Areas
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11.9 C Oriented-Basic Humanities
This may cross-cut 11111.610, but focus is specifically on setting up robust dated frameworks
into which commercial and academic research projects can be fitted
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