from ICON, The Institute of Conservation, UK
UK's cultural heritage under threat - Peers warn
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Our present understanding of a whole range of conservation and heritage problems has been helped tremendously by a more rigorous scientific approach that was pioneered by a few far-sighted individuals and institutions - both in Europe, UK and USA - around the mid of the 20th-century.

And now with the recent publication of an in-depth report (published by the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee) on the state of conservation and heritage science research in the UK, it won't be long before we see a surge of concerted effort in this area of fundamental and essential work, despite the ominous tone of the published report. Or perhaps, because of it.

For the full report, there is an online version, as well as a PDF version (warning: PDF, 3.6MB).

[ Thanks to the Conservation DistList for the prior alert. ]