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Loved but ignored: New research reveals how the UK is failing to get the most out of its heritage

Press release

14 Jul 2014

The UK’s heritage assets remain largely untapped by local authorities and could play a much greater role in helping their area thrive and succeed as a place, according to the new report launched today by the RSA.

The Great Disruption: Unleashing the power to create

Video

10 Jul 2014

With Adam Lent, Anthony Painter, Rowan Conway and Sophie Thomas

Power to Create

Video

08 Jul 2014

Matthew Taylor is chief executive of the RSA

Fiscal Devolution: Complexity and Contradiction

Blog

07 Jul 2014

Dave Yates (Blog)

This week I have been mostly... reading about fiscal devolution.

The second battle of Orgreave

Blog

03 Jul 2014

Jonathan Schifferes

In the summer of 1984, the industrial dispute between striking miners and the national coal and steel firms came to a head in violent clashes at Orgreave, outside Sheffield. For many, the defeat of the unions signified the inevitability of de-industrialisation, and Britain’s service industries - from financial professionals to burger-flippers - have led employment growth since.

RSA- Social Mirror film

Video

25 Jun 2014

Project lead, Gaia Marcus shares how Social Mirror is helping people faced by loneliness in Knowle West Bristol, engage with local activities and clubs, with support from Nominet Trust.

Bananas, bacon sandwiches and the quest for authenticity

Blog

25 Jun 2014

Rowan Conway

As Ed Miliband warms up for the campaign trail for 2015 and gets out there to meet the people, a posse of journalists and paparazzi lurk outside every cafe he enters, rubbing their hands in anticipation of the next awkward Kodak moment that will propel the Labour leader into the hands of the Twitter trolls. And boom! That bacon sandwich moment happened. And seconds later every news outlet was heralding a collapse in his poll ratings, providing legitimacy for journalists to persist with the question that refuses to die: "why aren’t you popular Ed?”

Oiling the wheels of community

Blog

17 Jun 2014

Gaia Marcus

Part 2 of my Five rules, Four principles, Three approaches, Two caveats and One request for social networks and community. 

Massimo Vignelli: farewell to a master of everyday life

Blog

30 May 2014

Melanie Andrews

“I was always seeking to affect the lives of millions of people – not through politics or entertainment but through design. I strive to raise the bar, taking the common place and improving it”.