About Heritage Unlocked

Heritage Unlocked was established with the vision to help business, education, local authority and regeneration projects to enhance their heritage by delivering positive, lasting legacies for clients and the wider community.

Drawing upon over a decade of experience working in the heritage and history fields across consultancy, Higher Education and Local Authority roles, Heritage Unlocked works with businesses, community groups, Heritage Lottery Fund (National Lottery Heritage Fund) schemes, Higher Education providers, museums, regeneration projects, REF and research programmes to deliver high impact outcomes for heritage and history-related activities and projects.

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Heritage Unlocked works with a range of organisations and projects to help achieve the best outcomes for their heritage needs.

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Dr Tosh Warwick in front of one of blue plaques installed as part of the Tees Transporter Bridge Trail.

Profile: Dr Tosh Warwick

With over a decade of experience working in the fields of heritage and history spanning consultancy, Higher Education and Local Authority roles, Tosh established Heritage Unlocked in 2018. Tosh has expertise in urban history and heritage, and experience in business and museum consultancy, education outreach, archival research, regeneration and project management. He has served as an expert contributor for BBC Television (Match of the Day 2, Great British Railway Journeys, Inside Out), BBC Leeds, BBC Sheffield, BBC Tees, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, The Northern Echo, Teesside Gazette and Vice.

Tosh is currently Research Associate at the University of Sheffield. He was previously Heritage Development Officer and Education, Learning and Events Officer at Middlesbrough Council, during which time he led community engagement, heritage development, interpretation and research activities on a number of local authority and National Lottery Heritage Fund projects. This included the multi-million pound Tees Transporter Bridge Visitor Experience and Middlesbrough Town Hall Refurbishment and Renovation Projects, as well as roles as Project Manager on the ‘“They answered their Country’s Call'‘ First World War Project and as a member of the ‘Tees Steel: Bridging the World’ Steering Group, as part of which he helped to successfully secure ‘Resilient Heritage’ funding.

Tosh has held a number of academic roles including as Research Associate in Urban Studies at the University of Glasgow on the AHRC "Why Does the Past Matter?" Project, Lecturer in History at the University of Huddersfield and Leeds Beckett University, and is currently the ‘Spaces and Places’ Strand Convenor of the Social History Society Annual Conference.

Tosh completed his PhD 'Middlesbrough’s Steel Magnates: Business, Culture and Participation 1880-1934' at the University of Huddersfield in collaboration with Teesside Archives and the British Steel Archive Project.

He is author of several books and articles on heritage and history including ‘When Middlesbrough Fell in Love with North Korea (North Korean Review, 2019), ‘Research in Urban History: Recent Ph.D. Theses on Heritage and the City in Britain’ (Urban History, 2018), Central Middlesbrough Through Time (Amberley, 2013), Memories of Middlesbrough in the 1970s and 1980s (Heritage Unlocked, 2020), Memories of Stockton-on-Tees in the 1970s and 1980s (Heritage Unlocked, 2021) and Historic Middlesbrough (Heritage Unlocked, 2022) as well as co-author of River Tees: From Source to Sea (Amberley, 2016).

Profile: Dr DuNCAN mONEY

Duncan joined the Heritage Unlocked team in 2022, having worked for a decade as a historian and researcher with wide-ranging international experience both as an academic and as a consultant. He has managed research and heritage projects with museums, multilateral financial institutions, development agencies, trade unions and universities, and conducted extensive research about the history of the mining industry on four continents.

He was awarded his PhD in history from the University of Oxford in 2016 and in 2022 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in recognition of his contribution to the historical profession. Duncan has held positions at universities in Britain, the Netherlands and South Africa.

Duncan headed a multi-year project in Zambia with the Mineworkers’ Union of Zambia to preserve and digitise the union’s heritage and historical documents. He has also held research positions at the Huntington Library in Los Angeles and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

An experienced public speaker and communicator, Duncan has given talks to university, industry, government and public audiences in 15 different countries. His expertise has been sought in bids for World Heritage Site status, legal cases involving the mining industry and in Europe-wide research network on promoting underground heritage.

Duncan has written numerous publications on the history of mining and Southern Africa. He is a co-editor of Born with a Copper Spoon: A Global History of Copper (UBC Press, 2022) and author of White Mineworkers on Zambia’s Copperbelt: In a Class of Their Own (Brill, 2021) as well as a contributor to the Oxford Research Encyclopaedia of African History. He writes regularly both for specialist audiences and the general public and has written for publications in Australia, Britain, South Africa and the United States.

Originally from West Cumbria, he retains a strong personal and professional interest in Britain’s industrial history.

Contact Duncan at info@heritageunlocked.com