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Corpus of grammar and discourse strategies of deaf native users of Auslan (Australian Sign Language)

The Endangered Language Documentation Programme (ELDP) provides grants worldwide to for the linguistic documentation of endangered language and knowledge. Grantees create mult…

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Early-modern texts and modern legacies: Digitisation of Manuscripts, Books, Newspapers in southern West Bengal

Private and institutional collections in southern West Bengal hold manuscripts and books that show the literary multilingual culture, along with runs of the newspaper Nihar, w…

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Preservation of the Traditional Baniva Language

This project involves the compilation of a language dictionary and storybook in conjunction with workshops and activities to support Baniva communities in their efforts to pas…

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Welcome to the Culture in Crisis Portal

This free digital resource is a demonstration of the V&A’s ongoing commitment to protecting the world’s cultural heritage and supporting communities that suffer cultural loss, whether through Conflict, Criminal Acts or the impacts of the Climate Crisis. The Culture in Crisis Programme brings together those with a shared interest in protecting cultural heritage, providing a forum for sharing information, inspiring and supporting action and raising public awareness.

With your support the Culture in Crisis Portal will become the world’s largest and most accessible database of cultural heritage preservation projects. It enables its users to quickly and easily register their preservation projects, as well as searching for those already in existence.

Together we can learn from each other, share experiences and work to protect the world’s cultural heritage.

To do this, we need your help.

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Heritage Preservation through Sound, Song and Storytelling

This event, staged at the V&A South Kensington in June 2025, explored the use of sound, song and storytelling as a means to create, preserve or recover important layers of und…

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Heritage and Recovery: A Decade of Learning from the Gorkha Earthquake

The Victoria & Albert Museum’s Culture in Crisis Programme in partnership with the University of Sterling and Social Science Baha, staged a major international conference from…

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Culture in Crisis: Gaza

This in-person event staged in April 2025 at the V&A South Kensington brought together Palestinian artists, cultural organisers and activists to discuss the impact of conflict…

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Research from the University of Stirling reveals how Ukrainian cultural heritage is being protected amid Russian invasion

A new report led by researchers at the University of Stirling has revealed how Ukraine’s cultural heritage is being protected following Russia’s full-scale invasion.

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Event Announcement: Lessons from Petra: Protecting the past, shaping the future

Exploring how local heritage preservation inspires global action, in conversation with Her Royal Highness Princess Dana Firas.

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Commonwealth Heritage Foundation launch new webinar series; 'Lost/Abandoned Places Across the Commonwealth'

The Commonwealth Heritage Forum is presenting a compelling series of talks exploring the built heritage across the Commonwealth that has been abandoned or lost due to war, nat…

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