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Heritage : a history of how we conserve our past

Title
Heritage : a history of how we conserve our past / James Stourton.
Author
Stourton, James
Publication
  • London : Head of Zeus, [2022]
  • ©2022

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Description
480 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits; 24 cm.
Summary
"What is heritage? When was it invented? What is its place in the world today? What is its place tomorrow? Heritage is all around us: millions belong to its organisations, tens of thousands volunteer for it, and politicians pay lip service to it. When the Victorians began to employ the term in something approaching the modern sense, they applied it to cathedrals, castles, villages and certain landscapes. Since then a multiplicity of heritage labels have arisen, cultural and commercial, tangible and intangible - for just as every era has its notion of heritage, so does every social group, and every generation. In Heritage, James Stourton focuses on elements of our cultural and natural environment that have been deliberately preserved: the British countryside and national parks, buildings such as Blenheim Palace and Tattersall Castle, and the works of art inside them. He charts two heroic periods of conservation - the 1880s and the 1960s - and considers whether threats of wealth, rampant development and complacency are similar in the present day. Heritage is both a story of crisis and profound change in public perception, and one of hope and regeneration"--Publisher's description.
Series Statement
An Apollo book
Alternative Title
History of how we conserve our past
Subject
  • Historic buildings > Conservation and restoration > History. > Great Britain
  • Historic sites > Conservation and restoration > History. > Great Britain
  • Cultural property > Conservation and restoration > History. > Great Britain
  • Historic buildings > Conservation and restoration
  • Historic sites > Conservation and restoration
  • Historic buildings
  • Historic sites
  • Cultural property
  • Conservation and restoration
  • Great Britain
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 460-465) and index.
Contents
The first threats -- The search for Arcadia -- Assembling a national collection -- The exodus of paintings -- Brave new world -- Birmingham and anti-heritage -- The backlash: the heroic period of conservation -- Rescuing a city: York -- The sack of Bath -- The archaeologists -- Beyond the town -- The fall and rise of country houses -- The enthusiasts: canals and railways -- Regeneration: mills, housing and power stations -- Regeneration: cities, docklands and basins -- Liverpool story -- Margate Sands -- The heritage industry and the lottery -- Churches -- Museums -- Heritage: an unfinished history.
Call Number
JFE 24-794
ISBN
  • 9781838933166
  • 1838933166
LCCN
2022360557
OCLC
1346506437
Author
Stourton, James, author.
Title
Heritage : a history of how we conserve our past / James Stourton.
Publisher
London : Head of Zeus, [2022]
Copyright Date
©2022
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
An Apollo book
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 460-465) and index.
Other Form:
ebook version : 9781838933180
Research Call Number
JFE 24-794
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