Heritage, whose heritage? - Audio: Recent Episodes
The Open University
How should Stonehenge be conserved for the future? The modernisation of the Visitors' Centre at Stonehenge has been a battleground, exposing conflicting interests, and revealing the challenges that can lie behind the preservation of heritage sites. This album explores how different values and perceptions of heritage affect how the past is safeguarded, examining the British preoccupation with the built environment. Heritage can impart a sense of national identity and preserve memories and associations, but for whom? This material forms part of The Open University course A180 Heritage, whose heritage?
The issues and challenges behind the safeguarding of heritage properties by the UK's National Trust.
Transcript -- The issues and challenges behind the safeguarding of heritage properties by the UK's National Trust.
Stonehenge as a heritage site valued for differing reasons by a wide range of interested parties.
Transcript -- Stonehenge as a heritage site valued for differing reasons by a wide range of interested parties.
Management of heritage sites like Stonehenge incorporates different stakeholders and usually results in a conflict of interests.
Transcript -- Management of heritage sites like Stonehenge incorporates different stakeholders and usually results in a conflict of interests.
What does heritage mean? A professor of cultural studies discusses how concepts of heritage have changed.
Transcript -- What does heritage mean? A professor of cultural studies discusses how concepts of heritage have changed.
Transcript -- Comparisons between British and Afro-caribbean values and concepts of heritage.
How architectural heritage is fundamental to a sense of nationhood and identity and why it's vital to preserve it, according to campaign group Save.
Transcript -- How architectural heritage is fundamental to a sense of nationhood and identity and why it's vital to preserve it, according to campaign group Save.