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The Rest is History
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Heritage A History of How We Conserve Our Past
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Bloomsbury Publishing
| Author:
James Stourton
| Language:
English
| Format:
Paperback
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Author:
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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 Tattershall 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.
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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 Tattershall 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.
About Author
James Stourton is a British art historian, a former Chairman of Sotheby's UK and the
author of Great Houses of London, British Embassies, and the authorized biography of
Kenneth Clark. Stourton frequently lectures to Cambridge University History of Art
Faculty, Sotheby's Institute of Education and The Art Fund, and is a senior fellow of the
Institute of Historical Research. He also sits on the Heritage Memorial Fund, a
government panel which meets to decide what constitutes heritage and should be
saved for the nation
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