Heritage Of Britain

Author : Ryan Trimm
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351754316

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Heritage and the Legacy of the Past in Contemporary Britain by Ryan Trimm Pdf

Bringing together heritage studies and literary studies, this book examines heritage as a ubiquitous trope in contemporary Britain, a seemingly inescapable figure for relations to the past. Inheritance has been an important metaphor for characterizing cultural and political traditions since the 1970s, but one criticized for its conservatism and apparent disinheritance of "new" Britons. Engaging with contemporary literary and cinematic texts, the book interrogates metaphoric resonances: that bestowing past, receiving present, and transmitted bounty are all singular and unified; that transmission between past and present is smooth, despite heritage depending on death; that the past enjoins the present to conserve its legacy into the future. However, heritage offers an alternative to modern market-driven relations, transactions stressing connection only through a momentary exchange, for bequest resembles gift-giving and connects past to present. Consequently, heritage contains competing impulses, subtexts largely unexplored given the trope’s lapse into cliché. The volume charts how these resonances developed, as well as charting more contemporary aspects of heritage: as postmodern image, tourist industry, historic environment, and metaculture. These dimensions develop the trope, moving it from singular focus on continuity with the past to one more oriented around different lines of relation between past, present, and future. Heritage as a trope is explored through a wide range of texts: core accounts of political theory (Locke and Burke); seminal documents within historic conservation; phenomenology and poststructuralism; film and television (Merchant-Ivory, Downton Abbey); and a broad range of contemporary fiction from novelists including Zadie Smith, Julian Barnes, Hilary Mantel, Sarah Waters, Alan Hollinghurst, Peter Ackroyd, and Helen Oyeyemi.

Author : Simon Thurley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Cultural property
ISBN : 0300195729

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Men from the Ministry by Simon Thurley Pdf

Between 1900 and 1950 the British state amassed a huge collection of over 800 historic buildings, monuments and historic sites and opened them to the public. Nothing like it had ever been seen before. This book explains why the extraordinary collecting frenzy took place.

Author : Alfred Leslie Rowse
Publisher : Crescent
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0517424371

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Heritage of Britain by Alfred Leslie Rowse Pdf

Author : Emma Waterton
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : NWU:35556040906398

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Politics, Policy and the Discourses of Heritage in Britain by Emma Waterton Pdf

This book offers a critique of the dominant conceptualization of heritage found in policy, which tends to privilege the white, middle and upper classes. Using Britain as an illustration, Waterton explores how and why recent policies continue to lean towards the predictable melding of cultural diversity with tendencies of assimilation.

Author : Patrick John Larkin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : OCLC:810689229

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Britain's Heritage by Patrick John Larkin Pdf

Book 1 describes the history of England from the Old Stone Age to the Wars of the Roses--Book 2 describes the history of England in the Tudor and Stuart times, 1485-1714--Book 3 describes the history of England from the reign of George 1 to the Parliamentary reforms of 1835--Book 4 describes the history of England from Victorian to modern times.

Author : Robert Hewison
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000873627

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The Heritage Industry by Robert Hewison Pdf

First published in 1987, The Heritage Industry sets out to protect the present and the future of life in Britain from their most dangerous enemy: a creeping takeover by the past. The author sets today’s obsession with yesterday in the context of a climate of social and political decline. The economic uncertainties and cultural convulsions of post-war life have made the past seem a pleasanter and safer place. But how true is that image of the past, and whose past is it, anyway? Hewison questions the way institutions like the National Trust are helping to create a past that never was. While the real economy crumbles, a new force is taking over: the Heritage Industry, a movement dedicated to turning the British Isles into one vast open-air museum. This book will be of interest to students of history, art and cultural studies.

Author : Fatima Manji
Publisher : Random House
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473566248

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Hidden Heritage by Fatima Manji Pdf

A fresh perspective on British history from award-winning broadcaster Fatima Manji Why was there a Turkish mosque adorning Britain's most famous botanic garden in the eighteenth century? How did a pair of Persian-inscribed cannon end up in rural Wales? And who is the Moroccan man depicted in a long-forgotten portrait hanging in a west London stately home? Throughout Britain's museums, civic buildings and stately homes, relics can be found that reveal the diversity of pre-twentieth-century Britain and expose the misconceptions around modern immigration narratives. In her journey across Britain exploring cultural landmarks, Fatima Manji searches for a richer and more honest story of a nation struggling with identity and the legacy of empire. 'A timely, brilliant and very brave book' Jerry Brotton, author of This Orient Isle

Author : Abigail Wincott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781351402859

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Growing Heritage by Abigail Wincott Pdf

This book is the first comprehensive critical analysis of the cultural politics of a new kind of British heritage discourse. Based on texts ranging from tweets to restaurant menus that tell the story of heritage vegetables, this book explores what it means to think about our food systems, and their future, through the lens of ‘heritage’. From town hall seed swaps to restaurant menus and coffee table books, it has become hard in recent years for consumers to avoid the idea of ‘heritage’ fruit and vegetables. The British counterpart of North American heirlooms, their varied colours, strange shapes and endearing names are charming. Yet their proponents claim far more for them, arguing it is vital that we safeguard our crop heritage for global food security, social justice and consumer choice. This book examines how heritage fruits and vegetables are adopted to subvert corporate food production and take food back into our own hands, while supermarkets are eagerly adding them to their luxury ranges. The book also discusses the practice of heritage seeds being stored in secure facilities where most of the world’s growers cannot reach them. Written in an accessible style, this book will appeal to those studying, and those interested in, food studies and food politics; heritage studies; geography and environmental studies; the sociology of consumption and cultural studies.

Author : Marc Alexander
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005-05-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780752495033

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A Companion to the Royal Heritage by Marc Alexander Pdf

More than a biography of kings and queens, this title is an encyclopaedic work on every aspect of monarchy in Britain from semi-legendary times to the present day. It provides a reference for discovering more about individual monarchs and the huge legacy of myths, traditions and practices which has grown up around the institution of the monarchy.

Author : Patrick J. Larkin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0717500012

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Britain's heritage by Patrick J. Larkin Pdf

Author : Guy De la Bédoyère
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0713468939

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English Heritage Book of Roman Towns in Britain by Guy De la Bédoyère Pdf

Before the Roman conquest there were few settlements in Britain that could properly be described as towns and their rapid growth was one of the first effects of the invasion of AD 43. This book traces the process of urbanization and provides answers to questions about how Roman towns grew and functioned: why towns are sited where they are, who lived in them, what services and facilities they provided, how they were organized, and their role in trade, industry and economy. Roman towns, with their impressive public buildings on a scale not seen before in Britain, must have had a great impact on the native population. They have attracted attention ever since and a vast amount of evidence for the Roman towns, many of which lie beneath modern British cities, has been recovered. This book draws together as much of this information as possible to present a picture of life in the Roman towns of Britain. With over 100 maps, plans, reconstructions and photographs, this is the complete companion to the Roman Towns in Britain - whether you wish to study the sites before or after a visit, or whether you are simply an armchair archaeologist.

Author : Michael Parker Pearson
Publisher : Batsford Books
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849946995

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Bronze Age Britain by Michael Parker Pearson Pdf

During the Neolithic and Bronze Age - a period covering some 4,000 years from the beginnings of farming by stone-using communities to the end of the era in which bronze was an important material for weapons and tools - the face of Britain changed profoundly, from a forest wilderness to a large patchwork of open ground and managed woodland. The axe was replaced as a key symbol, first by the dagger and finally by the sword. The houses of the living came to supplant the tombs of the dead as the most permanent features in the landscape. In this fascinating book, eminent archeologist Michael Parker Pearson looks at the ways in which we can interpret the challenging and tantalising evidence from this prehistoric era. He also examines the various arguments and current theories of archeologist about these times. Drawing on recent discoveries and research, and illustrated with numerous maps, plans, reconstructions and photographs, this book shows what life was like and how it changed during the Neolithic and Bronze Age.

Author : Ross J. Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317156468

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Cultural Heritage of the Great War in Britain by Ross J. Wilson Pdf

As the hundredth anniversary approaches, it is timely to reflect not only upon the Great War itself and on the memorials which were erected to ensure it did not slip from national consciousness, but also to reflect upon its rich and substantial cultural legacy. This book examines the heritage of the Great War in contemporary Britain. It addresses how the war maintains a place and value within British society through the usage of phrases, references, metaphors and imagery within popular, media, heritage and political discourse. Whilst the representation of the war within historiography, literature, art, television and film has been examined by scholars seeking to understand the origins of the 'popular memory' of the conflict, these analyses have neglected how and why wider popular debate draws upon a war fought nearly a century ago to express ideas about identity, place and politics. By examining the history, usage and meanings of references to the Great War within local and national newspapers, historical societies, political publications and manifestos, the heritage sector, popular expressions, blogs and internet chat rooms, an analysis of the discourses which structure the remembrance of the war can be created. The book acknowledges the diversity within Britain as different regional and national identities draw upon the war as a means of expression. Whilst utilising the substantial field of heritage studies, this book puts forward a new methodology for assessing cultural heritage and creates an original perspective on the place of the Great War across contemporary British society.

Author : John Harold Plumb
Publisher : Crescent
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Art
ISBN : 0517486091

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Royal Heritage by John Harold Plumb Pdf

Author : P.J. LARKIN
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:819674017

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Britain's Heritage by P.J. LARKIN Pdf