Heritage, whose heritage? - Audio

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?

Heritage, whose heritage?

A short introduction to this album

03-08
00:53

Historical property management by National Trust

The issues and challenges behind the safeguarding of heritage properties by the UK's National Trust.

05-26
09:28

Stonehenge and its significance

Stonehenge as a heritage site valued for differing reasons by a wide range of interested parties.

05-26
12:14

Managing Stonehenge

Management of heritage sites like Stonehenge incorporates different stakeholders and usually results in a conflict of interests.

05-26
17:09

The concept of heritage

What does heritage mean? A professor of cultural studies discusses how concepts of heritage have changed.

05-26
08:39

Perceptions of heritage

Comparisons between British and Afro-caribbean values and concepts of heritage.

05-26
09:59

Save Britain's 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.

05-26
07:57

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