Heritage, whose heritage? - Audio
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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?
Historical property management by National Trust
The issues and challenges behind the safeguarding of heritage properties by the UK's National Trust.
Stonehenge and its significance
Stonehenge as a heritage site valued for differing reasons by a wide range of interested parties.
Managing Stonehenge
Management of heritage sites like Stonehenge incorporates different stakeholders and usually results in a conflict of interests.
The concept of heritage
What does heritage mean? A professor of cultural studies discusses how concepts of heritage have changed.
Perceptions of heritage
Comparisons between British and Afro-caribbean values and concepts of heritage.
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.