I would also be in favour of retaining Modern in the Cultural Period Class
List, with its MIDAS date range (1901-). It's quite a handy term to use when
indexing the later features of a monument record where a more precise date
is not known.
As far as splitting Modern into early, middle etc, I am not so sure. I have
always taken the Early Modern period to start at the same point as Post
Medieval (1540), but have seen it taken as starting later. Exactly when the
Early Modern period finishes I do not know. Middle Modern or High Modern I
have never seen used so it would make no sense at all to include these.
Modern, as used in the Artistic Period Class List, has a slightly different
usage; Modern Movement, Modernists etc. Many of these have already receded
into the past and are therefore chronologically fixed. Have we already
entered the post-modern period as far as architects and artists are
concerned?
Nigel Pratt
Heritage Conservation
Essex CC
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