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Four Volumes Blimey ! plenty of scope then for getting away from the tired old debates of the 1980's when the iron fist of Thatcher was supposed to be behind every heritage centre, marketing was heresy and fundraising was unneccessary cos local councils knew what we wanted and did it all for us. As a practitioner in museums, libraries, archives and heritage centres for the last fifteen years I hope that some of the progressive strands in heritage interpretation that I encounter daily will be explored in depth, alongside the words of the Miserablist Tendency. Ecological interpretation, enlightened wildlife site management, local history groups, sensitive cemetery restoration, increased disabled access to historic houses, the Young Roots and Your Heritage programmes, HLF in general, cross-sectoral partnerships, the explosion of attractive visitor friendly European funded volunteer led Scottish highland museums, Welsh language teaching on the Internet, asylum seeker and refugee involvement in museum programmes, Art Galleries for the Under-Fives, English folk roots-reggae crossover music, easy-to-use archive photograph digitisation projects, SSSI direct action and family history groups all have something deeply heartening to say about the state of our history, culture, heritage (and politics)today. Brian Holmshaw Museum and Heritage Education Consultant Sheffield Original Message: ----------------- From: Robert Webley [log in to unmask] Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 09:23:55 +0000 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Edited collection on 'heritage' On behalf of Laurajane Smith: Dear List members, I am preparing a four volume edited collection for Routledge on 'heritage'. This will appear in their Critical Concepts series, which means that the content will be drawn from work already published. This means that it will have an historical element, and representation from more recent work. It also means that not only journal articles but chapters of books and other forms of published work can be included. The reason I am posting is to canvas suggestions as to what should be included in the volumes. I have my own ideas, influenced by 15 years of teaching and research in the area, but am very interested to get a broader feel for what others see as the defining publications in the area. So I am asking you to nominate articles/chapters/websites and etc that you feel are not only representative of the literature on heritage issues in general (history, definitions, nature and uses of heritage, major conflicts, debates etc) but those publications that have inspired you or personally had an impact on your practice and/or research in heritage areas. I am cross posting this email, as I am very concerned to make this as interdisciplinary as possible - so don't feel that anything that you recommend should represent only those ploughing the same disciplinary furrow in the intellectual field. I will compile and then post a list of recommendations when/if I get responses for general interest and possibly discussion by list members. Please send all initial recommendations off list (unless you think it might make a topic for discussion on the list itself) directly to me on: [log in to unmask] thanks very much, Laurajane -------- Dr Laurajane Smith Department of Archaeology University of York The King's Manor York, YO1 7EP United Kingdom Fax: 44 (0)1904 433902 Phone: 44 (0)1904 433968 -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .