This, the seventh volume in the series, brings together papers from the sixth CHAT Conference (20... more This, the seventh volume in the series, brings together papers from the sixth CHAT Conference (2008), held at UCL on the theme of ‘Heritage’. Contents: Introduction: The Good, the Bad and the Unbuilt: Handling the Heritage of the Recent Past (Sarah May, Hilary Orange and Sefryn Penrose); 1) Null and Void: the Palace of the Republic, Berlin (Caroline A. Sandes); 2) The Heritage of a Metaphor: Archaeological Investigations of the Iron Curtain (Anna McWilliams); 3) Titanic Quarter: Creating a New Heritage Place (Mary-Cate Garden); 4) The Aquatic Ape and the Rectangular Pit: Perceiving the Archaeology and Value of a Recreational Landscape (Jeremy Lake); 5) Attitudes to London’s Heritage: Interpreting the Signs (David Gordon); 6) Where the Streets Have no Name: a Guided Tour of Pop Heritage Sites in London’s West End (Paul Graves-Brown); 7) Contemporary Places and Change: Lincoln Townscape Assessment (David Walsh and Adam Partington); 8) Revolutionary Archaeology or the Archaeology of Revolution? Landlord Villages of the Tehran Plain (Hassan Fazeli and Ruth Young); 9) Justifying Midcentury Trash: Consumer Culture of the Recent Past and The Heritage Dilemma (Jessica Merizan); 10) Motorways, Modern Heritage and the British Landscape (Peter Merriman); 11) Liberating Material Heritage (Elizabeth Pye); 12) Unbuilt Heritage: Conceptualising Absences in the Historic Environment (Gabriel Moshenska).
This resource is a single blog post created as part of the Day of Archaeology initiative. The Day... more This resource is a single blog post created as part of the Day of Archaeology initiative. The Day of Archaeology project aimed to provide a window into the daily lives of archaeologists from all over the world. The project asked people working, studying or volunteering in the archaeological world to participate in a 'Day of Archaeology' each year by recording their day and sharing it through text, images or video on the Day of Archaeology blog.<br>The project asked anyone with a personal, professional or voluntary interest in archaeology to get involved, and help highlight the reasons why archaeology is vital to protect the past and inform our futures. The resulting Day of Archaeology project archive demonstrates the wide variety of work the archaeological profession undertakes day-to-day across the globe, and helps to raise public awareness of the relevance and importance of archaeology to the modern world.<br>The first ever Day of Archaeology was held in 2011 a...
Heritage has almost always been understood as ideas, practices and material culture from the past... more Heritage has almost always been understood as ideas, practices and material culture from the past that need to be contextualised and safeguarded for the future generations. While much debate has ha...
Using nuclear waste and its management as a point of departure, we here develop the concept of to... more Using nuclear waste and its management as a point of departure, we here develop the concept of toxic heritage and argue for its conceptual value to heritage studies, complementing rather than replacing existing concepts. The field of heritage is to a large extent about how we manage human and natural legacies, and finding suitable ways of management is particularly important when the heritage is toxic, in the sense that it endangers important values. Both nuclear waste and cultural heritage are managed and contained through specific regulations (as a result of a sense of responsibility/duty), and through values of ‘exceptionalism’ they are set apart from other forms of waste or from unofficial heritage due to a perceived sense of risk. Indeed, it can be argued that it is a perceived sense of risk that drives both nuclear waste management and cultural heritage management, and that it is this risk that leads to a need of ‘containment’ through regulations. But can the disturbing or unwanted past be safely contained, and would such a containment even be desirable? We suggest that the notion of ‘toxic heritage’ helps to unpack and critically investigate these issues.
This, the seventh volume in the series, brings together papers from the sixth CHAT Conference (20... more This, the seventh volume in the series, brings together papers from the sixth CHAT Conference (2008), held at UCL on the theme of 'Heritage'. Contents: Introduction: The Good, the Bad and the Unbuilt: Handling the Heritage of the Recent Past (Sarah May, Hilary Orange and Sefryn Penrose); 1) Null and Void: the Palace of the Republic, Berlin (Caroline A. Sandes); 2) The Heritage of a Metaphor: Archaeological Investigations of the Iron Curtain (Anna McWilliams); 3) Titanic Quarter: Creating a New Heritage Place (Mary-Cate Garden); 4) The Aquatic Ape and the Rectangular Pit: Perceiving the
Abstract Acoustic research was conducted as part of a wider programme aimed at understanding and ... more Abstract Acoustic research was conducted as part of a wider programme aimed at understanding and conserving Silbury Hill, a prehistoric mound in southern England. The research combines modelling and experimental fieldwork to investigate the significance of sound transmission within the landscape. The current landscape form is shown to have a more restricted soundscape than it did before the monument was constructed. This fits well with revised understandings of the site, which emphasize creation over performance.
Although the future is mentioned frequently in overarching aims and visions, and it is a major dr... more Although the future is mentioned frequently in overarching aims and visions, and it is a major drive in the daily work of archaeological heritage managers and indeed heritage professionals more generally, it remains unclear precisely how an overall commitment to the future can best inform specific heritage practices. It seems that most archaeologists and other heritage professionals cannot easily express how they conceive of the future they work for, and how their work will impact on that future. The future tends to remain implicit in daily practice which operates in a continuing, rolling present. The authors argue that this needs to change because present-day heritage management may be much less beneficial for the future than we commonly expect.
Acoustic research was conducted as part of a wider programme aimed at understanding and conservin... more Acoustic research was conducted as part of a wider programme aimed at understanding and conserving Silbury Hill, a prehistoric mound in southern England. The research combines modelling and experimental fieldwork to investigate the significance of sound transmission within the landscape. The current landscape form is shown to have a more restricted soundscape than it did before the monument was constructed. This fits well with revised understandings of the site, which emphasize creation over performance.
Acoustic research was conducted as part of a wider programme aimed at understanding and conservin... more Acoustic research was conducted as part of a wider programme aimed at understanding and conserving Silbury Hill, a prehistoric mound in southern England. The research combines modelling and experimental fieldwork to investigate the significance of sound transmission within the landscape. The current landscape form is shown to have a more restricted soundscape than it did before the monument was constructed. This fits well with revised understandings of the site, which emphasize creation over performance.
This, the seventh volume in the series, brings together papers from the sixth CHAT Conference (20... more This, the seventh volume in the series, brings together papers from the sixth CHAT Conference (2008), held at UCL on the theme of ‘Heritage’. Contents: Introduction: The Good, the Bad and the Unbuilt: Handling the Heritage of the Recent Past (Sarah May, Hilary Orange and Sefryn Penrose); 1) Null and Void: the Palace of the Republic, Berlin (Caroline A. Sandes); 2) The Heritage of a Metaphor: Archaeological Investigations of the Iron Curtain (Anna McWilliams); 3) Titanic Quarter: Creating a New Heritage Place (Mary-Cate Garden); 4) The Aquatic Ape and the Rectangular Pit: Perceiving the Archaeology and Value of a Recreational Landscape (Jeremy Lake); 5) Attitudes to London’s Heritage: Interpreting the Signs (David Gordon); 6) Where the Streets Have no Name: a Guided Tour of Pop Heritage Sites in London’s West End (Paul Graves-Brown); 7) Contemporary Places and Change: Lincoln Townscape Assessment (David Walsh and Adam Partington); 8) Revolutionary Archaeology or the Archaeology of Revolution? Landlord Villages of the Tehran Plain (Hassan Fazeli and Ruth Young); 9) Justifying Midcentury Trash: Consumer Culture of the Recent Past and The Heritage Dilemma (Jessica Merizan); 10) Motorways, Modern Heritage and the British Landscape (Peter Merriman); 11) Liberating Material Heritage (Elizabeth Pye); 12) Unbuilt Heritage: Conceptualising Absences in the Historic Environment (Gabriel Moshenska).
This resource is a single blog post created as part of the Day of Archaeology initiative. The Day... more This resource is a single blog post created as part of the Day of Archaeology initiative. The Day of Archaeology project aimed to provide a window into the daily lives of archaeologists from all over the world. The project asked people working, studying or volunteering in the archaeological world to participate in a 'Day of Archaeology' each year by recording their day and sharing it through text, images or video on the Day of Archaeology blog.<br>The project asked anyone with a personal, professional or voluntary interest in archaeology to get involved, and help highlight the reasons why archaeology is vital to protect the past and inform our futures. The resulting Day of Archaeology project archive demonstrates the wide variety of work the archaeological profession undertakes day-to-day across the globe, and helps to raise public awareness of the relevance and importance of archaeology to the modern world.<br>The first ever Day of Archaeology was held in 2011 a...
Heritage has almost always been understood as ideas, practices and material culture from the past... more Heritage has almost always been understood as ideas, practices and material culture from the past that need to be contextualised and safeguarded for the future generations. While much debate has ha...
Using nuclear waste and its management as a point of departure, we here develop the concept of to... more Using nuclear waste and its management as a point of departure, we here develop the concept of toxic heritage and argue for its conceptual value to heritage studies, complementing rather than replacing existing concepts. The field of heritage is to a large extent about how we manage human and natural legacies, and finding suitable ways of management is particularly important when the heritage is toxic, in the sense that it endangers important values. Both nuclear waste and cultural heritage are managed and contained through specific regulations (as a result of a sense of responsibility/duty), and through values of ‘exceptionalism’ they are set apart from other forms of waste or from unofficial heritage due to a perceived sense of risk. Indeed, it can be argued that it is a perceived sense of risk that drives both nuclear waste management and cultural heritage management, and that it is this risk that leads to a need of ‘containment’ through regulations. But can the disturbing or unwanted past be safely contained, and would such a containment even be desirable? We suggest that the notion of ‘toxic heritage’ helps to unpack and critically investigate these issues.
This, the seventh volume in the series, brings together papers from the sixth CHAT Conference (20... more This, the seventh volume in the series, brings together papers from the sixth CHAT Conference (2008), held at UCL on the theme of 'Heritage'. Contents: Introduction: The Good, the Bad and the Unbuilt: Handling the Heritage of the Recent Past (Sarah May, Hilary Orange and Sefryn Penrose); 1) Null and Void: the Palace of the Republic, Berlin (Caroline A. Sandes); 2) The Heritage of a Metaphor: Archaeological Investigations of the Iron Curtain (Anna McWilliams); 3) Titanic Quarter: Creating a New Heritage Place (Mary-Cate Garden); 4) The Aquatic Ape and the Rectangular Pit: Perceiving the
Abstract Acoustic research was conducted as part of a wider programme aimed at understanding and ... more Abstract Acoustic research was conducted as part of a wider programme aimed at understanding and conserving Silbury Hill, a prehistoric mound in southern England. The research combines modelling and experimental fieldwork to investigate the significance of sound transmission within the landscape. The current landscape form is shown to have a more restricted soundscape than it did before the monument was constructed. This fits well with revised understandings of the site, which emphasize creation over performance.
Although the future is mentioned frequently in overarching aims and visions, and it is a major dr... more Although the future is mentioned frequently in overarching aims and visions, and it is a major drive in the daily work of archaeological heritage managers and indeed heritage professionals more generally, it remains unclear precisely how an overall commitment to the future can best inform specific heritage practices. It seems that most archaeologists and other heritage professionals cannot easily express how they conceive of the future they work for, and how their work will impact on that future. The future tends to remain implicit in daily practice which operates in a continuing, rolling present. The authors argue that this needs to change because present-day heritage management may be much less beneficial for the future than we commonly expect.
Acoustic research was conducted as part of a wider programme aimed at understanding and conservin... more Acoustic research was conducted as part of a wider programme aimed at understanding and conserving Silbury Hill, a prehistoric mound in southern England. The research combines modelling and experimental fieldwork to investigate the significance of sound transmission within the landscape. The current landscape form is shown to have a more restricted soundscape than it did before the monument was constructed. This fits well with revised understandings of the site, which emphasize creation over performance.
Acoustic research was conducted as part of a wider programme aimed at understanding and conservin... more Acoustic research was conducted as part of a wider programme aimed at understanding and conserving Silbury Hill, a prehistoric mound in southern England. The research combines modelling and experimental fieldwork to investigate the significance of sound transmission within the landscape. The current landscape form is shown to have a more restricted soundscape than it did before the monument was constructed. This fits well with revised understandings of the site, which emphasize creation over performance.
I’ve always been a bit frightened of working with my own local heritage. Like many archaeologists... more I’ve always been a bit frightened of working with my own local heritage. Like many archaeologists I’ve moved a lot, and my status as a local has always been in question. When I have worked on the place I’m living in, I’ve always stood behind the bulwark of expertise. In settling up a project on the Heritage of my son’s infant school I’ve blurred those boundaries. My interest, my right to speak, my role in the school is primarily as a parent. For some participants this is the most important role, while others feel more comfortable if I describe myself with an expert role like Heritage Researcher. My expertise is what I have to offer, what gives me the locus to ask for other parent’s help. In this paper I will explore how expertise is entangled with other forms of power in the complex social world of an urban school. I will also consider what challenges this provides for our understanding power and politics in local heritage in Britain.
The conceptual implications of a silent past and a consideration of the acoustic properties of Si... more The conceptual implications of a silent past and a consideration of the acoustic properties of Silbury Hill, Wiltshire
Although the future is mentioned frequently in overarching aims and visions, and it is a major dr... more Although the future is mentioned frequently in overarching aims and visions, and it is a major drive in the daily work of archaeological heritage managers and indeed heritage professionals more generally, it remains unclear precisely how an overall commitment to the future can best inform specific heritage practices. It seems that most archaeologists and other heritage professionals cannot easily express how they conceive of the future they work for, and how their work will impact on that future. The future tends to remain implicit in daily practice which operates in a continuing, rolling present. The authors argue that this needs to change because present-day heritage management may be much less beneficial for the future than we commonly expect.
"Revelation" is an English Heritage project to provide a coherent digital information system that... more "Revelation" is an English Heritage project to provide a coherent digital information system that will make the capture, analysis and dissemination of Historic Environment research faster and more effective. Stage 1, described here, was a comprehensive review of information systems and work practice at the Centre for Archaeology in the context of the broader profession. This report constitutes an IS-related business analysis of the CfA to assess the scope of the requirement. The aim of this stage has been to define how we use data throughout the life of an archaeological project so that, in the next phase of Revelation, we can design and build an archaeological information system that will be used by all the CfA. The Methods section covers the main strands of research and the project working practice more generally. The Results section relates to the main reviews of the project. A discussion of issues arising from the research and not directly covered in the reports follows. The Conclusions highlight key findings and directions for future work. The Recommendations section is directed towards five audiences: EH Senior Management, CfA Management Group, CfA Staff, Systems Development, and the Sector.
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