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  • Time: 5 hours
    Level: Introductory

 
 

Introduction

  • Introduction Resource
  • The case studies in this unit introduce various typologies of heritage and the methods used to study them. The case studies help to draw attention to the fact that the heritage traditions in England, Scotland...
 

1 Case studies

  • 1 Case studies Resource
  • The first case study in this unit, ‘Battlefields as heritage sites’ by Mary-Catherine Garden, involves public memories of two significant historical events, the battles of Bannockburn and Culloden. They...
 

2 Battlefields as heritage sites

  • 2.1 Overview Resource
  • Heritage sites have particular and significant roles in our personal and national identity. They operate as fundamental building blocks in the construction of a sense of self and of ‘pastness’. They are...
  • 2.2 Battlefield sites Resource
  • Battlefields are ‘increasingly being taken up as part of a nation's “official” heritage’ (Carman and Carman, 2006, p. 1) so it is essential to consider their role in the construction of individual and...
  • 2.3 Bannockburn and Culloden Resource
  • In Scotland, two battlefields, Culloden (1746) and Bannockburn (1314), stand out as iconic spaces, recognised not only by Scots but also by visitors. These two battles are not the most important battles...
  • 2.4 Bannockburn and Culloden as heritage sites Resource
  • Although the National Trust for Scotland (NTS) website offers similar descriptions of each site, there are notable differences in the treatment of each one. On the pages of the website devoted to Bannockburn,...
  • 2.5 Scottish identity Resource
  • Although Bannockburn has figured recently as a mark of ‘Scottishness’ (in part because of the 1995 film Braveheart, which popularised William Wallace and was prominent in nationalist discourse in the years...
  • 2.6 Culloden visitor survey Resource
  • In the light of recent reinterpretation of the site, which includes more and different voices to the portrayal of the battlefield, Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) undertook a preliminary visitor survey...
  • 2.7 Conclusion: Culloden in its wider context Resource
  • Moving back out to look at Culloden in its wider context, what can we say that we have learned about the site and its meanings? For international visitors with few or no connections to the battle or to...
  • 2.8 References and further reading Resource
  • Ascherson, N. (2002) Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland (revised edn), London, Granta.
 

3 Old and New Towns of Edinburgh

  • 3.1 Overview Resource
  • In 1995, a large portion of central Edinburgh – the architecturally significant medieval and early Renaissance ‘Old Town’ and the Georgian ‘New Town’ – were included in the World Heritage List. Capital...
  • 3.2 Justification by State Party Resource
  • Read the Justification by State Party on the ICOMOS website (you only need to read the first nine pages which are the pages in English). How does the site meet the UNESCO criteria? Under which criteria...
  • 3.3 Managing Edinburgh as a heritage site Resource
  • In 1999, Edinburgh World Heritage Trust, a managing body, was established. In 2005, it published the Edinburgh World Heritage Trust Old and New Towns of Edinburgh management plan. This sets out what is...
  • 3.4 References Resource
  • Brandwood, G., Davison, A. and Slaughter, M. (2004) Licensed to Sell: The History and Heritage of the Public House, London, English Heritage.
 

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