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Britain's Best Historical Sites
Britain's Best Historic Sites takes the reader on a journey around this ancient land, detailing over 80 of the most important and fascinating of Britain's historic remains from
Architecture in Conservation
One of the problems faced by heritage organizations and museums is adapting old buildings to their needs or building new ones to fit in with historic sites. How exactly do you create a visitor's centre at Stonehenge? The real difficulty lies where the budget is minimal, and the potential damage to the environment or setting enormous. Architecture i
Managing Historic Sites and Buildings
Managing Historic Sites and Buildings looks at the choices and the tensions that exist in conservation and interpretation of the heritage. Preservation and presentation are central activities, arguably means and ends in the conservation of the historic environment. But are they self-reinforcing or do they work against each other? In a series of essays which span form prehistoric sacred site to Second World war military remains, from medieval monastery to 1970s housing estate, we look at contemporary concerns and debates about the way the past is shaped, physically and metaphorically , by these two aspects of heritage management. Starting from the position that the fundamental purpose of the ...
Revisiting the Past in Museums and at Historic Sites
Revisiting the Past in Museums and at Historic Sites demonstrates that museums and historic spaces are increasingly becoming "backdrops" for all sorts of appropriations and interventions that throw new light upon the objects they comprise and the pasts they reference. Rooted in new scholarship that expands established notions of art installations, museums, period rooms, and historic sites, the book brings together contributions from scholars from intersecting disciplines. Arguing that we are witnessing a paradigm shift concerning the place of historic spaces and museums in the contemporary imaginary, the volume shows that such institutions are merging traditional scholarly activities tied to...
1001 Historic Sites You Must See Before You Die
1001 Historic Sites You Must See Before You Dieprovides a one-stop list of the must-see sites around the world.
Guidebook to the Historic Sites of the War of 1812
Includes more than 400 historic sites, both well-known and obscure, in both Canada and the U.S.
