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SUMMARY:The Heritage Industry - Dame Fiona Reynolds\, Master of Emmanuel C
 ollege &amp\; Dr Anna Whitelock\, Director of Centre for Public History\, 
 Heritage &amp\; Engagement\, Royal Holloway
DTSTART:20131113T170000Z
DTEND:20131113T183000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Bernhard Fulda
DESCRIPTION:The second session of the Public & Popular History Seminar - t
 his Wednesday 13 Nov\, 5pm\, Knox Shaw Room\, Sidney Sussex College - will
  see a panel debate on the topic of\n "The Heritage Industry"\, with\nDame
  Fiona Reynolds\, Master of Emmanuel College\, Cambridge\; former Director
 -General of National Trust\n&\nDr Anna Whitelock\, Director of Centre for 
 Public History\, Heritage and Engagement with the Past\, Royal Holloway\, 
 London.\n\n"Heritage" is a major part of the UK economy\, and the National
  Trust the biggest player in this market. Since its foundation in 1895\, i
 t has grown to be one of the largest membership organisations in the world
 \, with currently just under 4 million members\, 70\,000 volunteers\, 20 m
 illion visitors\, and a total income of over £450m (2012/13). As such\, t
 he NT is probably the biggest producer of 'public history' in the UK. But 
 which public need is this heritage production serving? Are we essentially 
 looking at the commodification of culture for middle-class contemporaries 
 eager to build up cultural capital that will help them distinguish themsel
 ves from the lower classes? Why are heritage managers so heavily invested 
 in the concept of "engagement"\, and what are the major challenges they fa
 ce? What political\, historical and commercial concerns are driving the ef
 forts to preserve and present certain aspects of the material past? Joinin
 g the former Director-General of the National Trust\, Dame Fiona Reynolds 
 on the panel is Dr Anna Whitelock\, Director of the Centre for Public Hist
 ory\, Heritage and Engagement with the Past\, from Royal Holloway\, London
 . The debate will be moderated by the Chairman of the Cambridge History Fa
 culty\, Professor David Reynolds.\n\nThird-year history undergraduates fac
 ing a HAP exam in the not-too-distant future might like to take the opport
 unity to ask questions which could help them with aspects of certain possi
 ble exam questions. For preparation\, or to follow up issued raised at the
  panel discussion\, you might want to try some of the following reading su
 ggestions:\nPeter Mandler\, History and National Life (2002)\, esp. ch.5\n
 David Cannadine (ed.)\, What is History Now? (2002)\nDavid Lowenthal\, The
  Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History (1996)\nG. Kavanagh (ed.)\, Ma
 king Histories in Museums (1996)\nLudmilla Jordanova\, History in Practice
  (2000)\, esp. ch. 6\nPatrick Wright\, On living in an old country : the n
 ational past in contemporary Britain (1985)\nRaphael Samuel\, Theatres of 
 memory vol. 1 & 2 (1994 & 1998)\nCarl E. Schorske\, Thinking with History:
  Explorations in the passage to modernism (1998) 
LOCATION:Knox Shaw Room\, Sidney Sussex College
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