1st Edition

Managing Historic Sites and Buildings Reconciling Presentation and Preservation

Edited By David Baker, Gill Chitty Copyright 2000
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
Introduction Contexts for Collaboration and Conflict, David Baker; Chapter 1 Visiting Avebury, Chris Gingell; Chapter 2 Hadrian’s Wall, Christopher Young; Chapter 3 Community Archaeology, David Start; Chapter 4 Setting and Structure, Glyn Coppack; Chapter 5 Norton Priory, Margaret Warhurst; Chapter 6 The Tradition of Historical Consciousness, Gill Chitty; Chapter 7 Churches and Cathedrals, David Baker; Chapter 8 Brodsworth Hall, Martin Allfrey; Chapter 9 Time to ‘Leap the Fence’, Krystyna Campbell; Chapter 10 Preservation, Restoration and Presentation of the Industrial Heritage, Marion Blockley; Chapter 11 Conservation of Twentieth-Century Buildings, Catherine Croft, Elain Harwood; Chapter 12 Conserving Recent Military Remains, John Schofield;

Biography

Baker, David; Chitty, Gill