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To fête the 70th year of Queen Elizabeth’s reign, several towns – and a few villages – are to be granted the royal right to call themselves cities.
Increasing rainfall and degrading peatland are threatening archaeological artefacts buried in UK land.
Museums allow us to delve deep into the past with eye-catching displays of artefacts, ancient textiles, high-quality images and short films that narrate how our ancestors lived.
Nigerian museums continue to present colonised versions of history. This harms local communities.
Whether it’s a day out with the kids or a solo visit, these tips will achieve the experience you want.
The style and date given for the painted room never sat right with MA Katritzky, who spent lockdown investigating whether the room was actually created by one of Britain’s greatest painters.
These surfaces are of profound scientific, cultural, heritage, environmental, and aesthetic importance. Unfortunately, they are threatened - by graffiti.
The proposal that monuments must be preserved at any cost hinders rather than helps institutions handle the decolonisation of their collections.
The closure of physical buildings doesn’t have to mean that new readers should miss out on literary history
If communities don’t understand and support local heritage protections, perhaps that’s a reflection on how the system works and not just evidence of a need for public education.
We surveyed 1461 Australians and discovered many are museum regulars — but it’s family history that has broad appeal.
Heritage is non-renewable — just like the mineral wealth of this country.
Proposals to improve the capital’s urban design and density must also take account of the city’s unique streetscapes.
It’s people, in addition to architecture or history, that make some meeting places worthy of heritage protection. Social values are now among the listing criteria, but many such places remain at risk.
Britain’s heritage is steeped in the remnants and history of slavery, but you wouldn’t necessarily know it.
Jack Mundey fought to save Australia’s urban and environmental heritage. An architect of green bans, his lifelong efforts empowered citizens to assert their right to keep the heritage of their city.
Bhaktapur suffered 300 deaths, 2,000 wounded and over 30,000 houses damaged in the 2015 earthquake. Heritage restoration has become crucial to community recovery.
Community projects play a vital role in city life.
If the US makes good on the president’s threat, Iran’s heritage won’t be the only thing damaged. Washington’s reputation would also take a hit.
Top contributors
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Historian and heritage Specialist, Deakin University
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SARCHI Ocean Cultures and Heritage, Nelson Mandela University
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Associate Research Fellow, Heritage Destruction Specialist, The University of Melbourne
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Alan Morris is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor, Institute for Public Policy and Governance, University of Technology Sydney
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Research Associate, African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience, Nelson Mandela University
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PhD; Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer in Urban and Environmental Planning, Griffith University
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Senior Lecturer in Architectural HIstory and Theory, UNSW & Honorary Research Fellow, Australian Centre for Architectural History, Urban and Cultural Heritage (ACAHUCH), UNSW Sydney
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Professor in Archaeology, University of Bristol
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Professor of Human Geography and Planning, University of Tasmania
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Associate professor, Music Industry, RMIT University
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Professor, School of the Built Environment, University of Technology Sydney
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Claire Smith is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor of Archaeology, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University
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Professor in Robotics, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of International Law, University of Sydney
