'That's not who I was the last time I was here.' A diverse heritage and England's heritage: mutual partners or mutually exclusive
Journal: University of Birmingham Institutional Research Archive (University of Birmingham)
Year: 2015

This thesis explores what impact thirteen years of Britain’s New Labour government’s (1997-2010) social exclusion policy agenda had on the representation of non-white communities within England’s authorised heritage narrative, told through the places, objects and ‘things’ given heritage value by ‘experts’. This thesis finds that certain mainstream heritage organisations in England perceive there to be an ‘established’ heritage that is agreed, therefore cannot be challenged even as we uncover mor