Heritage, Conservation and Communities

Gill Chitty is Director of the Conservation Studies programme and Centre for Conservation Studies in the Department of Archaeology, University of York. She was Head of Conservation at the Council for British Archaeology from 2005–12 and her professional experience in heritage conservation and public archaeology has been in local government, English Heritage (now Historic England) and as a consultant. Her doctoral research explored the influence of John Ruskin’s work in shaping British conservation practice and her research interests continue around the political economy of heritage.

1 Introduction: Engaging Conservation – practising heritage conservation in communities

Gill Chitty

Part 1 Approaches: community engagement, participation and capacity building

2 Engaging Conservation: communities, place and capacity building

Jukka Jokilehto

3 People-centred approaches: engaging communities and developing capacities for managing heritage

Gamini Wijesuriya, Jane Thompson and Sarah Court

4 Everyone loves a good story: narrative, tradition and public participation in conservation

Nigel Walter

5 The language changes but practice stays the same: does the same have to be true for community conservation?

Keith Emerick

6 Community involvement in mapping and safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage in India

Nerupama Y. Modwel

7 An insight into Historic England’s approach to community-led conservation

Helen Marrison

8 Engaging with industrial heritage in the twenty-first century: a perspective from the work of the Industrial Heritage Support Officer

Ian Bapty

9 Developing evaluation strategies for engagement projects in museum conservation

Danai Koutromanou

Part 2 Case studies: engaging conservation in community practice

10 Living with history in York: increasing participation from where you are

Lianne Brigham, Richard Brigham, Peter Brown and Helen Graham

11 Community heritage and conservation in Castleford, West Yorkshire

Alison Drake

12 Dunston Staiths: the reconnection of an industrial monument

Craig Wilson

13 Heritage conservation: the forgotten agenda in Victorian terraced communities

Joanne Harrison

14 Linking people and heritage: lessons from community engagement initiatives in India

Krupa Rajangam

15 Community involvement matters in conserving World Heritage Sites: remote cases of Japan

Aya Miyazaki

16 Researching with the public, conserving with the community: the Martos project workshop, Spain

Laura-Melpomeni Tapini and Lucía Gómez-Robles

17 SPAB Maintenance Co-operatives: a move towards meaningful community participation?

Stella Jackson and Alaina Schmisseur

18 Maintaining treasures on Earth: supporting volunteers to care for places of worship

Henry Russell and Philip Leverton

19 The devil is in the detail: capacity building conservation skills at the Stone Masons’ Lodge

Sophie Norton