War and the Historic Environment

Michael Dawson is the Editor of The Historic Environment: Policy & Practice, lectures in the Department of Continuing Education, and is a member of the common room at Kellogg College, University of Oxford, UK. He is a former Heritage Consultant at RPS and Chair of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologist. He has published widely including the recent ‘Heritage Under Pressure’, an important collection of papers looking at threats and solutions to conservation issues in the historic environment.

Introduction: War and the Historic Environment Part 1: Frontline Ukraine 1. The Fight for the Past: Contested Heritage and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine 2. Empires of Lies? The Political Uses of Cultural Heritage in War 3. Russia was ‘Doomed to Expand [its] Aggression’ Against Ukraine: Cultural Property Criminals’ Responses to the Invasion and Occupation of the Donbas Since 20th February 2014 4. Monumental Decisions: The Impact of the Russo-Ukrainian War on Soviet War Memorials 5. Archaeological Monitoring in War-Torn Ukraine Part 2: Aspects of War 6. A Reluctance Acceptance: the USA and the Hague Convention of 1954 7. ‘Heritage Under Fire’: The Office of Works and Historic Monuments in Wartime 8. Museums and Museumification in Post-Conflict Contexts: Revisiting the Shaping of Architectural Reconstruction Strategies 9. ‘Lest We Forget’: The Archaeology of Warfare, Conservation, Interpretation, and Engagement in Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire 10. Empty Spaces, Buried Crimes: Post-Conflict Bosnia-Herzegovina 11. Mass Graves: The Forensic Investigation of the Deaths, Destruction and Deletion of Communities and Their Heritage 12. Understanding Liminality and Intangible Difficult Heritage through Film Conclusion