An Archaeology of the East Midlands, Class 9. Radcliffe Autumn 2014
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An Archaeology of the East Midlands
Class 9: Heritage, history and identity. How the past contributes to the Regional identity of the East Midlands
Tutor: Keith Challis
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Recap: Last Week
• What is Industrial Archaeology?• 1750-1900 Continuity and Change• Primary Industry in the Midlands• Secondary Industry in the Midlands
• Discussion: Framework Knitting
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Class Summary
• Heritage, history and identity• Defining the East Midlands• Learning Review
• Coffee Break
• End of Course Paperwork
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Section 1: Heritage, History and Identity
Heritage, History and Identity
• Cultural heritage: the legacy of physical artifacts and intangible attributes of a group or society that are inherited from past generations, maintained in the present and bestowed for the benefit of future generations.
• Cultural heritage includes tangible culture (such as buildings, monuments, landscapes, books, works of art, and artifacts), intangible culture (such as folklore, traditions, language, and knowledge).
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Heritage, History and Identity
• Preservation demonstrates a recognition of the necessity of the past and of the things that tell its story
• Preserved objects also validate memories
• Heritage can be politically divisive and manipulated for political ends (Nazi ideas of prehistory
• People value the past and its preservation (NT one new member every 42 seconds),
• Restoration and other similar TV programmes
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Heritage, History and Identity
• Many academics felt that the heritage industry espoused an outdated story; preaching constructed deceptions which contributed to a climate of decline, and by preserving the past, were stifling Britain’s creativity.
• When Labour swept to power in 1997, it wanted to look forward, not back: ‘Cool Britannia’.
• Government investments (such as the Millennium Dome) were frequently “history-free zones.”
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Heritage, History and Identity
• The past remains enduringly popular
• Heritage organisations adjusted attitudes and presentation to a new generation and new expectations – open, inclusive, tactile
• Recession fuels interest in the past (NT membership and visitor numbers have grown since 2008)
• Community Heritage a growing area – social enterprise
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Section 2: Defining the East Midlands
Defining the East Midlands
• As a region the East Midlands is largely a modern geopolitical concoction
• Bits of Derbyshire, Lincolnshire and all of Northamptonshire don’t fit
• The Staffordshire Trent Valley is missing
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Defining the East Midlands
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England?
Defining the East Midlands
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Defining the East Midlands
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Defining the East Midlands
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Defining the East Midlands
• How would an archaeologist define the East Midlands?
• Has your definition – or sense of the region – changed over the past 10 weeks?
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Section 3: Learning Review
Learning Review
Earlier Prehistory in the Midlands.
Iron Age to Dark Age, Cultural Transitions in the Archaeological Record.
A Disputed Land: Angles, Saxon and Vikings in the East Midlands.
The Medieval Countryside of the East Midlands.
The Medieval Towns of the East Midlands.
The East Midlands, 1600-1900
Themes in Industrial and Early Modern Archaeology.
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Learning Review
• Earlier Prehistory in the Midlands
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Learning Review
• Iron Age to Dark Age
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Learning Review
• Angles, Saxon and Vikings.
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Learning Review
• The Medieval Countryside.
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Learning Review
• Medieval Towns.
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Learning Review
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• The East Midlands, 1600-1900.
Learning Review
• Industrial and Early Modern Archaeology.
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Section 4: Self Assessment
Self Assessment
• Understand in general terms the chronology and material culture of human activity in the East Midlands.
• Appreciate some of the factors that uniquely characterise the archaeology and history of the East Midlands.
• Have a broad appreciation of archaeological research techniques and so be able to critically assess archaeological research and literature.
• Be familiar with and have an outline grasp of some of the main techniques of archaeological research.
• Be able to engage critically with archaeological evidence for the East Midlands so as to achieve a fresh appreciation of the landscape and history of our region
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