2012
DOI: 10.1177/1367549412442207
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Taking you back: Region, industry and technologies of living history at Beamish

Abstract: Many critics have linked the rise of heritage with a loss of primary manufacturing, an association particularly resonant for industrial living history museums such as Beamish. In the context of pastoral heritage representations, the museum develops competing modernizing and industrial strains in English identity. Through its incorporation of industry, Beamish cuts against the suggestion that people and culture organically spring from native soil. Framing itself as ethnographic, the museum supposes a gap betwee… Show more

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“…The landscape is formed from the industries that previously inhabited the sites – both above and below ground – as are the people. To acknowledge these traces of the past in the present is to present an authentic landscape (Jones, 2010), whereas to hark back to an imagined ‘natural’ prior state is to buy into a potentially destructive form of nostalgia which denies an element of the past use of the land and the people who worked there (Kingsnorth, 2008; Trimm, 2012). The full story of the global trade, an essential aspect of the development of the coal and salt mining industries, is missing, however, once again ‘white washing’ the English landscape (Tyler, 2012).…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…The landscape is formed from the industries that previously inhabited the sites – both above and below ground – as are the people. To acknowledge these traces of the past in the present is to present an authentic landscape (Jones, 2010), whereas to hark back to an imagined ‘natural’ prior state is to buy into a potentially destructive form of nostalgia which denies an element of the past use of the land and the people who worked there (Kingsnorth, 2008; Trimm, 2012). The full story of the global trade, an essential aspect of the development of the coal and salt mining industries, is missing, however, once again ‘white washing’ the English landscape (Tyler, 2012).…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The mediated sites I have chosen to illustrate an idea of English landscapes and their relation to an English identity are local and particular with specific histories (cf. Hill, 2013; Jones and Cloke, 2008; Lorimer, 2014; Trimm, 2012; Wylie, 2012). Their histories bleed into wider histories of England and forms of Englishness and therefore can be illustrative.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Indeed, as the Skansen case exemplifies, such theme parks cauterize the motion of time and preserve traditions at risk of being lost due to modernization (Gordon, 2009). Trimm (2012) also refers to them as liminal spaces that satisfy their nostalgic longing for the past and escape stresses of contemporary society. They also allow for urban dwellers to familiarize with the cultures of others in the nation with whom they might never meet in reality, thus strengthening imagined communities (Yang, 2011a).…”
Section: The Politics Of Identity and Heritage Co-constructionmentioning
confidence: 99%