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Changing how we see heritage can help us build back better

Blog

07 Aug 2020

Becca Antink

How the heritage sector is making a difference in local communities.
What does heritage mean to you?

Blog

05 Mar 2020

Becca Antink

The RSA is working on how heritage can improve lives in local places. Here are our stories of what heritage means to us - what are yours?
Our towns have not been ‘left behind’, they have been actively excluded

Blog

02 May 2019

Becca Antink

What’s happened to deprived communities is the consequence of political decisions.
A Community finds its voice: One Heritage Ambassador's Story

Blog

18 May 2016

jc

June Campbell FRSA and Heritage Ambassador reflects on what is required to cherish and develop a sense of place where you live with a reflection on the Anstice Memorial Hall in Madeley.
Living assets and heritage

Blog

18 Mar 2016

Keith Harrison-Broninski

In this guest blog, Keith Harrison-Broninski FRSA, lead of the RSA Catalyst project Town Digital Hub, looks at how the RSA Heritage Index relates to the emerging concept of a Living Asset Map, and how heritage is all about people.
The role of archives in identity and place

Blog

09 Mar 2016

Jeff James

Jeff James, Chief Executive and Keeper at The National Archives, explores how archives preserve our collective cultural memory and the local stories that exist.
Blog: You don’t have to have a Grade I building in your backyard to inspire you

Blog

25 Feb 2016

Kate Pugh

What makes a North Easterner feel a sense of identity? And how do people identify their collective and personal identities? Kate Pugh, Chief Executive of Heritage Alliance, explores these themes following on from a recent debate.
Place - from a shared stake to shared responsibility

Blog

24 Feb 2016

Joanna Massie

What makes a sense of place – and how do you empower everybody in a community to feel proud of, and able to contribute to, where they live and work? And how do you build this sense of place, through strategic interventions – and community ownership? Joanna Massie explores.
Blog: I love Dundee

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04 Feb 2016

Jamie Cooke

I love Dundee. It’s funny, but even in the world of today where Dundee is vibrant with the development of the V&A and waterfront, its status as a UNESCO City of Design and top place in our very own Heritage Index for Scotland, this is a statement that can be met with a range of responses ranging from ridicule to incredulity, especially in the Central Belt of Scotland.
Blog: David Bowie lived downstairs – how we build heritage from personal histories

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26 Jan 2016

Jamie Cooke

In a personal reflection on the recent death of David Bowie, Head of RSA Scotland Jamie Cooke shamelessly steals his mum’s connection to the star in order to reflect upon the importance of personal heritage.