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Bringing together case studies from Ireland, Holland, Canada, Germany and Mexico, this book examines the link between senses of place and senses of time. It suggests that not only do place identities change through time, but imagined pasts also provide resources which the present selects and packages for its own purposes.

As a teenager Lily isn't usually that impressionable, but under pressure from her peers she and two friends embark on an outrageous adventure to meet Cliff Simpson and his colleagues at the nearby football stadium. Having her innocence stolen following a drunken encounter looks set to spell disaster, leaving Lexington House, a refuge for 'fallen women' with its harsh and often brutal regimes her only option when all family ties are abruptly cu...

Most of us know a Ray Taylor. He was a familiar figure in the more down-trodden town-centre pubs of the last two centuries. He would be perched on his usual stool at the end of the bar, chatting and joking with all and sundry. The landlord (and especially the landlady) would have been his bosom friend and he would have considered it his duty to s

From museums and the preservation of old buildings to broader questions of community and identity, heritage is now a political issue. This book explores what heritage means now heritage is big business and how it is used to encourage people to identify with particular places and 'traditions', now it is entangled with capitalism. Examining a range of questions, including the way contemporary societies use heritage in the creation and management...

Analyses debates around the multi-billion pound 'heritage' industry.