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Cambridge Heritage Research Centre

 

What is Heritage?

What is Heritage_LabelWhere history is the study of the past, heritage is the many ways the past is used in the present. Heritage can be understood as an active, dynamic relationship between then and now, formed through an on-going process of renegotiation, reconstruction, and recreation of what we choose to take from the past with us into the future.  

Heritage is a rapidly growing field of fundamental contemporary significance. It is a key element in the way diverse institutions, political movements and communities recognise their identities, attribute value, contest rights claims and realise their political and economic strategies.

 

 

 

 

About the Cambridge Heritage Research Centre?

The Cambridge Heritage Research Centre (CHRC) brings together Departments and Children LabelFaculties from a variety of disciplines across the University of Cambridge to address a range of important themes within heritage research. These are varied and evolving topics investigated through research projects and events and which broadly fall within a six overarching themes:

Conflict and Post-Conflict Heritage

Heritage & Migration

Heritage, Memory and Identity

Heritage education and museums

Tangible & Intangible heritage

Heritage Ecologies