Notes from the field

A selection of articles written by CHRC members, highlighting research, reviews of exhibitions and site visits and points of interest from field work.

Restitution as a state resource: France's new restitution law

CHRC PhD student María Ruigomez-Eraso takes a critical look at the benefits and limitations of the new French law on restitution.

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Introducing the Routledge Handbook of Heritage Ethics

CHRC Deputy Director Dr Andreas Pantazatos shares his latest edited publication, placing ethics as a fundamental part of the heritage-making process.

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The ecological heritage of the Windrush generation

Hannah McGurk shares her research exploring how Caribbean heritage has been shaped by mobility, ecologies and coloniality through urban gardens, May 2026

'Sensitive’ legacies of old universities

A knowledge exchange work shop by Dr Dacia Viejo Rose, Dr Pedro Ramos Pinto & Dr Trish Biers, April 2026

From vantage to heritage: how Dior is redefining brand heritage

Miao Yang reports on her visit to the Dior Archive and La Galerie Dior in Paris
March 2026

Commemorating South Korea's Cheju April 3rd Incident: Cultural Trauma and the Politics of Postmemory

Prof Seong-nae Kim considers the Cheju 3rd April Incident (1947-1954), Korea

Past, present, future - the tangible and intangible heritage of the Borneo longhouse

Prof Stig Sørensen reflects on the longhouse as heritage & explores the interweaving of the tangible & intangible dimensions at play

The contested gazes of ‘Comfort Women’ statues in Korea and Taiwan

Hyun Kyung Lee and Shu-Mei Huang consider considers the gaze of 'comfort women statues', and what role they may yet play in the memory of wartime violence