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This chapter puts the management of Hadrian’s Wall into a wider professional, academic and chronological context. It identifies a number of strands—the creation of English Heritage with a remit to be more entrepreneurial than its government predecessors, a growing academic concern over the misappropriation of heritage for commercial and political ends and a professional acceptance that heritage management required a particular skill-set—that converged about the same time as Hadrian’s Wall was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This new context created a new set of tensions and issues involved in conserving remnants of the past in the present—and in particular how such sites might contribute in a number of different ways as active components of the contemporary landscape. The chapter then outlines the range and scope of the rest of the book and how it relates to these tensions and issues.
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Stone, P. (2014). Managing Hadrian’s Wall in the Twenty-First Century. In: Stone, P., Brough, D. (eds) Managing, Using, and Interpreting Hadrian's Wall as World Heritage. SpringerBriefs in Archaeology(), vol 2. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9351-8_1
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