Introduction: Heritage and Identity

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Acknowledgements The contributions for this issue were drawn from a seminar series on 'Access to Identity' funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). I would like to thank all of the contributors to this series and in particular my co‐organisers Drs Gavin Jack and Steven Cooke. Notes 1 Urry, 'How Societies Remember the Past', 61. 2 Van Mensch, 'Magpies on Mount Helicon'. 3 Kaplan, Musuems and the Making of 'Ourselves'; Boswell and Evans, Representing the Nation; Fladmark, Heritage and Museums; McIntyre and Wehner, National Museums; McLean, 'Museums and National Identity'; Macdonald, 'Museums, National, Postnational and Transcultural Identities'; Munasinge, 'The Politics of the Past'. 4 McCrone et al., Scotland the Brand; Cooke and McLean, 'Our Common Inheritance'; Cooke and McLean, 'Picturing the Nation'; McLean and Cooke, 'Communicating National Identity'; McLean and Cooke, 'Constructing the Identity of a Nation'; McLean and Cooke, 'The National Museum of Scotland'; Dicks, Heritage, Place and Community; Mason, 'Devolving Identities'; Crooke, Politics, Archaeology and the Creation of a National Museum of Ireland; Crooke, 'Confronting a Troubled History'; Holo, Museums and Identity in Democratic Spain; Kenworthy et al., 'Identity and Place'; Henderson, 'Heritage, Identity and Tourism in Hong Kong'. 5 Macdonald and Fyfe, Theorizing Museums; Graham et al., A Geography of Heritage; Howard, Heritage; Karp and Lavine, Exhibiting Cultures; Karp et al., Museums and Communities.