Francis O’Gorman (University of Leeds) The question of the public value of the humanities has risen in the UK to new prominence with speed. And rather than providing an opportunity for scholars to talk about the values of the arts and humanities, the topic is now fraught with discontented, and discontenting, politics. It is plagued by emotive and poorly understood terms including ‘elitism’ and ‘democracy’. It is plagued, too, by the problem of scholars acceding too readily to politicians’ comprehension
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Living in the Past: Exploring Everyday Life during and after the Victorian Period in an East Midlands Industrial Town
Introduction ‘Living in the Past’ (hereafter LIP) is a voluntary community archaeology project that aims to investigate everyday life in and around Derby (fig. 1) during and after the Victorian period, by testing the potential of two largely untapped resources. The first consists of buildings originally constructed to house industrial workers during the in the late 19th and early 20th centuries (and earlier buildings predominantly occupied by working-class families and individuals during this time). Both standing buildings and the plots
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