Gerard Baldwin Brown, Edinburgh, and the Care of Ancient Monuments

Gerard Baldwin Brown was appointed as the first Professor of Fine Art in Edinburgh in 1880. In 1905 he published The Care of Ancient Monuments. This book presented a comprehensive survey of the heritage protection systems in Europe, calling for the strengthening of the heritage legislation in Britain and the creation of a new national inventory body. It was to prove to be a key book in the development of cultural resource management systems in Britain and yet, due to a lack of a broader understanding of Baldwin Brown and his conservation activities, he is often overlooked or given only passing mention in conservation historiographies. This paper sheds light on Baldwin Brown’s wider preservation campaigns in Edinburgh and suggests that it was these experiences which persuaded him of the need for the book and strongly influenced the recommendations it contained. Study of his work in Scotland’s capital also sheds interesting light on the emergence of discourses of urban heritage conservation

Archaeology · Cultural heritage · Environmental ethics · Legislation · Political science · Project commissioning · Publishing · Sociology · Archaeological Research and Protection · Conservation Techniques and Studies · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Engineering · History · Law · Philosophy

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