A Cuckoo in Our Nest

The last thirty years in Britain, Raphael Samuel writes, have witnessed an extraordinary and, it seems, ever-growing enthusiasm for the recovery of the national past-both the real past of recorded history, and the timeless one of tradition. Surveying the gamut from retrofitting old warehouses to saving steam locomotives, Samuel, an English historian widely acclaimed for his trenchant analysis, notes that this preservation mania has reached the point that the National Trust is the nation's largest mass-membership organization. New museums, moreover, are opening every fortnight and are surviving despite continuing cuts in government funding (p. 139). History is England's number-one growth industry

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