Heritage, identity and the creative arts in the South Wales Valleys

Bibliographic Data

ID12653404
AuthorsRichard Marsden (0000-0002-1019-609X, History, Open University UK, Milton Keynes, UK, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume26
Issue3
Pages1-29
Publication date2024-01-08
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNational Identities (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1460-8944 • E-ISSN: 1469-9907
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14608944.2023.2299972
OpenAlexW4390661590
LanguageEN
References cited54

The BG REACH project used creative arts methods to support residents of a post-industrial community in the South Wales Valleys to reflect on what the heritage of their local area meant to them. Contrary to expectation, participants did not define their shared identity primarily in relation to the industrial experience. Connections with the pre-industrial past were equally powerful, as were positive views of deindustrialisation as a healing of the landscape. Moreover, the pieces produced drew extensively upon broader motifs of Welshness, suggesting that Welsh identity may not be as terminally fragmented as some scholars have argued

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Ethnology · Genealogy · Identity (music · Political science · Relation (database · Sociology · The arts · Welsh · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Historical Studies of British Isles · History · Law · Scottish History and National Identity