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On the heritage trail: maps of and journeys to olde Englande (1994)
Journal Article
Crang, M. (1994). On the heritage trail: maps of and journeys to olde Englande. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 12(3), 341-355. https://doi.org/10.1068/d120341

This paper contains analyses of some theoretical ways of comprehending heritage phenomena. It is suggested that commentators on such phenomena have analysed an intended object based on a particular experience of heritage events. Rather, the author st... Read More about On the heritage trail: maps of and journeys to olde Englande.

Spacing Times, Telling Times and Narrating the Past (1994)
Journal Article
Crang, M. (1994). Spacing Times, Telling Times and Narrating the Past. Time & Society, 3(1), 29-45. https://doi.org/10.1177/0961463x94003001002

This paper takes one institution, the museum, and suggests how this institution organizes understandings of time. Museums are seen as actively organizing practices that sustain certain views of the world. The paper takes a single case study to illust... Read More about Spacing Times, Telling Times and Narrating the Past.

How the West End has won: the struggle to remove street barriers in Victorian London (1993)
Journal Article
Atkins, P. (1993). How the West End has won: the struggle to remove street barriers in Victorian London. Journal of Historical Geography, 19(3), 265-277. https://doi.org/10.1006/jhge.1993.1017

The West End of London was a long-lived élite residential district. One feature which helped to establish its privileged character was the protection of certain key boundaries with barriers impermeable to non-residential traffic. Public dislike of re... Read More about How the West End has won: the struggle to remove street barriers in Victorian London.

White poison? the social consequences of milk consumption, 1850–1930 (1992)
Journal Article
Atkins, P. (1992). White poison? the social consequences of milk consumption, 1850–1930. Social History of Medicine, 5(2), 207-227. https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/5.2.207

This paper seeks to adduce evidence on the social consequences of milk consumption in the period 1850–1930. It is shown that the poor quality of supply partly resulted from the nature of the marketing system, with adulteration and the use of chemical... Read More about White poison? the social consequences of milk consumption, 1850–1930.