{"id":18459,"date":"2018-03-20T16:03:43","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T16:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=18459"},"modified":"2018-03-19T16:11:17","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T16:11:17","slug":"he-announces-immortalised-a-hunt-for-the-nations-secret-forgotten-or-unknown-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=18459","title":{"rendered":"HE announces \u2018Immortalised\u2019: A hunt for the nation\u2019s secret, forgotten or unknown memorial\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/HE_Memorial_webpage200318.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-18460\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/HE_Memorial_webpage200318.png\" alt=\"people\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" \/><\/a>Historic England (HE) has launched \u2018Immortalised\u2019, a campaign to help England explore who and how it remembers, as the nation\u2019s statues and monuments come under increasing scrutiny. Whether heroic, quirky, sad, inspirational or challenging, the public are asked to share their knowledge of local monuments, street shrines, and community tributes in public places.<\/h3>\n<h6><em>image HE website<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>HE writes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Historic England launches Immortalised \u2013 a new season to help England explore who and how it remembers, as the nation\u2019s statues and monuments come under increasing scrutiny<\/li>\n<li>Heroic, quirky, sad, inspirational and challenging \u2013 public asked to share their knowledge of local monuments, street shrines, and community tributes in\u00a0 public places<\/li>\n<li>New research shows 1 in 7 (14%) women and 1 in 10 (10%) men have created a memorial of their own<\/li>\n<li>Research uncovers generational differences in attitudes to England\u2019s public monuments and statues \u2013 younger people less likely to think they represent \u2018those who have made a significant contribution to our history\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Murals and shrines, statues, inscriptions on benches and trees, Historic England is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.co.uk\/r\/XDTLC9K\">asking the public to share their knowledge<\/a>\u00a0of England\u2019s secret, unknown and forgotten memorials.<\/p>\n<p>We want photographs and information about lesser-known memorials, and those that are well-loved by small groups or communities but unknown nationally. We are also looking for rituals and activities attached to memorials.<\/p>\n<p>The public\u2019s stories and pictures will be recorded to form part of an exhibition in the Autumn. The best examples of community memorials may be listed as part of our efforts to protect and champion what\u2019s special in the historic environment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Immortalised season launched<br \/>\n<\/strong>The hunt is part of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/historicengland.org.uk\/get-involved\/help-write-history\/help-find-englands-secret-unknown-forgotten-memorials\/\">Immortalised<\/a>, a season launched today by Historic England to help people explore the country\u2019s memorial landscape \u2013 who is reflected, who is missing, and why. It will include events, an exhibition, a debate and a design competition.<\/p>\n<p>A series of well-documented challenges to the memorials of figures including Cecil Rhodes and Edward Colston, and the absence of representations of women and people of colour from statues in our cities and squares has brought the subject to the fore in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>The historian and commentator David Olusoga has dubbed recent rows \u2018the history wars\u2019. Olusoga has been named as one of the participants in a live debate that is being organised by Intelligence Squared as part of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/historicengland.org.uk\/get-involved\/help-write-history\/help-find-englands-secret-unknown-forgotten-memorials\/\">Immortalised,<\/a>\u00a0in partnership with Historic England.<\/p>\n<p>The event,\u00a0&#8216;Revere or Remove? The Battle Over Statues, Heritage and History&#8217;\u00a0will take place on 14 May 2018. Tickets can be purchased at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.intelligencesquared.com\/\">www.intelligencesquared.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>New memorials are currently appearing in England\u2019s cities, including a number to mark the centenary of women\u2019s suffrage and a new permanent memorial in Manchester to the Peterloo Massacre\u2026\u2026..<\/p>\n<p><strong>How we remember<br \/>\n<\/strong>From flowers left at the Alan Turing statue in Manchester on his birthday, to the annual service on the pavement beneath Oliver Cromwell in Westminster, a number of statues and memorials have regular rituals attached to them that keep their stories alive.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers for the exhibition are particularly interested in finding out information about the way ordinary people and communities create unofficial memorials that become part of our collective memory and part of a place\u2019s identity\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>New YouGov poll on public attitudes to memorials<br \/>\n<\/strong>New research by YouGov for Historic England has shown that one in seven (14%) women in England and one in ten (10%) men have created a memorial of their own. And despite recent \u2018history wars\u2019 and calls for more representation of women, the majority (70%) of the public say that the people represented by our public monuments reflect those who have made a significant contribution to our history.<\/p>\n<p>However, there is a marked difference in attitude between older and younger people; almost twice as many people aged 18-24 (20%) say they disagree that our public monuments represent those who have made a significant contribution as those aged 55+ (12%)&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/historicengland.org.uk\/whats-new\/news\/hunt-for-unknown-forgotten-memorials\">Read more\u2026.<\/a>\u00a0and suggest a memorial<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Historic England (HE) has launched \u2018Immortalised\u2019, a campaign to help England explore who and how it remembers, as the nation\u2019s statues and monuments come under increasing scrutiny. 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