{"id":27886,"date":"2020-10-06T16:51:50","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T15:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=27886"},"modified":"2020-10-06T16:51:50","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T15:51:50","slug":"letter-from-dcms-culture-secretary-on-hm-government-position-on-contested-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=27886","title":{"rendered":"Letter from DCMS Culture Secretary on HM Government position on contested heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"logo\"On 22 September, the Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden wrote to DCMS Arm’s Length Bodies to outline the Government’s position on contested heritage, noting that \u2018the Government does not support the removal of statues or other similar objects\u2019.<\/h3>\n

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….Government does not support the removal of statues or other similar objects.<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n

In the letter the Government writes:<\/p>\n

….the Government does not support the removal of statues or other similar objects.\u00a0 Historic England, as the Government\u2019s adviser on the historic environment, have said that removing difficult and contentious parts of it risks harming our understanding of our collective past. Rather than erasing these objects, we should seek to contextualise or reinterpret them in a way that enables the public to learn about them in their entirety, however challenging this may be. Our aim should be to use them to educate people about all aspects of Britain\u2019s complex past, both good and bad.<\/p>\n

As set out in your Management Agreements, I would expect Arm\u2019s Length Bodies\u2019 approach to issues of contested heritage to be consistent with the Government\u2019s position…..<\/p>\n

Download the letter<\/a><\/p>\n

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The letter was sent to a number of national museums and galleries as well as other Arm\u2019s Length Bodies and invited them to share what contested heritage means in the context of their organisation.<\/p>\n

The full list of recipients is as follows: Arts Council England, British Film Institute, British Library, British Museum, Charity Commission, Churches Conservation trust, Historic England, Historic Royal Palaces, Horniman Museum, Imperial War Museum, Museum of the Home, National Archives, National Gallery, National Lottery Communities Fund, National Lottery Heritage Fund, National Museums Liverpool, National Portrait Gallery, Natural History Museum, Royal Armouries, Royal Museums Greenwich, Royal Parks, Science Museum Group, Sir John Soane\u2019s Museum, Tate Gallery, V&A Museum and Wallace Collection.<\/p>\n

Read more….<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On 22 September, the Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden wrote to DCMS Arm’s Length Bodies to outline the Government’s position on contested heritage, noting that \u2018the Government does not support the removal of statues or other similar objects\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27887,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27886\/revisions\/27887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}