This paper looks at the recent trend of recasting the 1960s counterculture as official British heritage. It is argued this is due to cultural shifts in the British heritage sector, economic factors and a repurposing of the past to suit the present. The focus will be on the Handel & Hendrix in London museum as it evinces this remaking and the role of United Kingdom (UK) public bodies concerned with heritage, as well as the heritagization processes and particular conditions that enabled the rock star Jimi Hendrix and, by extension, aspects of the counterculture to be designated as official heritage. The implications of this ‘elevation’ will be discussed in relation to how the counterculture is currently represented. Raymond Williams’ concepts of the selective tradition and dominant, residual and emergent cultural elements are drawn upon in order to support the discussion.
Intrigue and romance were synonymous with Mayfair long before Bridgerton appeared on our screens, discovers Carla Passino.
If a part of London were ever to be crowned Queen of Romance, Mayfair would be it. The former home of Dame Barbara Cartland and the literary backdrop to Julia Quinn’s
Bridgerton (although the Netflix series was mostly filmed in Bath for Regency authenticity), it has witnessed love affairs, romps and liaisons as entrancing as any penned by either author.
Its very foundation rests on a wedding: the one between heiress Mary Davies and Sir Thomas Grosvenor, whose descendants would become the Dukes of Westminster. Their eldest son, Sir Richard, was the first to embark on a building programme that would turn an unremarkable estate into one London’s most fashionable addresses.
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For all the perils of the past 10 months, music has been a great constant – the firm friend who has stayed with us, providing solace with inspiring songs and favourite tracks; a consolatory sound-track to tough times that is never inaudible, however hard the wind is howling outside the door. It will be that way when normality returns, for it is almost impossible to travel and not encounter the sounds and rhythms that help define a destination.