ABSTRACT

This article examines the response of the English heritage sector, in particular Historic England, to the impact caused by the initial lockdown and restrictions introduced to protect lives during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK. This response, headed by the Heritage Sector Response Group, relied on effective cross-sector working in order to both make the case for targeted support for the heritage sector to the UK Government and to provide advice and support for organisations during the lockdown and the limited reopening of the economy which followed. This included gathering intelligence in order to understand the impact of restrictions on the sector, which was used to swiftly develop emergency grant schemes funded by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Historic England. The paper also considers the Historic England Heritage Online Debate around the impact of COVID-19 restrictions on the sector, which gathered case studies from across the sector to capture and share qualitative information. The paper then looks at other long term challenges facing the sector, such as climate change, and considers how a collaborative approach and lessons learned from the sector’s response to the COVID-19 restrictions may provide models for building resilience for the future and developing solutions to other issues.

摘要

本文考察了英国遗产部门，特别是英国历史遗迹，对最初的封锁和为保护英国COVID-19大流行期间的生命而引入的限制所造成的影响。由文化遗产部门响应小组牵头的这一回应依靠有效的跨部门工作，既可以为英国政府提供针对文化遗产部门的有针对性的支持，又可以在封锁和有限时期为组织提供建议和支持。重新开放的经济随之而来。这包括收集情报，以了解限制对该部门的影响，该情报被用于迅速制定由数字，文化，媒体和体育部，国家彩票遗产基金会和英格兰历史基金会资助的紧急赠款计划。本文还考虑了围绕COVID-19限制对该行业造成的影响的英国历史遗产在线辩论，该辩论收集了整个行业的案例研究，以获取和共享定性信息。然后，本文探讨了该行业面临的其他长期挑战，例如气候变化，并考虑了从该行业对COVID-19限制的应对中采取的协作方法和经验教训如何为建立未来的适应力和开发解决方案提供模型。其他事宜。