Tag: Heritage Lottery Fund
Against heritage
![Against heritage Against heritage](http://i0.wp.com/gwallter.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/British-heritage.jpg?resize=300%2C200&ssl=1)
Having spent a big chunk of my adult life trying to help look after bits of it, I’ve developed a strong dislike, bordering on contempt, for the word ‘heritage’. Why, I wonder? Etymologically it’s an innocent enough word – something inherited, passed on from one individual or community or age to another. So what’s so […]
Archives, libraries and the Heritage Lottery Fund
![Archives, libraries and the Heritage Lottery Fund Archives, libraries and the Heritage Lottery Fund](http://i0.wp.com/gwallter.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/HLF.jpg?resize=159%2C114&ssl=1)
As government funding for memory institutions has declined – catastrophically in the case of regular capital finance for buildings, ICT infrastructure and collections purchase – the importance of the Lottery, and especially the Heritage Lottery Fund, as a funding source to those bodies has risen. What is the relationship between the HLF and those memory […]