3rd August 2013, 11:54 PM
I will accept Unit's challenge and say that not everyone is interested in heritage. An active minority will feel passionately about the heritage and will take up opportunities to become engaged with it, and anotheor minority will consider it a complete irrelevance they would be happy to see obliterated, and in the middle a lot of people who quite like the idea that heritage exists and someone is looking after it or investigating it while feeling no impulse to get involved themselves. It is unrealistic to expect all members of a community to want to join a local dig (and Time Team, however popular, reached a niche audience). We should be more nuanced than treating everyone as 'pro' sheep or 'anti' goats - people choose when and how they wish to engage.
What we can do is a) provide opportunities for direct engagement for those that want it, and b) ensure that the remainder are not excluded from engagement when they want it.
What we can do is a) provide opportunities for direct engagement for those that want it, and b) ensure that the remainder are not excluded from engagement when they want it.