HISTORIC PLACES

 
  • Place and interpretation: historic places

Historic places become significant through a variery of interpretative processes.

As an example, see 17th-century battlefields

resource centre / The Civil War: battles of Edgehill and Chalgrove

  "            / Stuart uprisings: battle of Sedgemoor

Understanding the battle needs a combination of maps of different types (Ordnance Survey and edited action maps), photos (both air photos and details), and 'interpretation' documents.

the website of the battlefields trust
  • Pseudo-historic buildings as a view of the past

 Sanderson Miller's tower at Edgehill : an 18th-century squire and architect who built a pseudo-gothic tower on the site where Charles I stood during the first battle of the Civil War (1642):

study the interpretations in JSTOR (JSTOR: a university subscription accessible on the 'Bibliothèque électronique' pages of the university as usual)