Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past
- Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past
- Events
- Public Lectures and Seminars
- 2022
- Keeping Your Shape: Preserving English Football Heritage
"Keeping Your Shape": Preserving English Football Heritage
Wednesday 15 June 2022, 6.00PM to 7.15pm
Speaker(s): Dr Keith Emerick, Historic England Dr Keith Emerick is Inspector of Ancient Monuments for Historic England in York and North Yorkshire. He is also a Research Associate at the University of York.
The last 30 years have witnessed the demolition, redevelopment and relocation of many football grounds: they have disappeared below housing estates, supermarkets and retail parks, often without a trace or nod of recognition to their history and heritage. Yet football grounds are keenly valued as cherished places and repositories of memory, conveying intense senses of identity and belonging with the power to stir hearts and minds and evoke strong and enduring social responses. This is especially true when grounds are relocated and the fan base is dislocated.
The presentation will look at the Historic England recording project at Bootham Crescent, undertaken with the club and fanbase. The project offered the opportunity to create a better and more distinctive place before the new housing was designed, by testing imaginative ways of involving people for whom the ground holds great meaning and by exploring why they value the site and how they would like to see those memories and meanings celebrated.
All are welcome. Tickets can be booked via Eventbrite.
Location: Held online via Zoom (A link will be circulated to attendees 48 hours before the event, and then again 1 hour before we begin)
Admission: Free - booking required