Abstract

I argue there is a dominant way of talking, thinking about or valuing heritage, which I refer to as the ‘Authorized Heritage Discourse’. This discourse structures both the ways in which the country houses are interpreted to and by visitors, and how the social values of class deference both underlie, and are reproduced, in the interpretations of the houses that visitors engage in. The messages that visitors take away from the house, or that are reinforced by their visit, are transmitted into wider English society, and this has important consequences for class identity in England and the social values that inform those identities.

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