Historical
Highlights
Smugglers’ Run Heritage Trail
Smugglers Run is a one-of-a-kind cultural trail on Mudeford Quay (Dorset, UK). The trail includes 16 publicly-accessible signs that incorporate text, illustrations, models, rubbings, and audio re-enactments of the real-life smugglers of Christchurch.
A Garden Through Time
This geo-located audio walk traces the boundary of the Headingley Zoological and Botanical Gardens in Leeds, which operated from 1840 to 1858. Featuring ten stops along a short route starting at Burley Park Station, it incorporates archival records and local artists' responses to explore the Gardens' history and legacy.
London Street Noises 2020 self-guided geolocated soundwalk
A self-guided soundwalk app, "ECHOES interactive sound walks," presents 1928 recordings of five historical London street soundscapes, available throughout September by searching "LSN" in the app. The geolocated map features period audio, commentary, and contextual materials tied to original recording sites, alongside opportunities for users to contribute contemporary soundscape recordings via the HUSH City app.
The Museum of Yesterday
The Museum of Yesterday (Museu do Ontem) is a mobile app offering around 160 location-specific stories, articles, audios, and videos about Rio de Janeiro’s old port, Porto Maravilha, accessible only by physically visiting the sites. Developed with Agência Pública and featuring art by Juliana Russo and narration by Anelis Assumpção, the bilingual app emphasizes exploration through a non-interactive map that limits visible areas to the device screen.
SWAMP WALK
Swamp Walk is a storytelling time series that explores the historical, cultural, and ecological significance of The Great Swamp in New Jersey. It features archival graphics from the 1959–1970 jetport battle, highlighting both the area's environmental value and its contested past.
Articles elsewhere
The National Trust, Counter-Heritage and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Heritage and Counter-Heritage: Are They So Very Different? Two recent visits to ‘historic’ houses and a recent walk have made me question the usual binary opposition of heritage and counter-heritage, and got me thinking that perhaps they lie rather mo...
Walking with Mary Nixon on 2 February, 2013
Conwy I am walking with my Aunty Sos (proper name Mary Nixon, née Mary Duncalf). I also like to think that we are walking with my mum, Prunie (proper name June Heddon, née June Duncalf). June was one of 12 siblings who grew up in the small town of Conwy, in North Wales. My Aunty Sos […]
