Gill Chitty is Director of the Conservation Studies programme and Centre for Conservation Studies in the Department of Archaeology, University of York. She was Head of Conservation at the Council for British Archaeology from 2005–12 and her professional experience in heritage conservation and public archaeology has been in local government, English Heritage (now Historic England) and as a consultant. Her doctoral research explored the influence of John Ruskin’s work in shaping British conservation practice and her research interests continue around the political economy of heritage.

• 1 Introduction: Engaging Conservation – practising heritage conservation in communities Gill ChittyPart 1 Approaches: community engagement, participation and capacity building 2 Engaging Conservation: communities, place and capacity building Jukka Jokilehto3 People-centred approaches: engaging communities and developing capacities for managing heritage Gamini Wijesuriya, Jane Thompson and Sarah Court4 Everyone loves a good story: narrative, tradition and public participation in conservation Nigel Walter5 The language changes but practice stays the same: does the same have to be true for community conservation? Keith Emerick6 Community involvement in mapping and safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage in India Nerupama Y. Modwel7 An insight into Historic England’s approach to community-led conservation Helen Marrison8 Engaging with industrial heritage in the twenty-first century: a perspective from the work of the Industrial Heritage Support Officer Ian Bapty9 Developing evaluation strategies for engagement projects in museum conservation Danai KoutromanouPart 2 Case studies: engaging conservation in community practice 10 Living with history in York: increasing participation from where you areLianne Brigham, Richard Brigham, Peter Brown and Helen Graham11 Community heritage and conservation in Castleford, West Yorkshire Alison Drake12 Dunston Staiths: the reconnection of an industrial monument Craig Wilson13 Heritage conservation: the forgotten agenda in Victorian terraced communitiesJoanne Harrison14 Linking people and heritage: lessons from community engagement initiatives in India Krupa Rajangam15 Community involvement matters in conserving World Heritage Sites: remote cases of Japan Aya Miyazaki16 Researching with the public, conserving with the community: the Martos project workshop, Spain Laura-Melpomeni Tapini and Lucía Gómez-Robles17 SPAB Maintenance Co-operatives: a move towards meaningful community participation? Stella Jackson and Alaina Schmisseur18 Maintaining treasures on Earth: supporting volunteers to care for places of worship Henry Russell and Philip Leverton19 The devil is in the detail: capacity building conservation skills at the Stone Masons’ Lodge Sophie Norton

"This volume brings together a wide range of theoretical issues and practical examples. It offers us real insights into the shift between established professional conservation value-centred methodologies to more people-centred approaches. No one said it was going to be easy."Bridget Turnbull is director at Gillinggate Heritage and recent past education secretary of the The Institute of Historic Building Conservation Journal"Heritage, Conservation and Communities provides a valuable and interesting insight into the world of heritage conservation practitioners, giving a rich overview of the methods, tools and approaches applied in this field. The ethical platform shared by all authors, i.e. prioritization of authentic and meaningful local community involvement, is of high relevance to any society striving for the inclusion of principles of democracy and social justice into all of its processes. A highly valuable message here is that heritage conservation benefits, above everything else, the community itself. As stated by Gill Chitty ‘[c]onservation in practice here is about developing skills in groups and people management, generating honesty and trust in working together to create equity in new partnerships’ (p.9). This book will be, first and foremost, interesting to heritage practitioners and students of heritage studies, who will benefit from multiple conservation approaches and lessons learned, with open discussions about challenges and failures on the way. The book will also be of value to tourism scholars interested in heritage conservation, as well as practitioners of nature conservation, who can benefit from expanding disciplinary horizons and unexpected synergistic interdisciplinary insights."Lusine Margaryan Department of Tourism Studies and Geography, European Tourism Research Institute (ETOUR), Mid Sweden University, O€stersund, Sweden