What does the government understand by community cohesion?…
… and what role is envisaged for community archives in delivering this agenda?
(This is what the government thinks community cohesion looks like – from the website of the Department for Communities and Local Government).
On Tuesday I attended a seminar at the V&A as part of their Diversity series (see this post) entitled ‘Museums as transformative spaces’. The speaker at the event was Henry Burgess from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport who set out the government’s vision of community cohesion and how museums might contribute to it (but much of this applies to archives too).