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Series Premiere

Heritage! The Battle for Britain's Past: Season 1

1x01 From Old Bones to Precious Stones

  • 2013-03-07T00:00:00Z on BBC Four
  • 42m
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Documentary
Charting the birth of the heritage movement and the first arguments of radical thought, from figures including John Lubbock MP, Lieutenant General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers, Charles Darwin and John Ruskin. These remarkable individuals asked important questions and came up with the building blocks of a new world that valued the past. Their actions led to the first piece of legislation to safeguard prehistoric and ancient structures which until then had often fallen prey to the short-term interests of farmers and landowners.
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