ABSTRACT
After the 2010 formation of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition, the types of rhetoric and argument made regarding heritage maintained great continuity. However, the Coalition's austerity regime sharply impacted heritage organizations like English Heritage. Heritage themes and images remain persistent in contemporary British culture. Heritage persists as a major trope in Britain as these literary and Coalition/Conservative era heritage organization examples underscore. Heritage is a cultural performance that occurs at, and with, heritage sites or museum exhibitions. It is a process of remembering and forgetting, and while particular things or spaces may be used as tools in that remembering, it is not the things or places that are themselves heritage, it is the uses that those things are put to that make them heritage. Heritage is not the past's material remains but, rather, a particular manner of interacting and experiencing these traces.
