Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-255) and index.

Introduction : British heritage and the legacies of 'race' / J o Littler -- Whose heritage? : un-settling 'the heritage', re-imagin ing the post-nation / Stuart Hall -- Never mind the buzzwords : ' race', heritage and the liberal agenda / Roshi Naidoo -- Commemor ating the Holocaust : reconfiguring national identity in the twenty-fir st century / Sharon McDonald -- Museums, communities and the poli tics of heritage in Northern Ireland / Elizabeth Crooke -- Ghosts : heritage and the shape of things to come / Jonathan Rutherford -- Making place, resisting desplacement : conflicting national and loc al identities in Scotland / Sian Jones -- Reinventing the nation : British heritage and the bicultural settlement in New Zealand / Ly nda Dyson -- Taking root in Britain : the process of shaping heritag e / Naseem Khan -- What a difference a bay makes : cinema and Wel sh heritage / Gill Branston -- History teaching and heritage educ ation : two sides of the same coin, or different currencies? / John Hamer -- Picture this : the 'Black' curator / Carol Tulloch -- A community of communities / Jim McGuigan -- Inheriting diver sity : archiving the past / S.I. Martin -- Keep the flags flying : World Cup 2002, football and the remaking of Englishness / Mark Pe rryman -- Afterword: 'Strolling spectators' and 'practical London ers' : remembering the imperial past / Bill Schwarz.