History and heritage can help bring broken communities together

History and heritage can help bring broken communities together

Britain has always been good at marking important moments of collective reflection, such as Remembrance Sunday, the more recent Covid-19 Day of Reflection or, as we saw earlier this month, the anniversary of VE Day.Simply put, Britons care about the past and their heritage. We value the power our nation’s collective history has to bring local communities together across generations and backgrounds, and we understand the way that history is embod…