The TellTale Blog
This blog is about the exciting places, brilliant stories, and inspiring people I meet in my work. In it I share some of the thought-provoking, interesting issues that I encounter and some of the advice and materials from our TellTale workshops.
It is all very well to say that ‘History is what happened and Heritage is what it means us now’, (see here) but how do you find out what that means in practice? How do you find out what people value? How do you get a community to work together on a heritage project? This is what […]
Focus on first time visitors – is the first time the worst?
Attractions and visitorsWildlife interpretation
If the first time really is the worst, why would we ever do it again? Smoking , sex, whiskey, going into a bird hide or a stately home can all be a bit of a shock first time around. It gets better when know what to expect, know what you like and can make it […]
Warning – wildlife interpretation can be even harder than I said last time
Wildlife interpretation
In two previous posts (here and here) I have discussed some of the differences between wildlife and historical interpretation. But there is an elephant in the room … … I believe many wildlife interpreters have much more emotionally invested in their work than historical interpreters. In short, they want what they do to save the […]
