Challenges in conducting public engagement in commercial archaeology in the UK.

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But Prentise at some point the birch was taken from the public by legislation. Those that might want it back will have to fight a democratic battle. Those not interested in the national heath take out private health insurance and its is very noticeable that the british medical practitioners have a very favourable contract to work in the nhs as well run self employed contracts. As for the bbc its as far as I know a licence to have equipment to view video signals when they are broadcast. I don’t have one and have not had one for a couple of years. I find it fascination how a licence to own equipment that might receive an emf signal translates in to payments for the bbc news. All I was doing was having a go at the use of the word public. One of the problems with Challenges in conducting public engagement in commercial archaeology in the UK. Is possibly the challenge that of engaging public who are not interested in commercial archaeology. After all if they were interested I would presume that it would not be a challenge. Hay has anybody thought about people who are positively anti anything to do with archaeology. They presumably sup of the same public tables of rights to be engaged. I personally don’t like industrial archaeology and almost all of so called buildings archaeology. Maybe we could organise a few demolition days. No recording necessary.

Alternatively we could challenge what is meant by commercial

Jeff S Not being a member of national trust or English heritage I always find it surprising that they have any members particularly when they exist by act of parliament. They do seem to have a surprisingly constant number of members. Theres people like this for instance http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/membersh...om-abroad/ I don’t know what the full numbers is but I cant help feeling that a lot of these membership numbers are filled by visitors to the properties who have worked out that it is cheaper to be a member than to pay the entrance fee. I imagine then it is an interesting equation for the landlords of these properties to set the relationship between entrance fees, membership fees and profit (blar blar blar pensions)

What we can do is a) provide opportunities for direct engagement for those that want it, and b) ensure that the remainder are not excluded from engagement when they want it.

And maybe we could ask where the money comes from -how much and how much I can expect to spend on my holiday.

I appreciate the analogy Unit but in fact the government heavily subsidizes BOTH football and celebrities

Well that’s not alright. How do they get away with it and is anybody getting Away with making lots of dosh out of it? like footballers and celebraties. What some are rolling in it...