This week the BBC relaunches its Restoration series and the emphasis this time is on rural sites in village communities. But there is another story of Britain's heritage which this picture-postcard take on the past is ignoring. While Restoration Village shores up the Rupert Brooke rural pastiche, our more exciting, more diverse heritage is again being bypassed in the search for funds and fame.
So, this summer we want to provide an alternative record of Britain's ignored, decaying, and under-resourced radical heritage. While the Restoration pundits can tour the rectories and gate-houses of olde England, the Guardian wants to celebrate the insurrectionary meeting places, non-conformist chapels and martyrs' memorials of the people's history.
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