Directory: Heritage Wellbeing

Historic England highlights some of the main benefits of engaging with heritage and the historic environment:

1) Connection with heritage improves our feelings of identity and belonging and helps alleviate loneliness

2) Heritage activities promote good brain health and strengthen our memory

3) Exploring heritage and history offers an exciting journey of discovery

4) Learning from ours and others past provides insight, resilience and inspiration for the future

5) Revealing the past of a place and its historic significance helps us understand it and connect with it better, promoting pride of place

6) Heritage shows us that we are part of something bigger – it is inseparable part of us and our own legacy in this time and place