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Kate Mavor Quotes

born 1962 England

Kate Mavor (born 30 March 1962) is a British charity executive and businesswoman. Since September 2023, she has been Master of St Cross College, Oxford.[1] From 2015 to 2023, she was chief executive officer (CEO) of English Heritage.

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It is an icon of continuity; it has seen everything from the Norman Conquest to the Second World War.

We tell the story of England — 6,000 years of history. We look after it and bring it to life.

I would like English Heritage to be seen as a model institution for the challenge of bringing history to life

It was a very challenging time for that institution,’ she explains. ‘I learnt there how a charity was different from a government agency, which was invaluable for this job.

People will only preserve things if they understand them. We have to explain, therefore, why things matter. One of our purposes in this regard is to conserve things to help people understand their own history.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Kate Mavor (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.