UK Literary Heritage Sites and Covid-19: measuring impact, enhancing resilience, and learning lessons.

在英国各地，大约有70家博物馆位于作家之家和出生地，向公众开放。有些是举世闻名的，每年吸引着大量的客流量；有些是由一小群志愿者以极低的成本运营的。所有这些都将以该行业独有的方式受到新冠肺炎的深刻影响。在封锁和随后的限制期间，大多数人将试图开发与公众接触的新方式。这场流行病的影响和应对措施仍然未知，没有量化，也没有分析。英国的文学遗产遗址包括专门展示莎士比亚、狄更斯、奥斯汀和伯恩斯等全球知名人物的博物馆，以及被低估的国宝，如劳伦斯·斯特恩、伊丽莎白·加斯克尔和霍勒斯·沃尔波尔。文学遗产部门在新冠肺炎期间所面临的挑战不同于其他博物馆、豪宅和遗产地，有理由相信该部门受到新冠肺炎问题的打击特别严重，有几个关键遗址没有资格获得政府的财政支持或未能成功获得政府的财政支持。最重要的是，这项研究将寻求确定和量化新冠肺炎对英国文学遗产遗址构成的挑战，评估和比较地点之间的反应，并帮助这个世界级部门发展未来的韧性。

Across the UK there are around 70 museums in writers' homes and birthplaces open to the public. Some are world famous, attracting big annual footfall; some are run on a shoestring by small groups of volunteers. All will have been profoundly impacted by Covid-19, in ways unique to the sector. Most will have tried to develop new ways of engaging with the public during lockdown and the subsequent restrictions. The impact of the pandemic and the responses to it remain unknown, unquantified, and unanalysed.The UK's literary heritage sites include museums dedicated to globally renowned household names such as Shakespeare, Dickens, Austen, and Burns, as well as to underappreciated national treasures such as Laurence Sterne, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Horace Walpole. The challenges faced by the literary heritage sector during Covid-19 are different from those faced by other museums, stately homes, and heritage sites, and there is reason to believe that the sector has been hit particularly badly by Covid-19 issues, with several key sites ineligible for or unsuccessful in securing financial support from government.Above all, the study will seek to identify and quantify the challenges posed to UK literary heritage sites by Covid-19, to evaluate and compare responses between sites, and to help this world-class sector develop its future resilience.