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

在英国各地，大约有70家位于作家家中或出生地的博物馆向公众开放。有些是世界著名的，每年吸引大量的客流量；有些是由一小群志愿者以小本经营的。所有这些都将以该行业独有的方式受到Covid-19的深刻影响。大多数人将试图在封锁和随后的限制期间开发与公众接触的新方式。大流行的影响和应对措施仍然是未知的、未量化的和未分析的。英国的文学遗产包括献给莎士比亚、狄更斯、奥斯汀和伯恩斯等全球家喻户晓的名人的博物馆，以及劳伦斯·斯特恩、伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔和霍勒斯·沃波尔等未被重视的国宝。在2019冠状病毒病期间，文学遗产部门面临的挑战与其他博物馆、豪宅和遗产地面临的挑战不同，有理由相信，该部门受到新冠病毒病问题的打击尤为严重，一些关键遗址没有资格获得或未能获得政府的财政支持。最重要的是，该研究将寻求确定和量化新冠肺炎给英国文学遗产带来的挑战，评估和比较遗址之间的反应，并帮助这个世界级的部门发展其未来的复原力。

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.