This year will be important for our nation’s heritage. In 2013, we celebrated a century of heritage protection by the state, allowing us to enjoy our countryside. In 2014, all three national heritage agencies — Historic Scotland, Cadw (in Wales) and English Heritage — will be under review, and the outcome will affect their ability to continue to do their jobs into the next century. Each agency will have its work cut out, but I predict that facing the consequences of deindustrialisation will be somewhere at the top of their lists.