About Cultural Heritage Publications

Cultural heritage encompasses our history and our identity. It links us to not only the past but also the present and the future. It’s what makes us, us. While it belongs to everyone, it’s also and most particularly the property of those geographically and/or intellectually involved with it.

It was with this in mind that Cultural Heritage Publications was founded in 2021. Our mission and motto is ‘recording the past to nourish the future’. The emphasis is on heritage that is either neglected or all but forgotten. CHP preserves interactive, social processes that could otherwise slip through the cracks. Our books are aimed at lay people and specialists alike.

Our first two publications, The House of Illigh (edited by Bert Hogervorst) and Annie Wright’s The Old Kasbah of Illigh, transport the reader to this stronghold on the edge of the Moroccan Sahara. This once flourishing settlement was a hub for Trans-Saharan caravans bringing merchandise from Timbuktu to Illigh and beyond. This cargo included gold, ivory and enslaved black people, some of whose descendants still live in the village surrounding the kasbah.

Who are we?

Bert Hogervorst

Bert Hogervorst is an Egyptologist and classicist. She has a particular affinity with Ancient Egypt, North Africa, Ireland and the Near East. Apart from publishing books, she also accompanies small-scale groups to these areas.

Annie Wright

Annie Wright has photographed cultural heritage for more than twenty years. She has exhibited widely at, for instance, the Institute of Contempory Art (London), the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam) and the Doulun Museum of Modern Art, (Shanghai).