New "non partisan" advice aims to help museums and heritage organisations deal with proposals to change how history is interpreted and displayed.
Written by broadcaster Trevor Phillips, the guide forms part of think tank Policy Exchange's History Matters project, which responds to “national concern about the growing trend to alter history and heritage without due process”.
The report advises any decision-making body must be clearly identified, with its composition and powers set out publicly.
Changes must be lawful and consistent with the institution's stated aims and purpose. Changes to a public institution must be accountable to those who support it.
The guide has been formally endorsed by Museum of the Home Chair Samir Shah and V&A Chair Nicolas Coleridge.
Science Museum Director Ian Blatchford has also voiced support.
“[It's a] resoundingly reasonable guide to achieving change that it thoughtful and sustainable, rather than anxious and panicked”.