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Challenging histories: what place do lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer identities have in museums and historic houses?
Sutton House, National Trust
13 February 2014 - 6:30pm - 8:00pm

To accompany Sutton House's first LGBT History Month exhibition 'Master-Mistress: passion, desire and ambiguities in Shakespeare’s sonnets', Sutton House hosted an exciting discussion about including lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer narratives in heritage spaces, chaired by exhibition curator and National Trust volunteer Sean Curran and featuring four experts from the heritage world. 

Panelists include:
Oliver Winchester - Curator of the Permanent Collection at the Design Museum
Jan Pimblett - Principle Development Officer at London Metropolitan Archives and founder of the annual LGBTQ History and Archives Conference
Claire Hayward - PhD student at Kingston University, looking at representations of same-sex sexualities in public history
Naomi Campbell - National Trust

Challenging Histories: LGBTQ Panel Discussion

Boundary Objects Podcast: Episode 1, New Research in Museum Learning

In which:

- we talk to Dr Elee Kirk about her research into young children's experiences of natural history in the museum environment;
- find out about Ceri's work on historical consciousness and young adult's experiences of learning about the Middle Ages in museums;
- the frustrations of researching school groups; and
- staying friends with your research subjects.

More notes on the Boundary Objects website (www.boundaryobjects.org.

Music: 'Yolo', by Poddington Bear, Free Music Archive (www.freemusicarchive.org).

Boundary Objects Podcast: Episode 1, New Research in Museum Learning

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Boundary Objects Podcast: Episode 1, New Research in Museum Learning

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