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

The fourth episode of our podcast, presented by Julia and Gudrun is now available to listen to on Soundcloud - Episode 4: Interviewing for short-term and temporary contracts - in which:

- we discuss the vagaries of short-term and temporary contracts
- how often you should say 'no'
- the different types of interview you might encounter; and
- how to prepare for them.

More show notes on our blog: www.boundaryobjects.org/blog/

Music: 'Yolo', by Poddington Bear, Free Music Archive.

We're aiming to put new episodes out fortnightly. If you have any comments or suggestions for future content, please do get in touch by tweeting us @BoundaryObjects. We hope you enjoy Episode 4!

Boundary Objects Podcast Episode 4, Interviewing for short-term and temporary contracts

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