Queer Heritage and Collections Network
@queerhcn.org
Sharing expertise, skills and best practice on LGBTQ+ heritage 🌈 • UK-wide subject specialist network • Supported by National Lottery through Arts Council England
Contact: [email protected]
Website: queerhcn.org
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Contact: [email protected]
Website: queerhcn.org
Newsletter: mailchi.mp/46de0e53f704/qhcn
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QHCN is a subject-specialist network with the aim to foster leading-edge approaches to LGBTQ+ heritage.
Our work includes:
• Peer support for practitioners & collaboration opportunities
• Mapping sector needs around LGBTQ+ histories
• Delivering workshops & presentations in response to these needs
Our work includes:
• Peer support for practitioners & collaboration opportunities
• Mapping sector needs around LGBTQ+ histories
• Delivering workshops & presentations in response to these needs
Thank you so much for attending today's Symposium!
Whether you were attending in person or online, we are so grateful for your enthusiastic support and input! 🌈
#QHCN2025
Whether you were attending in person or online, we are so grateful for your enthusiastic support and input! 🌈
#QHCN2025
November 25, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Thank you so much for attending today's Symposium!
Whether you were attending in person or online, we are so grateful for your enthusiastic support and input! 🌈
#QHCN2025
Whether you were attending in person or online, we are so grateful for your enthusiastic support and input! 🌈
#QHCN2025
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Been really enjoying the @queerhcn.org symposium online today - what a range of things people have been up to looking at LGBTQ+ history across museums and heritage #QHCN2025
November 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Been really enjoying the @queerhcn.org symposium online today - what a range of things people have been up to looking at LGBTQ+ history across museums and heritage #QHCN2025
There's still time to join: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/queer-heri...
Queer Heritage and Collections Network Symposium 2025 - ONLINE
QHCN organises annual symposia to showcase and explore innovative queer heritage practice being developed in the sector
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November 25, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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We are just getting started at the Queer Heritage and Collections Symposium 2025! Looking forward to an exciting day of presentations, networking and badge making #QHCN2025
November 25, 2025 at 10:14 AM
We are just getting started at the Queer Heritage and Collections Symposium 2025! Looking forward to an exciting day of presentations, networking and badge making #QHCN2025
We are exactly one week away from the QHCN Symposium 2025! 🌈
Registrations are still open for online attendance on 25 November 2025: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/queer-heri...
View the full digital programme here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Registrations are still open for online attendance on 25 November 2025: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/queer-heri...
View the full digital programme here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
_QHCN Symposium 2025 - Digital Programme
Content Summary and Quick Navigation Welcome to the Queer Heritage and Collections Network Symposium 2025 ACCESS INFORMATION: National Trust – Heelis AT-A-GLANCE SCHEDULE Day 1 | Tuesday, 25 Nove...
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November 18, 2025 at 4:31 PM
We are exactly one week away from the QHCN Symposium 2025! 🌈
Registrations are still open for online attendance on 25 November 2025: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/queer-heri...
View the full digital programme here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Registrations are still open for online attendance on 25 November 2025: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/queer-heri...
View the full digital programme here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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🐏 New Absolute Units 🐏
Same-sex relationships have always been part of rural England, but they've been underrepresented in our collections.
In the first of 2 episodes, @timjerrome.bsky.social shares his work tracing queer rural lives in The MERL archives.
merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...
Same-sex relationships have always been part of rural England, but they've been underrepresented in our collections.
In the first of 2 episodes, @timjerrome.bsky.social shares his work tracing queer rural lives in The MERL archives.
merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...
October 16, 2025 at 9:35 AM
🐏 New Absolute Units 🐏
Same-sex relationships have always been part of rural England, but they've been underrepresented in our collections.
In the first of 2 episodes, @timjerrome.bsky.social shares his work tracing queer rural lives in The MERL archives.
merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...
Same-sex relationships have always been part of rural England, but they've been underrepresented in our collections.
In the first of 2 episodes, @timjerrome.bsky.social shares his work tracing queer rural lives in The MERL archives.
merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...
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New online: The Gay Liberation Front (GLF) collection is now available on LSE Digital Library! We’ve digitised and published the GLF Diaries and the GLF newspaper Come Together. Further series from the archives will be added as digitisation continues.
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October 14, 2025 at 11:16 AM
New online: The Gay Liberation Front (GLF) collection is now available on LSE Digital Library! We’ve digitised and published the GLF Diaries and the GLF newspaper Come Together. Further series from the archives will be added as digitisation continues.
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Register for online attendance (25 November only):
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Register for in-person attendance (25-26 November):
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October 2, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Register for in-person attendance (25-26 November):
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Register for in-person attendance (25-26 November):
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📢 REGISTRATIONS OPEN! 📢
Registrations are open for the upcoming QHCN Symposium, exploring the innovative queer heritage work being developed by cultural organisations across the UK and beyond
📆 Date: 25-26 November 2025
📍 Location: National Trust - Heelis
Registration links below ⬇
Registrations are open for the upcoming QHCN Symposium, exploring the innovative queer heritage work being developed by cultural organisations across the UK and beyond
📆 Date: 25-26 November 2025
📍 Location: National Trust - Heelis
Registration links below ⬇
October 2, 2025 at 12:17 PM
📢 REGISTRATIONS OPEN! 📢
Registrations are open for the upcoming QHCN Symposium, exploring the innovative queer heritage work being developed by cultural organisations across the UK and beyond
📆 Date: 25-26 November 2025
📍 Location: National Trust - Heelis
Registration links below ⬇
Registrations are open for the upcoming QHCN Symposium, exploring the innovative queer heritage work being developed by cultural organisations across the UK and beyond
📆 Date: 25-26 November 2025
📍 Location: National Trust - Heelis
Registration links below ⬇
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We've got active two calls for papers out now!
Trans Museology: www.museumedu.org/journal/call...
Translating Museum Education: www.museumedu.org/journal/call...
Trans Museology: www.museumedu.org/journal/call...
Translating Museum Education: www.museumedu.org/journal/call...
September 17, 2025 at 9:46 PM
We've got active two calls for papers out now!
Trans Museology: www.museumedu.org/journal/call...
Translating Museum Education: www.museumedu.org/journal/call...
Trans Museology: www.museumedu.org/journal/call...
Translating Museum Education: www.museumedu.org/journal/call...
Research Routes - Research and scholarship
Our 2025 Research Routes programme, ‘Emotions, senses and feelings in the archives,’ examines the ways in which we navigate the archives – how we feel our way through – are closely entwined with emoti...
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September 19, 2025 at 10:15 AM
📢 Upcoming event from The National Archives
📅 Tuesday 23 Sept, 13:00 (UK time)
Queer places: Feelings, emotions & ways of rebuilding intangible heritage 🌈
With Luke Fawcett (Queer Places), Vicky Iglikowski-Broad & Giorgia Tolfo (TNA).
🔗 Sign up via The National Archives website 👇🏻
📅 Tuesday 23 Sept, 13:00 (UK time)
Queer places: Feelings, emotions & ways of rebuilding intangible heritage 🌈
With Luke Fawcett (Queer Places), Vicky Iglikowski-Broad & Giorgia Tolfo (TNA).
🔗 Sign up via The National Archives website 👇🏻
September 19, 2025 at 10:15 AM
📢 Upcoming event from The National Archives
📅 Tuesday 23 Sept, 13:00 (UK time)
Queer places: Feelings, emotions & ways of rebuilding intangible heritage 🌈
With Luke Fawcett (Queer Places), Vicky Iglikowski-Broad & Giorgia Tolfo (TNA).
🔗 Sign up via The National Archives website 👇🏻
📅 Tuesday 23 Sept, 13:00 (UK time)
Queer places: Feelings, emotions & ways of rebuilding intangible heritage 🌈
With Luke Fawcett (Queer Places), Vicky Iglikowski-Broad & Giorgia Tolfo (TNA).
🔗 Sign up via The National Archives website 👇🏻
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TOP - NOW OPEN ✨
Our newest exhibition Top by Claye Bowler is now open!
This exhibition, disguised as a museum store, uses Bowler’s experience as a museum registrar to create an archive of his seven-year journey through the UK’s healthcare system to access top surgery.
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Images from Queer Britain
Our newest exhibition Top by Claye Bowler is now open!
This exhibition, disguised as a museum store, uses Bowler’s experience as a museum registrar to create an archive of his seven-year journey through the UK’s healthcare system to access top surgery.
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Images from Queer Britain
September 10, 2025 at 11:50 AM
TOP - NOW OPEN ✨
Our newest exhibition Top by Claye Bowler is now open!
This exhibition, disguised as a museum store, uses Bowler’s experience as a museum registrar to create an archive of his seven-year journey through the UK’s healthcare system to access top surgery.
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Images from Queer Britain
Our newest exhibition Top by Claye Bowler is now open!
This exhibition, disguised as a museum store, uses Bowler’s experience as a museum registrar to create an archive of his seven-year journey through the UK’s healthcare system to access top surgery.
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Images from Queer Britain
Queer Britain has just launched a crowdfunding campaign to support their upcoming exhibition 🌈 Consider donating using the link below! ⬇
"I wish there was more."
We hear it all the time, so we're making it happen.
Help us raise £20k to create 6 new Queer Britain displays for 2026
Donate to enter & win queer prizes:
Mighty Hoopla tickets, art, books + more.
crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qb-displays
#QueerHistory #LGBTQ
We hear it all the time, so we're making it happen.
Help us raise £20k to create 6 new Queer Britain displays for 2026
Donate to enter & win queer prizes:
Mighty Hoopla tickets, art, books + more.
crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qb-displays
#QueerHistory #LGBTQ
Bring LGBTQ+ History to Life in New Exhibition!
Enter now to launch a groundbreaking exhibition and win prizes! Your entry makes a real difference - thank you.
crowdfunder.co.uk
August 19, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Queer Britain has just launched a crowdfunding campaign to support their upcoming exhibition 🌈 Consider donating using the link below! ⬇
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COMING SOON
We’re so excited to announce our upcoming exhibition and our first-ever artist installation: Top by Claye Bowler.
Top explores Claye’s seven-year journey through the UK’s healthcare system to access gender-affirming top surgery.
🗓 10 Sept – 23 Nov
@clayebowler.bsky.social
We’re so excited to announce our upcoming exhibition and our first-ever artist installation: Top by Claye Bowler.
Top explores Claye’s seven-year journey through the UK’s healthcare system to access gender-affirming top surgery.
🗓 10 Sept – 23 Nov
@clayebowler.bsky.social
August 15, 2025 at 11:17 AM
COMING SOON
We’re so excited to announce our upcoming exhibition and our first-ever artist installation: Top by Claye Bowler.
Top explores Claye’s seven-year journey through the UK’s healthcare system to access gender-affirming top surgery.
🗓 10 Sept – 23 Nov
@clayebowler.bsky.social
We’re so excited to announce our upcoming exhibition and our first-ever artist installation: Top by Claye Bowler.
Top explores Claye’s seven-year journey through the UK’s healthcare system to access gender-affirming top surgery.
🗓 10 Sept – 23 Nov
@clayebowler.bsky.social
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🌈 New webinar recording: Engaging children and families with LGBTQ+ content in museums
Learn how museums can enable kids and their grown ups to engage with new topics in a safe space - and perhaps, to also see their experiences reflected back.
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Learn how museums can enable kids and their grown ups to engage with new topics in a safe space - and perhaps, to also see their experiences reflected back.
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RECORDING: Engaging children and families with LGBTQ+ content in museums by Kids in Museums on cademy.io
This is a recording of a session which took place on Zoom on Thursday 3 July 2025. Are you interested in developing programmes and exhibits with LGBTQ+ content for children and families? About this…
kids-in-museums.cademy.io
August 14, 2025 at 11:35 AM
🌈 New webinar recording: Engaging children and families with LGBTQ+ content in museums
Learn how museums can enable kids and their grown ups to engage with new topics in a safe space - and perhaps, to also see their experiences reflected back.
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Learn how museums can enable kids and their grown ups to engage with new topics in a safe space - and perhaps, to also see their experiences reflected back.
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⌛ The deadline for applications is this Friday, 15 August!
Proposals welcome for LGBTQ+ heritage projects and papers – from all career levels, in the UK and internationally.
Proposals welcome for LGBTQ+ heritage projects and papers – from all career levels, in the UK and internationally.
📣 Call for Papers: QHCN Symposium 2025
🗓️ 25-26 Nov 2025
We're inviting proposals from heritage professionals, researchers, artists & community organisers working with queer collections, stories & spaces.
📥 Deadline: 15 Aug 2025
📌 Full details & how to apply: queerhcn.org/symposiums/symposium-2025
🗓️ 25-26 Nov 2025
We're inviting proposals from heritage professionals, researchers, artists & community organisers working with queer collections, stories & spaces.
📥 Deadline: 15 Aug 2025
📌 Full details & how to apply: queerhcn.org/symposiums/symposium-2025
August 12, 2025 at 9:46 AM
⌛ The deadline for applications is this Friday, 15 August!
Proposals welcome for LGBTQ+ heritage projects and papers – from all career levels, in the UK and internationally.
Proposals welcome for LGBTQ+ heritage projects and papers – from all career levels, in the UK and internationally.
📣 New Job Opportunity! 📣
Home Live Art is looking for a coordinator to support a queer and community-led project at Hastings Museum & Art Gallery in 2026.
🗂 Job type: Freelance, fixed-term, part-time
🕒 Start date: 1 Nov 2025
📍 Location: Hastings
📅 Deadline: 1 Sep 2025
📲 More info below!
Home Live Art is looking for a coordinator to support a queer and community-led project at Hastings Museum & Art Gallery in 2026.
🗂 Job type: Freelance, fixed-term, part-time
🕒 Start date: 1 Nov 2025
📍 Location: Hastings
📅 Deadline: 1 Sep 2025
📲 More info below!
Job Opportunity: Exhibition and Events Coordinator — Home Live Art — Home Live Art
Application deadline: 23:59 on on Monday 1 September 2025
www.homeliveart.com
July 18, 2025 at 9:15 AM
📣 New Job Opportunity! 📣
Home Live Art is looking for a coordinator to support a queer and community-led project at Hastings Museum & Art Gallery in 2026.
🗂 Job type: Freelance, fixed-term, part-time
🕒 Start date: 1 Nov 2025
📍 Location: Hastings
📅 Deadline: 1 Sep 2025
📲 More info below!
Home Live Art is looking for a coordinator to support a queer and community-led project at Hastings Museum & Art Gallery in 2026.
🗂 Job type: Freelance, fixed-term, part-time
🕒 Start date: 1 Nov 2025
📍 Location: Hastings
📅 Deadline: 1 Sep 2025
📲 More info below!
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PRIDE RECAP
Pride Month is Queer Christmas for us and this year we have been as busy as ever!
We started pride month with the launch of our 20 Years of UK Black Pride exhibition and honoured
Terry Higgins 80th birthday with the Terry Higgins Trust AIDS Memorial Quilt.
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Images From Queer Britain
Pride Month is Queer Christmas for us and this year we have been as busy as ever!
We started pride month with the launch of our 20 Years of UK Black Pride exhibition and honoured
Terry Higgins 80th birthday with the Terry Higgins Trust AIDS Memorial Quilt.
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Images From Queer Britain
July 2, 2025 at 11:27 AM
PRIDE RECAP
Pride Month is Queer Christmas for us and this year we have been as busy as ever!
We started pride month with the launch of our 20 Years of UK Black Pride exhibition and honoured
Terry Higgins 80th birthday with the Terry Higgins Trust AIDS Memorial Quilt.
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Images From Queer Britain
Pride Month is Queer Christmas for us and this year we have been as busy as ever!
We started pride month with the launch of our 20 Years of UK Black Pride exhibition and honoured
Terry Higgins 80th birthday with the Terry Higgins Trust AIDS Memorial Quilt.
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Images From Queer Britain
📣 Call for Papers: QHCN Symposium 2025
🗓️ 25-26 Nov 2025
We're inviting proposals from heritage professionals, researchers, artists & community organisers working with queer collections, stories & spaces.
📥 Deadline: 15 Aug 2025
📌 Full details & how to apply: queerhcn.org/symposiums/symposium-2025
🗓️ 25-26 Nov 2025
We're inviting proposals from heritage professionals, researchers, artists & community organisers working with queer collections, stories & spaces.
📥 Deadline: 15 Aug 2025
📌 Full details & how to apply: queerhcn.org/symposiums/symposium-2025
June 26, 2025 at 12:40 PM
📣 Call for Papers: QHCN Symposium 2025
🗓️ 25-26 Nov 2025
We're inviting proposals from heritage professionals, researchers, artists & community organisers working with queer collections, stories & spaces.
📥 Deadline: 15 Aug 2025
📌 Full details & how to apply: queerhcn.org/symposiums/symposium-2025
🗓️ 25-26 Nov 2025
We're inviting proposals from heritage professionals, researchers, artists & community organisers working with queer collections, stories & spaces.
📥 Deadline: 15 Aug 2025
📌 Full details & how to apply: queerhcn.org/symposiums/symposium-2025
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On this day in 1978, the rainbow flag first flew as a symbol of pride. It was raised at San Francisco Gay Freedom Day.
June 25, 2025 at 9:59 AM
On this day in 1978, the rainbow flag first flew as a symbol of pride. It was raised at San Francisco Gay Freedom Day.
The webinar will be led by @magmidd.bsky.social, a freelance exhibit designer and museum consultant. Their background is in children's museums and they have written and consulted widely on creating LGBTQ+ museum content for families, especially those with children aged 10 and under.
June 19, 2025 at 9:08 AM
The webinar will be led by @magmidd.bsky.social, a freelance exhibit designer and museum consultant. Their background is in children's museums and they have written and consulted widely on creating LGBTQ+ museum content for families, especially those with children aged 10 and under.
Interested in developing programmes and exhibits with LGBTQ+ content for children and families?
This online training session run by @kidsinmuseums.bsky.social will address the challenges museums face when creating LGBTQ+ content for children and families.
📅 3 Jul, 10:00-12.30
👇🏻 Link to sign up
This online training session run by @kidsinmuseums.bsky.social will address the challenges museums face when creating LGBTQ+ content for children and families.
📅 3 Jul, 10:00-12.30
👇🏻 Link to sign up
Training - Kids in Museums
We provide a range of training events and consultancy for the museum sector in the UK and internationally - our new summer programme is available to book now.
kidsinmuseums.org.uk
June 19, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Interested in developing programmes and exhibits with LGBTQ+ content for children and families?
This online training session run by @kidsinmuseums.bsky.social will address the challenges museums face when creating LGBTQ+ content for children and families.
📅 3 Jul, 10:00-12.30
👇🏻 Link to sign up
This online training session run by @kidsinmuseums.bsky.social will address the challenges museums face when creating LGBTQ+ content for children and families.
📅 3 Jul, 10:00-12.30
👇🏻 Link to sign up
Prefer digital exhibitions? THE VILLIERS REVEALED DIGITAL EXHIBITION is an imaginative, immersive and interactive interpretation of the unique exhibition @ Melton Carnegie Museum, revealing histories that have often been misrepresented, hidden, and erased.
Visit here: villiers.digital-exhibition.uk
Visit here: villiers.digital-exhibition.uk
Villiers Revealed Digital Exhibition
Virtual Tour
villiers.digital-exhibition.uk
June 16, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Prefer digital exhibitions? THE VILLIERS REVEALED DIGITAL EXHIBITION is an imaginative, immersive and interactive interpretation of the unique exhibition @ Melton Carnegie Museum, revealing histories that have often been misrepresented, hidden, and erased.
Visit here: villiers.digital-exhibition.uk
Visit here: villiers.digital-exhibition.uk
Looking for activities for little museum explorers? SHAKE, RATTLE + STROLL: LOVE (30 June, 10am) at V&A Dundee is a free, drop-in workshop suitable for under 5s and their adults. In June, you’ll get a chance explore stories inspired by love and how families come in all shapes and sizes.
Shake, Rattle + Stroll: Love
Get ready to move and make some noise in this interactive workshop for little museum explorers
www.vam.ac.uk
June 16, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Looking for activities for little museum explorers? SHAKE, RATTLE + STROLL: LOVE (30 June, 10am) at V&A Dundee is a free, drop-in workshop suitable for under 5s and their adults. In June, you’ll get a chance explore stories inspired by love and how families come in all shapes and sizes.