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Queer Heritage and Collections Network @queerhcn.org · 7d

Register for online attendance (25 November only):
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/queer-heri...

Register for in-person attendance (25-26 November):
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/queer-heri...

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Queer Heritage and Collections Network @queerhcn.org · 7d

📢 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 ⬇

Decorative Banner: QHCN Symposium 2025 - Registrations Open
Logos included: National Trust, Historic Royal Palaces, English Heritage, Historic England, RCMG, University of Leicester, Arts Council England

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Museum Education Roundtable @museumedrt.bsky.social · 21d

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...

Journal of Museum Education | 51.3 | Fall 2026
Call for Papers: Trans Museology
Deadline: October 15, 2025

Journal of Museum Education | 51.4 | Winter 2026
Call for Papers: Translating Museum Education
Deadline: October 31, 2025

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Queer Heritage and Collections Network @queerhcn.org · 20d

www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/our-re...

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...

www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

Queer Heritage and Collections Network @queerhcn.org · 20d

📢 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 👇🏻

Banner image:
Research Routes - Queer Places: Feeling, emotions and ways of rebuilding intangible heritage

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Queer Britain @queerbritain.bsky.social · 29d

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

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Queer Heritage and Collections Network @queerhcn.org · Aug 19

Queer Britain has just launched a crowdfunding campaign to support their upcoming exhibition 🌈 Consider donating using the link below! ⬇

Queer Britain @queerbritain.bsky.social · Aug 19

"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

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

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Queer Britain @queerbritain.bsky.social · Aug 15

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

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Kids in Museums @kidsinmuseums.bsky.social · Aug 14

🌈 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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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

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Queer Heritage and Collections Network @queerhcn.org · Aug 12

⌛ 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.

Queer Heritage and Collections Network @queerhcn.org · Jun 26

📣 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

Call for papers banner, with rainbow flags and images of people at a conference. It reads: "We are delighted to invite submissions for the Queer Heritage & Collections Network Symposium 2025. Dates: 25-26 November. Deadline: 15 August."

Queer Heritage and Collections Network @queerhcn.org · Jul 18

📣 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!

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

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Queer Britain @queerbritain.bsky.social · Jul 2

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

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Queer Heritage and Collections Network @queerhcn.org · Jun 26

📣 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

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Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social · Jun 25

On this day in 1978, the rainbow flag first flew as a symbol of pride. It was raised at San Francisco Gay Freedom Day.

A person stands supporting the bottom of a huge flag being hoisted. The flag is a rainbow with eight stripes of pink, red, orange, yellow, green, turquoise, indigo and violet.

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Queer Heritage and Collections Network @queerhcn.org · Jun 19

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.

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Queer Heritage and Collections Network @queerhcn.org · Jun 19

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

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

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Queer Heritage and Collections Network @queerhcn.org · Jun 16

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

Villiers Revealed Digital Exhibition

Virtual Tour

villiers.digital-exhibition.uk

Queer Heritage and Collections Network @queerhcn.org · Jun 16

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

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Queer Heritage and Collections Network @queerhcn.org · Jun 16

The Burrell Collection in Glasgow is running free, drop-in LGBTQ+ tours between now and September. Find out more here:
burrellcollection.com/event/16c876...

LGBT+ Tours at The Burrell Collection

Join a free tour and uncover hidden histories

burrellcollection.com

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Queer Heritage and Collections Network @queerhcn.org · Jun 16

BRISTOL PRIDE X MARTIN PARR, Bristol MAG (27 May-23 Nov)
Legendary photographer Martin Parr teams up with Bristol Pride and Bristol Museums to showcase a retrospective of his photos of the city’s annual Pride festival.

Bristol Pride x Martin Parr | Bristol Museums

Photographer Martin Parr teams up with Bristol Pride and Bristol Museums to showcase a retrospective of his photos of Pride festival.

www.bristolmuseums.org.uk

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Queer Heritage and Collections Network @queerhcn.org · Jun 16

Are you more of 19th-century history buff? Then don’t miss PRIDE LECTURE: MISS PIRIE AND MISS WOODS (24 June, 6:30pm)
This evening talk will delve into the intersections of gender, race, class, and sexuality in early 1800s Edinburgh.
Book a place: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pride-lect...

Decorative Image. Title: Miss Pirie and Miss Woods. An image of a historic building is used as background.

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Queer Heritage and Collections Network @queerhcn.org · Jun 16

THE HOLLY JOHNSON STORY, Museum of Liverpool (14 Sep-27 Jul)
The exhibition celebrates Holly Johnson’s creative genius, charting his personal life and extraordinary music career over five decades.

The Holly Johnson Story

In the 1980s Britain was changing. Social and political unrest led the way for a cultural revolution, set against a backdrop of synth-pop music and experimental sounds. The ‘80s was a time of innovati...

www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk

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Queer Heritage and Collections Network @queerhcn.org · Jun 16

Pride season is in full swing! 🌈 Are you planning to visit any LGBTQ+ exhibitions or cultural events? Drop your recommendations below 👇 We’ll kick things off!

20 YEARS OF UK BLACK PRIDE, Queer Britain (4 Jun-31 Aug)
The exhibition chronicles the evolution of UK Black Pride: queerbritain.org.uk

Promotional image for "20 Years of UK Black Pride" (opens 4 June). A joyful crowd gathered in front of an outdoor stage, celebrating.

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Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · May 29

News | New toolkit provides advice on integrating queer narratives in heritage spaces – free resource advises heritage workers on how to explore LGBTQ+ themes in historic sites

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New toolkit provides advice on integrating queer narratives in heritage spaces - Museums Association

Free resource advises heritage workers on how to explore LGBTQ+ themes in historic sites

www.museumsassociation.org

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Queer Heritage and Collections Network @queerhcn.org · May 29

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