Dear all, 

Please find attached and below details of the forthcoming Social History Curator's Group Conference. There's still time to book. Apologies for cross-posting. 


Just a reminder that you've just over a week to book for this year's SHCG Conference 'Local Stories, Global Identities'

Ulster Museum and Ulster Folk and Transport Museum Thursday 27th and Friday 28th June 2013

Booking documents, provisional conference programme and Northern Ireland travel information attached.

Don't Miss...

*	Debate: 'this conference believes that local history has had its day'
Opposing: Nick Winterbotham, GEM chair and Elle Root, Museum of East Anglian Life
Proposing: Zelda Baveystock, Trustee of Migration Museum Project and Brian Lambkin, Director of the Mellon Centre for Migration Studies, Queen's University Belfast

*  When local and global meet: Developing a new direction  for the Museum of London Docklands, Georgina Young, Museum of London

*       An Ellis Island for the UK? The Migration Museum Project, Zelda Baveystock, Migration Museum Project

*       'Revealing stories': working with LGBT histories at Mshed, Catherine Littlejohns, Bristol Museums and Galleries

*       Irish Music and an exploration of the uses of non-material culture in Museums, Robbie Hannan, National Museums Northern Ireland 

Robbie's presentation will be followed by the chance to hear traditional Irish Musicians playing in the historic buildings of the Ulster Folk Museum 

*       Tours of the Ulster Museum, historic buildings of the Ulster Folk Museum and TITANICa exhibition

*       Opt-in workshop sessions

*       And much more much more...

If you are attending conference and wish to extend your trip, it's worth considering a visit to the City of Derry. The city is hosting a number of unique cultural events as part of its 2013 UK city of culture programme. Staff at the Tower Museum in Derry/ Londonderry have kindly offered to host a behind the scenes tour of their museum for interested SHCG members on Saturday 29th June. For more details on this optional Derry trip, see  attached document. 


Jude Holland and Ciara Canning, SHCG Conference Organisers

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