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Hi Stephen, I think TWM may have a toe in the fashion & textiles one, and maybe getting involved with the disability history one too - I'm not entirely sure. I, as you'll have noticed, am leading the Contemporary Collecting for urban social history SSN. We have a meeting of lead partners (Liverpool, Croydon, Rotherham, Reading, Museum of London, Bristol, Birmingham) on 28th April in Birmingham to discuss the issues and potential ways forward. I hope also to be able to organise another seminar, probably in the southwest, hopefully in May, for wider dissemination of the initial meeting and further discussion, which would be open to anyone who cares to show up! I'd be very interested to know if other museums are keen to get involved. At the moment I'm keeping the intial meeting limited to the lead partners for ease of administration within a tight funding deadline, but obviously if there is wider interest then I'd like to know about it! Hope this helps, Zelda Zelda Baveystock Keeper of Contemporary Collecting/ SHCG Chair Tyne and Wear Museums Discovery Museum Blandford Square Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4JA direct line 0191 277 2196 ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. All incoming and outgoing e-mails are monitored for the presence of profanity and racist remarks, pornographic, sexually explicit or obscene material, and unsolicited content or spam. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com City of Newcastle website:- http://www.newcastle.gov.uk Newcastle Schools website:- http://www.newcastle-schools.org.uk Competitive City:- http://www.newcastle.gov.uk/compcity Visit NewcastleGateshead:- http://www.visitnewcastle.co.uk ********************************************************************** The SHCG list is provided for members of Social History Curators Group to discuss subjects relevant to social history in museums. To join SHCG visit www.shcg.org.uk . Opinions expressed in this email are the responsibility of the author and are not necessarily shared by SHCG. To leave the list do not reply to this message but send an email to [log in to unmask] with a blank subject line and these words as the body of the email: SIGNOFF SHCG-LIST