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Too Hot to Handle?

Exploring emotive issues in social history

Social History Curators Group Conference

Sheffield and Hull

5 – 7 July 2007

Next year’s Social History Curators Group (SHCG) conference will be held on the subject of ‘difficult', controversial and emotive subjects, including those that disturb and affect or subjects that are more difficult to enable the public to engage with.

With sessions looking at the reasons why museums should be interpreting such subjects, and case studies involving a whole range of themes and projects showing how they can, there should be plenty of food for thought and inspiration!

Sessions will be examining themes such as interpreting the Holocaust, refugee experiences, the Ku Klux Klan and mining disasters, working with the gypsy/travelling community, and exhibiting the Troubles in Northern Ireland. As 2007 marks the anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade, we’ll also be looking at how two major new projects at Hull and the National Maritime Museum, are interpreting the history and impact of the slave trade.

Speakers include:

Dr Fiona Cameron, University of Western Australia

Dr Elizabeth Carnegie, University of Sheffield

Alison Kelly, Glasgow Museums

Sarah Batsford, Imperial War Museum

Annette Day, Museum of London

Michael Terwey, National Maritime Museum

Trevor Parkhill, Ulster Museum

Andrew Deathe, National Museum Wales

Georgina Young, Croydon Museum

Tracey Bradley, National Coal Museum

Helen Gurney, Hertford Museum

Dr Kris Brown, Healing through Remembering

Further information and booking forms will be available in May 2007.

Victoria Rogers

Exhibitions Officer / Swyddog Arddangosfeydd

Cardiff Museum Project / Project Amgueddfa Caerdydd

The Old Library / Yr Hen Lyfrgell

Trinity Street / Heol y Drindod

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