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Heritage Show + Tell is a chance for people passionate about heritage in Yorkshire to come together and share their work, get feedback on ideas and meet new collaborators. Everyone welcome: community heritage groups, freelancers, museum professionals, students and academics.
The next Heritage Show + Tell will be hosted by Leeds Museums and Galleries on Thursday 12 June 2014. Join us for an optional tour of the Leeds City Museum at 4pm, followed by Heritage Show + Tell from 5pm to 7pm.
4.00-5.00pm Tour of Leeds City Museum
5.00-7.00pm Heritage Show + Tell at the Museum
We have eight three-minute presentations followed by lots of opportunity to meet and mingle over a glass of wine. Speakers include:
Carys Wilkins (School of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies, University of Leeds), Designing an immersive experience: David Bowie at the V&A
Alison Cullingford (Special Collections, University of Bradford), The Man from (New) Atlantis: the Mitrinovic Project at the University of Bradford
Pat Hadley (York Museums Trust), From a basement box to 72 thousand views: getting the Middleham Hoard on Wikipedia
Ian Fraser (Leeds Museums and Galleries), Britain’s got brains: understand the journey, plot the course
Daniel Mutibwa and Fiona Philip (Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds), Pararchive: Open Access Community Storytelling and the Digital Archive
Laura King (Arts Engaged, University of Leeds), Risk and Childbirth: Exploring Controversy in the Thackray Medical Museum
Megan Clement (Archaeological Services WYAS), Access to Archaeology: Disability and Community Archaeology
Victoria Hoyle (School of History, University of York), Gateway to History archives project
If you’d like to come to the Heritage Show + Tell event, register by emailing [log in to unmask] Please indicate if you would also like to book a place on the tour.
Heritage Show + Tell is funded through the University of Leeds Cultural and Creative Industries Exchange and co-hosted by Centre for Critical Studies in Museums, Galleries and Heritage and the Centre for Collaborative Heritage Research. It is organised in partnership with Leeds Museums and Galleries.
For more information, see our blogsite
Fiona Blair
on behalf of Helen Graham
Centre for Critical Studies in Museums, Galleries and Heritage
School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT