On 8 Nov 2018, at 17:53, SHCG Enquiry <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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Dear Crispin,

Thank you for your email. I am pleased you have received your copy of SHCG News. In relation to your comment regarding diversity on committee, we recently had two male members of committee step down from their roles at the last AGM, one of whom had served SHCG for 10 years as a board member.

We had several nominations for election to the committee this year and we encourage nominations from a broad a spectrum of professionals across the sector as possible. Our committee work hard to promote the organisation in as many ways and through as many different channels as possible. Unfortunately none of those nominations were from males working in the sector and as a result we have an all female committee for this year.

SHCG strives to be as inclusive and diverse as possible and it is a long term aim for us all to widen and diverse the membership. We always want that to be reflected and represented on our board of trustees but we appreciate that in some years that is hard to achieve. It is something that Helen as Chair is committed to and has worked hard with us all to incorporate into the work that we do collectively as Trustees. I am very keen to make further progress on this when I take on the role of Chair in Spring 2019.

I wanted to respond to you and the whole membership list on behalf of the SHCG committee but myself or other members of committee would be happy to have further discussion with you about this off list if you wish to.

With best wishes,

Verity 

Verity Smith

Secretary (2016-19)

Social History Curators Group (SHCG)

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On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 3:54 PM Crispin Paine <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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Dear all

I greatly enjoyed reading through the latest SHCG News. A lot of the contributors mentioned museums’ need for diversity. Then I got to the back page, and the list of committee members – every single one of them a young woman.

Best

Crispin
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