Blog posts
Working with Leeds Museums and Galleries
Lucie Wade reflects on her Heritage Consortium Placement While I only spent a relatively short time working with Leeds Museums and Galleries (thirty days, to be precise, spread out over a few months), I was made to feel wonderfully welcome, and I have gained so much. I didn’t choose to undertake the placement with LMG…
Read More‘Arp: The Poetry of Forms’ at Turner Contemporary, Margate
By Frances Guy Since 2015 I have been working on an exhibition ‘Arp: The Poetry of Forms’, a retrospective of the European artist and poet Hans (Jean) Arp (1886-1966), with the guidance of Arp scholar Professor Eric Robertson from Royal Holloway, the University of London. This has been in collaboration with the Kröller-MüllerMuseum in The…
Read MoreMinority Arts and Heritage: Border Work and Contact Zones
Association of Critical Heritage Studies, 4th Biennial Conference HERITAGE ACROSS BORDERS Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China September 1-6, 2018 Call for session papers Minority Arts and Heritage: Border Work and Contact Zones Organizers: Dr Susan Ashley (susan.ashley@northumbria.ac.uk) Leonie Wieser (leonie.wieser@northumbria.ac.uk) Deadline: 30th November, 2017 The global rise of heritage studies and the heritage industry in…
Read MoreEngaging local communities in the North East on their First World War heritage by Mike Reeve
The North East of England has a rich history of coastal defence that has received relatively little attention. During the 2014-18 period marking the centenary of the First World War, many commemorative activities have focused almost exclusively on the exploits of soldiers, while sailors and civilians have occupied a secondary role. Trends in family history…
Read MorePolicy engagement at a local level: a workshop for historians by Mike Reeve
On Friday 8 September, I attended a fantastic workshop at the University of Leeds, focussed on equipping historians with the skills required for effective engagement with public policy and policy-makers. This was organised by academics from the University of Leeds, in partnership with History & Policy, a national network that promotes the application of…
Read MoreThe History of Remploy Uncovered
With my PhD project focusing on Remploy, a placement with the company itself was a logical choice, if, perhaps, an unusual one. Rather than working with a heritage organisation, I would be working with a now private company to highlight its own heritage. Fortunately, Remploy has proved to be highly supportive of my project and…
Read MoreEve Hartley on placement at Heritage Quay
Heritage Quay’s special collections on the institutional history of the University of Huddersfield dating back to its founding as the Young Men’s Mental Improvement Society in 1841 (which was swiftly renamed the Huddersfield Mechanics’ Institute) have been an integral component of my research on northern mechanics’ institutes. As a student of the university I was…
Read MoreAnn-Marie Foster at The British Library
The summer of 2016. London. A heatwave: temperatures soared above 30 degrees. While the rest of England was melting, I was sat in the rather chilly staff area of the British Library pouring over hundred year old paper associated with World War One. The official title of the placement I undertook was ‘First World War…
Read MoreLearning to Love the Modern
First Impressions. Hi, my name is Nicole and I am a self-confessed modern art-phobe. Which probably isn’t the easiest thing for an art historian to admit. After dedicating my academic career to the study of ancient art, I confess I find it hard to rationalise the graceful forms of the art of the ancient world…
Read MoreAntislavery heritage and new histories in Hull
As my research is so strongly grounded in contemporary museum practise, I thought it would be useful to gain as much practical experience in different museum settings as I could. I therefore opted to do two placements; one at the International Slavery Museum (ISM) in Liverpool, and one with Hull’s Heritage Learning Team. Whilst both…
Read More