Social History Curators' Group

Call for Papers - Social History in Museums, Vol 45

SHCG Newsletter - Call for Contributions!

SHCG Election 2020 - voting now open

SHCG AGM - 25th June 2020, 4pm BST

Spare copies of SHCG publications - free!

SHCG Pub Quiz - the answers!

SHCG Pub Quiz!

Event: Disposals & Rationalisation Seminar - ONLINE!

15 May 2020 - Joint Event with Collections Trust

Join SHCG committee! Nominations now open

Conference 2020 - POSTPONED

SHCG events & Covid - 19

Event: SHCG-ABTEM seminar on succession planning

11 October 2019

Event: Musical Instruments Unwrapped seminar

12 November 2018 - Telling Social Histories Through Musical Instruments

Event: Faith in Museums - Practical Approaches to Using your Collections

9th May 2019 - Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery

Event: Care of Photographs

26 January 2018

Event: Celebrating Britain’s Transport Textile symposium

28 November 2018 - London Transport Museum

Event: This is what we do! Advocacy in social history museums and beyond

6th November 2018, Nottingham Castle, 10am-4pm

Call for articles - SHCG Journal 2017, LBGTQ History

Abstract deadline 16th September 2016

What it is? What it was used for? What it is made of? How old it is?

Identifying dolls - firstBase Editor's choice

What to look for in attempting to make an identification.

Attend SHCG seminar ‘Beyond the Hashtag’ for Free!

This offer is open to any SHCG member either personal or institutional, who has not attended an SHCG Seminar before

Footwear, and Fashion on firstBASE

How to identify and document objects relating to, footwear

firstBASE Editor's choice - inspired by the seaside

Explore the social history and material culture of seaside holidays and summer fun!

Tools of the Trade - Tell us what you think

Comment on our Tools of the Trade films

Event: Knowing and Throwing Seminar - How to Identify and Rationalise Social History Collections

27th April 2015, Peterborough Museum