Social History Curators' Group

firstBASE Editor's choice - inspired by the seaside

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

This week on firstBASE

In honour of the ability to become a Curator of Eyeshadow

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

SHCG responds to news of Newport museum closure

SHCG has written a letter calling on Newport City Council to rethink plans to close museum

SHCG protests against budget cuts to social history museums

SHCG writes letter to Sajid Javid

Audio recordings now online

Catch up on presentations from #SHCG14

Another successful conference!

Our annual conference took place this year in Glasgow

Event: Plastics Seminar

23rd May 2014

Identification films now online!

SHCG launches new identification films

Call for papers for 2014 Conference

Conference recordings now online

A selection of the presentations at this year's conference are available to download

SHCG seeks to change status to Charitable Incorporated Organisation

SHCG Conference 2013

Local Stories, Global Identities

Event: What is it? Tool collection training day

4 March 2013, MShed

Call for papers: SHCG Conference 2013

Event: What is it? Photography training day

11 February 2013, Discovery Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne

Event: What is it? Medals and Militaria training day

18 January 2013, Museum of Liverpool

firstBASE goes live

A handy resource for social history enquiries

SHCG response to Museum 2020 discussion paper

SHCG delves into the archives

Past SHCG Newsletters go online

Committee Members needed!

Elections will be held at this year's AGM on 12th July 2012

Proposal to change membership rates

SHCG committee proposes a change to the SHCG membership rates

SHCG Membership Survey

We thought it was time to survey the membership to make sure that what we do is still useful and good value for our members