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Queer Heritage and Collections Network @queerhcn.org · 17/09/2026

We are also launching a LinkedIn group alongside tickets. The group is a space to meet other attendees, share projects and ideas, and start conversations before and during the event, with the opportunity to continue connecting afterwards. Link to join: www.linkedin.com/groups/36110...

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Queer Heritage and Collections Network @queerhcn.org · 17/09/2026

Book your place for online attendance (10-11 Nov): www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/2000963667... Book your place for in-person attendance* (11 Nov ONLY): www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/2000964691... *If you book a place to attend in person on 11 Nov, you will also receive a link to join the event online on 10 Nov

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Queer Heritage and Collections Network @queerhcn.org · 17/09/2026

📢 BOOKINGS NOW OPEN! 📢 Bookings now open for the upcoming QHCN Symposium, exploring the innovative queer heritage work being developed by cultural organisations across the UK and beyond 📆 10-11 November Day 1: Online Day 2: Online and in-person (Univ. of Leicester) Links below ⬇

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Marlborough Productions @marlboroughprods.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It’s two weeks until we close out callout for trustees and a new Chair: marlboroughproductions.org.uk/were-looking... In the midst of an undoubtedly challenging time in the sector we’re so proud of what we have to look forward in the coming months…

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Gay Community News @gcnmag.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It coincides with the opening of the new Permanent LGBTQ+ Exhibition in the Cork Public Museum. 👉 buff.ly/ttdFqde #GCNnews

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Queer Heritage and Collections Network @queerhcn.org · 11/08/2026

The deadline to submit a proposal is this Friday! 🌈

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Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · 02/07/2026

News | Trans inclusion: Museum sector guidance updated in response to EHRC’s draft code of practice Team behind ethical framework says sector remains 'confused and concerned'

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Trans inclusion: Museum sector guidance updated in response to EHRC's draft code of practice - Museums Association

Team behind ethical framework says sector remains 'confused and concerned'

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LGBTQ+ History Association @lgbtqhistorya.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The LGBTQ+ History Association is proud to announce we are joining the list of institutional members for the Queer HCN! Learn more about the Queer Heritage and Collections Network through their social media on Bluesky at @queerhcn.org LinkedIn, and online at www.queerhcn.org.

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Queer Heritage and Collections Network @queerhcn.org · 25/06/2026

📣 Call for Papers: QHCN Symposium 2026 🗓️ 10-11 Nov 2026 We're inviting proposals from heritage professionals, researchers, artists & community organisers working with queer collections, stories & spaces. 📥 Deadline: 14 Aug 2026 📌 Full details & how to apply: queerhcn.org/symposiums/s...

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Queer Heritage and Collections Network @queerhcn.org · 05/05/2026

And a reminder that we are hosting a networking session at the Museums + Heritage Show 2026! Free two-day pass available for 13-14 May at Olympia London. Come join us on Wed, 13 May at 12:00 in the Ambience Lounge #MandHShow @museumsandheritage.com invt.io/1lxbjvb0i1k

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Queer Heritage and Collections Network @queerhcn.org · 05/05/2026

ICYMI the latest QHCN newsletter went out today to all subscribers! Find out about the latest queer heritage events and opportunities using the link below ⬇

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Networking session at the Museums + Heritage Show, upcoming events and more | QHCN Newsletter, May 2026

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National Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

🏳️‍🌈 Discover hidden histories and alternative perspectives at the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, with our LGBTQIA+ guided tour this Saturday, 2 May. 🕑 Tour times • 14:00 – LGBTQIA+ Tour of Collins Barracks • 15:30 – LGBTQIA+ Tour of Collins Barracks www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...

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LGBTQIA+ Tours of Collins Barracks | Decorative Arts & History | National Museum of Ireland

Explore the National Museum through an LGBTQIA+ lens on our brand new tour.

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Queer Heritage and Collections Network @queerhcn.org · 31/03/2026

Our latest newsletter celebrating Trans Day of Visibility came out today! You can read the full version here: us14.campaign-archive.com?u=f997f858bd...

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National Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

🌈 Transgender Day of Visibility 2026 🌈 Honouring trans joy, resilience, and visibility today and every day. 💛🤍💜🖤 Go behind the scenes the creation of the National Museum of Ireland’s LGBTQIA+ Tour: 🔗 www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum... 🌟 #MuseumBlog #NMIBlog #Museumology #CulturalHeritage #LightingSparks

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Creating the LGBTQIA+ tour for the National Museum | Decorative Arts & History | National Museum of Ireland

Welcome to the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin & Castlebar covering Archaeology, Decorative Arts, Folk & Country Life, & Natural History.FREE Exhibitions

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Queer Heritage and Collections Network @queerhcn.org · 26/11/2025

That's a wrap on the Queer Heritage and Collections Symposium 2025! #QHCN2025 Thank you so much to those of you who managed to attend the event in person today! Just a reminder that the recordings of all presentations across the two days will be available on queerhcn.org within the next few weeks.

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Queer Heritage and Collections Network @queerhcn.org · 25/11/2025

Thank you so much for attending today's Symposium! Whether you were attending in person or online, we are so grateful for your enthusiastic support and input! 🌈 #QHCN2025

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Mary Burgess @cambliblife.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Been really enjoying the @queerhcn.org symposium online today - what a range of things people have been up to looking at LGBTQ+ history across museums and heritage #QHCN2025

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Queer Heritage and Collections Network @queerhcn.org · 25/11/2025

We are just getting started at the Queer Heritage and Collections Symposium 2025! Looking forward to an exciting day of presentations, networking and badge making #QHCN2025

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Queer Heritage and Collections Network @queerhcn.org · 18/11/2025

We are exactly one week away from the QHCN Symposium 2025! 🌈 Registrations are still open for online attendance on 25 November 2025: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/queer-heri... View the full digital programme here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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_QHCN Symposium 2025 - Digital Programme

Content Summary and Quick Navigation Welcome to the Queer Heritage and Collections Network Symposium 2025 ACCESS INFORMATION: National Trust – Heelis AT-A-GLANCE SCHEDULE Day 1 | Tuesday, 25 Nove...

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

🐏 New Absolute Units 🐏 Same-sex relationships have always been part of rural England, but they've been underrepresented in our collections. In the first of 2 episodes, @timjerrome.bsky.social shares his work tracing queer rural lives in The MERL archives. merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...

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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

New online: The Gay Liberation Front (GLF) collection is now available on LSE Digital Library! We’ve digitised and published the GLF Diaries and the GLF newspaper Come Together. Further series from the archives will be added as digitisation continues. 1/2 digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/...

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Queer Heritage and Collections Network @queerhcn.org · 02/10/2025

Register for online attendance (25 November only): www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/queer-heri... Register for in-person attendance (25-26 November): www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/queer-heri...

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Queer Heritage and Collections Network @queerhcn.org · 02/10/2025

📢 REGISTRATIONS OPEN! 📢 Registrations are open for the upcoming QHCN Symposium, exploring the innovative queer heritage work being developed by cultural organisations across the UK and beyond 📆 Date: 25-26 November 2025 📍 Location: National Trust - Heelis Registration links below ⬇

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Museum Education Roundtable @museumedrt.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

We've got active two calls for papers out now! Trans Museology: www.museumedu.org/journal/call... Translating Museum Education: www.museumedu.org/journal/call...

Journal of Museum Education | 51.3 | Fall 2026
Call for Papers: Trans Museology
Deadline: October 15, 2025

Journal of Museum Education | 51.4 | Winter 2026
Call for Papers: Translating Museum Education
Deadline: October 31, 2025

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Queer Heritage and Collections Network @queerhcn.org · 19/09/2025

📢 Upcoming event from The National Archives 📅 Tuesday 23 Sept, 13:00 (UK time) Queer places: Feelings, emotions & ways of rebuilding intangible heritage 🌈 With Luke Fawcett (Queer Places), Vicky Iglikowski-Broad & Giorgia Tolfo (TNA). 🔗 Sign up via The National Archives website 👇🏻

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Queer Britain Museum @queerbritain.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

TOP - NOW OPEN ✨ Our newest exhibition Top by Claye Bowler is now open! This exhibition, disguised as a museum store, uses Bowler’s experience as a museum registrar to create an archive of his seven-year journey through the UK’s healthcare system to access top surgery. – Images from Queer Britain

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Queer Heritage and Collections Network @queerhcn.org · 19/08/2025

Queer Britain has just launched a crowdfunding campaign to support their upcoming exhibition 🌈 Consider donating using the link below! ⬇

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Queer Britain Museum @queerbritain.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

COMING SOON We’re so excited to announce our upcoming exhibition and our first-ever artist installation: Top by Claye Bowler. Top explores Claye’s seven-year journey through the UK’s healthcare system to access gender-affirming top surgery. 🗓 10 Sept – 23 Nov @clayebowler.bsky.social

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Kids in Museums @kidsinmuseums.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

🌈 New webinar recording: Engaging children and families with LGBTQ+ content in museums Learn how museums can enable kids and their grown ups to engage with new topics in a safe space - and perhaps, to also see their experiences reflected back. ➡️

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RECORDING: Engaging children and families with LGBTQ+ content in museums by Kids in Museums on cademy.io

This is a recording of a session which took place on Zoom on Thursday 3 July 2025. Are you interested in developing programmes and exhibits with LGBTQ+ content for children and families? About this…

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Queer Heritage and Collections Network @queerhcn.org · 12/08/2025

⌛ The deadline for applications is this Friday, 15 August! Proposals welcome for LGBTQ+ heritage projects and papers – from all career levels, in the UK and internationally.

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Queer Heritage and Collections Network @queerhcn.org · 18/07/2025

📣 New Job Opportunity! 📣 Home Live Art is looking for a coordinator to support a queer and community-led project at Hastings Museum & Art Gallery in 2026. 🗂 Job type: Freelance, fixed-term, part-time 🕒 Start date: 1 Nov 2025 📍 Location: Hastings 📅 Deadline: 1 Sep 2025 📲 More info below!

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Job Opportunity: Exhibition and Events Coordinator — Home Live Art — Home Live Art

Application deadline: 23:59 on on Monday 1 September 2025

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Queer Britain Museum @queerbritain.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

PRIDE RECAP Pride Month is Queer Christmas for us and this year we have been as busy as ever! We started pride month with the launch of our 20 Years of UK Black Pride exhibition and honoured Terry Higgins 80th birthday with the Terry Higgins Trust AIDS Memorial Quilt. – Images From Queer Britain

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Queer Heritage and Collections Network @queerhcn.org · 26/06/2025

📣 Call for Papers: QHCN Symposium 2025 🗓️ 25-26 Nov 2025 We're inviting proposals from heritage professionals, researchers, artists & community organisers working with queer collections, stories & spaces. 📥 Deadline: 15 Aug 2025 📌 Full details & how to apply: queerhcn.org/symposiums/symposium-2025

Call for papers banner, with rainbow flags and images of people at a conference. It reads: "We are delighted to invite submissions for the Queer Heritage & Collections Network Symposium 2025. Dates: 25-26 November. Deadline: 15 August."

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Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

On this day in 1978, the rainbow flag first flew as a symbol of pride. It was raised at San Francisco Gay Freedom Day.

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Queer Heritage and Collections Network @queerhcn.org · 19/06/2025

The webinar will be led by @magmidd.bsky.social, a freelance exhibit designer and museum consultant. Their background is in children's museums and they have written and consulted widely on creating LGBTQ+ museum content for families, especially those with children aged 10 and under.

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Queer Heritage and Collections Network @queerhcn.org · 19/06/2025

Interested in developing programmes and exhibits with LGBTQ+ content for children and families? This online training session run by @kidsinmuseums.bsky.social will address the challenges museums face when creating LGBTQ+ content for children and families. 📅 3 Jul, 10:00-12.30 👇🏻 Link to sign up

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Training - Kids in Museums

We provide a range of training events and consultancy for the museum sector in the UK and internationally - our new summer programme is available to book now.

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Queer Heritage and Collections Network @queerhcn.org · 16/06/2025

Prefer digital exhibitions? THE VILLIERS REVEALED DIGITAL EXHIBITION is an imaginative, immersive and interactive interpretation of the unique exhibition @ Melton Carnegie Museum, revealing histories that have often been misrepresented, hidden, and erased. Visit here: villiers.digital-exhibition.uk

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Villiers Revealed Digital Exhibition

Virtual Tour

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Queer Heritage and Collections Network @queerhcn.org · 16/06/2025

Looking for activities for little museum explorers? SHAKE, RATTLE + STROLL: LOVE (30 June, 10am) at V&A Dundee is a free, drop-in workshop suitable for under 5s and their adults. In June, you’ll get a chance explore stories inspired by love and how families come in all shapes and sizes.

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Shake, Rattle + Stroll: Love

Get ready to move and make some noise in this interactive workshop for little museum explorers

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Queer Heritage and Collections Network @queerhcn.org · 16/06/2025

The Burrell Collection in Glasgow is running free, drop-in LGBTQ+ tours between now and September. Find out more here: burrellcollection.com/event/16c876...

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LGBT+ Tours at The Burrell Collection

Join a free tour and uncover hidden histories

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Queer Heritage and Collections Network @queerhcn.org · 16/06/2025

BRISTOL PRIDE X MARTIN PARR, Bristol MAG (27 May-23 Nov) Legendary photographer Martin Parr teams up with Bristol Pride and Bristol Museums to showcase a retrospective of his photos of the city’s annual Pride festival.

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Bristol Pride x Martin Parr | Bristol Museums

Photographer Martin Parr teams up with Bristol Pride and Bristol Museums to showcase a retrospective of his photos of Pride festival.

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Queer Heritage and Collections Network @queerhcn.org · 16/06/2025

Are you more of 19th-century history buff? Then don’t miss PRIDE LECTURE: MISS PIRIE AND MISS WOODS (24 June, 6:30pm) This evening talk will delve into the intersections of gender, race, class, and sexuality in early 1800s Edinburgh. Book a place: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pride-lect...

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Queer Heritage and Collections Network @queerhcn.org · 16/06/2025

Pride season is in full swing! 🌈 Are you planning to visit any LGBTQ+ exhibitions or cultural events? Drop your recommendations below 👇 We’ll kick things off! 20 YEARS OF UK BLACK PRIDE, Queer Britain (4 Jun-31 Aug) The exhibition chronicles the evolution of UK Black Pride: queerbritain.org.uk

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Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · 29/05/2025

News | New toolkit provides advice on integrating queer narratives in heritage spaces – free resource advises heritage workers on how to explore LGBTQ+ themes in historic sites @queerhcn.org

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New toolkit provides advice on integrating queer narratives in heritage spaces - Museums Association

Free resource advises heritage workers on how to explore LGBTQ+ themes in historic sites

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Queer Heritage and Collections Network @queerhcn.org · 29/05/2025

ICYMI 🎦 How to Queer You Historic House: Toolkit Launch! The recording of this event is now available on the QHCN website: queerhcn.org/resources/ho...

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How to Queer Your Historic House: Toolkit Launch | Online Session, 20 May 2025

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