Social History Curators' Group

• Beyond Folk Life
• Every home should have one? The Gadget Revolution
• Ravensworth Terrace: research, reconstruction & interpretation
• In the Kitchen: a contemporary documentary project
• A reading list on domestic interiors
• Recording a Workshop
• Beyond a collecting policy: projects as policy at the Harborough Museum
• Pre-empting the Dustbin: Collecting Contemporary Domestic Packaging
• Memory Lane: Museums and the Practice of Oral History
• The Norwich Plumbers’ Emblem
• Hull’s Slough: Review of the new Slough Museum

• Editorial: projecting social history in museums
• The cream of the dross: collecting Glasgow’s present for the future
• Collecting the 20th Century
• Collecting contemporary advertising ephemera from a Nottingham suburb
• Social History at the Greater Manchester Museum of Science & Industry
• Urban History in Cheltenham Museum
• Buildings, Food & Marketing
• Film in Museums

• Bibliographies for breadmaking, beson-making, bricks, brushmaking, chainmaking, charcoal burning, cheese-making, pottery, felt hatting, grocery, horn working, rope working, saddlery, slaughtering & butchery, smoths, straw-plait, willow basketry, wigmaking & hairdressing, agricultural tools, draught horses, steam in agriculture, vernacular architecture
• Celluloid to polythene: plastics in social history collections

• The Slovak National Museum of Ethnography
• Numismatics and the Historian in Museums
• Textile History: projects in progress & reading list
• Research in Agricultural Museums
• Oral History & Agricultural History at the Welsh Folk Museum
• Change in the Inner City
• The Birmingham Public Baths Project

• 20th Century Collecting
• Friendly Societies and their symbols & rituals
• Sport & Museums
• The development of brewing in Scotland
• Government control of the liquor trade: Carlisle Management Scheme
• The public house and the community
• SHIC working group
• Creating an historic vegetable garden

Proceedings of Annual Conference Gloucester 1979