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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
New SHCG Committee elected
At the SHCG AGM, held at this year’s conference, on 11 July in Leeds, several changes were made to the SHCG committee.
Your Committee Needs You
Several committee positions will be falling vacant this summer, so if you are interested in becoming more active in SHCG, now's your chance!
Call for Papers: SHCG Conference 2010
Annual Conference Birmingham, 8-10 July 2010
Training handouts now available online!
Training handouts and notes from the most recent SHCG seminar on
Event: What to do with wooden spoons!
2010, MoDA
SHCG Conference 2010: Save the Date!
8 – 10 July 2010 Birmingham
Your Committee Needs You!
Since it was established in 1974, SHCG has led the way in improving not only the status of social history in museums, but also museum interpretation, care of collections and how museums involve their communities. This could be your opportunity to become m
Event: Marvellous Medicines seminar
From the numerous drug jars, surgical implements and anatomical drawings held by the specialist medical museums to the odd tooth extractor, pill box or hernia truss we find in our social history stores many of us are faced with medical objects in our cura
2010 Conference Papers Online
Papers by Christine Johnston of the Yorkshire and Humber Rapid Response Network, Rachael Lovering of Newport Museum and Art Gallery and Maggie Wood & Nicky McIntosh of Warwickshire Museum Service and Leamington Spa Art Gallery and Museum are now available
Conference 2009 details announced... SHCG at 35: The Past, Present and Future of Social History
Leeds and York, 9-11 July 2009
2011 Conference Handouts Online
Some of the handouts used during the excellent Skills Development Sessions at the 2011 Conference are now available for download from the
Papers for this Year's AGM
The papers for 2011's Annual General Meeting are now available online for advance reading.
Advocacy for Social History Staff and Collections
SHCG have written to York Museums Trust to express their concern over recent cuts to social history staff.
Marks and Meanings - book now for SHCG's latest seminar
For this Monument Fellowship Masterclass, SHCG is joining forces with the Museums Association and Thinktank, Birmingham science museum.
Call for Papers: SHCG Conference 2011
The organisers of the 2011 SHCG Conference are looking for papers on the theme of