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- Issue 85 - November 2020
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- Collecting COVID - National Museums Liverpool
- History of Emotions in Nursing - Royal College of Nursing
- Transforming a Physical Exhibition into a Digital Version - Royal College of Physician
- Issue 84 - April 2020
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- Extinction Redbridge - events, attitudes and campaigns against pollution
- Touching and Smelling the Liverpool Blitz
- Queering Your Tours - LGBT History Month at Colchester Castle
- Issue 83 - November 2019
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- Who are we curating for?
- Music at Brodsworth
- The Peterloo Cane
- Issue 82 - April 2019
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- Face(book) to Face at Hackney Archives
- ‘This Vexed Question’ Installing an exhibition in a multi-use building
- Sacrificial Collections Like a building to the slaughter
- Local memories in Ironbridge
- Issue 81 - October 2018
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- Being Brunel - A new museum at SS Great Britain
- SHCG Conference 2018 - Review
- Fighting for Our Rights - Kingston’s disability rights movements
- Issue 80 - April 2018
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- This is What We Do! Advocacy in Social History Museums & Beyond
- Revealing Loans: The National Trust for Scotland’s collection
- Bringing out stories: REME museum redesign
- Care of photographs: Review of preventative care of photographs.
- Issue 79 - October 2017
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- Who were the Huguenots? This Country’s Early Refugees
- Conference 2017: How Museums Adapt to Changing Tides
- From Fear to Queer! LGBTQ History in Norwich 50 Years On
- Their Mortal Remains: Breaking Ground With the Pink Floyd Exhibition
- Issue 78 - March 2017
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- The Shelter Archive: Nick Hedges 1960’s Photographs for Shelter
- Facts Not Opinions: Kirkaldy Testing Works
- Voices from the Workhouse: Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse
- Issue 77 - October 2016
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- SHCG Conference: The Only Way is Ethics: Social History and the 21st Century Museum
- Autopsy of a Sunken House: Anglo Saxon Village
- Stormont House: Centenary Project
- Fearless Foxes: Civic Pride in Leicester
- Issue 76 - May 2016
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- The Only Way Is Ethics! SHCG Conference 2016
- Folklore in Museums: Traditions and Beliefs
- Leeds Queer Stories: LGBT*Q Social History
- Issue 75 - October 2015
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- SHCG Conference: News & reviews
- Uttlesford: A community of collectors
- From Pants to Puddings: Reminiscence and the M&S company archive
- Issue 74 - April 2015
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- Noah's Arks
- Heckling Hitler
- Huguenot Summer
- Bona to Vada your Dolly Old Eek!
- Unlocked: Collections + Creativity
- Issue 74 - April 2015 Review Supplement
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- Fantastic Plastics - A Master Class for Social History Curators
- Issue 73 - June 2014
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- Garibaldi and His Englishmen
- Museums, Money and Medals
- April Ashley: Portrait of a Lady
- Merchant Seamen in the Great War
- Issue 72 - December 2013
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- Back to the Land
- Destination Tyneside
- Illustrated Envelopes
- SHCG Conference Reviews