Subject Specialist Network

Can Subject Specialist Networks find a way to sustain themselves?

SSNs are a vital way for museum collections experts to share knowledge, but a lack of funding and no strategy to support them has seen some fall by the wayside

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Specialisms | Remembering the 1926 General Strike

Alex Longrigg and Fran Stovold on the theme of this year's Social History Curators' Group conference

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Specialisms | Money and Medals Network

Campbell Orchard and Christopher Gallacher on supporting numismatic collections

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Specialisms | Dress and Textile Specialists

Victoria Haddock on a network for dress specialists

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Specialisms | War and Conflict Subject Specialist Network

Charlotte Pearce on a digital community for those exploring the heritage of conflict from 1914 to the present day

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Specialism | Museum Ethnographers Group

Meghan Backhouse on ethnography collections

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Specialism | Natural Sciences Collections Association

Jennifer Gallichan on supporting natural sciences

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Specialism | Who uses archaeological collections?

Ben Donnelly-Symes on a new research project by the Society for Museum Archaeology

Q&A | ‘We are keen for Windrush 75 to be celebrated by everyone in the UK’

A new network aims to make 2023 a year of Windrush celebrations marking its 75th anniversary

Queer Heritage and Collections Network launched

Training and peer support to be offered to UK museums