Speakers announced for Heritage Show + Tell on 2 July

Heritage Show + Tell is a chance for people passionate about heritage in Yorkshire to come together and share their work, get feedback on ideas and meet new collaborators. Everyone welcome: community heritage groups, freelancers, museum professionals, archivists, students and academics.

The next Heritage Show + Tell will be hosted by Leeds Museums and Galleries on Thursday 2 July 2015.

Join us for a taster of the new Leeds History of Medicine Trail at 4pm (starting from the Parkinson Steps, University of Leeds), followed by Heritage Show + Tell at Leeds City Museum from 5pm to 7pm. There will also be a chance to see a new exhibition, The Imaginary Museum: Monuments and Landmarks, which will be showcased as part of the event.

We have nine three-minute presentations followed by lots of opportunity to meet and mingle over a glass of wine. Speakers include:

Louise Atkinson (School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds)
The Imaginary Museum: Monuments and Landmarks

Alexandra Woodall (School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester)
Things Unbound in an Indian Museum: what do objects actually do and how might we research this?

Becky Tinnion, Jess Shaw and Tess Hornsby Smith (Faculty of Arts, University of Leeds)
Creating the Leeds History of Medicine Trail

James Lattin (Artist and Curator of the Museum of Imaginative Knowledge)
New Discoveries from the Museum of Imaginative Knowledge

Esther Graham (Scarborough Museums Trust)
‘Oh I do like to be beside the seaside': developing a seaside collection strategy and a seaside heritage network

Nigel Leeds (Woodhouse Ridge Action Group)
Rescuing the Bandstand on Woodhouse Ridge

Jo Fullman (West Yorkshire Archive Service)
West Yorkshire History Centre coming soon!

Jack Gann (Centre for Victorian Studies, Leeds Trinity University)
Window Shopping: Visitor Behaviour in Victorian Street Displays

Georgina Binnie (School of English, University of Leeds)
Writing Back: Yorkshire Letters and Archives

If you'd like to come to the Heritage Show + Tell event, register by emailing ccsmghinfo@leeds.ac.uk. Please indicate if you would also like to book a place on the tour.

Heritage Show + Tell is funded through the University of Leeds Cultural and Creative Industries Exchange and co-hosted by the Centre for Critical Studies in Museums, Galleries and Heritage and the Centre for Collaborative Heritage Research. It is organised in partnership with Leeds Museums and Galleries.