Keep you titbits, let’s have full equality, inclusion and representation
50 years ago today, the Sexual Offences Act became law. It partially decriminalised homosexual acts between men. The ‘partial’ is important here as inequality still existed. There was still inequality in terms of the age of consent (that was rectified only as recently as 2001). Inequality still existed in terms of the circumstances in which […]
Awards winning comedian, Francesca Martinez, reflects on her involvement in a Research Centre for Museums and Galleries project – Exceptional & Extraordinary
Exceptional & Extraordinary was a research project initiated by the Research Centre for Museums and Galleries (RCMG) at the University of Leicester which set out to stimulate public and medical professional debate around the implications of our deeply entrenched negative attitudes towards difference. An intensive and sustained process of collaboration between RCMG, museum professionals, medics […]
The School of Museum Studies at the Museums Association Conference 2014
Posted on behalf of School Manager, Barbara Lloyd: Call me a sentimental old fool if you will, but I was quite sad to be attending my last ever Museums Association conference on the 9th and 10th October in the lovely, if wet, Cardiff. We have been attending the exhibition alongside the conference for many years […]
Stories of a Different Kind
On Monday night, Jocelyn Dodd (Director of the Research Centre for Museums and Galleries) and I were lucky enough to attend the press night of Beauty and the Beast at the Young Vic – a superb new piece of theatre by Mat Fraser and Julie Atlas Muz that combines brilliantly funny (and sometimes outrageous) […]
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