📣 Join our Board! Are you an experienced professional? Passionate about the arts? Committed to increasing dialogue and visibility of LGBTQIA+ culture? This might be the role for you! Find out more… 🔗buff.ly/4dojszX #CuriousArts

Our new #WomanOfTheNorth report lays bare the unequal challenges faced by women living in the North of England - who live shorter lives, work more hours for less pay and are more likely to be an unpaid carer than women in other regions of England 1/13 healthequitynorth.co.uk/vast-inequalit…

Our own brilliant Head of Health & Wellbeing Michelle Kindleyside contributed to this excellent book👇 on world wide sale 👏👏 ⁦Beamish Museum⁩ ⁦AIM⁩ ⁦Museums Association⁩ ⁦International Council of Museums (ICOM)⁩ ⁦ICOM UK⁩

I'm very excited for this Queer Heritage and Collections Network symposium! Places at Kensington Palace are limited - get your free tickets quickly. If you can't make it to London, online tickets are also available 👇

NE LGBTQIA+ HERITAGE NETWORK Professionals from museums, archives, libraries, universities, & collections across the North East, join us for a special seminar dedicated to setting up a regional LGBTQIA+ Heritage Network 15 Oct📍Beamish Museum The event will feature...

I'm very excited to delve into the queer heritage of the North East with Curious Arts at the lovely Beamish Museum in a couple of weeks. It will be great to meet with colleagues from @TWAMmuseums, Newcastle University, Beamish Museum, The Story Durham and many others...

We are only a week away from the Queer Heritage and Collections Symposium 2024! 🌈 There is still time to register online: eventbrite.com/e/queer-herita… The digital programme can now be accessed on our website! We look forward to seeing you there! #QHCN2024 queerhcn.org/symposiums/sym…

The horrifying reality of being a woman, perfectly summarised by Cait O'Ryan If you give even the slightest shit about women, watch it all. This is what it’s like.

"This investment can transform people’s life chances, unearth talent, & ensure the North’s creative voice is heard on the national & world stage": pleased to be one of the writers who co-signed this important Open Letter calling for a major new centre for the writing industries.

Trustee Vacancy 📣 We're on the hunt for Trustees who can bring experience in Accountancy, IT & Digital Technology and Public Relations/Corporate Affairs to our museum. Find out more: beamish.org.uk/trustee-recrui…

"Museums have been in the closet for far too long" George Chakravarthi A wonderful inspiring start to the Queer Heritage and Collections Network symposium at Kensington Palace Historic Royal Palaces

Our new research has found that 78% of primary school children hear homophobic language, with many attributing this to trends on TikTok📱 (1/5)

Great to be back at the beautiful Kensington Palace for day two of the Queer Heritage and Collections Network symposium @RSMuseumStudies Cesare Cuzzola Matthew Storey Laura Tompkins

There are some incredible objects on display at Kensington Palace as part of Historic Royal Palaces' Untold Lives exhibition. A few highlights here... Queer Heritage and Collections Network Matthew Storey

David Olusoga: 'I think [the job of historians] is to try to stand there at this arsenal of dangerous ideas and to make it more difficult for people to raid that arsenal to use it for their political projects. It is to complicate the picture; it is to show that these simple

Place based people & nature partnership networking with ⁦⁦National Trust⁩ hosted by ⁦@TWAMmuseums⁩ ⁦Keith Merrin⁩ with ⁦Bernard Donoghue⁩ ⁦Rachael E Lennon⁩ 😊😊⁦Beamish Museum⁩ ⁦DurhamWildlifeTrust⁩

"The mines have gone, but the people survive and so do their banners" - Revd Canon Michael Hampel, Vice-Dean and Precentor of Durham Cathedral See 40 Miners' banners from around the region in the cathedral until 7 November See more➡️ ow.ly/sCRq50TXmfB

⁦Durham Cathedral⁩ for the 40th anniversary miners strike Solidarity Forever banners display in collaboration with ⁦Redhills Durham⁩ & #Durhamminingcommunities banners association ‘marras’ banner is the 1st you see on the route through

Phil Douglas, our CEO, has been selected as one of the 24 global fellows for Clore Leadership 24! 🌟 As a representative from the North East, along with Rachael E Lennon, Phil will champion inclusivity, the LGBTIA+ community, and arts & culture leadership

Positive culture investment news for NE writers and publishers as Newcastle to get national writing centre after Government pledges £5m support New Writing North North East Combined Authority Kim McGuinness chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-eas…