Queer Heritage and Collections Network Symposium 2025 - IN-PERSON

Name: Queer Heritage and Collections Network Symposium 2025 - IN-PERSON
Start: 2025-11-25T09:30:00+00:00
End: 2025-11-26T15:30:00+00:00
Location: Kemble Drive

Schedule

Tue, 25 Nov, 2025 at 09:30 am to Wed, 26 Nov, 2025 at 03:30 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Kemble Drive | Swindon, EN

QHCN organises annual symposia to showcase and explore innovative queer heritage practice being developed in the sector
About this Event

IN-PERSON ATTENDANCE ONLY

The Queer Heritage and Collection Symposium aims to explore the innovative and meaningful queer heritage practice being developed by cultural organisations across the UK and beyond. It will include presentations from open submissions and invited keynote speakers and panels.

Day 1, 25 November 2025, 09:30-17:00
Day 2, 26 November 2025, 09:30-15:30

Location: National Trust - Heelis, Swindon

The symposium will showcase innovative, experimental and emerging approaches to researching and publicly presenting queer histories, lives and communities.

The Digital Programme will be available soon on: https://queerhcn.org/symposiums/symposium-2025/

Keynotes by Michael Hall and Claye Bowler.

Speakers include:

Keava McMillan & Alex Lednicky
Alison Clague
Timothy Moore
Melissa Reeve-Rawlings
Danilo Marques dos Reis & Zorian Clayton
Law Roebuck
Aria Tilove & Sylvia Hinz
Marge Bradshaw
Liz Hide & Layo Danbury
Laura Chesover & Chloe Dennis
Tash Walker
Ben Walters
Tim Jerrome
Friday Schoemaker
Celine Elliott, Simon Clark & Lauryn Etheridge

Attendance is free. Light refreshments will be provided at the start of the day. Lunch will not be provided, but the on-site café can be used to purchase food and drinks.

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The Queer Heritage and Collections Network is formed of a partnership between National Trust, English Heritage, Historic England, Historic Royal Palaces and Research Centre for Museums and Galleries (University of Leicester) supported financially by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

The Queer Heritage and Collections Network aims to achieve a step change in the capacities and confidence of everyone who works with LGBTIQA+ heritage (including museums and heritage bodies) by supporting them to be world leading in the way they use heritage to increase public understanding of, access to, and engagement with LGBTIQA+ heritage.