About this Event
The London Centre for Public History proudly presents the fourth annual early career workshop, an afternoon of talks designed to inspire and offer guidance to people who are pursuing, or hoping to pursue, careers in the public history and heritage sectors. Three established public historians will lead the discussion by drawing on their own experiences of forging career paths in museum curation, book publishing, public engagement, photojournalism and documentary making. The event will also present a valuable opportunity to become part of an active network of early career public historians.
Our Speakers:
Edmund Connolly has worked on culture and innovation with Google, the British Library, British Council and UN. His work looks at how museums, galleries, theatres, music venues and libraries respond to changing audiences, and what that means for their future. A former Executive of the International Council of Museums, he helps organisations understand what people want from the culture and heritage sectors. Edmund has worked on some of the UK's most impactful exhibitions including: Harry Potter: A History of Magic (BL), Hallyu! Korean Wave (V&A), Anglo Saxons (BL) and Bayeux Tapestry (BM) as well as modelling the consumer market and cultural insights redisplay of the Western Range, exploring how audiences help shape the culture sector for future decades.
Nompumelelo Ncube (Nom) is a creative producer, photojournalist and public historian, and founder of Mabuza Studio, an Afrocentric practice documenting Africans and their diaspora communities. A Royal Holloway MA Public History graduate, she has over six years’ experience delivering funded heritage projects and creating lens-based artwork that merges history, journalism, film and photography. Her portfolio includes Selly Manor’s Black Tudors touring exhibition, the University of Birmingham’s Africanize programme, and Skatepark Revived, a youth-led film and mural project around Europe’s first Grade II listed skatepark. She is currently writing and directing her first historical film installation, Reimagining Our Crowns, which restores the erased sovereignty of Ndebele queens from the Victorian period.
Nicole Derushie is a scholar-practitioner in the field of perishable material culture of the later prehistoric periods in Northern and Western Europe, specialising in fibre craft. While working front of house for museums in Oxford, she is also the author of the internationally best-selling book, Bog Fashion, and the creator behind @Grounded_History. Since graduating from the Public History MA at RHUL, she has worked with museums in 7 countries to deliver talks, workshops and living history demonstrations to audiences large and small. With a professional background in education, bushcraft and history communication, Nicole’s passion is making the past relevant for current audiences, whether through the written word, photography or live interpretation.
Event venue & nearby stays
Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London, United Kingdom
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