Spotlight
Library May 2018
Prejudice & Pride
Prejudice and Pride: LGBTQ heritage and its contemporary implications emerges from the collaboration between the National Trust and the University of Leicester’s Research Centre for Museums and Galleries (RCMG) that shaped an ambitious and large scale research-led public programme.
Looking forward as well as back, the contributors collectively aim to stimulate and enrich new thinking and practice in a field that – despite significant advances in recent years – has nevertheless proved to be challenging and sometimes highly controversial. Whilst some of these challenges are undoubtedly specific to the field of queer heritage, many also resonate with attempts to reveal other hidden or marginalised histories, efforts to use these histories to speak to contemporary social concerns, and initiatives that seek to engage audiences in a more critical approach to the way we understand the past.