Feels like home: Place-based belonging and co-curating with communities

Learn all about our regular work with community organisations, creatively opening our collections to ensure the archives are for everyone. Join The National Archives' Sector Development Manager, Helena Smart, in conversation with Dr Aisling O’Boyle (Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Language Education Research, Queen’s University Belfast) academic partner on the Irish Linen Centre and Lisburn Museum migrant research project: Yours, Mine and Ours. Together, they will discuss the social role of museums and archives collaborating with communities, fostering cultural inclusion, and enhancing feelings of belonging.

Discover more about our new programme for community-led research in the cultural heritage sector ‘Spaces, Places and Belonging’ community hub.

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