Family & Community Historical Research Society

The 2009 Annual Conference.
Guest Speakers

Dr Sue Hawkins

Sue has a PhD in history of nursing gained at Kingston University in 2007. She is currently working as project manager on the Wellcome-funded Historic Hospital Admission Registers Project at Kingston. Her interests are in Victorian social history, particularly the role of women in Victorian society, history of medicine and nursing. She is also currently working as an oral historian with the Natural History Museum on an AHRC funded project, Museum Lives.

Juliet Warren

Juliet Warren is a Researcher at the Centre for Local History Studies, Kingston University. She is database manager for the Great Ormond Street Hospital Patient Admissions Registers and Cromwell House projects, and the current Wellcome-funded Historic Hospital Admission Registers Project at Kingston. She also teaches history and computing on the University’s MA courses in history.

Jim Gledhill

Jim is a social historian educated at Lady Margaret Hall College, Oxford, and University College London. He is presently Assistant Curator at the Foundling Museum, prior to which he worked for several years in the Collections Department at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester.

Esther Lutman

An Assistant Curator at the V & A Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green, Esther is presently responsible for post-war dolls and currently covering dolls' houses. She also supports the Collections Team with documentation, photography liaising / research and bug control. Esther started working for the V&A in 2002 and spent her first year working in the Conservation Department. She has been at the Museum of Childhood since 2003. The things she likes about her job are the mixture of studying, researching, care of collections combined with the odd day of dancing and face painting.