Staff Profile Mark Etheridge
Principal Curator of Collection Development: LGBTQ+
Contact Details
Mark Etheridge
Social & Cultural History
St Fagans National Museum of HistoryCardiff
CF5 6XB
Phone: +44 (0)29 2057 3574
Staff Name
Mark Etheridge
Job Title
Principal Curator of Collection Development: LGBTQ+
Areas of Responsibility:
Curatorial responsibility for LGBTQ+ history. Collections Management of the industry and social history collections. Curatorial responsibility for early historic photography collections, including an internationally important collection by the circle of John Dillwyn Llewelyn (a collection of 1,240 prints, paper and glass negatives, mainly dating to the 1850s). Management of the industry & transport photographic collections (over 206,000 images).
Qualifications, memberships and relevant positions
- BA (Hons).
- Museums Association (individual member)
- Committee member of the LGBTQ+ Special Interest Group of the Oral History Society.
Research Interests
LGBTQ+ history of Wales. Early photography in Wales. Researching a large collection of early photographs by the circle of John Dillwyn Llewelyn.
Interests also include making collections available online, and developing new ways to improve the management of the photographic collections.
Keywords
LGBTQ+ History, Historic Photography, Oral History, Contemporary Collecting.Selected Publications
Barringer, T., and Fairclough, O. 2014. Pastures Green & Dark Satanic Mills, American Federation of Arts, 2014 (contributing authors: A. Pritchard, M. Munro, M. Etheridge).
Etheridge, M. 2023. ‘Protest with Pride: Lesbians and Gay Men Support the Miners’. In Crafted with Pride: Queer Craft and Activism in Contemporary Britain, edited by D Fountain. Bristol: Intellect Books.
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