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Queering the Vikings - a film by Ancient House Teenage History Club

This film is based on Ancient House Teenage History Club's paper presented at Queer Heritage & Collections Network Symposium 2022 at the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester on 20 October 2022. Their paper, entitled Queering the Vikings, explored gendering Viking remains in archaeological digs, specifically the grave goods found at Santon, about six miles outside Thetford. They explained the process of disentangling gender from estimated/skeletal sex drawing on current thinking in biological anthropology and osteoarchaeology. They explained that clothing and accessories are not enough to determine gender. The teens outlined their interpretation strategy including working with an artist to create an illustration of a non-binary styled Viking to display in the museum with burial objects. Matthew Storey, curator from Historic Royal Palaces said: The teenagers work “set the standard of good practise for the sector.” Richard Sandell, Professor in the School of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester and co-director of the Research Centre for Museums and Galleries, tweeted: “Absolutely nailed it. Bold, ground-breaking, deeply thought through - massive thanks to the Teenage History Club for sharing their work at #QHCN22” One of the delegates commented: “Was absolutely blown away by the work by this group of young people!! Give them our jobs!” The group a grateful to Kick the Dust and Brecks Fen Edge and Rivers Landscape Partnership who are supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund for funding the project, and to the curators and trustees of the British Museum for loaning the Santon artefacts. Queer Heritage and Collections Network was founded by the Research Centre for Museum and Galleries (part of the School of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester), National Trust, English Heritage, Historic England and Historic Royal Palaces. It is a UK-wide subject specialist network supporting and developing work with LGBTQ+ collections and histories. Visitor can see the display of Santon items in the Vikings, History on your Doorstep exhibition at Ancient House Museum of Thetford life until 9 July 2023.