Julia Tubman

An archaeology graduate, I began my heritage career as an objects conservator, with posts at the University of Arizona, British Museum and the National Museum of Iceland. Returning to the UK I took up what was at the time a 6-month project assistant role at Gunnersbury Park Museum, the local history museum serving the London Boroughs of Ealing and Hounslow. Ten years on I've risen to Senior Curator and fallen in love with local history and the immediacy of working in a smaller organisation with residents to explore their heritage. I've maintained old interests and found new in the collections I'm so lucky to manage; archives, lithics and deep-history, aviation and modern industrial heritage. With a great sense of grief but of course some excitement I will be moving to the Museum of Croydon in June, as the Heritage, Museum and Collections Manager - more 'my patch' having grown up in nearby Mitcham. BALH is my first trustee role, and I hope to bring a lot of passion for the subject and the potential of grassroots history, which is so often overlooked.