Ballot Archive

08 Feb 2018

Candidate Details

Candidate Name

Matthew Sheldon

Academic degrees, honours etc.

BA History (Leeds) Postgraduate Diploma in Archive Administration (Soc. Archivists), MA Museum Studies (Leicester).

Profession or occupation

Museum Curator

Grounds for election

Sheldon has worked for over 20 years to preserve, develop and interpret naval historical collections. This includes; cataloguing significant collections, curating individual exhibitions, leading major capital projects in gallery development and ship conservation. He is Executive Director of Heritage at the NMRN, responsible for the strategy, policy and teams which are creating the country’s newest national museum collection, developing significant partnership with universities, museums and trusts across the country. Publications: 1. ‘A Tale of Two Cities; the facilities, work and impact of the Victualling Office in Portsmouth, 1793-1815’ in ‘Transactions of the Naval Dockyards Society’, July 2006. 2. ‘The Journal of Lieutenant George Bedford surveying on the West Coast of Africa, 1835-1836’ in ‘Naval Miscellany VII’ Susan Rose (ed), Navy Records Society, 2008. 3. Editor major exhibition catalogue, '36 Hours: Jutland 1916: The Battle that Won the War', 2016.

Signatories

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