This provides more food for thought about the way we frame the volunteer opportunities we offer:

"Recently the Victoria and Albert Museum put up a job advert for an unpaid voluntary curatorial role. To land this job you needed, minimum, a masters degree and to be able to work for free.

Obviously as soon as this job advert went live, all of history Twitter protested. 

And the V&A duly apologised, said the whole asking people to work for free thing, had been a huge mistake and took down the job advert.

Fantastic win right? Well, kind of, but it’s also something that happens everyday in the history and heritage sector, it’s just that this one time, it was caught.

But we can’t carry on staying quiet every other time this happens. Because our reliance on these voluntary roles will inevitably end up killing our sector."

https://fyeahhistory.com/2018/03/26/how-demanding-unpaid-work-is-killing-off-museums/

https://twitter.com/marta_zboralska/status/976204976920907776