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The Tank and the Officer in the Tower

Collections & Objects   Collections Management   Military History   The Archives
Posted by administrator on July 28, 2017     Permalink     Comments (1)

This blog has been written by Colin Boyd, a volunteer (and good friend) who has been helping to catalogue the plans in our remarkable Vickers Armstrong collection. Whilst working on the Vickers Armstrongs archive I came across a very good… Read more

Improving access to our shipbuilding collections

Collections & Objects   Collections Management   Discovery Museum   Local History   Maritime History   Social History   The Archives   World War 1
Posted by administrator on June 19, 2017     Permalink     Comments (1)

The shipbuilding collections at Tyne & Wear Archives are widely recognised to be of outstanding historical significance. They have attracted international research interest and back in 2013 were given official recognition through their addition to the UK Memory of the… Read more

Women in pictures – a few photos from TWAM’s online collection, Part II

Discovery Museum   Local History   Social History   The Archives   World War 1
Posted by administrator on April 6, 2017     Permalink     Leave a comment

As a volunteer at Discovery Museum, I’ve been helping with some work in the TWAM online photo collection, and along the way I’ve found some great photos I’d like to share with you featuring women.  Part I of this guest… Read more

Women in pictures – a few photos from TWAM’s online collection, Part I

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Posted by administrator on March 29, 2017     Permalink     Leave a comment

As a volunteer at Discovery Museum I’ve been helping with some work in the TWAM online photo collection.  In the course of my ‘virtual exploration’ I’ve found some great photos I’d like to share with you featuring women.  Of course,… Read more

Beware the servants

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Posted by administrator on March 20, 2017     Permalink     Comments (1)

As readers of murder mysteries well know, when a body is found in a large country house it’s usually the butler that did it. While this is just a crime fiction cliché, research that I recently carried out at North… Read more