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Exploring the ‘Workshop of The World’

Collections & Objects   Collections Management   Discovery Museum   Local History   Maritime History   Military History   The Archives
Posted by administrator on February 6, 2014     Permalink     Leave a comment

This month I’ve started work on a major project to catalogue our collection of the historic records of Vickers Armstrong and its predecessor companies. This will make all the documents fully available to the public for the very first time.… Read more

Two James Taylors?

Art   Laing Art Gallery   Local History
Posted by administrator on January 27, 2014     Permalink     Comments (4)

For my first blog post, here’s an interesting puzzle that someone out there might have an answer for. Wading through boxes of prints at the Laing Art Gallery with John Millard, looking for portraits by North-East Victorian artist Ralph Hedley,… Read more

Roll up, roll up! See the MERMAID!

Collections & Objects   Great North Museum: Hancock
Posted by administrator on January 22, 2014     Permalink     Comments (7)

Mermaids have been part of myth and legend from as early as 2000 BC and the Assyrian goddess, Atargatis. She flung herself into the sea in grief over accidentally killing her mortal lover. She wished to become a fish, but… Read more

Insults and infighting in Seventeenth Century Newcastle

Collections & Objects   Discovery Museum   Local History   Social History   The Archives
Posted by administrator on January 15, 2014     Permalink     Comments (7)

Last year I wrote a short blog about a new addition to the Tyne & Wear Archives collections – an apprenticeship register of the Incorporated Company of Tailors of Newcastle upon Tyne dating from the Tudor period. The register was… Read more

Shopping Local

Collections & Objects
Posted by administrator on December 17, 2013     Permalink     Leave a comment

Have you done all of your Christmas shopping yet? Or are you waiting until the last minute to shop while Carol singers and brass bands are playing in the street and people are wishing each other a merry Christmas? My… Read more