Posts by venue: Discovery Museum

Here comes the Sun

Collections & Objects   Discovery Museum   Fashion   Laing Art Gallery
Posted by administrator on March 27, 2014     Permalink     Comments (1)

Guest post by Caroline Whitehead. We all need something frivolous in our lives now and again, and this month I’ve been working with some of the most frivolous things in Tyne & Wear Archives and Museums’ Costume & Textile Collection… Read more

Was your ancestor a Sunderland freemason?

Collections & Objects   Discovery Museum   Local History   Social History   The Archives
Posted by administrator on March 4, 2014     Permalink     Comments (5)

Last year the Archives was delighted to receive on deposit the historical records of the Phoenix Lodge, Sunderland. The origins of this freemasons lodge date back to 1755, when the King George’s Lodge was constituted. The Lodge met in public… Read more

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

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

Bringing hope to Second World War prisoners

Collections & Objects   Discovery Museum   Local History   Military History   Social History   The Archives
Posted by administrator on December 16, 2013     Permalink     Leave a comment

Tyne & Wear Archives acquired fourteen new collections last month and one in particular really caught my imagination. It’s a series of 24 letters sent to a young woman, Elsie Stothert, who worked at Shaws Biscuit factory on the Team… Read more