Posts by venue: Social History

NUFC. For the love of football

The next exhibition that I am curating at Discovery Museum is all about Newcastle United. I’m working with Mick Edmondson who owns The Backpage, a sporting memorabilia shop in Newcastle. He is a massive Newcastle fan and has an amazing… Read more

Focus on the collections (part 2) – The library of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne

In my last blog update I started looking at the three different collections housed in the library at the Great North Museum: Hancock. This month I’m going to tell you about the library of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle… Read more

Shoemaking craze hits fashionable society

Here is a photograph of a slipper table that we have in the museum collection. I didn’t know anything about slipper tables until this week when I got an email from a postgraduate student in Dublin. She is researching the… Read more

Baskets

Today I have been showing one of the baskets in the museums’ collection to a member of the Northumbria Basketry Group. The group were interested in seeing the replica creel that we had in our collection to compare it some… Read more

That’s the way to do it

We’d like to welcome our very first set of Punch and Judy dolls into the history collection at TWAM. These are not just any Punch and Judy dolls. They were given to the museum by Ann Small, the puppets belonged… Read more