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Great North Museum: Hancock Library – The journals of the Society of...
By Joan Williams (Library volunteer) Since I retired from my library job last summer, I have been doing voluntary work one day a week in the Library of the Great North Museum: Hancock. History of the...
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Co op products
The history of the building and the popularity of the Co-operative society means we have collected a lot of Co-op items. We have recently accessioned a selection of paper ephemera items into the...
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Tarka the Otter
So, what have I been doing this month? Well, latterly, I have been enjoying the beautiful weather, walking with my camera and looking at the history of the iron ore line to Consett, closed in 1965 as a...
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Museums don’t just collect the ‘old stuff’…
My colleague Graham Bradshaw is currently managing a project called Science & Society. The aim is to accession objects into the collection that reflect the important role science plays in our lives...
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Loading Gauge found to be unsafe and is removed from site for conservation...
When the recent landscape improvements at Monkwearmouth Station Museum uncovered the loading gauge to full view again, thoughts turned to conserving both it and also the railway signal. (Read more in...
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Why put a compass up a pole?
Not to help the dancers find their way! Over the past year I’ve been working with the Sunderland ship model and ship portrait collections. In that time I’ve become unnaturally interested in a feature...
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Recent discoveries from the Sunderland shipbuilding archives project
I am delighted to announce that work has started on the ‘We ‘Mak’em’ Sunderland Shipbuilding archives project. This is the first in a series of blogs that will report on the project’s progress and...
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A request came in from Newcastle University to look at the human remains from the Bronze Age that we have in our collections for a project on Bronze Age burials. This required having a detailed look at...
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