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Dressing up and steaming ahead: must-visit museums
There are around 2,500 museums in the UK. Many of the larger ones, particularly in London, contain internationally-renowned collections of great historical and scientific significance, and are always worth a visit. In some cases, however, it is the local and specialist museums that provide the most inspiring, entertaining, and educational days out. In celebration of…
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Dates for the diary: Public and digital history talks and events in Cambridge, spring 2016
By Carys Brown @HistoryCarys January is passing with alarming speed, and as Cambridge hauls itself into the mania of full term there are flurries of emails about talks, seminars, and events. To save you the trouble of choosing, and to ensure that you don’t miss anything essential, here are a few top recommendations for this term.…
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Heritage in Austerity Britain
By James Dowsett – @jdowsea James in an MPhil Student in Modern British History at Cambridge. His research focusses on plebeian constitutionalism in the long eighteenth-century. March will be the final month the Queen Street and Helmshore Mill Museums are open to the public. These beleaguered monuments, the last working examples of the Lancashire cotton spinning…
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‘Living’ the museum experience: The development of open-air museums in Britain
By Emily Redican-Bradford How will museums look in the future? That’s the question that the #FutureMuseum Project seeks to answer. Through an online collaboration platform, international experts in the heritage sector have been sharing their views about how the industry will change in coming years.[1] One of the most prominent ideas is that the success…
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The History of Advertising Trust: preservation, management, and marketing in modern Britain
By Alistair Moir (Archive and Library Collections Manager, https://www.hatads.org.uk/.) The History of Advertising Trust (HAT) is a nationally accredited archive service established in 1976 to preserve the heritage of the UK advertising industry and make it available for study and research. Today the HAT archive is the most comprehensive collection of British advertising and marketing communications in…
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