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North Lincolnshire on the Home Front: Burton upon Stather
Welcome to part five of ‘North Lincolnshire on the Home Front in World War Two’ focussing on Barton upon Humber. …
North Lincolnshire on the Home Front: Barton upon Humber
Welcome to part four of ‘North Lincolnshire on the Home Front in World War Two’ focussing on Barton upon Humber. …
North Lincolnshire on the Home Front: Brigg
Welcome to part three of ‘North Lincolnshire on the Home Front in World War Two’ focussing on Brigg. This blog …
North Lincolnshire on the Home Front: Scunthorpe
Welcome to part two of ‘North Lincolnshire on the Home Front in World War Two’ focussing on Scunthorpe. This blog …
North Lincolnshire Home Guard
Welcome to part one of ‘North Lincolnshire on the Home Front in World War Two’ focussing on the Home Guard. …
Life during World War Two
Enlistment: In the wake of the declaration of World War Two, the National Service (Armed Forces) Act 1939 conscripted all …
Curator’s Choice – Fowler’s Engravings
William Fowler was a joiner and architect, who lived during the Georgian period. He was born in 1761 and died …
Curator’s Choice – The Flintlock Flint
This little object is a gunflint. They were an important part of an early type of gun known as a …
Designer/Maker Kate Noakes has upcycled a Pembroke tea table as part of the International Country House exhibition
When Normanby Hall Country Park re-opens you will have another chance to see the Arts Council England funded exhibition ‘The …
Curator’s Choice – Bonnets and Mourning
Bonnets 1870s or 1880s Worn by a woman in mourning. The practice of public mourning dates to the Middle Ages, …
Curator’s Choice – William Stukeley’s ‘Itinerarium Curiosum’
Today I am going to share with you a book that is in the museum collection that is not usually …
Curator’s Choice – the Plough Pebble
What I really like about these objects is that although they’re quite small and uninteresting looking, but they’ve got quite …
Curator’s Choice – Magnificent Moths
I picked these because I really like the moths in the collection, they’re a very interesting collection of objects, I …
Curator’s Choice – The Boy’s Dresses
c1821 Belonged to a little boy. Until about the late 1800s, young boys wore gowns or dresses until they were …
Welbeck Hill Anglo-Saxon Cemetery
North Lincolnshire Museums has recently acquired the archive from an Early Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Welbeck Hill in Irby on Humber. …
Victorian Christmas Cards
Many of our modern British Christmas traditions have their roots in the Victorian period. One of these traditions is the …
Folklore at North Lincolnshire Museums
North Lincolnshire Museums collection features a wide range of fascinating folklore related material. As well as the justly famous Rudkin …
Heritage Manager’s Top Ten PAS Finds
This week the 1.5 millionth archaeological discovery made by the public has been recorded on the national Portable Antiquities Scheme …
20th Century Architecture: Scunthorpe Pre-fabs
Rebecca Lucas, Collections Officer has been researching the 20th Century architecture of North Lincolnshire. She’s been using the museum’s resources …
A Home and a Husband
A Home and a Husband is one of three projects Tracy is working on during her virtual artist residency at …