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Beneath our feet: the story of an exhibition
Collections Interpretation Officer, Sophie, looks back at the development of the ‘Beneath our feet’ exhibition. In October 2022 I joined the Archives and Heritage service on a 4-year contract at a really exciting stage in the Staffordshire History Centre project. Alongside collaborating with the team on interpretation for the History Centre and learning the ropes,…
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Ashley’s work experience
We recently hosted Ashley for a flexible work placement spread over a number of weeks where he shadowed a number of staff and saw the range of skills our team use every day. We are really pleased Ashley enjoyed his time with the team and has learnt new skills; he has kindly documented his experience…
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Turnips to Let: The Lichfield Mercury
Blackadder: Baldrick, I’ve always been meaning to ask, do you have any ambitions in life apart from the acquisition of turnips? Baldrick: Er, no. Blackadder: So what would you do if I gave you a thousand pounds? Baldrick : I’d get a little turnip of my own. Blackadder: So what would…
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Animal Archives
Follow link below to the Archives and Record Association learning blog to read more about our summer outreach programme in a blog post by our learning officer Lizzie Short.
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Samplers in the Collection
The museum collection has recently been given four samplers made by members of the same Staffordshire farming family. The textiles date from the mid-19th century. The joy of samplers is that they usually contain the name of the person who made it, along with the date. On one of these examples, we also have the…
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End of Year Construction Update
As 2023 comes to an end we wanted to highlight the progress that has been made on the construction of the new Staffordshire History Centre. Work started in February, when Paveaways Ltd took over the site, and over the last 10 months there have been big changes. The reinforced concrete structure for the four-story extension…
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Merry Christmas
A photograph of a Christmas pudding from a Mrs Beeton Recipe Book We are lucky to have some wonderful Christmas themed items in our collections; from recipes and menus to Victorian Christmas cards (some with weird and wonderful designs) to 1940s decorations; we even have a sleigh! We have been sharing some of our festive…
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Staffordshire & Slavery Community Outreach
In October I delivered a talk on ‘Staffordshire and Slavery’ for the North Staffordshire NHS Trust. My presentation touched on the practical links Staffordshire has to slavery, the relationship notable regional figures have with slavery, such as Josiah Wedgwood, and the documents held in Staffordshire’s Archive that relate to slavery. Whilst there is a whole…
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Staffs & Slavery Project
Our newest volunteer group are now up and running supporting a postgraduate research project. Hannah Smith is a current PhD student at Keele University whose research is focusing on the legacies of slavery in Staffordshire, in particularly how slavery and abolition are remembered within the county. Hannah is leading the Staffordshire & Slavery volunteer group…
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The Gothard Diaries Project
This week marked the end of a fascinating, long-term volunteer led project to transcribe the diaries of a Staffordshire man who recorded life during the First World War. Diaries and other documents dating from 1914 – 1919 on display Sir Clifford F. Gothard from Burton-on-Trent kept the diaries as a young man during the early…
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