In association with Luxe Magazine. By Victoria Page, Communications Officer. On Saturday 6 May 2023 the world will witness one of the most significant historical events of the last century in the UK — the coronation of King Charles III. Preparations are well underway, and we’ve all heard about the…

Written by Icy Sedgwick, host of the Fabulous Folklore podcast Warning, this post contains references to suicide, depression and death. While the Laing Art Gallery contains many art treasures, two of its paintings have long caught my eye. ‘The Quayside’ and ‘Grainger Street’ by Arthur Edmund Grimshaw and Louis Hubbard…

by Anna Robson Natural History collections are integral parts of British and worldwide museums and yet they are often under appreciated and under researched. My task as an undergraduate researcher over the summer has been to uncover the forgotten stories which surround the Great North Museum Hancock’s taxidermy collection on…

Olivia Turner and Sally Waite reflect on their new exhibition ‘The Way My Body Feels’, which brings together art and archaeology to reflect on the ancient and contemporary body. Dr Sally Waite is Senior Lecturer in Classical Archaeology and Dr Olivia Turner is an artist and postdoctoral researcher, both at…

by Katie Wright, Digital Intern, Second World War and the Holocaust Partnership Project As part of the Second World War and Holocaust Partnership Project (SWWHPP) with Imperial War Museums (IWM) we have been looking at diverse stories of war on Tyneside. This post looks at the stories of women working…

By Victoria Page, Communications Officer, Discovery Museum and Tyne & Wear Archives Holocaust Memorial Day: 27 January was decided as part of the Stockholm Declaration, to learn about the Holocaust, Nazi Persecution and the genocides that followed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur, in the hope that there may be…

By Katie Wright, Digital Intern at Discovery Museum, for the Second World War and Holocaust Partnership Programme (SWWHPP) with Imperial War Museums (IWM). Christmas has been shaped and changed in many ways throughout history. It has changed almost entirely since the earlier medieval celebrations. It became recognisable to us around…

By Andrew Parkin, Keeper of Archaeology, Great North Museum: Hancock Anyone visiting the Hadrian’s Wall Gallery in the Great North Museum: Hancock will be struck by the large quantity of Roman inscribed stonework from the collection of the Society of…

by Gemma Ashby, Assistant Keeper of History Trigger warning: This blog post references overt racism, and British and French colonial exploitation of African people. If you’ve ever taken a walk through Exhibition Park in Newcastle or visited Wylam Brewery for a drink and marvelled at the building in which it’s…