2024 is the 100th anniversary of Northumberland Library Service. Notably, the first County Librarian was a woman, Ruth Baker, aged 28 when she was appointed, and the library service began in the rural parts of the county. (click to read more)
Read more: Our Century of Stories -100 years of Northumberland Libraries
Recent research shows that built heritage has a measurable benefit on people's wellbeing. If people live somewhere where there are historic buildings, the DCMS Culture and Heritage Capital Programme has calculated that the built heritage gives them a wellbeing benefit equivalent to £515 per person per year.
It's easy to forget that websites and the internet consume huge amounts of electricity - more than the UK's annual consumption, and CO2 emissions from the internet are equal to or greater than worldwide aviation emissions. Alarming! But my website is very low-carbon...(click to read more)
Smell is often overlooked in heritage interpretation, but it is a powerful sense which, along with taste, is strongly connected with memory. Odeuropa have recently launched The Olfactory Storytelling Toolkit which is a comprehensive guide to working with smells - pleasant and malodorous - in museums and heritage venues.
- Childhood in the past
- Rest Under the Stars
- An outside view
- Easy Read
- New Heritage Schools case studies
- What do teachers want from museums?
- The revolutionary Fergie tractor
- Rest under the stars
- The Fergie Tractor
- An A to Z of 25 years, part 2
- An A to Z of 25 years
- New Evaluation Principles from the Centre for Cultural Value
- Railway Resources
- Good News for Heritage
- New Questions for New Times
- Canny Chanters Chopwell Arts
- Heritage Schools evaluation report 2018/19 launched
- Kings Seat hill fort
- Heritage Centre Bellingham
- Who are our visitors?
- Places of Worship for Community Wellbeing
- Snapping the Stiletto
- Dementia Friendly Heritage
- Martin Luther King in Newcastle
- Art up your tab
- Museums Change Lives
- Charred timber cladding for the Kielder wildlife hide
- New wildlife hide for Kielder
- Martin Luther King - Freedom City Launch
- On tenterhooks
- Heritage Schools wins Europa Nostra award
- Glass Beats
- Leeches and Stories of Glass
- Selma - the right to vote
- Kinder Transport Memorial, Liverpool Street Station
- Goulash Cannon and Tin Helmet
- Remembrance
- Making glass at the National Glass Centre
- The Canary Girls
- Recycling from the First World War
- The Talented and Colossal Mademoiselle D'Jeck
- Visitor Studies in Split, Croatia
- On the border of Slovenia and Hungary
- Culture Matters
- Slovenia
- Repositories of technology
- A piece of Hungarian social history
- Museum + Heritage Show; Arts Professional
- Evaluation training in Slovenia and Croatia
- Iron Applause in Central Europe
- Escaped Circus Elephant!
- Gold from Afghanistan and Foundling fabrics
- The Old Herring Factory, Djúpavík
- Contemporary art from North Korea
- Nicola appointed to Board: Kuratórium
- Workshop in Hungary
- Evaluation Training in Hungary