This is the Little Grey Fergie TE20 tractor at the Heritage Centre, Bellingham, designed by Harry Ferguson and built in England from 1946. His aim was to make agriculture more efficient to reduce hunger and poverty. The three-point hydraulic linkage for attaching implements remains the basis of modern tractor design, and the depth of the plough could be adjusted to plough more efficiently.
Continuing the A to Z of some of the topics, projects and clients with whom I have worked over the last 25 years: Kielder Water & Forest Park, Kirkleatham Museum; Lindisfarne Gospels; Maritime; Northumberland; Open Treasure, Durham Cathedral; Pilgrim Roots; Quarry Bank, National Trust; Romans; skills sharing; Thames foreshore archaeology, training; Ulster Museum; volunteers; Woodhorn Museum and Archives; Xylophone (glass); Yorkshire; Teacups, Zebras and Dancing Kaisers at Wallington.
2021 marks 25 years of working as a freelancer and consultant in cultural heritage. During that time, the projects and clients I have worked with cover the whole alphabet. Here are some of them: Archives, Archaeology; British Library, British Museum, Beamish: Churches, Community Consultations, Carlisle Castle; Darlington Railway Museum, Head of Steam; English Heritage, Evaluation; Forestry; Glass; Henry VIII, Heritage Schools, Historic England; Imperial War Museum; Journey to Justice. More to follow!
These new evaluation principles have just been launched, to help cultural organisations evaluate their work more effectively. The principles are about the intentions for evaluation, applicable to cultural organisations, funders and the evaluators themselves. Evaluation should be:
- Beneficial, resulting in learning or change
- Robust, but proportionate
- People-centred
- Connected - findings are transparent and shared with other organisations
Read more about the principles here
- 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