To Bedale in North Yorkshire, for an evaluation session with Mowbray School for their Heritage Schools project, to find out what the students think about their local heritage. This is part of English Heritage's national project Heritage Schools to encourage and upskill schools to use their local heritage to teach all areas of the curriculum. Bedale has the last surviving Leech House, where leeches were kept for medicinal purposes, and it was used until the early 1900s.
National Glass Centre, Sunderland, launched its Digital Storytelling exhibition - people made short films about their memories of the glass-making industry. Students from Bishop Barrington School made glass art works inspired by the stories. Read the report in the Sunderland Echo here.
We should never take for granted the right to vote, a right which many have died for and a right which in some countries is not available.
The preview showing was to raise funds for Journey to Justice , an exhibition and series of events to raise awareness of the civil rights struggle and to encourage people to take part in social justice action. Journey to Justice is starting in Newcastle upon Tyne, with the exhibition opening at Discovery Museum on 4 April 2015.
Hurrying in and out of the entrance to the underground at Liverpool Street Station on Holocaust Memorial Day, it is easy to not notice the bronze boy and girl with their suitcase as they are obscured by passers-by. They form the memorial to the Kinder Transport - nearly 10,000 mainly Jewish children who were brought to England from central Europe before the start of World War II.
The Hungarian Trade and Tourism Museum www.mkvm.hu/indexen.php has a new exhibition about food and provisions in World War 1. As the British thought that the war would be over by Christmas of 1914, the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy thought that it would last no more than 90 days. As time passed, it became increasingly difficult to provide enough food - and in many cases, water - for soldiers and civilians, leading to great hardship.
The Goulash Cannon was a mobile field kitchen used at the Front, running on rails and pulled by horses, with a big chimney, so it looked like a cannon.
One of my recent tasks was copy-editing the English version of the text for the exhibition.
- 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