Alfred Munnings’ Newlyn sketchbooks – Munnings Art Museum

This episode is for those people who love animals and art because in it, I interview Jenny Hand, curator at Munnings Art Museum.
Read More...Journalist. PR Consultant. Copywriter. Also a pretty inept equestrian.
This episode is for those people who love animals and art because in it, I interview Jenny Hand, curator at Munnings Art Museum.
Read More...Nestled among the reconstructed low-status farm buildings in Weald & Downland Living Museum is an almost fairytale-like structure. It wasn’t the home of fairytale heroine though – it’s actually an ornamental dairy from Regency England. Although, there are marks within it to ward off witches and evil spirits…
Read More...With 37% of professionals wanting to leave the profession, Ploy Radford explores the best practices from a charity which helps pets owned by the homeless population and has a growing number of volunteers offer their free time to work with them…
Read More...It would be very easy to walk by the small, understated self-portrait of Emma Brownlow at the Foundling Museum in London, but it would be a travesty to not pay more attention to someone whose works provide such an interesting insight into life at the UK’s first ever children’s charity – the Foundling Hospital.
Read More...It can be very easy to walk by jewellery in an exhibition because these items tend to be very small. Don’t skip by this episode of Past Matters though – in it I talk to to Colchester Museums’ Senior Collections and Learning Curator Glynn Davis about some exquisite pieces of Roman jewellery that cast new light on the inhabitants of Roman Colchester, show off the skill of jewellers and gems cutters of the time, and reveal more about Roman jewellery trends.
Read More...Thought furniture was boring? Nonsense! Come and listen to episode 2 of Past Matters and learn about secret compartments and boudoir calendars in this interview with Bob Entwistle, Conservation Officer at Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich.
Read More...Can weapons be art? How can you do armour – something worn to be admired from a 360 degree angle – justice in a museum? And did you know there were armour-making dynasties in renaissance Europe?
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