Back to NESM: a returner's view
In the three years that I've been a volunteer at NESM the museum has been utterly transformed, and 2021 has witnessed the biggest changes...
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Helen Shepherd
- May 21, 2021
- 5 min
The new-look NESM is back...again!
Sound the horns! Wave the flags! Sprinkle the confetti! Pop the corks! We're back! Yes, after another six month coronavirus closure we...
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Helen Shepherd
- May 14, 2021
- 6 min
The father of the fire brigade
Talking to people who knew our museum from years ago but haven’t been recent visitors, we often hear the phrase “but you’re just fire...
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Helen Shepherd
- May 7, 2021
- 5 min
The most famous detective you’ve never heard of
Picture the scene...the dark, foreboding streets of Victorian London. Thieves, pickpockets and rogues around every corner and a police...
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Helen Shepherd
- Apr 30, 2021
- 5 min
Back to school
During the last year our learning and discovery team has seen quite a few changes - as have so many others - not least with members of...
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Emma-leigh Crawshaw
- Apr 23, 2021
- 5 min
The making of forensic science
Forensic science with its high tech methods can seem like quite a modern area of crime fighting. But its roots actually stretch way back...
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Patrick Coleman
- Apr 16, 2021
- 4 min
The life of a Victorian bobby...and much more
There can’t be many better places to host a brand-new exhibition on Victorian policing than a genuine Victorian police station. Luckily...
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Holly Roberts
- Apr 9, 2021
- 7 min
The making of an exhibition
If you have any friends or family who work in the museum sector you’ll be all too familiar with ‘exhibition brain’. Someone suffering...
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NESM
- Apr 2, 2021
- 4 min
It’s like working with a bunch of animals!
Happy Easter! I hope you're stocked up on eggs and hot cross buns, and ready for the arrival of the Easter bunny. Talking of animals and...
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Helen Shepherd
- Mar 26, 2021
- 4 min
A peek into the past
Have you filled in your census? Last weekend - Sunday 21 March - was UK census day; the survey that's held every 10 years and provides a...
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NESM
- Mar 19, 2021
- 4 min
Toddling along to NESM
It's now more than two years since I joined #TeamNESM as a learning and discovery co-ordinator but when I first visited the museum it...
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Emma-leigh Crawshaw
- Mar 12, 2021
- 6 min
A thief-taker and a gentleman
It's the 1720s and you are a young gentleman from a good and respectable family who has just finished his studies at university. You have...
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Patrick Coleman
- Mar 5, 2021
- 6 min
Stars and shields: the heraldry of the emergency services
Among our collection here at NESM are many hundreds of examples of emergency services uniforms. They come from different time periods and...
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Holly Roberts
- Feb 26, 2021
- 6 min
Making a museum for all
At NESM we pride ourselves on offering all our visitors, young and old, a fun and engaging museum experience. This isn’t just about what...
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NESM
- Feb 19, 2021
- 5 min
Policing a new era.
If you speak to a local Sheffielder, you’ll find that there’s a lot of confusion regarding the use of the building NESM is housed within...
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Helen Shepherd
- Feb 12, 2021
- 5 min
Social media, Edwardian style!
Within the vast collection we have here at the museum, we’re often discovering little gems that give us a fascinating and unexpected...
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pwatson96
- Feb 5, 2021
- 8 min
Blowing them out by blowing them up
The other day I ended up revisiting a film I hadn’t seen for years – once a staple of Saturday afternoon TV that now seems to have...
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Emma-leigh Crawshaw
- Jan 29, 2021
- 6 min
Nicking Vicky’s Knickers
In 2016 a pair of Queen Victoria’s underpants sold for a whopping £16,250 at auction. £16,250 is a lot of money for a pair of knickers so...
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Patrick Coleman
- Jan 22, 2021
- 5 min
Volunteering in lockdown... and looking to the future
I’ve been a volunteer at NESM for nearly three years now, although it’s difficult to count the last ten months as part of that time. Like...
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Holly Roberts
- Jan 15, 2021
- 6 min
The Master Etcher and the Queen of Heeley: A Sheffield Murder
Thanks to the likes of Dickens and Conan Doyle we are all familiar with the rogues and swindlers of the late 19th century. It’s surely a...
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