When is a toy not a toy?
There was a time when Dinky toys and tin soldiers were found in the bedrooms and toy boxes of millions of youngsters throughout the...
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Emma-leigh Crawshaw
Jun 4, 20216 min read
Time and punishment: the Victorian view
The Victorians were an industrious lot. They were always reforming things and they were keen, in particular, to leave behind the...
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Patrick Coleman
May 28, 20215 min read
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, 20215 min read
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, 20216 min read
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, 20215 min read
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, 20215 min read
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, 20215 min read
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, 20214 min read
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, 20217 min read
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, 20214 min read
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, 20214 min read
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, 20214 min read
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, 20216 min read
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, 20216 min read
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, 20216 min read
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, 20215 min read
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, 20215 min read
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, 20218 min read
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, 20216 min read
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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