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, 20216 min read
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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NESM
Jan 8, 20215 min read
2020: A rollercoaster year
2020 got off to a flying start for NESM. We had a full calendar and plan of action for the year with new events, completely refurbished...
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pwatson96
Dec 18, 20206 min read
Charles Dickens: Detective Stories and the Robocop Connection
If you read our recent blog on luminous watches and the Radium Girls, you’ll know that one of the awesome things we get to do behind to...
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Helen Shepherd
Dec 11, 20207 min read
Remembering the Sheffield Blitz
Some years ago, when I was working in Sheffield city centre, we heard that an unexploded World War II bomb had been found not too far...
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NESM
Dec 4, 20203 min read
Getting back on the road
Getting to our off-site store bright and early at 6am, waiting patiently for an old engine to warm up ready for its trip out to an event...
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Emma-leigh Crawshaw
Nov 27, 20203 min read
Lombroso and the criminal face
I recently watched a BBC documentary called Eugenics: Science’s greatest scandal. It documents the history of eugenics and its lasting...
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Patrick Coleman
Nov 20, 20206 min read
Meet the "Da Vinci" of firefighters
Artist, inventor, firefighter. How the almost forgotten designer, Jan van der Heyden, transformed the world of firefighting. As famous...
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Helen Shepherd
Nov 13, 20207 min read
Blazing a trail for women
The stories of bravery, leadership and invention that make up the history of the emergency services are largely dominated by men. That’s...
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Holly Roberts
Nov 6, 20204 min read
The importance of police history
Holmes, Poirot, Columbo and even the likes of the Bill, Happy Valley, Luther and the Wire are great examples of popular culture’s ongoing...
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NESM
Oct 30, 20204 min read
Things that go bump in the night
As we head towards Halloween and eyes turn towards all things ghostly and ghoulish, it seems the perfect time to answer a question we are...
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NESM
Oct 23, 20206 min read
The Gibbet and the Maiden: a very British Punishment
In the days before modern policing, the authorities relied on the public’s fear of punishment as a means to keep law and order. No...
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Patrick Coleman
Oct 16, 20206 min read
Wildfires and our world
With each passing year the news about climate change seems to get worse, and its effects ever more obvious. In the last twelve months...
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Helen Shepherd
Oct 9, 20205 min read
A hero of the seas
When you think of the emergency services it’s probably the police, fire and ambulance that spring to mind. But before the first municipal...
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Holly Roberts
Oct 2, 20204 min read
Radium: the glowing hands of time
Not all that glitters is gold, read on to learn how a simple 1914 police advertisement gave way to a sad and dangerous history.
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Helen Shepherd
Sep 25, 20204 min read
The road to reopening
Just over two weeks ago, on national Emergency Services Day, we reopened the doors of our museum and welcomed in visitors for the first...
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Patrick Coleman
Sep 18, 20207 min read
Ask the expert: cops and the courts
This week we ask an expert on policing and justice about all things “law and order”! How do police officers work with prosecutors to...
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Helen Shepherd
Sep 11, 20205 min read
Remembering 9/11
On this day in 2001 a series of co-ordinated terror strikes on New York City and Washington DC took the lives of almost 3,000 people and...
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NESM
Sep 4, 20206 min read
London’s Royal Firefighters
On 2 September 1666 a fire started in Pudding Lane, London. Fires in London were a common hazard at the time; buildings in the city were...
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Patrick Coleman
Aug 28, 20205 min read
Police ranks: what's in a name?
Ever wondered why most of our police officers are known as “constables”? Or why so many American police chiefs are called “sheriffs”?...
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