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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”?...
Patrick Coleman
Aug 28, 20205 min read
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Marketing a museum in lockdown
Marketing our museum looks like it should be a simple job. Fire engine fans? Captive audience; let them know about all the marvellous...
Helen Shepherd
Aug 21, 20205 min read
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Beer Tokens and Buckets
Today we are familiar with the flash of red and the wail of sirens synonymous with our fire services, they are crucial to our everyday...

Holly Roberts
Aug 14, 20204 min read
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Exploring NESM: your rough guide to the best emergency services museum around (no bias)
We can taste it! I'm sure it's close enough to maybe even feel it but after Boris' last few announcements we can now look at reopening...

Holly Roberts
Aug 7, 20208 min read
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120 years of innovation: a look at the history of West Bar Police, Fire and Ambulance Station
Hidden behind the Sheffield City Cathedral and nestled by the Law Courts lies a 120 year old secret; okay, so perhaps not so much secret...

Holly Roberts
Jul 31, 20205 min read
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Detectives & Spies: the worlds of investigation and intelligence
When it comes to fighting serious and organised crime in the UK, our police officers take their cues from two intriguing worlds: that of...
Patrick Coleman
Jul 24, 20205 min read
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It’s not your standard every day.
"Have a plan and stick to it" is something people always say but how easy is it to actually do that as a CEO of a self-funded,...
NESM
Jul 17, 20204 min read
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3 London landmarks we lost to the flames
When the historic cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris went up in flames in April 2019, it was an all too stark reminder of how vulnerable...
Patrick Coleman
Jul 10, 20205 min read
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Small budgets and high expectations!
Ever wondered how much an exhibition costs? Read this article to find out how NESM creates exhibitions on a shoe-string budget!

Holly Roberts
Jul 3, 20204 min read
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Courage on the Front Line
In last week’s blog, our curator Holly Roberts explored how in World War I many women faced up to the blood and bullets of the front line...
Helen Shepherd
Jun 26, 20204 min read
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Bravery, Blood and Mud: the Khaki-clad Heroines of WWI
Physically fit enough to carry an injured man, technically minded to piece a torn apart ambulance back together, adept enough to...

Holly Roberts
Jun 19, 20206 min read
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From Oceans to Mountaintops: how the Emergency Services reached the extremes!
There are some places around the British Isles that no ambulance- no matter how determined its driver- can ever reach, and where even the...
Patrick Coleman
Jun 12, 20204 min read
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Courage and Community: A firefighter's tale
In a complete building full to the rafters with vehicles, sirens, bells and all kinds of rare and curious contraptions the Museum never...

Holly Roberts
Jun 5, 20202 min read
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Bile, Blood and Phlegm: a walk through history's plagues
Read on to follow our historical characters through time as they look at how people and services reacted to the epidemics of the past.
NESM
May 28, 202010 min read
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Our Museum’s not for you and other myths…
So you’ve found us. Firstly congratulations, like the Sword of Gryffindor, we only seem to appear to the select few! You’ve joined the...

Holly Roberts
May 22, 20205 min read
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The "other" Great Fires of history
We’ve all heard of the Great Fire of London, about the bakery on Pudding Lane, and the blaze that spread from there to engulf much of the...
Patrick Coleman
May 15, 20204 min read
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From Total War to the birth of the NHS
Seventy-five years ago this week, on 8 May 1945, the world was celebrating the end of war in Europe. Six years of ‘total war’ had forced...
Helen Shepherd
May 7, 20203 min read
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In search of Britain's oldest Emergency Services
Here at NESM we try to tell the story of the Emergency Services from their very beginnings, right up to the present day. However, it is...
Patrick Coleman
May 1, 20203 min read
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Reflecting a changing world
As a member of the collections team at NESM one of my tasks is to assess, preserve and catalogue the books, magazines and other documents...
Helen Shepherd
Apr 23, 20204 min read
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Alphonse Bertillon: a Foe to Criminals
In one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s most iconic stories, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Dr James Mortimer states that Sherlock is ‘the...

Holly Roberts
Apr 17, 20203 min read
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