Ever wondered why most of our police officers are known as “constables”? Or why so many American police chiefs are called “sheriffs”?...

Marketing our museum looks like it should be a simple job. Fire engine fans? Captive audience; let them know about all the marvellous...

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...

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...

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...

When it comes to fighting serious and organised crime in the UK, our police officers take their cues from two intriguing worlds: that of...

"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,...

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...

Ever wondered how much an exhibition costs? Read this article to find out how NESM creates exhibitions on a shoe-string budget!

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...

Physically fit enough to carry an injured man, technically minded to piece a torn apart ambulance back together, adept enough to...

There are some places around the British Isles that no ambulance- no matter how determined its driver- can ever reach, and where even the...

In a complete building full to the rafters with vehicles, sirens, bells and all kinds of rare and curious contraptions the Museum never...

Read on to follow our historical characters through time as they look at how people and services reacted to the epidemics of the past.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

In one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s most iconic stories, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Dr James Mortimer states that Sherlock is ‘the...