Tag: Objects

• The Crime Museum Uncovered

  Yesterday, after six months this long awaited exhibition at the Museum of London came to an end. With plans for New Scotland Yard to close the future of the Metropolitan Police’s infamously known “Black Museum” is uncertain. This carefully curated exhibition allowed the public to experience a selection of the items found inside. Many still…

  Death and the Maiden

  10/04/2016

  Lucy Coleman Talbot

  Crime, Deadmaidens, Death, Ethics, Exhibits, Forensic, History, Investigation, London, Metropolitan Police, Murder, Museum, Museum of London, Object Biography, Objects, Public Display, Society, The Crime Museum, Weapons

• A Family Connection

  Social Historian, Sarah Hayes is the Collections and Exhibitions Manager at Newman Brothers Coffin Works in Birmingham. Discovering she had an ancestor working in the funeral trade in Birmingham over 150 years ago, and then of her daughter living on Fleet Street, just ten doors down from what was to become Newman Brothers Coffin Works is almost…

  Death and the Maiden

  13/04/2015

  Guest Post

  Ancestory, Birmingham, Burial, Business, Coffin Works, Coffins, Deadmaidens, Education, Family, Heritage, History, Industry, Museum, Newman Brothers, Objects, Trade