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How a visit to a striking Preston inspired Charles Dickens
Aidan Lockwood, Curatorial Assistant, Lancashire County Museum Service, looks at some interesting documents held at Lancashire Archives which shed light on industrial unrest amongst the mill workers of Preston in the 1850s. In January 1854, Charles Dickens visited Preston to write about the Preston lock out for his weekly magazine, Household Words. His short time […]
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Selina Kay-Shuttleworth and Gawthorpe Hall: The Aftermath of Love and Loss
Author: Isobel Staton, doctoral student, University of York One of the women we have been researching from Gawthorpe Hall is Selina Kay-Shuttleworth (1886-1982), who we introduced in a previous blog post. Selina was married to Lawrence Kay-Shuttleworth, the heir to Gawthorpe Hall who was killed in 1917 during the First World War. Lawrence’s death was […]
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Gawthorpe’s Remarkable Women
This week our blog celebrates Women’s History Month. Rachel Pilling gives us a glimpse of some amazing women who have been part of the history of Gawthorpe Hall and who will be featured in an exhibition there later this year. It is a truth universally acknowledged (apparently) that a rich heiress in possession of a […]
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Lancashire’s Love Tokens
We thought we’d mark the week which brought us Valentine’s Day with some appropriately themed items which have come into the Lancashire County Museum Service Collection recently. Curatorial Assistant Aidan Lockwood shares the details. Recently, the Lancashire County Museums Service has come to acquire three tokens of love through the Portable Antiquities Scheme. While it […]
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‘THE KING THE PEOPLE LOVED … THE QUEEN WHO IS OUR HOPE’: Queen Elizabeth II’s Accession to the Throne and the Espousal of Values
By Anya Hopkins, Curatorial Assistant When the Queen, twenty-five years of age, succeeded to the throne on 6th February, 1952, it marked the transition of her from a young Princess and mother to upholding the highest level of integrity as head of state. An OXO cube limited edition coronation tin c.1953 provides insight into the […]
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Prophecies & Propaganda
Freya Bainbridge, Curatorial Assistant, writes about her research into an interesting document found while cataloguing the collections. Thanks to the passage of time and general human error, it’s not entirely uncommon for some of the objects from our collections to become divorced from their original paperwork, meaning we cannot be sure where they have come from […]
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What’s New in our Collections
Lancashire County Council Museum Service, like other museums, own their collections due mainly to the generosity of the public. Most of the collections that we hold have kindly been donated. We do have to think very hard about what we collect, and any items must fit our collecting policy. Other considerations will be size, condition, […]
Stories from Lancashire Museums
Stories from Lancashire Museums
Stories from Lancashire Museums 