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The Mitton Hoard: Part II
Jennet Edwards, Museum Assistant, Clitheroe Castle Museum shares more of the details of this fascinating group of late medieval silver coins. Having explored the finding of the Mitton Hoard in a previous article here, I will now endeavour to explain what it is and where you can see it. The bulk of the Mitton Hoard […]
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Food, Glorious Food
In celebration of Lancashire Day on the 27 November, Rachel Terry, Curator at Lancashire County Museum Service (LCMS) explores some seemingly ordinary items in the collection which can tell us a surprising amount about Lancashire food in the past (and squeezes in a couple of football references). We decided to start our blog post celebrating […]
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What have the Romans Ever Done for Us?
Jess Wight, Site Supervisor at Clitheroe Castle Museum, takes a look at some of her favourite displays at the Museum and asks what they tell us about what Clitheroe was like in Roman times. Clitheroe Castle and Museum may seem an unlikely place to find Roman remains but shown below are some amazing Roman finds from […]
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Angela Kay-Shuttleworth – not just a sideboard ornament!
In another in our series of posts linked to the 2022 exhibition Gawthorpe’s Remarkable Women, Rachel Pollitt de Duran and Rachel Pilling of Gawthorpe Hall share some aspects of the amazing life of Angela James (born Kay-Shuttleworth). Milk bottles are an unusual item to include in an exhibition, but they highlight one aspect of the […]
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The Housekeeper’s Ledgers: A glorified Victorian Shopping List (of sorts!)
Penny Blackburn, volunteer at Judges’ Lodgings Museum, Lancaster, Lancashire County Museum Service, has transcribed and researched the fascinating Housekeeper’s Ledgers dating from the turn of the 20th century. Here she writes about how her findings have uncovered many new insights into the running of the Judges’ Lodgings in Lancaster at that time. I suppose you […]
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Inside Stories: Q&A with Dr Colin Penny, Museum Manager, Lancaster Castle
Whether it be as a great day out with the family, a school trip or as a hardened museum enthusiast, most people have visited a museum or heritage site. What you may wonder though, is what goes on behind the scenes? What does it take to run a museum and what goes into producing an exhibition […]
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Pieces of a Journey – Life on Earth over The Ages: Part II
Hannah Edwards, Curatorial Assistant at Lancashire County Museum Service, continues her exploration into fossils looked after by LCMS. In this post she is inspired by a limestone slab to take a journey back in time to over 300 million years ago… During my initial process of looking through our collections in store, I found an […]
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Pieces of a Journey – Life on Earth over The Ages: Part I
Hannah Edwards, Curatorial Assistant at Lancashire County Museum Service, is inspired by some of the fossils in the collections and has photographed them specially for this blog post. Here she shares some amazing details of the plants and creatures which have caught her imagination. A fossil is the preserved remains or traces of a dead […]
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Lancashire Children’s Contribution to the First World War Effort
A certificate in Lancashire County Museum Service Collections inspired Luke Kiely to find out more about the contribution made by Lancashire school children to the First World War effort. Luke Kiely is a student of History at Lancaster University. World War One was a war which involved many nations and a war which ensured that […]
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A Right Royal Celebration – the visit of King George V and Queen Mary to Lancashire in 1913
As the country celebrates the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, Emma Heslewood, Senior Museum Manager, looks back at another Royal event involving the Queen’s grandparents. Today Royal visits by members of the Royal family are quite common. This was not always the case. In 1900 many British towns and cities had never had a […]
Stories from Lancashire Museums
Stories from Lancashire Museums 