Storytelling at the Museum 

In celebration of International Museums Day (Saturday 18 May), Robert shares a blog about the stories shared through local museums, their history and the education they offer us. For many of us, museums are where we get our history….

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Museums for Education and Research 

The Horsfall Museum’s Bird Room, late 1930s. Image courtesy of Manchester Art Gallery.  In celebration of International Museums Day (Saturday 18 May), Hannah Williamson shares about her research into the work of Bertha Hindshaw at the Horsfall Museum to…

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Dishevelled Shelves: Libraries, Disorder, and Artist Residencies  

Libraries have long shed the antiquated stereotype of staid and silence-laden tabernacles of quiet rumination and dusty pages quietly being turned and squinted at. Though it does remain one of the last remaining bastions of intellectual freedom and a…

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Beachcombing the Entangled Shoreline: Writing About Chronic Illness During Mental Health Awareness Week 

Movement (etymology): Medieval Latin movimentum, from Latin movere, “to move”, from PIE root *meue- “to push away.” Doublet of moment and momentum. Late 14c., mevement, “change of position; passage from place to place.” In the political/artistic/social sense of “course of acts and…

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Be More Deaf Aware: Deaf Awareness Week 

photo credit: SHVETS production I write this as a hearing person. I cannot speak on behalf of deaf people or their experiences. I can only write about my research and my experiences as someone who is hearing but works…

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