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Article: Interview Curator's Choice: Ciara Phipps on colourful court shoes at Newcastle's Discovery MuseumFind out about a pair of shoes which were handmade in Paris for a dancer during the 1920s but illustrate a design style still prevalent in swish footwear almost a century on.14 May 2013
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Article: News National Railway Museum makes final touches to magnificent Dominion of Canada trainOrganisers in York say the painstaking process of adding lettering to the side of a 1930s locomotive from Canada is the culmination of a "labour of love".13 May 2013
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Article: News First past the chequered flag: Silverstone qualifies for Heritage Lottery Fund supportThe Heritage Lottery Fund has announced initial support worth £68 million for six major projects in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.09 May 2013
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Article: Preview Dying for the Vote: Militant suffragette Emily Wilding Davison at Bourne Hall MuseumIn June 1913 Emily Wilding Davison's cause of death was recorded as "misadventure". Bourne Hall Museum revisits the events of the day in a celebration of her life and the cause for which she died.07 May 2013
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Article: Preview The eggs and bin bags of Gavin Turk in The Years at Ben Brown Fine Arts, LondonSurveying two decades of provocative works by the Connect10 artist, Gavin Turk's latest exhibition at Ben Brown Fine Arts features pop art portrayals and bulging busts.30 April 2013
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Article: Preview Boris Aronson and the Avant-garde Yiddish Theatre Kiev entertain the Ben Uri GalleryFeaturing the works of the son of the Rabbi of Kiev who became an acclaimed New York theatre design via Moscow, Paris and Berlin, the Ben Uri's new show is a dramatic one.25 April 2013
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Article: News Mallard 75: The journey of a legendary locomotive in YorkAhead of this year's celebrations reuniting engines which now call Canada and North America home, we take a look back with the National Railway Museum.25 April 2013
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Article: News National Railway Museum launches countdown to Mallard 75 in YorkshireFlags have been flown in Doncaster and York Castle has been lit up as part of the build up to the 75th anniversary of the Mallard breaking the world steam speed record.22 April 2013
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Article: Preview A view through the Urban Eye of Charlie Phillips at Nottingham's New Art ExchangeGrowing up in an at-times hostile West London, Charlie Phillips began portraying the Caribbean community of the 1950s and 1960s. His photos are hidden stories of life.19 April 2013
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Article: Preview Chez Paulette on the Sunset Strip takes Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson to Plymouth PeninsulaTransporting a star-studded Los Angeles coffee house from half a century ago to Devon, Peninsula Arts Gallery's new show owes everything to a great storyteller.18 April 2013
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Article: News in Brief Earl Mountbatten's James Bond-style gold-plated pen-pistol joins Royal ArmouriesA £13,000 pistol-concealing pen, presented to the late Maharaja Hanwant Singh of Marwar-Jodhpur by royal family cohort Lord Louis, could go on public show.10 April 2013
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Article: News in Brief World's fastest car, Babs, visits Swansea's National Waterfront MuseumForty-two years after its redesigner died trying to beat its 172 mph record, a Bangor University lecturer's replica of a 1.72 ton speed demon has gone on show in Swansea.10 April 2013
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Article: Preview A Centenary of Stainless Steel: The Old Hall Connection at Walsall MuseumWho knew about the impact stainless steel had in Walsall? A new show reveals a design dream created by a husband and wife unimpressed with their cleaning nearly a century ago.09 April 2013
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Article: Preview Our Friends Electric: Beamish Museum celebrates 40 years on the tramway in DurhamA four-day festival of rides on the eight resident trams, behind-the-scenes tours and talks are taking place to celebrate 40 years of heritage railway heroics at the Beamish.05 April 2013
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Article: News Record breaking Mallard in A4 reunion at York's National Railway MuseumThe locomotive which narrowly notched the world steam speed record in 1938 will be reunited with its six surviving A4 class engines as part of a celebratory season in York.28 March 2013
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Article: Preview Making tracks: Beeching 50 Years On at the National Railway MuseumFifty years after Dr Beeching's hugely controversial report ordered widespread cuts to the British railway network, artist Esther Johnson's filmic insight into the effect it had on the Borders is part of a season of events at the York museum.27 March 2013
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Article: News National Portrait Gallery launches appeal to restore group portrait for WWI centenaryA massive group portrait of World War I naval officers is to be displayed in time for the WWI centenary in 2014 if the NPG raises the £20,000 needed to restore it.27 March 2013
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Article: Preview Factory Girls takes nostalgic trip through bright bygone work clothes at Walsall MuseumFrom dress-like overalls during the 1920s to the nylon jackets of the 1960s and 1970s, a nostalgic exhibition in Walsall collates workwear from local factories.26 March 2013
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Article: Preview Sudley House marks 100 years of social change and fashion in Twentieth century ChicVivienne Westwood, Stella McCartney, Christian Dior, Yves St Laurent and more star in a show of style and social change at Liverpool's Sudley House.22 March 2013
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Article: Preview Dot Dot Dash: Communicating in Wales at the National Library of Wales in AberystwythDot Dot Dash at the National Library of Wales traces key milestones of communication in Wales through film and audio archives, cartoons and retro gadgets.17 March 2013
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Article: News Flying Scotsman off tracks for two years as report calls for contractorThe National Railway Museum will appoint independent engineers in a bid to complete the restoration project on the famous 4472 locomotive.14 March 2013
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Article: Preview First broadside to be fired by Royal Navy ship since 1984 at Historic Dockyard ChathamSecond World War destroyer HMS Cavalier will fire three rounds from her 4.5-inch guns as part of the Salute to the '40s weekend event at the Kent landmark.14 September 2012
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Article: News Crich Tramway Village unveils its "geatest challenge" - London United Tramways 159Crich Tramway Village is proudly displaying the results of the painstaking, seven-year restoration of an Edwardian tram that spent 55 years as a home.12 July 2012
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Article: News National Archives publishes World War II poster and art collection on WikimediaThe National Archives has teamed up with Wikimedia UK to digitise hundreds of rarely seen images from its Word War Two art and poster collection.13 June 2012
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Article: Preview Conceptual craft show draws inspiration from the Messel family's time at NymansThe National Trust property in East Sussex is the first port of call for the Unravelled project, where a dozen makers have been invited to intervene.08 May 2012
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Article: Preview Democracy for Scotland: the Museum of Edinburgh examines the referendum experienceAs referendum fever rages in Scotland and hits the UK national news, the Museum of Edinburgh presents a retrospective of the two previous referendums in 1979 and 1997 with a selection of materials from its own collections and the Scottish Political Archive in Stirling.07 March 2012
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Article: Review South London Black Music Archive catalogues local musical tastes at Peckham SpaceA gallery in South London is filing away vinyl, cassettes, t-shirts and other ephemera for a show with a long shelf life by Barby Asante.03 February 2012





