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    • A photo of a female curator holding up an ancient black shoe inside a museum
      Article: Interview Curator's Choice: Ciara Phipps on colourful court shoes at Newcastle's Discovery Museum
      Find 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
    • A photo of a man painting letters on to the side of an ancient locomotive train
      Article: News National Railway Museum makes final touches to magnificent Dominion of Canada train
      Organisers 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
    • A photograph of a race car at Silverstone
      Article: News First past the chequered flag: Silverstone qualifies for Heritage Lottery Fund support
      The Heritage Lottery Fund has announced initial support worth £68 million for six major projects in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
      09 May 2013
    • A photo of the crowd scene on Tattenham Corner at the Epsom Derby with a horse lying prone on the ground.
      Article: Preview Dying for the Vote: Militant suffragette Emily Wilding Davison at Bourne Hall Museum
      In 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
    • A photo of a sculpture resembling a tied up black bin bag refuse sack
      Article: Preview The eggs and bin bags of Gavin Turk in The Years at Ben Brown Fine Arts, London
      Surveying 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
    • An image of a black and white illustration of various theatrical figures
      Article: Preview Boris Aronson and the Avant-garde Yiddish Theatre Kiev entertain the Ben Uri Gallery
      Featuring 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
    • A black and white photo of railwaymen standing next to a locomotive in the 1930s
      Article: News Mallard 75: The journey of a legendary locomotive in York
      Ahead 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
    • A photo of a castle lit up at night
      Article: News National Railway Museum launches countdown to Mallard 75 in Yorkshire
      Flags 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
    • A photo of a couple
      Article: Preview A view through the Urban Eye of Charlie Phillips at Nottingham's New Art Exchange
      Growing 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
    • Article: Preview Chez Paulette on the Sunset Strip takes Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson to Plymouth Peninsula
      Transporting 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
    • A photo of a gold pen next to a small pistol
      Article: News in Brief Earl Mountbatten's James Bond-style gold-plated pen-pistol joins Royal Armouries
      A £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
    • A photo of a huge racing car inside a museum
      Article: News in Brief World's fastest car, Babs, visits Swansea's National Waterfront Museum
      Forty-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
    • A black and white photo of a man working in a factory
      Article: Preview A Centenary of Stainless Steel: The Old Hall Connection at Walsall Museum
      Who 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
    • A photo of a large red industrial gate at the entrance to a museum
      Article: Preview Our Friends Electric: Beamish Museum celebrates 40 years on the tramway in Durham
      A 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
    • A photo of a large brown steam train inside a museum
      Article: News Record breaking Mallard in A4 reunion at York's National Railway Museum
      The 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
    • A photo of a sign advertising a railway closure
      Article: Preview Making tracks: Beeching 50 Years On at the National Railway Museum
      Fifty 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
    • a large group portrait of men in naval uniform in a wood panelled room
      Article: News National Portrait Gallery launches appeal to restore group portrait for WWI centenary
      A 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
    • A black and white photo of loads of women working in a factory
      Article: Preview Factory Girls takes nostalgic trip through bright bygone work clothes at Walsall Museum
      From 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
    • A photo of a lavish purple dress on a mannequin
      Article: Preview Sudley House marks 100 years of social change and fashion in Twentieth century Chic
      Vivienne 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
    • A photograph of a living room decorated 1970s style
      Article: Preview Dot Dot Dash: Communicating in Wales at the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth
      Dot 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
    • A black and white photo of an ancient locomotive steam training running along
      Article: News Flying Scotsman off tracks for two years as report calls for contractor
      The National Railway Museum will appoint independent engineers in a bid to complete the restoration project on the famous 4472 locomotive.
      14 March 2013
    • A photo of a large ship in a dock with a Union Jack flag flying above its mast
      Article: Preview First broadside to be fired by Royal Navy ship since 1984 at Historic Dockyard Chatham
      Second 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
    • a photo of an Edwardian Tram
      Article: News Crich Tramway Village unveils its "geatest challenge" - London United Tramways 159
      Crich 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
    • a painting of soldiers attacking a beach
      Article: News National Archives publishes World War II poster and art collection on Wikimedia
      The 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
    • Colour photo of a silver tray with scattered remains of birdlife in blue and white china
      Article: Preview Conceptual craft show draws inspiration from the Messel family's time at Nymans
      The 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
    • A photograph of a beermat with 'Vote Yes Yes for a Scottish parliament' written on it
      Article: Preview Democracy for Scotland: the Museum of Edinburgh examines the referendum experience
      As 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
    • Colour photo of a black and white map with notes pinned to it
      Article: Review South London Black Music Archive catalogues local musical tastes at Peckham Space
      A 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
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