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Welcome to Barnsley Museums! These are the stories behind the collections and the people covering the 5 venues: Experience Barnsley, Elsecar Heritage Centre, Worsbrough Mill, Cannon Hall & The Cooper Gallery
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Throughout the year we are going to share highlights from Brian Elliott's oral history collection, a local historian and published author who has generously donated his sound archive to Barnsley Archives and Local Studies which we are now making available online for the first time.
Betty Cook was a founding member of the Barnsley Miners Wives Action Group which led to the formation of The Woman Against Pit Closures in Barnsley. This interview was recorded in 2009 as part of The South Yorkshire Women In Industry lottery funded project.
It is being shared for the first time as part of Barnsley Museums' year-long programme of events marking 40 years since the Miners' Strike. For more details, visit our website http://www.experience-barnsley.com/strike40
A Christmas message from Barnsley Museums, featuring a Barnsley carol 'Christmas Eve' written by Arthur Godfrey and published in the Barnsley Chronicle in December 1933. With photographs of Barnsley at Christmas from Barnsley Archives.
Read our blog to learn more about the carol https://barnsleymuseums.art.blog/2023/12/12/a-barnsley-christmas-eve-carol-1933/
We've got a brand new podcast, find us over on Acast for Barnsley Museums Natters https://shows.acast.com/barnsley-museums-natters the first series is all about Experience Barnsley Museums
Episode 39 - Merry Christmas! by Barnsley Museums
Episode 38 - Remotely Digital with Barnsley Archives by Barnsley Museums
Episode 37 - Brains In A Dish by Barnsley Museums
Episode 36 - National Poetry Day 2022 by Barnsley Museums
Episode 35 - In conversation with....Dorothy Hyman by Barnsley Museums
Episode 34: Pigeons, Ping Pong & Peoples Possessions by Barnsley Museums
In 2022 Graham Ibbeson has two exhibitions with Barnsley Museums. In this interview Graham talks about his work and his career.
Welcome to series 2 of the Barnsley Museums podcast! This episode is all about the Slazenger tennis ball factory. For more details about the exhibition and for more content visit our website www.experience-barnsley.com/slazenger
We're coming back with a brand new series! Episodes will be released on the last Friday of each month.
Watch the Barnsley Museums Christmas concert on Wednesday 8 December 2021 on YouTube, available on demand afterwards too https://youtu.be/ZPXp7lpD_DU
In a break away from our usual podcast format this episode is all about the music created by Barnsley Museums over the last few years. Most of the songs have additional content to watch and read:
'Of The River' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSRBjDRBXTw
Barnsley Libraries Youth Music Project https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdMUDCpsH1I&list=PLlPUNLu4xzunFELWYq5ngEnjsWmbQTqwx
Women of The Working Class: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8OQK8BRvhY
Newcomen Engine blog: https://barnsleymuseums.art.blog/2020/05/01/digging-the-earls-great-engine/
Episode 29 - The Wharncliffe Woodmoor Disaster, 1936 by Barnsley Museums
Dana spoke about her first dealings as a commercial artist with the Barnsley Canister company. She came up to Barnsley early in 1983 and the rest was history - her career really took off with the company. She said coming up to Barnsley ‘changed her life’.
Read more about Barnsley Canister Company in this blog:
https://barnsleymuseums.art.blog/2020/06/10/tins-tins-tins/
Selina Wray is an Alzheimer's Research UK Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology.
Selina received her degree in Biochemistry and Biological Chemistry from the University of Nottingham in 2004, before undertaking PhD training in Dr Diane Hanger’s laboratory at the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London. Selina was awarded her PhD in 2008 and subsequently joined the laboratory of Professor John Hardy at UCL Institute of Neurology as an Alzheimer’s Research UK Junior Research Fellow.
This interview was recorded in 2017 as part of the Barnsley Archives Joy of Sound & Vision project funded by the national lottery heritage fund to make Barnsley's film and sound archive accessible for the first time
After a short break the Barnsley Museums podcast is back! At the end of each month we will have more highlights from the Barnsley Archives sound archive.
The next few episodes are extracts of interviews Brian Elliott a local historian and author. We will making more of his interviews available via www.soundcloud.com/BarnsleyMuseums
Hello! Welcome to our LGBT History Month special. In this podcast you will hear from:
Steven Skelley, Barnsley Museums, talking about how people can contribute LGBT+ memories and items to Experience Barnsley.
Ken Brookes, Maurice Dobson Museum & Heritage Centre, talking about Maurice Dobson and his partner Fred Halliday.
Stephen Miller, Barnsley Libraries, author ‘Uncovered’ Barnsley project, talking about discovering untold stories of Barnsley’s LGBT+ past.
Jenny Rudd, NT Wentworth Castle Gardens, talking about her research & forthcoming talk on Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, pioneer of smallpox vaccine.
Kate Charlesworth - A Barnsley Born Author, cartoonist and Illustrator now living in Scotland, reflecting on her career and recent book: Sensible Footwear: A Girl's Guide
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