Jews on the Somme
by Roz Currie, former Military Collections Curator Today marks 100 years since the Battle of the Somme began on the 1 July 1916. One of the largest and bloodiest battles of the First World War, an estimated one million men were killed or wounded. The British intended to attack and take control of a 24 mile […]
Obscuratorial Finds – Why do we have so many…?
by Alice Quine, Curatorial Assistant While the museum holds a lot of quirky and fun objects, it is also home to many items of great historical importance. Though a large proportion of this collection is comprised of paper documents, accounts and records, it is the unique aesthetics of the objects that I feel hold the […]
