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Blogs

Many of our members, agricultural history enthusiasts and rural practitioners record their activities online in the form of blog.  Here is a selection of some of our favourites:

Beamish Buildings

Beamish Transport

Chiltern Open Air Museum blog

Lakeland Arts

A Sense of Place – Engaging audiences with the Museum of English Rural Life’s collections

Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse: Museum of Norfolk Life

Shine a Light project – exploring Norfolk Museum Service’s reserve collections

 

 

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    rmnvoice Rural Museums Network @rmnvoice ·
    16 Nov

    Interested in contemporary collecting of tractors and farming equipment? Want to know what gaps are in museum collections, and how we can solve this together? Then our next seminar is for you!

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    30 Oct

    Our next seminar is this Thursday @ 3pm. Join us as we talk to three curators who have developed prominent food-themed exhibitions!

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    25 Sep

    Excited to launch our Autumn seminars! On 5th Oct @archivesgb from @TheMERL is discussing the (im)practicalities of commercialisation of museum collections

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    johnhenry185 John Henry @johnhenry185 ·
    24 Sep

    Been speaking to the press about the importance of Romani heritage and why failure to provide a suitable new site for Brough Hill horse fair after building a motorway through the old one will be detrimental to the survival of Romani culture in Britain:

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