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Friday, March 30, 2012

Frank Wild's Final Journey

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Shackleton’s right hand man, Antarctic Explorer Frank Wild has recently been re-discovered and his memoirs, after years in obscurity, h...
Thursday, March 8, 2012

Celebrating International Women's Day: Miss Elizabeth Brooks, a Woman of the Home Guard

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Today is International Women’s Day, so I thought both an object of the week and a celebration of a young woman, who was one of the first w...
Thursday, March 1, 2012

Conversations in Lace Event and the Lester Lace Collection

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Last weekend, on Saturday 25th February, the Art Gallery and Museum staff were invited to join Bedford Creative Arts artist Arabel Rosil...
Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Valentines Greetings

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Being Valentine's Day I thought I would pick some of my favourite Valentine's Cards from the collection to entertain - and perhaps i...
Wednesday, January 25, 2012

From the Belgian Congo to Bedford - Tracking Down Donors of African Artefacts

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The core of the Bedford Museum collection originally came from Bedford Modern School. They had their own museum when the school was still ba...
Thursday, January 19, 2012

Sinclair Executive Pocket Calculator - it all adds up!

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We have recently been donated this original Sinclair Executive handheld calculator. This is one of the earliest electronic pocket calculat...
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Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Christmas Greetings from Egypt 1916

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This Christmas present was sent in 1916 all the way from Egypt during the First World War from Michael Dillon, ‘Mick’, who was serving in t...