Recently returned from a trip to the East Midlands visiting some of the community-based museums we are working with on the East Midlands Map Your History project. Inspirational to meet… Read More »Endeavour, Resilience and Industry: Mapping Heritage in the East Midlands
Polynesian people mastered navigation to an incredibly high level and navigated unchallenged over the Pacific Ocean for many centuries. They reached remote archipelagos and islands where they settled and established… Read More »Taken Rapanui Heritage: Discover The Island Artefact Map
Our first month exploring the world through the lens of the Met collection has taken us on a journey through a stunning selection of creative sense of place short films… Read More »Exploring The World Through the Lens of the Met Collections
Museums are spaces where cultural and natural heritage artefacts are stored and presented in story-telling narratives that attract visitors for learning and enjoyment. Who creates these narratives, however, and what… Read More »The ‘Hedges’ Vishnu: a divine Hindu sculpture
The theme for this year’s Earth Day 2021 is ‘Restore Our Earth’. It focuses on natural processes, emerging green technologies, and innovative thinking that can restore the world’s ecosystems. It… Read More »World Reconnections: Objects from the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art
Our exciting work with the Isle of Wight Museums and Schools project is taking shape. Teachers can now discover 4 new digital history explorer maps on our website that support… Read More »New For Learning: Isle of Wight History Digital Explorer Maps
Discover the next story in our journey along the prehistoric Ridgeway Trail with Genista Astell and Eliza Ader. Many of the public footpaths in Britain we enjoy for leisure today… Read More »Uffington White Horse (1300 – 600 BC)
Seven museums on the Isle of Wight have collectively contributed over 200 artefacts from their collections about the Island’s history for us to map and create learning resources for schools… Read More »Silver Dollar: From Island Shipwreck to Andean Mountain Mine
This week we celebrate International Women’s Day. We want to share a story inspired by our current Isle of Wight Museums and Schools project. Blanche Thornycroft was one of the… Read More »In Search of Speed: Blanche Thornycroft
The ancient trackway following the high ridge of the hills, from which the name ‘Ridgeway’ stems, spans 85 miles from Buckinghamshire through to Wiltshire and is rich with history and… Read More »Wayland’s Smithy (3590 BC): Hiking the Ridgeway
Chinese New Year is heralded across the globe with the drum beats and flashes of colour associated with the flamboyant and athletic lion dance. 2021 is the Year of the… Read More »Beat of a Drum, Dance of a Lion
“Where are your monuments, your battles, martyrs? Where is your tribal memory? Sirs, in that grey vault. The sea. The sea has locked them up. The sea is History.” Derek… Read More »Shipwrecks: Underwater Echoes of the Past