Episodes

  • Episode 31 - Merry Christmas from Barnsley Museums

    Episode 31 - Merry Christmas from Barnsley Museums
    Dec 3 2021
    Watch the Barnsley Museums Christmas concert on Wednesday 8 December 2021 on YouTube, available on demand afterwards too https://youtu.be/ZPXp7lpD_DU

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    2 mins
  • Episode 30 - Now! That's What I call Barnsley Museums (less talk more music)

    Episode 30 - Now! That's What I call Barnsley Museums (less talk more music)
    Oct 27 2021
    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=pSRBjDRBXTwBarnsley Libraries Youth Music Project https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdMUDCpsH1I&list=PLlPUNLu4xzunFELWYq5ngEnjsWmbQTqwxWomen of The Working Class: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8OQK8BRvhYNewcomen Engine blog: https://barnsleymuseums.art.blog/2020/05/01/digging-the-earls-great-engine/

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    23 mins
  • Episode 29 - The Wharncliffe Woodmoor Disaster, 1936

    Episode 29 - The Wharncliffe Woodmoor Disaster, 1936
    Aug 4 2021
    Episode 29 - The Wharncliffe Woodmoor Disaster, 1936 by Barnsley Museums

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    22 mins
  • Episode 28 - In conversation with: Dana Kubick (Barnsley Canister Company

    Episode 28 - In conversation with: Dana Kubick (Barnsley Canister Company
    Jul 13 2021
    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/

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    32 mins
  • Episode 27 - In conversation with: Selina Wray

    Episode 27 - In conversation with: Selina Wray
    Jun 9 2021
    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

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    34 mins
  • Episode 26: Duggie Pond - a poetic miner

    Episode 26: Duggie Pond - a poetic miner
    Apr 30 2021
    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

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    15 mins
  • Episode 25 - LGBT History Month

    Episode 25 - LGBT History Month
    Feb 18 2021
    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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    47 mins
  • Episode 24: Darfield Deduced - Ian McMillan's memories of Darfield

    Episode 24: Darfield Deduced - Ian McMillan's memories of Darfield
    Jan 21 2021
    In this episode we revisit the guest from episode one as Ian McMillan chats about some of his memories of Darfield

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    15 mins