01/02/2021
A guest blog post about the Cinderloo Uprising in Telford of 1821.
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04/05/2020
Encaustic tile depicting Medusa, Minton & Co., 1895 American millionaire William Waldorf Astor bought Cliveden, a country house and estate in Buckinghamshire, in 1893 for $1.2m and set about…
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03/04/2020
In the Ironbridge Gorge during the 19th century, women were employed in a variety of jobs from domestic service to making clay pipes and to painting tiles and china. In the coalfields however, the…
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30/03/2020
An infant’s dress in our costume collection has a curious connection to Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia.
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