Dying Matters Awareness Week 2025
A Think Piece on Dying Matters Awareness Week 2025 5th – 11th May is Dying Matters Awareness Week. There’s an awareness day or week for everything these days, right? Its aim is to bring communities together and bust the stigma that surrounds death, encouraging people to talk openly about their feelings around the topic, and […]
Heritage Engagement Internships: Gain valuable paid experience at the Coffin Works with Art Fund support
Help us diversify our audiences and leave a lasting legacy of inclusive engagement at the Coffin Works Museum. We are very excited to announce that we are the very grateful recipients of a Student Opportunities grant from Art Fund! This grant will fully cover the salary for 2 full-time university students to […]
Join the family: Unique Business Unit Available to Rent
Looking for a unique location for your new office? Then join us at the gorgeous Newman Brothers’ Manufactory, now home to the award-winning Coffin Works’ Museum, where we have a fantastic unit to rent. Built in 1894, this Jewellery Quarter space is unique, versatile, and competitive – so get touch now! The […]
‘A Prominent Baptist’: The life of Horace Newman revealed through his obituary
We’re always hunting through the newspaper archives for information about Newman Brothers and occasionally we come across a gem! Most days we spend hours trawling through records, but to no avail, and then occasionally it feels like there is very little effort involved in discovering new finds. This latest piece of information falls into the […]
Job Opportunity: Coffin Works’ Casual Visitor Operations Co-ordinator
This position has now been filled. Role Description Role Title Casual Visitor Operations Co-ordinators Working days and times As required. We will give you as much notice as possible, but some shifts will be offered at late notice due to the nature of the role. There is no obligation to accept shifts […]
A ‘lost’ workforce now found: uncovering Newman Brothers in the 1921 census
Since beginning our research into the Newman Brothers’ workforce over eight years ago we always knew that we hadn’t got the complete story, largely because of missing ledgers and information. As we often remind people, our paper archive only stretches back to the early 1930s; everything before is shrouded in mystery and conjecture. But since […]
