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The people at The West Midlands Museum Development are holding their volunteer awards for 2019, which are now open. Here’s some information from them about
Josie Wall
July 3, 2019
The people at The West Midlands Museum Development are holding their volunteer awards for 2019, which are now open. Here’s some information from them about
I started volunteering at the Coffin Works in September 2016, newly graduated from studying history and full of excitement about working in heritage and museums.
(This is now closed) As part of the annual ‘A Matter of Life and Death’ festival brought to you by BrumYODO, the object of the
by David Sugden What can I say? When I was first offered the chance to work at the Coffin Works I didn’t really know what
What a Joy, what a pleasure, a wonderful treat to visit the Coffin Works on old Brum’s Fleet Street Newman Brother’s factory, the place to
What can I say about the Pandemonium of Poe, other than the production by the Don’t Go in the Cellar theatre company in early November
The stage was set for the arrival of the coffin furniture trade in Birmingham as early as the first quarter of the eighteenth century, when
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Ellie began volunteering with us in April 2017, as part of her University of Birmingham MA placement in International Heritage Management. The placement was six
What’s the difference between a coffin and a casket? It’s a question I’d never entertained before working at Newman Brothers Coffin Works, but that’s the
‘If special widths are required, as used in Scotland and Ireland, an extra will be charged’. Those words grace the page of a Newman Brothers’
Yet another performance from ‘Don’t Go into the Cellar – Victorian theatre with bite! There are chills and chuckles in abundance with this original one-woman
