Nicola Bell

Low-carbon website

It's easy to forget that websites and the internet consume huge amounts of electricity - more than the UK's annual consumption, and CO2 emissions from the internet are equal to or greater than worldwide aviation emissions. Alarming! But my website is very low-carbon...(click to read more)

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The power of smells

Smell is often overlooked in heritage interpretation, but it is a powerful sense which, along with taste, is strongly connected with memory. Odeuropa have recently launched The Olfactory Storytelling Toolkit which is a comprehensive guide to working with smells - pleasant and malodorous - in museums and heritage venues.

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Childhood in the past

The University of Oxford’s Centre for the History of Childhood has published a toolkit about how museums and other heritage sites can best interpret childhood. Children were around in history just as much as adults (obviously!) but their stories are not told so often. Read more about the toolkit here.

Rest Under the Stars

Carlisle Cathedral: relax under the starry ceiling and listen to the intriguing soundscape created by Prism - talented artists with autism and learning disabilities - and sit on one of their specially-designed comfy chairs. Watch ITV Border's report. Following last year's success, Rest Under the Stars has returned again this year.

  1. An outside view
  2. Easy Read
  3. New Heritage Schools case studies
  4. What do teachers want from museums?
  5. The revolutionary Fergie tractor
  6. Rest under the stars
  7. The Fergie Tractor
  8. An A to Z of 25 years, part 2
  9. An A to Z of 25 years
  10. New Evaluation Principles from the Centre for Cultural Value
  11. Railway Resources
  12. Good News for Heritage
  13. New Questions for New Times
  14. Canny Chanters Chopwell Arts
  15. Heritage Schools evaluation report 2018/19 launched
  16. Kings Seat hill fort
  17. Heritage Centre Bellingham
  18. Who are our visitors?
  19. Places of Worship for Community Wellbeing
  20. Snapping the Stiletto
  21. Dementia Friendly Heritage
  22. Martin Luther King in Newcastle
  23. Art up your tab
  24. Museums Change Lives
  25. Charred timber cladding for the Kielder wildlife hide
  26. New wildlife hide for Kielder
  27. Martin Luther King - Freedom City Launch
  28. On tenterhooks
  29. Heritage Schools wins Europa Nostra award
  30. Glass Beats
  31. Leeches and Stories of Glass
  32. Selma - the right to vote
  33. Kinder Transport Memorial, Liverpool Street Station
  34. Goulash Cannon and Tin Helmet
  35. Remembrance
  36. Making glass at the National Glass Centre
  37. The Canary Girls
  38. Recycling from the First World War
  39. The Talented and Colossal Mademoiselle D'Jeck
  40. Visitor Studies in Split, Croatia
  41. On the border of Slovenia and Hungary
  42. Culture Matters
  43. Slovenia
  44. Repositories of technology
  45. A piece of Hungarian social history
  46. Museum + Heritage Show; Arts Professional
  47. Evaluation training in Slovenia and Croatia
  48. Iron Applause in Central Europe
  49. Escaped Circus Elephant!
  50. Gold from Afghanistan and Foundling fabrics
  51. The Old Herring Factory, Djúpavík
  52. Contemporary art from North Korea
  53. Nicola appointed to Board: Kuratórium
  54. Workshop in Hungary
  55. Evaluation Training in Hungary
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