Derbyshire Record have a rather curious collection of little objects that relate to the life of Lady Jane Franklin, who the second wife of a famous Polar explorer but was an important woman in her own right. In this episode we talk to Ruth Lars

Scraps of Scott: Derby and the Race for the South Pole

Nov 6th, 2020 14m 51s

Did you know that the people of Derby paid for some of the scientific instruments that accompanied Captain Scott on his doomed voyage to the South Pole? In today’s programme, we are looking at a remarkable scrapbook which not only charts the pr

World Cultures: In Conversation with Anisha Parmar

Nov 3rd, 2020 15m 15s

Over the last three years, thousands of people have worked with Derby Museums to co-produce ‘Objects of Love, Hope and Fear: A World Collection’. People on the streets of Derby, co-production volunteers and new friends across the globe have cle

Derby World Cultures: In Conversation with Alison Solomon

Nov 3rd, 2020 14m 43s

The Holocaust and After: Derby Hebrew Congregation and Jewish Relief

Nov 3rd, 2020 19m 45s

AddendumPlease could the listener note two areas of clarification in relation to the recording of this podcast.The first at 5 minutes, 38 seconds. The listener should hear: “Some of these Balts and Ukrainians were highly nationalistic, and so

Derby Goes to Wembley: Industry and Civic Pride at the British Empire Exhibition of 1924

Nov 3rd, 2020 17m 20s

In this episode, we piece together the half-forgotten history of Derby’s participation in the British Empire exhibition at Wembley in 1924, and how and why Derby presented itself as an ancient but progressive town that the world should be doing

Curzon of Kedleston and the History of India

Nov 3rd, 2020 13m 55s

How might Derbyshire have played a role in the rise of Indian nationalism in the early twentieth century? In this episode we look at the career of Lord Curzon of Kedleston Hall and his role as a colonial administrator through some of his own wr

The Autobiography of a Cotton Reel: Derby's Global Cotton Connections

Nov 3rd, 2020 12m 41s

In this episode we’re thinking about how a simple cotton reel in Derby Museum's collection might provoke conversations about Derbyshire’s relationship to slavery. Talking to Ben Abbott, intern on the Legacy Makers project run by Bright Ideas No

Slavery and Anti-Slavery in Derbyshire: The Bakewell Petition

Nov 3rd, 2020 14m 36s

In this episode, we look at a beautifully written petition by the people of the town of Bakewell that shows some very strong anti-slavery sentiments. The Derbyshire Record Office has very little information about where it came from, or the circ

The World Described: The Maps of Hermann Moll

Nov 3rd, 2020 17m 24s

We start our exploration in the Derby Local Studies and Family History Library with a set of intricate maps of all over the world and even the heavens, engraved and printed in the eighteenth century by one of the most celebrated cartographers o

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