Museums
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Mini-Post | “Hello, I’m Johnny Cash!”
Today would have been Johnny Cash’s 90th birthday, so I’m sharing some treasures from a visit to the Johnny Cash Museum in Nashville. Handwritten lyrics to “Folsom Prison Blues”, recorded for Cash’s debut studio album “Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar!”. Photos of Cash and his second wife, June Carter Cash, taken for read more
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Mini-Post | The Getty Villa
“One could say, ‘Go to Pompeii and Herculaneum and see Roman villas the way they are now – then go to Malibu and see the way they were in ancient times.’” J. Paul Getty, Los Angeles Times, 1974 The Getty Villa was the brainchild of J. Paul Getty (1892-1976), who made his fortune in oil read more
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Sutton Scarsdale Hall, Derbyshire
Happy Friday everybody! I’m back with a little post that combines a slightly forgotten ruin of a country house in the beautiful English countryside of Derbyshire with a museum in the US famous for Rocky Balboa running up the steps… an intriguing if slightly crazy combination? Read on to see what links Sutton Scarsdale Hall read more
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7 Places Around The World You Can Visit From Home
Explore the world around you from the safety of your armchair with Google Arts & Culture and their virtual tours. read more
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5 Museums You Can Enjoy From Home (Part 2)
Enjoy museums from home and history from home with this fantastic virtual content on offer from these 5 museums. read more
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5 Museums You Can Enjoy From Home (Part 1)
Enjoy museums from home and history from home with this fantastic virtual content on offer from these 5 museums. read more
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The Lightner Museum: A Curious Place in St. Augustine
Welcome to the Lightner Museum, a museum in which the architecture and spaces within the building are as interesting as the collection itself. When we planned our trip to St. Augustine in Florida I was so excited to go and have explore this place, because I’m not sure where else you could be viewing nineteenth-century read more
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Favourite Historical Visits of 2019
Happy New Year! And as well, happy new decade! I’m excited to get researching and blogging for the year and have lots of ideas – but I wanted to start off the year by looking back at some of my favourite historical sites I’ve visited in 2019… Jane Austen House Museum, Chawton I’ve loved Jane read more
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Moving to Savannah…
So two weeks ago, we swapped Sheffield and the UK for Savannah, Georgia, and the US. We’ve moved for my fiancé’s job and I’m going to spend the first couple of months finishing off my PhD. This move has been a long time in the making and with that, packing up our flat and trying read more
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Dr. Lizzie Rogers 