100 Years, 100 Objects: Stories from the Collections of Lancaster City Museums

Today's episode looks at the suffragettes and how their actions helped gain the right to vote for women in the UK. Rachael Bowers, Museum Manager at Lancaster City Museum tells us about this hunger strike medal, and the amazing woman that owned it. 

We're getting stylish, stone age style as we're joined by Claire Bradshaw, the archaeology and heritage officer for the Morecambe Bay Partnership to discuss this fascinating pendant worn by someone in the Warton area over 5,000 years ago. 

Come with us as we lead you on a merry dance through history. Our object today is this beautifully carved panel which shows an early image of morris dancers. Join us as we talk to Andy Hornby and Bob Tyson who provide with the stories, and the sounds, behind this object. 

Read all about it! We're chatting to Rebekah Musk, a PhD student at Lancaster University to get the scoop on The Lancaster Gazetteer and General Advertiser, Lancaster's first newspaper that launched in 1801. 

We're joined by Dr Alexander Scott from the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool to discuss an envelope used to advocate for the abolition of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and Lancaster's involvement in this trade. 

We've got a hot episode for you today as we speak to James Houghton about our fire engine and find out all about this early life-saving device and how fire fighting was organised (or perhaps disorganised!) 250 years ago.   

Why not stream a podcast about streams? In this episode we talk to Professor Bronislaw Szerszynski about the history of Burrow Beck and the other streams that flow, or used to flow, through Lancaster. 

We're shining a light on another aspect of local history in this episode where we talk to Victoria Petherick-Brian, Museum Assistant at Lancaster City Museums, about one of her favourite objects, a lighthouse reflector. 

All aboard to find out how a Lancastrian changed the face of rail travel for ever. We speak to Museum Manager Rachael Bowers about Thomas Edmondson and his revolutionary invention. If you love local history, and trains, this is just the ticket. 

Find out how animals have managed to leave their imprint on our history as we examine this Roman tile which features a dog's paw print. We speak to Harvey Fox about ancient pottery making in Quernmore and how Roman's interacted with, and loved, their dogs.