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

William Woodhouse was a prominent local artist who painted the natural world and the spaces around him. We speak to Paul Thompson to find out more about this fascinating figure.  

Join us as we chat to Dr Eleri Cousins about this roman object, which is just as important for the community stories that have grown up around it as it is for its historical story. 

Join us as we chat to Dr Karen Wright about medicines of the past and how the uses, and reputation, of different drugs have changed over the years. Find out why someone would put cocaine in their eye, and what the future is for medicines derived from cannabis. 

We're finding out more about the Phoenix Foundry, which used to stand on Phoenix Street. What did they make? Who owned it? And who worked there? Find out all this and more as we speak to Emma Coffey about this little known industry from the centre of Lancaster. 

How would you find your way across the vast open ocean? Could you do it with just some wooden beams stuck together, and a bit of clever maths? We speak to Dr Joe Kinrade about this simple but essential navigation device, find out how it works, and how we have evolved from this to modern GPS being involved in everything from finding our way to making payments to drilling for resources on the ocean floor. 

Join us for dinner as we speak to Dr Mike Winstanley about this beautiful object which served up Lancaster on a plate for anyone who wished to buy it. Find out when, how and why plates like this were made. 

A beautiful and still slightly mysterious device is at the centre of this episode. We speak to Dr Maria Walach to find out more about how it was used to predict the tides, and re-visit a figure who has appeared in our podcast before...its creator, Captain William Nelson Greenwood.  

Today we're looking at the history of one of Lancaster's most powerful families, who left their mark on the architecture and names in the City. Join us as we chat to James Houghton about the Daltons. 

Come with us back to the stone age to find out about life in Lancashire when it was a very different place. City Museum Site Supervisor Richard Whittaker shows us why this is one of his favourite objects and what it can tell us about the distant past. 

Today we're going from Lancaster to the stars. We speak with Dr Julie Wardlow from Lancaster University about the fascinating story behind this telescope, which was once a feature of Williamson Park.