I’ve been a volunteer at NESM for nearly three years now, although it’s difficult to count the last ten months as part of that time. Like...

Thanks to the likes of Dickens and Conan Doyle we are all familiar with the rogues and swindlers of the late 19th century. It’s surely a...

2020 got off to a flying start for NESM. We had a full calendar and plan of action for the year with new events, completely refurbished...

If you read our recent blog on luminous watches and the Radium Girls, you’ll know that one of the awesome things we get to do behind to...

Some years ago, when I was working in Sheffield city centre, we heard that an unexploded World War II bomb had been found not too far...

Getting to our off-site store bright and early at 6am, waiting patiently for an old engine to warm up ready for its trip out to an event...

I recently watched a BBC documentary called Eugenics: Science’s greatest scandal. It documents the history of eugenics and its lasting...

Artist, inventor, firefighter. How the almost forgotten designer, Jan van der Heyden, transformed the world of firefighting. As famous...

The stories of bravery, leadership and invention that make up the history of the emergency services are largely dominated by men. That’s...

Holmes, Poirot, Columbo and even the likes of the Bill, Happy Valley, Luther and the Wire are great examples of popular culture’s ongoing...

As we head towards Halloween and eyes turn towards all things ghostly and ghoulish, it seems the perfect time to answer a question we are...

In the days before modern policing, the authorities relied on the public’s fear of punishment as a means to keep law and order. No...

With each passing year the news about climate change seems to get worse, and its effects ever more obvious. In the last twelve months...

When you think of the emergency services it’s probably the police, fire and ambulance that spring to mind. But before the first municipal...

Not all that glitters is gold, read on to learn how a simple 1914 police advertisement gave way to a sad and dangerous history.

Just over two weeks ago, on national Emergency Services Day, we reopened the doors of our museum and welcomed in visitors for the first...

This week we ask an expert on policing and justice about all things “law and order”! How do police officers work with prosecutors to...

On this day in 2001 a series of co-ordinated terror strikes on New York City and Washington DC took the lives of almost 3,000 people and...

On 2 September 1666 a fire started in Pudding Lane, London. Fires in London were a common hazard at the time; buildings in the city were...

Ever wondered why most of our police officers are known as “constables”? Or why so many American police chiefs are called “sheriffs”?...