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Colour photograph of a cotton skirt or shoulder cloth made on the Coromandel Coast for the Indonesian market

Spring 2023

The Spring Issue of the Journal is now out! This is an open issue that includes research focusing on the Science Museum Group’s own collections – you’ll find a re-evaluation of an important electronic synthesizer with a focus on its role in live performance; a discussion of how an Indigenous Australian shield came to be […]

Editorial: Issue 19

Kate Steiner

The Indian challenge and the rise of Manchester

Prasannan Parthasarathi

When is a shield not a shield? Interpreting Indigenous versatility in an East End match factory

Nicola Froggatt

Supporting young children’s learning from science objects: the importance of play on gallery

Naomi Haywood, Karen Davies and Lauren Souter

‘We lost a type of job for a type of person in this country’: changing expectations of working in the UK scientific civil service

Emmeline Ledgerwood

Collecting twenty-first century science: an analysis of public and professional perceptions

Esme Mahoney-Phillips