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Chance Encounters:Four Favourite Pieces

Take a look at the Team's personal favourites from the Chance Encounters exhibition.

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Chance Encounterin the Spotlight

We've put Chance Encounter in the spotlight. Learn all about the painting that the Chance Encounters exhibition was named after.

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the North SomersetArchive Service

Meet the North Somerset Archivist and discover the quarterly archive visits to Weston super Mare Library.

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Wessex Water Archives Collection

The Trust has received a grant to catalogue and care for the archives of Wessex Water.

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Roman MosaicUnveiled

After years of dedicated work by volunteers the final tile in the mosaic floor has been laid at Avalon Archaeology.

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Chance EncountersIn the Making

Victoria Haddock, Exhibitions and Programme Assistant, has given us a behind-the-scenes look at how the Chance Encounters exhibition came to be.

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Rachel Reckitt's ArtworksA Somerset Tour

Rachel Reckitt's artworks can still be seen today at local churches and pubs on a journey through West Somerset.

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Meet the ArtistsFrom Spinning a Yarn

We’ve spoken with two wool artists from the Spinning a Yarn exhibition, Jade Ogden and Liz Clay, to find out why wool is such an important fibre.

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Stir Up Sunday Traditionin the Farm Kitchen

Discover the Christmas pudding tradition and explore the 1940s farmhouse kitchen at Somerset Rural Life Museum.

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Rural Womenof Somerset

Archivist Eve Bickerton describes some of the fascinating stories featured in the Rural Women pop-up archive display.

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Somerset Archives'TV appearance

Somerset Archives makes an appearance in Channel 4's ‘Britain Behind Bars: A Secret History’ documentary series with Rob Rinder.

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From Torquay to BengalEmma Mary Cary's Scrapbooks

Devon Archives & Local Studies has recently acquired two precious Victorian scrapbooks detailing memories of travel from Devon to British India.