The lives of sheep and cows

How do we tell new stories about cows, sheep, farmers and their lives led together? Read about a project that has been doing just that.

The reading room is home!

We are pleased to announce that our reading room will be reopening in its usual space from Tuesday 23rd November 2021.

51 Voices: Writing Voices

Read our latest roundup of 51 Voices, where we focus on the writing produced through partnership with poets, University students, and a local school.

A week at The MERL: our reflections on COP26

As COP26 unfolded in Glasgow, a range of activity was underway at The MERL, bringing together many different approaches to the issue of the changing climate and its impact on rural livelihoods and wellbeing.

51 Voices: Work, work, work

This January, The MERL embarked on 51 Voices, a new year-long project celebrating the museum’s seventieth anniversary in 2021. Throughout the year, we will be working with a range of […]

Uncovering LGBTQ+ rural histories in archives

Join The MERL’s Collections Researcher Tim Jerrome as he shares the challenges he faced in finding the lives and stories of LGBTQ+ people in our archive for our July 2021 […]


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