Under the Grid Collections Team - Milton Keynes Museum

🎶 On Pennyland there was a Saxon weaving woollen clothes, and houses built to grab the solar warmth for free….🎶

We pay a visit to Pennyland and investigate self-sufficiency in textile production and energy use.

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We talk to two of the people featured in the Paralympic Heritage: Stories from Milton Keynes exhibition on at the Museum until the end of May 2023. Baldip Sahota was the first Indian man to represent GB&NI in fencing, he coaches para-fencers at Touché Fencing Club based in Towcester and coached the GB&NI paralympic team for the 2012 and 2016 games. Dima Aktaa is a sprinter from Syria, who moved with her family to the UK in 2017 and lives near Milton Keynes. After fundraising for a running blade to continue the sport she is passionate about, Dima hopes to inspire others.



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How we can discover the lives of women who lived in the past? We explore this topic by using Wolverton Carriage & Wagon Works and the Saxon cemetery at Wolverton as examples. Can we ever really know a skeleton’s gender? How many women were working at the male-dominated factory and what were they doing? Listen on to find out!

Online exhibition: https://bit.ly/WorksWomen

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Shopping as it should be! We explore Iron Age and Roman retail, how you formulate shopping provision for a target population of 250,000 and link them together by deciding Magiovinium was a district centre.

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We’re visiting Stony Stratford this month – historic coaching town on Watling Street full of pubs, narrow passageways and lots of history! Catherine reveals the impact of the new city on the town and Tabatha explores a nationally significant Roman religious hoard found nearby.

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We’re getting specific in this episode and each picking a special item from our collections to explore. Is it a sun disc? Is it a wheel? Tabatha talks Iron Age and Roman sun gods. Catherine tells the story of an object you wouldn’t want to fall from the roof of, but that you might like to get your lunch delivered in.

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