Over the past year some new research has been carried out on one area of RAMM’s ceramic collection: the pottery made in local Devon workshops in the 19th and early......by the Brannam Pottery of North Devon; by Hart and Moist; Royal Doulton; Longpark Pottery; and ceramics from the Sunflower Pottery in Clevedon, Somerset, known as Eltonware. If anyone is...
In 1968 the first Honiton bypass was built. The Ministry of Transport found fossil hippo bones while digging the road. RAMM has reconstructed an almost complete lower jaw from the fragments of bone.
...taxonomically-important, early 19th-century collection of British shells (1800-1816). Today it is an essential resource for taxonomic research. Montagu moved to Devon in 1798 when his army career ended in disgrace.......The army discovered his affair with Eliza D’Orville and subjected him to a court-martial. So together they moved to Kingsbridge in Devon where Montagu devoted himself to natural history. Montagu...
...society’s annual exhibitions. One of his photographs is made of ‘A Devon Landscape’. In October 1926 Tutton also displayed a series of colour photographs at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum...
...profitable opportunity to re-design ecclesiastical plate for Devon’s churches. Protestant Communion Cup for St Sidwell’s Church by Richard Hilliard. Detail of Richard Hilliard’s mark on his Protestant Communion Cup. Objects...
...such as Owen Angel (active ca. 1852-1893) or James Frederick Long (1818-1903). Angel was one of the founding members of the Devon and Exeter Photographic Society in 1857. A lot...
...Plain Sight: Transatlantic slavery & Devon (which has been postponed to autumn 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic). Previous identifications Despite its familiarity we are not really sure who this...