Today we remember Harry Leslie Smith 'The World's Oldest Rebel' who was born 100 years ago today in Barnsley

A survivor of the Great Depression, a WW2 RAF veteran & an activist. After retirement he became an author & continued to campaign for social justice John Smith (son of Harry Leslie Smith)

#StandWithUkraine 12 months since Russia launched a full-scale invasion on Ukraine. We were hoping that we wouldn't still need to share this poem by Ian McMillan but sadly the sentiments in it still ring true

'I'm Holding Christmas Close' by Ian McMillan

Watch the rest of the Barnsley Museums at Christmas concert on our website, along with lots more #BarnsleyChristmas memories barnsley-museums.com/christmas

Such a great feel good video from Barnsley Museums ♥

Please share with your friends and family

As usual our #AdventCalendar has lots of pieces instead of doors!

There's no prize for completing the jigsaw in the quickest time, just a sense of pride ☺ 🎄 🎅 ☃

#1stDecember #Christmas #BarnsleyChristmas Art UK

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Fill in this short survey to tell us about the things you would like to see and we'll add you into a draw to win one of five £20 vouchers

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📸Thurnscoe Library, 1978 #Museum30

When you go home, tell them of us and say. For your tomorrow, we gave our today

#BarnsleyRemembers #RememberanceSunday

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.

Photographs of Barnsley war memorial in 1925

#LestWeForget #BarnsleyRemembers #Remember #Museum30

#Museum30 Day 1: #MyMuseum We are privileged to look after 5 stunning and very different venues

Experience Barnsley Museum
Elsecar Heritage Centre
Cannon Hall Museum, Park & Gardens The Cooper Gallery
Worsbrough Mill

Here's a little bit more about each 👇

We hope you've enjoyed our #NationalPoetryDay posts today, we've put lots of them in this new episode of the Barnsley Museums podcast

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Our final #NationalPoetryDay lookback is a poem that we wish wasn't still relevant today....

In extraordinary times, poets articulate what many of us struggle to say @Ian McMillan has written a sonnet to Gorlovka, Barnsley's twin town in Ukraine.

#StandWithUkraine

We've enjoyed listening to all the poems Hear My Voice have been sharing today for #NationalPoetryDay

Poetry and music are happy companions.
For #NationalPoetryDay we are sharing these wonderful compositions by music students at Barnsley College created in response to the Hear My Voice 2020 #PoetInLockdown project.

on.soundcloud.com/iz4EW

#NationalPoetryDay We're re-sharing 'Utterance' a poem that was written in the midst of the pandemic.

Helen Mort and #JamesLockey
Poetry made from letters sent by older, cared for people and their carers during the pandemic
Off the Shelf Festival of Words Right Up Our Street
vimeo.com/475827758

#NationalPoetryDay 'The Turning' is a poem about Worsbrough Mill by Ian McMillan with an added audio description from VocalEyes

youtu.be/tNj5mTFcvGs

#NationalPoetryDay This beautiful poem was written by children at WCPS as part of Refugee Week 🧡 & an open art exhibition organised by Barnsley Borough City of Sanctuary

7 schools across the borough created work responding to the 'welcome' theme
barnsleymuseums.art.blog/2022/07/27/chi…

#NationalPoetryDay Have you seen Barnsley's first Tellapoem? EldonStreetHAZ has transformed an old telephone box with the words of the Poet Laureate, Simon Armitage

Learn more about the project on the Barnsley Museums website barnsley-museums.com/projects/eldon…