This online exhibition is a collaboration between Newcastle University and the Great North Museum: Hancock, working in partnership with Belsay Primary School, West Jesmond Primary School, and Westerhope Primary School. It is part of a larger AHRC project exploring artefacts in the Shefton Collection relating to the lives of women and children.

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Acknowledgements and Contributors

This online exhibition was produced with funds from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).

Exhibition research and curation is by Emma Gooch, Sally Waite, Andrew Parkin and Daisy-Alys Vaughan. Website development is by Daisy-Alys Vaughan.

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Dr Sally Waite, Senior Lecturer in Greek Art and Archaeology, Newcastle University sally.waite@ncl.ac.uk

Andrew Parkin, Keeper of Archaeology, Great North Museum andrew.parkin@twmuseums.org.uk

Dr Emma Gooch, Research Associate emma.gooch@newcastle.ac.uk

Dr Daisy-Alys Vaughan, Research Associate d.v.c.vaughan1@newcastle.ac.uk