Reviews

Tales from the City, Museum of Liverpool

Fifty years after the reform of anti-gay laws, Lisa Gillen learns how it has affected Liverpool’s LGBT+ community

Digital

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Changing Lives: 200 Years of People and Protest in Sheffield, Weston Park Museum, Sheffield

This excellent exhibition uses the history of local activism to showcase the social and political character of the city, says Simon Brown

Books

Science Museums in Transition: Cultures of Display in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America

Best in show

Private Thomas Walker, 1856, by Thomas William Wood - Compton Verney, Warwickshire

International Bomber Command Centre, Lincoln

Rebecca Morris-Buck is drawn to the compelling stories of those who served and suffered in the second world war’s bombing campaigns

Headstone Manor & Museum, Harrow, London

This is an intriguing historic site that’s slightly let down by its attempts to be all things to all people, says Steve Gardam

Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro

Natalie Rigby discovers four fresh exhibitions that the institution hopes will make waves as it celebrates its 200th birthday

On my bookshelf

Postcard Stories, by Jan Carson

Digital

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Catalogue

America’s Cool Modernism: O’Keeffe to Hopper

Digital

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