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As it emerged Grantham Museum will soon look out on to a bronze statue of Margaret Thatcher, I found myself thinking about the last time I stepped foot in there.A statue of Thatcher No plinth will be too high for the vandals | Dawn FosterRead moreGrowing up in the town in the 1990s, the local museum was a cheap trip out for my primary school class, a sea of sticky fingers smudging the glass. I still remember the smell 鈥?a sort of musty air mixed with a whiff of adventure.For a small market town, Grantham has a big history, producing not only Thatcher but more favourably Isaac Newton. As a kid, our museum was a small window into another world, where the past was packed into a space each of us could explore.Then in 2011 Lincolnshire county council moved to close Grantham Museum as part of a cost-saving exercise for heritage services. More than 80 years after it first opened, the museum was deemed a service modern society co
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stanley cup becher s today because of them 鈥?a group of 20 volunteers giving their time to keep history open.Its a state of affairs replicated up and down the country, with museums, libraries and arts festivals increasingly hollowed out by cash-strapped councils. The maths is simple: as
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Baroness Hale of Richmond has spoken to the Salford Human Rights Conference on the development of human rights law, and has lamented the
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