Sofia La Bouchardiere entered her painting in the Newtown Town council “Big Art competition” entitled “Why I Love Newtown” in February 2022. Here it is. It got missed from our […]
Robert Owen Museum held an event on Saturday 11th May with a birthday procession and a celebration of Robert Owen’s 253rd birthday, which started and ended at the museum building […]
A new digital display with material from Historic New Harmony, in Indiana, USA is to be unveiled at the museum soon, complete with 23 new slides showing Robert Owen’s work […]
Our curator, Colin Laker, has written a new short essay on Robert Owen and slavery. We have now added it to all the articles and writings about Robert Owen here. […]
“Yesterday, on the 22nd of May, 114 school students aged 11 to 13 from Newtown High School, descended on the Robert Owen Museum to learn more about this great Newtonian. […]
A message from our Chairman:- “Dear All, What a beautiful day to celebrate Robert Owen and what an overall great performance from schoolchildren from Maesyrhandir CP school with their dance […]
1. Thomas Allsop As well as being a leading Owenite, Thomas Allsop was also important in the history of Chartism which, in turn, has an important part to play in […]
“An email came in to us from a Mr. Moffatt, a rare book dealer from Torquay asking us if we would be interested in a small pocket sized, leather bound […]
The Almanack which the Museum has recently acquired was a present by Robert Owen to Miss Mary Allsop, who was the daughter of his long-term friend and ally, Thomas Allsop. […]
This example of Goldsmith’s Almanack was a new year present to ‘Miss Mary Allsop’ by Robert Owen signed and dated 1st January 1850. Mary Lamb Allsop, born in 1836, would […]