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Decorated with Love
Hull Museums include a wide range of items associated with love including love tokens, pin cushion, snuff boxes and knitting sheaths.
Restrictive Fashion
For over 200 years women were required to wear corsets to mould their bodies. Find out how corsets were made and why corsetry and whaling were very intimately connected.
Hull and the Whaling Industry
At its height Hull could boast one of the largest and most successful whaling fleets in Britain. Discover how it all began, how the whalers' braved arctic conditions to catch their whales and how the introduction of steam powered vessels signalled a decline for the Hull whaler.
Come Rain or Shine - Historic Umbrellas and Parasols
Shielded from the rain and shaded from the sun. Come and find out more about Hull Museum's umbrella and parasol collection and learn some interesting brolly facts.