Paget’s at the Priory

An educational project was awarded funding by the Paget’s Association, in collaboration with the Michael Davie Foundation. [2023-2024] 

The Winifred Ditchfield Award

The Winifred Ditchfield Award has been granted to the team at Norton Priory Museum, Runcorn, Cheshire, to update the information on Paget’s disease within the museum. 

Part of the interpretation within the main gallery of the museum is an area devoted to the explanation of the usually high prevalence of an ancient form of Paget’s disease within the medieval human skeletal collection.

Since 2016, thanks to the Paget’s Association and other funders, the research team have carried out a substantial amount of further research which sheds light on the collection. The funding will enable videos and gallery interpretations to be updated with the very latest scientific results and will include explanations of what they tell us about the history of the disease and how this informs what we know of Paget’s disease today. In addition, another medieval skeleton affected by Paget’s disease will join the other two already on display to have their stories told as evidenced by the research. Paget’s disease will be further highlighted and explained to the many visitors, community groups and school children who spend time in the museum.

Read about the exciting research at Norton Priory.