North East England’s historical author Dan Jackson chooses a few of his favourite objects from Newcastle's Discovery Museum, Newcastle.
Here, Dan explores the ship model of the Tyne-built battleship H.M.S Nelson, launched in the 1920s and, in World War II that provided fire cover at the Normandy landings in 1944 and the formal surrender of the Japanese in Penang 1945.
This model can be seen in the Story of The Tyne Gallery in Newcastle’s Discovery Museum.
Dan Jackson is the author of The Northumbrians: The North East of England and its People, A New History.