Centring Migration: A Day of Dialogue on Future Museum Collecting Practices
Join the Migration Museum and National Museums Liverpool for a day-long, in-person event exploring collections and community-centred work.
Of interest for UK museum staff and those working with collections relating to migration history, an in-person Migration Network event hosted by @migrationmuseum.org at the Museum of Liverpool on Wednesday 3 September 10:00-15:30.
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Thank you! Looking forward to our paths crossing
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My PhD thesis is now available online through the University of Leicester repository! 'Sociability, Provincial Antiquarianism and Networks of Knowledge in the Spalding Gentlemen's Society, 1710-1755'. figshare.le.ac.uk/articles/the...
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Westminster group took cash from Israeli state-owned arms firm
Revealed: cross-party group of MPs accused of βclear breach of the rulesβ over donation from weapons company controlled by Israeli government.
πNEW -- Westminster group took cash from Israeli state-owned arms firm
by Martin Williams
Revealed: Cross-party group of MPs accused of βclear breach of the rulesβ over donation from weapons company controlled by Israeli government.
www.declassifieduk.org/westminster-...
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I would love to! Iβve had great experiences with several of your colleagues, so Iβm eager to visit
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Iβd love that π₯Ή will let you know when Iβm next up there!!
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Deeply honoured to say that I am one of the recipients of an Early Career Fellowship! From May 2026, Iβll be spending 3 years at Edinburghβs Art History department (@edincollegeofart.bsky.social) to research Whiteness and Greco-Roman antiquity in eighteenth-century British history paintings
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Thank you!!
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Super pleased to announce that I started my new job as a Curator/Researcher at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery π Iβll be working on the βVictorian Art & Design and the Globalβ project and will get to share my expertise on all things Empire and British Art
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Hardeep stands in front of a bookcase filled with old books, with his hands in his pockets in a relaxed stance. He is wearing slacks and a checked shirt, and he also has glasses on.
In todayβs #PeoplingPodcast, we are joined by @hardeepdhindsa.bsky.social to discuss the relationship between classical culture and imperialism in the 18th and 19th centuries. Listen in to find out more about Classics, the Grand Tour, and Invented Legacies here: peoplingthepast.com/2025/06/03/p...
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Meet the Fellows: Dan Hicks FSA - Society of Antiquaries of London
The Society of Antiquaries is proud to bring together a distinguished community of scholars, practitioners, and enthusiasts dedicated to the study and stewardship of the material past. In our new Meet...
We're excited to present the first in a series of interviews with our Fellows. We start with @profdanhicks.bsky.social, Prof of Contemporary Archaeology at @ox.ac.uk, Curator of World Archaeology at @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social & Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford.
www.sal.org.uk/2025/04/meet...
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Very pleased that copies of our new volume with @cypriotartleeds.bsky.social & Thomas Kiely βEmpire & Excavation. Critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprusβ have arrived! Thanks to @sidestone.bsky.social πΊ
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Confronting the White Classical Body
Published in Visual Culture in Britain (Ahead of Print, 2024)
Deeply honoured to have contributed to the relaunch issue of Visual Culture in Britain @vcib.bsky.social π¨ My short essay uses my illustrations as a starting point to discuss the normalcy of Whiteness in the reception of Greco-Roman art and how Critical Whiteness Studies helps me articulate this
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In the centre of the image we see an image of a reconstructed temple inside a museum space. The framing text reads "Season 4 Coming Soon! Cultural Heritage and Legacies of Colonialism"
HUGE NEWS! Season 4 of #PeoplingPodcast is coming soon!
In todayβs preview episode, hosts Chelsea Gardner & Melissa Funke are joined by Christine Johnston (Season 4βs producer) to talk about what our listeners can expect. Listen in and find out more here: peoplingthepast.com/2025/01/14/p... /1
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Confronting the White Classical Body
Published in Visual Culture in Britain (Ahead of Print, 2024)
Deeply honoured to have contributed to the relaunch issue of Visual Culture in Britain @vcib.bsky.social π¨ My short essay uses my illustrations as a starting point to discuss the normalcy of Whiteness in the reception of Greco-Roman art and how Critical Whiteness Studies helps me articulate this
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Thank you!!
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BSECS Conference Registration
Registration for the BSECS Annual Conference is now open. Please use the form below to register for the conference.
REGISTRATION FOR #BSECS2025 CLOSES AT MIDNIGHT ON SATURDAY 30 NOVEMBER!!!!
We can't wait to see you all in January.
#18thC #skystorians ποΈ
www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...
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The Vast Early Modern Atlantic: Art History: Vol 46, No 5
Click on the title to browse this issue
This issue of Art History I co-edited with Esther Chadwick analyzed the #earlymodern Atlantic as βvastβ in its complexity and its connectedness, and in its continuing effects in our world today #VastEarlyAmericas #arthistory @forarthistory.bsky.social #Americas #Africa #Caribbean #18thcentury
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Watch live at www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E7t...
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My name badge in the societyβs meeting room
Looking forward to todayβs Collections and Research Day at @antiquaries.bsky.social, where Iβll be talking about racialised touch and classical sculpture in the eighteenth century #c18
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Green cover of the book 'Servants Abroad: Travel Journals by British Working People, 1765β1798'. The image shows an 18th-century caricature of a male servant carrying books and wine.
My edition of four travel journals by 18th-c servants is out now, including accounts of France, Italy, the Low Countries, Germany and the Ottoman Empire by three valets and a maid β the majority of people who went on the 'Grand Tour' #skystorians #18thc #c18th global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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PhD Student at the University of York researching the visual culture of microscopy in early modern and eighteenth-century England.
AHRC funded through WRoCAH
2nd year PhD student - CDA with MMU & English Heritage - 18th c. Suburban London Villa -
#Historian. Author #BlackTudors #Heiresses (out September 2025) Collaborative educator #TeachingBlackTudors
www.mirandakaufmann.com
www.linktr.ee/drmirandakaufmann
Archiving US Gov Websites with @archive.org & @EOTArchive.org
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Leverhulme ECF, University of Edinburgh, researching medieval Judas.
π Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance (Manchester UP, 2025)
π Co-editor, Towards An Accessible Academy (MIP, 2025)
Volunteer, MCR Pathways.
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xxxi | (she/her) | black/classical myth studies (hair, music, synaesthetics) | (em)bodied negromantic | welfare queen | currently composing my first opera
19 // any prns // tired archeology student
MA Ancient History
MA Teaching History and Civics
PhD-Candidate βͺβͺCharles Universityβ¬
Historian of Medicine | First Faculty of Medicine, Institute for History of Medicine and Foreign Languages | Ritual Dynamics - Christianisation - Temple Sleep 200-700
News from the Classical, Ancient Near Eastern & Egyptian Studies department at De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Posts by our editors.
β’ PhDing @CambridgeHPS @WellcomeTrust
β’ Incoming Frances Yates Fellow @warburginstitute.bsky.social
β’ #EarlyModern natural knowledge and its long reception
β’ Writing a history of the doctrine of signatures
www.hps.cam.ac.uk/directory/wen
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AHRC Northern Bridge DTP funded PhD student at Newcastle University researching texts of travelling women prophets in the seventeenth-century - he/him π³οΈβππ΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ
β’ currently: researcher @cycjscotland.bsky.socialβ¬
β’ incoming PhD student @uofgsociology.bsky.social
β’ formerly research & policy @stopwatchuk.bsky.social
Classicist and linguist, Durham. Working on multilingualism in ancient Italy, the written landscape and the linguistics of slavery.
Matthew Roberts is in his third year (part-time) on the PhD Text, Practice as Research program at the University of Kent - Queering the British Holiday: from the Grand Tour of the 18th century to the hedonism of Club 18-30. Oi! Oi! Egad!
An independent charity that seeks to fund blue skies research and scholarship. Follow this channel for details on upcoming grant deadlines, published research, scheme opening dates, grant announcements, events, and more. https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/
Writer, curator, Senior Lecturer History of Art (The University of Edinburgh) and organiser with Living Rent (Leith Branch). Wants rent controls now. https://kirstenlloyd.co.uk/
Part of the University of Edinburgh, UK. Undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Art, Design, History of Art and Music.
https://www.eca.ed.ac.uk/
Historian & Curator | Senior Lecturer
in French & British History of Art 1600-1900 at University of Edinburgh |Director, Global Premodern Art MSc |Ceramics,Glass & History of Collecting
Japanese art history, Co-Director of Edinburgh Buddhist Studies. Reuse/recycling, paper, palimpsests, fragments. Book: Word Embodied (Harvard 2018) Edited vol: Reuse, Recycle, and Repurpose: The Afterlives of Japanese Material Culture (Ars Orientalis 2023)
Head of Curatorial and Participation, Birmingham Museums Trust, overseeing curatorial, exhibitions, volunteering and participation teams