@deborahng24.bsky.social
Early career heritage professional from Hong Kong. Currently based in Manchester, UK. All opinions are mine.
28.04.2025 13:28 — 👍 25136 🔁 4211 💬 127 📌 207
Even though I am in a much better position in my career and wellbeing, I still want to shed light this experience, as it seems to be a lesser depicted topic in creative arts (3/3)
02.04.2025 11:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Unfortunately, this is a common experience for many young folks pursuing for a career into the sector, and possibly for most aspiring young professionals in all fields in the current world (2/ )
02.04.2025 11:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Progress in 28 March 2025. An old figure with big, wavy ginger hair is fiddling with a kneeling young figure in dark clothing.
Close up on progress in 20 March 2025. The old figure’s hair is less rendered but already has rough shadings, and is depicted wrapping around the young figure’s head.
Progress in 17 March 2025. The old figure is in roughly rendered light clothing. Their hair is not painted yet.
Latest update and some WIP for my #oilpainting, produced for my #artistinresidency at the 42nd Street Charity.
It draws a one sided relationship I had with my career pursuit into the museum and heritage sector. At one point, it was significantly detrimental to my confidence and mental health. (1/🧵)
Also feel free to look through folks I’m following as they’re almost all GLAM scholars and professionals!
15.12.2024 20:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@heritagenetwork.bsky.social and @museumsassociation.org have two curated starting lists to look through! I think there’s one for museum educator as well :)
15.12.2024 20:44 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Fortunately, I don’t see this odd gatekeeping attitude anymore when I talk with scholars and cultural heritage professionals, ‘cause we all know that our skills are transferable and multidimensional 😊
03.12.2024 02:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0But this really stuck with me, and the attitude is kind of noticeable among my History colleagues in my undergrad programme.
03.12.2024 02:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Eventually more of my classmates went and did History and related subjects, including another one (also named Deborah) who went on and do Art History at St Andrew’s.
03.12.2024 02:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I still remember the time my secondary school History teacher said, ‘But Art History isn’t really History,’ when I was the only one in class who’s going to study History subjects in university.
03.12.2024 02:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0I’ve started a GLAM freelancers starter pack given there’s a few more of us now. Get in touch if you’d like to be added. go.bsky.app/46ojXZb
15.11.2024 10:02 — 👍 28 🔁 9 💬 12 📌 2
Woman wearing all black sitting cross legged on a table next to a large book of plans
This is one of our oversize plan books of London properties owned by St Bartholomew’s Hospital 1848-1927
(normal sized archivist for reference)
#EYAHuge #Archives
[SBHB/HC/55]
I don't think anyone should have to justify their reasons for ditching one product (Twitter) for another (Bluesky) to *checks notes* people who believe in a free market. It's fine to choose one brand over another because of the values associated with it.
14.11.2024 21:29 — 👍 256 🔁 26 💬 5 📌 2
22.11.2024 07:38 — 👍 28132 🔁 1191 💬 224 📌 44
As everyone seems to have a cold at the moment, our #ObjectOfTheWeek is this exquisite apothecary chest, made in Germany c. 1590, believed to have belonged to Oliver Cromwell. It has silver gilt canisters for medical ingredients & tools for dispensing medicines. #17thCentury
22.11.2024 09:17 — 👍 62 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 2![Black and white photograph showing a Brompton Hospital nurse, wearing a cap and cape, walking with two men [RLHBH/P/4/45].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kpxxiqvlbi3oovm5uue5sbnh/bafkreia742bnotjbuhlkeqdk5rkyb3spfpnaq7euedwfd5fap6baeufmxi@jpeg)
Black and white photograph showing a Brompton Hospital nurse, wearing a cap and cape, walking with two men [RLHBH/P/4/45].
![Black and white photograph showing Harefield Hospital nurses posing for a group photograph. They are wearing white skirts and short shoulder capes, with nursing caps [RLHHF/P/1/2/4].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kpxxiqvlbi3oovm5uue5sbnh/bafkreibxcmfht7dzlmaqjrgtmynmrqnuv6nejcqaej3cdrtds5pngrwidy@jpeg)
Black and white photograph showing Harefield Hospital nurses posing for a group photograph. They are wearing white skirts and short shoulder capes, with nursing caps [RLHHF/P/1/2/4].
![Black and white photograph showing a woman, identified as Sarah Emma Bailey, wearing the London Hospital nurses' outdoor uniform which was a large dark coloured cape coat [RLHLH/P/3/248].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kpxxiqvlbi3oovm5uue5sbnh/bafkreigpjqyo7il2e3tua2yuycuz4l4gcqr2qbq2d32cfrqtqeybv6d3ii@jpeg)
Black and white photograph showing a woman, identified as Sarah Emma Bailey, wearing the London Hospital nurses' outdoor uniform which was a large dark coloured cape coat [RLHLH/P/3/248].
![Black and white photograph of a group of people standing on the steps of Whipps Cross Hospital. The group is made up of people wearing white coats, fur coats, nursing attire and overcoats [RLHWX/P/4/8].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kpxxiqvlbi3oovm5uue5sbnh/bafkreie6qta4vram37kpr6a3pr73a5ibwaetmqke4oju2pksczn5vb4exu@jpeg)
Black and white photograph of a group of people standing on the steps of Whipps Cross Hospital. The group is made up of people wearing white coats, fur coats, nursing attire and overcoats [RLHWX/P/4/8].
Not all heroes wear capes…but in this case, they definitely do! Nurse capes are iconic pieces of attire & we have nearly 30 capes in our collections. You can often tell where a nurse trained or worked by the style of their caps & capes
#EYAHeroes #HistNursing #Nurses
Four drawings of court officials in the Justice of the Peace's casebook, 1811. They are sketched in profile, some still wearing wigs. The right hand side of the image shows a small section the following page with some case notes visible.
It's 1811. You've been caught stealing some beans and you're dragged up in front of the magistrate's court. You want the Justice of the Peace to be fair, sympathetic, and focused on your case. You glance at his casebook and he's doodling the other officials.
21.11.2024 09:32 — 👍 378 🔁 105 💬 8 📌 10things are only looking üp
and by things, we mean everyone, because the inevitable has happened and the hog now has height as well as width
I agree Peter. It’s very meditating when cutting glass as I needed to concentrate whilst enjoying the sounds of glass cutting. It’s a delightful experience!
20.11.2024 17:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thanks Bev!
20.11.2024 17:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0#stainedglass #manchester #artsandcrafts
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A hand holding a stained glass piece with darkened frame. It is placed under sunlight to show geometric stained glass pieces in yellow, green, teal and orange. The surroundings are blurred.
A hand holding a stained glass piece with silver frame. It is placed under sunlight to show geometric stained glass pieces in yellow, green, teal and orange. The surroundings are blurred.
My first stained glass art piece!
From glass cutting, leading, to soldering - did all the basic stuff!
Many thanks to Sharon Campbell at Manchester Stained Glass for teaching me her skills. You can find her here:
manchesterstainedglass.co.uk
If anyone missed Tuesday's Lunchtime Lecture but would like to watch? It's just been uploaded to our You Tube playlist
youtu.be/11VNdSPxd94?...
We've created a UK Heritage Restoration and Regeneration starter pack! It includes organisations and individuals who are rescuing, restoring, re-using and running historic buildings, structures and places across the UK.
Know anyone else who should be included?
#Heritage
go.bsky.app/4ghsGmp
