Dr Katy Barrett

Home from an exceptional week with Oxford Cultural Leaders #OCLResidential2025. Could not have asked for a more perfect set of trainers, activities, locations and colleagues. Now for the reflection, absorption and change to begin!

“Barrett’s cultural studies approach to the longitude question is well-managed and multifaceted, encompassing cartography, scientific and pseudoscientific writing, popular periodicals and popular engravings, satire, poetry, and dictionaries. In short, the book is as good as its word”

Barrett, Katy. Looking for Longitude: A Cultural History In 1714, the British government joined a number of European powers in passing an act to encourage the study of the longitude question—literally: how do we reliably calculate longitude at sea?—in the i...

What a nice surprise to receive a review for ‘Looking for Longitude’ in The Scriblerians and the Kit-Kats, with thanks to Manushag Powell scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/scrible...

This is a great PhD opportunity for someone! I was lucky to do some work on Sarah Sophia’s coin collection in early days www.bl.uk/services/res...

… how we dwell in buildings and bodies, how materials and movements hold memory.

I found it exciting, calming, energising, reflective. 2/2

#DoHoSuh at #tate is as visually beguiling as I expected from visitor’s posts but it’s also deeply compelling.

Working with ‘fabric architecture’ he measures, rubs and records his domestic spaces, making you reflect on the fabric of space, place and memory … 1/2

Excited and humbled to have got a place on #OCLResidential2025 later this year.
Looking forward to everything I can learn from my cohort and the Oxford Cultural Leaders team

Although confusion also apt!

Andor and the antiquities trade | Apollo Magazine In the <i>Star Wars</i> series about the creation of the rebellion, Stellan Skarsgård’s art dealer/spymaster is perfectly placed to understand the inner workings of empire, writes Will Wiles

‘Antiquities are helpfully ambiguous’. I hadn’t realised this context was why I’m enjoying #Andor so much!

YouTube video by House of Lords A look inside the House of Lords chamber

What’s it really like curating a working collection? Watch my brilliant colleague Eloise Donnelly discussing historic furniture and decorative arts in the Lords Chamber

Lots of really useful things to ponder in this report on how GenZ engage with historic houses

Sorry not to see you! But looks like you have exciting places to be

A day at the Science Museum celebrating the life and legacy of Jim Bennett. A real joy to connect with history of science research for the day

Come and see what I and the team have been working on!

This looks so powerful already 💪🏻

Had a rare moment of energy and clarity so finally pulled some career reflections into a blog that I shared with @bbkhistorical.bsky.social students recently

#OftheTree by #marshmallowlaserfeast newly installed at @rbgkew.bsky.social. A beautiful day, so many people pausing, being drawn in. Left me thinking how far technology can make us look differently at nature

We’re looking for new trustees at @oldoptheatre.bsky.social! Particularly if you can bring expertise in medical, commercial, fundraising or social inclusion, get in touch!

oldoperatingtheatre.com/vacancies/

Well this is exciting post! Congratulations @atinybitwaring.bsky.social @rhiggitt.bsky.social Richard Dunn, Simon Schaffer, Alexi Baker.

The #BoardofLongitude mark 2!

Gorgeous marbled papers by #TirzahGarwood at #DulwichPictureGallery. Really want to do a marbling course now!

The project offers incredible images, ideas and collaborators!

More details here. Deadline for the first stage is 17/03/25
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Image: Human lung tissue. Credit Nathan Richoz University of Cambridge

The commission is to be a centrepiece of the gallery, responding to themes raised by the Human Cell Atlas (HCA) project: a global consortium of scientists striving to map every cell in the human body to transform our understanding of health and find new ways of diagnosing and treating disease.

Artist commission now open for proposals at Science Museum Group! I was excited to consult on this project for an artist to contribute to the new 'Tomorrow: The Bennett Gallery', which will explore how today's scientific discoveries are shaping our future.

#LuxMuralis at @stpaulscathedral.bsky.social Spectacle threaded with history, art and ideas. An inspiring way to spend an evening

Curator - London (Greater) job with THE CLOCKWORKS CIO | 9460739 We’re seeking an experienced curator to run a unique London museum, with world-class objects, wonderful premises, stable funding & great people.

Great job for somebody at Clockworks

Library - Institute of Making

Fab expanded materials library and stories from #instituteofmaking

www.instituteofmaking.org.uk/materials-li...

UK Parliament has announced the six artists commissioned to record the Lying-in-State of Queen Elizabeth II. This has been a long but so fulfilling project to lead

A coincidence of collage: Peter Kennard and Anne Desmet — Spoons on Trays | Katy Barrett Anne Desmet, Out of this World and Peter Kennard, The Climate © The artists.

Had some blog thoughts on collage after visits to #PeterKennard and #AnneDesmet shows

Best of 2024 blog is now up www.spoonsontrays.com/blog/best-of...

And to you Dominik!