Graham Rawson

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I vibrated in a perfect (sad) harmony with this piece, it says everything I want to say. In particular, the (to me) absolutely BEYOND IT idea that a university can not teach history, and somehow still call itself a university. How far have we fallen to even be able to think that.

Adult and child watching a 1960s penny arcade machine of Jack and the Beanstalk using Pelham puppets in the exhibition at Abbey House Museum Leeds

Entrance to the Story Time exhibition during the opening preview, Abbey House Museum Leeds

Visitors as the exhibition preview of Story Time at Abbey House Museum Leeds

Abbey House Museum Story Time #exhibition now open. Great to see guests of all ages spot their childhood favourites. Thanks to colleagues @leedsmuseums.bsky.social for making it happen. Also thanks to @leedscitycouncil.bsky.social, @artscouncilengland.bsky.social & Friends of Leeds City Museums.

Ah the 18th century, a wonderful time of high culture.

Goodbye to Twitter. Good riddance to X. "Once a hub for news, debate, and connection, Twitter has devolved into a cesspit of hate and chaos. Today, I’m sending my final tweet."

"Once a hub for news, debate, and connection, Twitter has devolved into a cesspit of hate and chaos. Today, I’m sending my final tweet."

Photo of Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde.

This is the face of courage and compassion. Thank you Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde for speaking truth to power on behalf of the marginalized.

Another reason to visit Abbey House #Museum #Leeds. New exhibition Storytime opens on Saturday. @leedsmuseums.bsky.social @leedsclarkkent.bsky.social

Exciting News! #BetwixtTheSheets is now available on #BBCSounds

If you like your history with an age rating, we might be the show for you.

Circular stained glass sign showing an 18th century man doffing his cap (logo of Melbourne Brewery, Leeds which closed in 1960). Leeds Museums and Galleries collections.

Ornate Fry's Chocolate sign in the newsagent and tobacconist shop display at Abbey House Museum, Leeds.

Photograph of the Hark to Rover pub display at Abbey House Museum Leeds.

A couple of new exhibits in the Abbey House #Museum Victorian streets after featuring in last year's exhibition. Melbourne Ales sign in the pub window and lovely Fry's Chocolate sign in the newsagent.
@leedsmuseums.bsky.social has such fantastic collections.

Late summer evening image (2006) from Saltburn pier with Redcar Steel works in the background.

Late summer evening image (2006) from Saltburn pier with Redcar Steel works in the background. Image: Paul Buckingham / Sunset, Saltburn Beach / CC BY-SA

‘Christmas Day in the Workhouse' literally in this 1904 image of the main dining hall of Rothwell Workhouse. It feels extremely shocking as we think of them as being very much a Victorian institution but this one did not open until 1903. to serve the Hunslet & District Poor

Leeds Other Paper front page 14 Dec 1984 - Children's Christmas poem by a striking miner.

Northern Star [LOP] front page 16 Dec 1993 - Jolly japes and Christmas capers.

Merry Christmas from the ghosts of LOP past - I'll be posting more bits and bobs about Leeds Other Paper in 2025, should I survive the festivities...

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Good solstice morning - I hope you slept like pork-stuffed Neolithic party-goers - I'm starting with 'Stonehenge - A Showery Day', William Turner, watercolour on paper, 1840s.
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This stunning coin is a silver medieval penny of William I dating to c.AD 1068 – 1070. It is from William's Bonnet issue of coins and was minted in Lincolnshire by the moneyer Outhgrim. #FindsFriday #WilliamI #Bonnet #Lincoln https://buff.ly/4iGFpNP

William Hill, 1806 – 1867 - chartist ancestors Rev William Hill was a central figure in Chartism as editor of Feargus O'Connor's Northern Star newspaper from 1837 to 1844.

Day 14 of the #Chartism themed #AdventCalendar🎄
William Hill, Swedenborgian minister and Northern Star editor
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A Chartist a day till Christmas

Abbey House Museum Consultation Abbey House Museum Consultation

As promised here is the link to the consultation on the future of @leedsmuseums.bsky.social Abbey House #Museum which is threatened with closure to save £160,000. Please do respond if you can:
museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/pQoMAtw/abbe...

Atmospheric 20th century photograph of Top Withens by acclaimed photographer Fay Godwin (1931-2005). The ruined farmhouse is of course believed to have been the likely inspiration for Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte’s novel, published in December 1847. (Photo British Museum)

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The cover of a book titled 'Queen Charlotte'. A banner across the top reads 'Lives of Royal Women. Routledge'. The author is Natalee Garrett. The cover shows a woman with powdered hair in a gold and white dress. Behind her hangs a red curtain on one side, and on the other side, a partial view of an outdoor scene.

Hello! I'm a historian of 18th-century Europe. Interested in royalty/nobility, public opinion, and visual culture. I teach at the Open University but all views posted are my own.

My first monograph, on Queen Charlotte, is forthcoming with Routledge (2025) 🎉
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Joseph Williams, 1809-1849 - chartist ancestors Joseph Williams was imprisoned in 1848 after speaking at a series of meetings at Clerkenwell

Day 7 of the #Chartism themed #AdventCalendar🎄
Joseph Williams, Bethnal Green Chartist killed in Tothill Fields Bridewell
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/joseph-willi...
A Chartist a day till Christmas

A man in a flat cap and glasses holds a pigeon in his outstretched hands while looking up at the sky

Jimmy Dodds, Albion Row Allotments, Byker, Newcastle in 1969 by Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen. She has a talent for making the ordinary seem extraordinary and I love everything about this photo.

A225 Open University history students explore Thomas Spence's tokens promoting radical sympathies. This satirical one, found Thames foreshore & recorded at finds.org.uk shows Newgate prison, 'residence of' 4 men imprisoned for supposed sedition after habeas corpus was suspended in 1794 #FindsFriday

In shock that the #museum I have dedicated most of my working life to is threatened with closure. I urge #Leeds people to respond to the upcoming public consultation and fight to preserve such a loved and important site. Local government funding needs fixing urgently.

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