Zoe Cormack

Nick Cave on Hopefulness 🎯

On this app I swear, from now on in, I am calling professionals

Extremely predictable bank holiday DIY nightmare: the task is absolutely bigger than I thought, I don’t have enough filler, I’m definitely not going to finish this weekend yet I cannot go back because half the paint is stripped from my bathroom ceiling

Culture House - Discover Somali Culture & Heritage - Home At Culture House we tell the story of the British Somali Community. Discover Somali culture and heritage today by visiting us today.

So honoured to attend the opening of Culture House in Shepherd’s Bush this evening. Inspiring venue and community project ! Worth getting a late train home culturehouse.org.uk

This leak has developed its own ecosystem of aquatic plants and mosses

UK potential drought this summer - Talking about household water saving is fine and good, but there is a pipe on my street that has been leaking for the last three years that Thames Water can’t or won’t fix.

Absolutely exhausted after a long weekend with small children.

Vision of the tomb - El-Salahi, 1965.

Very much here for this kind of content:

In Liverpool for Museum Ethnographers Group conference. Great to be here and hear about new work and projects

Holiday clubs though…

SHAKESPEARE IN SWAHILILAND SHINES IN THE USA — Blake Friedmann Edward Wilson Lee’s acclaimed exploration of the influence in Africa of Shakespeare the global poet has won praise across the Atlantic and the beautiful US hardback edition is available from Farrar St...

Omg. Immediately ordering blakefriedmann.co.uk/news/shakesp...

I’m late to the party, but I’ve picked up Edward Wilson-Lee’s book ‘A History of Water’ which is brilliant and engrossing. Now thinking about parallels between archives, museums and history…

Project Curator: Endangered Material Knowledge Programme Africa Oceania and the Americas Full-time (41 hours per week) Fixed term (until 1 February 2028) £43,207 per annum Application deadline: 12pm (midday) on 2 May 2025

Really interesting job going for an anthropologist in my department bmrecruit.ciphr-irecruit.com//templates/C...

View across museum gallery with packed display cases, ornate ironwork and a white ceiling.

Do you have the vision and leadership skills to shape the future of public engagement in one of the most exciting museums in the UK? We are seeking a new Head of Public Engagement & Programming. Full-time permanent role. Grade 8: Starting from £48,235 p.a. Closing date: 13 May 2025.

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I could get behind this initiative.

The Everyday Politics of Famine in Sudan at University of Bath on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - The Everyday Politics of Famine in Sudan at University of Bath, listed on FindAPhD.com

My inspirational friend Naomi Pendle is looking for a PhD researcher on a major new project on the everyday politics on famine (in Sudan). Could it be you? It’s an experienced and international team www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

One in four women in England have serious reproductive health issue, survey finds Exclusive: Racial disparities highlighted as researchers estimate 10 million women have conditions such as fibroids or endometriosis

We need to talk about this more www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

OMG someone has written a BOOK about how to do the Cambridge-London commute well. I have no words, except maybe… anyone done this for Oxford? www.amazon.co.uk/Cambridge-Co...

An afternoon off work and took my kids swimming - feeling so wholesome. Also my cat killed and presented us with a (small) rat. And the ants are back.

What USAID did for world heritage | Apollo Magazine As development agencies have become increasingly entangled with heritage projects, the end of USAID raises the question of who will fill the funding gap, writes William Carruthers

As development agencies have become increasingly entangled with heritage projects, the dismantling of USAID raises the question of who will fill the funding gap – by @williamcarruthers.bsky.social www.apollo-magazine.com/usaid-abolit...

The siege of Khartoum has lifted. Left behind are scenes of unimaginable horror | Nesrine Malik Sudan’s capital has been hollowed out and stripped for parts, its people trampled beneath a conflict that is far from over, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

“Khartoum airport’s rapid destruction speaks to the most remarkable feature of this war-how precipitous it was. How quickly Sudan was snatched from normality and plunged into a war that didn’t escalate over time, but exploded overnight.” @nesrinemalik.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

History of the world in objects, 2025 edition

Museum piece

Model aeroplane, made out of USAID cooking oil tins www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

South Sudan on the Precipice of Renewed Full-blown War | Crisis Group Tensions are running dangerously high after an opposition-linked militia overran an army base loyal to President Salva Kiir in South Sudan’s Upper Nile state. Regional leaders should urgently press Ki...

South Sudan is slipping toward renewed conflict & political upheaval. Risks merging with war in Sudan. African heads of state with influence, esp Kenya, Ethiopia & South Africa should step in & calm alarming situation before hostilities escalate. 

www.crisisgroup.org/africa/horn-...

Over a million southern Sudanese people fled to Sudan’s capital Khartoum during the wars and famines of the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s. This book is an intellectual history of these war-displaced working people’s political organising and critical theory during a long conflict. It explores how these people thought through their circumstances, tried to build potential political communities, and imagined possible futures. Based on ten years of research in South Sudan, using personal stories, private archives, songs, poetry, photograph albums, self-written histories, jokes, and new handmade textbooks, New Sudans follows its idealists’ and pragmatists’ variously radical, conservative, and creative projects across two decades on the peripheries of a hostile city. Through everyday theories of Blackness, freedom, and education in a long civil war, Nicki Kindersley opens up new possibilities in postcolonial intellectual histories of the working class in Africa. Nicki Kindersley is Senior Lecturer in African History in the School of History, Archaeology and Religion at Cardiff University. She was previously a Harry F. Guggenheim Research Fellow at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, and holds a PhD from Durham University.

Cover of New Sudans by Nicki Kindersley

This looks like a fascinating new book from Nicki Kindersley, just published by @cambridgeup.bsky.social.

New Sudans: Wartime Intellectual Histories in Khartoum

doi.org/10.1017/9781... (on Cambridge Core, if you have library access)

Now crawling back to oxford on the bus…

View of where I spent the weekend - would you believe me if I sent it was work? Really it was