Sandra Freshney

Two unpublished Darwin manuscripts in the Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge: insights into Charles Darwin’s Beagle fossil collecting and its significance during and after the voyage | Archives of Natural His... Two manuscripts in Charles Darwin’s autograph, held by the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences in Cambridge, are published for the first time. Both list fossil material found by Darwin in South America ...

New in Archives of Natural History (@sochistnathist.bsky.social): "Two unpublished Darwin manuscripts in the @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social Museum, Cambridge: insights into Charles Darwin’s Beagle fossil collecting and its significance during and after the voyage"

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#histsci #HPS

An illustration with text in the centre reading Summer at the Museums, What will you discover this summer? Surrounded by museum drawings, including a sun, crayons, butterfly, magnifying glass, telescope and dinosaur.

Sign up for family fun this #SummerAtTheMuseums! 💌 ☀️ 🗓️

Enjoy a great value day out with your family at local museums this summer. Join us to spark your imagination, explore big topics and enjoy time together.

Sign up to hear when the full events calendar launches: bit.ly/SummerAtTheMuseums

Following on from our training day last month, "Caring for Archival Collections" the presentation slides are now available on our website
#Conservation #CollectionsCare #IrishArchives #CuardaighDoChartlann

www.araireland.ie/presentation...

@araukie.bsky.social

#OnThisDay in 1840, Charles Booth was born in #Liverpool. He went on to become a successful businessman and philanthropist whose famous series of 'Poverty Maps' measured deprivation in London in the 19th century. Find out more with our guide:

www.whodoyouthinkyouaremaga...

Women Photographers – hidden in plain sight — Photo Scarborough Discover the women photographers creating work in Scarborough

NEW BLOG POST! Women Photographers - Hidden in Plain Sight. History of women in commercial photography in Scarborough.
#womenphotographers #photographichistory #scarborough #yorkshirecoast

www.photoscarborough.org.uk/blog-2-1/wom...

Published today 'The Colour of Clothes: Fashion and Dress in Autochromes 1907-1930' by Cally Blackman @thamesandhudson.bsky.social

Delighted to be hosting her online talk @rpshistgroup.bsky.social on Tuesday 1st April 2025 (1800-1900).

Book your place via the link in our bio.

Our latest online talk 'Sam Hanna: Documenting Lancashire Life' is now online via the link in our bio.

Includes extracts from colour films he shot in and around Burnley, Lancashire using stock first obtained in 1942.

#Lancashire #streetgames #knockerupper

Branding for the exhibition showing a double black and white image of Whittington in his mayoral robes. On the left his hand is on a human skull, on the right his hand is placed on a cat.

‘History of Whittington and his Cat’. London, between 1855-1860. Detail from an uncut book sheet, hand-coloured. Shows a cat facing left crouching on grass under red curtains. An ornate border surrounds the title and illustration.

‘Dick Whittington and his cat: book of words’. London: Lyceum Theatre, 1919. Colour illustration shows Whittington in cap with feather, carrying belongings in a red bundle on a stick over left shoulder. A long-haired cat sits to the right.

‘The true portraiture of Richard Whittington’ Unknown publication. Black and white print. Detail of cat facing right. Complete image shows Whittington in his robes and official mayoral chain.

Our exhibition ‘Whittington: The Man, The Myth and The Cat’ tells the story of medieval merchant & Lord Mayor Richard Whittington & how this became the famous tale & pantomime through materials in our Whittington collections. His bequest founded Guildhall Library in 1425. Many cat pictures as well 😺

Groundbreaking botanical discoveries on Captain Cook voyage were thanks to Indigenous people New book reveals that Pacific islands inhabitants helped European scientists identify hundreds of plant species In 1769, nearly nine months after setting sail with Capt James Cook on his first voyage to the Pacific, Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander…

Groundbreaking botanical discoveries on Captain Cook voyage were thanks to Indigenous people

💫 Cambridge Festival
Black Town & Gown: The historical legacy of Black presence in the City of Cambridge

🗓️ 28 March 6-7.30pm
📍 Lady Mitchell Hall, CB3 9DD
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This film highlights the cultural, political and artistic contributions that Black people have made to this historical city

Fantastic opportunity during this #PhD to engage with #museums like @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social to gain transferable skills e.g. public engagement & interpretation of collections 👍🏼🔎📜. #HistSci #Heritage #WomenInSTEM #ExploreYourArchives

📢Upcoming lecture! Professor Jon Topham jontopham.bsky.social on ‘Science and Religion from the Ground Up’

Join us for this joint event between the BSHS, hpsleeds.bsky.social and leedsprhs.bsky.social in Leeds and online!
📆Friday 25th April, 2025 | 3.30pm–5.00pm

www.eventbrite.com/e/science-an...

An antique coloured book illustration of a cactus

Photograph of a pressed Marsh Mallow flower in Darwin Family Hortus Siccus, MS Add. 8090.

A selection of antique coloured book illustration, including a tulip and Emperor moths

Bringing botanical illustrations and pressed plants to your feed 🌿
We recently hosted colleagues working across Cambridge collections with Collections-Connections-Communities to celebrate the launch of their Natural History Humanities research programme: loom.ly/C8reZbo @camglamresearch.bsky.social

Social media graphic with information for the forthcoming Curious Cures exhibition at Cambridge University Library. We see the event logo and a medieval image of a ill man being examined by a doctor.

Fascinated by health and wellbeing? So were our medieval ancestors.

Our new exhibition, Curious Cures, takes us back hundreds of years to a world of ritual healing and herbal recipes, stargazing, and surgery.

🔗Book your FREE ticket loom.ly/kVqsPRY

#CuriousCures

The Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorships - Collections Connections Communities The Leverhulme Trust has opened its second round of applications for Visiting Professorships: https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/visiting-professorships If you are interested in applying to the above Visiti...

🚨Are you a professor from overseas, interested in working with Cambridge collections to bring expertise, skills & knowledge in an underrepresented area?

We would love to hear from you!

Check the latest Visiting Professorships scheme @leverhulme.bsky.social
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/news-events/...
#GLAM

Weve been fighting for a new lift and decent respectful access to the Sedgwick Museum @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social for more than 5 years, so it's a small but satisfying step to see the planning notices go up on the street today 👩‍🦽
#access #museum

Welcome to #CamFest week 2️⃣! Here's a few highlights taking place this week 👇

TODAY//

🤰Reproductive Justice in a Changing Climate: screening of The Climate Baby Dilemma with @cam-repro.bsky.social (6pm Old Divinity School)
📱Voice Notes from Palestine + Panel Q&A (3pm, @camedfac.bsky.social

Do you live near a women's suffrage memorial? Help researchers at Aix-Marseille uni to map it alongside hundreds of others.
Celebrate and value global histories of democracy and feminist activism - a powerful message given ebbing support in the twenty-first century
framacarte.org/fr/map/sites...

Such a treat to be at this @darwincollegecam.bsky.social lecture recently. Fascinating stories, missing voices, bags of humour & a huge dash of much needed hope 💪🏼💕.👋🏼 @womenshistnet.bsky.social

Catch up online soon:
www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/lecture-seri...

#WomensHistory
#WomensHistoryMonth
#IWD2025

Poster advertising the event. Includes a photograph of stall holders & participants from 2024.

Drop in next week for the 2025 Archives & Collections Fair. This year we are thrilled to welcome several new organisations including @jisc.bsky.social Archive & Library Hubs, @ihrlibrary.bsky.social, @senatehouselib.bsky.social and Cambridgeshire Association for Local History (CALH). #ArchiveFair25

Indeed. No mention of 'archives' on that webpage, not even in the 'supportive quotes' section 😔👀🤞🏼....#ExploreYourArchive

Darwin exhibition with a table of archive facsimiles and fake candles in front of it.

(Fake) candles and archive facsimiles on a table, including magnifying glasses.

(Fake) candles and archive facsimiles on a table, including magnifying glasses.

(Fake) candles and archive facsimiles on a table, including magnifying glasses.

All set up for #TwilightAtTheMuseums @camunivmuseums.bsky.social and this year @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social has #ArchivesByCandlelight (facsimiles & fake candles ☺️) #ExploreYourArchive

@sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social 😀

Some of the early female students at Cambridge University who were studying geology. Pictured from top left - Elizabeth Dale, Gertrude Elles, Louise Hugon, Agnes Robertson, Louisa Jebb, Helen Drew, Ida Slater, Margaret MacPhee, Kathleen Haddon, Phylis Jewson, Alice Dale, and Alice Buxton Taylor.

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! ⚗️🔭🧪🔬👩‍🔬#IDWGS #IDWGD2025 #WomeninSTEM #HisSci #HistSTEM #Trailblazers #Trowelblazers #ExploreYourArchive

Call for proposals: Humanities Futures book series - University of London Press We are delighted to announce the details of our exciting new book series, Humanities Futures, and to invite book proposal submissions.  Humanities Futures is a new book series that advocates powerfull...

'the humanities are relevant and they matter...They matter as we consider climate change, global mobility, social injustice, human rights, poverty, the values we hold, & what kind of society we want to be.'

We've launched a new #OpenAccess series, Humanities Futures:

uolpress.co.uk/2025/02/call...

#ExploreYourArchives #EYADustbusters 👍🏼🔍📜📚📸

Trauma Informed Practice, 20 March 2025 Thursday 20 March, 10am to 1pm Cost: £10.00 (+VAT) Via Zoom (link to follow), booking required Join GLAM Cares for a 3 hour online workshop introducing the concept and the realities of trauma informed...

Want to find out about Trauma Informed Practice in #Museums #Archives and #Libraries?

Join GLAMcares for an online session with experienced practitioner Louise Thompson from Mindful Museums

Thurs 20th March, 10am-1pm, just £12. Book at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Delighted to see this wonderful article by @donnalferguson.bsky.social @theguardian.com on some of the research being published in my forthcoming book that can be pre-ordered now!
For the UK: www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Reading-the-...
And USA: upittpress.org/books/978082...

Colleen Shogan on LinkedIn: This evening, President Trump fired me. No cause or reason was cited. It… | 49 comments This evening, President Trump fired me. No cause or reason was cited. It has been an honor serving as the 11th Archivist of the United States. I have zero… | 49 comments on LinkedIn

We are in a war on knowledge, a war on facts, and a war on truth. The atrocious sacking of the 11th Archivist of the United States, Colleen Shogan (which she announced on her LinkedIn account last night) heralds a new era of burning of the books. www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...

Cambridge Archives & Collections Fair Discover special collections in Cambridge

More info on the fair website cambridgedissertationfair.wordpress.com and follow us on Instagram (camarchivesfair) #ExploreYourArchives