And weirded out by some of the misrepresentation and cultural appropriation...
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Living my best Disney life.
08.10.2025 18:33 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
New gaff, same colour scheme!
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Colourful patches were initially added to civilian smocks by Ansars as symbols of poverty and virtue, as demand increased so did the uniformity.
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On the 2nd September 1898 this Ansar Jibbah was collected after the Battle of Omdurman, 127 years ago today!
02.09.2025 14:10 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Last museum lift selfie at NAM
01.09.2025 20:34 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
BBC News at Six - 13/08/2025
The latest national and international news from the BBC.
Also a mention of our forthcoming exhibition 'Beyond Burma: Forgotten Armies' opening on the 16th of September.
Thank you as ever to the excellent @terridendy.bsky.social for facilitating this behind the scenes look at our work.
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www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... 24.04 (link active for 24 hours)
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YESSSS GIRLS! โฝ
27.07.2025 18:48 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
My last Collections Hack @ NAM
24.07.2025 15:59 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Visited the Battle of Britain Memorial flight centre at RAF Coningsby today! The last working Lancaster Bomber in the UK.
โค๏ธ The restored historic motifs showing the bombs dropped over Berlin (in red) and Italy (in๐ฆ)
07.07.2025 17:09 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Myth and Reality now open @nam_london
6 weeks of intensive conservation by @plowden_smith one hefty lift up the stairs with @crozierfinearts and the huge painting of the Capitulation of Kars by Thomas Jones Barker has been hung and looks fabulous.
Quite a bit fun for my last Namstall!
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Love that we get to watch the Red Arrows perform from the doorstep
28.06.2025 18:48 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
India's War: An IWM Collecting project
Find out more about how IWM is looking to increase the representation of the Indian experience of the Second World War within the museumโs collections.
IWM has recently launched our India's War collecting project, aiming to improve our representation of the Indian experience of the Second World War within the museumโs collections. More details here:
www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
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Ok a conveyor belt for digitisation is just a game changer Smithsonian www.instagram.com/p/DLBFti_R80...
18.06.2025 15:43 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Reference book nook of dreams @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social
15.06.2025 18:27 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
There's more colours than Army green in NAM collections ๐
12.06.2025 15:34 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Farm shop and brewery Saturdays โค๏ธ
07.06.2025 15:49 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
The granny trolley has resurfaced for trips down to the allotment.
26.05.2025 15:21 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Army issue thigh highs
22.05.2025 14:39 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
And I shall name him Def Leopard. Fun day of analysis reveals he's really into heavy metals.
21.05.2025 17:40 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Painting of man in uniform, moustache and eye patch. Gallery label: Sir Adrien Carton de Wiart, 1880-1963
By Sir William Orpen
Carton de Wiart was a British army officer. He wore a patch to cover the eye he lost while serving in the Somaliland Camel Corps during the First World War. In 1917, he lost his left hand in the battle of Passchendaele on the Western Front. Awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery, he declared: 'Frankly, I had enjoyed the war!'
This portrait, and that of Ganga Singh nearby, were made by William Orpen, who painted studies of the delegates to the Peace Conference in 1919 where the Treaty of Versailles was signed. This marked the formal end of the First World War.
Oil on canvas, 1919
Given by wish of Charles Cheers Wakefield, 1st Viscount Wakefield, 1968
NPG 4651
The indestructible Adrien Carton de Wiart VC painted by William Orpen in 1919, seen today at the National Portrait Gallery, London. He threw his glass eye out of a taxi window after he was obliged to wear one for a War Office interview.
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Finally finished resolving the documentation backlog on the ethno spears at the NAM.
Lots of lessons learnt about how ethno objects are documented in military collections. Main takeaway it's probably not a Zulu assegai...
06.05.2025 14:01 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Paying respects to the pagan gods at #Ickwell May Day
05.05.2025 14:07 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Spending Saturday with a ghost
03.05.2025 10:24 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Great couple of days @royalarmouries.bsky.social #plunderconf who knew there were so many medieval terms for plunder!
29.04.2025 17:07 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
3 year old thinks we should inspire marathon runners with a drawing of 'poo poo' #londonmarathon
27.04.2025 06:20 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
University of Cambridge: Mapping Archaeological Heritage in South Asia Project
Documenting the endangered archaeology and heritage of South Asia and publishing this information in an Open Access Arches geospatial database.
https://linktr.ee/mahsaproject
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One of the largest university-owned botanic gardens in the world, CUBG's diverse collection of 8,000+ plant species supports leading scientific research. Welcoming 350,000+ visitors annually, it also inspires a love of plants, learning & horticulture.
Professional animal nerd. Museum curator. Autistic. Lover of kitsch. Queer. She/her.
Research Fellow at UCL Institute of Advanced Studies. DPhil History at Magdalen College, Oxford. PG Member Royal Historical Society.
Former: University of Exeter, Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, Holocaust Educational Trust, US Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Official profile for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage programmes at the University of Lincoln, UK. Part of @uolhumanities.bsky.social.
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By Andrew Heavens, author of "The Prince and the Plunder", about how Britain took piles of loot and one small boy from Ethiopia.
Interested in all things pillaged, and in Bob, and in skiffle.
Champion of Wiggle Wiggle on Pod Dylan.
Gallery Director at RCSI, Dublin; Honorary Research Associate at Science Museum and UCL STS, London; Galwegian. Own views.
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Connecting people, groups & businesses who care about the heritage of Britain's seaside resorts.
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Exploring Britainโs war memorials. Boer War, First World War (Great War), Second World War et al. Member of the Great War Group #LestWeForget #Remembrance
NCS is a non-profit membership organisation for archives, libraries, museums, and galleries without conservation staff. www.ncs.org.uk
We are the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. Based in the School of Humanities, we offer research-led degrees in Modern Languages, Comparative Literature & Culture, Liberal Arts.
Academic in Security Studies | PhD in National and International Security Strategies (Turkish War Colleges) | MA in European Studies (UBC) | BA in Public Administration (Istanbul University, Turkey) | Diyarbakฤฑr native & Galatasaray Fan.
Cultural Heritage and Museum person in Scotland's Central Belt | Collections Registrar | #UCU | she/her
A personal take on museums big and small from contributors across the globe.
Librarian at the Devon and Exeter Institution. Interested in libraries, archives, special collections, books, history.
Assistant Research Support Librarian at the Imperial War Museums || History BA; Medical Humanities MA; Level 3 Library, Information & Archive services || All views are my own.
Art, film, photography, posters, oral history, artefacts, aircraft and vehicles documenting Britain and its former Empire at war, preserved in the collections of UK museums, galleries and archives.
