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Several of our 2026 funding streams are now open for applications, including our Research Access Grant, Decolonising Design History Grant, Accessible Design History Grant, and Research Publication Grant.
For further details, please see the Awards section of our website: buff.ly/pAyBfub

i think i would die if i had to leave this country uk rap v the ravey right on rainy fascism island

New Substack from me - on "the battle for the soul of this country", fascism and UK rap's Flag Play danhancox.substack.com/p/i-think-i-...

The @cursedobjectsuk.bsky.social auto transcription is generally very good but it has transliterated Keir Starmer as “Cursed Armour”

10 days until the #CFP deadline for the online workshop *Object Stories in Health and Medicine 1700-1900*.

We invite proposals for 15-minute talks on a single object related to health or medicine during the 18th & 19th centuries #histmed #histpsych #medhums

www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...

A *thrice* returning guest Charlotte!! - you’ll get a letter to join the Executive Board next (currently just me, Dan and our cats)

love your work Charlotte 🥰❤️

New episode on Baby on BOARD! badges, and the unintended meanings of objects for the public good 🤰

@nndroid.bsky.social excited for you to appear in full cyberman soon

This is a very common scenario: a private museum closing because its owner wants to retire, with the collection going to auction.

Cursed Objects in Museum Shops exhibition — Cursed Objects General admission: 2 May – 26 June 2025. Mon-Fri, 10am - 8pm. Free entry Location: Peltz Gallery , Birkbeck, University of London. 43-46 Gordon Sq, London WC1H 0PD Just this once, we’re asking y...

Our first exhibition, Cursed Objects in Museum Shops, runs until 26 June, so get down to Bloomsbury while you can! It's FREE, 10am-8pm, Mon-Fri, at the Peltz Gallery. All details here: www.cursedobjects.co.uk/events/mp1jq...

Periodic reminder there is an entire range of daft shit available from my shop:
spellingmistakescostlives.com/shop

Ahh its feels like Lockheed Martin Pride sock month gets earlier every year..

...then on 11 June, joining the good people of the @cursedobjectsuk.bsky.social Podcast to discuss WAR TAT and our cultural memory of 1939 to 1949 with @lottelydia.bsky.social and Kate Clements. Key object for me – the Tank Museum's soft toy Panzerfaust here. Tickets:

www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

No, employers need to do their own training. It’s not educators’ job to make sure that school-leavers — or graduates — have the specific skills that each company needs. Employers need to invest in their workforce.

Do you know of a museum, library, or archive that offers images from their collection for publication or presenting, for free?
Please use the form below to help crowd-source a list of these magical places!

Harvard cut-price Magna Carta 'copy' now believed genuine - BBC News Harvard Law School paid just $27 for the document, which UK academics now think is the real thing.

Very rare to discover Magna Carta trending for non-insane reasons.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

For those interested in a more in-depth dissection of Jamie Oliver & New Labour, here’s @jonathandnunn.bsky.social and I on the fabulous @cursedobjectsuk.bsky.social with @danhancox.bsky.social & @kasiatee.bsky.social

open.spotify.com/episode/0WuB...

Jamie’s ‘Fish Stew’ song must be heard by all!

yo yo yo yo yo Museums +Tech CfP is open museumscomputergroup.org.uk/mcg-museumst...

Woahhh very cool!

Scale model of historic ships on the Thames, a working foreshore with slipways and their associated dockyard.

Thames through Time is back in Birkbeck, but the MA Archaeology & Heritage student Christopher Snary @bbkhistorical.bsky.social only brought in a scaled model of the Thames historical dockyards that he has made! Archaeology and model-making, it’s important!!

War, Memory and Tat — Cursed Objects Join three expert guests – historian Dr Charlotte Lydia Riley, author Luke Turner and curator Kate Clements – as they explore the presence of war in the museum shop.  This event explores two kin...

Looking forward to joining @cursedobjectsuk.bsky.social for a live event this June, discussing WAR TAT w @lottelydia.bsky.social & Kate Clements. Endless branded gin, of course, but also more sinister tat such as the soft toy Panzerfaust – thread here: (1/4)

www.cursedobjects.co.uk/events/war-m...

I'm going to be one of the guests on the @cursedobjectsuk.bsky.social podcast live show in London, 28th May.

Tickets are free but you have to book: www.cursedobjects.co.uk/events/mille...

Forwards! To the Lime-bike critical mass singularity In defence of the most annoying cyclists in London

New Substack from me, about why the most annoying cyclists on the road are actually helping make everyone safer open.substack.com/pub/danhanco...

Flyer for 'Unfolding Time' exhibition, with opening times 9:30-17:00 Monday to Friday and until 19:15 on Thursdays.

⌛ Final Week ⌛

Time is running out to visit our current exhibition:

'Unfolding Time: The Medieval Pocket Calendar' – closing 15 May. 🕰️

🔗Opening times + digital highlights:
www.lambethpalacelibrary.info/unfolding-time

#UnfoldingTime #MedievalSky #BookHistory 📜

⏰ Awaiting #StartYourWeek? In the meantime why not dip into the world of #CursedObjects in museum shops with @kasiatee.bsky.social and @nndroid.bsky.social?
🦀 Listen linktr.ee/bunker_pod

Brilliant new exhibition on the tat found in museum shops

2 May - 26 June 2025. Weekdays 10am - 8pm.

Peltz Gallery, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD

#CursedObject mini-thread!

🚨 @kasiatee.bsky.social

Best exhibition title of all history

Met Police fear 'mass casualty event at Notting Hill Carnival The London Assembly wants a review of safety at the Notting Hill Carnival amid concerns.

Well done to the BBC for quoting Tory headbanger Susan Hall on Notting Hill Carnival here, with absolutely zero clue / context about how she despises carnival and everything it stands for www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🧸 ENTER THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP 🐼 What explains the world better? The relics that fill museums – or the simple snowglobes, plushies and other #CursedObjects in the shop at the end?
🐸 Podmasters alumnus @kasiatee.bsky.social returns to explain all to @nndroid.bsky.social
🪀 Listen linktr.ee/bunker_pod