Care about the region’s archives? Opportunity to make a difference with @archiveswm.bsky.social.
This is amazing! Reminds me of Nicholas Pope’s Motorway Service Station of the Seven Deadly Sins and Seven Virtues.
Almost as if many workers in the cultural sector feel uncomfortable there, for what I can only imagine are reasons.
It always seems to have a suspiciously speedy turnover of staff.
'Talent is widely distributed in society. Opportunity is not.'
If you missed this yesterday, read it today. (And if you're university staff, prod your VC to articulate the case for universities as well as this does).
Having lived in both (tho London, so Edwardian mansion flat and 80s council flat rather than houses), I’d say the big plus for council houses is space and storage. Wide hallways, nice big cupboards. Often big windows too.
Last few days to submit proposals for our conference! Closes Monday #ceramics #museums #clay
Not just regulation but proper support needed. As a local authority curator it took me years to research and deaccession one small group of human remains - no money for transport, no repatriation agreement in place, no one with responsibility to help.
Wrote this on human remains in British museums this time last year and stand by it: it’s a slow process that many collections have been trying to deal with for a while and—above all else—one that needs time and resourcing: theconversation.com/new-report-c...
This is brilliant! A genuinely excellent drawing.
Rare survival of a Sicilian elephant from the Pleistocene, obv.
Whoever ordered this from the stacks has won today’s game of library one-upmanship.
Snap!
📢Conference Call for Papers📢
An Intelligent Interest: Learning and Education in London
Seeking proposals for engaging and accessible talks or presentations on any aspect of education and learning in London’s history.
royalhistsoc.org/calendar/an-...
#history #historyconference #CFP #education
I'm now recruiting for a crucial post in my team - Curator: Parliamentary Art Collection. A rare chance to work with a wonderful collection in a unique setting.
Please do share, and feel free to get in touch with any questions
Starting #Caturday as he means to go on.
It was nice when you got out of the bath on a cold night, though. And I still like the comforting feel of a warm, crispy-fresh towel, except now it comes from the rack above the radiator. (A radiator in the bathroom! Such luxury!)
A happy loaf almost worthy of @willpooley.bsky.social
School used to get the kids to spend the day making costumes out of paper. Genius. Then some sadist changed the policy and now we have to do our own. Thank god my youngest is in yr6 so this is my last time.
Dividing line seems to be people who studied Chaucer at school and picked up the tricks for dealing with 1300/1400 (mainly just reading the hard bits aloud). Anything before that requires special skills, though.
They should bring back the watercolour and poetry events, like in the 1912 Olympics.
Sure:
Light rail, high speed rail, ocean wave generation, solar power generation, wind generation, heat pump tech, geothermal heat pump tech, last mile on-demand transit solutions, better wheelchairs, better wheel chair lifts, better flexible seating on public transit, maker spaces, tool libraries.
GLAM Cares is holding its third conference in Birmingham on Thurs 18th June.
Callout for proposals now open - share good practice in caring for your staff, volunteers or freelancers in the cultural sector, see forms.gle/aAAv3o593Qv9...
And if you want to hear good practice - save the date!
Oh wow, my knowledge is clearly out of date! Cool to know, thanks.
We're excited to announce the launch of the MA Race and Empire at @soasuni.bsky.social convened by our very own
Samia Khatun & Henny Ziai. The MA is enriched by the Histories of Capitalism and Race seminar series, running since 2022. For more info see:
www.soas.ac.uk/study/find-c...
Housemates enjoying the sunshine.
This might be of interest to your readers @britjaesth.bsky.social @joaesth-phenom.bsky.social - we’d love to have some philosophers joining the conversation.
When I was pregnant with my son, my eczema cleared up completely. It didn’t come back until three years later, when I’d just given birth to my daughter. Hormones are weird.
Monoglot Welsh and Scots Gaelic speakers alone would have counted for a fair proportion. As usual, non-English Brits are ignored.
#jobfairy this is an intriguing one - 18 month research fellowship for an object-focused historian, museums studies person or similar at Chatsworth House! £48k + £11k travel, outreach etc #skystorians
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQK358/d...
