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Birmingham Citizens’ Jury shortlisted for Museums Change Lives award | Birmingham Museums Birmingham Citizens’ Jury has been shortlisted for the Best Museums Change Lives Project for inspiring engagement, reflection and debate.The jury produced

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Museum of the Jewellery Quarter reopens for guided tours | Birmingham Museums Visitors can book a guided tour from 21 August 2025.Reopening includes historic Smith & Pepper factory and The Story of the Jewellery Quarter gallery.P

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Birmingham Heritage Week set to return for 2025 | Birmingham Museums Heritage week will take place between 12 to 21 September 2025 It is being supported by Birmingham Museums Trust, the National Trust, University of Birmingh

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The Blue Origin flight showcased the utter defeat of American feminism | Moira Donegan The trip leaned on a vision of women’s empowerment that is light on substance and heavy on a childlike, girlish silliness

The Blue Origin flight showcased the utter defeat of American feminism | Moira Donegan

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Birmingham Museums acquires nationally important archive of British South Asian art | Birmingham Museums The South Asian Diaspora Arts Archive (SADAA) showcases the first British Asian art Spanning visual art, music, literature, dance and theatre, the archive

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Labour announces £100m in new funding for arts, culture and heritage - Arts Professional The government has unveiled a £270 m funding package for the arts, culture, libraries and heritage sector, including over £100m of new funding and a 5% increase to the budgets of all national museums ...

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Byline Podcast: Trump's Second Coming Adrian Goldberg talks about the early weeks of Donald Trump's second coming as US President.Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megap...

"It's so easy for Elon Musk to hack the government with his little posse of incels. And that is exactly what we are dealing with - the greatest data heist in history."

@heidicuda.bsky.social on Trump's second coming.

@goldbergradio.bsky.social - from @bylinetimes.bsky.social

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Our new seasonal programme of events to spark joy | Birmingham Museums Birmingham Museums launches new seasonal programme of events to spark joy Join award-winning artist Curtis Holder for The Joy of Drawing at Birmingham Muse

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If we were Japanese there would be an actual word for this feeling.

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Breaking news: BCC will HALVE Employers’ contributions each year over the next 3 years, saving at least £60M each year. So stop the Brum cuts NOW. The Financial Times reports today that Councils in England will HALVE Employers’ contributions each year over the next 3 years. The FT says “The £391bn Local Government Pension Scheme in England …

Cause for some optimism.

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Citizens’ jury launch event | Birmingham Museums Citizens' jury unveils recommendations for the future of Birmingham’s museums at special launch event The initiative is the first of its kind for a UK mus

Birmingham Museums Citizens’ Jury has unveiled its recommendations for the future of Birmingham museums.

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Did you know…
In the seventeenth century, it was quite proper to leave your Christmas decorations up until Candlemas Eve - February 1st - according to the poet Robert Herrick, at least.
So I hope you haven’t all been too hasty in taking them down.

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