I usually take the day, or if I can't I'll make sure to have a day close by. Except the year our museum was going to open two days later when I worked a 12 hour day and then had A Number of drinks.
A long, skinny map titled: "Life and Travels of the European Eel" with a subtitle reading: "From the Eel's Perspective." A label at the bottom of the map reads: "Begin Here." The map top half of the map is an mirror copy of the bottom half. I will put the full text of the column in the alt text in an image in the next post in the thread. The map goes from the bottom of the page up, starting in the Sargasso Sea. An set of arrows show the eels paths to shore, then up a river and into a marshland. The arrows continue up the page to show the eel leaving the marshland and heading back downstream, and out to sea. The land is green and verdant at the bottom of the map, because the eels migrate upstream in the spring. The land is brown and dry at the top of the map, because eels migrate downstream in the autumn. A column of text on the side tells about the eels' journeys and changes. It is more text than I can relate in the space allowed here. Each paragraph has an arrow pointing up to the next one, and they are designed to be read from the bottom of the page going upwards.
Several years ago, on a whim, I started drawing a map of an eel's life travels as seen by the eel.
I figured an eel thinks about its life as a linear journey, rather than a there-and-back again adventure. So I wanted to do a map to reflect this.
This morning, on another whim, I finished the map!
Ooooh snap! I've just finished part 1.
I also have a museum joke but you can't have it because of the British Museum Act (1963)
Oh and I am very happy to stick my copy in the post if you'd like!
Oooh I absolutely would have also made that mistake, and thank you!
Cover of Please Read This Leaflet Carefully by Karen Havelin
Have you ever read a novel with endo, PCOS or fibroid as a major plot element? Because Please Read This Leaflet Carefully by Karen Havelin is the first time I have. #Endometriosis #cliterature @vaginamuseum.bsky.social
So, BlueSky, one of my passions is the study of tea in WW2. I need you to watch this oral history from three ex-tea ladies from the Bermondsey WVS.
Because you could guess for ONE THOUSAND YEARS and you would not guess where it is going... #skystorians #history #tea
Happy March 15. Here is my favorite Ides of March meme:
Could it be that by the time people speak to their GPs about their mental health they are seriously unwell? Perhaps have been ignoring symptoms for months if not years?
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Happy women's day if you're a woman
if you're not there's always next year
I 100% agree. I sat down when I got in 10 minutes ago and everything now seems too much effort.
I'm enjoying Small Prophets so far, it feel very different to most of what's on TV at the moment. And I do love Pearce Quigley
I remember watching episode one of this with the sound turned way down so vividly
I have just been informed that this Sunday marks the Kenneth Williams centenary, and I am impossibly excited.
Today is the first day of Ramadan, the first day of Adar, Lunar New Year and Mardi Gras.
This means that for one reason or another, the majority of humans on the planet have a reason to eat fried food, and that is beautiful.
I'm sorry WHAT?!
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
he was auctioning off memorabilia in order to try and afford treatment and now he's gone. fuck cancer for sure, but double fuck our broken healthcare system.
you deserved better, james. i am so sorry.
Share a good news story first because this one hit like a tonne of bricks
one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it
One of the wickedest things Wes Streeting has ever done is push politically convenient falsehoods about suicide rates amongst young trans people. We have new data from the National Child Mortality Database that exposes the truth he tried to cover up.
Community History Day means multi cultural/community catering including chocolate plantain cake!
It's going really well, hopefully the first of many.
A male speaker in front of a screen showing singer George Michael. There is a chandelier above and a mixed audience watching
Talks on women in archaeology, the many faces of Roman Britain, LGBTQ+ musicians, using imagination to bring history alive and using Facebook for local history research. Fascinating morning @stalbansmuseums.bsky.social
Projector screen above the heads of four speakers with the following quote Being included in the project had to be done based on informed consent, people would be participants rather than subjects, and their voices, not mine, would take precedence.
Their voices, not mine, would take precedence.
@marcdavenant.bsky.social quote as part of the discussion of community storytelling and social belonging.
If I don't do it who will, if it's lost then it's lost.
The rallying cry of community historians from Dr Elli Michaela Young
A large ballroom space with rows of chairs filled with a diverse audience facing a female speaker wearing a white blouse and a screen showing Community History Day
Our first Community History Day @stalbansmuseums.bsky.social is underway!
feeling angry or depressed? why not fix yourself a cup of tea? then you can be angry and depressed while also holding a cup of tea
