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Come work with us! We are recruiting for a 1 year maternity cover Curator (Science Collections).

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History and Heritage Studies: AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Studentship (Fully Funded) in History with Museum Wales (RS951) - Swansea University We offer a wide range of funded and fully funded research scholarships in all subject areas. Explore your options and apply now.

Fully-funded AHRC PhD scholarship at Swansea University in conjunction with Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales, examining the imperial and colonial associations of their natural sciences collections.

Please share widely, and get in touch if you want to know more. Closing date 22 May.

A watercolour scene of Bath Street in Leamington Spa c.1820, painted in the early 20th century. There are lots of little people in not-very-accurate period costume, but the historic buildings are pretty carefully done.

Could it be a later imagining of an early C19 scene? We have a painting in our collection in Leamington by a late C19/early C20 painter who specialised in Regency scenes of resorts for the tourist market. We used this one for an exhibition poster recently.

A beige and cream cat lounging on a beige and cream sofa. He is a perfect tonal match for the cushions, and he fills the space between them.

Seconded.

My eldest’s first word was Diz - our cat. Second one’s first word was her big brother’s name. They’ve got their priorities straight.

Maybe someone already in the role is leaving so they’re recruiting a replacement? Another common hazard in a sector where too many jobs are fixed-term so people are always job-hunting.

Vessel with rodents! Vessel with rodents! Vessel with rodents!

(Includes contributions on Sheffield, Scarborough, Warwickshire.)

British Local History and the Black Atlantic

I edited a little book of essays to accompany an exhibition in the W Mids recently

‘Deeping’ enquiry?

Edge Hill at 13, Staffs at 15. Even Warwick making a decent showing at 25.

This. This is how I feel as a curator right now - we’re doing all we can and we’re doing it together. We’re tired and angry but we really care about the stuff that matters.

Yes - there is a palpable sense of solidarity in the GLAM sector right now. We don’t have money but by god we have space and time and cultural capital and joy and rage, and we’re doing all we can with it.

Same time as crowned became coronated.

At the root of this is parents’ insistence on chaperoning their kids everywhere. If it’s a walkable distance let the kids walk it, at least from age 8 or 9. Builds their confidence and independence, saves parents time, unclogs the roads, everyone’s a winner.

I’ve started getting hyper-localised ads, like something from a 1990s commercial radio station.

Right! The only way to make something like this work is a universal charge with lots of exemptions that are easily provable - for students, local residents etc. Not saying that’s a good idea either, but at least it’s feasible. Lots of museums have this model already.

Wonder how Brits will be expected to prove their entitlement to free entry?

Check whether your county or district council is signed up to the Solar Together group-purchasing scheme. We got ours via that route with Warwickshire county council and it cut the price in half. Meant we could afford proper batteries which makes the whole thing worthwhile.

Emotional support consonants

Cambridge University Library, University Museum of Zoology and the University of Cambridge - Collections Connections Communities

Funded PhD opportunity working with my ex-supervisor Staffan at Cambridge; a good fit for historians of insect-human relations, natural history collections and history of science. Information session online 24 March 11:00–12:00 pm BST
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My dad cowrote a book about what would happen depending exactly where in the UK the bombs fell. His coauthor moved to a house next to RAF Lakenheath, to make sure he and his family would die immediately rather than slowly.

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.

I run a university - we're so much more than 'degree factories', here's what we do Access to higher education, made possible through student loans, is the difference between opportunity and exclusion

'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.