Dinah Winch
@dinahw.bsky.social
Curator, historian, collector of stuff, pots, stories, museums, buildings.
Back at the Proms for an exciting programme: Varese's Intégrales, a world permiere of
Anna Thorvaldsdottir's Before we fall (Cello Concerto), Bolero, as fresh as the first time I heard it (it makes such a difference to see the instruments), and Rite of Spring.
Anna Thorvaldsdottir's Before we fall (Cello Concerto), Bolero, as fresh as the first time I heard it (it makes such a difference to see the instruments), and Rite of Spring.
August 13, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Back at the Proms for an exciting programme: Varese's Intégrales, a world permiere of
Anna Thorvaldsdottir's Before we fall (Cello Concerto), Bolero, as fresh as the first time I heard it (it makes such a difference to see the instruments), and Rite of Spring.
Anna Thorvaldsdottir's Before we fall (Cello Concerto), Bolero, as fresh as the first time I heard it (it makes such a difference to see the instruments), and Rite of Spring.
Bayes has followed me around through my career but I don't think I'll find a Bevis Marks connection. Very interesting story if you don't know about the Somers Town estate. www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/2531696...
The little-known London 'fairy tale estate' that was decorated by a famous artist
Louise Choo from Camden Guides explores sculptor Gilbert Bayes and his links to Somers Town.
www.hamhigh.co.uk
July 21, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Bayes has followed me around through my career but I don't think I'll find a Bevis Marks connection. Very interesting story if you don't know about the Somers Town estate. www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/2531696...
This is cheering stuff, I think despite everything a lot of things do still work well. Our fantastic museums crop up regularly but of course to keep working they need ongoing investment.
So,as a little thought-experiment, tell me something about the United Kingdom that works well and is actually quite impressive. I am not trying to sound like some boosterish politician. I just genuinely believe that making people believe that all is lost is a convenient pretext for shady characters.
June 17, 2025 at 5:06 AM
This is cheering stuff, I think despite everything a lot of things do still work well. Our fantastic museums crop up regularly but of course to keep working they need ongoing investment.
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Every time I hear “women are too emotional to be President/CEO/Commander-in-Chief/etc.” I’ll think of these guys and laugh to tears
I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.
June 5, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Every time I hear “women are too emotional to be President/CEO/Commander-in-Chief/etc.” I’ll think of these guys and laugh to tears
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Breaking news: The sell-off erased $153bn from Tesla’s value, the biggest one-day drop in the electric-car company’s market capitalisation on record, and comes as Donald Trump threatens he will terminate US government contracts with Musk’s companies. www.ft.com/content/a14f...
June 5, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Breaking news: The sell-off erased $153bn from Tesla’s value, the biggest one-day drop in the electric-car company’s market capitalisation on record, and comes as Donald Trump threatens he will terminate US government contracts with Musk’s companies. www.ft.com/content/a14f...
Good piece from @sundersays.bsky.social
Nobody understands what ‘global majority’ means – so let’s not use it, argues Sunder Katwala www.independent.co.uk/voices/globa...
Nobody understands what ‘global majority’ means – so let’s not use it
As a survey of ethnic minority Britons finds that the term, popular in progressive and academic circles, is used by just 7 per cent of the people it is meant to include, Sunder Katwala says it erases ...
www.independent.co.uk
June 2, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Good piece from @sundersays.bsky.social
1 June walk, felt like summer.
June 2, 2025 at 5:59 AM
1 June walk, felt like summer.
Susan Brownmiller, Who Reshaped Views About Rape, Dies at 90 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/b... has no British paper published an obituary?!
Susan Brownmiller, Who Reshaped Views About Rape, Dies at 90
www.nytimes.com
June 1, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Susan Brownmiller, Who Reshaped Views About Rape, Dies at 90 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/b... has no British paper published an obituary?!
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I wrote about the shooting at the Jewish museum in DC, the stories people tell to justify anti-Semitism, and the choice that America faces in this moment. Gift link:
A Dangerous Disguise for Anti-Semitism
The suspect who allegedly shot and killed two Israeli-embassy aides invoked the Palestinian struggle as a pretext to harm Jews.
www.theatlantic.com
May 22, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I wrote about the shooting at the Jewish museum in DC, the stories people tell to justify anti-Semitism, and the choice that America faces in this moment. Gift link:
I'm hiring to join our fantastic new team at Bevis Marks Synagogue Heritage Foundation!
New #job Community Engagement and Volunteer Coordinator at Bevis Marks Synagogue Heritage Foundation #London
Apply before Mon 16 June 2025. More details here: gem.org.uk/jobs/communi...
#GEMJobs #museumjobs #heritagejobs #museumlearning #communityengagement
Apply before Mon 16 June 2025. More details here: gem.org.uk/jobs/communi...
#GEMJobs #museumjobs #heritagejobs #museumlearning #communityengagement
May 21, 2025 at 11:29 AM
I'm hiring to join our fantastic new team at Bevis Marks Synagogue Heritage Foundation!
I caught the Tirzah Garwood show at Dulwich Picture Gallery which closes next weekend - as well as paintings, prints, embroidery & a patchwork quilt, there is a fabulous group of marbled papers that she made in the 30s & sold commercially for book binders, and interior design uses like lampshades.
May 17, 2025 at 6:12 AM
I caught the Tirzah Garwood show at Dulwich Picture Gallery which closes next weekend - as well as paintings, prints, embroidery & a patchwork quilt, there is a fabulous group of marbled papers that she made in the 30s & sold commercially for book binders, and interior design uses like lampshades.
I had never heard of Brady Clubs until I saw the fascinating film One Pair of Eyes in which Georgia Brown goes back to Whitechapel where she grew up. An exhibition of photographs, rescued from a skip, is now at Tower Hamlets archive www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00t3mkz
May 16, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I had never heard of Brady Clubs until I saw the fascinating film One Pair of Eyes in which Georgia Brown goes back to Whitechapel where she grew up. An exhibition of photographs, rescued from a skip, is now at Tower Hamlets archive www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00t3mkz
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#OnThisDay in 1785 Joseph Bramah invented the beer pump handle, cheers! 🍻
In Experience Barnsley you can see a couple of objects by Barnsley's most prolific inventor; a fire pump and one of his unpickable locks.
In Experience Barnsley you can see a couple of objects by Barnsley's most prolific inventor; a fire pump and one of his unpickable locks.
May 9, 2025 at 6:54 AM
#OnThisDay in 1785 Joseph Bramah invented the beer pump handle, cheers! 🍻
In Experience Barnsley you can see a couple of objects by Barnsley's most prolific inventor; a fire pump and one of his unpickable locks.
In Experience Barnsley you can see a couple of objects by Barnsley's most prolific inventor; a fire pump and one of his unpickable locks.
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Via @thegentleauthor.bsky.social, @dinahw.bsky.social: Firefighter Artists Of The Blitz spitalfieldslife.com/2025/05/10/f...
May 10, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Via @thegentleauthor.bsky.social, @dinahw.bsky.social: Firefighter Artists Of The Blitz spitalfieldslife.com/2025/05/10/f...
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The local authority that is responsible for caring for the highest number of unaccompanied asylum seeking children across England is now led by Reform.
Final Kent County Council result:
Reform: 57 (+57)
Lib Dems: 12 (+6)
Conservative: 5 (-57)
Green: 5 (+1)
Labour: 2 (-5)
Reform: 57 (+57)
Lib Dems: 12 (+6)
Conservative: 5 (-57)
Green: 5 (+1)
Labour: 2 (-5)
May 2, 2025 at 4:28 PM
The local authority that is responsible for caring for the highest number of unaccompanied asylum seeking children across England is now led by Reform.
Lovely delivery this morning, essays in honour of Bernard Capp, my D.Phil external examiner. Looking forward to reading it @angelamcshane.bsky.social
May 1, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Lovely delivery this morning, essays in honour of Bernard Capp, my D.Phil external examiner. Looking forward to reading it @angelamcshane.bsky.social
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April 13, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Russia looted at least 1.7 million Ukrainian cultural heritage items from occupied territories
Ukraine managed to recover some stolen artifacts due to international cooperation — friendly governments returned items intercepted abroad while being trafficked euromaidanpress.com/2025/04/13/r...
Ukraine managed to recover some stolen artifacts due to international cooperation — friendly governments returned items intercepted abroad while being trafficked euromaidanpress.com/2025/04/13/r...
Russians loot 1.7 million Ukrainian cultural heritage items from occupied territories
Beyond systematic theft, Russian officials are now selling Ukraine's national treasures on illegal markets, marking a shift from historical practices when looted artifacts were typically displayed in…
euromaidanpress.com
April 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Russia looted at least 1.7 million Ukrainian cultural heritage items from occupied territories
Ukraine managed to recover some stolen artifacts due to international cooperation — friendly governments returned items intercepted abroad while being trafficked euromaidanpress.com/2025/04/13/r...
Ukraine managed to recover some stolen artifacts due to international cooperation — friendly governments returned items intercepted abroad while being trafficked euromaidanpress.com/2025/04/13/r...
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More in No, Other People:
New poll:
“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.”
• 80% of Americans agree
• 20% disagree
“I would be better off if I worked in a factory.”
• 25% of Americans agree
• 73% disagree
• 2% currently work in a factory
New poll:
“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.”
• 80% of Americans agree
• 20% disagree
“I would be better off if I worked in a factory.”
• 25% of Americans agree
• 73% disagree
• 2% currently work in a factory
April 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
More in No, Other People:
New poll:
“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.”
• 80% of Americans agree
• 20% disagree
“I would be better off if I worked in a factory.”
• 25% of Americans agree
• 73% disagree
• 2% currently work in a factory
New poll:
“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.”
• 80% of Americans agree
• 20% disagree
“I would be better off if I worked in a factory.”
• 25% of Americans agree
• 73% disagree
• 2% currently work in a factory
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It's all fun and games until …
"Professor Gina Neff of Queen Mary University London told the BBC #ChatGPT is "burning through energy", and the data centres used to power it consume more electricity in a year than 117 countries."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
"Professor Gina Neff of Queen Mary University London told the BBC #ChatGPT is "burning through energy", and the data centres used to power it consume more electricity in a year than 117 countries."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
ChatGPT action dolls: What are the concerns?
As online users create Barbie-like dolls of themselves, experts urge caution over AI's energy and data use.
www.bbc.com
April 12, 2025 at 7:33 AM
It's all fun and games until …
"Professor Gina Neff of Queen Mary University London told the BBC #ChatGPT is "burning through energy", and the data centres used to power it consume more electricity in a year than 117 countries."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
"Professor Gina Neff of Queen Mary University London told the BBC #ChatGPT is "burning through energy", and the data centres used to power it consume more electricity in a year than 117 countries."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Its got to the point where we can't go to places we used to enjoy because of the dogs. Particularly bad behaviour in nature reserves, areas where birds are nesting etc is so infuriating. Even bluebell season is ruined by people taking cute pictures of their dogs trampling the flowers.
Sadly this will not be a surprise to anyone who has been watching the explosion of dog ownership in the UK, the visible environmental degradation it causes in many places, and the very poor behaviour of many owners.
Pet dogs have ‘extensive and multifarious’ impact on environment, new research finds
Scale of environmental damage attributed to huge number of dogs globally as well as ‘lax or uninformed behaviour of dog owners’
www.theguardian.com
April 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Its got to the point where we can't go to places we used to enjoy because of the dogs. Particularly bad behaviour in nature reserves, areas where birds are nesting etc is so infuriating. Even bluebell season is ruined by people taking cute pictures of their dogs trampling the flowers.
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On this day, April 10 1848, the last great Chartist rally took place - on Kennington Common in London. Here, almost unbelievably, is a photograph of the event.
April 10, 2025 at 5:14 PM
On this day, April 10 1848, the last great Chartist rally took place - on Kennington Common in London. Here, almost unbelievably, is a photograph of the event.
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OOOO! The Secrets of the Thames exhibition is opening this week @londonmuseum.bsky.social Docklands!!!
A bunch of History @handle.invalid Special Subject students helped with this work on mudlarking! #SkyStorians
www.londonmuseum.org.uk/about/press/....
A bunch of History @handle.invalid Special Subject students helped with this work on mudlarking! #SkyStorians
www.londonmuseum.org.uk/about/press/....
April 3, 2025 at 12:16 PM
OOOO! The Secrets of the Thames exhibition is opening this week @londonmuseum.bsky.social Docklands!!!
A bunch of History @handle.invalid Special Subject students helped with this work on mudlarking! #SkyStorians
www.londonmuseum.org.uk/about/press/....
A bunch of History @handle.invalid Special Subject students helped with this work on mudlarking! #SkyStorians
www.londonmuseum.org.uk/about/press/....