Mark
@thehistoryboy.bsky.social
📸/museums/🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Co-writer and co-curator of @museumbums.bsky.social 👍🏛️🍑
I do the paperwork for the psychopomps and the storks.
Bristol, UK
Co-writer and co-curator of @museumbums.bsky.social 👍🏛️🍑
I do the paperwork for the psychopomps and the storks.
Bristol, UK
One day there'll be news from AFC Mars and AFC Wimbledon 😳 #nichepost @hankgreen.bsky.social @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social #dearhankandjohn
November 14, 2025 at 7:37 PM
One day there'll be news from AFC Mars and AFC Wimbledon 😳 #nichepost @hankgreen.bsky.social @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social #dearhankandjohn
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#TodayInQueerHistory
November 12 (1987)
The Pink Paper (co-founded by the incredible Lisa Power) hits the shelves for the very first time. Running until September 2012, the Pink Paper covered gay and lesbian issues with a readership of over 40,000 at one point!
November 12 (1987)
The Pink Paper (co-founded by the incredible Lisa Power) hits the shelves for the very first time. Running until September 2012, the Pink Paper covered gay and lesbian issues with a readership of over 40,000 at one point!
November 12, 2025 at 5:20 PM
#TodayInQueerHistory
November 12 (1987)
The Pink Paper (co-founded by the incredible Lisa Power) hits the shelves for the very first time. Running until September 2012, the Pink Paper covered gay and lesbian issues with a readership of over 40,000 at one point!
November 12 (1987)
The Pink Paper (co-founded by the incredible Lisa Power) hits the shelves for the very first time. Running until September 2012, the Pink Paper covered gay and lesbian issues with a readership of over 40,000 at one point!
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[nods sagely] Avril Lavigne clone
The only conspiracy theory I've ever believed in trending towards being true is making me feel like I'm going crazy
November 12, 2025 at 9:10 PM
[nods sagely] Avril Lavigne clone
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Here is a lovely etching of a bum
👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums
It is by Herman Löwenstam, and it was created in 1859. It's in the collections at the @rijksmuseum.bsky.social 😁
👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums
It is by Herman Löwenstam, and it was created in 1859. It's in the collections at the @rijksmuseum.bsky.social 😁
November 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Here is a lovely etching of a bum
👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums
It is by Herman Löwenstam, and it was created in 1859. It's in the collections at the @rijksmuseum.bsky.social 😁
👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums
It is by Herman Löwenstam, and it was created in 1859. It's in the collections at the @rijksmuseum.bsky.social 😁
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#TodayInQueerHistory
November 11 (2016)
#OTD trans pioneer Michael Dillon's autobiography Out of the Ordinary: A Life through Gender and Spiritual Transitions is published posthumously - he completed the manuscript in 1962. He also wrote Self: A Study in Ethics and Endocrinology in 1946.
November 11 (2016)
#OTD trans pioneer Michael Dillon's autobiography Out of the Ordinary: A Life through Gender and Spiritual Transitions is published posthumously - he completed the manuscript in 1962. He also wrote Self: A Study in Ethics and Endocrinology in 1946.
November 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
#TodayInQueerHistory
November 11 (2016)
#OTD trans pioneer Michael Dillon's autobiography Out of the Ordinary: A Life through Gender and Spiritual Transitions is published posthumously - he completed the manuscript in 1962. He also wrote Self: A Study in Ethics and Endocrinology in 1946.
November 11 (2016)
#OTD trans pioneer Michael Dillon's autobiography Out of the Ordinary: A Life through Gender and Spiritual Transitions is published posthumously - he completed the manuscript in 1962. He also wrote Self: A Study in Ethics and Endocrinology in 1946.
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When you were into Harry Styles, but now you're a Benson Boone fan, so your poster just needs a little edit...
👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums
This text used to read "Megakles kalos" (Megakles is really hot), but it was changed to read "Glauketes kalos" 😳
500 BCE votive plaque at the Acropolis Museum
👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums
This text used to read "Megakles kalos" (Megakles is really hot), but it was changed to read "Glauketes kalos" 😳
500 BCE votive plaque at the Acropolis Museum
November 11, 2025 at 7:53 AM
When you were into Harry Styles, but now you're a Benson Boone fan, so your poster just needs a little edit...
👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums
This text used to read "Megakles kalos" (Megakles is really hot), but it was changed to read "Glauketes kalos" 😳
500 BCE votive plaque at the Acropolis Museum
👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums
This text used to read "Megakles kalos" (Megakles is really hot), but it was changed to read "Glauketes kalos" 😳
500 BCE votive plaque at the Acropolis Museum
I just can't help thinking that this Lego model of the Acropolis at the Acropolis Museum might not be fully historically accurate 🤔
November 10, 2025 at 10:44 AM
I just can't help thinking that this Lego model of the Acropolis at the Acropolis Museum might not be fully historically accurate 🤔
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#TodayInQueerHistory
November 10 (2014)
To commemorate Bangladesh's legal recognition of their gender a year earlier, which enabled the Hijra community to identify themselves as a separate gender in passports and other state papers, the Hijra community hold the first Hijra Pride.
November 10 (2014)
To commemorate Bangladesh's legal recognition of their gender a year earlier, which enabled the Hijra community to identify themselves as a separate gender in passports and other state papers, the Hijra community hold the first Hijra Pride.
November 10, 2025 at 7:42 AM
#TodayInQueerHistory
November 10 (2014)
To commemorate Bangladesh's legal recognition of their gender a year earlier, which enabled the Hijra community to identify themselves as a separate gender in passports and other state papers, the Hijra community hold the first Hijra Pride.
November 10 (2014)
To commemorate Bangladesh's legal recognition of their gender a year earlier, which enabled the Hijra community to identify themselves as a separate gender in passports and other state papers, the Hijra community hold the first Hijra Pride.
Butt dimples for days 🫠
Today's Museum Bum comes to you live from the Acropolis Museum in Athens (because our achey legs couldn't make it up to the actual Parthenon 🤣)
👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums
The Kritios Boy, after 480BCE, from the Acropolis 😉
👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums
The Kritios Boy, after 480BCE, from the Acropolis 😉
November 10, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Butt dimples for days 🫠
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#TodayInQueerHistory
November 9
(1928) The Well of Loneliness' trial begins. It came under fire for defending "unnatural practices between women". It wasn't published in England again until 1949.
(1965) Master of camp baroque TV, Ryan Murphy is born. Pose is the jewel in his televisual crown.
November 9
(1928) The Well of Loneliness' trial begins. It came under fire for defending "unnatural practices between women". It wasn't published in England again until 1949.
(1965) Master of camp baroque TV, Ryan Murphy is born. Pose is the jewel in his televisual crown.
November 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
#TodayInQueerHistory
November 9
(1928) The Well of Loneliness' trial begins. It came under fire for defending "unnatural practices between women". It wasn't published in England again until 1949.
(1965) Master of camp baroque TV, Ryan Murphy is born. Pose is the jewel in his televisual crown.
November 9
(1928) The Well of Loneliness' trial begins. It came under fire for defending "unnatural practices between women". It wasn't published in England again until 1949.
(1965) Master of camp baroque TV, Ryan Murphy is born. Pose is the jewel in his televisual crown.
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Don't expect a Museum Bum any time soon today, we're a bit busy!🏃♂️🏃♂️🇬🇷
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#MuseumBums
#AthensMarathon
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#MuseumBums
#AthensMarathon
November 9, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Don't expect a Museum Bum any time soon today, we're a bit busy!🏃♂️🏃♂️🇬🇷
👍🏛️🍑
#MuseumBums
#AthensMarathon
👍🏛️🍑
#MuseumBums
#AthensMarathon
I'm so proud of @jackshoulder.bsky.social , and I'm so proud of myself too!! 😁❤️🏃♂️🏃♂️🇬🇷 #athensmarathon
Now I would like a bath, a nap, some food, and some delicious cool Athenian beer
Now I would like a bath, a nap, some food, and some delicious cool Athenian beer
November 9, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I'm so proud of @jackshoulder.bsky.social , and I'm so proud of myself too!! 😁❤️🏃♂️🏃♂️🇬🇷 #athensmarathon
Now I would like a bath, a nap, some food, and some delicious cool Athenian beer
Now I would like a bath, a nap, some food, and some delicious cool Athenian beer
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Brb just getting ready for a little run in actual Marathon with @thehistoryboy.bsky.social and @richwithtea.bsky.social
Here's the all important giving link :)
www.justgiving.com/page/jack-sh...
Here's the all important giving link :)
www.justgiving.com/page/jack-sh...
November 9, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Brb just getting ready for a little run in actual Marathon with @thehistoryboy.bsky.social and @richwithtea.bsky.social
Here's the all important giving link :)
www.justgiving.com/page/jack-sh...
Here's the all important giving link :)
www.justgiving.com/page/jack-sh...
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We will be very happy to see this bronze discobolos, as they signify the last few hundred metres of the Athens Marathon before the finish line at the Panathenaic Stadium 😁👍🏛️🍑🇬🇷🏃♂️🏃♂️ #MuseumBums
Discobolos by Kostas Dimitriadis, 1924, winning the gold Olympic medal for sculpture in the same year!
Discobolos by Kostas Dimitriadis, 1924, winning the gold Olympic medal for sculpture in the same year!
November 7, 2025 at 9:39 AM
We will be very happy to see this bronze discobolos, as they signify the last few hundred metres of the Athens Marathon before the finish line at the Panathenaic Stadium 😁👍🏛️🍑🇬🇷🏃♂️🏃♂️ #MuseumBums
Discobolos by Kostas Dimitriadis, 1924, winning the gold Olympic medal for sculpture in the same year!
Discobolos by Kostas Dimitriadis, 1924, winning the gold Olympic medal for sculpture in the same year!
Have we mentioned we're running a marathon this week? It's taking up quite a bit of brain space! 🫠
A 9am Athens Marathon starting pistol means a 5am coach from Athens to Marathon, so this will be us on Sunday morning!
👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums
Sir Frederick Leighton's "The Sluggard" 1885, from the @royalacademy.bsky.social 😁
👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums
Sir Frederick Leighton's "The Sluggard" 1885, from the @royalacademy.bsky.social 😁
November 6, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Have we mentioned we're running a marathon this week? It's taking up quite a bit of brain space! 🫠
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Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
Holy shit, Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz are returning for a new The Mummy film together! 😱
THIS IS NOT A DRILL, PEOPLE!!
THIS IS NOT A DRILL, PEOPLE!!
November 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Holy shit, Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz are returning for a new The Mummy film together! 😱
THIS IS NOT A DRILL, PEOPLE!!
THIS IS NOT A DRILL, PEOPLE!!
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Two runners excavated from the Villa Papyri in Pompeii in 1754. They're from 1st C BCE, and thought to be Roman replicas of lost ancient greek replicas 👍🏛️🍑🏃♂️🏃♂️ #MuseumBums
November 4, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Two runners excavated from the Villa Papyri in Pompeii in 1754. They're from 1st C BCE, and thought to be Roman replicas of lost ancient greek replicas 👍🏛️🍑🏃♂️🏃♂️ #MuseumBums
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I’ve always said that the best security museums have is more the public perception of how secure they are than how secure they actually are, but this is ridiculously bad.
November 3, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I’ve always said that the best security museums have is more the public perception of how secure they are than how secure they actually are, but this is ridiculously bad.
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🎶🎵 Oh yeah,
Bless my soul, #MuseumsBums we’re on a roll
Bless my soul, #MuseumsBums we’re on a roll
This'll be us on Sunday! Jack and Mark from #MuseumBums are running the Athens Marathon! (they'll be wearing clothes, don't worry)! 👍🏛️🍑 🏃♂️🏃♂️
Panathenaic prize-amphora showing runners, c530BCE, attributed to The Euphiletos Painter, from @britishmuseum.bsky.social
Panathenaic prize-amphora showing runners, c530BCE, attributed to The Euphiletos Painter, from @britishmuseum.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 7:24 AM
🎶🎵 Oh yeah,
Bless my soul, #MuseumsBums we’re on a roll
Bless my soul, #MuseumsBums we’re on a roll
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New awareness campaign
November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
New awareness campaign
Slightly too late to scare off the ghouls, but here are our pumpkins 🎃
Mine was #KeithHaring inspired, @jackshoulder.bsky.social went for classic Jack'o'lantern 😁
Mine was #KeithHaring inspired, @jackshoulder.bsky.social went for classic Jack'o'lantern 😁
November 2, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Slightly too late to scare off the ghouls, but here are our pumpkins 🎃
Mine was #KeithHaring inspired, @jackshoulder.bsky.social went for classic Jack'o'lantern 😁
Mine was #KeithHaring inspired, @jackshoulder.bsky.social went for classic Jack'o'lantern 😁
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PLEASE. Stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to.
November 2, 2025 at 10:08 AM
PLEASE. Stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to.
Hey gang, in one week I'll be an hour into the Athens Marathon!
I'm both excited and nervous, but you know would make me feel better? Giving more money to charity 😁👍
www.justgiving.com/page/keep-ru...
I'm both excited and nervous, but you know would make me feel better? Giving more money to charity 😁👍
www.justgiving.com/page/keep-ru...
Mark's fundraiser for Switchboard
Help Mark Small raise money to support Switchboard
www.justgiving.com
November 2, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Hey gang, in one week I'll be an hour into the Athens Marathon!
I'm both excited and nervous, but you know would make me feel better? Giving more money to charity 😁👍
www.justgiving.com/page/keep-ru...
I'm both excited and nervous, but you know would make me feel better? Giving more money to charity 😁👍
www.justgiving.com/page/keep-ru...
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When you've got places to be, and you can't let things like physics or solid objects slow you down 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums
"Forme uniche della continuità nello spazio", 1913, by Umberto Boccioni, from Museo del novecento Milan.
Thanks @msbennet for sharing 😁
"Forme uniche della continuità nello spazio", 1913, by Umberto Boccioni, from Museo del novecento Milan.
Thanks @msbennet for sharing 😁
November 2, 2025 at 8:24 AM
When you've got places to be, and you can't let things like physics or solid objects slow you down 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums
"Forme uniche della continuità nello spazio", 1913, by Umberto Boccioni, from Museo del novecento Milan.
Thanks @msbennet for sharing 😁
"Forme uniche della continuità nello spazio", 1913, by Umberto Boccioni, from Museo del novecento Milan.
Thanks @msbennet for sharing 😁