Sophie Waring
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Sophie Waring
@atinybitwaring.bsky.social
Director of The Old Operating Theatre Museum.
Previous: Science Museum, HSMOxford, Cambridge HPS & STS UCL.
Material Culture, History of Science and Medicine.
Easily distracted. Tea-drinker. Muma-bear.
Own views.
Alarm goes off, checks trains, returns to bed…
October 15, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Opens random cupboard in museum

Closes random cupboard*

*decides that’s a job for next week

🐊☠️
September 23, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Yeah for peonies!
May 13, 2025 at 9:02 AM
The footage of the sycamore gap tree being felled, the sound of the chainsaw, the pointlessness of such horrendous vandalism… it leaves me devastated, broken-hearted 😔 🌳
April 30, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Admiring the tenacity and determination of this daffodil bulb that flowered while in a paper bag of forgotten bulbs at the bottom of my potting bench…

…growing without roots!
April 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
10 years after the project finished we have finally found our longitude!

All the c.18th seafaring and boardroom drama you could wish for in one expertly written volume!

Only £32 from @cambridgeup.bsky.social
April 8, 2025 at 1:48 PM
#DoTheWriteThing

The planet-burning plagiarism machines need to get in the bin...
April 3, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Don’t know what you’re talking about… 😉
March 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
It’s starting to grow on me… #theshard #london
February 9, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Up early on a Monday for a full day: workshop, meetings through to Trustee Board tonight.
February 3, 2025 at 7:07 AM
A very simple candlemas celebration this year. Welcoming the new light and longer days. I have faith that brighter days are coming…
February 2, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Oi! Princess! Stay away from my baby name!

I thought I was being so original!
January 29, 2025 at 2:25 PM
There she is… The London I know and love!

Rainy, grey, cold, entirely unwelcoming… what a total babe!
January 28, 2025 at 12:44 PM
The label for those so inclined:
November 18, 2024 at 9:38 AM
Me jumping into my work this morning like the Duchess of Devonshire cosplaying as a moon goddess!
November 18, 2024 at 9:36 AM
Is it because they ate all the real dogs?
November 17, 2024 at 9:59 AM
November 16, 2024 at 9:16 PM
Working on The Old Ops Accreditation Return on a Saturday night…

#museums #ArtsCouncil
November 16, 2024 at 8:28 PM