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.
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
Alarm goes off, checks trains, returns to bed…
Opens random cupboard in museum
Closes random cupboard*
*decides that’s a job for next week
🐊☠️
Closes random cupboard*
*decides that’s a job for next week
🐊☠️
September 23, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Opens random cupboard in museum
Closes random cupboard*
*decides that’s a job for next week
🐊☠️
Closes random cupboard*
*decides that’s a job for next week
🐊☠️
Yeah for peonies!
May 13, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Yeah for peonies!
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
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 😔 🌳
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!
…growing without roots!
April 13, 2025 at 5:00 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!
…growing without roots!
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
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
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
All the c.18th seafaring and boardroom drama you could wish for in one expertly written volume!
Only £32 from @cambridgeup.bsky.social
April 3, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Don’t know what you’re talking about… 😉
March 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Don’t know what you’re talking about… 😉
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
Up early on a Monday for a full day: workshop, meetings through to Trustee Board tonight.
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
A very simple candlemas celebration this year. Welcoming the new light and longer days. I have faith that brighter days are coming…
Oi! Princess! Stay away from my baby name!
I thought I was being so original!
I thought I was being so original!
January 29, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Oi! Princess! Stay away from my baby name!
I thought I was being so original!
I thought I was being so original!
There she is… The London I know and love!
Rainy, grey, cold, entirely unwelcoming… what a total babe!
Rainy, grey, cold, entirely unwelcoming… what a total babe!
January 28, 2025 at 12:44 PM
There she is… The London I know and love!
Rainy, grey, cold, entirely unwelcoming… what a total babe!
Rainy, grey, cold, entirely unwelcoming… what a total babe!
The label for those so inclined:
November 18, 2024 at 9:38 AM
The label for those so inclined:
Me jumping into my work this morning like the Duchess of Devonshire cosplaying as a moon goddess!
November 18, 2024 at 9:36 AM
Me jumping into my work this morning like the Duchess of Devonshire cosplaying as a moon goddess!
Is it because they ate all the real dogs?
November 17, 2024 at 9:59 AM
Is it because they ate all the real dogs?
November 16, 2024 at 8:28 PM