Dr Laura Humphreys
@bogarty.bsky.social
Historian & Researcher 🏚️
Science Museum Group collections 🛰️
Returned Cardiffian 🏴
Plant Nerd 🌱
Views my own. She/her/hi
Science Museum Group collections 🛰️
Returned Cardiffian 🏴
Plant Nerd 🌱
Views my own. She/her/hi
Why yes, of course I am well-versed in project management methodologies in museums...
October 31, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Why yes, of course I am well-versed in project management methodologies in museums...
I feel like you lot will appreciate this Cardiff postbox...
October 2, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I feel like you lot will appreciate this Cardiff postbox...
Self portrait in the heat shield of a 1992 McLaren F1 car.
Some days, museum collections are very cool indeed.
Some days, museum collections are very cool indeed.
September 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Self portrait in the heat shield of a 1992 McLaren F1 car.
Some days, museum collections are very cool indeed.
Some days, museum collections are very cool indeed.
Cardiff has quite possibly the most dense concentration of artisan bakeries in Europe and I for one am *honoured* to live in such a city.
September 14, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Cardiff has quite possibly the most dense concentration of artisan bakeries in Europe and I for one am *honoured* to live in such a city.
It usually looks something like this. The lower handle should be 10cm off the floor - not tucked behind a grab rail or tied up in mid air. If someone falls, they need to be able to reach it from the ground. If you see one hanging too high and you can, sort it. And tell a manager.
May 26, 2025 at 8:51 PM
It usually looks something like this. The lower handle should be 10cm off the floor - not tucked behind a grab rail or tied up in mid air. If someone falls, they need to be able to reach it from the ground. If you see one hanging too high and you can, sort it. And tell a manager.
Made myself a new bookshelf and had an office re-set this week. Not bad for a 4ft x 6ft former coal shed.
Next on the list, more bookshelves, MOAR BOOKS.
Next on the list, more bookshelves, MOAR BOOKS.
May 8, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Made myself a new bookshelf and had an office re-set this week. Not bad for a 4ft x 6ft former coal shed.
Next on the list, more bookshelves, MOAR BOOKS.
Next on the list, more bookshelves, MOAR BOOKS.
For absolutely no reason except its beautiful, please enjoy this Hoover Constellation Vacuum Cleaner, part of the collection at @sim-manchester.bsky.social. Phwoooooar.
collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co84...
collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co84...
May 7, 2025 at 8:54 AM
For absolutely no reason except its beautiful, please enjoy this Hoover Constellation Vacuum Cleaner, part of the collection at @sim-manchester.bsky.social. Phwoooooar.
collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co84...
collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co84...
April 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Absolutely amazing artworks in neon by Chila Burman at IWM north - a suitable birthday art visit!
April 21, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Absolutely amazing artworks in neon by Chila Burman at IWM north - a suitable birthday art visit!
I am really gutted to hear The Lady Magazine has published its last issue this month. Access to the physical archive of The Lady was such a huge part of my PhD, and I would *love* to do more with that archive, but I have not been able to get hold of them over the last few years.
April 15, 2025 at 10:06 AM
I am really gutted to hear The Lady Magazine has published its last issue this month. Access to the physical archive of The Lady was such a huge part of my PhD, and I would *love* to do more with that archive, but I have not been able to get hold of them over the last few years.
Once he woke up we began the lesson in how to fill up a watering can and use it. I now have a soaking wet toddler but we are one step closer to a useful allotment assistant!
January 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Once he woke up we began the lesson in how to fill up a watering can and use it. I now have a soaking wet toddler but we are one step closer to a useful allotment assistant!
I have the afternoon off looking after little man. He's spark out and I'm sat with a cuppa at the Allotment, watching our resident buzzard swoop about. A good afternoon indeed.
January 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I have the afternoon off looking after little man. He's spark out and I'm sat with a cuppa at the Allotment, watching our resident buzzard swoop about. A good afternoon indeed.
Wales being very Welsh this morning. Walked past the local barracks and saw Shenkin the Goat Major of the Royal Welsh on his morning constitutional.
January 16, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Wales being very Welsh this morning. Walked past the local barracks and saw Shenkin the Goat Major of the Royal Welsh on his morning constitutional.
Chose a new book to read tonight. That's my boy!
January 13, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Chose a new book to read tonight. That's my boy!
Allotmenteering with a hot cuppa in my new flask. It's still all overgrown but a lot more tolerable with tea.
January 3, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Allotmenteering with a hot cuppa in my new flask. It's still all overgrown but a lot more tolerable with tea.
Bleak. But also tasty.
December 11, 2024 at 9:19 AM
Bleak. But also tasty.
Time for this gem again. Long live the Mari Lwyd and her rap battles.
December 11, 2024 at 6:43 AM
Time for this gem again. Long live the Mari Lwyd and her rap battles.
Waking up and leaving for work in the dark is much maligned this time of year, and with reason. But I have to confess that driving through the Welsh and English countryside of an autumnal morning is a treat.
And then I arrive on site to big skies like this almost every day.
And then I arrive on site to big skies like this almost every day.
November 28, 2024 at 9:01 AM
Waking up and leaving for work in the dark is much maligned this time of year, and with reason. But I have to confess that driving through the Welsh and English countryside of an autumnal morning is a treat.
And then I arrive on site to big skies like this almost every day.
And then I arrive on site to big skies like this almost every day.
*What* a garage. Jeremy Clarkson could never.
November 26, 2024 at 4:41 PM
*What* a garage. Jeremy Clarkson could never.
Packaging of museum collections is worthy of a collection of its own.
November 26, 2024 at 4:40 PM
Packaging of museum collections is worthy of a collection of its own.
Time to appreciate a beautiful Wiltshire sky over lunch
November 26, 2024 at 1:45 PM
Time to appreciate a beautiful Wiltshire sky over lunch
The saintly saints of the medical collections.
November 26, 2024 at 11:16 AM
The saintly saints of the medical collections.
Less sure this needs to come back... Aspicure Aspic Jelly. What is "natural culinary essence"?!
November 26, 2024 at 10:49 AM
Less sure this needs to come back... Aspicure Aspic Jelly. What is "natural culinary essence"?!
Both of these need to make a comeback (no notes on package design either) - Cadbury Tiffin and Cadbury Top Deck
November 26, 2024 at 10:47 AM
Both of these need to make a comeback (no notes on package design either) - Cadbury Tiffin and Cadbury Top Deck