Helen Antrobus
@helenantro.bsky.social
📚 Curator & historian working for a big conservation charity, nattering about 20th c women, political and landscape histories (sometimes all at once).
🎧 Presenter and giddy kipper of #BackWhen, the National Trust's history pod: https://shorturl.b
🎧 Presenter and giddy kipper of #BackWhen, the National Trust's history pod: https://shorturl.b
Somebody needs to tell the Mail Online that the plot details for Wuthering Heights were unfortunately leaked over 150 years ago
March 23, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Somebody needs to tell the Mail Online that the plot details for Wuthering Heights were unfortunately leaked over 150 years ago
Last week, People's History Museum invited me to give a tour, selecting my favourite objects on display.
I had to pick the Suffragette's Home poster and, from almost 100 years earlier, Cruikshank's 'Belle Alliance'.
So pertinent to the misogyny and rollback to 'trad-wives' we see today.
I had to pick the Suffragette's Home poster and, from almost 100 years earlier, Cruikshank's 'Belle Alliance'.
So pertinent to the misogyny and rollback to 'trad-wives' we see today.
March 17, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Last week, People's History Museum invited me to give a tour, selecting my favourite objects on display.
I had to pick the Suffragette's Home poster and, from almost 100 years earlier, Cruikshank's 'Belle Alliance'.
So pertinent to the misogyny and rollback to 'trad-wives' we see today.
I had to pick the Suffragette's Home poster and, from almost 100 years earlier, Cruikshank's 'Belle Alliance'.
So pertinent to the misogyny and rollback to 'trad-wives' we see today.
Bridestones Moor on a hazy Sunday morning.
March 9, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Bridestones Moor on a hazy Sunday morning.
Paging @nationaltrust.bsky.social & @celiarichardson.bsky.social - courtesey of Manchester Archives, here's a 50 year old membership card belonging to Shena Simon, feminist pioneer, big National Trust fan, and distant relation of a certain Miss Potter!
Such chic membership cards in the 70s...
Such chic membership cards in the 70s...
March 1, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Paging @nationaltrust.bsky.social & @celiarichardson.bsky.social - courtesey of Manchester Archives, here's a 50 year old membership card belonging to Shena Simon, feminist pioneer, big National Trust fan, and distant relation of a certain Miss Potter!
Such chic membership cards in the 70s...
Such chic membership cards in the 70s...
Such a special day at work. Talking all things plague, 17th century lockdowns, myths, folklore and community. It has to be Eyam...
February 27, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Such a special day at work. Talking all things plague, 17th century lockdowns, myths, folklore and community. It has to be Eyam...
a week in the Peak ❤️
February 21, 2025 at 6:16 PM
a week in the Peak ❤️
@manchesterup.bsky.social are too kind, sending me three stunning advance copies to get my teeth into. Starting the week with Wildly Different by @sarahjlonsdale.bsky.social, a book that I've been very much looking forward to!
February 17, 2025 at 11:30 AM
@manchesterup.bsky.social are too kind, sending me three stunning advance copies to get my teeth into. Starting the week with Wildly Different by @sarahjlonsdale.bsky.social, a book that I've been very much looking forward to!
In heaven seeing this portrait of Elizabeth Craven depicting the most deliciously beautiful 17th century embroidery. Butterflies, flowers, bugs and birds feature in the design.
Imagine if the dress had survived? 🦋 🐛🐌🌺🐞
Powis Castle, @nationaltrust.bsky.social
Imagine if the dress had survived? 🦋 🐛🐌🌺🐞
Powis Castle, @nationaltrust.bsky.social
February 8, 2025 at 4:36 PM
In heaven seeing this portrait of Elizabeth Craven depicting the most deliciously beautiful 17th century embroidery. Butterflies, flowers, bugs and birds feature in the design.
Imagine if the dress had survived? 🦋 🐛🐌🌺🐞
Powis Castle, @nationaltrust.bsky.social
Imagine if the dress had survived? 🦋 🐛🐌🌺🐞
Powis Castle, @nationaltrust.bsky.social
February 6, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Blue sky on bluesky
February 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Blue sky on bluesky
I'm writing about a special place on the shores of Derwentwater for an upcoming talk. Dreaming of being there & living through #BeatrixPotter's Derwentwater sketchbook, painted on holiday of 1903. Exquisite.
www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/242727
@nationaltrust.bsky.social
www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/242727
@nationaltrust.bsky.social
February 3, 2025 at 11:25 AM
I'm writing about a special place on the shores of Derwentwater for an upcoming talk. Dreaming of being there & living through #BeatrixPotter's Derwentwater sketchbook, painted on holiday of 1903. Exquisite.
www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/242727
@nationaltrust.bsky.social
www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/242727
@nationaltrust.bsky.social
Calling all #Manchester #history friends - please do join us at the Mechanics for the Margaret Ashton Lecture. We love celebrating women's lives across Greater Manchester who so often are overshadowed - Shena Simon was a true trailblazer and we can't wait to champion her story! t.co/4R9TS2dsuB
February 3, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Calling all #Manchester #history friends - please do join us at the Mechanics for the Margaret Ashton Lecture. We love celebrating women's lives across Greater Manchester who so often are overshadowed - Shena Simon was a true trailblazer and we can't wait to champion her story! t.co/4R9TS2dsuB
Thanks for sharing - some much better images included in this article I wrote for the @nationaltrust.bsky.social Cultural Heritage magazine nt.global.ssl.fastly.net/binaries/con...
January 27, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Thanks for sharing - some much better images included in this article I wrote for the @nationaltrust.bsky.social Cultural Heritage magazine nt.global.ssl.fastly.net/binaries/con...
I am having a true pinch me moment!!!
Delighted, thrilled, overjoyed to announce that I'm joining the phenomenal National Trust podcast as their newest history presenter! 🎙️ 🎧
Stay tuned for the series 9! www.nationaltrust.org.uk/discover/vir...
Delighted, thrilled, overjoyed to announce that I'm joining the phenomenal National Trust podcast as their newest history presenter! 🎙️ 🎧
Stay tuned for the series 9! www.nationaltrust.org.uk/discover/vir...
January 22, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I am having a true pinch me moment!!!
Delighted, thrilled, overjoyed to announce that I'm joining the phenomenal National Trust podcast as their newest history presenter! 🎙️ 🎧
Stay tuned for the series 9! www.nationaltrust.org.uk/discover/vir...
Delighted, thrilled, overjoyed to announce that I'm joining the phenomenal National Trust podcast as their newest history presenter! 🎙️ 🎧
Stay tuned for the series 9! www.nationaltrust.org.uk/discover/vir...
A perfect Sunday night
January 19, 2025 at 8:52 PM
A perfect Sunday night
Thank you @manchesterup.bsky.social for this very exciting post 📚 Hannah's story is a staple of Manchester's history and I cannot wait to get stuck into @shewolfmanc.bsky.social fantastic research!
January 14, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Thank you @manchesterup.bsky.social for this very exciting post 📚 Hannah's story is a staple of Manchester's history and I cannot wait to get stuck into @shewolfmanc.bsky.social fantastic research!
I've set myself a challenge to read 50 books this year! This is book no.2 and the 98th book I've checked out of ny local library since joining in Jan 2023. Any recommendations, send them my way.
January 12, 2025 at 9:33 AM
I've set myself a challenge to read 50 books this year! This is book no.2 and the 98th book I've checked out of ny local library since joining in Jan 2023. Any recommendations, send them my way.
In 2022 I co-curated an exhibition at the V&A, and in 2024, I'm reading the new Jaqueline Wilson book only to find said exhibition gets a cameo 😭😭😭 Ellie loved the exhibition about Beatrix Potter! I cannot handle it!
December 14, 2024 at 4:59 PM
In 2022 I co-curated an exhibition at the V&A, and in 2024, I'm reading the new Jaqueline Wilson book only to find said exhibition gets a cameo 😭😭😭 Ellie loved the exhibition about Beatrix Potter! I cannot handle it!
Before a morning of looking at beautiful altar cloths, I went out walking with a very good long lad to gaze at squirrels
December 11, 2024 at 10:14 AM
Before a morning of looking at beautiful altar cloths, I went out walking with a very good long lad to gaze at squirrels
there are two suffragettes, two queens, and a brontë sister on our tree 🎄
December 7, 2024 at 4:16 PM
there are two suffragettes, two queens, and a brontë sister on our tree 🎄
If you're not feeling festive already, please enjoy Christmas at Erddig, a visual feast of light and splendour!
@nationaltrust.bsky.social
@nationaltrust.bsky.social
December 6, 2024 at 8:37 AM
If you're not feeling festive already, please enjoy Christmas at Erddig, a visual feast of light and splendour!
@nationaltrust.bsky.social
@nationaltrust.bsky.social
Crisp Cumbrian skies, and I was greeted in the car park by a deer. It could only happen at @nationaltrust.bsky.social Townend, the 17th century farmhouse occupied by the Browne family for over 400 years. More will be revealed but I'm here to talk all things wedding dresses... 👀
December 3, 2024 at 11:17 AM
Crisp Cumbrian skies, and I was greeted in the car park by a deer. It could only happen at @nationaltrust.bsky.social Townend, the 17th century farmhouse occupied by the Browne family for over 400 years. More will be revealed but I'm here to talk all things wedding dresses... 👀
Spend, Spend Spend! at the Royal Exchange was absolutely gorgeous. I'd never heard of Viv Nicholson, but to see her story played out with hope and melancholy and northern sparkle was perfect. Get yourselves there, Manchester!
November 27, 2024 at 8:16 AM
Spend, Spend Spend! at the Royal Exchange was absolutely gorgeous. I'd never heard of Viv Nicholson, but to see her story played out with hope and melancholy and northern sparkle was perfect. Get yourselves there, Manchester!
put on my serious waterproof today & discovered a pocketful of hidden treasures from our last visit to the west coast of Scotland 🐚
November 23, 2024 at 11:37 PM
put on my serious waterproof today & discovered a pocketful of hidden treasures from our last visit to the west coast of Scotland 🐚
I'm always convincing myself that if I packed a bag and headed up to my favourite spot in the Hebrides, I'd sit somewhere with perfect views and write the thing I'm supposed to be writing, instead of procrastinating and daydreaming about the Hebrides.
November 17, 2024 at 8:29 PM
I'm always convincing myself that if I packed a bag and headed up to my favourite spot in the Hebrides, I'd sit somewhere with perfect views and write the thing I'm supposed to be writing, instead of procrastinating and daydreaming about the Hebrides.