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Joe🎃Boo-ges🕷️
@joeborges.bsky.social
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MA World Heritage student, interested in magical objects, museum collections and meaning-making. Formerly British Museum Loans and Exhibitions. (he/him)
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drangelabuckley.bsky.social
While I was in Lancaster last week visiting my son, I went to the Old Pier Bookshop in Morecambe for the first time. It is an amazing place stuffed full of thousands of books on labyrinthine shelving. I picked up some true crime books to add to my collection.
November 4, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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historyworkshop.org.uk
This article was illustrated by Jas Martin, a student at Nottingham Trent University.

You can find more of her brilliant work here: jasminemartinillustration.weebly.com
A colourful illustration depicting a lavishly dressed king sitting in a gold throne. Everything about the scene is slightly warped, for example, the king's face is slumped and he has several noses. He also has two hands at the ends of each of his arms. A bright illustration depicting a battle scene with two soldiers facing one another on horseback. There is an elaborate border around the scene comprising mythological creatures and other soldiers, the features of which are all slightly warped. A vibrant illustration depicting a bunch of golden flowers, amongst which is a crushed tin can and other detritus.
November 11, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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liamliburd.bsky.social
Of course, because this is precisely why they were put up and what they’re for.
theguardian.com The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17h
NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’
NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’
Black and Asian staff left feeling ‘deliberately intimidated’, according to chief executive of one NHS trust NHS staff who care for patients in their own homes fear some areas have become “no-go zones” for them because of the presence of St George’s flags, health leaders have said. Black and Asian staff have been left feeling “deliberately intimidated” as a result of the flags that were put up in many parts of England during the summer, according to the chief executive of one NHS trust in England, who asked to remain anonymous. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social
across all wikipedias in all languages, vietnamese wikipedia's "game boy" article is the only place that uses the public domain shots of hillary clinton as a tetris addict taken on air force one
November 9, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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animalarchaeology.com
One of the many (silly, nonsensical) arguments that anti-repatriation folks have is that if we return all of the stolen artefacts, our museums would be empty.

Meanwhile, artefacts dug up by metal detectors in this country are being sold off…wonder where their outrage is? 🤔
tessmachling.bsky.social Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 5d
Today's news:

What happens when museums can't afford to buy coins...

'Auctioneer, David Guest said the "stunning" coins were sold to "bidders from all over the world and exceeded my expectations".'

Bidders.
From.
All.
Over.
The.
World.

😡

#Archaeology 🏺 #Detecting
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
New Forest hoard of 70 coins dug up in lockdown fetch over £380k
The 69 gold coins and one silver were found in a garden in Milford on Sea in April 2020.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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belalugosisdad.bsky.social
Bristol Antifascists black bloc call out for Saturday 15th November, now with The Most Alt Text You Have Ever Seen In Your Life.
November 7, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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drnwillburger.bsky.social
Today, a friend involved in the Esna restoration project has shared with me his latest stunning photos of the restored ceiling and columns of the Temple of Khnum in Esna, Upper #Egypt. During a multi-year restoration project, the dirt and soot that had obscured the ...🧵1/3

📷 D. v. Recklinghausen
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Interior view of the building showing massive stone columns with detailed carvings and colorful hieroglyphs as well as the ceiling. The columns are shaped like lotus or papyrus plants and are closely spaced, supporting a decorated ceiling. 📷 Daniel von Recklinghausen
November 7, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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erinbartram.bsky.social
At a museum conference and it’s amazing how much this piece is unheeded/still needed in a lot of museum work.
I Make Exhibits
Who are museum exhibits for, and what difference does that make?
contingentmagazine.org
November 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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jasonkoebler.bsky.social
The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:

www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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romanpalace.bsky.social
Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓

itiner-e.org

We might have to have a lie-down.
A map of part of Britiain and northern europe showing loads and loads of roman roads, picked out in red.
November 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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alanlester.bsky.social
Don’t forget to watch this much needed and long overdue series on the British Empire. Remarkably, it’s not based on the opinions of a travelling ‘personality’, but on what historians who’ve actually researched it say!

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Two - Empire with David Olusoga, Series 1, Episode 1
David Olusoga tells the story of the beginnings of the British Empire under Elizabeth I.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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alisonatkin.bsky.social
Isn't this below the London Living Wage? Like, every time I see a heritage job at a national museum I am so disappointed by the salaries on offer. It's shocking. Never mind the amount of expertise, education, and experience they expect you to have acquired in order to do the job for it too.
November 5, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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profdanhicks.bsky.social
earlier this year a Swedish archaeologist launched an ad hominem attack on me in the International Journal of Cultural Property

I'm grateful to the editors for inviting my right to reply—and the opportunity to correct the record

www.academia.edu/144803887/On...
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www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
On "Distorting History" - a reply to Staffan Lundén Earlier this year a Swedish archaeologist based at Gothenburg University’s Centre for Critical Heritage Studies published an unfounded ad hominem attack on me in the pages of the International Journal of Cultural Property. I am grateful to the editors for this right to reply to Staffan Lundén’s wholly spurious claims, and order to correct the record. Despite its provocative, “clickbait” title, not one substantive mistake or incorrect fact was identified in Lundén’s article in my book “The Brutish Museums”. The motivation for Lundén’s serial accusations against colleagues with whose scholarship on the history of the Benin Expedition he disagrees - from curators at the British Museum to members of the Royal Court of Benin - is discussed. In conclusion, the allegation that my book The Brutish Museums is “part of a trend away from pro-British perspectives” is contextualised and refuted. On the contrary, this reply argues, openness and transparency about the colonial past and present is a key element of the reclamation and reimagining of Britishness that is unfolding in the 2020s – this unfinished period that the book calls “the decade of returns”.
November 5, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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matthewshaw.bsky.social
BL & GDP in FT
Plea for intervention in British Library pay dispute May I make a plea for the government to come to the aid of staff at the British Library. At present the library is being subjected to strike action that is hamstringing its daily operations and leading to the closure of reading rooms. This comes on top of the computer hack it suffered some two years ago from which it is only just recovering (Report, November 22, 2023). The task of serving the complex needs of scholars who study there and draw on its extraordinary resources is far from easy. If only for this, the staff deserve to be heard. The resource over which they hold custody is of great worth to the country and the intellectual work that is generated there contributes to our national GDP. Would Karl Marx and Virginia Woolf, Mahatma Gandhi and George Orwell, all erstwhile users of the British Library, have produced their masterpieces, without this resource? Nicholas Kochan British Library User, London N8, UK
November 5, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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eicathomefinn.bsky.social
Looking forward to this exhibition after the industrial action over low pay at the British Library (supported by 98% of voting staff) ends on 9 November.
Secret Maps at the British Library reconsiders the lines that shape our world
Maps have always both granted power and threatened it, depending on who controls the data, the scale and the narrative.
theconversation.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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jonnywhitlam.bsky.social
Former Stasi foreign intelligence chief Markus Wolf took to the stage and admitted the East German state was guilty of much, and that reform was needed.

The crowd weren’t exactly thrilled to hear from an establishment figure at this juncture. He was met with boos.
November 4, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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wienerlibrary.bsky.social
German-Jewish sculptor and printmaker Fred Kormis’ life and career were shaped by some of the most significant events of the twentieth century

Our latest online exhibition follows a display at the Library bringing together some of Kormis' most significant works

Explore now 🔗
Fred Kormis: Sculpting the Twentieth Century
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November 3, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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museumofloot.bsky.social
The stone head, dating from the dynasty of Pharaoh Thutmose III, was likely plundered during the Arab Spring in either 2011 or 2012.

A decade later, it turned up at the art fair in Maastricht and, following an tip-off, Dutch authorities determined it had been stolen and exported illegally.
November 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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rheinze.myatproto.social
The field wouldn‘t be what it is today if marginalised people hadn’t fought for their history, and in fighting developed new methods, knowledge, perspectives. There is a reason one of our best journals is called @historyworkshop.org.uk (in German @werkstattgeschichte.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy)
November 3, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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sandeepbak.bsky.social
Decolonisation and knowledges of decolonisation produced outside academia supersede the fraction of knowledge pooled in by academia on the topic. This realisation, not a hindrance in the labour of epistemic decolonisation, invites us to engage other formations of knowledge.
November 2, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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drkatedevlin.bsky.social
I was due to take part in an event at @britishlibrary.bsky.social tonight but now I’m choosing not to go because I won’t cross a picket line. Solidarity to @pcsunion.bsky.social and the British Library workers.
November 3, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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mclees-fiona.bsky.social
Pentre Ifan c.1910, with the Cardigan Library & Debating Society #StandingStoneSunday
Black and white photographic postcard of Pentre Ifan, with figures in period dress clustered both below the capstone and standing and sitting on the capstone itself. A line of text at the bottom reads: “Cardigan Library & Debating Society Annual Picnic at Pentre Ifan Cromlech”
November 2, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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eicathomefinn.bsky.social
Good to see the corrections and additions to this article, including the contribution of independent researcher Dawnanna Kreeger. Bit of a missed opportunity though to also elaborate on the original researcher, Cathey O'Neill.
November 2, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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kartoonistkelly.bsky.social
Does my heart proud ...
michelledevereaux.bsky.social 'M-Dash' Devereaux @michelledevereaux.bsky.social · 10d
Yes...Ha Ha Ha...Yes! Conceived and executed by me, a sicko.
A clearly deranged woman--a "sicko", you even might say--posing with a carved pumpkin with featuring the "Sickos" Onion meme. She's also wearing a "Sickos" shirt because she is a sicko. A close-up of the lit-up Sickos meme pumpkin, featuring a guy laughing menacing while cackling "Yes...Hahaha...yes!"
November 1, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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drnwillburger.bsky.social
A terracotta bust of a girl wearing a crescent-shaped pendant, known as a lunula, which was typically worn by females.
Lunula pendants were believed to possess apotropaic qualities, meaning they were intended to ward off evil. The moon was a symbol associated. ..🧵1/2

📷 me

🏺 #archaeology
Small bust figurine made of light-colored stone or clay, depicting a female figure with large almond-shaped eyes, a rounded face, and patterned lines suggesting hair or a headdress, wearing a crescent-shaped pendant. Displayed against a dark background.
November 1, 2025 at 8:43 AM