Owen Garling
@ojgarling.bsky.social
Knowledge Transfer Facilitator at the Bennett Institute for Public Policy at the University of Cambridge.
Fascinating looking article from colleagues at the Fitzwilliam Museum on the Cambridgeshire family of Olaudah Equiano.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Fascinating looking article from colleagues at the Fitzwilliam Museum on the Cambridgeshire family of Olaudah Equiano.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Some really wide ranging conversations at this event last night, and above all, a great chance to connect our work with what's happening in places across the UK and the many roles that heritage assets can play.
November 13, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Some really wide ranging conversations at this event last night, and above all, a great chance to connect our work with what's happening in places across the UK and the many roles that heritage assets can play.
November 13, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Time for some performative reading.
November 12, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Time for some performative reading.
Walter, 'Squib' and Bill (the three on the right) are three of my great uncles. Walter and Squib never came back from France.
They'd enlisted together and after Walter and Squib were killed, Bill was sent home.
#RIP
They'd enlisted together and after Walter and Squib were killed, Bill was sent home.
#RIP
November 11, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Walter, 'Squib' and Bill (the three on the right) are three of my great uncles. Walter and Squib never came back from France.
They'd enlisted together and after Walter and Squib were killed, Bill was sent home.
#RIP
They'd enlisted together and after Walter and Squib were killed, Bill was sent home.
#RIP
Speaks to questions of who owns and uses cultural infrastructure.
Reminds me of this picture I took outside the Art Gallery of NSW. (More holiday snaps)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reminds me of this picture I took outside the Art Gallery of NSW. (More holiday snaps)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 7, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Speaks to questions of who owns and uses cultural infrastructure.
Reminds me of this picture I took outside the Art Gallery of NSW. (More holiday snaps)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reminds me of this picture I took outside the Art Gallery of NSW. (More holiday snaps)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Only a 16 minute drive from Sandringham to the closest Pizza Express in King's Lynn.
Saying that, will Mr Windsor want to go to a town that has retained its royal title?
Saying that, will Mr Windsor want to go to a town that has retained its royal title?
October 30, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Only a 16 minute drive from Sandringham to the closest Pizza Express in King's Lynn.
Saying that, will Mr Windsor want to go to a town that has retained its royal title?
Saying that, will Mr Windsor want to go to a town that has retained its royal title?
This reminds me - I saw your book for sale in the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney a couple of weeks ago.
October 30, 2025 at 3:25 PM
This reminds me - I saw your book for sale in the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney a couple of weeks ago.
See you later Australia! It's been a wonderfully relaxing few weeks, but time to go home.
October 28, 2025 at 4:17 AM
See you later Australia! It's been a wonderfully relaxing few weeks, but time to go home.
Big win for the foxes. Champions for the second year running.
September 21, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Big win for the foxes. Champions for the second year running.
Interesting to see South Cambs district council using the language of rest and care.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
September 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Interesting to see South Cambs district council using the language of rest and care.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
One of ours - probably a Magpie - left a big metal nut in our bird bath a few years ago.
The more you talk to corvids, the more they talk back.
Ps have you read Esther Wolfson's Corvus? Would strongly recommend.
The more you talk to corvids, the more they talk back.
Ps have you read Esther Wolfson's Corvus? Would strongly recommend.
September 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
One of ours - probably a Magpie - left a big metal nut in our bird bath a few years ago.
The more you talk to corvids, the more they talk back.
Ps have you read Esther Wolfson's Corvus? Would strongly recommend.
The more you talk to corvids, the more they talk back.
Ps have you read Esther Wolfson's Corvus? Would strongly recommend.
Stuck at the home of rock'n'roll. Plastic bag in the overhead wires at Letchworth. Rock'n'roll.
September 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Stuck at the home of rock'n'roll. Plastic bag in the overhead wires at Letchworth. Rock'n'roll.
The legendary black squirrel of @theul.bsky.social
September 8, 2025 at 11:42 AM
The legendary black squirrel of @theul.bsky.social
Well, the sunset was nice. Always worth looking in the wrong direction.
September 7, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Well, the sunset was nice. Always worth looking in the wrong direction.
Some of the many traction engines (including one from Tipton Urban District Council) on display.
September 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Some of the many traction engines (including one from Tipton Urban District Council) on display.
Beautiful! I nipped out of the conference I was at in Manchester today to visit some frogs in the museum. Differently beautiful!
September 5, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Beautiful! I nipped out of the conference I was at in Manchester today to visit some frogs in the museum. Differently beautiful!
Finally able to pay my respects to the frogs at Manchester Museum.
September 5, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Finally able to pay my respects to the frogs at Manchester Museum.
Delayed by a landslide
September 3, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Delayed by a landslide
Interesting to see that Hennessy quotes Ernest Gellner talking about social infrastructure.
August 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Interesting to see that Hennessy quotes Ernest Gellner talking about social infrastructure.
Already happened here. Onwards.
August 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Already happened here. Onwards.
New downstairs book on the go.
August 27, 2025 at 5:50 PM
New downstairs book on the go.
Really enjoyed reading this. Historical writing that gives a real sense of its actors living in their present.
Lots to learn for the present decade too. Thanks @alicehunt.bsky.social!
Lots to learn for the present decade too. Thanks @alicehunt.bsky.social!
August 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Really enjoyed reading this. Historical writing that gives a real sense of its actors living in their present.
Lots to learn for the present decade too. Thanks @alicehunt.bsky.social!
Lots to learn for the present decade too. Thanks @alicehunt.bsky.social!