This is a classic in their oeuvre (class snobbery and judgmental hypocrisry intended)

Tens of thousands sign petition against France loaning Bayeux Tapestry to British Museum via @the-independent.com www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Campaign group threatens legal action over University of Leicester's trans-inclusive museums guidance via @theartnewspaper.bsky.social www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/08/27/c...

Join us for the next 'Keeping Connected' event, centred on repatriation work in Bristol! We have limited seats available. Register with the link below: webcollect.org.uk/meg/event/re... We look forward to seeing you there in person!

Printed copies are now in the warehouse, so if you order Island at the Edge of the World, you'll get one of these! It's a really lovely book

I am filled with that ache that comes with the last Bank Holiday in August. A knowing of dying days. The last sighing of summer told in the English need to head for the beach or the pub. Collective rituals to mark the rush into the nseason of bonefire smoke incense and dead leaf ghosts. - #MattAdams

Join us in rebuilding connections on 3 September 2025 at Bristol Museum with colleagues, the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) staff, and community members to learn more about the realities of repatriation in Bristol. Register necessary: bit.ly/46RtYj0

Hello, quite new here, so introducing myself 👋 I’m a historian of #BlackBritishHistory @icws-sas.bsky.social, living in North Wales. My first book was #BlackTudors and my new one #Heiresses, is about nine British women who inherited enslaved people and plantations in the Caribbean.

Tonight is the private view for Mythical Creatures. It’s been a rollercoaster of an install, but it’s looking fantastic! Can’t wait to share more with everyone. #Exhibitions #CuratorLife #MythicalCreatures #Museums

New Case: The Cleveland Bronze, contributed by Michela Herbert Today the Cleveland Museum will take its iconic Roman bronze sculpture off display and return it to Türkiye after a failed attempt to deny its origins in the heavily looted site of Bubon. mola.omeka.net/items/show/2...

More LGBTQIA+ history events in Bristol! I'll be leading a series of tours around Bristol Museum and Art Gallery as part of their Gender Stories exhibition. We'll be exploring gender and sexualities on display in the museum. www.bristolmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/bri...

Anthropology collections manager job at the AMNH @amnh.org in New York! Additional info: A PhD (or PhD candidacy) is required to apply. Prior training in collections management and databases is essential. This is not a research position. Salary range $93-98k/year. careers.amnh.org/postings/4509

The Big Butterfly Count 2025 is here and butterflies need our help 🦋🚨 This isn't just a survey, it's a rescue mission, and we need everyone to get involved. No lab coats. No science degrees. Just 15 minutes of your time. ⏱️ Get out for the count 👉 bigbutterflycount.org

I've just launched by first Crowdfunder campaign to acquire an Iron Age Hoard for Oxfordshire Museums Service. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-save-.... Please support us by donating and/or sharing the link. Thank you @justrena.bsky.social for all your help thus far.

Thursday’s work experience is a trip to Brighton Museum to see ‘The In Crowd: Mod Fashion and Style 1958-1966’. Izzy wants to become a fashion historian so this is perfect. brightonmuseums.org.uk/event/the-in...

Artists are invited to submit work exploring the question: 'What brings me joy?'

🍄Ceramic figure by Harry Parr A ceramic figure of a cherub riding a green toad sitting on a mushroom

Hew Locke, Benjamin Zephaniah, Ozzy Osborne and an elephant in a room all at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery today 🤩

I've finished researching Legendary Leaps around the UK! Lots of legendary leaping everywhere. Here's Dick Turpin's Leap in Wensleydale. Bit of a tourist attraction a century ago. Not so much now.

Excellent response to unethical and entirely unworkable ruling. Great shout out to Gender Stories exhibition at Bristol Museum.

King Charles charges Coastal Wind Farms hundreds of millions of pounds a year to rent worthless sea bed because he 'owns the sea'. This money is added straight onto your energy bills, then sent straight to him, and he pays no tax on it.

A good truth-telling initiative for artists who want to engage with Edward Colston history. bristol-cathedral.co.uk/event/ideas-...

Anyone want to become Birmingham's curator of science and industry? - it's a really fantastic collection! careers.birminghammuseums.org.uk/job/333d2a38...

English Heritage chief executive, Nick Merriman steps down via @museumsandheritage.com museumsandheritage.com/advisor/post...

Fancy chipping in to help Bristol get a Turner? www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/bringturne...

5. ‘We earnestly forbid all heathen practices. Namely the worship of idols, heathen gods, & the sun or the moon, fire or water, springs or stones or any kind of forest trees, or indulgence in witchcraft …’ #law #medieval Can’t help but think did we lose something when we stopped worshipping nature?

Royal Family worth £22bn, gets £500m a year tax free. Why the hell are we paying £46m for a statue of his mum, Charles should pay.

New pod-drop from @EmpirePodUK Our series on Trump’s Empire continues as we look further at the history of ❄️Greenland❄️ Danish Greenland: Eradicating Inuit Culture After the mysterious disappearance of the Norse settlers, Danes return to the island centuries later...

Interesting twist in this repatriation. Each case in recent years seems to have its own different set of circumstances. Not straightforward work.

Remembering this great tweet on the Summer Solstice

Beautiful ceremony to honour the sun god on this longest day #StantonDrew #SummerSolstice

When we think of an enslaver we usually imagine a man. But the lottery of human reproduction meant many women inherited people and plantations too. In my new book I tell some of their stories, plus those of the enslaved people with whom their fortunes were intimately intertwined. amzn.eu/d/5D376uI

lmao get her

Really engaging day yesterday at prm.ox.ac.uk talking with a delegation of Naga people about returns of ancestors and belongings. Quick look at the excellent Hawai'i display there too. Interconnected threads of humans, environment and culture ❤️

On a school trip to Wimbledon in the 80s, in the queue Martina Natavroliva walked past me just at the entrance

Reading Orwell at a impressionable age I thought we'd moved beyond the need for his warnings but obviously not...

Happy Friday the 13th! 🐈‍⬛ Here's a reminder that black cats are amazing and not unlucky. As Welsh folklore tells us: "It is very fortunate to have a thoroughly black cat on the premises." (Folklore of Wales, 1909) #FridayThe13th #FridayFeeling

Also for those who look after Egyptology and 'World Cultures' collections...

Another place I won't get to go, Another exhibition I won't get to see. This looks amazing, go if you can! '65,000 years, a short history of Australian Art' 400 pieces thoughtfully curated to tell the story. #PotterMuseumofArt #Melbourne #Indigenous www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Here, here!

V&A Storehouse opens on 31 May. Find out more (including how to order an object) here:

Water holes, trees, now significant geological formations... @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social

Setting aside post-hoc legal definitions, there could not be a clearer instance of genocide. The closest historical parallel is the German colonial genocide in which Herero & Nama people who survived mass killing were forced into the desert to starve, 1904-08. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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