Climate change is not a con-job. If you want to know more about the evidence for and causes of #ClimateChange, head to our website: royalsociety.org/news-resourc...

New in Archives of Natural History (@sochistnathist.bsky.social): "Two unpublished Darwin manuscripts in the @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social Museum, Cambridge: insights into Charles Darwin’s Beagle fossil collecting and its significance during and after the voyage" bit.ly/4kKpnC8 #histsci #HPS

Sign up for family fun this #SummerAtTheMuseums! 💌 ☀️ 🗓️ Enjoy a great value day out with your family at local museums this summer. Join us to spark your imagination, explore big topics and enjoy time together. Sign up to hear when the full events calendar launches: bit.ly/SummerAtTheMuseums

Following on from our training day last month, "Caring for Archival Collections" the presentation slides are now available on our website #Conservation #CollectionsCare #IrishArchives #CuardaighDoChartlann www.araireland.ie/presentation... @araukie.bsky.social

#OnThisDay in 1840, Charles Booth was born in #Liverpool. He went on to become a successful businessman and philanthropist whose famous series of 'Poverty Maps' measured deprivation in London in the 19th century. Find out more with our guide: www.whodoyouthinkyouaremaga...

NEW BLOG POST! Women Photographers - Hidden in Plain Sight. History of women in commercial photography in Scarborough. #womenphotographers #photographichistory #scarborough #yorkshirecoast www.photoscarborough.org.uk/blog-2-1/wom...

Published today 'The Colour of Clothes: Fashion and Dress in Autochromes 1907-1930' by Cally Blackman @thamesandhudson.bsky.social Delighted to be hosting her online talk @rpshistgroup.bsky.social on Tuesday 1st April 2025 (1800-1900). Book your place via the link in our bio.

Our latest online talk 'Sam Hanna: Documenting Lancashire Life' is now online via the link in our bio. Includes extracts from colour films he shot in and around Burnley, Lancashire using stock first obtained in 1942. #Lancashire #streetgames #knockerupper

Our exhibition ‘Whittington: The Man, The Myth and The Cat’ tells the story of medieval merchant & Lord Mayor Richard Whittington & how this became the famous tale & pantomime through materials in our Whittington collections. His bequest founded Guildhall Library in 1425. Many cat pictures as well 😺

Groundbreaking botanical discoveries on Captain Cook voyage were thanks to Indigenous people

💫 Cambridge Festival Black Town & Gown: The historical legacy of Black presence in the City of Cambridge 🗓️ 28 March 6-7.30pm 📍 Lady Mitchell Hall, CB3 9DD buff.ly/wbR23KW This film highlights the cultural, political and artistic contributions that Black people have made to this historical city

Fantastic opportunity during this #PhD to engage with #museums like @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social to gain transferable skills e.g. public engagement & interpretation of collections 👍🏼🔎📜. #HistSci #Heritage #WomenInSTEM #ExploreYourArchives

📢Upcoming lecture! Professor Jon Topham jontopham.bsky.social on ‘Science and Religion from the Ground Up’ Join us for this joint event between the BSHS, hpsleeds.bsky.social and leedsprhs.bsky.social in Leeds and online! 📆Friday 25th April, 2025 | 3.30pm–5.00pm www.eventbrite.com/e/science-an...

Bringing botanical illustrations and pressed plants to your feed 🌿 We recently hosted colleagues working across Cambridge collections with Collections-Connections-Communities to celebrate the launch of their Natural History Humanities research programme: loom.ly/C8reZbo @camglamresearch.bsky.social

Fascinated by health and wellbeing? So were our medieval ancestors. Our new exhibition, Curious Cures, takes us back hundreds of years to a world of ritual healing and herbal recipes, stargazing, and surgery. 🔗Book your FREE ticket loom.ly/kVqsPRY #CuriousCures

🚨Are you a professor from overseas, interested in working with Cambridge collections to bring expertise, skills & knowledge in an underrepresented area? We would love to hear from you! Check the latest Visiting Professorships scheme @leverhulme.bsky.social www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/news-events/... #GLAM

Weve been fighting for a new lift and decent respectful access to the Sedgwick Museum @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social for more than 5 years, so it's a small but satisfying step to see the planning notices go up on the street today 👩‍🦽 #access #museum

Welcome to #CamFest week 2️⃣! Here's a few highlights taking place this week 👇 TODAY// 🤰Reproductive Justice in a Changing Climate: screening of The Climate Baby Dilemma with @cam-repro.bsky.social (6pm Old Divinity School) 📱Voice Notes from Palestine + Panel Q&A (3pm, @camedfac.bsky.social

Do you live near a women's suffrage memorial? Help researchers at Aix-Marseille uni to map it alongside hundreds of others. Celebrate and value global histories of democracy and feminist activism - a powerful message given ebbing support in the twenty-first century framacarte.org/fr/map/sites...

Such a treat to be at this @darwincollegecam.bsky.social lecture recently. Fascinating stories, missing voices, bags of humour & a huge dash of much needed hope 💪🏼💕.👋🏼 @womenshistnet.bsky.social Catch up online soon: www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/lecture-seri... #WomensHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #IWD2025

Drop in next week for the 2025 Archives & Collections Fair. This year we are thrilled to welcome several new organisations including @jisc.bsky.social Archive & Library Hubs, @ihrlibrary.bsky.social, @senatehouselib.bsky.social and Cambridgeshire Association for Local History (CALH). #ArchiveFair25

All set up for #TwilightAtTheMuseums @camunivmuseums.bsky.social and this year @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social has #ArchivesByCandlelight (facsimiles & fake candles ☺️) #ExploreYourArchive

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! ⚗️🔭🧪🔬👩‍🔬#IDWGS #IDWGD2025 #WomeninSTEM #HisSci #HistSTEM #Trailblazers #Trowelblazers #ExploreYourArchive

'the humanities are relevant and they matter...They matter as we consider climate change, global mobility, social injustice, human rights, poverty, the values we hold, & what kind of society we want to be.' We've launched a new #OpenAccess series, Humanities Futures: uolpress.co.uk/2025/02/call...

#ExploreYourArchives #EYADustbusters 👍🏼🔍📜📚📸

Want to find out about Trauma Informed Practice in #Museums #Archives and #Libraries? Join GLAMcares for an online session with experienced practitioner Louise Thompson from Mindful Museums Thurs 20th March, 10am-1pm, just £12. Book at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Delighted to see this wonderful article by @donnalferguson.bsky.social @theguardian.com on some of the research being published in my forthcoming book that can be pre-ordered now! For the UK: www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Reading-the-... And USA: upittpress.org/books/978082...

We are in a war on knowledge, a war on facts, and a war on truth. The atrocious sacking of the 11th Archivist of the United States, Colleen Shogan (which she announced on her LinkedIn account last night) heralds a new era of burning of the books. www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...

THE ARTYST & BAR, a new arts space, café & bar opening in Cambridge, celebrating Syd Barrett, legendary co-founder of Pink Floyd ☺️ www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/the-artyst #Cambridge #SydBarrett #Arts #Wellbeing

Thrilled to share details of the next 'Cambridge Archives & Collections Fair', Thursday 13th March at the Student Services Centre, 12-4pm 🔎📜💿📸🖼️📚 #ArchiveFair25 #ExploreYourArchives

📢 Calling all historians and researchers! The Women's History Network is now accepting abstracts for its 33rd Annual Conference, themed "Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums, and Personal Collections." More info: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c... #WomensHistory #GLAM

An absolute treat to be at the inaugural #NationalHumanitiesLecture last night at the School of Advanced Study, delivered by the brilliant @davidolusoga.bsky.social on the value of public history & public humanities...(1/2)