RIP Brian Patten. A loss to poetry.

Excellent performance of #BornWithTeeth at Wyndham’s Theatre w/ Ncuti Gatwa as Marlowe & Edward Bluemel as Shakespeare. Equally excellent staging & production. Thoroughly recommend.

We are The Times and The Sunday Times University of the Year 2026 and ranked third overall in its Good University Guide. Congratulations to our global university community on this success. 🎉 Read more: brnw.ch/21wVU4Q

An interesting and thoughtful piece. Don’t necessarily agree with everything (eg LC distributed catalogue cards pre library automation so the argument of local vs central control is more complex) but worth engaging with.

Definitely worth visiting. Always enjoy going to Ushaw House as part of the Durham Ushaw Partnership.

Excellent discussions at @coimbragroup.bsky.social Heritage Working Group meeting hosted by Università di Bologna. Added bonus is walking under the nearly 40km of porticos/colonnades which are themselves a @unesco.org World Heritage Site. #CoimbraGroup2025

We welcomed colleagues from the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History to #Durham this week. Our collaboration supports research, exchange and training. We're shaping conferences in Washington (2026) & Tokyo (2028), themed: ‘Revolution, Revelation, Reconciliation’. tinyurl.com/bdfa299t

WHUK meeting reinforcing the tension identified by @unesco.org between outstanding universal value (OUV) and climate change. The move from cultural heritage to natural heritage as a direct outcome.

Highly informative & engaging couple of days at World Heritage UK 10th anniversary meeting discussing sustainability, climate crisis & cultural heritage. Lots to take away.

Shakespeare Recovered exhibition officially opening this evening. Durham’s unique First Folio exhibited in its home; Cosin’s Library, Durham University. @ducollections.bsky.social

Tonight is the Night! Counting down until the opening night of our Shakespeare Recovered Exhibition! Come and learn the story of Durham's First Folio! Opens to the public 4th April - free entry Book Tickets here: www.durham.ac.uk/things-to-do...

Shakespeare Recovered: Durham’s First Folio Opening 4th April-Cosin’s Library The story of our First Folio after its theft and the work of our Conservation Team making it accessible again. Visit to experience a book as you’ve never seen one before. Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shakespear...

Hugely enjoyable day judging @ducollections.bsky.social Shakespeare First Folio international book binding competition. Wonderful skills and craft on display. Exhibition opening in April when entries will be on show.

Looking forward to this excellent conference with a fantastic programme. Glad to be the host institution and have @ducollections.bsky.social & @durhamuniversity.bsky.social colleagues speaking.

Not really the article I would want a photo of our wonderful Palace Green Library heading up. Q: Westminster’s mistakes or deliberate actions? (Neglect is a choice).

Why do I feel offended by this? The job losses obviously. But also the quotation marks around “collection management” & “interpretation.” These are professional curatorial skills. This comes across as slightly off.

Thanks to Stephenson College @durham-university.bsky.social for organising an engaging speaker to mark #Holocaustmemorialday. Take away thought: remembrance projects forward.

Congratulations to the @durham-university.bsky.social alumni team. On the edge of the seat to the very end. Well captained by @carladenyer.bsky.social. Did yourselves and the university proud.

Taking the opportunity to sit down with this excellent present. Huge respect to @ledbydonkeys.org. Highly recommend this book.

Must see film of 2024 has to be Nora Fingscheidt’s The Outrun. Thoughtful & magnetic performance by Saoirse Ronan. Thoroughly recommend.

Was uncertain about posting this photo. Actually took very few but still felt compelled to visit out of profound respect. Everything shrouded in fog seemed somehow fitting. The worst images were captured forever in my mind. @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social

Obwarzanek krakowski. Living on these whilst in Kraków. Traditional & apparently only available in the Old Town. Bought fresh from street sellers. Just don’t call them a bagel.

Listening to the music of former Jagiellonian University student and Kraków resident Penderecki in Kraków. Somehow the music seems rooted in this place.

Excellent & engaging discussions at Muzeum Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego Collegium Maius, Jagiellonian University Museum, at Coimbra Heritage Working Group. Many thanks to the curators for walking us through the exhibitions.

November means Dr Charlotte Beyer’s tenth book. Super proud of this achievement. ebook out now, hard copy in a matter of days.

Great reading and lively conversation with the wonderful Jackie Kay at Durham Book Festival. A joyful occasion.

Excellent performance of The Scottish Play at Harold Pinter Theatre with masterful lead role from David Tennant

“there will be no longform open access mandate for REF 2029”

Hugely enjoyable to see students awarded their colours & hear the talented musicians at Hatfield College Floreat formal. Great to be a member of the SCR.

A real pleasure to attend the VIP launch of The Story, Durham. A wonderful place with fantastic galleries & spaces bringing together outstanding collections in the NE.

Really impressed with the permanent & temporary exhibitions at Turun Taidemuseo/Turku Art Museum. A treasure of a museum in a great city. The tri-lingual signage is much appreciated.

A pleasure to host an evening of lute music, song & spoken word in Cosin’s Library. Hopefully the first of many such events.

Really pleased to have received ACE accreditation for Durham Castle. Congratulations to all @DU_Collections colleagues involved in achieving this.

Terrible news from Copenhagen as a 400 year old landmark burns. Staff & passers by rushed to save artworks inside. Denmark’s Notre Dame moment.

Many thanks to artist Emily Hartley-Skudder for leading us through her exhibition Splash Club at the Hocken Collection followed by a fascinating glimpse of the archives & art collection by the expert staff.

Many thanks to the library staff at University of Otago Library for putting on display this historic & important tome (!) for our @MatarikiNetwork Library Directors meeting.

Many thanks to the curators at Tūhura Otago Museum for the whistle stop behind the scenes in the stores tour. You are doing great work & your enthusiasm is infectious.

Pacific Ocean at St Clair beach, Dunedin NZ at about 18:30 on a Wednesday evening. Beautiful.

Powerful Pōwhiri at Ōtăkou Marae to welcome @MatarikiNetwork Library Directors to our meeting. A privilege to walk in your places.

I really had no choice but to stay on this street. Can’t fault the name. #Dunedin

Many congratulations to my @DU_Collections colleagues on being shortlisted and winning at the #duglobalawards. Great to see their work recognised for the second year in succession.

Wonderful presentation from my fantastic @DU_Collections colleagues Ross & Ivy #RLUKICIL. Brilliant, enthusiastic ambassadors & champions for their outstanding work on inclusion within & beyond our collections.

Excellent, thoughtful & extremely well curated Women in Revolt exhibition at Tate Britain. Great to see the work of archivists credited.

Very sad to read of this closure of a university museum. Museums are central to the education & research agendas as well as to the wellbeing of a community. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...