Please complete this survey for the Didcot Railway Centre and help us to get a variety of opinions about what the centre should be doing next as part of the redevelopment of the Engine Shed Please also forward and repost! 🎓🏛️ www.surveymonkey.com/r/MJ737RT

Today in things traincrew shouldn't have to do: Tell passengers not to throw bread rolls at each other across the aisle. One group took up a disproportionate amount of my time this evening. I wonder how they would feel if I turned up at their workplace and made things difficult for them.

Spending my day being paid to think about beer. A great way to spend the day…. But surely I should be drinking the stuff by now (purely in the name of research of course) #🏛️🎓 #beer #heritage

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Tender opportunity 💡 As part of a review of the Esmée Fairbairn Communities and Collections Fund, we're commissioning some impact research to explore where our funding has most impact.

Sweet Patootee are one of my favourite clients (and I’m lucky I have many!) but they have created this wonderful film about a really neglected part of the WWII story and how it impacted the Caribbean and therefore UK. #WWII #🏛️🎓 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

New #Job Freelance Heritage Project Evaluation Officer at St Mary Magdalene Church #Ickleton #Cambridgeshire Apply by Fri 3 Oct 2025. More details here: gem.org.uk/jobs/freelan... #GEMJobs #FreelanceJobs #HeritageJobs #Culture #Heritage #Freelance #Consultant #Education #Conservation #GEM

New #Job Freelance Heritage Education Consultant with SEND specialism at St Mary Magdalene Church #Ickleton Apply by Fri 3 Oct 2025. More details here: gem.org.uk/jobs/freelan... #GEMJobs #FreelanceJobs #HeritageJobs #Culture #Heritage #Freelance #Consultant #Education #Conservation #GEM

Playing the game of spot the bonkers people eating to take the National Trust into flag waving as part of the AGM. There are so many this year that I could do with help… #nationaltrustAGM

Shhh. Don’t tell anyone. But I reckon we may have the start to a new walnut tree next summer!!

stoptrump.org.uk/donate/ I can’t be there but I have donated towards it…

Celebrating getting our fabulous daughter to a place at Falmouth to study Fine Art with a pint by the river #Cambridge #kingCharles #socks #uniplace

Great job with lovely people funded by @heritagefunduk.bsky.social #heritagejob

Really interesting article by @richove.bsky.social about the banning of books in the US and how libraries and librarians are standing up to the right wing pressure groups. observer.co.uk/news/interna...

June is Pride Month. Let's call out companies who show support for LGBTQ+ people while also advertising on GB News, a channel that pumps out LGBTQ+ hate. Tell these companies to pick a side - hate or Pride: action.goodlawproject.org/pick-side-ha...

Sorry I couldn’t work out how to upload the document here. But there is a lovely opportunity for a freelance artist working with the redevelopment of Wrexham Museum www.linkedin.com/posts/claire...

A great heritage/ museum job for someone to support the delivery of Great Yarmouth Winter Gardens @heritagefunduk.bsky.social project careers.great-yarmouth.gov.uk/vacancies/26... #🎓🏛️ #museum #heritage

New #job with GEM. Freelancer required to research, develop, pilot & deliver a “how to use your local museum” session for schools & colleges in #Wales Full details here: gem.org.uk/jobs/heritag... Apply by 18 July #GEMJobs #HeritageLearning #MuseumLearning #Freelancer #FreelanceWeek

✨GEM Workshop: Community and Co-Design✨ Are you looking to effectively engage with communities? Join GEM and Beloved Adonai for a workshop on how to create sustainable partnerships. 📆 Tuesday, June 17, 10am - 12pm 📍Online 🔗 Book your place: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gem-worksh... #GEM#museumlearning

Great to see the new cafe @abneypark.bsky.social and the interpretation bringing to visitors attention that it is heated through a ground source heat pump. And all funded by @heritagefunduk.bsky.social

Nigel Farage says abortion laws are “utterly ludicrous.” MPs are watching. We have days to show them: the public backs abortion rights. Join me and sign the petition now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/de...

At what point in people’s lives do they go ‘oh yes Procurement will be what I want do’? Is it the point where they realise they love making people jump through pointless hoops for absolutely no reason other than to make them money??? (I might be frustrated today!!)

📢 Hiring Now - Project Archivist! Project: 'Jean Stone Collection: celebrating influential women in the Paralympic Movement' ♿ 🗓️ Contract Date: Jun 2025 – Jan 2026 (8 months) 📝 Closing Date: Fri 30th May 2025 #MuseumEd 💻 For details & to apply, visit: www.paralympicheritage.org.uk/news/project...

tl;dr: sign up for some free professional development for museum folk in #Scotland here: my.nms.ac.uk/0/17854 🏛️🎓 #maths #MathsToday

@teakayb.mathsy.space following on from our conversation yesterday about free training to be an evaluator … see this www.culturalvalue.org.uk/evaluation-a... 🏛️🎓 #evaluation #heritage #museums #freelance

Lovely day at @museumsandheritage.com show. The highlight (and reason for going as well as the excellent networking opportunities ) is @bernarddonoghue.bsky.social annual insights into visitor trends for museums and heritage

Looking forward to catching up with people tomorrow at Museums and Heritage Show. If you’re going do let me know if you fancy meeting up #MandHShow 🏛️🎓 #heritage #museums

I love a meeting for the redevelopment of a building where the care of penguins is taken into consideration! @heritagefunduk.bsky.social 🎓🏛️

I’ve had a lovely day in a 300,000,000 year old fossilised forsest, with a grumpy smelting container and lot of scaffolding. At Stori Brymbo and @wrexhammuseum.bsky.social as their @heritagefunduk.bsky.social mentor

Really interesting read for anyone interested in the Mayor and Council results for Cambridge and Cambridgeshire

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“Fenland is one of the worst places in the country for public transport, with 80% of its bus services cut in the last 25 years” @lornadupre.bsky.social for #LibDems at Cambs/Pboro hustings.

At the #cambridge Mayoral Hustings to understand what the candidates think about the development of Cambridge, transport and sustainability of the city.

Lunch time walk in the rain #freelance #freelancelife #walk #eyeball #🏛️🎓

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

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Great trip to see Resistance by Steve McQueen at Turner. Wonderful to see a number of the archives I have been privileged to work on being featured. Including the George Padmore @heritagefunduk.bsky.social re John le Rose setting up the first Supplementary Schools 1/3 #🏛️🎓, #archives #resistance

Hello Bluesky! Follow us for updates from the Journal of Museum Education, innovations in the field of museum education, and general love for the museum educators out there doing the hard work of making museum learning accessible!

New #job Community Participation Manager at Chiswick House & Gardens @englishheritage.bsky.social #London Apply by Wed 23 Apr 2025. More details here: gem.org.uk/jobs/communi... #GEMJobs #HeritageJobs #Museums #Heritage #EnglishHeritage #Community #Partnerships #GEM

Book your space for GEM Sensational Museum Training. Join us for two bespoke training sessions that rethink the role of senses in museums. 📆 12 & 19 June 2025 📍Zoom 🔗 gem.org.uk/event/gem-se... #GEM #Museumlearning @sensationalmuseum.bsky.social

After 20 years as a sole trader I have finally plucked up courage to set myself up as a Limited Company … let me know if Claire Adler & Associates can help with your #heritage #Glam #community #🏛️🎓@heritagefunduk.bsky.social projects www.claireadler.co.uk

There is a very large Christmas tree round the corner from our house…I’ve never noticed before that the top is covered in mushrooms. Does anyone know why? #mushrooms #trees #cambridge #🎓🏛️

New #job Learning and Outreach Manager @bradfordmuseums.bsky.social #Yorkshire Apply by 11 Apr 2025. More details here: gem.org.uk/jobs/learnin... #GEMJobs #MuseumJobs #Learning #Outreach #Community #MuseumEd #GEM

Looking forward to second day of running focus groups at Wicksteed Park to inform their Audience Development Plan …. It was such a beautiful day on Monday … hoping the sun stays out today! 🏛️🎓 #freelance #parl

If anyone out there in the Kentucky/Tennessee area knows of any work for a naturalist/historian/museum educator, DM me. I have GOT to get out of this job

Today, the President of the United States pointed his finger at Baltimore City public school students and leered at their test scores as he dismantled the Department of Education. I’m a museum educator in Baltimore City and I have something to say about it.

Last chance to apply for our 1:1 Mentoring Programme! If you work in learning and engagement within the museum & heritage sector and would benefit from 1:1 support to enhance your career, then this programme is for you. 📆 Deadline: 1 March 2025. 📍Online 🔗 Apply: gem.org.uk/careers/one-...

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