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Head of Cultural Collections at Manchester Met | Applied Art specialist | Northerner | she/her
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Publication day! 📚 A huge to my brilliant colleagues for making this happen, especially Christopher, Dave and Leah in the publications team. 🖼️ It is a joy to have the opportunity to celebrate the women artists, designers and makers from across our places and collections.🏺#nationaltrust
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My book, 100 Things to Wear: Fashion From the Collections of the National Trust (co-authored with the incredible Emma Slocombe) is now available to pre-order on Amazon. I'll be buying all my copies from my local
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shop, but this is really hugely exciting to see!
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Fashion highlights in our collections
Learn about the history of the fashion treasures in the collection of the National Trust.
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/discover/history/art-collections/revealing-the-national-trusts-fashion-treasures
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Sarah Bendall
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@serenadyer.bsky.social
& I are thrilled to announce that our edited book is out now! It focuses on how processes of making, experimenting, experiencing, & reconstructing illuminate understandings around manual labour & material life. Overview 🧵 on 📕 chapters & our contributors! 👇
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Jonathan Wallis
over 1 year ago
Finally reached publication day! Well done
@curatorrachel.bsky.social
- a great
@nationaltrust.bsky.social
project to be part of. Get your copy -
shop.nationaltrust.org.uk/women-artist...
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Publication day! 📚 A huge to my brilliant colleagues for making this happen, especially Christopher, Dave and Leah in the publications team. 🖼️ It is a joy to have the opportunity to celebrate the women artists, designers and makers from across our places and collections.🏺#nationaltrust
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Published tomorrow (though snuck its way into some
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shops already)!
#womenartists
#nationaltrust
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A fascinating afternoon with conservator Emma at Calke Abbey, XRF testing two monumental eagles - what are their secrets?
#ceramichistory
#conservation
#curator
#research
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Women's History Network
over 1 year ago
The aim of the WHN’s 33rd annual conference is to explore & celebrate the challenges & opportunities of uncovering the presence of women within archives, libraries, museums & personal collections. See the call for papers here:
womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c...
#WomensHistory
#GenderHist
#CPF
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WHN Annual Conference 2025, Call for Papers
First Call for Papers Women’s History Network 33rd Annual Conference Online via Zoom Thursday 4 & Friday 5 September 2025 Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums and Pe…
https://womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-conference-2025-call-for-papers/
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Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York
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📣 Funded PhD at York with the National Trust: ‘At Home with Angelica Kauffman: The Material and Print Culture of an Eighteenth-Century Artist’. Co-supervised by Chloe Wigston Smith
@chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social
& Rachel Conroy
@curatorrachel.bsky.social
#18thC
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Women's History Network
over 1 year ago
📢 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
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WHN Annual Conference 2025, Call for Papers
First Call for Papers Women’s History Network 33rd Annual Conference Online via Zoom Thursday 4 & Friday 5 September 2025 Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums and Pe…
https://womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-conference-2025-call-for-papers/
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Gracie Price
over 1 year ago
This cut paperwork scene was made by sisters Jane and Mary Parminter around 1770-1820. Layers of intricately cut and shaped designs come together to create an amazing dimensional work of art.
#museum30
day 18 - Paper
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Dr Jemima Hubberstey
over 1 year ago
Thrilled to have seen 'The Botanical World of Mary Delany' at Beningbrough Hall at last, showcasing many of her beautifully detailed collages. It was also a treat to see 'Women Artists and Designers at the National Trust', including Sabine Winn's collages. Perfect way to start 2025!
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Anna Strhan
over 1 year ago
Really enjoyed The Botanical World of Mary Delany at Beningbrough Hall - stunning collages, and the kids enjoyed it too
#Yorkshire
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National Trust
over 1 year ago
Mary Delany transformed ordinary materials into extraordinary, inspirational artworks. At Beningbrough Hall, Yorkshire, discover the The Botanical World of Mary Delaney Exhibition and explore the intricate detail of this new photographic display presented in partnership with the British Museum.
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Rachael Unsworth
over 1 year ago
If you know Abbey House Museum in
#Leeds
but don't yet know that it's under threat of closure (to save a small sum from the hard-pressed council budget) you might like to make your views known here:
museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/pQoMAtw/abbe...
. Closing date for comments: 23 January
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Abbey House Museum Consultation
Abbey House Museum Consultation
https://museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/pQoMAtw/abbey-house-museum-consultation
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Yvonne Hardman
over 1 year ago
The public consultation on closing Abbey House Museum is now open. Please consider taking part:
museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/pQoMAtw/abbe...
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Abbey House Museum Consultation
Abbey House Museum Consultation
https://museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/pQoMAtw/abbey-house-museum-consultation
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🎄 A very festive jug from the @nationaltrust decorated a century ago with swirly holly and loops of lustre by Louise Powell. 🔔
#merrychristmas
#wedgwood
#louisepowell
#womenartists
over 1 year ago
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Mark Rees
over 1 year ago
Behold the earliest known photo of a snowman! It was taken in Swansea in 1853 by Victorian photography pioneer Mary Dillwyn. 📷 Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / National Library of Wales
#Christmas
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A group of pots at one of our properties has been recorded as decorated by Alfred Powell, but are actually by Louise Powell, so I’ve just started working through them as my last task of the week. Louise was a student of calligraphy and this training translates beautifully into ceramic painting.
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Found the source image for a plate decorated in 1875 by Rupert Potter (Beatrix’s father) for his children’s nursery, by Harrison Weir from Vere Foster’s Drawing Book O1. The Potters was a creative household and they used these hugely popular books at home together, including on pots.
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The best look for Parian I’ve seen. Hew Locke at the British Museum.
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Terri Dendy
over 1 year ago
This is going to be an incredible resource for museum conservation
museumsandheritage.com/advisor/post...
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National Trust to create historic archive of paints used across its properties - Museums + Heritage
https://museumsandheritage.com/advisor/posts/national-trust-to-create-historic-archive-of-paints-used-across-its-properties/
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Making Christmas decorations at the Hepworth Wakefield fair. Lots of fun - the opportunity to make stuff is always such a bonus for my two boys and the Hepworth does this brilliantly.
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Helen Smith
over 1 year ago
Call for submissions! *Embodied Knowledge & Making Texts: A Handbook* Please spread the word to academics & practitioners -
@georginaemw.bsky.social
and I have been overwhelmed and delighted by the response so far. It's going to be great!
www.thinicepress.org/research/cal...
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Call for submissions — Thin Ice Press
Call for contributors! We’re looking for craftspeople and academics to be part of an exciting volume on embodied knowledge and making texts.
https://www.thinicepress.org/research/call-for-submissions
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Kit de Waal
over 1 year ago
The Discoveries writing development programme and prize for unpublished women writers in the UK accepts novels in any genre of adult fiction, with entrants invited to submit the first 10,000 words of their novel and a synopsis
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Discoveries 2025
Calling all unpublished women writers! The Women’s Prize Trust, Audible, the Curtis Brown literary agency and Curtis Brown Creative have partnered to run the Discoveries novel-writing development prog...
https://www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/discoveries-2025
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For the 2024 Decorative Art Society journal I’ve written about the ceramic painter, dressmaker, embroiderer, cobbler, leather-worker, gallerist, feather artist,
#suffragist
, interior designer, pageant organiser and all around brilliant individual, Amy Kotze. A dish by her is at Nuffield Place (NT).
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Briony Neilson
over 1 year ago
Another day, another design for a ballet costume for a vegetable. Today’s special: the radish (pen and ink and watercolour on pencil, V&A)
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My favourite pieces from Felicity Aylieff’s wonderful exhibition at Kew. Look at those enamel colour reference tiles 🥰
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Doug Fitch
over 1 year ago
Hannah
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and I are thrilled, flattered, honoured, and overwhelmed to have had a piece each of our work purchased by the V&A for their permanent collection. They are currently on show in 'Studio Ceramics and the V&A' in the ceramics galleries.
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Art Herstory
over 1 year ago
New Books About Women Artists | July–Sept 2024
artherstory.net/new-books-ab...
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Books About Women Artists | Published July-Sept 2024
A list of books about women artists issued in the 3rd quarter of 2024: new children's books, fiction, non-fiction, and exhibition catalogs.
https://artherstory.net/new-books-about-women-artists-july-sept-2024/
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Working at Melford Hall in Suffolk yesterday - a long way to travel but nice to be greeted by these door friends.
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Michael Brown
over 1 year ago
📢
@jbhist.bsky.social
& I are very pleased to announce that we are seeking a f/t 2-year Research Associate in Victorian Cultural and Material History to join our major @ahrcpress funded research project on the Victorian Hand. Closes 6 December. Spread the word!!!
hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
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Job Opportunity at Lancaster University: Research Associate in Victorian Cultural and Material History
The Department of History at Lancaster University are seeking to appoint a Research Associate in Victorian Cultural and Material History. We are looking for a talented scholar of Victorian culture to ...
https://hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=1263-24
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Beth Gaskell
over 1 year ago
Thought I’d make my first post both positive and useful-so here’s a list of all of the free-to-view titles now available on the British Newspaper Archive:
blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2024/09/19/a...
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List of Free to View Pages | British Newspaper Archive
Working in partnership with the British Library, here we present a list of all newspaper pages included in our free to view newspaper collection.
https://blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2024/09/19/a-complete-list-of-our-free-to-view-newspaper-pages/
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My little Thomas Bewick heron, hand printed on the press at NT Cherryburn.
@everyheron.bsky.social
@celiarichardson.bsky.social
over 1 year ago
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EveryHeron 𓅣
over 1 year ago
In olden days people saw Heron as some of the saddest, wretched, depressed creatures. Perhaps they just saw themselves reflected? Today people who stop to watch describe us as meditating, thoughtful, wise, and seeing the world better than most. Again, reflections. 💙 (1804)
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Carve Her Name
over 1 year ago
There are over 7000 starter packs flying around. Go here and type "women" into the search bar to get 62 packs that focus on either women working in a specialism, or historians working on women and gender studies. 1/2
blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
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All - Bluesky Directory
A curated collection of all things relating to the Blue Sky social media platform.
https://blueskydirectory.com/starter-packs/all
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A good day in Derbyshire, talking art and buying books.
over 1 year ago
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Dr Laura Humphreys
over 1 year ago
As I'll be following along
#Museums2024
on Bluesky, thought it would be good to get a UK museumfolk starter pack going for those new or new-ish over here. Let me know who I should add!
go.bsky.app/PYNaoQr
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Dr Grace A Nagle
over 1 year ago
✨Job Alert ✨ Head of Research, National Gallery London Closing Date: Monday 18 Nov 2024 Full details
www.saxbam.com/appointment/...
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Jennie Batchelor
over 1 year ago
Hi folks. Please request an add/share/like to join the Material Culture starter pack!
go.bsky.app/GARWutv
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Hiya, I’m a curator at the National Trust w/specialism in British decorative arts & craft. I’ve written a book on
#womenartists
at the NT (Feb 2025) & just co-curated an exhibition on Mary Delany at
#Beningbrough
. Also working on disability histories, amateur making & contemporary collecting.
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Jennie Batchelor
over 1 year ago
There is still some space in the
#materialculture
starter pack. May not be able to add you until after The Mirror and the Light, because
#HilaryMantel
#materialculture
#inmyelement
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