Lizzy Sharpe
@lizzysharpe.bsky.social
📤 143
📥 109
📝 18
Collections Assistant at Dover Museum
reposted by
Lizzy Sharpe
North Ages
13 days ago
Gold jar from Galloway Hoard on display for first time
www.bbc.com/news/article...
loading . . .
Gold jar from Galloway Hoard on display in Kirkcudbright
It resembles a perfume bottle and a Latin inscription on it suggests it had a religious function.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y0rrv524zo
1
49
8
reposted by
Lizzy Sharpe
Guy Shrubsole
16 days ago
"Giving up [on 1.5C] would be a total betrayal. Defeatism never took a single of a fraction of a degree of global warming. It never created a single job.” Hear, hear, Ed Miliband. (But also: some of those defeatists appear to be in the Treasury currently)
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
loading . . .
‘Giving up would be a betrayal’: Miliband says 1.5C target still alive before Cop30
Exclusive: Environment secretary says global tipping points are possible as he rejects far-right climate ‘defeatism’
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/07/ed-miliband-says-climate-target-still-alive-before-cop30
4
93
26
reposted by
Lizzy Sharpe
Bat Conservation Trust
23 days ago
🦇Bats in Churches research reveals ancient buildings as vital wildlife refuges:
www.bats.org.uk/news/2025/10...
. New research from the Bats in Churches partnership project reveals that half of all Church of England churches are home to bats. In older churches that rises to nearly eight in ten.
loading . . .
Bats in Churches research reveals ancient buildings as vital wildlife refuges - News - Bat Conservation Trust
New study reveals England’s ancient churches are vital sanctuaries for rare and endangered bats
https://www.bats.org.uk/news/2025/10/bats-in-churches-research-ancient-buildings-wildlife-refuges
0
50
20
reposted by
Lizzy Sharpe
Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery
24 days ago
As we spend this time of year reflecting on the nature of death and remembering the dead, Dover Museum looks to their collections that relate to this theme. Pictured are drawings of gravestones from around
#Dover
District and
#Thanet
by John Lewis Roget (1828–1908).
#Halloween
#Thesaurus
2
9
2
reposted by
Lizzy Sharpe
Tom Cox
30 days ago
I like to think that this map of all the regional names for woodlice in the UK could also be a map illustrating the new tribes of humans to be found on the same landmass after The Great Digital Crash and ensuing breakdown of society.
77
544
257
reposted by
Lizzy Sharpe
Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery
about 1 month ago
#OnThisDay
, October 23 1905, Getrude ‘Trudy’ Ederle was born in New York. Trudy was a medal winning Olympic champion swimmer, who also became the first recorded woman to successfully swim the Channel on August 6th 1926.
1
8
2
reposted by
Lizzy Sharpe
On this day in 1905 Gertrude 'Trudy' Ederle was born in New York. Trudy was both an Olympic swimming champion and in 1926 became the first woman to swim the Channel. Trudy's story is one of many being explored in
@dovermuseum.bsky.social
newest exhibition, At the End of History.
#illustration
about 1 month ago
0
2
1
reposted by
Lizzy Sharpe
Looking back on some art from a couple of years ago.
#autumn
#wellies
#watercolour
#ink
about 1 month ago
0
3
1
On this day in 1905 Gertrude 'Trudy' Ederle was born in New York. Trudy was both an Olympic swimming champion and in 1926 became the first woman to swim the Channel. Trudy's story is one of many being explored in
@dovermuseum.bsky.social
newest exhibition, At the End of History.
#illustration
about 1 month ago
0
2
1
Looking back on some art from a couple of years ago.
#autumn
#wellies
#watercolour
#ink
about 1 month ago
0
3
1
reposted by
Lizzy Sharpe
Andy Marshall
about 2 months ago
🚴John Betjeman said that it was worth cycling 40 miles in a headwind to see them. 🪽The early C16th Angel Roof at St Wendreda in Cambs is adorned with over 100 oaken angels.
9
569
140
reposted by
Lizzy Sharpe
In Quires and Places where they meme
about 2 months ago
And now he crieth in the wilderness.
0
11
2
reposted by
Lizzy Sharpe
Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery
about 2 months ago
#OnThisDay
, October 1st 2000, the last hovercraft arrived in Dover having made its final cross Channel journey. A hovercraft first landed in
#Dover
on 25th July 1959 after crossing the Channel in two hours.
2
7
4
reposted by
Lizzy Sharpe
Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery
about 2 months ago
Today is
#WorldMaritimeDay
. Pictured is a
#watercolour
of Granville Dock at
#Dover
Harbour in 1843 by S.J. Mackie (1823-1902) from Dover Museum's collection. Mackie’s work included a custom’s official, a civil engineer, an antiquarian, a fossil enthusiast and geological editor.
1
15
3
reposted by
Lizzy Sharpe
Illustration of St Mary of Charity,
#Faversham
#illustration
#church
#churchcrawling
3 months ago
0
5
1
reposted by
Lizzy Sharpe
Gary Stevenson
3 months ago
Refugee Riots – Salience and Storytelling
youtu.be/9F4OSDONAR4
loading . . .
Refugee Riots – Salience and Storytelling
YouTube video by Garys Economics
https://youtu.be/9F4OSDONAR4
18
196
110
reposted by
Lizzy Sharpe
Tom Cox
5 months ago
Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan."
4
282
81
Happy
#BeardDay
add a skeleton here at some point
3 months ago
0
1
0
reposted by
Lizzy Sharpe
Kent Archaeological Society
3 months ago
Yesterday we spent the day with Aerial Imaging South East undertaking a drone survey of Lenham Church and Tithe Barn! Check out our previous models on our website:
www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/models
This is an ongoing project to make digital records of all of Kent's churches.
0
3
1
reposted by
Lizzy Sharpe
Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery
3 months ago
Hot Bovril, anyone? ☕ On this day, in 1911, Thomas William Burgess started his 18th attempt at
#swimming
the Channel. Burgess set off from South Foreland in
#Dover
at 11:15am. The following day he arrived in France at 9:50am to become the second person to successfully swim the English Channel.
1
6
3
reposted by
Lizzy Sharpe
Tom Cox
3 months ago
Note from my notebook (2017).
13
325
72
reposted by
Lizzy Sharpe
Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery
3 months ago
#September
A watercolour and ink sketch of
#Sandwich
from 1888 by John Lewis Roget (1828–1908).
1
12
3
Illustration of St Mary of Charity,
#Faversham
#illustration
#church
#churchcrawling
3 months ago
0
5
1
reposted by
Lizzy Sharpe
Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery
3 months ago
#OnThisDay
, in 1875, Captain Matthew Webb started his Channel swim diving from the Admiralty Pier in
#Dover
just before 1pm. 21 hours and 45 minutes later he arrived in France. He was the first person recorded to successfully complete a solo swim of the English Channel.
#CaptainMatthewWebb
1
3
1
We've been celebrating Captain Matthew Webb's 150th anniversary swim of the English Channel
@dovermuseum.bsky.social
#OnThisDay
in 1875 Webb set off from Dover. 21 hours 45 minutes later he would arrive in France and become the first recorded person to successfully swim the English Channel.
3 months ago
0
2
0
The boat is cool in more ways than one
add a skeleton here at some point
3 months ago
0
1
0
reposted by
Lizzy Sharpe
Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery
4 months ago
! Calling for
#volunteers
! Production of our exciting Curating Visibility exhibition is now in full-swing. We are looking for enthusiastic volunteers to facilitate the virtual reality experience. See link below to find out more ⬇️
www.dovermuseum.co.uk/Exhibitions/...
@accentuateuk.bsky.social
0
3
2
reposted by
Lizzy Sharpe
Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery
4 months ago
Pictured are
#sketches
of the 12th century
#church
of St. James the Apostle in
#Dover
from a sketch book of sepia ink drawings in Dover Museum's
#archive
. The artist is unknown, but a note at the back dates the drawings to c.1830. Alongside the drawings are photos of the site today.
2
9
4
Illustration of St Cosmus and St Damian Church, Blean near
#Canterbury
#illustration
#church
#churchcrawling
4 months ago
0
8
0
reposted by
Lizzy Sharpe
Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery
5 months ago
Our latest acquisition is a ‘Disaster Box’ from our front of house team as it kept getting stuck where it was stored and had a tendency to spill the contents. Would anyone like to put any disasters in this box? Probable, possible, impending or actual disasters can all go in.
0
10
3
Small watercolour and ink drawing of St Martin's church Canterbury.
#watercolour
#ink
#illustration
#church
#canterbury
#heritage
5 months ago
2
5
0
reposted by
Lizzy Sharpe
Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery
5 months ago
National sunglasses day is a compulsory call to put sunglasses on museum collections, and frankly Deal Man rocks a pair of aviators.
#NationalSunglassesDay
#sunglassesday
#sunglasses
#museum
#collections
#Deal
#Dover
#beach
2
15
8
reposted by
Lizzy Sharpe
Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery
5 months ago
It's been quite a journey (cleaning, reconstructing, storing, transporting and a fair amount of paperwork) but the Bronze Age Boat replica safely arrived at Musée d'Archéologie nationale for their new exhibition: The Masters of Fire, the Bronze Age in France 2300-800 av. J.-C.
#BronzeAge
0
12
3
reposted by
Lizzy Sharpe
Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery
5 months ago
Our Museum in Miniature exhibition is now open. Come and explore a variety of miniature versions of things from life, including the featured model of work at Dover Harbour created in 1815 by James Moon, Harbour Master and Engineer from 1792 to 1832.
#Museum
#Miniature
#Exhibition
#Dover
loading . . .
Miniature Dover Docks model from 1815 focus of new exhibition
The replica model is the centrepiece of an exhibition at Dover Museum from this week.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce39x1w5yqyo?fbclid=IwY2xjawK3Xy1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETE4NERxQjVUVFpneW9BUDUzAR5K-rwNtz1hsrkri4sOP-ji_OgW6qn08zcugcVv_2H2_ApKTqOOrdKPVu28FQ_aem_HiOvytJ4D2cXtumloD9mrg
0
4
1
reposted by
Lizzy Sharpe
Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery
6 months ago
Open today! Museum in miniature. An exploration of miniature versions of things from life that people have produced and enjoyed. 📅Open June 10th 2025-April 2026 📍Special Exhibitions Gallery,
#Dover
#Museum
#exhibition
#miniature
#seagull
0
6
2
reposted by
Lizzy Sharpe
Peter Ross
6 months ago
I'm delighted to reveal the cover of my new book, Upon A White Horse: Journeys in Ancient Britain and Ireland. It will be published by
@headlinebooks.bsky.social
on 11 September. Available to pre-order here:
linktr.ee/UponAWhiteHo...
If you are happy to share this post, please, I'd be grateful.
loading . . .
13
136
68
reposted by
Lizzy Sharpe
Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery
6 months ago
New
#Exhibition
coming soon: Museum in miniature. An exploration of
#miniature
versions of things from life that people have produced and enjoyed. 📅Open June 10th 2025-April 2026 📍Special Exhibitions Gallery,
#Dover
#Museum
.
0
4
3
#seaside
#watercolour
#ink
#illustration
6 months ago
0
6
0
reposted by
Lizzy Sharpe
Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery
7 months ago
Last chance to see: The Children of Hughes Minet (c.1773) by Joseph Highmore. The sons of Hughes and Marie Minet are depicted in this portrait with their dog. The Minet Family first arrived in
#Dover
in 1686 as French Huguenot refugees. They became bankers in Dover and London.
#museum
#exhibition
1
8
3
Very much enjoying my copy of Notebook,
@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
Re. Roget's Thesaurus, I've been working on his son's archive of illustrations
@dovermuseum.bsky.social
. I haven't come across any drawings of dinosaurs yet, but I'll keep looking...
7 months ago
0
1
0
reposted by
Lizzy Sharpe
Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery
7 months ago
Today's
#OnlineArtExchange
theme by
@artukdotorg.bsky.social
is rural. Last week we reflected on the work of John Lewis Roget (1828–1908) and shared some of his
#watercolour
and ink illustrations from the museum's
#archives
. This
#drawing
is of Appleton Farm, Martin
#Dover
.
1
16
6
reposted by
Lizzy Sharpe
Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery
7 months ago
Earlier in the week,
#Dover
Museum posted a short reflection on the collection of J.L.Roget's sketches from the archive. For
#Easter
Sunday, here is a small
#watercolour
sketch of a serene pastoral scene near Cottington dated 7th August 1893.
0
7
1
Sketching ideas resulted in a grumpy looking seagull.
#birds
#drawing
#sketches
7 months ago
0
4
0
reposted by
Lizzy Sharpe
Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery
7 months ago
#WorldArtDay
celebrates artistic works and encourages artists to keep creating. John Lewis Roget (1828–1908) is described to have taken every opportunity in his free time to illustrate the places he visited with ink and
#watercolour
sketches, including the featured
#Dover
#Deal
and
#Walmer
in
#Kent
.
1
3
1
reposted by
Lizzy Sharpe
Helen Jeffries
8 months ago
Autistic Spectrum Church – TODAY 6 April 2025 At 2.30pm on Sunday 6 April, St Mary of Charity, Faversham will host a short service of words and music FOR autistic Christians LED BY autistic Christians. The theme will be that God made some of us autistic and that must be how he likes us. The…
loading . . .
Autistic Spectrum Church – TODAY 6 April 2025
At 2.30pm on Sunday 6 April, St Mary of Charity, Faversham will host a short service of words and music FOR autistic Christians LED BY autistic Christians. The theme will be that God made some of us autistic and that must be how he likes us. The service will be live streamed on Zoom and available as a recording afterwards. The pew sheet (the document showing exactly what will happen at each point of the service) is now available online too.
https://helenjeffries.wordpress.com/2025/04/06/autistic-spectrum-church-today-6-april-2025/
0
2
1
reposted by
Lizzy Sharpe
Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery
8 months ago
With many time-keeping devices now capable of self-adjusting their hours for British Summer Time this weekend, we thought we would look back to an early 17th century pocket watch in Dover Museum that would have needed regularly adjusting anyway.
#Britishsummertime
#clocksgoforward
#museum
1
16
2
reposted by
Lizzy Sharpe
Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery
8 months ago
#worldbearday
celebrates the significance of this majestic animal while drawing attention to the continued threats they face. In
#Dover
Museum’s collection there are reminders of why the bear needs protecting, including this 18th century salt-glazed jug modelled on
#bear
baiting.
0
12
6
reposted by
Lizzy Sharpe
Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery
8 months ago
Inspired by Anne Pratt's writings in "Flowers and Their Associations", and the glorious
#spring
sunshine, our Curating Visibility Fellow and prize-winning poet Karl
@karlantmercer.bsky.social
put together a poem for
#WorldPoetryDay
Read by Collections Assistant
@lizzysharpe.bsky.social
Part 1:
loading . . .
1
8
7
reposted by
Lizzy Sharpe
Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery
9 months ago
There’s rarely a quiet moment for Dover Museum as we work across multiple
#heritage
sites, including the Maison Dieu in Dover. Here, the team are dusting, undertaking condition checks and updating inventories and catalogues of large portraits before they were rehung in the Stone Hall.
#museum
0
7
2
Load more
feeds!
log in