TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE has a COVER👀 (this is a late C16 embroidered coif - never in fact assembled - in the V&A. All the crazy scale with added big cats, like an acid trip As You Like It. I love that it is a bit stained and messy.) global.oup.com/academic/pro...

PASSAGE is recruiting for two fixed-term posts to join me working on 18thC records of enslavement 1) Collections Researcher (Transatlantic Slavery) shorturl.at/aZwqn 2) Project Cataloguer (Transatlantic Slavery) shorturl.at/6aSpz If you have questions, please let me know & please circulate widely!

And the last loan request is written… now the real work begins… #curators #exhibitions

#skystorians might be a useful thing here.

If you are a PhD Student at an LAHP university, Kings College London, LSE, Queen Mary, SOAS, UCL, RCM, RCA, RCSd.. you can apply to come and work with me! www.lahp.ac.uk/collaboratio...

#ICYMI, on the #HistParl website this week Dr Robin Eagles looked at the hastily planned Epiphany Ball of 1794, and explored what it tells us about the workings of George III's court. @georgianlords.bsky.social Read it here:

Also, one of my favourite things in the whole collection a ceiling board from Hampton Court covered in wallpaper from the late 1500s. One of the earliest surviving wallpapers in the world.

I’m working on an exhibition which really is outside my comfort zone. I don’t feel expert enough for any of it. Then I remember I am a curator and not an historian and so I trust the story the objects are telling me.

"My thesis supervisor Jürgen Habermas has told me recently he would not have succeeded in today's academia. He has never applied for a grant in his life and he writes long books" - Patrizia Nanz, President of the European University Institute, in a speech today

Good morning. Word of the Day is as beautiful as it is underused. ‘Confelicity’ is finding joy in the happiness and success of others.

Hello! Where are my fellow #curators I think curatorial practice is changing so rapidly it would be good to get in touch and see examples of best practice