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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

New Website! abigailbaker.co.uk. Now the academic websites are failing it seems like time to make my own.

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Writing about your excellent editing skills is a bit like walking onto the Greek tragic stage and doing a speech about how you don’t like or need that one deity.

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Have set up a goodreads account to try and disambiguate myself from the person who publishes Amish romance books under my name. Anyone know how to do this without claiming books I didn’t write?

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

This is also the article in which I gently suggest that Pater scholarship needs to treat Schliemann as the massive weirdo that he was.

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

My new article is up. It identifies an object that was important in the early reception of Mycenae and explores why Walter Pater picked such an obscure object as a key example. academic.oup.com/jvc/advance-...

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Searching for Pater’s Gold Flower on a Silver Stalk in Schliemann’s Mycenae

Abstract. The archaeological discoveries made by Heinrich Schliemann were highly controversial, with implications for the discipline of archaeology and wid

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

A couple of places for our event on Friday have become available. Join us to talk about sensory experiences of the ancient world!

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Dr Vicky Donnellan @vickydonnellan.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Still a few places left for the Classical Collections Network's event on Friday 19th September, at the Great North Museum in Newcastle. A great programme of speakers! Grateful for funding from Hellenic Society. Colour, Texture and Sound: Experiencing the Ancient World share.google/gP5MtTh7N7LJ...

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Upcoming Events

Colour, Texture and Sound: Experiencing the Ancient World The Classical Collections Network, in partnership with the Hellenic Society and the Great North Museum: Hancock, is delighted to announce t…

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Disaster averted on current article. I’m so careful to design my research around materials that are in the public domain and things I can guarantee access to. But still a reviewer can demand I use an edition of a 19th century source that costs more money than is in my bank account.

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Marco Perale @mperale.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

CALL FOR PAPERS On 19 Sep 2025 the Classical Collections Network in collaboration with Newcastle University and the Great North Museum: Hancock, will be hosting a conference on Colour, Texture and Sound: Experiencing the Ancient World. Supported by the @hellenicsociety.bsky.social.

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Hi new followers! My book is 30% off right now. If you’re interested in weirdly heated debates about the past or what it was really like to visit a museum in the 19th century, now might be the time to treat yourself. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/troy-on-d...

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Troy on Display

This book explores what visitors saw at the Trojan exhibition and why its contents, including treasure, plain pottery and human remains captured imaginations an…

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 29/05/2024

Got the deluxe fashion weeb book package for my birthday.

It’s all four volumes of Pattern Magic and both volumes of Thus Spake Rohan Kishibe, fanned out.

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 24/03/2024

Once again, my carefully laid sewing plans are disrupted by the need to turn a cute fabric into a little top.

The frame is completely filled with black silk crepe de chine fabric, spread flat on a table top. The fabric is printed with a pattern of tumbling Greek vases, depicted in a blobby painted style. The figures on the vases race, fight lions and engage in more intimate activities

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 07/02/2024

Unfortunately I was made aware of magical girl Schliemann last night and now I have to share her with you.

It’s an anime style drawing of a pretty girl with short red hair, a Tyrolean hat, a safari shirt, short shorts and thigh highs. She has a notebook and a rope and it looks like there might be a fluffy tail poking out of her shorts. Of course there are pink sparkles and a Trojan horse background.

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

Every curator has a small weird object they want to make people love and I’m proud this baby figurine made the big leagues

A screenshot from the Guardian article in the linked post. It shows a bronze figurine of a baby on all fours with head raised and crawling forward

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

Islanders making this top ten exhibitions of the year list is a nice early Christmas present. t.co/2xhmAKK0m6

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 18/12/2023

Today I bought a felt dachshund in a Christmas hat for my friend who wants a real one, joked with the salesperson that it is probably more ethical to get her one that is just for Christmas. Then I turned around and saw the irl version walking towards us. #TinyJoys

A beautiful brown long haired dachshund, wearing a Christmas hat and a red knitted jumper with bands of reindeer and stars on it.

The same dog sitting up for a treat. The dog is wearing a red Christmas jumper and a harness with a pattern of Christmas puddings.

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

After years of being both careful and very lucky, we have finally caught covid. It is horrible. I hate it. Please do what you can to stop the spread of this misery.

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 18/10/2023

Museum Detox, a network specifically for people of colour in the GLAM sector, have written a letter of solidarity with the people of Palestine and are asking for other cultural workers to sign their open letter: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Open Letter from members of Museum Detox seeking justice for and expressing solidarity with the peop...

Open letter from members of Museum Detox seeking justice for and expressing solidarity with the people of Palestine To sign the form, please click here. We the undersigned members of Museum Detox, ...

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 07/10/2023

I’m kicking off the Cambridge D caucus seminars for this term on Tuesday. Pls come along if you want to know why I got so obsessed with one exhibition that I wrote a whole book about it. www.classics.cam.ac.uk/seminars/d

It’s the cover of my book. There is a big illustration of two pots from Troy with stylised human faces. The text reads: Abigail Baker
Troy on Display: Scepticism and Wonder at Schliemann’s first exhibition

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

We have fun in the CCN. Today we had a free tour of Return of the Gods and a great workshop on creative use of collections. Do join us if you work with UK classical collections.

A photo of the interior of the Return of the Gods exhibition at the World Museum, Liverpool. In the foreground, a marble, larger than life Aphrodite of Knidos from behind, lit up blue, more statues with bright coloured backgrounds on circular plinths are dotted through the dark exhibition space.

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(Dr) Debbie Challis @poisonchallis.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

Started the week with #Bridgerton and ending it with Apollo in Delphi World Museum Liverpool. A perfect tonic for the rest of the week. Great day with colleagues & classicists. Thanks @vickydonnellan.bsky.social @abibaker.bsky.social @cypriotartleeds.bsky.social et al for organising.

A Greek sculpture of a male in front of a temple scene in Greece

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 01/10/2023

Discovered this morning that this app has been hiding posts containing pictures of Greco-Roman statues from me completely. You have to log into the web interface and turn on enable adult content then you can toggle artistic nudity.

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 30/09/2023

In an almighty act of hubris, I am trying to turn the leftover fabric from the Islanders exhibition into some approximation of this Dior resort 2022 look.

The fabric in situ in the exhibition. It is a loose weave off white cotton, shown woven around brown pillars with carved stone objects and a map in the background.

The dress I’m copying on the catwalk. It has a long see through gathered skirt, a gold belt and an asymmetrical draped bodice. It is styled with gold trainers.

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 24/08/2023

Posting this reply has reminded me that this is something nice I can do for myself even though I’m stuck in migraine Groundhog Day right now. Thanks, Bluesky

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