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David Alexander @david-alexander.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

"Great workshop last week discussing landscape change & conservation with the LCCM team! Exciting conversations on connecting historical maps, computational methods, and land protection in UK National Parks. Looking forward to the next steps! #MapReader #Conservation #UKLandscapes"

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Katie McDonough @kmcdono.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Sneak peak: MapReader data created by @kirstylilley.bsky.social for vegetation & more on historical OS map sheets in @peakdistrict.bsky.social & @southdownsnp.bsky.social for the "Landscape Change & Conservation with MapReader" project w/@natlibscot.bsky.social @dataculture.bsky.social & both parks

MapReader patch output in yellow, orange, dark green, and light green representing different types of vegetation on 19th c. Ordnance Survey maps within the South Downs National Park.

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Anooshka Rawden @anooshka.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Up and out early to walk with Sing Thrush and Carion Crows. A beautiful day.

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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

👀 Funded PhD @ Coventry University: Uses and Abuses of the Past: the Role of Presentism in Cultural Memory. 'The inquiry ... will select and investigate a series of objects or sites to explore the use of history as a tool for debating contemporary social and cultural issues' tinyurl.com/4zksy84y

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Uses and Abuses of the Past: the Role of Presentism in Cultural Memory

This project explores the concept of ‘presentism’ in cultural representations of the past.

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Anooshka Rawden @anooshka.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Heritage delivers so much for nature, as havens and homes. Sitting in the church yard, just four minutes and so many birds shared their song. I walked by the pond to get here and saw a kingfisher and a heron. Heritage preserves more than earthworks and mortar.

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Anooshka Rawden @anooshka.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Doh! I meant @antiquaries.bsky.social - although The Society of Authors are also wonderful!

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Anooshka Rawden @anooshka.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Over the moon to have been made a Fellow of @societyofauthors.bsky.social I am eternally grateful to the person who nominated me, who saw something in me that I didn’t, and to all those who supported my nomination. As a peer nominated membership, this has meant a lot to me. Thank you.

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The Heritage Alliance @heritagealliance.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

We welcome the £270m investment announced today - a vital recognition of the direct benefit of heritage on people and places. Much of our cultural infrastructure, from museums to theatres, is also part of our heritage that will benefit from this funding. www.gov.uk/government/n...

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Major investment to boost growth and cement Britain’s place as cultural powerhouse

Over £270 million Arts Everywhere Fund for arts venues, museums, libraries and the heritage sector in major boost for growth

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Anooshka Rawden @anooshka.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

www.gov.uk/government/n... Hot off the press, funding announcement for arts & culture. Some is funding we are familiar with such as MEND, but worth a read - heritage at risk also boosted for built heritage and funding for community ownership of heritage assets . #museums #arts #culture #heritage

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Major investment to boost growth and cement Britain’s place as cultural powerhouse

Over £270 million Arts Everywhere Fund for arts venues, museums, libraries and the heritage sector in major boost for growth

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David Rooney @rooneyvision.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Museum job! The Clockworks is looking for an experienced curator to run its unique London museum: world-class objects, wonderful premises, stable funding, great people. Full-time, £45k. Interested? Find out more and come meet us! www.museumjobs.com/jobdetails.p...

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Curator - The Clockworks, London - MuseumJobs.com

Museum Jobs - Cultural Recruitment for Museums, Galleries, Libraries and Archives Worldwide.

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Anooshka Rawden @anooshka.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Walk today. A march up the hill and then a saunter around the church yard. Snowdrops out. Leaves turning from brown to green. Moss on stone. Birds building.

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Anooshka Rawden @anooshka.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Using some timber reviver to give a beam above a window some love. It had been encased in layers and layers of unbreathable paint over 30 years or so, and there was a concern it was rotting underneath. Gentle chemical removal of the paint and some beeswax love, and it’s looking so much happier ❤️

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

New discovery underneath the basement of an office block in London: Archaeologists have found a substantial piece of the ancient city's first basilica - a 2,000 year old public building where major political, economic and administrative decisions were made. 🏺

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London’s first Roman basilica found under office basement

The discovery has been described as one of the most important pieces of Roman history in the City of London.

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Anooshka Rawden @anooshka.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Saw “Maria” this evening. Angelina Jolie absolutely everything in this role. An unexpected historic parallel made when Maria shown trying to recreate her role as Anna Bolena, ended by holding her neck as her voice goes. Amazing film. Surprised Jolie not up for an Oscar. Many tears in the audience.

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Anooshka Rawden @anooshka.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Got in two hours of archery practice this morning. This end was going well until my last shot, when I lost focus and I moved my foot and dropped my shoulder. Consistency is tough, but so is losing focus and letting worry seep into a calm mind. Definitely need a bit more practice. 🏹🏹🏹

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Anooshka Rawden @anooshka.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Hey everyone, I have been asked to speak to a class of primary school children about the Romans. I have ideas about what I could cover, but wanted some reflections on what messages you’d think would be good to share. Any insights, let me know! #Romans #museums #learning #ancient

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Anooshka Rawden @anooshka.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Trees consuming metal. Deer trails. Natures barrow builders. Mud. Leaves. Edgelands. Todays walk.

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

⚠️ Iron Age OPEN ACCESS research klaxon alert⚠️ Our joint @tcddublin.bsky.social @bournemouthuni.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social article *Continental influx and pervasive matrilocality in Iron Age Britain* published in @nature.com today can be found here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Continental influx and pervasive matrilocality in Iron Age Britain - Nature

An analysis of ancient mitochondrial and nuclear DNA shows evidence of matrilocal communities in Iron Age Britain.

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Good summary (there’s a nice video display on this in room 2 at the moment (? the small one on the right of the front door for temporary exhibits)

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Anooshka Rawden @anooshka.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

View over the valley from the back garden fence.

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Anooshka Rawden @anooshka.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Yesterdays walk. Heady heights. Icy chalk.

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Anooshka Rawden @anooshka.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

The big man always has to have the last word. He’s good at gentle warnings when she is being annoying. #malamutes #alaskanmalamute

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The Society of Antiquaries of London @antiquaries.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Do you know what the broken sword in this portrait represents? ⚔️ In this posthumous portrait of Richard III, the weapon that Richard holds against his left shoulder is doubtless intended to represent a sword of state - a symbol of royal authority with almost as much significance as the crown.

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Anooshka Rawden @anooshka.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

New @nationaltrust.bsky.social strategy is looking awesome! An integrated approach to nature recovery & heritage, commitments to greater partnership, ongoing focus on equitable access/relevance, and another great strapline to join Forever, For Everyone! ❤️ www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/o...

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Our strategy to 2035

Read about our 2025-2035 strategy, which focuses on restoring nature, ending unequal access to nature and heritage and inspiring more people.

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Anooshka Rawden @anooshka.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Happy new year from these gorgeous hooligans. Hope 2025 is a kind year to all.

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Anooshka Rawden @anooshka.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

I find this time of year very hard, so have been getting out for a daily walk. Living somewhere else, I am finding old paths in new places. Today I explore chalk pits, rope swings, railway bridges.

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Anooshka Rawden @anooshka.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Yesterday’s walk a bit bleak but ended wandering around the churchyard, where every life is an unread story. One tragically, the grave of a boy killed by a fallen tree aged 7 in 1874. His parents write in sorrow “we leave our home in health and joy” a reminder we can never know what lies ahead.

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Anooshka Rawden @anooshka.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Ponies on Butser Hill this morning, making up for the grey skies. Merry Christmas!

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Anooshka Rawden @anooshka.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Mum makes me two lovely floor cushions and as soon as they’re down, they’re skillfully modelled by Nanuk…. These may no longer be my cushions….

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Where are you going to view the winter solstice sunrise, sunset or zenith on Saturday? Find your own special place, or just observe the sun from a window at home. How far south has it travelled on your horizon? 🔆❄️

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

An adorable late Roman/early Byzantine infant's sock or bootee (length 11,5cm). It has been remarkably preserved because of Egypt's arid desert climate. Made of wool, nalbinding technique (single needle looping). Found in Egypt, dating 4th/5th c. AD. 📷@romtoronto.bsky.social 🏺AncientEgyptBluesky

A close-up of a brown beige infant's sock. With the exception of a small part at the heel, it is completely preserved.

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Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I don't see many long threads on here, but I'll try one - it's about Holbein's Ambassadors, his 1533 masterpiece in the National Gallery. It's often presented as a great mystery, but I think once we understand the circumstances in which it was made, its meaning becomes clearer. 1/

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Anooshka Rawden @anooshka.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Really great to see the work of the University of Exeter and National Trust cited (@hannahfluck.bsky.social). @southdownsnp.bsky.social is part of this research, which is already proving potential valuable to our people & nature work. www.gov.uk/government/p...

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Embedding a Culture and Heritage Capital Approach

This report sets out DCMS' approach to embedding best practice for valuing cultural and heritage assets.

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Ever find yourself at home, hungry, & wishing for an eel delivery service? Well you're not alone! In the 1580s Queen Elizabeth had cartloads of eels & pike delivered weekly to her castle at Hertford from Cambridge by a man named William Raven. Why eel out when you can order in? 🗃️🧪

Meme. Painting of Queen Elizabeth, wearing the fanciest collar you ever did see. It is lacy, and diaphanous, and massive, spreading out in concentric rings, with the last ring being made of overlapping circles with designs inside of them. You can't see the rest of her clothes; I've cropped the picture too tight on her face. But believe me...they fit the collar.

Her hair is done up right and tight, and her pallor is ghostly white, with a big of pink on her cheeks. Her lips are pursed, and her expression says, "I am not amused, but you must keep trying. It's your failure that feeds me." Happily for you, she's not looking at you. Rather, she's looking past you a bit. It's as if you don't really matter, but the person behind you does. Normally this would trouble you to be so dismissed. But not today.

She does not look like a woman who would play-wrestle with a puppy. But she might order someone else to do it.

Meme text reads:
"And lead us
not into temptation
but deliver us some eels"

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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Right, it's #TWANG* day, so we're going to twang a load of stuff with our mini-catapult. Pay attention it's science. First, a tennis ball. By way of calibration, if you will. But we know what you're all asking... What would happen if we filled that tennis ball with concrete? *Not a thing.

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Anooshka Rawden @anooshka.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Return to #archery after four months off and boy do I need the practice. Realise it’s tough to remember everything needed for accuracy, core, draw, release, breathing, shoulders, finger position… I need to make more time to practice in 2025. Lovely to see people though at the last shoot of 2024. 🏹

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Dr Crom @doccrom.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Unlike the majority of Roman tombstones, this inscription is decidedly humorous suggesting a sense of fun in both of the named individuals – Calidius Eroticus and Fannia Voluptas, which may be understood as ‘Mr Hot-and-Sexy’ and ‘Mrs Party-Queen’.

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Dr Crom @doccrom.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

#EpigraphyTuesday – I’m in the mood for something a little fun today, so let’s take a quick gander at the 'epitaph' of Lucius Calidius Eroticus and his wife, Fannia Voluptas, from Isernia (CIL IX, 2689). #Latin 🏺🧵 Image: Louvre Collections (Ma 3165). Link - collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/c...

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Anooshka Rawden @anooshka.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Lovely chance to catch up with Katrina Burton at Amberley and see the conservation work to address Heritage at Risk, thanks to MEND funding. A reminder of just how critical this fund has been. A quirky, unique one of a king site with something of everything.

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Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · 09/12/2024

We're thrilled to announce the forthcoming Health and Wellbeing in Museums Fund, a £1.5m programme of grant-making, networking and learning dissemination for health and wellbeing programmes in museums, funded by the Julia Rausing Trust. Look out for more details in spring 2025!

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Health and Wellbeing in Museums Fund - Museums Association

Supporting UK museums to deliver health and wellbeing programmes

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Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Collections management folks, I feel like there were some really great posts (and articles?) on found in collection, missing, audits, etc. museum object stats the last time the discourse went around on Twitter- does anyone have faves to share?

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Tom Booth @boothicus.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Magical Roman cup filled with bacon fat in a 6th Century grave in Lincolnshire.

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Anooshka Rawden @anooshka.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

The Association for Heritage Interpretation journal has featured an article written by myself and colleague Emily Summers Mileman on the experience of creating site #interpretation with a writers community, reframing the #landscape through diverse experiences and perspectives of belonging. #museum

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Anooshka Rawden @anooshka.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Beginning to look a lot like Christmas…. (Predicting that the dogs will have the tree over before today is out….)

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Anooshka Rawden @anooshka.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Thank goodness the roof is still on despite the wind!

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