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Dr Laura Humphreys

@bogarty.bsky.social
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Curatorial Lead 🏛️ Science Museum Group collections 🛰️ Returned Cardiffian 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Allotment Nerd 🌱 Views my own. She/her/hi

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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Truly, we didn't deserve this man, or his incredible portrayal of Long John Silver. A comedian extraordinaire, who can go from a musical number with 100 puppets like its the last night of the proms, to making us all want to cry when he said "I'll be taking it either way, Jim."
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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
An eclectic reading month but I wholeheartedly recommend both of these books. And in their way, they share something about the march of technology and how it can change the world. How to build a car by Adrian Newey and Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke.
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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Gwen John: Strange Beauties at @amgueddfacymru.bsky.social is so worth a visit. Beautiful design with art text that pitches perfectly, and truly weird, captivating paintings. Well worth a trip to National Museum Cardiff for this one.
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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
My new book treat arrived! Very excited by this one.
Copy of Globalising Welsh Studies: Decolonising history, heritage, society, and culture.
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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
A vital piece of Cardiff History preserved at my Mum's house. RIP Capitol Centre food court, you were the best. #CardiffHistory #WelshHistory
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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Why yes, of course I am well-versed in project management methodologies in museums...
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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
I feel like you lot will appreciate this Cardiff postbox...
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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Self portrait in the heat shield of a 1992 McLaren F1 car. Some days, museum collections are very cool indeed.
A blurry reflection of me in the gold leaf heat shield behind the driver's seat of an F1 internal monocoque chassis
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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Cardiff has quite possibly the most dense concentration of artisan bakeries in Europe and I for one am *honoured* to live in such a city.
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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
It usually looks something like this. The lower handle should be 10cm off the floor - not tucked behind a grab rail or tied up in mid air. If someone falls, they need to be able to reach it from the ground. If you see one hanging too high and you can, sort it. And tell a manager.
Two red triangular handles of a red alarm cable like those commonly seen in UK accessible toilets
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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Made myself a new bookshelf and had an office re-set this week. Not bad for a 4ft x 6ft former coal shed. Next on the list, more bookshelves, MOAR BOOKS.
A black office in a small space with a wooden standing desk, several plants, and a high level book shelf above.
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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
For absolutely no reason except its beautiful, please enjoy this Hoover Constellation Vacuum Cleaner, part of the collection at @sim-manchester.bsky.social. Phwoooooar. collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co84...
A grey spherical vacuum cleaner with a red hoover logo and blue and grey parts, arranged neatly with all its attachments.
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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
The before and after for reference... #Allotment #allotmenteering #allotmentlife
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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Absolutely amazing artworks in neon by Chila Burman at IWM north - a suitable birthday art visit!
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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
I am really gutted to hear The Lady Magazine has published its last issue this month. Access to the physical archive of The Lady was such a huge part of my PhD, and I would *love* to do more with that archive, but I have not been able to get hold of them over the last few years.
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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Once he woke up we began the lesson in how to fill up a watering can and use it. I now have a soaking wet toddler but we are one step closer to a useful allotment assistant!
A toddler gambolling about with a watering can at an allotment site
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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
I have the afternoon off looking after little man. He's spark out and I'm sat with a cuppa at the Allotment, watching our resident buzzard swoop about. A good afternoon indeed.
Buzzard on top of a shed and a baby asleep in a pram at an allotment
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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Wales being very Welsh this morning. Walked past the local barracks and saw Shenkin the Goat Major of the Royal Welsh on his morning constitutional.
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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Chose a new book to read tonight. That's my boy!
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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Allotmenteering with a hot cuppa in my new flask. It's still all overgrown but a lot more tolerable with tea.
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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Bleak. But also tasty.
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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Time for this gem again. Long live the Mari Lwyd and her rap battles.
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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Waking up and leaving for work in the dark is much maligned this time of year, and with reason. But I have to confess that driving through the Welsh and English countryside of an autumnal morning is a treat. And then I arrive on site to big skies like this almost every day.
Shit through a windscreen, a road with trees to the left and an orangey-peach recently risen sun behind streaky clouds. To the right, frosty fields.
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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
*What* a garage. Jeremy Clarkson could never.
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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Packaging of museum collections is worthy of a collection of its own.
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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Time to appreciate a beautiful Wiltshire sky over lunch
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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
The saintly saints of the medical collections.
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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Lads on tour.
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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Less sure this needs to come back... Aspicure Aspic Jelly. What is "natural culinary essence"?!
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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Both of these need to make a comeback (no notes on package design either) - Cadbury Tiffin and Cadbury Top Deck
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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
A Memory Tickler. I for one regret that blancmange powder is no longer a household staple...
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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Talk to me Barbie! Programme your own!
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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Official Barbie carry case.
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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
It's SNOWING! Snow at the National Collections Centre. I am torn between huge childish excitement and being gripped by fear because I am on the wrong side of the Severn Bridge and would like not to sleep in the office.
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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Loads of amazing portraits show, however, that museum workers have *always* looked this good - we are ace. Kev's just really good at getting that on film.
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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
I did the words - an oral history going back to 1940 and an archival one back to 1890s, but Kevin Percival's amazing photography is the star of the show. Museum storage never looked this good!
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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · 12/10/2024
Who approached who first about this incredible collab?! I *have* to know.
Monster munch mayo
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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · 01/10/2024
Stookie Bill is watching from the Media Museum stores with great interest...
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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · 26/09/2024
Make another one you say? This cosy bitch will take them all. And cry incessantly if you won't give in.
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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · 16/09/2024
Just came home to a sheepish dog acting guilty as sin... And I can't find what she has done. This won't end well.
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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · 05/09/2024
Perk of my job is nosing around other museum stores - an excellent day of workshops at Amgueddfa Cymru's National Collections Centre today.
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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · 04/09/2024
Phwoar, look at that object packing.
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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · 03/09/2024
And lovely to see some of my creepiest colleagues again...
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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · 03/09/2024
In stores today. This view never gets old ♥️
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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · 02/09/2024
Hey Bluesky. Me and the firstborn here, converts from an increasingly hateful twitter/X. Really miss the community of the old days though. Hoping to find something similar over here! Expect museums, dogs, history, architecture, gardening, and bad jokes from me, as per.
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