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Joanne Cawkwell

@cawkous.bsky.social
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I work in an academic library, but also have a passion for culture especially museums and galleries, reading and dogs. I am also a new resident of Epsom.

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Joanne Cawkwell @cawkous.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
DOD (Daughter of Doncaster)
All about my mother by Rachael Stirling
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Joanne Cawkwell @cawkous.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This book by @jonronson.bsky.social is the most entertaining and shocking book I've read all year #goodreads
The Castle: Adventures in a world of unraveling men by Jon Ronson
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Joanne Cawkwell @cawkous.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Forgot to post about 'The Music is Black' exhibition at #V&AEast I visited last week. Really enjoyable, the personal audio guides were a great touch if a little bit temperamental
Bristol Trip Hop scene explanation boardMel & Kim outfits
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Joanne Cawkwell @cawkous.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The role nostalgia plays in creating a mythical past and then is weaponized for a culture war. #culturewaes #goodreads
Imperial Nostalgia by Peter Mitchell
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Joanne Cawkwell @cawkous.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
This book by You Tube's Map Men is surprisingly entertaining. Who knew geography and maps could be so much fun #goodreads
This way up by The Map Men
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Joanne Cawkwell @cawkous.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Horrified how much this still relates today
How Fascism Works by Jason Stanley
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Joanne Cawkwell @cawkous.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Great to see a book which has been able to measure the benefit of the arts on health. Great case studies. #goodreads
Art Cure: The Science of How the Arts Transfirm our Health by Daisy Fancourt
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Joanne Cawkwell @cawkous.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
This is a really smart book about the pros and cons or AI, really enjoying it #howtotalktoAI #goodread
How to talk to AI by Jamie Bartlett
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Joanne Cawkwell @cawkous.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Another glorious #Lobdonpride 🌈Well done Kingston Uni and @kingstonunilib.bsky.social
Group photo at London Pride of Staff and Students from Kingston University Me holding LGBTQ+ flag
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Joanne Cawkwell @cawkous.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Frieda: The Icon is a great exhibition, but don't mistake it for a retrospective #tatemodern
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Joanne Cawkwell @cawkous.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
This has been a fascinating read. Abolitionists, women's suffrage and intersectionality.
Women, race and class by Angela Y. Davis
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Joanne Cawkwell @cawkous.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Had such a nice time at the Watts Gallery at the weekend. Worth a visit if you are in Guildford #wattsgallery #artsandcrafts
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Joanne Cawkwell @cawkous.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
As someone who works in a library I can sympathise with someone so passionate about books they have ended up with over 3,000
No one round here reads Tolstoy by Mark Hodkinson
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Joanne Cawkwell @cawkous.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Great to be at #lethopeblossom today finding comfort and hope in nature and with others @nationaltrust.org.uk Morden Hall Park 🌸
Sign says "Everything is blossoming and it feels like spring"Artistic blossom installations
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Joanne Cawkwell @cawkous.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Who has the bravery to be extraordinary when it is more comfortable to go along with the status quo?
Moral Ambition by Rutger Bregman
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Joanne Cawkwell @cawkous.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Busting the myth of meritocracy
Inheritocrasy: It's time to talk about the bank of mum & dad by Eliza Filby
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Joanne Cawkwell @cawkous.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Maybe it is possible to make our politics fairer and the economy work for communities and the environment...
Out of the Wreckage by George Monbiot
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Joanne Cawkwell @cawkous.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
A soul laid bare at the Tracy Emin exhibition #Tatodern
A second life- Tracy Emin exhibitionBed
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Joanne Cawkwell @cawkous.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
"the closest thing we have to ruling powers now are nebulous, unaccountable interests exercising corporate irresponsibility."
Book, Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher
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Joanne Cawkwell @cawkous.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
If you have ever wondered what it was like for people behind the Iron Curtain in Hungary and East Germany this is a good read.
Book cover if The Picnic by Matthew Longo
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Joanne Cawkwell @cawkous.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Great to get up to London to see the new BM exhibition #Samuri
KimonoSamuri helmutSamuri armour
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Joanne Cawkwell @cawkous.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Not very seasonal, but I've fallen down a Jack the Ripper hole. Reading this and also listening to audiobook of The Five by Hallie Rubenhold
The complete Jack the Ripper by Phillip Sugden
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Joanne Cawkwell @cawkous.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Nice to discover a new artist to me yesterday. Her art heavily influenced by her Long Island home #bettyparsons #delawarrpavilon
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Joanne Cawkwell @cawkous.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
A big thank you to all the students who joined in at Pause Point, Roehampton Vale. We even got our first dot to dot completed! #kupausepoint
Dot to dot of scuba diverHawker Wing, Roehampton Vale campus. Pause point activity
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Joanne Cawkwell @cawkous.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
I seem to have given in to the wave of 90s nostalgia sweeping through. Remembering my youth with Miranda Sawyer #britpop #90s
Book cover Uncommon People: britpop and beyond in 20 songs
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Joanne Cawkwell @cawkous.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
It's good to get angry about the patriarchy every once and a while. Women's lives are harder because research data is predominantly based on men, and men are still outnumbering women in board rooms. #Invisiblewomen
Book cover "Invisible Women" by Caroline Criado Perez
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Joanne Cawkwell @cawkous.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Great exhibition @Thephotographersgallery Dennis Morris has photographed a lot of icons spanning 70s, 80s and 90s
Window of Dennis Morris exhibition at The Photographers Gallery
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Joanne Cawkwell @cawkous.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Really enjoying reading @patrickgrantism.bsky.social book Less. It really makes you think how making and consumerism have evolved (not for the better) #Less #circulareconomy
Book cover of Patrick Grant's book Less
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Joanne Cawkwell @cawkous.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
The Yoshimoto Nara exhibition @Hayward Gallery turned out to be the best possible place on this very hot day 🥵
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Joanne Cawkwell @cawkous.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
After walking up and down the street for a couple of minutes we finally found #gilbertandgeorgecentre off Brick Lane. It was a joy to see
Gilbert and George centreGilbert and George centreGilbert and George centre
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Joanne Cawkwell @cawkous.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Just had a fantastic day out @tate.bsky.social #ElectricDreams was not what I was expecting, but it was great to see all the early women pioneers of this medium and collaborations with engineers. The #Leighbowery was epic! I love all the 80's subculture club life, artistic costumes
Electric dreams exhibitionLeigh Bowery portrait
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Joanne Cawkwell @cawkous.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Channelling Uri Geller at tea break this afternoon. Never seen this happen just from a spoon being in the mug for too long #cheapspoon #bentoutofshape 😂
Tea mug and spoon bent out of shape
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Joanne Cawkwell @cawkous.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
I've enjoyed this so much especially the plague chapter for some reason @profaliceroberts.bsky.social is such a great communicator
Crypt by Alice Roberts
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Joanne Cawkwell @cawkous.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Looking forward to getting stuck into this #goodreads #museums
Book cover for Gathering of Strangers by Maria Balshaw
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Joanne Cawkwell @cawkous.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
So pleased I managed to see this before it finishes at #PitzhangerGallery Grayson Perry: The Vanity of Small Differences
Grayson Perry tapestry from The Vanity of Small Differences
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Joanne Cawkwell @cawkous.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
Looking forward to starting this book #goodreads
Neneh cherry autobiography ' A thousand threads'
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Joanne Cawkwell @cawkous.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
Next on the reading pile 📚
From here to the great unknown book cover
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Joanne Cawkwell @cawkous.bsky.social · 04/10/2024
#feelingautumnvibes love my Anglepoise Lamp ❤️
Anglepoise Lamp
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Joanne Cawkwell @cawkous.bsky.social · 28/09/2024
So glad that I made it to the Expressionists exhibition at #tatemodern the Kandinsky's in particular were amazing
Kandinsky painting
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Joanne Cawkwell @cawkous.bsky.social · 14/09/2024
Open day at Conisborough Castle. Last time I was here I was about 10 😂
CastleNorman and Anglo Saxon reenactmentJo, Darren ,mum and dad
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Joanne Cawkwell @cawkous.bsky.social · 24/08/2024
I fundamentally agree with art for arts sake, but how can creatives financially survive if we reframe for wellbeing and try to step back from the neoliberal creative industry narrative of the past 30 years...#CCI #neoliberalism #artandwellbeing
Culture is not an industry book cover
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Joanne Cawkwell @cawkous.bsky.social · 17/08/2024
Had a nice day discovering Ewell Village #bournehall #allthenicethings
Bourne Happy gardens, EwellBourne Hall gardens, EwellSelfie with angel wings at the back
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Joanne Cawkwell @cawkous.bsky.social · 15/08/2024
A day off DIY for cultural relaxation #Tatebritain
Tate BritainNow you see us exhibition poster
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Joanne Cawkwell @cawkous.bsky.social · 12/08/2024
Each year our new students are sent a chosen book. This year it is Clive Myrie's memoir 'Everything is Everything' which I am really enjoying, looking forward to his visit in Oct #kubigread
Book cover of Clive Myrie:s memoir Everything is Everything
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Joanne Cawkwell @cawkous.bsky.social · 08/06/2024
I wish he was in prison and not on my TV #jeremydeller #UKGE
Badge that has the slogan Farage in prison
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Joanne Cawkwell @cawkous.bsky.social · 07/05/2024
Keen to learn more about Universal Basic Income #UBI Lots of jobs that are precarious or will be in the next few years could depend on a model like this.
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Joanne Cawkwell @cawkous.bsky.social · 09/04/2024
It was fun yesterday to get my old Nintendo DS out for a spin #retrogaming #rockband #Mariokart
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Joanne Cawkwell @cawkous.bsky.social · 29/03/2024
#GoodFriday in Kingston marketplace
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Joanne Cawkwell @cawkous.bsky.social · 19/03/2024
Next read, catching up on some ideas related to my Masters course. How do new technologies help/hurt cultural democracy? #culturaldemocracy
Book cover-Cultural Democracy Now by Owen Kelly
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Joanne Cawkwell @cawkous.bsky.social · 02/03/2024
I'm so excited that Yayoi Kusama aged 94 and Yoko Ono aged 91 are headlining exhibitions at #TateModern 👍
Infinity mirror rooms selfieYoko Ono exhibition slogan Peace is Power
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