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Charlotte Johnson

@charjoyjohnson.bsky.social
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Curator of Industry and Metalwork🍴 Recently submitted my PhD ‘Imperial Connections: Re-examining Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire’, AHRC M4C CDA, National Trust and University of Birmingham

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 19/02/2026
Yesterday the Society visited historians at Sheffield Hallam University and the University of Sheffield in the first RHS visit of 2026 bit.ly/4aAw9HH. Many thanks to our hosts and to Prof David Stack (Reading) for his excellent guest lecture: ‘History and Well-being: a Historian’s Perspective’.
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Society visits historians at Sheffield Hallam University and the University of Sheffield - RHS
On 18 February, members of the Society’s Council visited historians at Sheffield Hallam University and the University of Sheffield in the first in the 2026 programme of visits to universities across t...
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Kate Smith @kateesthersmith.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Publication day! My book Keeping Hold: A Cultural and Social History of Possession in Eighteenth-Century Britain is out now. 20% discount code KEHO2026. www.cambridge.org/core/books/k...
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Dr Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth @carolinemccaff.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Delighted to be giving a lecture on my new book at the V&A Museum on 23rd October- it’s free and open to all www.vam.ac.uk/event/E7WLeV...
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Lunchtime Lectures: The Extraordinary Art Collection of Lady Charlotte Schreiber - V&A Academy Talk at V&A South Kensington · V&A
This talk is part of the free lunchtime lecture series. No booking is required.
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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Video now available of the Manchester book launch for my new book Vanished. A huge thanks to @mcrhistories.bsky.social for hosting the event, and @davidolusoga.bsky.social for being such a generous interlocutor. #skystorians #extinction #HPS #STS #HistSci www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfPF...
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Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction. Sadiah Qureshi in Conversation with David Olusoga.
YouTube video by Manchester Histories
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Kate Teltscher @kateteltscher.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
So I guess today's the day to remind anyone interested in the history of Kew's Palm House to take a look at my book, Palace of Palms! bsky.app/profile/rbgk... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Kew Garden: Palm House set for major renovation
The 175-year-old glass house will begin a £50m renovation in 2027.
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Dr Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth @carolinemccaff.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
My first few author copies have arrived 📚 ✨ 📖 feeling completely overwhelmed. You can pre-order your copy here: www.lundhumphries.com/products/lad...
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IHR British History in the Long C18th Seminar @long18thsem.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Join us next Wednesday 28 May, in person at the IHR and online (17:30-19:30) to hear Annabelle Gilmore’s (Birmingham) paper “‘I shall describe no more’: Reconnecting Black Histories to the Beckford Collection at Charlecote Park” @ihr.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/events/i-sha...
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‘I shall describe no more’: Reconnecting Black Histories to the Beckford Collection at Charlecote Park
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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
That the placards held by these presumably cis-women protesters seeking to deny trans women rights read ‘adult human female’, ‘large gametes’, and ‘biological fact’ encapsulates the biological essentialism, reductionism, and determinism at the heart of their definition of who counts as a woman.
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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
This thread, and this point in particular, is important. I refused to travel to the USA when the ‘Muslim ban’ was in place and missed out on doing lots of events. Only one person acknowledged that’s they would make a note of saying I was unable to contribute for this reason when publishing.
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Corinne Fowler @corinnefowler.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
My paperback out 1 May. Heartfelt & compassionate walks through rural Britain and its hidden history of empire.
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Dr Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth @carolinemccaff.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Come do a fully-funded PhD with me! The 4-year scholarship is open to all UK, EU and international students. Very happy to answer any questions, do share with your students and colleagues.
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Dr Ellen Smith @ellencssmith.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Wonderful images of the letters to accompany the article! Thanks @salvarmyarchive.bsky.social ⬇️
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Katherine Ibbett @eparpillee.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Oxford! an event on colonial statues and contested heritage, April 9 - couldn't have picked a more suitable town for it - www.stx.ox.ac.uk/event/contes...
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Contested Heritage: A Discussion
This discussion brings together experts from a variety of heritage-related sectors, to discuss how these developments have shaped their own work and vision.
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
This is a brilliant book. Highly recommended for anyone interested in the relationships between colonial history and the history of science.
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Natalie D Kane @ndkane.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
I am so bad at social media these days unless it’s being extremely mad at our government on a certain image based platform, but for some reason I’ve had loads of new followers here. I’ve been really occupied working towards our show, Design and Disability, tickets were released earlier this month.
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Design and Disability - Exhibition at V&A South Kensington · V&A
Showcasing the radical contributors of disabled, Deaf, and neurodiverse people and communities to design history and contemporary culture, from the 1940s to now
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James Baker @jwbaker.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
These data essays were an output of the AHRC @ukri.org funded project 'Beyond Notability: Re-evaluating Women's Work in Archaeology, History and Heritage, 1870 – 1950'. We did archival research. We did public engagement. We made linked data. We wrote things. See beyondnotability.org for more info.
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Beyond Notability – Re-evaluating Women’s Work in Archaeology, History, and Heritage in Britain, 1870 – 1950searchexpand
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Dr. Zara Anishanslin @drzara.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
No better time than International Women’s Day to announce my new book THE PAINTER’S FIRE, a transatlantic revolutionary history written for a popular audience (July release)! It features some amazing historical women, like poet Phillis Wheatley (who inspired the title).
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Derbyshire Record Office @derbyshiredro.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Our collections aren't just about Derbyshire. Take a look at our new guide to records of #BritishEmpire and #Colonialism - it took us a long time to compile because we hold so much material: recordoffice.wordpress.com/2025/02/21/a... #ExploreYourArchive #History
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A guide to records of British Empire and colonialism at Derbyshire Record Office
This guide explores the records in our collections that tell the story of the British Empire and its colonies. The beginning of the British Empire is often dated to 1583, when the first attempt was…
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Big business are becoming smaller business in Sheffield as visa restrictions and hostile environments bite, and international student numbers drop (25% over 3 years at University of Sheffield and 36% at Sheffield Hallam). 1/2
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Sheffield international students fall a 'worrying trend', say firms
Sheffield Hallam sees a 36% drop in international student numbers over three years.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Finally topped 150,000 downloads from open access East India Company at Home volume, 7 years after publication. Esp. pleased to see Indian downloads at the top of the table. A collaborative co-edited, co-produced book: a dialogue of academic & non-academic researchers. 1/2@uclpress.bsky.social
Map showing density of downloads of open access text The East India Company at home, showing India and Britain as sites of highest downloading and US as heavily represented.
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
I’m hosting a day of lectures, discussion & support for people in the educational, heritage or cultural sectors involved in educating about slavery, colonialism & Empire, or anyone else who wants hear about the scholarship. Sat 21 June, Sussex. Book here: onlineshop.sussex.ac.uk/product-cata...
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Educating People About British Colonial History and Confronting the Backlash: Info and Support | University of Sussex Online Shop
For teachers and heritage and cultural workers. This day-long event consists of a series of lectures from Alan Lester, Professor of Historical Geography an
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Jacques Schuhmacher @schuhmacher.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
I’m delighted to share that the Art Institute of Chicago has today returned a sacred sculpture - Buddha Sheltered by the Serpent King Muchalinda - to the Government of Nepal: chicago.suntimes.com/art/2025/03/...
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Curzon, Contacts & Contexts @curzonworkshop2025.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
4 days to go! 📢 If you have something to say about imperial collecting, frontier warfare, statesmanship or any of the other themes listed on our CFP, we want to hear from you! We're looking for 20-30 minute research papers and 10 minute context talks. Send us an abstract by Friday to be considered!
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Dr Rebekah Hodgkinson @rebekah-hodgkinson.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
📣 Final call for abstracts for this exciting workshop! 📣 We want to hear from people with a wide range of expertise so please share widely. See the CFP for further details - closing this Friday. Feel free to contact me or @charjoyjohnson.bsky.social or send us an email if you have any questions!
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curatorpolly.bsky.social @curatorpolly.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
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...
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Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
#provenance job at Nottingham in support of the project "Mapping the Indigenous North American Collection of Nottingham City Museums and Galleries."
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Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Really nice intro to thinking through accessing museum data and images- looking forward to digging into the whole volume
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
It's a real honour to be series co-editor for Manchester University Press' longstanding Studies in Imperialism. Here's the book published last year.
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Dr Mirjam S. Brusius @mideastineurope.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Londoners, come along. We will be discussing Memory Culture - I will say a few words on 🔥Germany. Itay’s absolutely worthwhile book gives you the bigger European picture at at time when many are asking why we are remembering, which events, to what end, and for whom.
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Dr Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth @carolinemccaff.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
So glad to finally see Hew Locke @thebritishmuseum.bsky.social - As Hew says, this exhibition is just the beginning of the conversation as museums continue to be weighed down by the spoils of empire…Here’s to continuing those conversations. Also can more museums introduce free exhibition Fridays
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Pitt Rivers Museum @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Who Owns Museum Collections? And what should we do with them? Saturday 29 March, 10.00-16.00 bit.ly/3QfisUJ
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Jacques Schuhmacher @schuhmacher.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
My colleague Nicolas Revire will give two important lectures at Harvard University in March: The Return of Khmer Artifacts from Chicago to Phanom Rung, Northeast Thailand: asiacenter.harvard.edu/events/retur... Early Khmer Art Collecting in American Museums: asiacenter.harvard.edu/events/early...
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Curzon, Contacts & Contexts @curzonworkshop2025.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
1 month left to submit an abstract for our workshop! We want to hear from experts in material culture, imperial politics, the histories of collecting and display, colonial frontiers & more. See the call for papers for more details and get in touch at curzoncentenarysymposium@gmail.com
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Dr Rebekah Hodgkinson @rebekah-hodgkinson.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
1 month left to send us an abstract for the workshop Curzon, Contacts & Contexts: Engaging with Imperial Histories at Kedleston Hall. If you have any questions feel free to send us an email or contact @charjoyjohnson.bsky.social or myself directly. Please share widely!
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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 06/02/2025
The beautiful London Library offers emerging writers one year’s free membership including masterclasses, networking opportunities, peer support, access to all the Library’s resources and publication in an anthology. Details below. Please share :) www.londonlibrary.co.uk/about-us/ll-...
Picture of the interior of the London Library, with steps, many bookcases and a glass balustrade
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Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York @cecs-york.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
📣 Funded PhD at York with the National Trust: ‘At Home with Angelica Kauffman: The Material and Print Culture of an Eighteenth-Century Artist’. Co-supervised by Chloe Wigston Smith @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social & Rachel Conroy @curatorrachel.bsky.social #18thC wrocah.ac.uk/cda-projects...
First page of the advert for the funded PhD at York, with the National Trust. Follow the link in the post for full info about the funding.
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William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
New @EmpirePodUK Double Bill: FROM KEW TO BOTANY BAY: THE EMPIRE OF PLANTS With Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social linktr.ee/empirepoduk
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Kate Teltscher @kateteltscher.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Following you down the antimacassar rabbit hole: the chair protectors were so called after Rowland's Macassar Oil, a hair oil made of imperial plant products, chiefly coconut and palm oil. Its exotic name evoked the Indonesian port of Makassar, then in the Dutch East Indies. Just look at this ad!
Photo of 19th-century domestic interior with two lacy antimacassars on the backs of armchairs (1875)19th-century advert for Rowland's Macassar Oil. Orientalist interior with white woman reclining on a couch, being tended to by two Asian women, one combing her hair, the other kneeling at her feet.
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Jacques Schuhmacher @schuhmacher.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
The Art Institute of Chicago’s provenance research team is excited to offer a McMullan Arts Leadership internship: recruiting2.ultipro.com/ART1010AICH/...
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Dr Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth @carolinemccaff.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Great to have my article published in a special issue on museum cases by Museum History Journal @tandfresearch.bsky.social this was all based on a lecture I gave way back in Jan 2020 (just before the world shut down!) at a brilliant conference at the Bowes Museum www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Hannah Cusworth @hannahcusworth.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
At the Hew Locke exhibition at the British Museum and obsessed with how many of these colonial artefacts were donated by women to the BM: widows, goddaughters, great nieces.
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Will Tullett @willtullett.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Thread with CFP and details for an exciting smell studies conference in Cambridge this year, for which I am one of the keynotes. Please do share and consider submitting! Really looking forward to this!
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Dr Rebekah Hodgkinson @rebekah-hodgkinson.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
We're up and running! If you'd like to attend, please do send us an abstract. We want to hear from people working in lots of different areas and have wide ranging conversations, so please give us a follow and share with your networks!
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Curzon, Contacts & Contexts @curzonworkshop2025.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Come speak at our workshop! Curzon, Contacts & Contexts: Engaging with Imperial Histories at Kedleston Hall at the University of Derby from 19-20 June, Supported by the @paulmelloncentr.bsky.social Send us an abstract by 7 March - see the call for papers for more details. Please share widely!
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Charlotte Johnson @charjoyjohnson.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Very excited about our workshop in June - we are looking for a broad range of interdisciplinary contributors. Please share far and wide!
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Great review essay by @garethknapman.bsky.social, contrasting museum reactionaries’ construction of anticolonial straw men with the more nuanced & critical awareness of museums’ complex engagements with colonialism that we need going forward: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Recent writing on colonial plunder and museums
Published in International Journal of Heritage Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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Postcolonial Provenance Research @ppr-smb.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Registration is still open for Wednesday's online talk "Unpacking Provenance". Panelists will formulate research questions, brainstorm approaches, and share resources for tracing the history of Asian art. via: www.smb.museum/en/events/de...
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Charlotte Johnson @charjoyjohnson.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Very excited about our workshop in June - we are looking for a broad range of interdisciplinary contributors. Please share far and wide!
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