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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Today is Transgender Day of Visibility. Solidarity today and everyday with trans and non-binary folk who claim space unapologetically. As governments turn trans visibility into a matter of “ideology,” we must refuse to see trans lives as a debate and instead nurture trans joy, safety, and belonging.
Photo of trans flag with text on flag which reads, “There are trans people here.”
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
And this is an exact reminder of why we must stand against both Antisemitism and Islamophobia. The cynical forces who seek to divide our communities must never win. We will stand together.
Bbc article comparing different response from Zack Polanski to Nigel Farage to the attack on the ambulances.
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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 20/02/2026
The Giving Circle has been incredibly crucial for so many families in Gaza and is run by a trusted and dear friend. I donate the price of a coffee each week - and it’s easy to join me! chuffed.org/project/hope...
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Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that the...
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Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk · 18/02/2026
Ramadan Mubarak 🌙 Wishing a peaceful month to our Muslim students, colleagues and Readers. Ramadan and pilgrimage in our collections: 🕌 Sultanahmet Mosque (Bodl. Or. 430, fol 57r) 📖 Sūrat al-Baqarah, Tīpū’s Qurʾān (Bodl. Or. 793, fols 24a–24b) 🧳 Pilgrims to Mecca (Bodl. Or. 430, fols 145r & 148r)
Detailed watercolour illustration of the Sultanahmet Mosque in Istanbul. The building has a large central blue dome, multiple smaller domes, and tall minarets topped with crescents. Trees and smaller architectural structures appear in the foreground.Two illuminated manuscript pages in Arabic script. Each page shows black calligraphy arranged in neat lines within a gold and coloured frame. Small circular gold medallions mark verse divisions. The pages are decorated with fine floral and geometric details in blue and gold on cream paper.Watercolour illustration of four barefoot men walking in a line. They wear simple robes and tall white hats, and carry musical instruments including a tambourine and a drum. The figures are lightly coloured in muted tones against a plain background.Watercolour illustration of a bearded man wearing a turban and simple garments, holding a walking staff. He leads a domesticated stag with large antlers on a rope. The stag wears a small bell around its neck. The background is plain and uncoloured.
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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 17/02/2026
🚨 Please Share If anybody has any material culture related to protesting the Cass Review specifically, and would like to share pictures of them with me, then please send me images here or via owen.hurcum@york.ac.uk. I have an idea to do a little write-up about them from the pov of an archaeologist
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B. @coloursburntin.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
And if you'd like to read a more traditional style of publication exploring these themes, I also have a new article out in the Archaeological Review from Cambridge: "We Must Write About Those Who Have Been Silenced..." digital copies soon available from arc.soc.srcf.net/issues/40-2
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B. @coloursburntin.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Plus some experiments in #CitationPractice including how to acknowledge unknown labour and using a random number generator to decide author order.
A black and white two page spread of the zine. Each page has a printed label that reads 'Made by'. Under this is the following list of authors; "Rudy; Unknown Maker; Unknown Maker; Poulsen, Oscar S.; Ablard, C.; Utreras, Julia; Manuel, Frankie; Glacey, Jack; Unknown Maker; OSCAR; Unknown Maker; Syed, Jia; Unknown Maker; Martin, Becky; Unknown Maker; Hodgett, B; Len; Thompson, Peter A.; Utreras, Gau; Unknown Maker; Rokib, Anisah; Hirst, Luca; Jackson, Susan; Bruce, Hannah; Arnold, Bettina; Unknown Maker; Muck, Alex; Campbell, Sam; Grieveson, Julia; Brown, Lizzy; Unknown Maker; Campbell, Holly; Unknown Maker. " Each of these names is printed in individually stamped letters.
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B. @coloursburntin.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Have a read for lots of thoughts about the role that making can play in research, the overlap between 'making' and 'writing', how publication practices in academia might subtly shape the kinds of work we do in museums.
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B. @coloursburntin.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Publication day! Here's a zine about copying, replicating and making in museums that I've been working on with some lovely friends from the Imperfect Bound Collective (find them on Instagram @imperfectboundcollective). www.prm.ox.ac.uk/making-museu...
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Making the Museum
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Chris Manias @chrismanias.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Two more PhD scholarships at @kingshistory.bsky.social: focussing on different aspects of Nigerian history, and working with my excellent colleague @bixhiribarren.bsky.social : www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQM397/p...
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PhD Studentships at King's College London
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The London Archives @thelondonarchives.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
We have more Skills Training in Archival Research (STAR) workshops coming up! Join staff at The London Archives for a hands-on workshop designed to help postgrad students and researchers make the most of archival collections. 📍 The London Archives 📅 1 April + 3 June 🕛️ 1-4:30pm
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Skills Training in Archival Research (STAR) Workshop
Join us for a hands-on workshop designed to help postgraduate students and researchers make the most of archival collections.
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B. @coloursburntin.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
I can understand why! What an incredible object!
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B. @coloursburntin.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
This is incredible! Do you know where it's from? I'd seen the photograph before but this takes it to a new level!
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Michelle Henning @michellehenning.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
We’re doing a photography conference! Please circulate!
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UCL Special Collections @uclspeccoll.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Applications are now open for The New Curators Project 2026! Deadline: 8pm 22 February. This annual project – offers 10 paid places for east Londoners aged 18-24 who do not have a degree but are interested in working in the cultural heritage sector. Apply now: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...
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Link in bio.’.
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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
And reminder that among the amazing things about Paper Trails, the variety of formats the BOOC invites is very expansive 🗃️
Research stories (8-10,000 words): We encourage a focus on research stories to invite a more reflective methodology, offering a more inclusive and engaged commentary on the work involved in researching, ordering, and preserving the past. This section will consist of double-blind peer-reviewed academic articles.
• Co-Production (flexible word count): Outputs from projects in which non-academic partners, undergraduate and taught postgraduate participants collaborate with others (collection professionals, academics, members of the public etc) to create new work that is based on research collections.
• Collection Profiles (500 words): This stream consists of shorter, descriptive or even narrative pieces that highlight items or collections of interest. This may be a prelude to a piece of in-depth research, but it does not necessarily need to be.
• Engagement (2,000 words): Reflective pieces that focus on a broad range of engagement activities, from the professional's perspective.
These can be case studies, or 'think pieces' on particular skills or techniques. They should inform professional practice.
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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
What makes historic collections difficult? And how do researchers work with “difficult” collections? New CFP from Paper Trails here: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll... Deadline for proposals 31/1/2026 🗃️
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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
This might be of interest to a few people The Boring Fund: Small (£200) grants to UK non-profits, charities and voluntary groups who just need a bit of help to pay for boring running costs like web hosting, admin, insurance etc Apply by 30 November www.christinapoultoncreative.co.uk/boring-fund
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Boring Fund | Christina Poulton
Applications now open! £200 grants available for small charities, CICs and voluntary groups towards some of those boring but hard-to-fund costs.
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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
And with ongoing evidence suggesting the moral vacuum of the government-supported British arms industry is facilitating this
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UK military equipment used by militia accused of genocide found in Sudan, UN told
Exclusive: two dossiers of material seen by the security council raise questions over export of British arms to the UAE, which has been accused of supplying weapons to paramilitary RSF group
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 30/10/2025
Aid workers in the region fear the situation will deteriorate as food and medical supplies dwindle.
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UN officials condemn ‘horrifying’ mass killings in Sudan as RSF advances
Aid workers in the region fear the situation will deteriorate as food and medical supplies dwindle.
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Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
The Sudan Solidarity Collective is doing a big fundraising push to support our partners in El Fashir to support food distribution, evacuation and medications. Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 . sudansolidarity.com
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Home - Sudan Solidarity Collective
Solidarity with Sudan! Support the Emergency Response Rooms doing life saving work in Sudan by donating to the Sudan Solidarity Fund. Workshops4Sudan is a new fundraising initiative of the Sudan Solid...
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Isis Naucratis @isisnaucratis.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
🚨THIS WEEK: Endangered Urban Heritage in Egypt, Sudan and Palestine hybrid conference co-organized w Noha Abou-Khatwa, @archaeologuest.bsky.social + @gmandreou.bsky.social everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/c...
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Cities on the Edge Workshop: Program is Out!
The program for the workshop Cities on the Edge: Documenting, Preserving, and Teaching Endangered Urban Heritage in Egypt, Sudan and Palestine is now out! The event will take place on Oct. 31 and N…
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PHRC @phrc-dmu.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
We're delighted to announce the CFP for our #PHRC26 annual conference on "Photography's Tacit Knowledge". As in the past few years, it'll be a hybrid conference, online and in Leicester, o 15-16 June. Send your abstracts by 9 January! photographichistory.wordpress.com/annual-confe... #photohist
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Annual Conference 2026
Photography’s Tacit Knowledge Image: A reproduction photographer at work. 1934 (Deutsche Fotothek). Photographic History Research Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK When: 15-16 June 2026…
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Èvi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Do I know anyone (who knows anyone) who writes for a big press outlet on LBGTQIA human rights issues, especially worldwide? I'm trying to draw attention to the plight of a group of people in South Sudan who are facing grave danger and additional barriers to aid because of their identity.
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B. @coloursburntin.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Thanks for including the Crawford archive in this great thread!
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The Institute of Classical Studies @ics.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Call for Papers: “Civilizing” the World: Classicism, Neo-Classical Sculpture, and Plaster Casts in the Service of Imperial Powers and Post-Colonial Elites (1780-1945) Papers deadline: 1 December 2025 Conference dates: 22 - 23 October 2026 Full details here: ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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“Civilizing” the World: Classicism, Neo-Classical Sculpture, and Plaster Casts in the Service of Imperial Powers and Post-Colonial Elites (1780-1945)
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B. @coloursburntin.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Can I add the O.G.S Crawford Archive which contains aprox. 350 photographs taken by the archaeologist Crawford in the early 1950s? www.arch.ox.ac.uk/ogs-crawford... The photographs document both local people and archaeological sites around Khartoum, and the region between Abu Hamad and Meroë
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OGS Crawford Archive
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 16/10/2025
6 hours left. My expectations are low, since we didn't meet last week's goal for the first time in 23 weeks of this giving circle supporting the SURVIVAL of six families & a camp, and we haven't met our daily goals in days. My hope is high. That's our duty. 652/1000 chuffed.org/project/hope...
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Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
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Pitt Rivers Museum @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Join us for the launch of Mara Gold's debut book 'Ancient Myths and Legends Without Men' and discover the women and gender non-conforming characters who shaped and subverted womanhood from the very beginning and whose stories still resonate today! Thurs 23 Oct, 17.30-19.30. £5. bit.ly/3KtDJdU
Image of a book with a purple and orange cover under the heading Meet the shapers and subverters of womanhood.
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Uni of Sheffield Special Collections, Heritage and Archives SCHA @uoscollections.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
🚨The call for papers for the History and Archives in Practice 2026 conference #HAP26 is now live! 🚨 Along with @ihr.bsky.social @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy @royalhistsoc.org we invite you to explore 'Shaping Societies, Improving Lives: The Impact of Archives and Historical Research' ⬇️
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Call for Participation | History and Archives in Practice 2026
Shaping Societies, Improving Lives: the Impact of Archives and Historical Research
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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Because paying tens of thousands of pounds for visas and the "NHS surcharge", being ineligible for ANY benefits for 10 years, and therefore working tax-paying jobs constantly, and daring to want a better life is not enough.
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Molly Caenwyn @mollycaenwyn.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Home Darkrooms in Britian 📸🏠🏳️‍🌈 Oral History Project I wish to speak to LGBTQIA people who have experience of having a home darkroom or used a darkroom that felt like home. If you are interested in learning more, please get in touch:   📧 m.warren@westminster.ac.uk 📞 +447902489831
Image: On a dark blue background are white and light blue impressions of two pansies. At the bottom are the logos for the Arts and Humanities Research council, the Museum of the Home and the University of Westminster. Text at top left reads - Are you LGBTQIA+ or non-heterosexual? Do you have experience of darkrooms in the home or spaces that feel like home to you? If so, then this project is for you!
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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
In addition to cancelling your Disney accounts, now is also a great time to delete academia.edu
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B. @coloursburntin.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Welcome Mitzi! Hope everything goes smoothly today!
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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 20/09/2025
Folks we are SO close to meeting this short goal to evacuate several families in Gaza - please donate if you can! ⬇️
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Luca Bertolani Azeredo @luca1994.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
We are happy to present the conference which will take place in Naples, 6 and 7 March 2026, on "Violence and Empire" Here is attached the CFP including a list of themes we are interested into Deadline for proposals November 16, authors will be notified by January 9
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Maybe ask any non-white person how free their speech was in London yesterday idk.
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B. @coloursburntin.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Ooh, interesting! I'm not sure if I'm intrigued or horrified at the prospect of a Crawford doppelganger 😅
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B. @coloursburntin.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
@martynjb.bsky.social what's your take?
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B. @coloursburntin.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
I did wonder, but I think maybe too smartly attired and clean shaven for Crawford. He was famously quite fond of being scruffy on digs...
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B. @coloursburntin.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
That's so cool, would love to have a chat and hear more about your work! I'll drop you a DM with my email address and let's try and get a date in the diary!
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B. @coloursburntin.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Thanks so much 😊 Looks like another library trip is in order!
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B. @coloursburntin.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Ooh, I don't think I know about this! Is there somewhere I might be able to read up on that?
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B. @coloursburntin.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Glad to hear it! But do feel free to reach out if I can help with anything further down the road 😊
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B. @coloursburntin.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
I'm based at the Pitt Rivers, which seems to have approx 200 objects from Garstang excavations. More than happy to help if you need any help getting in touch with our collections team?
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GeekOnALeash 🏳️‍⚧️ @geekonaleash.co.uk · 06/09/2025
Social media flood this, with the same wording!! ✊🏳️‍⚧️
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B. @coloursburntin.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Congratulations Juliet!
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