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Dinah Winch

@dinahw.bsky.social
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Curator, historian, collector of stuff, pots, stories, museums, buildings.

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Dinah Winch @dinahw.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Back at the Proms for an exciting programme: Varese's Intégrales, a world permiere of Anna Thorvaldsdottir's Before we fall (Cello Concerto), Bolero, as fresh as the first time I heard it (it makes such a difference to see the instruments), and Rite of Spring.
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Dinah Winch @dinahw.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Bayes has followed me around through my career but I don't think I'll find a Bevis Marks connection. Very interesting story if you don't know about the Somers Town estate. www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/2531696...
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The little-known London 'fairy tale estate' that was decorated by a famous artist
Louise Choo from Camden Guides explores sculptor Gilbert Bayes and his links to Somers Town.
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Dinah Winch @dinahw.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
This is cheering stuff, I think despite everything a lot of things do still work well. Our fantastic museums crop up regularly but of course to keep working they need ongoing investment.
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LivePaola @livepaola.eurosky.social · 05/06/2025
Every time I hear “women are too emotional to be President/CEO/Commander-in-Chief/etc.” I’ll think of these guys and laugh to tears
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 05/06/2025
Breaking news: The sell-off erased $153bn from Tesla’s value, the biggest one-day drop in the electric-car company’s market capitalisation on record, and comes as Donald Trump threatens he will terminate US government contracts with Musk’s companies. www.ft.com/content/a14f...
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Dinah Winch @dinahw.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Good piece from @sundersays.bsky.social
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Dinah Winch @dinahw.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
1 June walk, felt like summer.
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Dinah Winch @dinahw.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Susan Brownmiller, Who Reshaped Views About Rape, Dies at 90 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/b... has no British paper published an obituary?!
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Susan Brownmiller, Who Reshaped Views About Rape, Dies at 90
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Dinah Winch @dinahw.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
I'm hiring to join our fantastic new team at Bevis Marks Synagogue Heritage Foundation!
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Dinah Winch @dinahw.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
I caught the Tirzah Garwood show at Dulwich Picture Gallery which closes next weekend - as well as paintings, prints, embroidery & a patchwork quilt, there is a fabulous group of marbled papers that she made in the 30s & sold commercially for book binders, and interior design uses like lampshades.
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Dinah Winch @dinahw.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
I had never heard of Brady Clubs until I saw the fascinating film One Pair of Eyes in which Georgia Brown goes back to Whitechapel where she grew up. An exhibition of photographs, rescued from a skip, is now at Tower Hamlets archive www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00t3mkz
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Barnsley Museums @barnsleymuseums.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
#OnThisDay in 1785 Joseph Bramah invented the beer pump handle, cheers! 🍻 In Experience Barnsley you can see a couple of objects by Barnsley's most prolific inventor; a fire pump and one of his unpickable locks.
Potrait of Joseph BramahJoseph Bramah's fire engine in the entrance to the town hall
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Clay Harris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇵🇸💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉 💉😷 @mudlarklives.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Via @thegentleauthor.bsky.social, @dinahw.bsky.social: Firefighter Artists Of The Blitz spitalfieldslife.com/2025/05/10/f...
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Amos Schonfield @ajschonfield.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The local authority that is responsible for caring for the highest number of unaccompanied asylum seeking children across England is now led by Reform.
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Dinah Winch @dinahw.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Lovely delivery this morning, essays in honour of Bernard Capp, my D.Phil external examiner. Looking forward to reading it @angelamcshane.bsky.social
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Christ's Entry into Jerusalem Anonymous, German, 15th century #PalmSunday (Met Museum)
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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Russia looted at least 1.7 million Ukrainian cultural heritage items from occupied territories Ukraine managed to recover some stolen artifacts due to international cooperation — friendly governments returned items intercepted abroad while being trafficked euromaidanpress.com/2025/04/13/r...
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Russians loot 1.7 million Ukrainian cultural heritage items from occupied territories
Beyond systematic theft, Russian officials are now selling Ukraine's national treasures on illegal markets, marking a shift from historical practices when looted artifacts were typically displayed in…
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
More in No, Other People: New poll: “America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.” • 80% of Americans agree • 20% disagree “I would be better off if I worked in a factory.” • 25% of Americans agree • 73% disagree • 2% currently work in a factory
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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 12/04/2025
It's all fun and games until … "Professor Gina Neff of Queen Mary University London told the BBC #ChatGPT is "burning through energy", and the data centres used to power it consume more electricity in a year than 117 countries." www.bbc.com/news/article...
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ChatGPT action dolls: What are the concerns?
As online users create Barbie-like dolls of themselves, experts urge caution over AI's energy and data use.
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Samantha Ellis @samanthaellis.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
First review! And it’s a lovely one. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
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Chopping Onions on my Heart by Samantha Ellis review – an Iraqi Jew’s celebration of an endangered culture
In this deeply personal but wryly funny memoir, the author examines her Middle Eastern ancestry and asks what it means to witness her community and their traditions fade from memory
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Dinah Winch @dinahw.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Its got to the point where we can't go to places we used to enjoy because of the dogs. Particularly bad behaviour in nature reserves, areas where birds are nesting etc is so infuriating. Even bluebell season is ruined by people taking cute pictures of their dogs trampling the flowers.
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Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
On this day, April 10 1848, the last great Chartist rally took place - on Kennington Common in London. Here, almost unbelievably, is a photograph of the event.
1848 photograph of Kenington Common crowd
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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
OOOO! The Secrets of the Thames exhibition is opening this week @londonmuseum.bsky.social Docklands!!! A bunch of History @handle.invalid Special Subject students helped with this work on mudlarking! #SkyStorians www.londonmuseum.org.uk/about/press/....
Picture of a slide on the Secret life of the Thames
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David Hirsh @davidhirsh.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/london-cen... Have a scroll here to see the livestreams you can watch from the conference "Contemporary Antisemitism London 2025" on Sunday, Monday and Tuesay.
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Dinah Winch @dinahw.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
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Dinah Winch @dinahw.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
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The Alienation Effect by Owen Hatherley review – how immigrants reshaped postwar Britain
Behind many symbols of quintessentially British culture – from Picture Post to Pevsner’s guides – were refugees who fled Europe in the 1930s and 40s
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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
‘Okay which one of you accidentally added Robert Cecil to the chat?’
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Dinah Winch @dinahw.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Daughter's offer holders day at Reading on Saturday gave me the opportunity to visit the @themerl.bsky.social. I expected lots of great agricultural macinery, but not a lovely display of country & studio pottery.
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Dinah Winch @dinahw.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
The extraordinary synagogue at the back of 19 Princelet St, Spitalfields. The house is 1718/19, the synagogue built on the garden for Polish & Russian Jews in around 1862, so before the pogroms of the 1880s. Then abandoned by the community just over 100 years later.
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Dinah Winch @dinahw.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
What a resource!
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 15/03/2025
The world's richest man stole food from the world's poorest children. Now they are beginning to die www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Fascinated by the different stock pictures of dogs that various outlets have gone for to illustrate this story.
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Tennessee man shot by his dog while lying in bed
A bullet grazed the Memphis man’s thigh after his one-year-old pit bull got his paw stuck in a gun’s trigger guard
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Another big insult to countries, like the UK, who did exactly this and fought and died alongside the US after 9/11
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Dinah Winch @dinahw.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
What a story.
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Dinah Winch @dinahw.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
I've been going to Collect since it began & one of the joys is discovering new makers. This year's completely-new-to-me is textile artist Manya Goldman, originally from South Africa, who has returned to making after a long break, with these exquisite embroideries
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Dinah Winch @dinahw.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Just some of my favourite pots at Collect Art Fair at Somerset House, which closes today. Steve Dixon, Emilie Taylor, Evelyn Albrow and Philip Eglin.
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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
He's got SUCH lovely snapshots of reading and thinking and teaching life! Including: www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collectio...
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Schoolmeester
Een schoolmeester zit achter zijn tafel met voor hem een staande leerling.
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CU Boulder Program in Jewish Studies @cujewishstudies.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Join the Program in Jewish Studies March 3 for our 2025 Annual Bender Visiting Scholar Public Lecture by Dr. Laura Arnold Leibman. This event is free and supported by the Henry Luce Foundation. Details and zoom registration at: tinyurl.com/2axxsdbd @samirakmehta.bsky.social @hfalbk.bsky.social
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Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Museum job! 📜 🗃️ #histSTM National Museums Scotland, Assistant Curator, Technology - part of the truly fabulous NMS Science & Technology Department Full time, permanent - details here: careers.nms.ac.uk/job/671171 Deadline soon: 2 March
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Dinah Winch @dinahw.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Marvellous image and 👀 fully credited in the alt text too!
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Dinah Winch @dinahw.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
The Whitechapel is a funny mixture of old and new.
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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
If you are developing the content for an exhibition and want to ensure it is accessible for people with visual impairment this is an invaluable resource, allowing you to check your design colour etc for its impact on visually impaired people. www.tpgi.com/color-contrast-checker
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Dinah Winch @dinahw.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
I haven't bought anything from Amazon since about 2008. Try it.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 08/02/2025
Ukraine is the birthplace of the Hasidic Jewish movement and has deep roots in Jewish history stretching back more than a thousand years. Yet until recently, crucial sacred texts — including the Torah — have never been translated into Ukrainian.
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In bomb shelters and without power, Ukrainian Jews translate the Torah into their national language for first time
When Oleg Rostovtsev hovered between life and death after a serious operation last April, he asked friends and family to do something that, until recently, had been impossible — to pray for him by rea...
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Nikki Clarke @nikkic.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Just a quick reminder that that Fara Dabhoiwala is presenting his work on Francis Williams at the Society Culture and Belief seminar at the IHR tomorrow at 1730 - you can book through the link below. www.history.ac.uk/events/searc...
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In Search of Francis Williams
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
We've all been her. Attributed to Nicolaes Maes c. 1634-1693 Woman Asleep in a Chair (The Morgan)
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Dinah Winch @dinahw.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Enjoy!
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Dinah Winch @dinahw.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Frosty walk this morning, very clear apart from mist hovering around the Medway.
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