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Barts Health Archives @bharchives.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

With #InternationalWomensDay this Sunday, we're delighted to bring you another guest blog post from the wonderful @emmashepley.bsky.social! Emma shines a light on the lives of working women at St Bartholomew's Hospital in the 18th C #WomensHistoryMonth www.bartshealth.nhs.uk/archives-blo...

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Knives Out - the cook and the surgeon of Bart's | Blogs from the Archives

Uncovering the working lives of women, 1690–1754, from the St Bartholomew's Hospital archives

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Emma Shepley @emmashepley.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Fabulous new object of wonder installed at the Tower of London this week - the 1100s Valasse cross, once owned by Empress Matilda - it is just stunning.

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Emma Shepley @emmashepley.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Leighton House, Holland Park - sumptuousness & a peacock 🦚

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Emma Shepley @emmashepley.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

A timely sunburst on a grey February day at the Tower.

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Emma Shepley @emmashepley.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Two Temple Place - def worth a visit to see Lives Less Ordinary exhibition

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Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Portal to the past. These are Alderman Stairs, also known as Alderman Parsons Stairs or Lady Parsons Stairs, & are on John Rocque’s map of 1745. Soaked in age & ancient stories of life on the Thames in London. The number of deaths reported here is grim, mostly people falling from vessels & drowning.

Portal to the past. A black and white photo of ancient river steps known as Alderman Stairs that lead down to a stone causeway and foreshore visible at low tide. A metal gate is open at the top of the stairs and Butler’s Wharf is just visible on the opposite side of the river.

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Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

📢 Calling all historians and researchers! The Women's History Network is now accepting abstracts for its 33rd Annual Conference, themed "Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums, and Personal Collections." More info: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c... #WomensHistory #GLAM

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WHN Annual Conference 2025, Call for Papers

First Call for Papers Women’s History Network 33rd Annual Conference Online via Zoom Thursday 4 & Friday 5 September 2025 Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums and Pe…

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Clore Leadership @cloreleadership.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

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Emma Shepley @emmashepley.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

All the candles at Southwark Cathedral today. And Hodge the cat.

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Emma Shepley @emmashepley.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Sunlight pouring into the Tower today

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Emma Shepley @emmashepley.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

And @britishlibrary.bsky.social Medieval Women exhibition is super rich & entertaining too. Another joy - particularly the Tower's lion skull.

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Emma Shepley @emmashepley.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Loved everything about Tirzah Garwood @dulwichgallery.bsky.social - paintings, prints, textiles, marbled paper but best of all - her box-framed miniature houses - just a pure delight

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

It's Monday. You're dragging yourself through the world, one cup of coffee at a time. Can nothing liven up this day? How 'bout a thread of eel ships on maps? These maps are what got me into eels in the first place! 🧪🗃️ "Cool!" you say. "But wait...what's an eel ship?" Well... 1/14

Eel ships from Hollar's 1647 "Long View of London"

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Emma Shepley @emmashepley.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

Kensington Palace's excellent staircase 💖 The Palace is closed to visitors for the next few weeks to deinstall - leaving spaces majestically clear.

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Emma Shepley @emmashepley.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

Dennis Severs' House, Spitalfields - always fabulous but currently with a beautiful exhibition of ceramics by Simon Pettet

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Emma Shepley @emmashepley.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

I found this today - me as a baby museum curator in 1999 🤩 I thought no images of early me at work existed (this was pre mobile cameras everywhere) but here I am, dusting the folk art foot warmer at Haslemere Museum as if I know Instagram is just around the corner...

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Emma Shepley @emmashepley.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

Today at work was all about Freddie Mercury's jeans 🤩 Straight from Sotheby's to display Queer Britain Museum for Levi's 'Icons in Denim' exhibition.

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Emma Shepley @emmashepley.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

A fancy B. Seen last week at the Library of San Marco in Florence, the oldest public library in the world. Apparently.

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Emma Shepley @emmashepley.bsky.social · 23/09/2023

Cupboard door in the painted Parrot Room of Palazzo Davanzati in Florence.

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