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Jane Henderson

@jane-henderson.bsky.social
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Museums, Conservation Wales. I want to help share, save and enjoy stuff from the past.

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Jane Henderson @jane-henderson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Everyday HVAC Problems Standing Between You and a Quality Preservation Environment. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining t...
This webinar looks at the everyday HVAC challenges museums, libraries, and other institutions have in common with buildings across every industry, and how to overcome them to maintain a quality preser...
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Jane Henderson @jane-henderson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Is anyone is here still?? Conservation decisions, even technical ones must be opened to scrutiny and discussion. Accepting that conservation decision-making criteria favoured by the profession may not align with priorities that best serve society. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Feedback in the Conservation Ensemble
Conservation faces a major challenge in obtaining meaningful feedback because its outcomes unfold over generations, while societal values evolve unpredictably. Conservators rely on peer consultatio...
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Jane Henderson @jane-henderson.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Have you seen this? Reform UK has just pledged to rip up legal protections for workers and renters. I'm really worried about it. I've signed a petition to stop the steal. Can you add your name too? www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/st...
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Stop the steal: protect workers’ and renters’ rights!
Reform UK has just pledged to rip up legal protections for workers and renters. Sign this petition to stop the steal.
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Explore York Archive @yorkarchive.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
You can help conserve York’s archives this Christmas! We are selling our archive inspired Christmas Cards. The designs are inspired by collections of the Knowles Family papers in the archives. A pack of five cards are availble for £6. The cards are availble this week in most Explore locations
Two handmade Christmas cards with intricate designs. The top card features a red and green crisscross pattern, while the bottom card displays golden and red floral motifs. Both cards have "Merry Christmas" written at the top.
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality. James Baldwin
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The Haskins Society @haskinssociety.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
CFP: “Women, Lordship, and the Culture of War” A Haskins-sponsored session at the 2026 ICMS in Kalamazoo, MI (14–16 May) Apply by 15 Sept. 2025 at icms.confex.com/icms/2026/pr... @kzooicms.bsky.social #MedievalSky
Cropped image of a high medieval manuscript showing two women with rocks defending the gates of a castle from soldiers in chain mail bearing swords.
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Jane Henderson @jane-henderson.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Both Chokyi Senge Rinpoche and Conservator Ann Shaftel agree that there will be no “cleaning” or repainting of the blessed, historic thangka treasures they will be stabilized only to enable them to be handled and hung safely in the traditional manner. teahouse.buddhistdoor.net/surmang-mona...
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Surmang Monastery Treasures Conservation Project | Tea House
Treasury Caretaker Training joins hands with Surmang Monastery to preserve treasures like thangkas for posterity and ongoing spiritual use
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Jane Henderson @jane-henderson.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
I have just been hearing about the content of this book and it sounds amazing! One to watch.
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Jane Henderson @jane-henderson.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
I have just been hearing about the content of this book and it sounds amazing! One to watch.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Newcastle University staff invited to a ‘Doodling for Wellbeing’ session (‘Let your pen dance across the page' in 'a perfect escape from the everyday hustle and bustle'. Invites sent on same day 153 academics were informed of their location in 'redundancy pools', with 38 redundancies planned. 1/2
Exterior view of Armstrong Building, Newcastle University, red brick, neo-Gothic-ish architecture with many windows.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
I’m left thinking it’s yet another example of this misconception: What you grew up with is “normal,” what you believe is “common sense,” you’re just trying to be “neutral.” It’s other people expressing different beliefs that are political. And they should stop, so you and your views are the default.
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Jane Henderson @jane-henderson.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Watching this reminds us how much work @flintdibble.bsky.social has done to put facts and evidence into public discussions about Archaeology. I highly recommend it especially for the stragies at the end. And Not just because one of my tweets appear honestly!😉
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Jane Henderson @jane-henderson.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Ok its silly of me, but watching @shaneorionwiechnik.bsky.social s videos almost makes me feel sad for the wood when it subsequently meets the saw! I am obviously happy an emotional wreck day!!!
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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
This is such terrible news. Pieta was a friend & colleague - hugely talented & knowledgeable she wore her skills lightly, with generosity & fun. Pieta got us free high-powered xrays of the Newark torc, lectures, came along to my talks etc. She was lovely. 46 is just too young. Way too young.
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Jane Henderson @jane-henderson.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Have a read, only 5mins of your day and super picture of Holly Jones Amin and one of the Golden dragon museum's dragons.
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Anna Woodham @annawoodham.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
New guest blog for our museum emotions project from @jane-henderson.bsky.social on conservation work. Take a 👀👇
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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
💥 from the letters page of today’s Times of London
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Jane Henderson @jane-henderson.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
👀 Have a look, friends and colleagues. I think there needs to be lots more conversations about emotional conservation.
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Jane Henderson @jane-henderson.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Interesting piece features Helen McCracken on the protection of New Zealand heritage "A population is very attached to its cultural heritage, one of the first ways in which you can attack a community is to destroy what it values. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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Evacuating collections to protect New Zealand's treasures during WW2
The largest-ever museum collection evacuation happened just over 80 years ago.
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Jane Henderson @jane-henderson.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Now this is an infographic!
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Jane Henderson @jane-henderson.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Its all goodnews at the Grimwade. The Cripps Foundation have added another 15 million dollars to support the inspirational work at The Grimwade Centre who deliver people first heritage conservation education and research. www.unimelb.edu.au/newsroom/new...
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Cultural conservation centre to become part of world-leading research institute
Transforming the cultural health of the nation and our region and responding to emerging threats to cultural legacies will be the core focuses of a new institute in the Faculty of Arts at the Universi...
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Jane Henderson @jane-henderson.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Its all goodnews at the Grimwade. The Cripps Foundation have added another 15 million dollars to support the inspirational work at The Grimwade Centre who deliver people first heritage conservation education and research. www.unimelb.edu.au/newsroom/new...
unimelb.edu.au
Cultural conservation centre to become part of world-leading research institute
Transforming the cultural health of the nation and our region and responding to emerging threats to cultural legacies will be the core focuses of a new institute in the Faculty of Arts at the Universi...
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Dave @sharewyatt.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Brilliant to have @cuhistarchrel.bsky.social students visit @caerheritage.bsky.social Centre today & get hands on with community volunteers undertaking post-ex & building a wattle fence as part of fab Archaeology Matters! Module. ✊️ @flintdibble.bsky.social @jane-henderson.bsky.social
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Dave @sharewyatt.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Over 2 days we brought the University into the communities of Caerau & Ely to showcase that #thehumanitiesmatter @beinghumanfest.bsky.social @janmachielsen.bsky.social @enwright.bsky.social @emilyncock.bsky.social @mariafragoulaki.bsky.social @abdulazim.bsky.social youtu.be/m4XZHype364?...
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Being Human Festival - Making history in Cardiff: Community and Discovery Day
YouTube video by Cardiff University
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Jane Henderson @jane-henderson.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
A complex tale of dignity, respect, and freedom of speech. It is important not to say the wrong thing during challenging and difficult proposals in which some people will lose their jobs and other people will not. #ucu #CardiffUniversity nation.cymru/news/cardiff...
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Cardiff University 'may have broken the law' by threatening union
Martin Shipton Cardiff University’s threat to take action against the University and College Union for comments it made to Nation.Cymru could be in breach of a law protecting academic freedom, we have...
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Jane Henderson @jane-henderson.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Looks like a useful event and perhaps space for a conservator to contribute.
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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Would senior managers openly saying they "make it up as they go along" and in response to a colleague suffering through a forced merger asking what will count as success saying "we don't know what is enough" and then rushing through another merger between March & Sept count?
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
The UK university sector is on fire. This is happening virtually everywhere -- job cuts, hiring freezes, department closures, PhD funding programmes... full blown crisis
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Jane Henderson @jane-henderson.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
This is a petition about victims of misscarriages of justice being charged for 'bed and board' after they are released from wrongful imprisonment. Its a nasty spiteful move by the establishment who have already done so much harm. Please sign. #CardiffNewsagentThree chng.it/TVWX7544DQ
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End the Insult Added to Injury: Help Wrongly Convicted Individuals Reclaim Their Unjust 'Bed and Board' Fees
17,180 signatures are needed, let’s get there by the end of the day?
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Andy Williams @llantwit.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Big intervention in the Cardiff Uni cuts debacle from former Minister Leighton Andrews. Instead of a “2-year slash & burn programme” Uni needs to draw on cash for a more gradual recovery. Urges staff to vote (like he has) for strike action/ASOS to support Cardiff UCU. youtu.be/nbgwwMJBnqA?...
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Leighton Andrews Radio Wales ON Cardiff Uni Cuts Short 09 03 25
YouTube video by Llantwit1977
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Jane Henderson @jane-henderson.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
I try not to focus on this because it is heartbreakingly sad to know that whole families' lives will be shattered by redundancies whilst millions£ sit in reserve. To call this co-created just 💔 www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Cardiff Uni jobs threat leads to toxic culture - Leighton Andrews
Professor and former education minister says plan to cut 400 jobs has created a "climate of fear".
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Bill Nye at the Stand Up for Science rally in DC: "What are you afraid of? What is it about the process of science, modern medicine, caring for our neighbors, or Women's History Month, that you all find so scary?" 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
As UK universities either shrink radically, or prepare to do so, it's the waste that gets me. All those billions you threw at training, infrastructure and research projects? Loads of it is being poured down the drain. Shocking and immoral.
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Julie's Bicycle @juliesbicycle.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
📢 @dannychivers.bsky.social & @immykaur.bsky.social join us on 4 Mar for our Board Environmental Champions session. We'll explore finance - spending, sourcing & investing in an environmentally responsible way. On the board of a cultural organisation? Join our free programme tinyurl.com/5x4yc3cc
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Board Environmental Champions | Julie's Bicycle | Culture & Climate Non-Profit Network
A programme that supports arts organisations to put environmental ambition and responsibility at the centre of their governance.
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Pierrette Squires ACR @museumpierrette.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
@jane-henderson.bsky.social while I was in the #Geology store I couldn’t leave without taking photos of the perfectly purple gems for you
Purple gems in tiny vials in a drawerSquare cut amethyst in a glass vial inside a card tray in the geology store at bolton museum
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André 🇨🇦 🇹🇹 🇲🇹 🇪🇺 @andredarmanin.eurosky.social · 26/02/2025
If you didn't read the Fraser Institute report on which Federal programs to cut, I did it for you. Their assessment was about linear economic thinking not about systems thinking. A common theme of these types of think tanks. (subs) politicsofinclusion.substack.com/p/beyond-the...
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Beyond the Ledger
Why the Fraser Institute's Spending Cuts Report Misses the Mark...Yet Again!
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Jane Henderson @jane-henderson.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
I am constantly impressed by the imaginative ways that Dana Goodburn-Brown brings conservation to communities. She really does deliver sustainable conservation. #conservation #sustainability #CSISittingbourne www.sittingbourne.me/sittingbourn...
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Hands on the Past, Making it Last
The half term week provided a showcase of Sittingbourne’s historic past with a fun filled week of activities cumulating in the Swale Wassail festival which was held on Saturday.
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Michael Munnik @michaelmunnik.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
My university is proposing big cuts, with an esp. heavy hit in the humanities. Religion and Theology - a programme I teach on and worked last year to revise - is one of the proposed cuts. A former student has put a petition together to rally some support. Please sign! www.change.org/p/save-our-r...
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Sign the Petition
Save Our Religion And Theology Degree!
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 18/02/2025
Knowledge is never knowing the answer. It’s knowing the territory.
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Jane Henderson @jane-henderson.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
You might enjoy this fully open access special edition of scientific culture. Papers from practioners around the world that show how conservators have used data to specify sustainable care strategies. www.sci-cult.com/category/202...
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Vol. 11.1 SP ISSUE – SCIENTIFIC CULTURE
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Emily Cock @emilyncock.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
The Learned Society of Wales' statement on proposed cuts at Cardiff University. www.learnedsociety.wales/cardiff-univ...
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Cardiff University reorganisation plans: LSW Statement - The Learned Society of Wales
As Wales’ National Academy, the Learned Society of Wales has been increasingly concerned that Welsh universities are operating within a difficult financial context. Economic strain, the impacts of imm...
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Jane Henderson @jane-henderson.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
I visited a country house today. I have also been trying to grow my #conservators network on blue sky. So here is a game! Identify the place from the loggers. It will get easier. Reply with HOW MANY images u saw before u knew. Share so I can find more people who look at loggers. #conservation
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Laurence Totelin @ltotelin.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
It would be refreshing to read articles that really reflect on the causes of the current crisis in UK HE, instead of repeating the same message over and over again (fees stagnating; drop in international recruitment).
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Andy Williams @llantwit.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
@nation.cymru are doing some stellar reporting on the unnecessary & cruel cuts at Cardiff University. And senior academics are doing some stellar leaking. New figures make it clearer that the Uni can afford to not cut 400 jobs. @ucu.org.uk’s been saying this all along. nation.cymru/news/univers...
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University imposing massive job cuts and School closures has £0.5bn in unrestricted reserves
Martin Shipton Newly published accounts for Cardiff University – which has announced massive job cuts and School closures – reveal that its overall surplus increased by nearly sixfold in a year and th...
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Nic Baker-Brian @bluntnorthener.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
‘Any reduction to these degree subjects would undermine economic potential and social cohesion for the whole of Wales’ www.learnedsociety.wales/cardiff-univ...
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Cardiff University reorganisation plans: LSW Statement - The Learned Society of Wales
As Wales’ National Academy, the Learned Society of Wales has been increasingly concerned that Welsh universities are operating within a difficult financial context. Economic strain, the impacts of imm...
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Jane Henderson @jane-henderson.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
I visited a country house today. I have also been trying to grow my #conservators network on blue sky. So here is a game! Identify the place from the loggers. It will get easier. Reply with HOW MANY images u saw before u knew. Share so I can find more people who look at loggers. #conservation
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Karen Brookfield @karenbrookfield.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
It’s wonderful to see Dave Wyatt here 🦋 - an amazing champion for community heritage and inclusion. Someone that Cardiff Uni should be proud of and want to keep! Please support the campaign to save his fantastic work with Caer Heritage and everyone in Ancient History #AncientBlueSky ⚱️
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Dave @sharewyatt.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
To hear @ the power & value of the humanities & university/community partnerships for social cohesion & addressing social/economic challenges, check this podcast @CAER Heritage: open.spotify.com/episode/4eTp... @flintdibble.bsky.social @karenbrookfield.bsky.social @jane-henderson.bsky.social
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Ep.46 - Universities, civic mission & communities with Dr Dave Wyatt
The Community Development Podcast (@CommDevtPodcast) · Episode
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Dave @sharewyatt.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
I made a statement to Wales Online at today's rally for Higher Education at the Senedd, scroll down...sadly, there is a picture of me too 🤔 @flintdibble.bsky.social @llantwit.bsky.social @ltotelin.bsky.social @jane-henderson.bsky.social www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...
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Hundreds attend protest at Senedd over uni job losses plan
Cardiff University has announced proposed cuts of 400 academic staff and shutting whole academic departments and degree programmes
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
This.
A quote from the writer AR Moxon from 2017. He wrote:

"Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed. That word is "Nazi." Nobody cares about their motives anymore. They joined what they joined. They lent their support and their moral approval. And, in so doing, they bound themselves to everything that came after.
Who cares any more what particular knot they used in the binding?"
A.R. Moxon
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