Dr Julie Holder
@julieh80.bsky.social
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Assistant Curator of Modern & Contemporary History, National Museums Scotland. Posts about history, museums, heritage, disability & my pets Lightning & Puggo. Discworld fan & disabled mum to 2 fabulous neurospicy kids (own opinions she/her)
![Top left, portrait of Mary Anning in a green cloak and a straw bonnet tied with a red ribbon; top right, portrait of Adam Sedgwick with dark hair and in a dark coat; bottom, extract from Sedgwick's diary '20 [September 1820] After breakfast purchase fossils of Miss Anning - was to Charmouth Cliffs - large flags of lias covered with impressions of ammonites'.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vcl75pfg74dsskrzvynq5rez/bafkreigeahzov7lyzn4ysxdzwhnt43fwtcqrmghraaybrxzgroydfwxhme)
![Top, extract from Murchison's journal 'Charmouth Sept 14 1825 To day to Lyme & sat in the Plesiosaurus Bed with Mary Anning – a drenching rain'; centre left, portrait of Mary Anning in a green cloak and straw bonnet tied with a red ribbon; centre right, portrait of Roderick Murchison with a full head of hair and long sideburns; bottom, extract from Murchison's journal where he went to the 'Western Beach where I soon discovered her [Mary Anning] with her dog, hammer & basket – a fine intelligent young woman'](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vcl75pfg74dsskrzvynq5rez/bafkreia72a6ry72ymqjgifsih4jp5lflforu3o3xlg7ty3gpz6dyq65iem)
