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Morgan W-B

@morganw-b.bsky.social
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Loans @ British Library, likes to learn stuff about things, art, books, pro-dogs, child is 8, brain is soup (views my own, this is not a prof account) she/her

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 11/12/2025
‘A sound archivist told me he and his colleagues could earn more in the private sector but they work here for less pay because “we believe in what we do.”’ Anna Aslanyan on the picket line at the British Library, from the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
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Anna Aslanyan | On the Picket Line
On Monday morning, more than a hundred people formed a picket line outside one of the entrances to the British Library...
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Morgan W-B @morganw-b.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Tonight I went to the opera and then on the tube home was in the same carriage as a Man With A Jar Full Of Bees
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Morgan W-B @morganw-b.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Opening soon!
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Fantômas, Le contrebandier de DEI @theefantomas.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
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Morgan W-B @morganw-b.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
What’s up London are we getting TWO flying ant days this year
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Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
150% TARIFFS ON ALL MEETINGS THAT COULD HAVE BEEN AN EMAIL
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Morgan W-B @morganw-b.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Toast a crumpet in his honour, on the fires of a riot
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Morgan W-B @morganw-b.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
It’s crunch time (I’m eating toast)
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Morgan W-B @morganw-b.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
An incredible policy, I can only hope it goes through as it would make such an immense difference to so, so many.
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
A photograph of Keir Starmer, saying 'there's a famous slogan in the United Kingdom', above a quote post of our absolute unit (a very big sheep labelled 'look at this absolute unit').
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 09/02/2025
Y’all come quick, the museums are doing super bowls again
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Morgan W-B @morganw-b.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Happy large boulder the size of a small boulder day!
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Morgan W-B @morganw-b.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Go see it! Open until 2 March!
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Heaven forbid women have hobbies
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Morgan W-B @morganw-b.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Love listening to my real life husband complaining about his imaginary game wife
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Michelle Margolis @mmargolis.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Given a whole bunch of recent (badly paid) library postings, I gotta give the Library of Congress its due. Its Reference Librarian (Hebraic Section) is listed at a range of 101-131K. www.loc.gov/item/careers... 👀 Can hiring committees/finance peeps please take a lesson from LC??
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Librarian (Reference Librarian- Hebraic)(Vacancy#:VAR002962)
The librarian is responsible for building the collections of the de facto national library; facilitating research and reference instruction and support onsite and virtually; and coordinating library e...
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 09/01/2025
meep! they don't love you like I love you
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Morgan W-B @morganw-b.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Frohes neues!!
Fireworks in the sky, some fairy lights and trees can be seen in the light from the fireworks
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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
if you’re cold, they’re cold. put them in your pockets
rocks shivering
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Morgan W-B @morganw-b.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Man that hole in the ozone layer is Real* *I am an idiot and got sunburned sitting outside in New Zealand for 30min
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✨️naomithinksit✨️ @naomithinksit.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Every museum should have a Little Guys Tour, and at the end of the tour you can buy reproductions of all the little guys
Egyptian Blue Bes ceramic Statue from the British museum shop, kind of looks like a tiny suspicious bear? He's adorable A middle Egyptian turquoise hippo from the met. He looks despondent and adorable. He has line art of reeds painted on his back and face. A ceramic baby rattle from the met shaped like a pig. However it doesn't look much like a pig, it's giving creature saying ooooooo. It's adorable.Little red earthenware bowl from the met. It has two little humanoid feet on the bottom and looks like he's standing shyly. Adorable.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 08/12/2024
They made omegaverse fanfic, god bless al gore’s internet and every person on it i am WHEEZING
AO3 OV fix of the United healthcare shooter
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fredesque @fredtaming.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
me: i have a bunch of anxiety rn brain: how bout a coffee me: idk sounds like a bad idea brain: iced coffee me: ok yeah that makes more sense
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Morgan W-B @morganw-b.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Some incredible silly medieval manuscript stickers made by Marina Ćorić (there are also murder rabbits) www.instagram.com/marinchy.ill...
Three sheets of stickers with medieval manuscript themes: dogs, cats, plants
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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Looks like we've finally figured out the function of the VOYNICH Manuscript! nerdwax.com/products/voy... @lisafdavis.bsky.social
Image of the "Voynich Manuscript"
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Morgan W-B @morganw-b.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Feeling fancy, making my own coffee blends* this morning *mixing two bags together because there wasn’t enough in the first bag
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The Museumfolk @themuseumfolk.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
There are two things that can prevent something like this from happening: an ironclad deed of gift or a decent ground to air defense system.
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The Museumfolk @themuseumfolk.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Y'all, I can't believe I finally have a chance to say this. This is an heir raid. www.avweb.com/aviation-new...
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Donor's Family Lays Claim To Museum's Wright Airplane
The family of Grover Bergdoll, the original owner of this Wright Model B hanging at the Franklin Institute, say they want the plane back.
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Morgan W-B @morganw-b.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Beyond the fact that people would go absolutely feral, why aren’t there post offices and little grocery stores airside in airport terminals? (Specifically Trader Joe’s so I can get snacks)
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Morgan W-B @morganw-b.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Infinite thanks to @magnifyzoology.bsky.social for doing this every year!!! It’s such a huge effort and is a great chance to discover new things about your work, approaches, ideas, and to find colleagues across the museum sector. 🥰
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Morgan W-B @morganw-b.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
#museum30 day 30: why museums? Being able to tell and share stories, either from yesterday or thousands of years ago- from the story of the object to how it was made, who made it, and what we can learn from that today. And because we keep learning new things all the time!
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thomson & craighead @jonthomson.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Hugo Christmas Ball takes his place for another year
Amidst the pine needles and branches of a Christmas tree is a close up of a paper cut out of Hugo Ball. Our Hugo Christmas Ball. Blurry reflection of Christmas tree lights behind in the nighttime wood framed window
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Morgan W-B @morganw-b.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Just heard @shaneboyle.bsky.social say ‘I love you!’ out of nowhere which was so sweet! But he was saying it to Jayden Reed of the Packers while watching the Thanksgiving day game. I got ‘oh! And you, too!’
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Morgan W-B @morganw-b.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
A reminder that you probably need to clean your glasses. It’s foggy but not *that* foggy. And the fog should be outside.
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Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Butter Advent Calendar just dropped.
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Morgan W-B @morganw-b.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
#museum30 day 29: hope We’re always hoping for a better week, month, year, one more calm, more organised, more measured, with no catastrophes, etc., but they rarely seem to come. Instead, I hope we can at least find a precious work/life balance and claw back some time, reinforcing our boundaries
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Morgan W-B @morganw-b.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
#museum30 day 28: letter What letters were written here? This is Jane Austen’s portable ‘writing-box’, given by her father in 1794. Passed down through her family and presented to the British Library in 1999, it is shown with a pair of her spectacles and an ink pot Add 86841
A mahogany wood box, hinged on one side to open into a flat sloped surface for writing. It has a black inlaid surface and open compartments at the top, with a drawer visible on the side. A pair of spectacles sit on top of the desk. A mahogany wood box, hinged on one side, shown partially open.
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Happy Thanksgiving
A hog from a 19th century portrait, expanded and edited so that it stars in the New York City Thanksgiving parade. It is being carried by a group of Ronald McDonalds (which doesn't make sense, but does make sense because the original image was of a Ronald McDonald float).
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Morgan W-B @morganw-b.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
#museum30 day 27: discovery I visited the space shuttle Discovery last month with my family while visiting DC, and now have a 7yo now very into space after having a brief existential crisis in the IMAX watching a film on space travel. airandspace.si.edu/collection-o...
A photo showing the back/tail of the space shuttle Discovery, on display in a museum. It is very big, it feels larger than a regular huge jet, and ispainted white with three huge black funnel shaped exhausts. There is a satellite hanging over the shuttle from the top of the enormous hangar.A somewhat blurry photo from the nose of the Discovery shuttle, showing the cockpit and some of the black heat protective tiling on the nose and underside. The rest of the shuttle is painted white, with ‘Discovery’ written on the side below the cockpit. An American flag hangs behind which I’m sure probably is a collection item but I’ll be honest I did not look for a label.
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Morgan W-B @morganw-b.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Sometimes you think you’re okay and don’t miss gardening but then you realise you are staring out the window softly singing ‘Someday’ from West Side Story to the herbs on the sill as you gently stroke their leaves
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Morgan W-B @morganw-b.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
#museum30 day 26: handle Saw this lovely handle on a restaurant door when we had to break for lunch in the middle of a long museum visit!
A highly ornamented door handle of hammered metal, mostly gray but worn gold by hands and use.
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Dripped Out Trade Unionists @uniondrip.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Shame on the California Academy of Sciences for cutting the youth program because the kids passed out flyers supporting the Museum Workers' Union, who have been without a contract since unionizing last year.
MissionLocal graphic with a picture of a dinosaur skeleton at the cal academy of sciences with the text "Cal Academy of Sciences cuts youth program after teens show solidarity with union"
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Morgan W-B @morganw-b.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
#museum30 day 25: uncanny Henry wrote a secret note to Anne, Anne wrote a secret note in reply, and her death trundled forward - one of the more powerful and unnerving manuscripts I’ve held… Kings MS 9, Book of Hours, Use of Sarum (Anne Boleyn's Book of Hours)
Two pages from Kings MS 9, a book of hours belonging to Anne Boleyn. The page on the left shows an illustration of the flayed man, kneeling with arms crossed. There is a faded inscription at the bottom. The right page is an annunciation with Mary, Gabriel, and a dove. There is an even more faded inscription below. Both illuminations are richly bordered in gold with an assortment of flowers and even strawberries.
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WOLFSKULLJACK @wolfskulljack.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
AAAHHHH
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Morgan W-B @morganw-b.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
#museum30 day 24: last 12 mos I’ve gone back & forth & back again, de/installed very cool stuff, dealt with a salvage scenario (all fine), gone to ERC, got tipsy in airport lounges before 12, bleached my hair, decided I should stop bleaching my hair, saw Chappell Roan, cried, done many spreadsheets
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Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Archivist: either way, it is not permitted in the Reading Room
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
optimist: the cup is half full pessimist: the cup is half empty me: which one of you bastards drank half my coffee
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Morgan W-B @morganw-b.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Optimist: the cup is 1/2 full Pessimist: the cup is 1/2empty Registrar: what cup? Where did you get it? How did it get here? Do you have a loan agreement? Insurance certificate? Condition report? Provenance, clear due diligence? Please tell me it doesn’t have liquid near collection items, please…
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Morgan W-B @morganw-b.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Thinking of packing and transporting these in the years 1886-1936 all the way from Dresden to Cambridge makes me hella twitchy but like wow
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