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Kirsty Parsons @museum-owl.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Our new exhibition ‘Showtime!’ at the #CharlesDickensMuseum has now been open a week! 🙌 Time for some instal reminiscing #exhibition #theatre #adaptations

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Kirsty Parsons @museum-owl.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Visited the only free #museum in #Vienna. 1. Inn sign, about 1700-50. #Hedgehogs were common inn signs, likely due to folk tales of them feeding grapes to their young. 2. Fanny Elbler’s mechanical wings from her role as the lead in the #ballet ‘Sylphide’, 1840.

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Kirsty Parsons @museum-owl.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Really love the way the #PostalMuseum has tried to decode archival documents for visitors in their new exhibition ‘Voices of Resistance: Slavery & Post in the Caribbean’

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Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

I'm really so pleased that ordinary, working women's stories are being integrated back into the historical record. Their lives are interesting too, but part of me despairs when every Georgian woman's story has to be told in connection with Jane Austen. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

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Beyond the bonnets: Jane Austen’s working women finally get their place in the spotlight

Exhibition looks at housekeepers, maids and governesses who ‘enable the lives of the heroines and heroes’

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Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · 07/07/2025

News | River & Rowing Museum confirms ‘extremely difficult’ decision to close – venue's net losses have averaged £1m a year due to high cost of running building

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River & Rowing Museum confirms ‘extremely difficult’ decision to close - Museums Association

Venue's net losses have averaged £1m a year due to high cost of running building

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Jennie Morgan @drmorgan.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Vacancy Senior Research Associate: Plants, Enslavement, and Public History www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

bristol.ac.uk

Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol

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Tincture of Museum @tinctureofmuseum.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Tomorrow the Charles Dickens Museum is free all day to celebrate their 100th Birthday 🎉 On the blog I have been looking back at their 1925 opening and recalling my own visits over the years. tinctureofmuseum.wordpress.com/2025/06/08/h...

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Happy Birthday to the Charles Dickens Museum, June 2025

From my first visit … 100 Years is certainly something to celebrate, so on Monday 9 June I am looking forward to heading to the Dickens Museum at 48 Doughty Street to celebrate with members o…

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