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Dr Susan Newell

@sue-newell.bsky.social
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Historian of science with special interest in early 19th-century geology including the contributions of teachers, women, artists, collectors, printmakers and museums.

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Dr Susan Newell @sue-newell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Memorial to #Ruskin (1819-1900) on his grave at St Andrew’s, Coniston by his student, local sculptor HT Miles, to designs of his secretary WG Collingwood
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Dr Susan Newell @sue-newell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Finally visited Brantwood,from 1871 home of #Ruskin, formerly Buckland’s student, at Coniston #LakeDistrict last month. Wonderful insight into Ruskin’s passion for nature, art, collecting and teaching
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Dr Susan Newell @sue-newell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
@hoggroup James Hutton Tercentenary field meeting to Dumfries & Galloway. Day1 Clints of Dromore 😍
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Dr Susan Newell @sue-newell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Great to see Mary Anning’s finds signposted among the fantastic fossils #sedgwickmuseum Cambridge
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Dr Susan Newell @sue-newell.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Thank you Dr Ruth Siddall @pavementgeology.bsky.social @geolsoc.bsky.social for a wonderful presentation on mineral and earth pigments combining Earth science history and art history so brilliantly @hoggroup.bsky.social
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Dr Susan Newell @sue-newell.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Fabulously restored and looking particularly gorgeous in the spectacular illuminations tonight #crystalpalacepark dinosaurs #hoggroup
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Dr Susan Newell @sue-newell.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Fabulously restored and looking particularly gorgeous in the spectacular illuminations tonight #crystalpalacepark dinosaurs #hoggroup
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Dr Susan Newell @sue-newell.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
The Blue Rigi at Sunrise - no wonder Ruskin adored Turner! 1842 watercolour at the Tate Britain exhibition now
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Dr Susan Newell @sue-newell.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Memorable visit to Torquay Museum, Brixham cave and Kent’s Cavern thanks to Christinefarmer.bsky.social and @hoggroup.bsky.social
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Museum of Natural History, University of Oxford @morethanadodo.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
This evening at the Museum you can attend the free talk ‘Breaking Ground’ and Beyond: A Century of Women and Geology at OUMNH 1813-1914 -- 6PM This talk will show that there’s another side to the history of science at OUMNH there hides a long tradition of women contributing to scientific research.
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Dr Susan Newell @sue-newell.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Can we really know the story of Mary Morland’s Megalosaurus illustrations for Buckland? Read my article doi: 10.17704/1944-6187-44.1.88 Honoured to be in such great company for this issue of EarthSciencesHistory meridian.allenpress.com/esh Thanks to @hoggroup.bsky.social @morethanadodo.bsky.social
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Dr Susan Newell @sue-newell.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
#otd the Oxford geologist William Buckland was born 1784. He first came to public attention with his ‘hyenas’ den’ theory, following the Kirkdale cave discoveries in Yorkshire, 1821 #@morethanadodo @hoggroup.bsky.social
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Dr Susan Newell @sue-newell.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Ichthyosaur skull from Lyme Regis on display at Winchester College- 1790s alumnus William Buckland (later first Prof of Geology at Oxford) would approve! @hoggroup.bsky.social
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Dr Susan Newell @sue-newell.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Recently caught up with some history of geology greats #nhmuk @hoggroup.bsky.social
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Dr Susan Newell @sue-newell.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Recommending ‘Breaking Ground’ great new exhibition @morethanadodo.bsky.social based around my favourite early geologists William and Mary Buckland
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