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New reporting finds that the Bavarian State Painting Collection possesses at least 200 paintings that it knows were looted from Jews during the Nazi period, including works by Picasso and Klee - but has deliberately kept descendants in the dark about this. www.dw.com/en/was-nazi-...

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I'm very pleased to share news of a new project I am leading at The National Archives. PASSAGE combines archival research on the transatlantic trade of enslaved people with an international programme that centres the research of West African & Caribbean scholars. Read more here: shorturl.at/XLyC8

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Very sharp and fun read, with a point that bears repeating: "What survives of the past isn’t a representative sample of what existed."

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This is such an iconic story of fake provenance. The brave sailor who bought antiquities all over the world. Sure. 😆 www.occrp.org/en/feature/t...

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It's hard to describe what a feat this is, and shouldered by a much smaller group than the folks who captured the data. @asegerberg.bsky.social has been chipping away at this database for years. Rescuing data is hard, but curating & publishing it is a much harder, lonely slog. Prepare for it.

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Woher kommt eigentlich die Klage, dass NS- verfolgungsbedingtes Kunst- und Kulturgut, wenn es aus öffentlichen Einrichtungen restituiert werden würde (!), nicht mehr sichtbar wäre und der Öffentlichkeit vorenthalten werden würde?

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Lovely little article discussing how people have been obsessed with old stuff for a long time. #archaeology #hoarders

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The stained glass cupola inside the Battersea Arts Centre.

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good morning! www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/20...

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Call for abstracts: I’m putting together an edited book on archaeology and horror. Details below. Contact me for full CFP or to discuss potential submissions. 🏺👻🧟🏛️

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Exciting bit of news: we recently received funding from the EU to study colonial university history! More details about "Colonial Legacies of Universities: Materialities and New Collaborations" (COLUMN) in the link👇 www.uu.nl/en/news/colo... #skystorians #heritage #decolonization

submitted 73 days ago • 8 comments

Do people not hear themselves when they parrot the paternalistic rhetoric that global south museums can't care for repatriated objects?

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"Classifications such as “migrant” or “refugee” do not represent social groups as much as they symbolize state-regulated relations of difference and state-manufactured conditions of vulnerability." www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

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Good forgery anecdote from Muscarella_'s "Unexcavated Objects and Ancient Near Eastern Art"

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“The first appeal of a fascist or prematurely fascist movement is an appeal against the intruders. Thus Ur-Fascism is racist by definition.” www.openculture.com/2024/11/umbe...

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"anyone concerned with truth & accuracy should avoid the term “tribe” in characterizing African ethnic groups or cultures." Lowe et al Calling 'nations' 'tribes' was an intentional practice that delegitimised pre-existing political structures permitting annihilation. folukeafrica.com/essential-re...

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#Repatriation of cultural and historic artifacts to #Indigenous groups is more than law - it’s about human rights, it's a remedy for historical trauma. 🏺 theconversation.com/repatriation... by Christopher Wolff via @theconversation.com

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"Wearing our Pride" new display from the British Museum badge collection in the Money Gallery for LGBTQ+ history month, co-curated with community partners.

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The material record of the #Anthropocene, or: What do we leave behind? "How the pollution of today will become the #technofossils of the far future" 🏺 theconversation.com/how-the-poll... by Jan Zalasiewicz & Sarah Gabbott via @theconversation.com

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As restitutions slow across Europe, UK may be poised for progress via @theartnewspaper.bsky.social (14 Jan) www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/01/14/a...

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Hi drag mutuals! I'm compiling my new newsletter for Museum Drag Network. If you're interested in joining a baby network about engaging with heritage via drag and/or want a shoutout of any heritage-related drag you're doing please let me know! museumdragnetwork.substack.com/p/launch?utm...

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ICYMI The Historic Environment Forum (HEF) report on #heritage and #ClimateChange shows the investments required to get the sector to #NetZero - and illustrates some of the related evidence gaps and policy challenges. Read it here: https://buff.ly/4aG9Sbi #HeritageSectorToNetZero

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UK law has changed, putting the onus onto employers to proactively prevent sexual harassment at work. Sadly it’s still a major issue. Prospect Archaeologists Branch (UK trade union) have launched a campaign and are providing advice and support, info and materials here: linktr.ee/prospectarchs

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“Solidarity” is not an idea that often pops up in British newspapers, even to deride it. It’s no exaggeration to say that I have heard the word used more often in reference to a 1980s Polish trade union than as a value we might or should hold.

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The security guards at the V&A are on strike and are urging the public not to visit. I sent this email to let them know that I wanted to support their #LGBTQHistoryMonth tours but can't. Sharing here in case you'd like to send an email of your own:

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This week's word count: 2406 This week's rabbit holes: Venus and her sparrows; the psychology of rock climbing; re-reading Hamlet. #AmWriting ✍🏻

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Boom! We’ve revealed the next season theme for our events programme over April/May will be Folklore Reimagined. Features lore of the land, history of the witch, and a rare performance by Simon Armitage www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/seasons/folk...

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One of the directors of the company that owns this mouldy property currently unfit for the very elderly couple mentioned is also a trustee of the British Museum. A curse on every billionaire

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#Skyhistorians #museums #artsky event in Oxford.

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it truly is mind boggling the number of times musk has retweeted literal nazi accounts, promulgated nazi theories, done the nazi salute, supported neo-nazi parties around the world, all in plain sight, yet i still haven't seen an article titled: "elon musk is an actual nazi and here's the evidence"

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This makes me think of how union organizing training about mapping organizations to build communal power has us rate potential collaborators less on how vocally sympathetic they've been/ID as, more on history of action (eg did you just critique; or did you join, organize, sign a letter, show up, ?)

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"We are apolitical and should not say anything that might offend a person in power" is an astonishing thing for the chair of a Holocaust memorial council to say, along with, "This Holocaust remembrance is about memory; it is not about politics."

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This is a message from Eugène Delacroissant, curator of the Museum of Mankind: the Vagina Museum are ending my residency on 23rd February! :( Not as important as sharing manly knowledge, anyway. Come and see the exhibition before my unpaid interns pack it up www.vaginamuseum.co.uk/exhibitions/...

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What made the 1948 expulsion of Palestinians thinkable was, among other things, the fact it was officially put forward as a "solution" by a British Royal Commission in 1937. That went beyond our wild dreams, wrote Ben Gurion at the times, we would never have dared to suggest it.

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Part 2 in @thecontinent.org's #MuseumOfStolenHistory series covers Tewodros' II, King of Kings of Abyssinia, gold crown - looted during the British Army’s 1868 siege of Maqdala.

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Our edited collection is published Open Access by @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social on 6 February! We have wonderful chapters exploring inherited objects and stories! We loved putting it together @katieebarclay.bsky.social @tanyaevans.bsky.social @ashleybarnwell.bsky.social @lauracking.bsky.social

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Checking some proofs this morning for the publication of a lecture I gave in Porto in autumn 2023. 'Interpreting Invisible Heritage: Re-Enchanting the Hidden Histories of Place'. #place #heritage #history #invisible #enchantment

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seeing takes about the aid institutions and their role in imperialism. correct. If someone said "investor-owned hospitals exploit the vulnerable to benefit shareholders" I'd nod. If their followup was "and that's why I'm turning off your mom's dialysis machine" I'd...have some followup questions

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Every time you criticise "woke" for some imaginary slight, you licence stone racists to openly deny historical reality in the interests of their racist fantasies of the past, and racist power-trips in the present. grapplingwithhistory.com/2025/01/20/a...

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