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This article by @natashawalter.bsky.social is genuinely essential reporting and reading. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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This looks exciting!

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Ah this is lovely

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Just came across this great blog by Taran N. Khan about a 'Never Walk Alone' trip to Kew Gardens organised by @fencesfrontiers.bsky.social, an organisation that supports refugees and asylum seekers. @rbgkew.bsky.social www.runnymedetrust.org/blog/putting...

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If anyone would know about cheese baskets, it would surely be @jennylinford.bsky.social

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The British Museum is 'an embassy, a university, a police station, a science lab, a customs house, a base for archaeological excavations, a place of asylum, a retail business, a publisher, a morgue, a detective agency'. Fascinating piece on the British Museum by Charlotte Higgins:

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Thrilled that #StolenHistory is on the shortlist for the 2024 ALCS Educational Writers' Awards. Talking to young students about this history is so rewarding. I'll be doing another school tour this year, email contact details on my website. #alcsawards @societyofauthors.bsky.social sathnam.com

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#GARDENS & #EMPIRES: conference organised by @rbgkew.bsky.social @englishheritage.bsky.social & @britishlibrary.bsky.social 27-28 June 2025. Call for papers: gardensandempires.tiiny.site @rhulgeography.bsky.social @nationaltrust.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social

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Lovely piece on therapeutic value of Kew Gardens' community allotment:

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Somerset House putting on some fascinating-looking exhibitions this coming year, starting with Soil: The World at our Feet.

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This exciting new art exhibition at Somerset House explores the iniquitous colonial salt tax. The artists, Hylozoic Desires, have drawn inspiration in part from my work on a powerful courtesan, Mayalee, who defied the British at Sambhar Salt Lake in the 1830s. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

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Wonderfully inventive website suggesting new ways of approaching botanic collections. Do explore!

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A massive privilege for me and Leon to be a small part of bringing books and families together. #prisons #prisoners #reading #books

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Great view of Kew Gardens (first exhibited c. 1865). Love the incongruity of the ‘Chinese’ pagoda in the semi-rural landscape.

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Brilliant (long!) thread. Combines huge paleontological expertise with … kittens!

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Extraordinary images!

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Wonderful thread!

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Since we all really FELT that ancient pooch who wouldn’t drop the ball, I figured I may as well tell you a bit about dogs in ancient Mesopotamia. They leave traces everywhere, from bricks to burials to proverbs. Here’s a 4,000-year-old paw print of a pooch on a brick from ancient Ur

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If you thought forms were always perfunctory, then check out the lovely artwork on this late seventeenth-century bill of lading from the @prizepapers.bsky.social #earlymodern #maritimehistory #customs #ports

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May as well dive right in. Did you know that dogs in ancient Mesopotamia also refused to drop the ball? According to a Sumerian proverb, “The dog understands ‘Take it!’ It does not understand ‘Put it down!’” Source: cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/34...

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Fascinating thread:

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Fascinating thread!

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The Mughal Cotswolds!Yesterday at Sezincote House after tremendous walk with @corinnefowler.bsky.social from her great book, Our Island Stories.

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Exciting!

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British Social Attitudes Survey report released. Highest score for sense of pride in British achievement is 79.3% for Arts & Literature: government, universities and funding bodies take note!

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This looks splendid #CaribbeanConnections #CaribbeanThreads www.vam.ac.uk/event/YGVBDZ...

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Paolo Antonio Barbieri, Autumn Still Life, circa 1640, Oil on canvas, 66.3 × 79.2 cm (26 1/8 × 31 3/16 in.) (Art Institute of Chicago) #earlymodern

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A stunningly illustrated celebration of wildflower seeds:

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Nice article about the persistent disobedience of pedestrians:

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Melbourne Australia gave their city trees email addresses (to report damage and maintenance) and people started sending them letters of appreciation. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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Great to see this memorial finally happen! The design of cowrie shell (used as currency by those who traded in enslaved people) also points to the involvement of the East India Company which imported vast quantities of the shells.

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What an Intriguing story!

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New working group for those interested in acknowledging the contribution and knowledge of Black, Asian and Indigenous people to natural history collections: www.chstm.org/content/hidd...

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'Scholars In Conversation: Sir Stamford Raffles & Dr Nathaniel Wallich was unveiled in Fort Canning Park on May 21....[paid for by] the Singapore chapter of the alumni of the University of East Anglia'. Intriguing sets of issues here.

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A fun read! Some delightful ice cream van lore, including the ‘international parental conspiracy’ that the ice cream van jingle announced that stocks had run out (my mother-in-law was an early adopter in 1960s-70s Birmingham).

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Dazzling display of the architectural qualities of palms: 'Singularity' from @_MarcQuinn Light into Life show @kewgardens. Precisely modelled on a Bismarckia nobilis leaf from Kew's Palm House (and placed just outside).

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Take your PhD supervision to the next level with a THESIS DEFENCE PRINT. Apparently in the seventeenth-century Netherlands, broadsheet pamphlets were produced to advertise a thesis defence: this one makes visual reference to the student & his mathematical abilities. (Seen at #GreatFlemishDrawings)

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The Cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry. A single data center can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes.

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