Hats off to Cannon Hall Museum, Park & Gardens and Barnsley Museums for providing such fun on a rainy Sunday. Littlest one kept wandering into rooms & saying ‘OOH’ ❤️

📣Funded PhD opportunities!

Three new PhD studentships, working with Museum of the Home, will feed into our research hub and become part of the CSH cohort! 👇

We’re recruiting a Collections & Exhibitions Trainee! #rotherham #southyorkshire #museumjobs

I needed this article! I’ve distanced myself from histories of feminism since leaving the Pankhurst Centre 🐝 as it all got, well, horrible. But this! Read this! 👇👇👇

Another inspiring and informative forum- thank you Museum Development Yorkshire and Barnsley Museums for hosting!

Collaborative PhD with the incredible Oral History team here British Library

Brilliant people always welcome at Manchester Museum. Two big jobs out today. For those who love stuff and data - and connecting them to people with purpose - we’re looking for a Collections Information Manager jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?…

An urdu poster in support of the miners during 1984-85 strike.

'Support the Miners'

(Designed by Mukhtar Dar, Sheffield Asian Youth Movement)

We've just been in the organising meeting for the Sheffield Bookfair on 9 March - all stalls and talks are now fully booked up - that's 40 stalls of radical ideas and information on two floors, with a bar, food, parking space etc

'Yorkshire Washday' Washing using dolly tub and mangle (wringer) in Yorkshire, 1904 National Archives (Catalogue ref: COPY 1/474/159)

From the Indian Workers Associations organising street collections to the Asian Youth Movements sending minibuses up to Orgreave, South Asian solidarity was prominent during the miners' strike.

Keen to hear from those who may recall this. DMs open or email in bio.

You’re crying, I’m crying, everyone’s crying!

I'm planning the Social History Curators Group conference for 2024! And it's joint with the journal!

The theme is 'Museums and Emotion' - keen to have content about both visitor emotion and workforce emotion!

More info here including link to submission form: docs.google.com/document/d/1Jd…

Sometimes, just sometimes, we’re able to gather enough pennies together to pay for #conservators like Graham. His work has transformed this model & I can’t wait for visitors to see it! #MinersStrike40

The horror of the proposal to destroy originals is compounded by the crass suggestion that those of ‘notable figures, such as Dickens and Darwin’, should be retained. Who judges who is ‘notable’? For my research into previously ‘unknown’ women wills are an invaluable source

What I would have given for this book to have been written at the time I was writing my thesis! 🙌

We're hiring 👀

We're looking for a Producer – Heritage to join our programme team – working to develop and deliver new culture and heritage projects as part of #Bradford2025 #CityofCulture2025 💥

📅 Deadline: Mon 20 Dec bradford2025.co.uk/2023/11/27/pro…

Dear SheffieldCityCouncil who do I contact about the many, many dead rats on Brown Lane?

Do you work with collections information in a UK museum? Would you like to contribute to research about how the history and practice of #MuseumDocumentation has impacted #DigitalCollections and #MuseTech ? Please complete this survey & share with colleagues leicester.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/history-and-pr…