Christina Riggs
@christinajriggs.bsky.social
Writer and historian: photograpy, art, archives, museums, colonialism (Egypt, Sudan). Tango dancer, Italophile, Chair in History of Visual Culture @durhamhistory.bsky.social. Author of Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century. https://christinariggs.com
Mitzi may not be feeling thankful for flea treatments after today’s impromptu vet visit - but I certainly am. #Thanksgiving #cats 🐈⬛
November 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Mitzi may not be feeling thankful for flea treatments after today’s impromptu vet visit - but I certainly am. #Thanksgiving #cats 🐈⬛
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Please enjoy this project we've been working on with the lovely team at Google Arts and Culture:
artsandculture.google.com/project/nati...
Its so exciting to make so much of our collection accessible this anniversary year for the railways from models and artwork to tools and vehicles!
artsandculture.google.com/project/nati...
Its so exciting to make so much of our collection accessible this anniversary year for the railways from models and artwork to tools and vehicles!
National Railway Museum - Google Arts & Culture
Journey through the untold story of the railways
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November 27, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Please enjoy this project we've been working on with the lovely team at Google Arts and Culture:
artsandculture.google.com/project/nati...
Its so exciting to make so much of our collection accessible this anniversary year for the railways from models and artwork to tools and vehicles!
artsandculture.google.com/project/nati...
Its so exciting to make so much of our collection accessible this anniversary year for the railways from models and artwork to tools and vehicles!
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New blogpost on an interesting photograph album from the Pamir Boundary Commission of 1895, now digitised and available on DAME (the Digital Archive of the Middle East), documenting negotiations about border demarcation in Afghanistan
specialcollections.exeter.ac.uk/2025/11/21/t...
specialcollections.exeter.ac.uk/2025/11/21/t...
November 26, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Coming up online on 6 December -
November 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Coming up online on 6 December -
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This weeks class is ‘AI, digital media & the environment’ so I’ll be introducing my students to the materiality of these technologies & the object history of their mobile phones. Everyone can learn something from an archaeological approach to tech
November 25, 2025 at 8:29 AM
This weeks class is ‘AI, digital media & the environment’ so I’ll be introducing my students to the materiality of these technologies & the object history of their mobile phones. Everyone can learn something from an archaeological approach to tech
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I’m delighted to share that my first journal article has been published in the special issue 'Labour Archives and Methodologies' of Labour History.
Honoured to have this piece included alongside such distinguished work: doi.org/10.3828/labo...
Honoured to have this piece included alongside such distinguished work: doi.org/10.3828/labo...
November 24, 2025 at 11:30 PM
I’m delighted to share that my first journal article has been published in the special issue 'Labour Archives and Methodologies' of Labour History.
Honoured to have this piece included alongside such distinguished work: doi.org/10.3828/labo...
Honoured to have this piece included alongside such distinguished work: doi.org/10.3828/labo...
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In conversation with Rupert Whitaker: a special event to mark World AIDS Day – 6pm 1 December 2025, Durham University Waterside Building
pay.durham.ac.uk/event-durham...
pay.durham.ac.uk/event-durham...
November 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
In conversation with Rupert Whitaker: a special event to mark World AIDS Day – 6pm 1 December 2025, Durham University Waterside Building
pay.durham.ac.uk/event-durham...
pay.durham.ac.uk/event-durham...
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Can anybody help us out in the search for a mid-C20 computer lab in action? 💾🤖💽🧑💻💾📸🙏
Help! @frenchhistory.bsky.social really wanted this for journal cover next year (we’ve got exciting things coming on quantitative and computational methods) but it’s a challenge finding higher res versions/rights holder.
Do YOU have suggestions to track these down OR alternative, similar images? 🙏🏻 🗃️
Do YOU have suggestions to track these down OR alternative, similar images? 🙏🏻 🗃️
November 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Can anybody help us out in the search for a mid-C20 computer lab in action? 💾🤖💽🧑💻💾📸🙏
Mood. Not even three inches of fur is enough up in the frozen north. 🐈⬛❄️
November 20, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Mood. Not even three inches of fur is enough up in the frozen north. 🐈⬛❄️
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We have a new Currents in Critical Heritage Studies post up by Sofya Shahab from the University of Stirling, Pacific Heritage: embodied modalities of peacebuilding with the past www.criticalheritagestudies.org/currents-cri...
Pacific Heritage — Association of Critical Heritage Studies
Sofya Shahab, University of Stirling Pacific Heritage: embodied modalities of peacebuilding with the past There are some moments that become etched in memory. Similar to 9/11 and the 2004 Boxing ...
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November 20, 2025 at 8:19 AM
We have a new Currents in Critical Heritage Studies post up by Sofya Shahab from the University of Stirling, Pacific Heritage: embodied modalities of peacebuilding with the past www.criticalheritagestudies.org/currents-cri...
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The History Department of the University of Massachusetts Amherst invites applications for an Assistant Professor in the History of the Modern Middle East. Areas of specialization are open. Please share! - careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u... #History #Historians
Details - Asst Professor U of M | Human Resources | UMass Amherst
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November 19, 2025 at 12:32 PM
The History Department of the University of Massachusetts Amherst invites applications for an Assistant Professor in the History of the Modern Middle East. Areas of specialization are open. Please share! - careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u... #History #Historians
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Our next online research seminar in Photographic Cultures & Heritage will be on 27 Nov, 5.30 pm UK time, with Pippa Oldfield and Tom Allbeson, who will discuss "Peace Photographies". Free and open to all, register here! photographichistory.wordpress.com/autumn-2025-2/ #photohist
Autumn 2025 #2
Research Seminars in Photographic Cultures and Heritage Pippa Oldfield Teesside University, Middlesbrough, UK Tom Allbeson Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK Peace Photographies: Rethinking Photo…
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November 18, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Our next online research seminar in Photographic Cultures & Heritage will be on 27 Nov, 5.30 pm UK time, with Pippa Oldfield and Tom Allbeson, who will discuss "Peace Photographies". Free and open to all, register here! photographichistory.wordpress.com/autumn-2025-2/ #photohist
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Today's #Museum30 prompt is photograph 📸
Discover photography on Art UK 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/art-terms/photography
'Self-Portrait with Vivex One-Shot Camera' by Madame Yevonde (1893–1975) © National Portrait Gallery, London.
Discover photography on Art UK 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/art-terms/photography
'Self-Portrait with Vivex One-Shot Camera' by Madame Yevonde (1893–1975) © National Portrait Gallery, London.
November 18, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Today's #Museum30 prompt is photograph 📸
Discover photography on Art UK 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/art-terms/photography
'Self-Portrait with Vivex One-Shot Camera' by Madame Yevonde (1893–1975) © National Portrait Gallery, London.
Discover photography on Art UK 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/art-terms/photography
'Self-Portrait with Vivex One-Shot Camera' by Madame Yevonde (1893–1975) © National Portrait Gallery, London.
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There’s a petition countering proposals to close the Film Studies programme at the University of Leicester. Read more here c.org/WfcP6tX6gG
Stop the Closure of Film Studies at Uni of Leicester
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
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November 17, 2025 at 7:22 PM
There’s a petition countering proposals to close the Film Studies programme at the University of Leicester. Read more here c.org/WfcP6tX6gG
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The Carena Institute of Sustainable Archaeologies seminar series will start next term at Birkbeck.
The topic will be Collaborative Archaeologies in (Post)Conflict Contexts. All very welcome!
The topic will be Collaborative Archaeologies in (Post)Conflict Contexts. All very welcome!
November 17, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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This is worth a read: New discussion of "Conservative Public History" with a series of case-studies just out in the journal International Public History #skystorians
Conservative Public History: Special Section Introduction
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November 17, 2025 at 8:56 AM
This is worth a read: New discussion of "Conservative Public History" with a series of case-studies just out in the journal International Public History #skystorians
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Show you stand together with refugees.
From the 5-7 Dec we’re asking you to put up a poster to show you stand for hope not hostility.
Let's fill our communities with this message of unity.
Order your posters now actionnetwork.org/forms/order-...
From the 5-7 Dec we’re asking you to put up a poster to show you stand for hope not hostility.
Let's fill our communities with this message of unity.
Order your posters now actionnetwork.org/forms/order-...
November 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Show you stand together with refugees.
From the 5-7 Dec we’re asking you to put up a poster to show you stand for hope not hostility.
Let's fill our communities with this message of unity.
Order your posters now actionnetwork.org/forms/order-...
From the 5-7 Dec we’re asking you to put up a poster to show you stand for hope not hostility.
Let's fill our communities with this message of unity.
Order your posters now actionnetwork.org/forms/order-...
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Was a delight to appear on @empirepoduk.bsky.social with @willdalrymple.bsky.social & @anitaanand.bsky.social- available to listen now…
⏰NEW EPISODE OUT TODAY⏰
Austen and Brontë: Unmasking Slavery Heiresses
@willdalrymple.bsky.social and @anitaanand.bsky.social are joined by Dr Miranda Kauffman, to discuss the often-ignored connections between these famous authors and slavery heiresses.
Austen and Brontë: Unmasking Slavery Heiresses
@willdalrymple.bsky.social and @anitaanand.bsky.social are joined by Dr Miranda Kauffman, to discuss the often-ignored connections between these famous authors and slavery heiresses.
November 15, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Was a delight to appear on @empirepoduk.bsky.social with @willdalrymple.bsky.social & @anitaanand.bsky.social- available to listen now…
What is your favourite song about the rain? (Always a good question in the UK…)
November 15, 2025 at 5:19 PM
What is your favourite song about the rain? (Always a good question in the UK…)
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Honoured to be hosting the incredible Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social next month at LSE - join us for this important lecture on December 3
What do neoliberalism, US aid, and Gulf land grabs have to do with hunger in Sudan?
@nisrinelamin.bsky.social and @sarasalem.bsky.social will join us to discuss the politics of hunger in Sudan
🗓️ 3 Dec | 6.30pm
🎟️ register to join us in-person or online
#LSEEvents #Sudan
@nisrinelamin.bsky.social and @sarasalem.bsky.social will join us to discuss the politics of hunger in Sudan
🗓️ 3 Dec | 6.30pm
🎟️ register to join us in-person or online
#LSEEvents #Sudan
The politics of hunger in Sudan | Nisrin Elamin
6.30pm Weds 3 Dec | Nisrin Elamin | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE
lse.ac.uk
November 13, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Honoured to be hosting the incredible Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social next month at LSE - join us for this important lecture on December 3
If you're lucky enough to be in Italy next week, go to the 'Women in Photography' conference at the Brera, Milan. Amazing programme at link below (all in English), organized by Linda Bertelli, Nicoletta Leonardi and the Fotografiste project team. 🗃️📷📸 Livestream will be announced on IG @fotografiste_
Activities
Conference Program: Women in Photography: Practitioners, Labourers, Entrepreneurs in a Global Perspective (1839-1939)
20-21 November 2025
www.fotografiste.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:13 AM
If you're lucky enough to be in Italy next week, go to the 'Women in Photography' conference at the Brera, Milan. Amazing programme at link below (all in English), organized by Linda Bertelli, Nicoletta Leonardi and the Fotografiste project team. 🗃️📷📸 Livestream will be announced on IG @fotografiste_
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Here is another petition I would rather not have to sign.
Help protect Modern Languages courses at the University of Leicester!
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c.org/2g4WxGSwmX
Help protect Modern Languages courses at the University of Leicester!
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c.org/2g4WxGSwmX
We Can Make an Impact.
Save Modern Languages courses at the University of Leicester
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November 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Here is another petition I would rather not have to sign.
Help protect Modern Languages courses at the University of Leicester!
👇👇👇
c.org/2g4WxGSwmX
Help protect Modern Languages courses at the University of Leicester!
👇👇👇
c.org/2g4WxGSwmX
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I asked about this, and one of our excellent librarians discovered that in fact AI summaries/"Research Assistant" can be switched off at the level of the library. Something to request. support.proquest.com/s/article/Eb...
November 11, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I asked about this, and one of our excellent librarians discovered that in fact AI summaries/"Research Assistant" can be switched off at the level of the library. Something to request. support.proquest.com/s/article/Eb...