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Dr Leah Warriner-Wood (she/her)
@leahww.bsky.social
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🏛️ Conservator
📚 Historian of material culture
👩‍🎓 PhD material masculinity in C18th tapestry interiors
👩‍🏫 Senior Lecturer @uolconservation.bsky.social
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💻 http://staff.lincoln.ac.uk/lwarrinerwood
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Dr Leah Warriner-Wood (she/her) @leahww.bsky.social · Jan 22
Hi Bluesky 👋 I'm a conservator & researcher at the University of Lincoln, currently hung up on the material articulation of masculinity in the C18th tapestry interiors at Doddington Hall, Lincolnshire.

Find out why in my Google Arts & Culture exhibition: artsandculture.google.com/story/fwXRxs...
Material Maketh Man: Sir John Delaval and the Doddington Hall Tapestries - Google Arts & Culture
Discover how reconfiguring antique tapestries helped Doddington Hall’s owner, John Hussey Delaval, to elevate his social status in 18th century Lincolnshire.
artsandculture.google.com
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Join me for this brand new webinar on 10th December 2025, where I'll be talking about how historic interiors can be used to tell new stories of houses, and the people who lived in them.

🔗 www.lincolnconservation.co.uk/training/onl...

@jimchesh.bsky.social @uolhumanities.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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uolconservation.bsky.social
🖼️ Finally for 2025, our own @leahww.bsky.social will be leading the December event, which will ask what can be learned by listening closely to historic interiors.

🔗 Full details and booking via www.lincolnconservation.co.uk/training/onl...

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October 8, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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uolconservation.bsky.social
📷 This will be followed in November by a talk about integrating modern digital methods for conservation with their traditional counterparts.

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@uolhumanities.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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uolconservation.bsky.social
New affordable heritage CPD series 📢

Our colleagues at Lincoln Conservation have just launched their new online heritage CPD series for professionals and students.

🗓️ The first event, coming up on 15 October, will look at archiving difficult heritage inclusively.

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October 8, 2025 at 6:38 PM
leahww.bsky.social
I'm seriously behind the times (a lengthy PhD will do that to you) but I'd like it to be known how wonderful 'The Facemaker' by @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social is. My first proper postdoctoral read, and what a joy it was - absorbing, well researched and, above all, full of heart and humanity. A triumph 👏
October 8, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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uolconservation.bsky.social
A statement in support of our colleagues in National Trust properties and conservation studios around the country.

#conservation #culturalheritage #heritage #objectconservation #conservator #textileconservation #textileconservator #objectsconservation #nationaltrust @jimchesh.bsky.social
Beige text against a burnt orange background reads: As individuals and a team, the academic and technical staff within the University of Lincoln's department of Conservation are shocked and saddened to learn of the redundancies taking place within National Trust conservation studios and properties. The National Trust has been a sector leader in the care and conservation of our shared cultural heritage for generations, and a beacon to which our students look for inspiration, guidance, and experience. We are concerned for what the cuts may mean for emerging professionals and the conservation sector, but we send our heartfelt thanks to each and every National Trust colleague - past and present - who has supported us in our educational and research aims over the years. We are standing with you in solidarity, as one conservation community. October 2025.
October 3, 2025 at 10:50 AM
leahww.bsky.social
I'm indescribably proud to have graduated with a PhD in Conservation and Restoration yesterday evening, in the beautiful surroundings of Lincoln Cathedral, watched over by @uolhumanities.bsky.social colleagues, and alongside @uolconservation.bsky.social students. A perfect day, that I'll treasure.
September 16, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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What a brilliant first day at the @womenshistnet.bsky.social conference! 👏

Thanks to those who came to hear me speak about the Hussey sisters this morning - it was a privilege to tell you their story♀️

Thanks also to the WHN team for trusting me to chair an excellent panel on visual arts 🎨
September 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM
leahww.bsky.social
I see your Picasso potato, @lyndaskipper.bsky.social and raise you a French bean growing through a hole in a leaf.

@jimchesh.bsky.social
August 31, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Reposted by Dr Leah Warriner-Wood (she/her)
uolconservation.bsky.social
What do an elephant, teacake, and a conference have in common? 🐘🍫 🧑‍🏫 Find out in a new blog by students Amy and Anna!

history.lincoln.ac.uk/2025/08/13/f...

@uolhumanities.bsky.social @jimchesh.bsky.social @lyndaskipper.bsky.social @icontextilegroup.bsky.social

📸 National Trust Images/Jon Scrimshaw
August 13, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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uolconservation.bsky.social
⚠️ Job Alert ⚠️

❓ Collections Assistant
📍 Welbeck Abbey, Worksop
🗓️ Closes 26 August 2025
🔗 www.welbeck.co.uk/collections-...

#conservation #culturalheritage #heritage #conservationjobs #heritagejobs #museumjobs
August 11, 2025 at 7:40 AM
leahww.bsky.social
I'd like to congratulate myself (and BBC Good Food) on a very fine plum cake. Recommended if you're still trying to use your harvest up, @jimchesh.bsky.social @lyndaskipper.bsky.social
August 10, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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In my next life I'd like to be symmetrical, so I don't have to trace off pattern pieces twice and make adjustments to each side separately 🤬
August 1, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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uolconservation.bsky.social
⚠️ Job Alert ⚠️

❓ Scientific Cataloguers
📍 Historic Royal Palaces
🗓️ Closes 18 August 2025
🔗 hrp.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

#conservation #culturalheritage #heritage #conservationjobs #heritagejobs #museumjobs #conservationscience #heritagescience
July 28, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Graduation place, gowning, and photography arranged for 15 Sept 🎉 Floppy hat here I come!

Hope you've registered, @lyndaskipper.bsky.social & @jimchesh.bsky.social - this is a celebration of your hard work, too!
July 25, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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uolconservation.bsky.social
⚠️ Job Alert ⚠️

Closes on Monday, so don't delay!

❓ Assistant Conservator
📍 National Library of Scotland
🗓️ Closes 21 July
🔗 nls.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...

#conservation #culturalheritage #heritage #conservationjobs #heritagejobs #libraryjobs #library #bookconservation #paperconservation
July 19, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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uolconservation.bsky.social
⚠️ Job Alert ⚠️

❓Tapestry Conservation Intern
📌 Historic Royal Palaces
🗓️ Closes 28 July 2025
🔗 hrp.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

#conservation #culturalheritage #heritage #conservationjobs #heritagejobs #museumjobs #textileconservation #tapestry #tapestryconservation
July 15, 2025 at 8:02 AM
leahww.bsky.social
A bit of industrial heritage today at Papplewick Pumping Station. Each of these beams weighs 13 tonnes, but the grace of their movement is hypnotic.
July 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
leahww.bsky.social
Tea with Charlotte Hayes of Covent Garden in my garden this afternoon. Because even though I've completed my PhD I'm not ready to leave the 18th century.

#CoventGardenLadies #Harlots #18thcentury #georgian #history #skystorian
July 9, 2025 at 7:27 PM
leahww.bsky.social
I'm really looking forward to presenting one of the stories that didn't make it into my thesis at this event.

Registration is free, open to everyone, and the event is wholly online!
womenshistnet.bsky.social Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · Jul 7
📢 Just announced! The programme & booking is now live for our Annual Conference 2025.

🗓️ Join us online & free on 4–5 Sept for Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums & Personal Collections.

🔗 womenshistorynetwork.org/the-womens-h...
#WHN2025 #WomensHistory #Archives #Heritage
July 9, 2025 at 7:23 PM
leahww.bsky.social
Fruit from the allotment + supermarket rewards voucher = free jam 😋🫙
July 9, 2025 at 12:22 PM
leahww.bsky.social
Huge kudos to Jannik Sinner for helping to pack Dmitrov's bag after he was injured, and for treating his belongings with such careful respect. It really is the simple things that matter.

#Wimbledon #BBCSport #Tennis
July 7, 2025 at 8:04 PM
leahww.bsky.social
Yesterday's rain made weeding the allotment squash patch and planting out gherkins so much easier (if muddier) this morning. The leeks and baby corn planted before the heatwave are looking OK too. Hope your plot also enjoyed the weather @jimchesh.bsky.social @isochesh.bsky.social ☔🌱
July 7, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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I really enjoyed learning about Raku ceramic techniques today, with friends. The second (white) pot is partially decorated with fur from our pet ferret, Diesel ❤️
July 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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I'm on leave at the moment (and also don't work on Fridays) so I won't be on strike tomorrow, but solidarity with my colleagues who are.

Having had confirmation of my PhD award from Lincoln just today, I'd like to feel confident of being able to continue using it after September.
uculincolnbranch.bsky.social Lincoln Branch of UCU @uculincolnbranch.bsky.social · Jul 2
With management's refusal to rule out compulsory redundancies, and an active mandate for industrial action, #UCULincoln members will be on strike Friday 4th July.

We must not continue to pay for a national HE crisis with our jobs and livelihoods!

#nocompulsoryredundancies
July 3, 2025 at 5:31 PM