Melinda Haunton
@melindahaunton.bsky.social
Archivist historian train traveller perennially anxious frequently cooking always interested
Tbh if you RT more than you comment I'm unlikely to follow back. I like to chat. UK based.
Tbh if you RT more than you comment I'm unlikely to follow back. I like to chat. UK based.
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Hello. If you're new to me, please know a *lot* of this feed is pictures of my feet as evidence of having reluctantly gone for a daily walk (#UnconfinedWalks). See also cups of tea (#TeaUp) and a Saturday night social (#ConfinedCocktails). In between there may be some archives.
I stayed awake! And now I've given blood again. Like a pro*. My deliciously rare B neg is in processing.
*second time, still hate fingerprick tests, mini Cheddars still the best snack option, somehow got lost in the hospital after having no problems last time, not a vestige of a swoon though.
*second time, still hate fingerprick tests, mini Cheddars still the best snack option, somehow got lost in the hospital after having no problems last time, not a vestige of a swoon though.
In a triumph of planning I've scheduled the accreditation assessors meeting (always fun) this afternoon, just before giving blood. Which means having a hefty pasta lunch before this two hour meeting which I need to chair and speak a lot at.
Zzz.
Zzz.
November 26, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I stayed awake! And now I've given blood again. Like a pro*. My deliciously rare B neg is in processing.
*second time, still hate fingerprick tests, mini Cheddars still the best snack option, somehow got lost in the hospital after having no problems last time, not a vestige of a swoon though.
*second time, still hate fingerprick tests, mini Cheddars still the best snack option, somehow got lost in the hospital after having no problems last time, not a vestige of a swoon though.
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#UnconfinedWalks In the neighborhood at 0650 this morning. A wee bit early for Christmas decorations, but a cheering sight nonetheless. @melindahaunton.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
#UnconfinedWalks In the neighborhood at 0650 this morning. A wee bit early for Christmas decorations, but a cheering sight nonetheless. @melindahaunton.bsky.social
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On budget day, think of George Ward Hunt, who delivered his only budget in 1868.
On arriving in the Commons he discovered that he'd left his speech behind, & had to run home to get it while MPs sat grumbling in the Chamber.
That is why chancellors show the red box to journalists before setting out
On arriving in the Commons he discovered that he'd left his speech behind, & had to run home to get it while MPs sat grumbling in the Chamber.
That is why chancellors show the red box to journalists before setting out
November 26, 2025 at 12:04 PM
On budget day, think of George Ward Hunt, who delivered his only budget in 1868.
On arriving in the Commons he discovered that he'd left his speech behind, & had to run home to get it while MPs sat grumbling in the Chamber.
That is why chancellors show the red box to journalists before setting out
On arriving in the Commons he discovered that he'd left his speech behind, & had to run home to get it while MPs sat grumbling in the Chamber.
That is why chancellors show the red box to journalists before setting out
In a triumph of planning I've scheduled the accreditation assessors meeting (always fun) this afternoon, just before giving blood. Which means having a hefty pasta lunch before this two hour meeting which I need to chair and speak a lot at.
Zzz.
Zzz.
November 26, 2025 at 12:49 PM
In a triumph of planning I've scheduled the accreditation assessors meeting (always fun) this afternoon, just before giving blood. Which means having a hefty pasta lunch before this two hour meeting which I need to chair and speak a lot at.
Zzz.
Zzz.
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Seed Corn Grants offer between £500 and £5,000 to support early-stage, exploratory projects that spark new ideas and approaches to community engagement with heritage.
⏱️Deadline to apply: Friday 28 November (2/2)
⏱️Deadline to apply: Friday 28 November (2/2)
November 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Seed Corn Grants offer between £500 and £5,000 to support early-stage, exploratory projects that spark new ideas and approaches to community engagement with heritage.
⏱️Deadline to apply: Friday 28 November (2/2)
⏱️Deadline to apply: Friday 28 November (2/2)
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Are you a community group with a passion for heritage? Or a museum, library, gallery or archive with a bold idea for community-led research?
The Spaces, Places and Belonging Community Hub is accepting applications for seed corn grants: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/community-hu... (1/2)
The Spaces, Places and Belonging Community Hub is accepting applications for seed corn grants: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/community-hu... (1/2)
November 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Are you a community group with a passion for heritage? Or a museum, library, gallery or archive with a bold idea for community-led research?
The Spaces, Places and Belonging Community Hub is accepting applications for seed corn grants: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/community-hu... (1/2)
The Spaces, Places and Belonging Community Hub is accepting applications for seed corn grants: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/community-hu... (1/2)
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The @scottpolar.bsky.social are looking for a librarian. This is a rare opportunity! Work with (probably) the world's largest dedicated polar library alongside archive and museum colleagues. The dream 😍
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Librarian
The Library of the Scott Polar Research Institute is one of the most comprehensive collections of published polar information in the world. This highly specialist reference collection, which attracts
www.cam.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM
The @scottpolar.bsky.social are looking for a librarian. This is a rare opportunity! Work with (probably) the world's largest dedicated polar library alongside archive and museum colleagues. The dream 😍
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📜
I keep meaning to recommend Kenrex, and here it is with special offers available: www.londontheatredirect.com/play/kenrex-.... An antidote to twinkly festivity, and a pretty amazing not-quite-one-man-show. I loved it at Southwark.
November 25, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I keep meaning to recommend Kenrex, and here it is with special offers available: www.londontheatredirect.com/play/kenrex-.... An antidote to twinkly festivity, and a pretty amazing not-quite-one-man-show. I loved it at Southwark.
In a cruel twist of fate, it turns out I still don't have a house gnome and am forced (FORCED!) to do my own washing up. Pffft.
OTOH, the amaretto mince pie things from Lidl aren't bad. My first mincemeat of the season. Bit sweet, inevitably. But pleasing.
OTOH, the amaretto mince pie things from Lidl aren't bad. My first mincemeat of the season. Bit sweet, inevitably. But pleasing.
November 25, 2025 at 7:34 PM
In a cruel twist of fate, it turns out I still don't have a house gnome and am forced (FORCED!) to do my own washing up. Pffft.
OTOH, the amaretto mince pie things from Lidl aren't bad. My first mincemeat of the season. Bit sweet, inevitably. But pleasing.
OTOH, the amaretto mince pie things from Lidl aren't bad. My first mincemeat of the season. Bit sweet, inevitably. But pleasing.
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Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research?
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research?
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
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Useful archival cataloguing term found
November 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Useful archival cataloguing term found
Well. I would call that a mixed return to work. Some really promising and interesting opportunities and the odd very much less so heffalump trap. None of which I was anticipating. Lawks.
November 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Well. I would call that a mixed return to work. Some really promising and interesting opportunities and the odd very much less so heffalump trap. None of which I was anticipating. Lawks.
Been at work for an hour and a half. Want to sob with exhaustion. The inbox isn't even that bad, although not entirely unbothersome. The trouble with holidays, see, is that they END.
November 25, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Been at work for an hour and a half. Want to sob with exhaustion. The inbox isn't even that bad, although not entirely unbothersome. The trouble with holidays, see, is that they END.
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Come & work with me! We’re looking for a project manager to oversee digitisation of the National Farm Survey & other grant-funded projects. Fixed-term until March 2027. £39.5k-48.4k. Apply by 3 Dec 2025. www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...
a cartoon of two bears applying for jobs
Alt: A cartoon of a panda typing at a laptop and a bear walking back and forth talking. Caption: “applying to jobs”.
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November 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Come & work with me! We’re looking for a project manager to oversee digitisation of the National Farm Survey & other grant-funded projects. Fixed-term until March 2027. £39.5k-48.4k. Apply by 3 Dec 2025. www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...
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📣Calling archivists, researchers & heritage professionals!
Join us online on Monday 26 January (1PM) to learn key concepts of trauma-informed and person-centred practices and practical frameworks for embedding these into your work.
Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introducti... (1/2)
Join us online on Monday 26 January (1PM) to learn key concepts of trauma-informed and person-centred practices and practical frameworks for embedding these into your work.
Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introducti... (1/2)
November 24, 2025 at 4:14 PM
📣Calling archivists, researchers & heritage professionals!
Join us online on Monday 26 January (1PM) to learn key concepts of trauma-informed and person-centred practices and practical frameworks for embedding these into your work.
Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introducti... (1/2)
Join us online on Monday 26 January (1PM) to learn key concepts of trauma-informed and person-centred practices and practical frameworks for embedding these into your work.
Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introducti... (1/2)
Two exhibitions and one brief nose into a grand magasin decked out already. That'll do, Paris. #UnconfinedWalks
November 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Two exhibitions and one brief nose into a grand magasin decked out already. That'll do, Paris. #UnconfinedWalks
Last time. Terrace dining fgs, but well enclosed.
November 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Last time. Terrace dining fgs, but well enclosed.
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STEWARDING CHANGE: REIMAGINING ARCHIVES IN THE DIGITAL AGE
Join us at General Register House to hear from the Chief Executive of the National Records of Scotland for our Annual Lecture!
Book your space via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stewarding...
Join us at General Register House to hear from the Chief Executive of the National Records of Scotland for our Annual Lecture!
Book your space via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stewarding...
Stewarding Change - Alison Byrne, CEO National Records of Scotland
Join us for this year's Scottish Council on Archives annual lecture.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 6:45 PM
STEWARDING CHANGE: REIMAGINING ARCHIVES IN THE DIGITAL AGE
Join us at General Register House to hear from the Chief Executive of the National Records of Scotland for our Annual Lecture!
Book your space via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stewarding...
Join us at General Register House to hear from the Chief Executive of the National Records of Scotland for our Annual Lecture!
Book your space via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stewarding...
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
Sigh. Holiday nearly done. It has been lovely though. A rigorous schedule of two exhibitions per day, one glass of wine for lunch, long walks, early to bed, plenty of frivolous reading, and a ludicrous amount of patisserie for support. In some ways, suboptimal, but in others a dream for relaxation.
November 23, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Sigh. Holiday nearly done. It has been lovely though. A rigorous schedule of two exhibitions per day, one glass of wine for lunch, long walks, early to bed, plenty of frivolous reading, and a ludicrous amount of patisserie for support. In some ways, suboptimal, but in others a dream for relaxation.
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7 days to go until the inauguration! 🎉 Live streaming starts this Friday 11/28 www.visitgavle.se/sv/gavlebocken
November 23, 2025 at 6:40 PM
7 days to go until the inauguration! 🎉 Live streaming starts this Friday 11/28 www.visitgavle.se/sv/gavlebocken
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"The Festive Big Green Book Swap" is back!
Let me know the kind of stuff you like reading.
I'll match you up with someone with similar taste.
I'll post you both a book I think you'll both like (+ choc & tea)!
Read, chat & eat choc!
Just £15
DETAILS HERE!
biggreenbookshop.com/index.php
Let me know the kind of stuff you like reading.
I'll match you up with someone with similar taste.
I'll post you both a book I think you'll both like (+ choc & tea)!
Read, chat & eat choc!
Just £15
DETAILS HERE!
biggreenbookshop.com/index.php
November 23, 2025 at 7:56 PM
"The Festive Big Green Book Swap" is back!
Let me know the kind of stuff you like reading.
I'll match you up with someone with similar taste.
I'll post you both a book I think you'll both like (+ choc & tea)!
Read, chat & eat choc!
Just £15
DETAILS HERE!
biggreenbookshop.com/index.php
Let me know the kind of stuff you like reading.
I'll match you up with someone with similar taste.
I'll post you both a book I think you'll both like (+ choc & tea)!
Read, chat & eat choc!
Just £15
DETAILS HERE!
biggreenbookshop.com/index.php
Never too late to join us #ConfinedCocktails
A day late but I'm quaffing a huge redcurrant gin while watching Downton Abbey for #ConfinedCocktails
November 23, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Never too late to join us #ConfinedCocktails
So. I mentioned it's the centenary of the original Art Deco exhibition and I've been to a couple of small shows on it. But self, isn't there a very large central Musée des Arts Décoratifs that might have something to say on this?
Yes. Yes there is.
Yes. Yes there is.
November 23, 2025 at 4:47 PM
So. I mentioned it's the centenary of the original Art Deco exhibition and I've been to a couple of small shows on it. But self, isn't there a very large central Musée des Arts Décoratifs that might have something to say on this?
Yes. Yes there is.
Yes. Yes there is.
It is still raining. I need something to do for absolutely sodding hours tomorrow pm as my homebound train was predicated on getting to Paris from far away. Most things are shut. Do I want to see the Invalides? Or do I risk rain and go back to the Marais for a mooch/Archives Nationales exhibition?
November 23, 2025 at 2:21 PM
It is still raining. I need something to do for absolutely sodding hours tomorrow pm as my homebound train was predicated on getting to Paris from far away. Most things are shut. Do I want to see the Invalides? Or do I risk rain and go back to the Marais for a mooch/Archives Nationales exhibition?