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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · 6d

There are a few sneaky cool postboxes around. There's a Victorian one in Roath which has been enveloped by a tree.

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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · 6d

I feel like you lot will appreciate this Cardiff postbox...

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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · 18d

Turns out that paddock cat might be some kind of vengeful ancient god? #F1 #BakuGP

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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · 22d

It's not even the only #F1 car I dealt with today. What a life!

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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · 22d

Self portrait in the heat shield of a 1992 McLaren F1 car.

Some days, museum collections are very cool indeed.

A blurry reflection of me in the gold leaf heat shield behind the driver's seat of an F1 internal monocoque chassis

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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · 25d

Cardiff has quite possibly the most dense concentration of artisan bakeries in Europe and I for one am *honoured* to live in such a city.

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · Aug 13

We're 300 followers away from 70,000. 300 more would be really nice. But you know what would be even better? 300 plus 30,000.

Bluesky: help a museum out

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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · Aug 14

I'd jump at this but living in Wales/ working in England means I'm uniquely unqualified. But at a recent MA thing I was surprised how few applications came from Wales and Northern Ireland.

Would love for this to change, your input will make such a difference!

💚Iarratas Anois // Ymgeisiwch Nawr ❤️

Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · Aug 14

Amazing opportunity here to have a say in MA policies and procedures, representing the UK's four nations. Do apply to represent your nation and the devolved issues of culture you're dealing with.

#NIMuseums #ScottishMuseums #WelshMuseums #EnglishMuseums

Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · Aug 13

Opportunity | Become a member of our Nation Committees 👤

We're looking for 12 members to join our committees to support our work in the four nations of the UK, with places available for 3 members to join each of our England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales committees.

Apply by 14 September 👇

Opportunity | Become a member of our Nation Committees - Museums Association

We're looking for 12 members to join our committees to support our work in the four nations of the UK

www.museumsassociation.org

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Sheffield Museums @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social · Aug 14

Like many of you, we’re heading to the Wales for the summer holidays with this beautiful painting for #OnlineArtExchange @artukdotorg.bsky.social in celebration of Oriel Môn's exhibition 'From the Collection' 🖼️

🖼️A Sketch in Wales
👨‍🎨William James Müller (1812–1845)
📸Sheffield Museums

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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · Aug 13

147 at close of play. Would still ban them if that was a viable option. I would dearly love to go back to the snarky physical memos of old that I often find in archives...

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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · Aug 13

Even closer, the London Welsh School also exists in Ealing...

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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · Aug 13

This thought brought to you by the fact I have 590 emails and untold chaos in my inbox and I'm trying to get it cleared today and I am already praying for death pre-9am.

I fucking *hate* email.

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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · Aug 13

When anyone talks about "labour saving" tech I love to tell them that actually it just raises standards, costs money, & doesn't make anyone's life easier.

When they don't believe me: EMAIL. Basically free, instant, and easier than post. But tell me - how much labour has email saved you lately?

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Aaron Allen @mchapelproject.bsky.social · Aug 13

Still stumped by this one… #palaeography

Aaron Allen @mchapelproject.bsky.social · Jul 1

#palaeography help please! What is thus contraction mark? It looks like a capital I like on Item or It. Ibidem? It’s from 1551 from the Edinburgh Hammermen: ‘…be our soverane and proveist and baillies of I[ ] this burght’ Ibid would fit?

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · Jul 25

I see grocery/takeout shaming discourse going around again, so this is your periodic historian reminder that cooking from scratch daily while working has never been sustainable, and for millennia everyone either relied on takeout & restaurants or ate in huge households w/ big dorm-like group dining.

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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · Jul 21

An excellent opportunity to join the curatorial team at the Science Museum has come up! Please spread the word.

🌍Curator of Climate & Earth Sciences
⚗️Part of the excellent Team Science in London Curatorial
⌛ Permanent, Full-Time
💲 £41k p/a

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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · Jul 17

Some good news for Welsh heritage and museums here. Much needed.

Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · Jul 16

News | Caerphilly Castle to reopen following two-year restoration – elsewhere, Cyfarthfa Castle and Shire Hall Museum receive funding for transformative projects

Caerphilly Castle to reopen following two-year restoration - Museums Association

Elsewhere, Cyfarthfa Castle and Shire Hall Museum receive funding for transformative projects

www.museumsassociation.org

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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · Jul 17

Oh I would be well up for an annual spoon competition. We have several thousand more!

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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · Jul 17

Proto millennium dome?

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · Jul 17

Navajo (or Diné bizaad, if you favour endonyms) is one of the most inventive of all languages (in my opinion) in that it has often created neologisms for new things, rather than borrowing terms from other languages. Here are ten of my favourite Navajo / Diné words (and their meanings) for animals…

10. Raccoon = tábąąh mąʼii (waterside coyote)
9. Dog = łééchąąʼí (shit pet)
8. Spotted hyena = tééh łééchąąʼí łikizhígíí (shit pet of the valley, with spots)
7. Sea lion = tábąąstííntsoh (big otter)
6. Walrus = tábąąstííntsoh bideeʼ hólónígíí (big otter that lies on the shore, with tusks)
5. Turtle = chʼééh digháhii (in vain starts to go along slowly)
4. Alpaca = shádiʼááhdę́ę́ʼ tłʼízíʼilí (shaggy goat from the south)
3. Caterpillar = wódítłʼooí (insect that is hairy)
2. Shark = łóóʼ hashkéhé (angry fish)
1. Kangaroo = nahatʼeʼiitsoh (big hopping rat)

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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · Jul 15

Please share your best spoon.

Our nephew, Arlo, has asked to see "our coolest spoon" and this is the best we can manage. 🥄😳

The back of the bowl of a spoon, made from bone. the handle has broken off and is missing. It's pretty cute, but we don't think Arlo will be impressed.

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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · Jul 17

And a beautiful whalebone and mother of pearl spoon collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co15...

Spoon, whalebone, mother of pearl inlay | Science Museum Group Collection

Whalebone spoon, inlaid with mother of pearl, European 1801-1900

collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk

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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · Jul 17

A combined spoon and corkscrew! collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co13...

Combined medicine spoon and corkscrew | Science Museum Group Collection

Combined medicine spoon and corkscrew, advertisement for Burroughs Wellcome, metal, British, 1880-1900

collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk

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Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social · Jul 17

A bronze spoon, which is in the shape of a trident but I would say in modern parlance, is definitely an early iteration of the Spork

collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co82...

Bronze spoon | Science Museum Group Collection

Bronze spoon, in the shape of a trident with bowl on middle prong

collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk

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