Joe Baubles
@joeborges.bsky.social
MA World Heritage student, interested in magical objects, museum collections and meaning-making. Formerly British Museum Loans and Exhibitions. (he/him)
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I'm very proud of this essay and delighted one of my fave sites is hosting it. On language as the surface of a lake and how the advertiser's dream is to sever it from an ecology of meaning, how we resist this, and why we should absolutely feel okay shaming users of AI. lithub.com/on-the-rise-...
On the Rise of ChatGPT and the Industrialization of the Post-Meaning World
When you teach children to analyze, or appreciate, poetry, you get used to a certain complaint, that you’re making it up, that the writer did not give that much thought to choosing a colon over a c…
lithub.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:05 PM
I'm very proud of this essay and delighted one of my fave sites is hosting it. On language as the surface of a lake and how the advertiser's dream is to sever it from an ecology of meaning, how we resist this, and why we should absolutely feel okay shaming users of AI. lithub.com/on-the-rise-...
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„A sad fiasco“, my book on colonial concentration camps, has been released in paperback today. If you want to know what characterized these deadly institutions; whether colonial powers copied this technique from each other; and whether they are connected to later Nazi camps, consider taking a look.
December 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
„A sad fiasco“, my book on colonial concentration camps, has been released in paperback today. If you want to know what characterized these deadly institutions; whether colonial powers copied this technique from each other; and whether they are connected to later Nazi camps, consider taking a look.
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Eventually today's boring payroll record become tomorrow's fascinating database.
A blast from my past - the Medieval Soldier database takes nearly 300,000 military service records from 1369-1453 and makes them available as a searchable database.
An invaluable resource for understanding medieval warfare, society and the English medieval state. Learn more in the link. 🗃️
An invaluable resource for understanding medieval warfare, society and the English medieval state. Learn more in the link. 🗃️
We built a database of 290,000 English medieval soldiers – here’s what it reveals
We created the database in order to challenge assumptions about the lack of professionalism of everyday soldiers.
theconversation.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Eventually today's boring payroll record become tomorrow's fascinating database.
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Following this nice pic of 70s EMI, two images:
1) postwar Gramophone production line (from Miriam Glucksman's "Women Assemble")
2) Gramophone-themed seating in the current redeveloped site
& two sections from my book:
3) TGWU women's dispute over the Sex Pistols
4) West London gentrification
1) postwar Gramophone production line (from Miriam Glucksman's "Women Assemble")
2) Gramophone-themed seating in the current redeveloped site
& two sections from my book:
3) TGWU women's dispute over the Sex Pistols
4) West London gentrification
December 1, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Following this nice pic of 70s EMI, two images:
1) postwar Gramophone production line (from Miriam Glucksman's "Women Assemble")
2) Gramophone-themed seating in the current redeveloped site
& two sections from my book:
3) TGWU women's dispute over the Sex Pistols
4) West London gentrification
1) postwar Gramophone production line (from Miriam Glucksman's "Women Assemble")
2) Gramophone-themed seating in the current redeveloped site
& two sections from my book:
3) TGWU women's dispute over the Sex Pistols
4) West London gentrification
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there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything
August 10, 2024 at 3:21 PM
there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything
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SORRY FOR BEING A MILLENNIAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
December 1, 2025 at 10:15 PM
SORRY FOR BEING A MILLENNIAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I appreciate how 90% of library+archive+museum social media production is just more and more videos about why they aren't wearing white gloves
November 30, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I appreciate how 90% of library+archive+museum social media production is just more and more videos about why they aren't wearing white gloves
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As 2025 comes to an end, we are reflecting on almost a year of organising as archaeologists of conscience, holding our representative organisations to account in the face of their negligence, silence and complicity. drive.google.com/file/d/1QPy8...
November 29, 2025 at 6:31 PM
As 2025 comes to an end, we are reflecting on almost a year of organising as archaeologists of conscience, holding our representative organisations to account in the face of their negligence, silence and complicity. drive.google.com/file/d/1QPy8...
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"Where are the Black photographers?" Deborah Willis on how she turned that question into an artistic mission.
'Reflections in Black' celebrates history of Black photography with expanded issue
"Where are the Black photographers?" Deborah Willis on how she turned that question into an artistic mission.
n.pr
November 29, 2025 at 12:58 PM
"Where are the Black photographers?" Deborah Willis on how she turned that question into an artistic mission.
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"Inside the Philly traveling museum where Black collectors finally take the spotlight"
"Museums routinely curate exhibitions centering collectors’ works but this traveling art museum is a unicorn. Its 'walls' are solely dedicated to the collections of Black collectors."
"Museums routinely curate exhibitions centering collectors’ works but this traveling art museum is a unicorn. Its 'walls' are solely dedicated to the collections of Black collectors."
Inside the Philly traveling museum where Black collectors finally take the spotlight
Museums routinely curate exhibitions centering collectors’ works but this traveling art museum is a unicorn. Its "walls" are solely dedicated to the collections of Black collectors.
share.inquirer.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
"Inside the Philly traveling museum where Black collectors finally take the spotlight"
"Museums routinely curate exhibitions centering collectors’ works but this traveling art museum is a unicorn. Its 'walls' are solely dedicated to the collections of Black collectors."
"Museums routinely curate exhibitions centering collectors’ works but this traveling art museum is a unicorn. Its 'walls' are solely dedicated to the collections of Black collectors."
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When a bound volume of #1920s newspapers got wet, we froze it to prevent mould developing until we had the time and space to dry it out properly. As the wet pages felt slightly tacky we had to interleave them with dry sheets, so they wouldn’t all stick together in the freezer.
#EYAConservation
#EYAConservation
November 29, 2025 at 11:40 AM
When a bound volume of #1920s newspapers got wet, we froze it to prevent mould developing until we had the time and space to dry it out properly. As the wet pages felt slightly tacky we had to interleave them with dry sheets, so they wouldn’t all stick together in the freezer.
#EYAConservation
#EYAConservation
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We love a secret doorway.
📷The secret door in the Library at Osterley, London by John Hammond
📷The secret door in the Library at Osterley, London by John Hammond
November 29, 2025 at 8:43 AM
We love a secret doorway.
📷The secret door in the Library at Osterley, London by John Hammond
📷The secret door in the Library at Osterley, London by John Hammond
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Why documents shredded by the Stasi in 1989 are still being put together in archives by hand, rather than by using IT. www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/ddr-... via @dpa.com
Zerrissene Stasi-Akten: Weiter puzzeln per Hand statt per IT
www.sueddeutsche.de
November 29, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Why documents shredded by the Stasi in 1989 are still being put together in archives by hand, rather than by using IT. www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/ddr-... via @dpa.com
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Remains of a past library: a “pierced” book of a so-called chained library. #bookhistory
November 29, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Remains of a past library: a “pierced” book of a so-called chained library. #bookhistory
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Publication day! The Routledge Handbook of Heritage & Creative Practice is out today and it includes my piece on creative responses to the mass removal of love-locks along with some amazing pieces by some brilliant people www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
November 29, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Publication day! The Routledge Handbook of Heritage & Creative Practice is out today and it includes my piece on creative responses to the mass removal of love-locks along with some amazing pieces by some brilliant people www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
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General Post Office poster, 1960
November 29, 2025 at 10:30 AM
General Post Office poster, 1960
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FINAL REVEAL: A brand new Benin bronze plaque, titled "Looting of the Oba's Palace in 1897".
This #newarrival confronts the theft of works from Benin in 1897. It shows what the palace altar looked like before 1897 (left), and British soldiers in the act of looting (right).
This #newarrival confronts the theft of works from Benin in 1897. It shows what the palace altar looked like before 1897 (left), and British soldiers in the act of looting (right).
November 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM
FINAL REVEAL: A brand new Benin bronze plaque, titled "Looting of the Oba's Palace in 1897".
This #newarrival confronts the theft of works from Benin in 1897. It shows what the palace altar looked like before 1897 (left), and British soldiers in the act of looting (right).
This #newarrival confronts the theft of works from Benin in 1897. It shows what the palace altar looked like before 1897 (left), and British soldiers in the act of looting (right).
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@gregk.co.uk's @bloodwork.show asks the critical question of our time: what is the relationship between violence, politics and class society - and how can we demolish cycles of historic violence in (to paraphrase Gramsci) the illusioned, disillusioned postmodern world.
10/10. Go listen, right now.
10/10. Go listen, right now.
November 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM
@gregk.co.uk's @bloodwork.show asks the critical question of our time: what is the relationship between violence, politics and class society - and how can we demolish cycles of historic violence in (to paraphrase Gramsci) the illusioned, disillusioned postmodern world.
10/10. Go listen, right now.
10/10. Go listen, right now.
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"I want to know what it was like to live in those multicultural societies at different points in time."
@kieranconnell.bsky.social on his approach to writing 'Multicultural Britain: A People’s History' #WolfsonHistoryPrize. @hurstpublishers.bsky.social
@kieranconnell.bsky.social on his approach to writing 'Multicultural Britain: A People’s History' #WolfsonHistoryPrize. @hurstpublishers.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 9:25 AM
"I want to know what it was like to live in those multicultural societies at different points in time."
@kieranconnell.bsky.social on his approach to writing 'Multicultural Britain: A People’s History' #WolfsonHistoryPrize. @hurstpublishers.bsky.social
@kieranconnell.bsky.social on his approach to writing 'Multicultural Britain: A People’s History' #WolfsonHistoryPrize. @hurstpublishers.bsky.social
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These #worms fell down from the sky, maybe, in 1672 Europe, and lived for another couple of days. However fantastic the #earlymodern story of the falling "Würmer" is, I do like the alien-freakish styled insects a lot. Zoom in and choose your favorite:
September 9, 2025 at 1:45 PM
These #worms fell down from the sky, maybe, in 1672 Europe, and lived for another couple of days. However fantastic the #earlymodern story of the falling "Würmer" is, I do like the alien-freakish styled insects a lot. Zoom in and choose your favorite:
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Do you like a spooky story at Christmas time? If so join me, @neilbuttery.bsky.social @alessandrapino.bsky.social & @deliciouslegacy.bsky.social at the next @serveitforthfest.bsky.social event for a Christmas Feast of the Uncanny on 11 December 2025
November 26, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Do you like a spooky story at Christmas time? If so join me, @neilbuttery.bsky.social @alessandrapino.bsky.social & @deliciouslegacy.bsky.social at the next @serveitforthfest.bsky.social event for a Christmas Feast of the Uncanny on 11 December 2025
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My student Arlene Lo has a paper on the philosophical underpinnings of Canada's attempts to integrate Indigenous groups into its environmental impact assessments. It's now out in (appropriately enough!) the Canadian journal of philosophy. It's good, check it out!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
November 26, 2025 at 8:06 AM
My student Arlene Lo has a paper on the philosophical underpinnings of Canada's attempts to integrate Indigenous groups into its environmental impact assessments. It's now out in (appropriately enough!) the Canadian journal of philosophy. It's good, check it out!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Catherine - one of our brilliant volunteers @themerl.bsky.social - holding a small sample of the variety of grass that she researched for her PhD. She was quite emotional.
November 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Catherine - one of our brilliant volunteers @themerl.bsky.social - holding a small sample of the variety of grass that she researched for her PhD. She was quite emotional.
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One of the most colorful figures in the black market for ancient art has died. For @lrb.co.uk, I wrote about Jonathan Tokeley-Parry - a smuggler who made fake fakes to defeat border inspections to get Egyptian artifacts to the UK and US, whose downfall both changed and didn’t change the market.
‘By his own estimate, Jonathan Tokeley-Parry smuggled three thousand antiquities out of Egypt in 65 trips over six years. His success was down to his skill as a “fabricator”.’
Erin L. Thompson (@artcrimeprof.bsky.social) on the blog:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
Erin L. Thompson (@artcrimeprof.bsky.social) on the blog:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
Erin L. Thompson | Fake it till you make it
Jonathan Tokeley-Parry, who died last month, had a business card in the early 1990s that described him as ‘Jonty “...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
One of the most colorful figures in the black market for ancient art has died. For @lrb.co.uk, I wrote about Jonathan Tokeley-Parry - a smuggler who made fake fakes to defeat border inspections to get Egyptian artifacts to the UK and US, whose downfall both changed and didn’t change the market.
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This one's going on the reading list too: on "how disabled people can achieve meaningful control over archival collections that document their history and struggles," using Manchester’s Disabled People’s Archive as a case study. In the International Journal of Disability and Social Justice.
Who Owns Our History? Archiving the Disabled People’s Movement
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November 24, 2025 at 12:19 AM
This one's going on the reading list too: on "how disabled people can achieve meaningful control over archival collections that document their history and struggles," using Manchester’s Disabled People’s Archive as a case study. In the International Journal of Disability and Social Justice.