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Dr Leah Warriner-Wood (she/her)

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🏛️ Conservator 📚 Historian of material culture 👩‍🎓 PhD material masculinity in C18th tapestry interiors 👩‍🏫 Senior Lecturer @uolconservation.bsky.social 📍 Own views ex re-posts 💻 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

Dr Leah Warriner-Wood (she/her) @leahww.bsky.social · 9h

I'm dipping my toe back into historical whodunnits for a change of scene at the moment, but 'The Butchering Art' is indeed on my list.

Dr Leah Warriner-Wood (she/her) @leahww.bsky.social · 9h

Thank you! I might well take you up on that once the dust has settled. I definitely met some characters on my 18th c. travels, whose stories aren't only deserving of academic attention.

Dr Leah Warriner-Wood (she/her) @leahww.bsky.social · 9h

Oh, hey, I'm the newbie here! My first book is still a long way off. To write something that reaches more than only academic readers though - with a story like Gillies' that blends good history with a human story - that's the dream.

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Conservation at University of Lincoln @uolconservation.bsky.social · 12h

🖼️ 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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Conservation at University of Lincoln @uolconservation.bsky.social · 12h

📷 This will be followed in November by a talk about integrating modern digital methods for conservation with their traditional counterparts.

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Conservation at University of Lincoln @uolconservation.bsky.social · 12h

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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Dr Leah Warriner-Wood (she/her) @leahww.bsky.social · 10h

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 👏

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Conservation at University of Lincoln @uolconservation.bsky.social · 5d

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.

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Dr Leah Warriner-Wood (she/her) @leahww.bsky.social · 22d

It was a tad windy and wet though...

Dr Leah Warriner-Wood (she/her) @leahww.bsky.social · 22d

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.

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Dr Leah Warriner-Wood (she/her) @leahww.bsky.social · Sep 4

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 🎨

Dr Leah Warriner-Wood (she/her) @leahww.bsky.social · Aug 31

Also a shout out to secondary school teacher Mr Freeman, who called every girl in every class Gert, and who stood on the little stage in his classroom acting out the bubonic plague. I think he'd be pleased at where this Gert took his lessons.

Dr Leah Warriner-Wood (she/her) @leahww.bsky.social · Aug 31

I don't want to name them publicly, but the lecturer who - in our first seminar on C20th literature - told us that the BA of our degree title stood for 'Bullsh*t Artistry' as we were there to form our own arguments (which may be wrong).

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Dr Leah Warriner-Wood (she/her) @leahww.bsky.social · Aug 31

I see your Picasso potato, @lyndaskipper.bsky.social and raise you a French bean growing through a hole in a leaf.

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Conservation at University of Lincoln @uolconservation.bsky.social · Aug 13

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

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Conservation at University of Lincoln @uolconservation.bsky.social · Aug 11

⚠️ Job Alert ⚠️

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

#conservation #culturalheritage #heritage #conservationjobs #heritagejobs #museumjobs

Dr Leah Warriner-Wood (she/her) @leahww.bsky.social · Aug 10

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

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Dr Leah Warriner-Wood (she/her) @leahww.bsky.social · Aug 1

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 🤬

Dr Leah Warriner-Wood (she/her) @leahww.bsky.social · Jul 31

Enjoy! Our plum tree has overreached itself this year and made so much fruit that two branches snapped. Remedial action was needed today, so jam was also made here (not by me as I was writing a conference paper, but I'll enjoy the taste test). On leave now for a(nother) week 👌

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Conservation at University of Lincoln @uolconservation.bsky.social · Jul 28

⚠️ 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

Dr Leah Warriner-Wood (she/her) @leahww.bsky.social · Jul 25

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!

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Conservation at University of Lincoln @uolconservation.bsky.social · Jul 19

⚠️ 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

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Conservation at University of Lincoln @uolconservation.bsky.social · Jul 15

⚠️ 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

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Dr Leah Warriner-Wood (she/her) @leahww.bsky.social · Jul 13

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.

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Dr Leah Warriner-Wood (she/her) @leahww.bsky.social · Jul 9

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