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Lily Crowther
@lilcrowther.bsky.social
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Historian, curator, DPhil student, museum trustee, Yiddishe mama. Museums, craft, design, architecture, making, teaching with objects. www.lilycrowther.net
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Lily Crowther @lilcrowther.bsky.social · Mar 31
Museum friends! I have made a free toolkit to help small museums boost the use of their collections by universities. Lots of practical tips & a summary of how collections are proven to benefit HE teaching, learning & wellbeing.
Please download & share!
🙏 AHRC for funding.
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Lily Crowther @lilcrowther.bsky.social · 2d
Walking and writing also.
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Lily Crowther @lilcrowther.bsky.social · 4d
My carrot is shocked by your carrot.
A carrot with little protruding roots and a crack across it. It looks like it is holding up its hands and has its mouth open in shock.
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Lily Crowther @lilcrowther.bsky.social · 8d
Americans paint fences, over which they can chat with their neighbours. Brits plant Leylandii so we never have to see our neighbours again.
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Lily Crowther @lilcrowther.bsky.social · 9d
Do you use Citymapper? I find it generally reliable across cities and modes.
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Lily Crowther @lilcrowther.bsky.social · 10d
Particularly relevant question here in Matt Western’s constituency, where the two largest employers are JLR and Warwick University.
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Lily Crowther @lilcrowther.bsky.social · 12d
a stuffed dog is laying down in a field with flowers and trees in the background
Alt: Dougal the dog from the Magic Roundabout chasing his tail
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Lily Crowther @lilcrowther.bsky.social · 13d
Right. And plenty of us would rather give up the convenience of their various potential uses in favour of the govt not having a list of who we all are. My ancestors escaped the pogroms to come here; we became an invisible minority and we’d like to stay invisible thank you very much.
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Rutger K. 🟥 @anotheraspirin.bsky.social · 13d
This is a problem.
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Lily Crowther @lilcrowther.bsky.social · 13d
Alt text: a journal submission form with a mandatory tickbox. Text alongside the box reads: I agree that Wiley can utilize the submission to improve Al services for submission, screening, and peer review whether the manuscript is accepted or rejected for publication.
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Lily Crowther @lilcrowther.bsky.social · 14d
Likelihood of getting any work done this afternoon: severely limited.
A sleepy beige cat snuggled on my chest
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Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 16d
RAPTCHA
A CAPTCHA layout with the central Bosch triptych from The Last Judgement: Select all squares with THE DAMNED If there are none, click skip
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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 18d
Are you free next Sunday? Do you live in Oxford? I'm running a noticing workshop at Caper Books for children ages 5 to 9. We'll be finding joyous, tiny stories in ordinary things to help with overwhelm and discover magic in the everyday! And tickets are only £3! To book: tinyurl.com/4tutvvfm #oxford
An orange background with the cover of my book The Place I'm in and my photo and this information: Noticing Noticing workshop for ages 5 - 9 with Miranda Keeling at Caper Books in Oxford! Sept 28th 11:30am Caper Books 74-77 Magdalen Road, Oxford, OX4 1RE
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Lily Crowther @lilcrowther.bsky.social · 19d
Not sure if this is a cannibalism taboo or an incest taboo but either way I’m with you.
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Lily Crowther @lilcrowther.bsky.social · 19d
You’re right. Sent.
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Lily Crowther @lilcrowther.bsky.social · 19d
It has come as a shock to everyone I know in Oxford. Absolutely dismaying, enraging and mortifying. I have wasted the whole afternoon composing a reply to the email (which I almost certainly will not send).
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Lily Crowther @lilcrowther.bsky.social · 19d
I’m a year older than you, and same same. I may have Bride of Frankenstein streaks but I don’t look like an animated corpse.
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 20d
An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade

Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’

Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'
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Lily Crowther @lilcrowther.bsky.social · 19d
As someone a few months off submitting my DPhil, this is utterly dismaying - clearly the senior admin have no concept of what actual research and writing might involve. Glad I’ll be out soon; just hope this news doesn’t devalue my degree completely.
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Lily Crowther @lilcrowther.bsky.social · 19d
Not just the staff - students pretty upset too.
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Lily Crowther @lilcrowther.bsky.social · 20d
The contract is signed so it’s official - I am joining the Future Ecologies of Clay project at Westminster Uni/V&A as a Research Fellow. If you are a museum collecting contemporary ceramics please watch this space!
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Lily Crowther @lilcrowther.bsky.social · 21d
I wonder if increasing % of humanities PhDs will be like me - older, with existing careers. Not necessarily family money but a diff kind of privilege & stability.
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Lily Crowther @lilcrowther.bsky.social · 21d
Interesting how much it varies between users, too. My top 3 results are Times Higher Ed home, then the Wikipedia page for THE, then the THE Facebook page.
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Lily Crowther @lilcrowther.bsky.social · 23d
Yes. Over here in the UK my photo is on a right wing think-tank’s watchlist site for doing my job as a historian and public servant.
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Lily Crowther @lilcrowther.bsky.social · 24d
If you need a good spot for a field trip or your students want internships we would be delighted to hear from you at the Art Gallery & Museum in Leamington! Lots of exciting and relevant work coming up in our programme over the next few years.
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Social History Society @socialhistsoc.bsky.social · 24d
📢 Reminder: the deadline for the Social History Society Small Grants is coming up soon!

💷 Up to £1000 available to support research, events & activities in social & cultural history

🗓️ Apply by 1 October for events Dec–Apr
🔗 socialhistory.org.uk/funding/smal...
✨Apply today!
Small Grants
The Social History Society maintains a Small Grants Fund to support research, events and activities by members of the Society. We give priority to activities and research that would otherwise remai…
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