Kirsty Parsons
@museum-owl.bsky.social
Curator at Charles Dickens Museum. Striving to improve access to museum collections. Views my own.
Our new exhibition ‘Showtime!’ at the #CharlesDickensMuseum has now been open a week! 🙌 Time for some instal reminiscing #exhibition #theatre #adaptations
July 30, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Our new exhibition ‘Showtime!’ at the #CharlesDickensMuseum has now been open a week! 🙌 Time for some instal reminiscing #exhibition #theatre #adaptations
When your reality becomes art 😂
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#ModernArtOxford #ModernArt #oxford #archive
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#ModernArtOxford #ModernArt #oxford #archive
July 28, 2025 at 12:21 PM
When your reality becomes art 😂
@modernartoxford.bsky.social
#ModernArtOxford #ModernArt #oxford #archive
@modernartoxford.bsky.social
#ModernArtOxford #ModernArt #oxford #archive
Visited the only free #museum in #Vienna.
1. Inn sign, about 1700-50. #Hedgehogs were common inn signs, likely due to folk tales of them feeding grapes to their young.
2. Fanny Elbler’s mechanical wings from her role as the lead in the #ballet ‘Sylphide’, 1840.
1. Inn sign, about 1700-50. #Hedgehogs were common inn signs, likely due to folk tales of them feeding grapes to their young.
2. Fanny Elbler’s mechanical wings from her role as the lead in the #ballet ‘Sylphide’, 1840.
July 16, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Visited the only free #museum in #Vienna.
1. Inn sign, about 1700-50. #Hedgehogs were common inn signs, likely due to folk tales of them feeding grapes to their young.
2. Fanny Elbler’s mechanical wings from her role as the lead in the #ballet ‘Sylphide’, 1840.
1. Inn sign, about 1700-50. #Hedgehogs were common inn signs, likely due to folk tales of them feeding grapes to their young.
2. Fanny Elbler’s mechanical wings from her role as the lead in the #ballet ‘Sylphide’, 1840.
Really love the way the #PostalMuseum has tried to decode archival documents for visitors in their new exhibition ‘Voices of Resistance: Slavery & Post in the Caribbean’
July 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Really love the way the #PostalMuseum has tried to decode archival documents for visitors in their new exhibition ‘Voices of Resistance: Slavery & Post in the Caribbean’
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BIG EMBROIDERY-NOT-A-TAPESTRY NEWS! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Bayeux Tapestry to return to British Museum on loan after 900 years
Bayeux Tapestry will be shown at the British Museum, which will lend treasures to Normandy museums.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 8, 2025 at 6:21 PM
BIG EMBROIDERY-NOT-A-TAPESTRY NEWS! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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I'm really so pleased that ordinary, working women's stories are being integrated back into the historical record. Their lives are interesting too, but part of me despairs when every Georgian woman's story has to be told in connection with Jane Austen.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
Beyond the bonnets: Jane Austen’s working women finally get their place in the spotlight
Exhibition looks at housekeepers, maids and governesses who ‘enable the lives of the heroines and heroes’
www.theguardian.com
July 7, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I'm really so pleased that ordinary, working women's stories are being integrated back into the historical record. Their lives are interesting too, but part of me despairs when every Georgian woman's story has to be told in connection with Jane Austen.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
Reposted by Kirsty Parsons
News | River & Rowing Museum confirms ‘extremely difficult’ decision to close – venue's net losses have averaged £1m a year due to high cost of running building
River & Rowing Museum confirms ‘extremely difficult’ decision to close - Museums Association
Venue's net losses have averaged £1m a year due to high cost of running building
www.museumsassociation.org
July 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
News | River & Rowing Museum confirms ‘extremely difficult’ decision to close – venue's net losses have averaged £1m a year due to high cost of running building
Reposted by Kirsty Parsons
Looking forward to MERL's Romany and Traveller Heritage Day on Saturday! merl.reading.ac.uk/event/romany...
June 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Looking forward to MERL's Romany and Traveller Heritage Day on Saturday! merl.reading.ac.uk/event/romany...
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Vacancy Senior Research Associate: Plants, Enslavement, and Public History www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol
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June 9, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Vacancy Senior Research Associate: Plants, Enslavement, and Public History www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
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Tomorrow the Charles Dickens Museum is free all day to celebrate their 100th Birthday 🎉 On the blog I have been looking back at their 1925 opening and recalling my own visits over the years. tinctureofmuseum.wordpress.com/2025/06/08/h...
Happy Birthday to the Charles Dickens Museum, June 2025
From my first visit … 100 Years is certainly something to celebrate, so on Monday 9 June I am looking forward to heading to the Dickens Museum at 48 Doughty Street to celebrate with members o…
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June 8, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Tomorrow the Charles Dickens Museum is free all day to celebrate their 100th Birthday 🎉 On the blog I have been looking back at their 1925 opening and recalling my own visits over the years. tinctureofmuseum.wordpress.com/2025/06/08/h...