Tom Coombe

Fighting dust for a living; one granual at a time.

[Professor Amanda Vickery @Amanda_Vickery]

Call me sentimental, but it never ceases to move me that on 6 June 1944 tens of thousands of young men hurled themselves on the Normandy beaches to relieve Europe from fascism.

[Shelley Tobin @PrincessHamira]

Thank you @bel_jacobs @aldal24
@collingwoodnorr
We have workshops coming up @NTKillerton during #SustainableFashionWeek in September for anyone inspired to learn to darn or in need of help with repairs

[Into The Forest Dark @ElliottBlackwe3]

Look at this lovely little writing shed

[ArtNouveauDeco @NouveauDeco]

1/ Stunning high resolution illustrations by German biologist and artist Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) from his 1904 book "Art forms in nature" (Kunstformen der Natur). These drawings of flora and fauna influenced the Art Nouveau movement. It's not hard to see why and how. A THREAD:

[Heritage Crafts @heritage_crafts]

It's been two years of waiting and six months of intensive research led by Endangered Crafts Manager Mary Lewis and funded by @ThePilgrimTrust, but the 2023 edition of the Red List of Endangered Crafts is out! https://t.co/M21EwDvPft @jayblades_ @RoyalMintUK #craftsredlist2023

[Killerton Fashion @NTKillertonFash]

Be inspired by our exhibition #ThirstyForFashion

The creative reuse of clothing & textiles was important during the austerity years of World War Two until rationing ended in 1951. Pat McKnight of Exeter made this elegant dressing gown from an army blanket & in the 1940s.

[Sir John Soane's Museum 🏛️🖼️ @SoaneMuseum]

Exciting news: Sir John Soane’s architectural #DrawingOffice – the oldest surviving example of its kind – has been restored and will open to public tours for the first time! ✍️🎉

[Tom Coombe @CoombeTom]

Great to be @SaltramHouseNT today talking all things collections. I particularly loved the map. Every house needs a massive map ...

[Killerton Fashion @NTKillertonFash]

Have you met the old boy in the corner?

John Acland is Killerton’s oldest portrait in a collection that covers over 420 years of family history.
Collections & House Officer Rob with his film created for his Understanding British Portraits fellowship:

https://t.co/Q55ia9btKV

[History Today @HistoryToday]

Breaking four minutes for the mile had been an obsession among middle-distance runners for years.

#OnThisDay in 1953, Roger Bannister ran the first sub-four-minute mile.

https://t.co/LMwgBJnByP

[Jonathan Rhind @JonathanRhind1]

Read about Jonathan Rhind Architects’ latest project for the National Trust and the challenges in making sensitive conservation repairs to a Grade I listed chapel built of a rare Lamprophyric Basalt and decorative carved limestone https://t.co/L8cwUopnan @NTKillerton

[Secrets Of The Ice @brearkeologi]

We found this beautiful arrow only two meters from the melting ice. It is incredibly well preserved - the sinew at the front is intact, the wooden birch shaft is in one piece and there are even three fletches.

[Tom Coombe @CoombeTom]

First day on the job captured for posterity ...

[The Burgon Society @burgonsoc]

Happy #NationalLibrarianDay!

Here is the dress uniform of the National Librarian of Madrid

[AlfredRJHawkins @ARJ_Hawkins]

On my desk is a selection of brick & masonry samples from across the Tower (which are not suitable for our archive) which I usually get people to try and guess the age of...

By popular request it is now labelled.

[@MOfP @MOfP2021]

Visitors Will.
#CollectionsCare #Museums

[@MOfP @MOfP2021]

Shout out to #CollectionCare colleagues across the UK shouting ..

‘don’t let them have the chocolate eggs until they’re definitely leaving’

And also believers in #signs saying ‘no food or drink’*

#Museums #EasterEggHunt

*dreamers

[Helen Day @LBFlyawayhome]

Ladybird Nature Corner.
‘Sallow and Blackthorn’
#SRBadmin

[@MOfP @MOfP2021]

Just a reminder.
If you are visiting the #Museum we are very happy to welcome a range of support animals, but have a bag policy that’s stricter than Ryanair

As our security team say ‘we don’t make the rules’*

*which is absolutely incorrect

[Republican Calendar @sansculotides]

Today is octidi 8 Germinal in the year of the Republic CCXXXI, celebrating the daffodil.