Kitty Ross

Curator of Leeds History for Leeds Museums and Galleries. All views are my own. Mostly posting now at Blue Sky @curatorkitty.bsky.social

[Sophia Lambert @Sophia_Lamb_10]

Join me online at 11am on Friday 10th January for a FREE talk on the fascinating history of The Bradford Reform Jewish Burial Ground. 🪦

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[Deborah Hall 🇬🇧🇨🇦 @dmh226]

Lovely to see so many visitors here today at Abbey House Museum. ⁦@LeedsMuseums⁩ ⁦@leedscitycounc1⁩ ⁦@VisitLeeds⁩ ⁦@Welcome2Yorks⁩

[Kitty Ross @CuratorKitty]

This is the consultation on the future of @LeedsMuseums Abbey House #Museum which is threatened with closure to save £160,000. Please do respond if you can:
https://t.co/R9D9P43Pvs...

[Kitty Ross @CuratorKitty]

For those escaping to alternative platforms I am now at https://t.co/QdMaeBIAof and https://t.co/5y36cupSsD See you there

[Tony Butler @tonybutler1]

Local museums are places of inspiration, education and civic pride but are increasingly under threat…

Letter @thetimes from English Civic Museums Network.

[Kitty Ross @CuratorKitty]

Let there be light! Thanks to generous funding from the Friends of Leeds City Museums @LeedsMuseums and the expertise of @Glasshaus_ visitors to Abbey House Museum can enjoy our displays without straining their eyes!

[Kitty Ross @CuratorKitty]

Great afternoon spotting wildlife of all sizes on Big Moor @Natures_Voice @WildSheffield @wildmoorsuk @EasternMoors @cprepdsy (Fox moth caterpillar, kestrel, red deer). Never get used to having such a spectacle on our doorstep.

[Yvonne Hardman @museums_yvonne]

We’re recruiting for a parental leave cover Curator of Exhibitions role (22 hours a week) to deliver the exhibition programme @LeedsCityMuseum within @LeedsMuseums 👉🏻 https://t.co/SQxzLpTlG3

[Stuart Robinson @LeedsClarkKent]

If you have a mammoth clean-up that needs doing, @LeedsMuseums are up to the tusk! Lovely to see our mega mammoth tusk (found right here in #Leeds) making bags of national news today! 🦣 📰

[Tony Butler @tonybutler1]

“Part of the UK’s malaise is our talent for creating the kind of vacuums that are then filled by the worst actors. Our museums, are repositories of real and powerful stories: if they fall into more decay and disrepair, we should all fear the consequences”
https://t.co/4ojqxckBgF

[BBC Yorkshire @BBCLookNorth]

Mammoth clean-up task for Ice Age tusk https://t.co/hI0POFgCyC

[Lucy Moore @lucyajmmoore]

It's a good day to be in Leeds. Celebrating the city's anti fascist heritage & raising the profile of the Battle of Holbeck Moor - 30,000 people turned out to tell Oswald Mosley to shift off & a good they did too

[Helen Day @LBFlyawayhome]

‘Model-making’ (1977)

This picture was clearly captured in the 4-minute interval between opening the packet and the plasticine colours getting mixed up.

Artist: Harry Wingfield

[Kitty Ross @CuratorKitty]

@ChrisNickson2 @LeedsMuseums @LeedsCivicTrust @leedslibraries @thoresbysoc @Catherine_r89 @LCVSLeeds The nearest I've got is: Nacks
A game in which pegs of wood play a similar part to the well-known object “Aunt Sally.”—Robinson’s Mid Yorkshire Glossary.
Not sure I'm any the wiser!

[Kitty Ross @CuratorKitty]

Any experts in #Victorian #sports know how to play "nack"? Knurr & Spell we know well, and it also mentions quoits and cricket. 1875 poster linked to the #Armley Feast and the Union Cross Inn. @LeedsMuseums

[Kitty Ross @CuratorKitty]

Here is the 1875 poster from the fantastically named "Whisker Order" spoofing antiquarians, museums, friendly societies & local politics in #Armley #Leeds. Lots of topical jokes to unpick. @LeedsMuseums

[Kitty Ross @CuratorKitty]

Lots of squabbling siskins and gold finches enjoying the feeders @NTLongshawWE @nationaltrust @Natures_Voice @RSPBEngland @WildSheffield

[Kitty Ross @CuratorKitty]

@IMcMillan @DonaldMacleod01 @BBCRadio3 @BBCSounds Her main anecdote was actually about Vaughan Williams who stood in for a term and was intimidated by a class of adolescent girls.

[Kitty Ross @CuratorKitty]

@IMcMillan @DonaldMacleod01 @BBCRadio3 @BBCSounds Holst was my grandmother's school music teacher!