Jack Davy

PhD. Curator @morleycollege. Former @beyondthespec & @britishmuseum staff. Curator & historian. Tweets represent personal opinions.

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I’ve left twitter. Not moved anywhere. Will still answer DMs from people I know, but this place is over for me.

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@BarristerSecret @IanDunt Why have they used a picture of the front of the British Museum?

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@Samfr A massive thank you - as a time-poor Olympics mega fan your threads have helped direct my watching and keep me up to date. They’ve also been really enjoyable and entertaining, and much more realistic than the BBC.

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@Samfr The six fourths in the rowing at Tokyo accounts for almost all of that difference.

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@oldenoughtosay Yes definitely - in the area I used to cover alone there are dozens of objects in a small number of distinct groups subject to claim (grave collections stolen from active graveyards).

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@oldenoughtosay I’m assuming here - I didn’t hear the interview, but I used to work on claims when I worked there, and that’s the only explanation for that figure.

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@oldenoughtosay What he’s doing is listing the number of specific claims that have been made using the legal claims system (not fit for purpose). This explicitly excludes potentially hundreds of thousands of objects potentially subject to claim but not eligible for the claim system.

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@JamesSurowiecki I know Republicans turned it into a cruel joke, but John Kerry was actually wounded in combat three times.

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22nd July!!!!!!

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@j4lebi @ciscstudies @UniKentEnglish @RebeccaTillett1 @LaraAtkin Congratulations! Great news!

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@thomascowan13 @Samfr I saw that clip of course, but didn’t remember that actual interview itself dropping. Thanks

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@sundersays Question I’ve not seen answered. In that scenario could Lib Dems/SNP etc theoretically form a coalition to become official opposition?

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@sundersays it may or not be true that people want Labour to win big 🤔, but there are a hell of a lot of people who want the Tories to lose very very badly.

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@gsoh31 The tantalising promise of grown ups on both sides of the despatch box. The impact that could have on public perception of good government could be immense.

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@oldenoughtosay I actually got very good using this route at identifying which obscure Victorian tea trader had stolen what from where, and how they’d tried to cover it up.

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@oldenoughtosay When I started at the British Museum in 2008 there were a lot of very old curators who would say “the identity of this donor is lost to the mists of time.” Twenty minutes on google later I would produce a printed biography of him and they came to look on me as a wizard of sorts.

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@carolinepennock That’s a good one! I cherish the review of my gallery as “a small room and a dirty corridor full of janky pottery.”

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@SushmaJansari I like big weekend projects and I’m tempted to get the boy working on something similar now. He loves making a mess in the kitchen.