Jessica Freeland

Lover of good food and old buildings 🏰 #rdguk dweller. Interpretation Manager @EnglishHeritage. Views all mine.

[Reading Museum @readingmuseum]

Interested in working on a project to celebrate local heritage in Reading?

Reading's High Street Heritage Action Zone (@hshaz_reading) is currently recruiting a Community Engagement and Cultural Officer!

Learn more about the role and apply today on the @ReadingCouncil website.

[Reading Museum @readingmuseum]

Today, Friday 18th June, represents an enormous landmark in the history of our town: the 900th anniversary of Reading Abbey, one of medieval Europe’s most important monasteries.

⛪️ a thread ⛪️

#RdgAbbey900

[Reading Borough Council @ReadingCouncil]

Currently NO queue at walk-in COVID vaccine clinic in town. No apt needed
If you're 18+ unvaccinated & live, work or study in 👇
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Get your 1st COVID vaccine at Reading Borough Council, Bridge St, Reading RG1 2LU open until 8.30pm
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[Ben Keene @benkeene]

What a devastatingly brilliant ad

@GreenpeaceUK

[English Heritage @EnglishHeritage]

When Eleanor of Castile died in 1290, her husband King Edward I commissioned memorials to mark each place where her body rested overnight on its final 200-mile journey to London. Discover the story.

[Jessica Freeland @jsscfrlnd]

@SimonAStephens @MuseumsAssoc Definitely @readingmuseum 👏👏

[Reading Abbey Quarter @RdgAbbey]

⚒️ Help us celebrate the Abbey's 900th anniversary! ⚒️

As part of our #ReadingAbbey900 celebrations, we're looking to add two new headstops to the Abbey Gateway, and we want YOU to help choose who they should be!

Learn more from Cllr @KarenRowlandRdg:

https://t.co/1ca5eMZ77x

[SWWDTP @SWWDTP]

🔊 Funded PhD opportunity 🔊
Reading Abbey: Connecting Archaeology, Heritage Management and Placemaking

In collaboration with @UniofReading @unisouthampton @readingmuseum & Berkshire Archaeology

Find out more: https://t.co/xPWoJDOIBk

#FundedPhD #PhD #FindAPhD #PhDOpportunity

[English Heritage @EnglishHeritage]

A few of you may recognise Ranger's House in Greenwich (minus the wisteria) which recently starred in the new @netflix series @bridgerton in the role of the Bridgerton family home! Built in 1723 this Georgian villa was later the residence of the Rangers of Greenwich Park.

[Visit Reading @visitrdg]

Prices for the #TwilightTrail can vary depending on demand, so we are sharing the below sessions that start from £9 (£8 concessions)

[Great West Way @theGreatWestWay]

For the first time ever, Reading has its very own #TwilightTrail, a magical festive trail full of sparkles & illuminations, leading you through Reading’s iconic Forbury Gardens & Abbey Ruins.

Tickets available until 3 January ➡️ https://t.co/1PAg3gwNKj

#GreatWestWay @RDGWhatsOn

[SWWDTP @SWWDTP]

🔊 Funded PhD opportunity 🔊
Reading Abbey: Connecting Archaeology, Heritage Management and Placemaking

In collaboration with @UniofReading @unisouthampton @readingmuseum & Berkshire Archaeology

Find out more: https://t.co/xPWoJDOIBk

#FundedPhD #PhD #FindAPhD #PhDOpportunity

[The Museum of English Rural Life @TheMERL]

Friends, artists, and makers based in Reading: next year we're running a year-long project commissioning creative responses to the objects in our collections!

Find out more:

[The Women's Organisation @TheWomensOrg]

Believe it or not – there have been some positives to come out of this year. Here is our round-up of the feminist moments that defined 2020...

[Jessica Freeland @jsscfrlnd]

@dr_peter_moore @EHAudleyEnd It looks wonderful! Well done Peter and the Audley team 👏🎄

[Reading Museum @readingmuseum]

We're absolutely thrilled to share that, with your help, we have now raised £3,000 to help local schoolchildren access and enjoy the Museum’s resources! 🥳 We’re enormously grateful for your donations.

Below, find out how you can support the fundraiser and access unique rewards!

[Dr Sophie Duncan @clamorousvoice]

are you getting Christmas cards or other stamped post? Please don't throw the stamps away, charities recycle them! Here's a thread of charities which want your stamps. it's also a lovely way to donate to charity for free/extremely cheap in this financially dreadful year: (thread)

[Reading Museum @readingmuseum]

Good morning! Our enormous thanks to everyone who supported the @FriendsofRDGMus Crowdfunder over the weekend, to help us keep developing online learning resources for local schools!

We're almost half-way there, with fifteen days to go. All support hugely appreciated!

[Reading Museum @readingmuseum]

We're NEARLY at 50% of our target for our brand-new Crowdfunder, to help us raise funds for supporting museum-based learning in local schools!

We'd love to be over half-way there by Monday. Can you help?! ✨