Dr Mark Liebenrood

Historian, mostly museums. PhD from @BirkbeckHoA. See also @markliebenrood.bsky.social

[Dr Mark Liebenrood @markliebenrood]

@AntCoulls @FionaCandlin @TalyllynRailway Thanks Anthony, it's the Durham Miners Heritage Centre we've been looking into, a separate institution that seems to have dropped out of sight.

[Dr Mark Liebenrood @markliebenrood]

Sounds a bit drastic

[ArtsIndustryMagazine @artsindustrymag]

Edinburgh may close in city overspend
https://t.co/pe3ShBewYo

[Dr Mark Liebenrood @markliebenrood]

@TheProfRog But Roger you’re forgetting the costs of cleaners emptying the bins - this might bankrupt universities if fully implemented

[Dr Mark Liebenrood @markliebenrood]

@dannybirchall It’s an independent museum in a large former gunpowder magazine. A very eclectic series of displays with an informal vibe

[Catherine Clarke @CathAMClarke]

A good explainer of where we are in the English Higher Education sector now, and how we got here - a useful read for anyone outside the world of universities. https://t.co/5MsaKyitKW

[Dr Mark Liebenrood @markliebenrood]

@FionaCandlin Something rather poignant about that leaning armchair with a missing leg

[Dr Mark Liebenrood @markliebenrood]

@Brodie_Waddell Pickett's Charge. A microhistory of the final attack at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863, by George Stewart. Published 1959 so predates most theorising of micro approaches.

[YouGov @YouGov]

Our first MRP of the 2024 general election shows Labour winning a majority of 194, larger than even Tony Blair's landslides

Labour: 422 (+220 from GE2019)
Conservative: 140 (-225)
Lib Dem: 48 (+37)
SNP: 17 (-31)
Green: 2 (+1)
PC: 2 (-2)
Reform UK: 0 (=)

https://t.co/P20M6KsS4p

[Dr Mark Liebenrood @markliebenrood]

An excellent statement on the value of the humanities and study of the premodern in particular.

[Renaissance SRS @SRSRenSoc]

The premodern world held possibilities and imagined futures: the physical and metaphysical systems that were actively built and contested then continue to inform the world in the present.

Read our statement on the value of Renaissance & Premodern Studies: https://t.co/rIUZm4x92U

[Campaign for the Arts @_CFTA]

We welcome the results of this @YouGov poll from @artfund @nmdcnews:

89% of UK adults think museums are important to UK culture

76% think local museums add value to their area, whilst 74% think local govt should provide at least half of their funding.

https://t.co/hRUVVdI3eQ

[Mapping Museums Lab @MuseumsMapping]

New blog on trains, planes, and automobiles – what do we know about where museum collections go? https://t.co/m71aPr43vD

[Oxfam International Media Team @newsfromoxfam]

A military invasion in Rafah would be CATASTROPHIC. Almost 1.3 million people, including at least half a million children, are now crammed into this small city in #Gaza. There can be no more "evacuations". There is no safe place to go.

There must be a #CeasefireNOW🚨

[Dr Mark Liebenrood @markliebenrood]

@lottelydia There isn’t a museum in Newham because the council closed the Passmore Edwards museum in 1994. The government had cut local authority budgets after the recession and the museum got the chop along with quite a few other things.

[Dr Mark Liebenrood @markliebenrood]

Found on an allotment in north London - a cap badge of the Royal Sussex Regiment, which was absorbed into the Queen’s Regiment in 1966.

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Don’t think they make phones like this any more …

[Dr Mark Liebenrood @markliebenrood]

Today’s research destination: the BT archives housed in a partly redundant phone exchange in Holborn #AcademicGlamour

[Dr Mark Liebenrood @markliebenrood]

@dannybirchall The email enquiry service is very helpful. Send them the shelf mark and they’ll check it for you.

[Dr Mark Liebenrood @markliebenrood]

Nice feature on the Crab Museum in Margate and its unusual blend of humour and activism (must go sometime)

https://t.co/h3uY1dKtQx

[Centre for Museum Cultures at Birkbeck @MuseumsBirkbeck]

Call for Papers: 'Cursed Objects in Museum Shops',
3d July. Deadline for abstracts: 8th April.

In partnership with @CursedObjectsUK we are running a symposium on the kitsch, questionable and complex things you find in museum shops.

For more details: https://t.co/6P13wdzAuy