Bethan

Assistant Curator: @StrangersHall & @MuseumofNorwich. Learning Assistant: Norwich Museums. Finding words other than ‘amazing’. Views my own.

[Strangers' Hall @StrangersHall]

On our marks, we're set and ready to go! The Deep Clean is complete with many thanks to the volunteers who helped us achieve this Brobdingnagian task. We are looking forward to welcoming our visitors back on Wed 14th Feb when we will resume our regular Weds and Sunday openings.

[Owen Davies @odavies9]

Ghost history. I suspect few people have read this … 14 years ago I did a 5-volume edited collection of primary sources Ghosts: A Social History. It was very expensive. Some sample content.

[Norfolk Record Office @NorfolkRO]

*TOMORROW* Queer Norfolk X NRO is our next History Talk, Wed 7 Feb 1pm. Community archivist Adam Baker talks about how QN is working with local museums & archives to put LGBT+ into community hands & why this is important right now. Book now https://t.co/ImGcFVGn8I… #queernorfolk

[VisitNorwich @VisitNorwich]

Are you a family in Norfolk that has continued to follow the unique tradition of gift giving on Valentine’s Eve? 📢 

📧 If you would be happy to be filmed for a media story, please get in touch: [email protected] 

#VisitNorwich #Norwich #Norfolk #Valentines #mediaoutreach

[VisitNorwich @VisitNorwich]

This is amazing news The Shoebox Experiences! 🎉We are delighted that The Shoe Box will be continuing their fantastic historic tours in Norwich 👏👏

#visitnorwich #norwich #norfolk

[helen warlow @HWarlow]

There is a group of folk going around filling pavements and cracks with mosaics.
I’m having problems getting tweets out…Sorry.
The brainchild of this operation on the streets is from Lyon ‘Ememem
‘Pavement Surgeon

[Bobbie @bo66ie29]

Two little boys and a dog outside a store in Victorian London, c.1896.

[Reader Trowse @ReaderTrowse]

Are you going “up the city” today?
You will hear our #WorldFamous @StPeterMancroft #bells ringing out over our fine city.
The ringers will be attempting a peel” which can take over three hours to complete and involve over 5,000 individual changes.
Do take a moment to listen.

[Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety]

Just over 500 years ago, Michelangelo made out this shopping list ~ with pictures for the benefit of his illiterate servant ~ for fish, bread, rough wine, fennel soup, anchovies & tortelli. (I bet a list illustrated by Picasso would be harder to follow!) https://t.co/eSy0ilXgzv

[Bethan @SundancerBethan]

@TheTraceyKay We were there ❤️

[Lemuel Lyes @LemuelLyes]

Last Sept I took my Super 8mm film camera to IWM Duxford's Battle of Britain airshow. Here is a short excerpt.

Watch full film here - https://t.co/rf5AEnmgY1

This is an homage to the original wartime amateur colour films that I've had the privilege to work with over the years..

[Lemuel Lyes @LemuelLyes]

Last Sept I took my Super 8mm film camera to IWM Duxford's Battle of Britain airshow. Here is a short excerpt.

Watch full film here - https://t.co/rf5AEnmgY1

This is an homage to the original wartime amateur colour films that I've had the privilege to work with over the years..

[Norfolk Museums @NorfolkMuseums]

We are delighted to announce @AncientHouseMus has secured major funding from @HeritageFundM_E @HeritageFundUK to refresh the way we tell the stories of the local area and the story of the Duleep Singh family in the museum given to the town by Prince Frederick Duleep Singh.

[James Wright @jpwarchaeology]

The next Triskele Heritage online talk will be the first to delve beneath the ground for a look at The Archaeology of Subterranean Britain - passages, chambers, cellars, mines & caves... and more!

We'll be going live at 7pmGMT on 22 Feb, booking is open:
https://t.co/MQbzmeIR4q

[Strangers' Hall @StrangersHall]

Quick update on this year’s Deep Clean @StrangersHall. Thanks to a super team of volunteers everything from fragile Victorian lustres to humble plaited bed mats receives a careful conservation clean. Front window displays, featuring founder Leonard Bolingbroke, brush up nicely!

[Peter Brathwaite @PeterBrathwaite]

Delighted to share that I’ve curated a display @bodleianlibs. ‘Mischief in the Archives’ takes the trickster Bajan folk character Shaggy Bear as inspiration and is based upon my ongoing research into papers relating to the Codrington Estates in Barbados: https://t.co/UiELyXQU3W

[Bethan @SundancerBethan]

@PeterBrathwaite @bodleianlibs @oxfculturalprog @TORCHOxford @bodleiancsb @BhmUK @YaleBooks @AutographABP @UKinCaribbean @BdosHCLondon @NCFBarbados @AncestryUK This reminds me so much of the rag bear, now no longer extant

[Bethan @SundancerBethan]

@CuratorKitty @SHCG1 @LeedsMuseums @leedsregistrars I sympathise. Mine was a dream where I had a huge box of identical white cotton gloves (I know, I know) and had to match the correct pair with their accession number and put the number on the correctly identified gloves 🥴

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

@USAinUK While we've got you, we need a conversation about what constitutes a biscuit.

[Benjamin Ranyard @higgledygarden]

Well done, Timpsons. Leading by example as always.