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Been spending a lot of time recently looking at old versions of museum and museum-related websites. Today - this blast from the past (2006) for the Redoubt Fortress at Eastbourne (follow the link to see a neat animated GIF): web.archive.org/web/2006082923…

Great to see cuts to culture being discussed in The Guardian but these averages create a false picture of similarity. As my work w/ Peter Campbell shows, the real story is not about uniform cuts but variation and thus deepening inequalities in service provision. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

‘we figured out the greenhouse effect closer to the start of the industrial revolution than to today’ xkcd.com/2889/

THE UK GOVERNMENT IS COMPLICIT We demand a #CeasefireNOW. A THREAD 🧵

The Labour Party #28billion Green Prosperity Plan binned Join voteclimate.uk to force them to reinstate it Unite against #ClimateEmergency With more members we can do it

Oh dear, they sent JJ out again. Btw, The Guardian it's high time you hired a decent art critic instead of this clown who clearly hates most of the exhibitions he goes to. theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

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Call for Papers: 'Cursed Objects in Museum Shops', 3d July. Deadline for abstracts: 8th April. In partnership with Cursed Objects we are running a symposium on the kitsch, questionable and complex things you find in museum shops. For more details: www7.bbk.ac.uk/museum-culture…

Nice feature on the Crab Museum in Margate and its unusual blend of humour and activism (must go sometime) theguardian.com/culture/2024/m…

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.

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🚨

We welcome the results of this YouGov poll from Art Fund National Museum news: 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. museumsassociation.org/museums-journa…

New blog on trains, planes, and automobiles – what do we know about where museum collections go? buff.ly/4bB6z4g

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

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 (=) yougov.co.uk/politics/artic…

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. theguardian.com/politics/ng-in…

Sounds a bit drastic