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Thank you to The National for their write up of the ZayedNationalMuseum funded research on the reception of 19thC European ceramics in the UAE to be undertaken later this year with Nigel Jeffries and Jaap Otte thenationalnews.com/news/uae/2024/…

Good bit of short footage from ⁦Historic England⁩ on the Klein Hollandia shipwreck with a nice Bartmann jug cameo #bartmanngoesglobal youtube.com/shorts/OUPBnfL…

Having a great week cataloging 19th and 20th century European ceramics in museums and collections in #uae with Seth Priestman Jaap Otte exploring their relevance with local partners and sharing knowledge. Thanks to the great support from Zayed National Museum research award متحف رأس الخيمة

City at night

And this was my favourite stoneware pot in the Raeren Museum. One hell of a drinking vessel and not for when your grandma comes round. Quite some skill by the potter in making this one ! But seriously, the phallic pot runs through so many cultures and time periods.

Sharing this Museums Association article about the recent #Pagans and #museum #collections project. museumsassociation.org/museums-journa…

On Wednesday 6 November, the Affective Artefacts seminar is delighted to welcome Nigel Jeffries Owen Davies Ceri Houlbrook to speak about 'Early Modern Witch Bottles: Concealed and Revealed', Ellen Wilkinson A3.7, 4pm. Please join us if you can! @UoMhistdept School of Arts, Languages and Culture

This cheered me up today. Opened a box and there was this lovely English wine bottle of the 1660s-70s with the applied seal of the King’s Head and the landlord and landlady’s initials S / H E. #Archaeology MOLA

Klaxon alert 🚨! Fantastic effort and the first of many important outputs for #bartmanngoesglobal

Austrian 1-2 tonight #Eurovision2025 #FACup #CPFC

Glad it went well Ceri ! Hope you told everyone that our book with Owen Davies will be out early 2026. I’ve never met Bert before - I hope he enjoyed his trip

Thanks for the plug and support Tom

Folklore roadtrip!! Get your diaries out - Owen Davies & I might be coming to a venue near you to launch our new book 'Folklore: A journey through the past & present' (more dates tbc in Nov)