The Giving Circle has been incredibly crucial for so many families in Gaza and is run by a trusted and dear friend. I donate the price of a coffee each week - and itβs easy to join me!
chuffed.org/project/hope...
Detailed watercolour illustration of the Sultanahmet Mosque in Istanbul. The building has a large central blue dome, multiple smaller domes, and tall minarets topped with crescents. Trees and smaller architectural structures appear in the foreground.
Two illuminated manuscript pages in Arabic script. Each page shows black calligraphy arranged in neat lines within a gold and coloured frame. Small circular gold medallions mark verse divisions. The pages are decorated with fine floral and geometric details in blue and gold on cream paper.
Watercolour illustration of four barefoot men walking in a line. They wear simple robes and tall white hats, and carry musical instruments including a tambourine and a drum. The figures are lightly coloured in muted tones against a plain background.
Watercolour illustration of a bearded man wearing a turban and simple garments, holding a walking staff. He leads a domesticated stag with large antlers on a rope. The stag wears a small bell around its neck. The background is plain and uncoloured.
Ramadan Mubarak π
Wishing a peaceful month to our Muslim students, colleagues and Readers.
Ramadan and pilgrimage in our collections:
π Sultanahmet Mosque (Bodl. Or. 430, fol 57r)
π SΕ«rat al-Baqarah, TΔ«pΕ«βs QurΚΎΔn (Bodl. Or. 793, fols 24aβ24b)
𧳠Pilgrims to Mecca (Bodl. Or. 430, fols 145r & 148r)
π¨ Please Share
If anybody has any material culture related to protesting the Cass Review specifically, and would like to share pictures of them with me, then please send me images here or via owen.hurcum@york.ac.uk. I have an idea to do a little write-up about them from the pov of an archaeologist
And if you'd like to read a more traditional style of publication exploring these themes, I also have a new article out in the Archaeological Review from Cambridge: "We Must Write About Those Who Have Been Silenced..." digital copies soon available from arc.soc.srcf.net/issues/40-2
A black and white two page spread of the zine. Each page has a printed label that reads 'Made by'. Under this is the following list of authors; "Rudy; Unknown Maker; Unknown Maker; Poulsen, Oscar S.; Ablard, C.; Utreras, Julia; Manuel, Frankie; Glacey, Jack; Unknown Maker; OSCAR; Unknown Maker; Syed, Jia; Unknown Maker; Martin, Becky; Unknown Maker; Hodgett, B; Len; Thompson, Peter A.; Utreras, Gau; Unknown Maker; Rokib, Anisah; Hirst, Luca; Jackson, Susan; Bruce, Hannah; Arnold, Bettina; Unknown Maker; Muck, Alex; Campbell, Sam; Grieveson, Julia; Brown, Lizzy; Unknown Maker; Campbell, Holly; Unknown Maker. " Each of these names is printed in individually stamped letters.
Plus some experiments in #CitationPractice including how to acknowledge unknown labour and using a random number generator to decide author order.
Have a read for lots of thoughts about the role that making can play in research, the overlap between 'making' and 'writing', how publication practices in academia might subtly shape the kinds of work we do in museums.
Publication day! Here's a zine about copying, replicating and making in museums that I've been working on with some lovely friends from the Imperfect Bound Collective (find them on Instagram @imperfectboundcollective).
www.prm.ox.ac.uk/making-museu...
Two more PhD scholarships at @kingshistory.bsky.social: focussing on different aspects of Nigerian history, and working with my excellent colleague @bixhiribarren.bsky.social :
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQM397/p...
We have more Skills Training in Archival Research (STAR) workshops coming up!
Join staff at The London Archives for a hands-on workshop designed to help postgrad students and researchers make the most of archival collections.
π The London Archives
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1 April + 3 June
ποΈ 1-4:30pm
I can understand why! What an incredible object!
This is incredible! Do you know where it's from? I'd seen the photograph before but this takes it to a new level!
βEvery empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate.β
Edward Saidβs words are as relevant today as they were a few decades ago.
Weβre doing a photography conference! Please circulate!
A dark blue background with a cyan blue circle containing the words βInterested in working in museums, galleries, archives and libraries? Donβt have a degree and not sure where to start? Applications are now OPEN for The new Curators Project 2026! Link in bio.β.
Applications are now open for The New Curators Project 2026! Deadline: 8pm 22 February.
This annual project β offers 10 paid places for east Londoners aged 18-24 who do not have a degree but are interested in working in the cultural heritage sector.
Apply now: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...
And reminder that among the amazing things about Paper Trails, the variety of formats the BOOC invites is very expansive ποΈ
What makes historic collections difficult? And how do researchers work with βdifficultβ collections?
New CFP from Paper Trails here:
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...
Deadline for proposals 31/1/2026
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This might be of interest to a few people
The Boring Fund: Small (Β£200) grants to UK non-profits, charities and voluntary groups who just need a bit of help to pay for boring running costs like web hosting, admin, insurance etc
Apply by 30 November
www.christinapoultoncreative.co.uk/boring-fund
And with ongoing evidence suggesting the moral vacuum of the government-supported British arms industry is facilitating this
Aid workers in the region fear the situation will deteriorate as food and medical supplies dwindle.
The Sudan Solidarity Collective is doing a big fundraising push to support our partners in El Fashir to support food distribution, evacuation and medications.
Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate ππΎ .
sudansolidarity.com
π¨THIS WEEK: Endangered Urban Heritage in Egypt, Sudan and Palestine hybrid conference
co-organized w Noha Abou-Khatwa, @archaeologuest.bsky.social + @gmandreou.bsky.social
everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/c...
We're delighted to announce the CFP for our #PHRC26 annual conference on "Photography's Tacit Knowledge". As in the past few years, it'll be a hybrid conference, online and in Leicester, o 15-16 June. Send your abstracts by 9 January! photographichistory.wordpress.com/annual-confe... #photohist
Do I know anyone (who knows anyone) who writes for a big press outlet on LBGTQIA human rights issues, especially worldwide? I'm trying to draw attention to the plight of a group of people in South Sudan who are facing grave danger and additional barriers to aid because of their identity.
Thanks for including the Crawford archive in this great thread!
Call for Papers: βCivilizingβ the World: Classicism, Neo-Classical Sculpture, and Plaster Casts in the Service of Imperial Powers and Post-Colonial Elites (1780-1945)
Papers deadline: 1 December 2025
Conference dates: 22 - 23 October 2026
Full details here: ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Can I add the O.G.S Crawford Archive which contains aprox. 350 photographs taken by the archaeologist Crawford in the early 1950s? www.arch.ox.ac.uk/ogs-crawford...
The photographs document both local people and archaeological sites around Khartoum, and the region between Abu Hamad and MeroΓ«
6 hours left. My expectations are low, since we didn't meet last week's goal for the first time in 23 weeks of this giving circle supporting the SURVIVAL of six families & a camp, and we haven't met our daily goals in days.
My hope is high. That's our duty.
652/1000 chuffed.org/project/hope...
Image of a book with a purple and orange cover under the heading Meet the shapers and subverters of womanhood.
Join us for the launch of Mara Gold's debut book 'Ancient Myths and Legends Without Men' and discover the women and gender non-conforming characters who shaped and subverted womanhood from the very beginning and whose stories still resonate today! Thurs 23 Oct, 17.30-19.30. Β£5.
bit.ly/3KtDJdU
π¨The call for papers for the History and Archives in Practice 2026 conference #HAP26 is now live! π¨
Along with @ihr.bsky.social @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy @royalhistsoc.org we invite you to explore 'Shaping Societies, Improving Lives: The Impact of Archives and Historical Research' β¬οΈ
