@christinajriggs
Writer and historian: photography, art, archives, museums, colonialism (Egypt, Sudan). Chair in the History of Visual Culture @durhamhistory.bsky.social. Author of Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century. https://christinariggs.com
One of the many gifts that learning a language gives you is more music. Not sure enough people outside Italy know the piano jazz of Sergio Cammariere. Here’s his YouTube channel if you need some silky songs to bring a little light into dark times.
With @olliedouglas.bsky.social of @themerl.bsky.social and my esteemed colleague Julie-Marie Strange @durhamhistory.bsky.social - in the recently restored Redhills, historic home of the Durham Miners’ Association and the Pitmen’s Parliament. 🗃️📜🐄
Very much enjoyed doing this video interview about my article! Thanks to @erikahanna.bsky.social and @urbanhistory.bsky.social for the opportunity. Hopefully of interest to colleagues across urban history and environmental humanities #UrbanHist #UrbanStudies #EnviroHums #CoastalHist
Maybe next year!
Do you know the way to San Jose…? One of the weirder museums I have visited in my life, and that’s saying something.
egyptianmuseum.org
I would ignore it. If you’ve done W8 BEN (or whatever it is) form to declare yourself a UK tax resident, no US tax paperwork required. I have always refused to get a TIN as well; have never had any issues.
Could it be fake…?
Coming up this SUNDAY! A true story of family, love and anti-Nazi resistance — researched and presented by yours truly. Live on BBC Radio 4 or listen later on BBC Sounds.
Help us test the “Whose Bias? Ways of Seeing” pilot, a new community-led approach to handling outdated and biased language in collections:
17 March, 13.30 – 14.30: https://bit.ly/3OD48bi
24 March, 13.30 – 14.30: https://bit.ly/4r58mFX
@dh-researchhub.bsky.social @warburginstitute.bsky.social
Very on-brand for a mummy-troubler, though.
It's Freedom & Liberation Day in Charlottesville, commemorating the day Union soldiers commanded by George Armstrong Custer ended slavery in this region. Many freed people became prominent citizens. Some of their portraits & stories are in our catalog. The pdf is free!👇🏽
at.virginia.edu/vop-catalog
River Wear in twilight, with bridge in far distance and a darkening blue sky. Towers of Durham cathedral lit up above bare tree line to right. Trees reflect on the river.
Teaching until 6 pm much easier when the sky is still light and the blackbirds are trilling. #Durham
Now available from @reaktionbooks.bsky.social
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Here I've tried to give an account in English of the Ming ruling house as a family enterprise (and not forgetting imperial aunties)
New-ish film I participated in about colonial Yorkshire. See thread for link and password to see the film @themerl.bsky.social @handhyorkshire.bsky.social
Long-haired black cat with white neck, lying on a pale blue yoga bolster that is balanced across two chairs (one metal yoga chair; one rattan armchair), with a yoga mat visible below and floral wallpaper in the background.
Joined online for a workshop with my Netherlands-based yoga teachers - which gave Mitzi a chance to demonstrate her mastery of the supported backbend. Call it Mitz-Iyengar. 💙🐈⬛ #cats
From one writer to as many others as I can reach. You're welcome.
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Long haired black and white cat sitting on an induction hob next to a saucepan, blue green and white patterned tiles in splashback, kitchen utensils left and right.
Well, I guess it’s cat for dinner again. 🐈⬛💙 #cats
(Honest, she is not allowed on the kitchen counters.)
If anyone is in Dublin on Tuesday March 3rd IADT are hosting a talk by Gail Day and Steve Edwards on their recently published book Amphibious Realities - details below 👇
📖 Call for Papers 📖: Our project is hosting a workshop on 8-9 July at the University of Lincoln, UK for scholars working at the colonialism-migration governance intersection.
Read the call here: tinyurl.com/bdhhejam
Submit a paper here: tinyurl.com/43yh85c4
Deadline: 26 March
The Ethics of Medical Photography Network is organising an ECR workshop on 28 May at De Montfort University with the generous support of AHRC and @sshmedicine.bsky.social! Apply by 20 March empnetwork.our.dmu.ac.uk/2026/02/26/e... Open to PhD students and ECRs in all disciplines! #photohist #histmed
I loved it, when I read it many years ago - almost in one go. My brother (back in US) hated it. I made less headway with the rest of Maxwell's work but intend to try again.
Have I ever mentioned how much I love #Norfolk?
I’ve been saying this for 15+ years for ancient Egyptian remains. Our group was lucky to hear from The curators about the challenges they face, including lack of resources - and being abused by right-wing media looking for ‘culture war’ clickbait. We all deserve better.
9,600 redundancies at research intensive unis in 2 yrs.
9,400 staff paid £100,000+ a yr at Russell Group institutions.
'Uni of Nottingham, which recorded a loss of over £85 million, increased its number of top earners significantly from 207 to 294.'
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/top-ear...
View of information screen in Great North Museum: Hancock, in Newcastle, which accompanies the display of ancient Egyptian human remains - including x-rays and CT-scans (cropped from image). Text here reads: Bakt en Hor will never be taken out of her cartonnage and unwrapped. Instead, high tech scans have been used to try and reveal her remains. However, our need for knowledge is no different from the people who wanted to unwrap Bakt en Hor in the 1820s. By using the latest scientific techniques, we have revealed what the ancient Egyptians wanted to remain secret- the sacred dead.
Taking MA students @durhamhistory.bsky.social to Great North Museum Newcastle today - where display includes mummified remains. Dissonance here (from video interpretation) in acknowledging the ‘sacred dead’ - with pride in having ‘revealed what the ancient Egyptians wanted to remain secret.’ 🗃️📜🏺
If it's any further incentive the title of my talk is: 'Meet the Institutional Racists: Immigration Officers and Powellite Solidarity, 1968-1976'.
Sorry to miss it - trying to interest history students in art today… But you are in excellent company and hands!
If you haven’t left Academia dot edu already….
About saintliness rather than dead-ness? The shroud of Turin is also under bulletproof glass - in a case not even on ‘display’, in that it is kept covered in a side chapel, also closed off with glazing.
My own experience curating human remains - at your university - are in print in various places (Heba’s too), with the unprintable details sometimes shared in person.
