@BrumMfr

Birmingham Manufactures Project. Researching, cataloguing & photographing Birmingham Museums' collections @bm_ag @BMTMCC. Funded by @ace_national

 Birmingham, England
Joined November 2016
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Museum Collection Centre@BMTMCC9 Jul 2018
Our Open Day is back! Experience the rare opportunity to explore the MCC on a weekend! Sunday 16th September 2018 - SAVE THE DATE!! #ExploreTheStore
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History WestMidlands@HistoryWM3 Jul 2018
LISTEN to ⁦@Stanford⁩ #historian discuss how her book “Empire of #Guns” reveals how #armstrade drove #IndustrialRevolution in Britain. historywm.com/podcasts/birmi… #Birmingham #twitterstorians #18thcentury #History #podcast #BlackCountry #book
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Birmingham but not as you know it! View from Bradford Street, 1816. This engraving shows a heavily industrialised area with St Martin’s church in the middle ground and Christ Church, near what is now Victoria Square, in the far distance. You can see the toll gate in the street.
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Birmingham Updates@BhamUpdates26 Jun 2018
Road discovered under Victoria Square dated to the mid-18th century. birminghamupdates.com/road-d… (Image: @timcornbill)
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BMAG curators@BMAGcurators6 Jun 2018
Collection-based workshop - Birmingham's Gun Trade: The Global Context @BMTMCC 13 June.Through this workshop we will consider Birmingham’s gun trade during the 18th and 19th century in both a local and global context. Booking essential. eventbrite.co.uk/e/birmingha… @Eventbrite
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John Kilwarren@KilwarrenJohn29 May 2018
History🇬🇧1930s: a time when the dinosaur roamed!...............”egbert” the dinosaur, The Pageant of Birmingham, 1938.
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Community Buzz@UoBcommunity18 May 2018
Join @artsatbham for The Centre for Modern and Contemporary History's Annual Lecture on 13 June. From 17:00, we welcome Professor Satia as she explores Galtons of Birmingham, the biggest gun-making firm in 18th century Britain owned by a Quaker family birmingham.ac.uk/schools/his…
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Science Museum
@sciencemuseum22 May 2018
'Cast your mind back to a time when big hair was all the rage and there was this crazy new thing called the World Wide Web.' This was the age of beige... Assistant Curator @shazhussain93 discovers why early PCs were all so beige. Read more on our blog bit.ly/2rQBWEn
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Lukas Large@lukaslarge18 May 2018
The head of Birmingham's Great Auk was X-rayed to check it was genuine. This revealed the amazingly complex internal structure #TheLostAuk #IMD2018
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David Rowan@RowanDavid3 May 2018
The joy of massive photographic prints - part two, it barely fits in through the door to my studio @grandunionltd – at Birmingham, England
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NEW blog post! Read about how Birmingham Manufactures Project were able to photograph some of the very big and heavy machines in our Museum Collection Centre! birminghammuseums.org.uk/blo…
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Paulette@empresspfg27 Apr 2018
Getting ready for #OpenAfternoonTour @BMTMCC later. Can't wait, visitors have a lot to see, so many objects with great stories to tell. @BM_AG @BrumMfr @visit_bham
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Imperial War Museums@I_W_M23 Apr 2018
'I was yellow, all over' Hear first-hand accounts from female munitions workers about some of the dangers and difficulties they faced: ow.ly/3DYR30jD6Ef #womenMW
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NEW blog post! Get to know more about some of the items in our collection made by Alfred Birds & Sons at their Digbeth factory! birminghammuseums.org.uk/blo…
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Vanley Burke is one of the most important British photographers. Born in Jamaica, he arrived in Birmingham in 1965 aged 15. Photographing Birmingham (1968 - 2011) is on display on our bridge gallery @BM_AG until 1st July. birminghammuseums.org.uk/bma…
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M Washizu@mshwashizu16 Apr 2018
Closing date to apply for Collections Digitisation Assistant vacancy at @BM_AG is this Friday at 9am. A great opportunity to work in Collections Department as part of the re-development of Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery. Please RT. #museumjob #museums birminghammuseums.org.uk/abo…
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Heidi Mcintosh@Mcintoshheidi15 Apr 2018
For today's #Archive30 theme of patterns, we have lots of pattern books, such as for local japanware, but these are some 19th century stencils, used for printing designs onto japanned ware, presumably from the Loveridge compaby
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S Kennedy@A_Mechanician9 Apr 2018
Here's an overall shot of the Mandrel lathe i picked up yesterday. A combination of 19th C English headstock a mid 20thC Boley lathe bed & cross slide and high quality home brew engineering joining it all up with a substantial quantity of brass. #lathe #horology
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Lewis Pollard 🌈@Circa1350BC6 Apr 2018
According to @BritSciAssoc 's audience segmentation I am a 'Science Professional' which is not what I expected to be even a few years ago. But I have seriously come to believe Science is for everyone, and we should do our best to prove this to people britishscienceassociation.or…
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Today, for a meeting, I have to tell a story about working in Birmingham. So I'm going to start with a shocking fact: Did you know that both the Kaleidoscope and plastic were born here? In the same house. On Bath Row. 40 years apart.
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