Curator of Leeds History for Leeds Museums and Galleries. All views are my own. Mostly posting now at Blue Sky @curatorkitty.bsky.social
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Join me online at 11am on Friday 10th January for a FREE talk on the fascinating history of The Bradford Reform Jewish Burial Ground. 🪦
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Lovely to see so many visitors here today at Abbey House Museum. @LeedsMuseums @leedscitycounc1 @VisitLeeds @Welcome2Yorks
This is the consultation on the future of @LeedsMuseums Abbey House #Museum which is threatened with closure to save £160,000. Please do respond if you can:
museumsandgalleries.leeds.go…... – at Leeds, England
For those escaping to alternative platforms I am now at bsky.app/profile/curatorkitt… and threads.net/@kitty.ross.90 See you there – at Leeds, England
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Local museums are places of inspiration, education and civic pride but are increasingly under threat…
Letter @thetimes from English Civic Museums Network.
Let there be light! Thanks to generous funding from the Friends of Leeds City Museums @LeedsMuseums and the expertise of @Glasshaus_ visitors to Abbey House Museum can enjoy our displays without straining their eyes! – at Leeds, England
Great afternoon spotting wildlife of all sizes on Big Moor @Natures_Voice @WildSheffield @wildmoorsuk @EasternMoors @cprepdsy (Fox moth caterpillar, kestrel, red deer). Never get used to having such a spectacle on our doorstep. – at Sheffield, England
ALT furry caterpillar (Fox moth caterpillar) in grass
ALT hovering kestrel
ALT red deer stag bellowing in grass moorland
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We’re recruiting for a parental leave cover Curator of Exhibitions role (22 hours a week) to deliver the exhibition programme @LeedsCityMuseum within @LeedsMuseums 👉🏻 jobs.leeds.gov.uk/jobs/curat…
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If you have a mammoth clean-up that needs doing, @LeedsMuseums are up to the tusk! Lovely to see our mega mammoth tusk (found right here in #Leeds) making bags of national news today! 🦣 📰
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“Part of the UK’s malaise is our talent for creating the kind of vacuums that are then filled by the worst actors. Our museums, are repositories of real and powerful stories: if they fall into more decay and disrepair, we should all fear the consequences”
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Mammoth clean-up task for Ice Age tusk bbc.in/4gQdXfB
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It's a good day to be in Leeds. Celebrating the city's anti fascist heritage & raising the profile of the Battle of Holbeck Moor - 30,000 people turned out to tell Oswald Mosley to shift off & a good they did too
Any experts in #Victorian #sports know how to play "nack"? Knurr & Spell we know well, and it also mentions quoits and cricket. 1875 poster linked to the #Armley Feast and the Union Cross Inn. @LeedsMuseums – at Leeds, England
ALT Detail from 1875 poster, Grand United Whisker Order, Armley, Leeds. Lists sports including quoits, knor and spell, nack, cricket etc. Leeds Museums and Galleries collections.
Here is the 1875 poster from the fantastically named "Whisker Order" spoofing antiquarians, museums, friendly societies & local politics in #Armley #Leeds. Lots of topical jokes to unpick. @LeedsMuseums – at Leeds, England
ALT Grand United Whisker Order poster, 1875 Union Cross Inn, Armley. Leeds Museums and Galleries collections.
ALT Grand United Whisker Order poster, 1875 Union Cross Inn, Armley. Leeds Museums and Galleries collections. Detail of sports at Crab Lane Park.
ALT Detail of cartoons from Grand United Whisker Order poster, 1875 Union Cross Inn, Armley. Leeds Museums and Galleries collections.
Lots of squabbling siskins and gold finches enjoying the feeders @NTLongshawWE @nationaltrust @Natures_Voice @RSPBEngland @WildSheffield – at Sheffield, England
ALT two siskins on a niger feeder
ALT siskins and a goldfinch on a seed feeder
ALT siskin and a goldfinch on a seed feeder
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Read the full article here: issuu.com/redviolinfestival/…
@MichaelBerkele2 @LeedsConcerts @southasianartuk @Seven_Arts @LeedsTours @UoLConcerts @LCEventsEnts @sinfoniaofleeds @yaniewicz @leedslibraries @HobgoblinMusic @Everymancinema @LonChamberEns @tom_greed @Opera_North
Upcoming talk about Felix Yaniewicz violinist & composer performed at Leeds Music Hall in 1807. Story of virtuosity, intrigue and migration. @yaniewicz @theleedslibrary – at Leeds, England
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1. Council's own art in trust for the public
2. Very little, if any council money is spent acquiring art. Acquisitions by most museums are made via private donations, trusts and foundation or @HeritageFundUK
3 I get tedious FOIs at least once a month about these matters