Art historian at Birmingham Uni, often found "debating about statues". Attempting to write a Global History of Victorian Art. She/her 🏳️🌈
Birmingham, England
Joined September 2011
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Dr Kate Nichols retweeted
What can a bike in Thinktank Birmingham tell us about histories of technology and empire? A new article by historian Nathan Cardon explores cycling as an act of resistance to British imperial occupation of eastern African @thinktankmuseum @artsatbham birmingham.ac.uk/schools/lca…
Dr Kate Nichols retweeted
Casta, Caste & Classification - Friday 24th Feb 2023 youtube.com/watch?v=M_kuxUZh… via @YouTube. @plaster_figleaf @corinne_fowler @LennyHenry @the300challenge
It is "Gallery Week" here @TheGolovine & I have been having an interesting time exploring public art & museum collections with our students. Yesterday I went on a sculpture & memorial walk looking at legacies of industry & empire with MA "Made in Birmingham: Art & Urban space"
ALT A group of students in front of Edward Burne Jones stained glass windows at St Philip's cathedral, Birmingham
ALT John Thomas, memorial to Joseph Sturge, 1862
BRUMMIES: Can anyone confirm that Luke Perry's Forward Together sculpture is still in Colmore Sq?? I'm taking students on a sculpture walk tomorrow and completely failed to double check ... normally I'm not worried that public art will just vanish but this has a history of it..
Voted YES today in @ucu reballots. Fair pay, pensions & an end to casualisation is the very least we deserve. Industrial action is working. Get voting folks, let's get this done! @birminghamucu #ucuRISING (also loving all the yarnbombed postboxes)
ALT A hand posting a UCU ballot paper in a red postbox topped with a pink crochet decoration
Many congratulations @ArtBhartiParmar ! This is richly deserved and wonderful news. Am so looking forward to exploring aspects of this work with you in Febraury @CraftsCouncilUK with @race_empire_prb - still time to see Cotton: Labour Land & Body which closes march 4
Dr Kate Nichols retweeted
Please consider donating to @RNLI if you can.
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One of the things I've noticed about all the amazing photos of striking colleagues is how many of them look the same because of the horrible corporate identikit campus architecture people are standing in front of...
Dr Kate Nichols retweeted
if you’re a FT permanent academic & you’re not on strike, PLEASE rethink. think of the casual staff using food banks. the fixed termers who can’t put the heating on. the future gens who can’t have academia as a future because of crap conditions. it’s for us & them #ucuRISING
Dr Kate Nichols retweeted
Just me and my History of Art @BirminghamUCU @ucu pals in the @guardian 🥳
Today, tmw, Weds we go again!
#EnoughIsEnough
#ucuRISING
More than 70,000 UK university staff go on strike over pay and pensions theguardian.com/education/20…
Dr Kate Nichols retweeted
I NEED EVERY UCU MEMBER AND SUPPORTER TO RT THIS THREAD.
University bosses are rattled. Across the UK they are threatening UCU members with unfair and immoral pay deductions if they take part in action short of striking. This thread exposes every single one of them
#ucuRISING
Many congratulations Caitlin! I cannot wait to read this and it is already on order at our library. This is going to be an absolutely transformative publication
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So many congratulations. Really pleased for you and really looking forward to seeing what happens next with your fantastic research. For now though have a wonderful celebration!
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Dr Kate Nichols retweeted
Alison Solomon's talk on 'Home Is Where The Art Is: 'Collecting Home', a story of co-production is now out on our YouTube!
An introspective piece on how objects connect our pasts today; in the present moment through collaboration.
Watch it here:
youtu.be/wv7AI8MMkZE
Dr Kate Nichols retweeted
Time to start doing things, Birkbeck supporters!
Please RT widely!
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Brilliantly put. What is happening at Birkbeck is devastating, & it is part of a much wider phenomenon. There is something truly magical about birkbeck. I know of no other university that instantly conjures the phrase"changed my life" from so many. It certainly changed mine.
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Dr Kate Nichols retweeted
Very pleased to announce a Ph.D. opportunity: Collaborative Doctoral Award based at Cambridge to work with me & Barbara Wood (National Trust) on the Acland family of Killerton House, Devon and their imperial connections. Please spread the word! oocdtp.ac.uk/aclands-killert…
Many congratulations! I'm so looking forward to seeing this. We were very fortunate to be able to welcome Dr Parmar to speak to our students @TheGolovine about her work last year; am sure lots of them will want to visit too
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I am in town this morning and note that Birmingham’s raging bull is now glaring at the Conservative party conference tents all over centenary Square and I'm thinking about that quite hard.