We are seeking to appoint two independent members to our Collections Committee, for up to 4 years: One with significant experience in the management of historic collections in museums or heritage sites One with significant experience in the digital humanities. Closes 24 August: lnkd.in/e38mtWDf

An exciting job opportunity with my team - come join us as the Science Museum Collection Archivist! 📒📚📼📜💾📔🗂️ Part time (4 days/80%), permanent, based at the Science and Innovation Park near Swindon. Happy to answer Qs/ chat about the role before you apply. ce0111li.webitrent.com/ce0111li_web...

A reminder of tonight's Front Row about early television, on BBC Radio 4 at 19.15. With me, curator Lisa Kerrigan; novelist Francis Spufford, and pioneer Joy Whitby. Many thanks to @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social and producer Tim Bano for such an enjoyable experience. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, The Birth of Television: A Forgotten History

Samira Ahmed and guests discuss the forgotten history of the early days of television.

bbc.co.uk

I thought I would make a cyanotype on an egg. Coated it with photochemicals. Exposed an image of a fern leaf. Tried to develop it by rinsing with water …… Did not go as planned 🤦‍♀️

Exciting job opening @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social Library and Archives Manager. Details here careers.nms.ac.uk/job/827960 #museumjobs #libraryjobs 📜

theconversation.com/greenlands-i...

Greenland’s Inuit have spent decades fighting for self-determination

Greenland’s inhabitants call it Kalaallit Nunaat, or land of the Kalaallit. It is an Indigenous nation whose relatively few people now mostly govern themselves.

theconversation.com

The Science Museum Group is looking for a Systems and E-Resources Librarian, FT permanent post based at one of our sites in #Bradford #London #Manchester #Wroughton (nr Swindon) or #York #LISjobs #LibraryJobs #MuseumJobs ce0111li.webitrent.com/ce0111li_web...

Day 3 of #artAdventCalendar: another new portrait - geochemist Katsuko Saruhashi (1920-2007) who created tools that allowed her to make 1st measurements of CO2 in seawater, raised the alarm about nuclear fallout, tracing it in oceans & researched peaceful uses of nuclear power. 🐡🧪👩🏻‍🔬 #histsci A 🧵

We're SO pleased to have achieved Archive Service Accreditation for the first time - and huge congratulations to all of our fellow newly accredited organisations! 💗

UK Archive Sector Leadership@uknatarcsector.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Congratulations to: Hackney Archives, Marx Memorial Library, Powys Archives @mediamuseum.bsky.social, @paulmelloncentr.bsky.social & @yorkminster.bsky.social Archives on achieving Archive Service Accreditation for the first time! (1/2) 📷 The Chapter of York, Photographer: Peter Li

The @scottpolar.bsky.social are looking for a librarian. This is a rare opportunity! Work with (probably) the world's largest dedicated polar library alongside archive and museum colleagues. The dream 😍 📜

THE AGE OF PHOTOGRAPHS. 50 YEARS OF IMAGE PRESERVATION Call for papers tempsepreuves.sciencesconf.org?forward-acti... #photography #conservation #preservation #conference

Starting in 10mins... I'll be talking about the history of Antarctic photography with the excellent Naomi Boneham from @scottpolar.bsky.social

Woohoo! Great #DigiPres story @makethecatwise https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251009-rescuing-knowledge-trapped-on-old-floppy-disks

A digital dark age? The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks

From lectures by Stephen Hawking to the letters of British politician Neil Kinnock – it's a race against time to save the historical treasures locked away on old floppy disks.

bbc.com

For anyone having Terra Nova feelings today ...

Worst Journey@worstjourney.bsky.social · last yr.

Here's a thing I wrote about footage of polar shipwrecks, back when the Endurance was found under the Weddell ice: www.patreon.com/posts/on-icy...

Having a nostalgic listen to this. The sound of Windows 95 launching was more evocative than I would have predicted

Witness History - The launch of Windows 95 - BBC Sounds

In 1995 Microsoft released a new operating system after a $300 million marketing campaign

bbc.co.uk

I finally saw this exhibition today - two days before it closes. I wish I'd gone sooner! It's a lovely calming exhibition, yet gently provocative about the materials we use and consume. I think I'll go back again tomorrow, and I heartily recommend it to anybody else who's in the Bradford area.

Impressions Gallery@impressions-gallery.com · last yr.

Artist Clare Hewitt & Impressions Gallery invite you to take part in the community-driven distribution of 'Everything in the forest is the forest' — a handmade, biodegradable photobook inspired by the interconnectedness of the forest. 🌳 Register your interest by noon 2 June 2025 bit.ly/forest_book

I stopped in at the V&A Wedgwood Collection nrar Stoke today. I enjoyed their little display about the project to catalogue the collection, I imagine updating the 'number of objects available online'counter is a very satisfying job 📜

'ALIEN: Level 5 of the National Science and Media Museum' is now Certified Fresh in Bradford at 100%

DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net · last yr.

‘ALIEN: EARTH’ is now Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes at 93% Read our review: bit.ly/EarthDF

Stephanie Shirley was a major donor to Balliol College, becoming the second woman (after the college's founder from nearly eight centuries ago!) to have her portrait displayed in Hall. I think this might also be the first painting in a college with what looks like an iPad in it!

Charlotte Connelly@curatorconnelly.bsky.social · last yr.

Dame Stephanie Shirley has died aged 91. She adopted the name "Steve" in correspondence as letters signed Stephanie went unanswered. Despite such thoroughly ingrained sexism in computing, she built an astonishing tech career and did all huge amount to support other women in tech #histsci #histtech

Dame Stephanie Shirley has died aged 91. She adopted the name "Steve" in correspondence as letters signed Stephanie went unanswered. Despite such thoroughly ingrained sexism in computing, she built an astonishing tech career and did all huge amount to support other women in tech #histsci #histtech

Dame Stephanie 'Steve' Shirley, technology pioneer, dies aged 91

She founded the software company Freelance Programmers in 1962, which almost exclusively hired women, and in later life donated almost £70m of her fortune.

bbc.co.uk

This has been a long-standing issue, rooted in historical cultural norms and policies, for nearly every National Antarctic Program; This thread 🧵recommends scholarly work from humanities and social scientists who have studies this for years #histsci #envhist #Antarctica #polar

Alexandra Witze@alexwitze.bsky.social · last yr.

We've been waiting for this report from NSF for many months — results of a survey on sexual harassment at US Antarctic stations. The numbers aren't good, but at least this problem is out in the open & starting to be tackled. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Fantastic role for somebody! #histsci #museumjobs

Dr Laura Humphreys@bogarty.bsky.social · last yr.

An excellent opportunity to join the curatorial team at the Science Museum has come up! Please spread the word. 🌍Curator of Climate & Earth Sciences ⚗️Part of the excellent Team Science in London Curatorial ⌛ Permanent, Full-Time 💲 £41k p/a bit.ly/4m3uQFp

Created hand in hand with our community, the new Sound and Vision galleries have accessibility running through their DNA. Find out more in this article from The National Lottery Heritage Fund: www.heritagefund.org.uk/news/putting...

Putting inclusion, access and participation at the heart of the National Science and Media Museum

The museum’s new Sound and Vision galleries tell the story of how photography, film, television and sound technologies shape our past, present and future.

heritagefund.org.uk

New volunteer-led exhibition, Reel-ise, opened at Leeds Industrial Museum this afternoon. It focuses on film history in the city from women taking the lead to lost cinemas of Leeds and of course a nod to Louis Le Prince. museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/pQ20BFv/reel...

a brilliant reinvention of a once cherished mega-cinema. The auditorium of Bradford Live is pretty impressive. In Tune comes live from here today between 5-7pm on BBC Radio 3.

Fairies and vampires and aliens, oh my! Great photos from the new Sound and Vision galleries at @mediamuseum.bsky.social. We've got a brilliant family day lined up for tomorrow *and* temperature controlled galleries 😎 www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/whats-on/sou...

I've been a bit quiet recently due to being busy getting our new Sound and Vision galleries ready @mediamuseum.bsky.social They opened today! There was a gaggle of kids having a brilliant time in there when I wandered through this morning 😍 Lovely overview here from @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social

Samira Ahmed@samiraahmeduk.bsky.social · last yr.

Thrilled to be at the opening of the National Science and Media Museum’s new Sound & Vision galleries in Bradford last night. Lots of new adventures inside…

I've been a bit quiet recently due to being busy getting our new Sound and Vision galleries ready @mediamuseum.bsky.social They opened today! There was a gaggle of kids having a brilliant time in there when I wandered through this morning 😍 Lovely overview here from @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social

Samira Ahmed@samiraahmeduk.bsky.social · last yr.

Thrilled to be at the opening of the National Science and Media Museum’s new Sound & Vision galleries in Bradford last night. Lots of new adventures inside…

If you like Victorian photography, especially stereos, and #histSTM material culture generally (and who does not?!), I recommend the new Instagram account my colleague Julie Gibb has set up www.instagram.com/juliegibbnms...

Bradford launches its new city centre market at Darley Street this weekend The transition from old markets to new, inspired a year-long photographic project to document the life and spirit of these places before they disappear forever By Gerard Liston

Picturing the end of an era for Bradford’s markets

A free online photobook documents the final year for Kirkgate and Oastler markets before the transition to a new site this summer

yorkshirebylines.co.uk