Kitty Ross
@curatorkitty.bsky.social
Curator of Leeds History, Leeds Museums and Galleries. Loves material culture, the great outdoors and singing.
My moment in the limelight. Filmed at Leeds Discovery Centre @leedsmuseums.bsky.social @leedscitycouncil.bsky.social Bargain Hunt, Series 74: Wetherby 4: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002x7p7 via @bbciplayer
Bargain Hunt - Series 74: Wetherby 4
Danny Sebastian is in the saddle at Wetherby Racecourse, where a team of twins take on a mum-and-daughter duo, with experts Charles Hanson and Philip Serrell by their sides.
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Having learned more about the amoral inventor of the notorious Maxim Gun courtesy of @davidolusoga.bsky.social A Gun Through Time (Leeds Grand Theatre) I was reminded that we have this cynically marketed Pipe of Peace in @leedsmuseums.bsky.social collections. Not sure it mitigates much.
Hanging a chandelier at @leedsmuseums.bsky.social Leeds Discovery Centre. A moment of mild peril but very satisfying.
We could wait years for any results and then lock ourselves into using oil and gas supplies that could be disrupted with one bomb or Britain could more quickly provide battery storage in homes and use the cheap overnight windpower that currently goes to waste. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
New North Sea drilling would barely reduce UK gas imports at all, data shows
Exclusive: research finds Jackdaw field would provide only about 2% of current demand, and Rosebank only 1%
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Magic Arzonic Soap anyone? Claims to clean grease, paint, clothes and babies and even cure scurvy. I suspect it just scoured several layers of skin. A gem found inside a scrap album donated to @leedsmuseums.bsky.social in 1961. Leeds c1885. @leedscivictrust.bsky.social @thackraymuseum.bsky.social
This is the sort of thing a cashless society robs us of, the opportunity to try to get away with paying the bus fare in Carthaginian currency www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Coin used as Leeds bus fare was 2,000‑year‑old currency
The coin was handed down to Peter Edwards from his grandfather in the 1950s.
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Abbey House Museum exhibition "In the Picture" finally opens today. Linking some fantastic objects with original pictures and photos. A real visual feast. @leedsmuseums.bsky.social
🧵A photograph of Kirkstall Abbey by Leeds born photographer William Lyndon Smith (1836-1865) dating from around 1855. Smith exhibited widely around Britain from the 1850s until his untimely death in an ice skating accident attempting to save a couple who had fallen through ice
Wishing this amorous pair of mandarins a happy Valentine's Day
Pretty pleased with our #BigGardenBirdwatch tally this year. 12 species including bullfinches, goldcrest and nuthatch. @rspb.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social @wildsheffield.bsky.social
The WW1 soldiers who wrote messages on the surface of their basic emergency ration biscuits before sending them to their loved ones in Leeds. @curatorkitty.bsky.social 👇 BBC News - Wartime Christmas greetings sent by biscuit revealed in Leeds - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Wartime Christmas greetings sent by biscuit revealed in Leeds
Snacks given to frontline troops in World War One were used to send heartfelt messages home.
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My last object cataloguing of 2025 for Leeds Museums @leedsmuseums.bsky.social and an inspiring message for the coming year (courtesy of The Gang of Four, currently on show at Leeds City Museum music exhibition).
The two magazines delivered to our door yesterday. A rather sinister symmetry.
Without asylum: Marks and Spencer wouldn't exist Queen would have been without a front man The other queen wouldn't have had a husband Judith Kerr would never have written The Tiger Who Came to Tea And thousands of less famous people wouldn't have been teachers, politicians, neighbours, etc
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Kitty Ross@curatorkitty.bsky.social · 10mo agoI love linking @leedsmuseums collections to old trade catalogues. Proves that this is not just a humble school abacus (in Leeds Education Committee lime green) but part of the long argument for the superiority of the Decimal System. 1921 catalogue of Leeds based school suppliers E. J. Arnold
I love linking @leedsmuseums collections to old trade catalogues. Proves that this is not just a humble school abacus (in Leeds Education Committee lime green) but part of the long argument for the superiority of the Decimal System. 1921 catalogue of Leeds based school suppliers E. J. Arnold
Some very imaginative ways of representing struggle, conflict and protest in the history of Vancouver @museumofvan.bsky.social. Lots of ideas to take back to @leedsmuseums.bsky.social
Rational recreation' was an ideal that nineteenth-century middle-class reformers hoped to impose on the urban working class. They believed that leisure activities should be controlled, ordered, and improving' The Leeds Rational Recreation Society was created
#RIP Cleo Laine. I hope that the Sheffield Lydian Singers can do justice to this song of hers in our concert tomorrow night (St James Church, Norton, Sheffield 7.30pm) youtube.com/watch?v=-2Mj...
Cleo Laine sings Shakespeare, 'The Compleat Works'
YouTube video by paulprocopolis
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Cataloguing this fantastic set of Yorkshire Relish bottles into the @leedsmuseums.bsky.social collections is whetting my appetite for lunch. A couple still have their contents but are probably past their best after 80 odd years!
Lovely little film from @wildsheffield.bsky.social about building climate resilience into Ughill Farm. Happy to have contributed a few pennies to help them buy this little plot of hope. youtu.be/T8eEQcakWCs?...
*UGHILL FARM: May 2025* | Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust
YouTube video by Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust
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Council run museums provide a £47.3 million boost to Leeds. 👇 BBC News - Council-run museums and galleries bring Leeds a £47.3m boost - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Council-run museums and galleries bring Leeds a £47.3m boost
City councillor says the economic impact of the eight institutions makes a
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Time to put up a few more #clocks at Leeds Discovery Centre @leedsmuseums.bsky.social, including one showing a view of #Leeds Town Hall c1858 @leedscitycouncil.bsky.social
A good day for #birds in Lathkill Dale today. These are the ones that stayed to be snapped - plenty of others were less co-operative with the camera! @rspb.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social @peakdistrict.bsky.social
sheffieldbachchoir.com/sheffield-ba... A wonderful concert at St Mark's, Broomhill, #Sheffield this Saturday 21st June including Bach, Handel, Elgar, Holst. Tickets available on the door. @classicalsheffield.bsky.social
Current Season Concerts
Outline and detailed list of the current season’s concerts
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Another confused German nudist for @museumbums.bsky.social. Clearly a hat an boots are obligatory, but nothing else (spotted on the Puppenbrücke, Lübeck)
Valley of the Aire, Armley Pastures and Kirkstall, Leeds, 1853, by George I. Alexander, 1832-1913 (Leeds Art Gallery). #NorthernArt
Had the moors to ourselves apart from a cuckoo and lots of curlews, lapwings and golden plovers. @bbcspringwatch.bsky.social @wildsheffield.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social
