happy bare minimum Friday to all who celebrate
The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL)@themerl.bsky.social · 2w agohappy bare minimum Friday to all who celebrate
The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL)
@themerl.bsky.social
We explore the history of the English countryside and its people. Chaotic Good. https://merl.reading.ac.uk/
The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL)@themerl.bsky.social · 2w agotwo roads diverged in a yellow wood and sorry but why did they not diverge straight into the galleries of The Museum of English Rural Life
can't stop thinking about our latest Google review
some Monday motivation courtesy of this absolutely giant horse
Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · 7d agomay you be filled with the confidence and verve of this “corpulent rearing steed”
So I have some news…
The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL)@themerl.bsky.social · last wk.We're delighted to share that Guy Baxter (Head of Archive Services) will become our new Director from the end of October. Guy succeeds Kate Arnold-Forster, whose retirement concludes an exceptional career. https://merl.reading.ac.uk/news-and-views/guy-baxter-new-director/
Back again, like a stuck record (but with markedly more sheep and cows and pigs).
The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL)@themerl.bsky.social · last wk.Absolute Units returns! This time, we discuss a bunch of things we've been up to lately, our news, and a bunch of important tangents. Including: - Rural life at Versailles - The ratio of an absolute unit - Brother, may i have some öats? And more. Listen nöw: merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...
Absolute Units returns! This time, we discuss a bunch of things we've been up to lately, our news, and a bunch of important tangents. Including: - Rural life at Versailles - The ratio of an absolute unit - Brother, may i have some öats? And more. Listen nöw: merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...
Absolute Units podcast - The Museum of English Rural Life
Come for the big sheep. Stay for the history of rural England and its people.
merl.reading.ac.uk
We're delighted to share that Guy Baxter (Head of Archive Services) will become our new Director from the end of October. Guy succeeds Kate Arnold-Forster, whose retirement concludes an exceptional career. https://merl.reading.ac.uk/news-and-views/guy-baxter-new-director/
Leadership changes: Guy Baxter becomes our new Director
Guy Baxter becomes the new Director of the University of Reading's Museums and Collections, as Kate Arnold-Forster and Isabel Hughes depart.
merl.reading.ac.uk
hello we're about to record a new episode of our podcast. and the category is: listener questions. send us something in the next 45 minutes and we'll try our best to answer!
if you say "The Museum of English Rural Life" three times in a mirror, nothing happens. but if you speak it a fourth time, a man in a smock appears and asks you to incant the poem on the side of this rather menacing jug
happy bare minimum Friday to all who celebrate
Museum of Twitter@museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 2w ago
By the way: no podcast this week – we had some leave and needed to postpone our latest episode! We'll be back to regular scheduling from next week. In the meantime: if you're not up-to-date, delve into our past episodes! merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...
Absolute Units podcast - The Museum of English Rural Life
Come for the big sheep. Stay for the history of rural England and its people.
merl.reading.ac.uk
This is completely unrelated to my normal work in political journalism, but I have a background in historical archaeology and I am probably in the top 1% of people who get really fired up about records of historic farming life. I hope at least some of these will be accessible in the US!
The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL)@themerl.bsky.social · 3w agoHow can films designed for audiences in the past be made accessible to viewers today? Our new blogpost reflects on our ongoing project to restore, digitise, and share a collection of 1,800 films depicting historic farming life. merl.reading.ac.uk/news-and-vie...
How can films designed for audiences in the past be made accessible to viewers today? Our new blogpost reflects on our ongoing project to restore, digitise, and share a collection of 1,800 films depicting historic farming life. merl.reading.ac.uk/news-and-vie...
Beyond nostalgia
How do we help audiences of today encounter films from the past?
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what have we been cooking, you ask? well, how about a new, illustrated brand for our under 5s group, Friday Fledglings merl.reading.ac.uk/news-and-vie...
A new Friday Fledglings brand has hatched
An iconic under-5s group deserves iconic design. Discover the new look of Friday Fledglings and how your toddler can get involved.
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Anyways who wants to look at some cool drawings of engines? merl.reading.ac.uk/news-and-vie...
Digitising the Fowler archives
Learn about our project to improve access to our Fowler archives of engine drawings, including 7,171 new drawings in our database.
merl.reading.ac.uk
Exciting news (well we think so)! We are looking for new people to regularly contribute to our archive! We accept applications from anyone based in the UK who has an interest in sending us their thoughts and opinions about life in the UK. #Skystorians massobs.org.uk/write-for-th...
Write for the archive - Mass Observation Archive
Writing for Mass Observation You can apply to write for the archive here. Current Observers If you are one of our current Observers you may find our handbook for new Observers helpful. This has all th...
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Actually so happy to have rediscovered @themerl.bsky.social here. I have some of your tea towels.
The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL)@themerl.bsky.social · last mo.just take a look at this pig ok
In an era of increasingly AI generated SM posts, reading things that are clearly just people posting things that popped into their brains 2 minutes ago is actually nice, so I am all for this
The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL)@themerl.bsky.social · 4w agomany social media managers will encourage you to spread your posts throughout the day but why do that when you have 500 thoughts and you could just literally post them all at the same time
as i say regularly: the trick is not to post careful well crafted thoughts on a single topic once a day, the trick is throw every single thing you have at the wall and occasionally something will stick"
The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL)@themerl.bsky.social · 4w agomany social media managers will encourage you to spread your posts throughout the day but why do that when you have 500 thoughts and you could just literally post them all at the same time
Fun fact: this year we turned 75! It's a fine age. We remain extremely young at heart. But why the heck did people in 1951 think it was a good idea to make The Museum of English Rural Life?
many social media managers will encourage you to spread your posts throughout the day but why do that when you have 500 thoughts and you could just literally post them all at the same time
cows if you're reading this there are some hay bales with your names on it
Shepherd@neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 4w agoTHE COWS ARE ON THE BRINK OF ENTERING THE NEW NEIGHBOR'S HAY FIELD TO SNACK ON THE STACKS OF HAY BALES SHE LEFT THERE
we see the new iPhone and raise you a please do not try to fold up The Museum of English Rural Life