"What world lies beyond this sea I do not know, but every sea has another shore and I will arrive." - seen in a cemetery on Italian island Lampedusa, where people who die at sea are buried.
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Artist / Author of Ghosts of the British Museum, a narrative non-fiction work about the BM's many ghosts. Currently completing a film. Wayfaring North Carolinian. Literary rep: Zoe Ross at United Agents. https://linktr.ee/ghostsofthebritishmuseum
Public hearing set for nearly 650 diesel generators tied to Amazon data center A public hearing next Thursday will focus on draft air permits for Amazon's backup generators and Duke Energy's temporary bridge power generators in Richmond County.
Public hearing set for nearly 650 diesel generators tied to Amazon data center
A public hearing Thursday will focus on draft air permits for Amazon's backup generators and Duke Energy's temporary bridge power generators in Richmond County.
wral.com
On this day in 1763, during Pontiac's War, British troops are defeated in the Battle of Bloody Run when they try to break the Native forces' siege of Fort Detroit. anticolonialhistory.com/event/82/
"Archivists, historians, artists and other culture workers are fighting against what they see as a systematic attempt to erase and censor minority voices. Their work involves teaching the principles of collecting, retelling and preserving the stories of Black life." outliermedia.org/black-bottom...
How archivists, artists are preserving Detroit culture
Visual artists, creatives and archivists like Black Bottom Archives are working to preserve Black culture in Detroit.
outliermedia.org
5345m Sea cucumber, Crinoid, Urchin, Corallamorph, Bathypterois, sea cucumber, Umbellula, Nemertean?, polychaete @nautiluslive.org dive on 7.28.26 #MarineLife
*because Israel keeps bombing it and also they said they want to occupy the rubble and eventually annex it
Rima I Anabtawi@rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 2w agoUNESCO places ancient Lebanese city of Tyre on heritage danger list share.google/9d5b7btV0aj2...
INFO ICI BOURGOGNE - Le Musée du pays Châtillonnais victime d'un vol en plein jour, le torque de la Dame de Vix dérobé - ICI
Les gendarmes de Châtillon-sur-Seine ont longtemps survolé le secteur du musée ce vendredi, et pour cause : le torque de la Dame de Vix, ce collier d'or inestimable, a été dérobé ce vendredi 24 juille...
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Dominique Garcia@archeodgarcia.bsky.social · 2w ago#catastrophe patrimoniale et scientifique Le torque en or de la tombe princière celtique de #Vix vient d'être dérobé
Historian friend was reading a civil war era letter in an archive, the letter said “In this envelope I include my smallpox scabs” and sure enough there they were. Had to call CDC for a hazmat team.
So hot in the British Museum Print Room, looking at Biblical catastrophes and thinking about the present moment in this precious place with a glass roof not made for today's temperature. How much of our archival infrastructure needs rethinking and rehousing?
" London remembers its Blitz wounds with pride. Berlin is different..." I've lived in both cities and was viscerally aware of this dynamic. Berlin is (re)built atop ppl buried with no ceremony or acknowledgement. The weight of all those anguished deaths & the attendant German repression was a lot.
London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · 3w ago‘It’s claimed that something like a hundred thousand people perished in those final Berlin weeks, and Buruma’s witnesses recall scenes of such nightmarish horror that such a total becomes credible.’ Neal Ascherson on Berlin during World War II. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Photograph postcard of the Jenkins Orphanage Band, Charleston, South Carolina https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2014.63.88.1
£42.6m worth of repairs identified, £13m labelled urgent, the Welsh Government has allocated £4.8m for the most urgent work. Staff seek assurances on jobs as National Museum of Wales eyes long term closure to allow repairs to a "failing" building which hosts a national collection of 5.3m objects.
Cardiff's National Museum closing is 'realistic' option, says boss
Jane Richardson says a prolonged closure of National Museum Cardiff for repairs is a realistic option.
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It is immensely intriguing to me that #MPs in #Britain see this as an issue, and indeed , #CulturalGenocide is just such, but don’t feel the same way about actual #Genocide ?!? Is this just a #PR exercise? www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusi...
Exclusive: MPs demand investigation into British Museum’s 'erasure' of Palestine
Call for independent inquiry cites 'deeply troubling' MEE investigation, which revealed changes followed months of lobbying by pro-Israel activists
middleeasteye.net
This is the entrance to the bunker of the New Reich Chancellery which has been in the news recently because of plans to demolish it for housing. It’s in plain sight on waste ground on Voßstraße and is the only remaining trace of the Chancellery. Link to BBC article in comments.
The article partly discusses the Townshend monument in westminster abbey, which depicts two Indigenous men modelled on a young Odawa boy kidnapped and brought to London as a gift for a British general.
Robbie Richardson@londonmikmaq.bsky.social · last mo.Great to see this finally out: My article "The Stubborn Will to Mean: Sympathy, Relationality, and the Origins of Collecting Indigenous Bones in the Eighteenth Century" in ELH!
Behind-the-scenes 🧵 on this story revealing that the American Museum of Natural History in New York is holding thousands of hair samples taken from Native Americans, including children at residential schools - despite knowing their names. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/a...
Decades Late, Museum Scrambles to Return 2,700 Native Remains
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Meanwhile in Mexico, they’re busy hiding all their cultural landmarks so the English don’t haul them off to the British Museum.
The British Museum did what colonial museums have always done: it rewrote history to serve the coloniser and then lied about it.
Dan Hicks@profdanhicks.bsky.social · last mo.
Learned today that British Museum has no AC, but it does have a clear roof that lets the sun in and creates a additional greenhouse effect in 100ish degree weather.
Repatriation story time! Aka, how a stolen goddess of dance went from the photo on the left (on display for worship at a Nepali monastery in 1969) to the photo on the right (patiently posing with a dorky admirer in the Nepali consulate in NYC in 2026).
I wrote about Mona Khalil's life and death, and what it means to do conservation work amid bombs, invasion, and occupation defector.com/mona-khalil-...
Mona Khalil, Who Devoted Her Life To Protecting Turtles, Killed By Israeli Airstrike | Defector
For half a century, a house on the coast in southern Lebanon has kept vigil over Al-Mansouri beach and the blue Mediterranean waters beyond. Mona Khalil’s grandfather built the house in the 1970s, aro...
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Here is a very comprehensive article on what is happening. #CanArch we need to be keeping on top of this as it develops. We're watching erasure of a culture being attempted by the NL gov, saying Innu people have only been in Lab for 300 years. theindependent.ca/news/provinc...
Province shocks Innu, disputes their history in Labrador – The Independent
Innu Nation cancels cultural exhibit, alleging executives of The Rooms provincial museum told them to remove reference to Innu presence in Labrador prior to 1700s
theindependent.ca
I don't know if #archaeologists are following what happened in Nfld today, but it is colonialism in action. After 2 years of prep, right before #IndigenousPeoplesDay, the NL Gov told the Innu that they cannot open their exhibit b/c it doesn't align with the gov's interp of their history. Yeah. 🏺
This Aztec whistle (ocarina) made out of clay in the form of a parrot, c.1300–1521 (British Museum) 🗃️
