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Christina Riggs

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Writer: history, photograpy, art, archives, museums. Italophile, tango dancer, and professor of history & visual culture, Durham University, UK. Author of Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century (Atlantic 2021) christinariggs.com

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Still time to register for this free online workshop tomorrow, Friday, July 12th (9.45am - 4 pm in UK): public engagement, #photography, and inclusive approaches to curation - from the Museum Dialogues network at the University of Sunderland. 📜📷

northeastphoto.net/project/muse...

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It’s my only Bluesky skill 😅 when I remember it myself

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It surprises me how viscerally I feel a sense of relief reading this.

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📜 #museums

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Come ospedale? Credo sì. Mi ha sempre colpito la sua atmosfera - che i negozi prosperino…! La profumeria e l’erboristeria sono molto accoglienti

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Yes, you can tango just about anywhere in Turin (and in totally inappropriate shoes, as I’ve just discovered).

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It is … astonishing. Especially since it is so often hot air, old news, or just plain wrong.

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NEW POST: This week's thematic round-up of reading and listening recommendations, covering contested histories of political ideas; the coming Labour government; bordering practices; and animation and cinema. All reposts much appreciated. X
#skystorians 🗃️ #polisky #filmsky

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One thing that keeps me busy in Italy: tracking how long white Italian men speak at public events without ever being interrupted. Even when speaking in other languages. Even when a woman of colour has top billing. Makes academic board meetings in UK seem like feminist protest marches in comparison.

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Looking forward to attending the inaugural conference of the International Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (INCSA) in Durham, 10-12 July 2024. My Keynote is on
"The Naked Pharaohs: Decolonizing the Nineteenth Century."
in-csa.com/conference-d...

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If they fought each other to the death … 🤔 Also: Lions.

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Five more years of data on BME under-representation in UK university History as a discipline released today by Royal Historical Society, following on from the 2018 report:

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🗃️📜 This book sounds fascinating: preview in thread. Ever since I moved to northeast England, a coal mining region, I haven't been able to un-see the deep relationships between mining, industry, chemistry, and visual culture - good to know I'm not the only one!

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Sir William Luce Visiting Fellowship, to spend spring term (April-June 2025) at Durham University, UK. MENA focus, preference for Gulf, Iran, Sudan, South Sudan. Includes grant + college meals/accommodation. Deadline Oct 1st. Non-academics welcome, too. 🗃️📜 #menasky

www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

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Job: Assistant editor, working with the great team at History Today magazine. Deadline July 9th. Salary, well, not great, especially for London, but you probably expected that. 🗃️

www.historytoday.com/jobs

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Always happy to make this offer: if you are or you know someone who’d like to work in journalism and comes from a background underrepresented in the media, feel free to email me for a coffee at FT HQ/online chat: josh.spero@ft.com. Please reskeet (or whatever it is we do here)

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Given that the FT has devoted rather a lot of column space today to James Cracknell, here for balance is an introduction to the Labour candidate battling him for Colchester, ace historian and sociology professor Pam Cox:

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Three job openings at Amber Collection (Side Gallery) in Newcastle, NE England: project archivist, curatorial assistant, and curator/creative director. Fixed term, and salaries aren't huge - but a chance to shape the future of this important #photography space. 📜📷

www.amber-online.com/latest-news/

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You’re giving away our carefully guarded professional secrets!

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Actually reminds me of summer 1997, spent in a top-floor Somerville MA apartment, when I resorted to stroking my poor cat lightly with ice cubes during the dog days ... he either enjoyed it or was too swamped with heat to protest.

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That's why you married him, surely - and sounds like a keeper.

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No! Non lo sapevo. Che tristezza - una libreria di riferimento, personale sempre disponibile. Sono molto delusa....

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In the UK elections, the R*form candidate where I live - in the City of Durham constituency - is named Belch. Bit of nominative determinism at work...? He lives in Rish!'s constituency, but they may be too posh to burp there. I have sent off my postal ballot without any gastric distress.

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Thoughts and prayers as it finds its way to the great beyond.

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I don't think the team is on here, but I wanted to flag this new project on Black history in northeast England. It's set to grow over time and already has resources for schools or self-directed learning, plus a walking tour of Black history in Sunderland. Have a look! 🗃️

www.projectnorthstar.co.uk

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