@DrFarihaShaikh @LaraAtkin @EadaoinAgnew @BristolUni What a great way to start back! Hope it's a good day, it sounds fascinating! X
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Dr Kate Nichols
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Dr Kate Nichols
@plaster_figleaf
Art historian at Birmingham Uni, often found "debating about statues". Attempting to write a Global History of Victorian Art. She/her 🏳️🌈
Birmingham, England شامل ہوئے Eylül 2011
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And just like that maternity leave is over. Kicking off the week back with the #VictorianDiversities day by @LaraAtkin and @EadaoinAgnew at @BristolUni. It's my first in-person academic event since before the pandemic 🫣 looking forward to meeting old friends and making new ones!
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What can a bike in Thinktank Birmingham tell us about histories of technology and empire? A new article by historian Nathan Cardon explores cycling as an act of resistance to British imperial occupation of eastern African @thinktankmuseum @artsatbham birmingham.ac.uk/schools/lcahm/…
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@FrancescaBerry9 Definitely not daft. It's been exhausting
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Actually, I’m in tears. Daft perhaps but the fear and dismay and anger the 35% cut embedded…
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“When university staff demanded their pensions back, they were scoffed at, ridiculed and told to 'move on'.”
Yes! And phew! And if only USS “leaders” hadn’t made taking years of industrial action necessary. But unfortunately they did.
Collective action works. Join a union!
UCU@ucu
BREAKING🚨: A new joint statement between @UCU and @UniversitiesUK has confirmed that USS pension benefits are on course to be restored in full All cuts imposed in April 2022 will be reversed, pending the 2023 valuation History makers ✊ #ucuTOGETHER ucu.org.uk/article/12962/…
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@KazbarBurns @KazbarBurns ooh thank you! this looks fascinating! And don't apologise ... life is busy! Til soon X
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@w_carruthers This is fascinating, and once you've seen it makes perfect sense ... agreed @LukeGartlan - so much more to explore here. Very much hoping that there is a catalogue and the World's Fairs angle is also v interesting to hear about. Thank you for sharing @andrealstanton
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@emilymfg @NGVMelbourne I teach some c19 Australian art on my Art& Empire module (and your work Emily too!) - I especially look at contemporary BIPOC responses to c19 work so this catalogue will be really key for that as well...
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Too heavy for my suitcase but shipped it anyway from Australia: this massive, fascinating and richly illustrated tome (2018) produced by @NGVMelbourne #Colony
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@emilymfg @NGVMelbourne I had this on interlibrary loan during Covid lockdowns 1-3 (oops!) but was never able to actually order it ... doing so right now for the library & going to integrate into my teaching - thank you for reminding me!
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@poisonchallis I'm not surprised! I hope you have a lovely and restorative time
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@poisonchallis YESSSSSSSSSSS!!!! I'm not jealous. I'm not jealous. Oh my god I'm so jealous I could cry. Please do all the things and put up all the pictures so I can be there vicariously!
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Casta, Caste & Classification - Friday 24th Feb 2023 youtube.com/watch?v=M_kuxU… via @YouTube. @plaster_figleaf @corinne_fowler @LennyHenry @the300challenge
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It is "Gallery Week" here @TheGolovine & I have been having an interesting time exploring public art & museum collections with our students. Yesterday I went on a sculpture & memorial walk looking at legacies of industry & empire with MA "Made in Birmingham: Art & Urban space"
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@OverhearPoetry Thank you so much for sharing this - and for sending details of the app, which I've just downloaded - it looks brilliant!
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BRUMMIES: Can anyone confirm that Luke Perry's Forward Together sculpture is still in Colmore Sq?? I'm taking students on a sculpture walk tomorrow and completely failed to double check ... normally I'm not worried that public art will just vanish but this has a history of it..
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@syperek WOW this looks incredible! Adding it to my reading lists now!!
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@johnjamesmunro Oh no no no that is not good! Things do have to change.
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Voted YES today in @ucu reballots. Fair pay, pensions & an end to casualisation is the very least we deserve. Industrial action is working. Get voting folks, let's get this done! @birminghamucu #ucuRISING (also loving all the yarnbombed postboxes)
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@FrancescaBerry9 I mean I can't really bear them either but I do find them endlessly interesting
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@FrancescaBerry9 Alright Berry. The gloves are on. We can discuss this on the pickets this morning!
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The art of the PreRaphaelites: I don’t get the appeal. *send tweet*
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Many congratulations @ArtBhartiParmar ! This is richly deserved and wonderful news. Am so looking forward to exploring aspects of this work with you in Febraury @CraftsCouncilUK with @race_empire_prb - still time to see Cotton: Labour Land & Body which closes march 4
Eastern Eye@EasternEye
We congratulate our #Award for #art #finalist Bharti Parmar for her work Khadi installation. In the year marking the 90th anniversary of Gandhi’s historic visit to Darwen. @EEACTA #EEACTA #ACTA2023 #Awards #artistsontwitter @ArtBhartiParmar
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