Alex Watson Jones
Museum curator and provenance researcher | Recovery Programme @ British Museum | Former software engineer | TV PhD 2023 | she/her
@pgmcgonagle.bsky.social
Lecturer in Mod Lit, University of Groningen, Netherlands. Donegalian. AHRC PhD at Exeter/BL on archive of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.@unigroningen@bsky.social
@arca-artcrime.bsky.social
ARCA - Association for Research into Crimes against Art. A civil society research and training organisation which works to promote the study and analysis of art and antiquities crime.
@ppr-smb.bsky.social
Official bluesky account of the postcolonial provenance research team at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin @kulturspk https://www.smb.museum/forschung/provenienzforschung/
@100histories.bsky.social
The Global South revisits the BBC/British Museum's A History of the World in 100 Objects. A dynamic decolonial grassroots project. 1 Object tells 100 Histories of 100 Worlds. https://100histories100worlds.org/
@profdanhicks.bsky.social
Museum Curator and Professor of Contemporary Archaeology, Oxford University • Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford • Tutor Art/Anthropology • https://linktr.ee/danhicks
@summeraustin.bsky.social
Archaeologist researching cultural heritage crime, looting, trafficking, il/licit markets, museum ethics and law | 1st Gen PhD Candidate at @uclarchaeology.bsky.social | she/her
@drdonnayates.bsky.social
I'm an archaeologist, a criminologist, and an unqualified dinosaur lawyer. I study passion and deviance related to fossils & antiquities, art crime, heritage, and culture from the Faculty of Law at Maastricht University. Arty stuff and related curiosities.
@barnabyphillips.bsky.social
Journalist and author. 'Loot- Britain and the Benin Bronzes' & 'Another Man's War'..I was a correspondent based in Athens, Jo'burg Lagos, Luanda & Maputo..Now back in my native N1 #COYG
@andrewheavens.bsky.social
By Andrew Heavens, author of "The Prince and the Plunder", about how Britain took piles of loot and one small boy from Ethiopia. Interested in all things pillaged, and in Bob, and in skiffle.
@schuhmacher.bsky.social
Executive Director, Provenance Research, Art Institute of Chicago: https://www.artic.edu/collection-information/provenance-research
@ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social
🖼 🏺 World famous collections, from Egyptian mummies to contemporary art 🕙 Open every day 10am–5pm 🏛 linktr.ee/ashmoleanmuseum
@gettymuseum.bsky.social
Bringing people together through art. Based in Los Angeles, working globally. getty.edu
@nhm.org
Inspiring wonder, discovery, and responsibility for our natural and cultural worlds. Open 9:30am - 5pm daily, closed the first Tuesday of every month. 🔊 http://linktr.ee/nhmla
@ihr.bsky.social
The Institute of Historical Research is the UK’s national home for history. Supporting historians with digital resources, library, seminars & training https://www.history.ac.uk/ Part of @sasnews.bsky.social
@auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social
Former German Nazi concentration & extermination camp Auschwitz. Official account. We commemorate victims, educate about history & preserve the authentic site. www.auschwitz.org | lesson.auschwitz.org | podcast.auschwitz.org
@bho.bsky.social
British History Online is a digital library of primary and secondary sources for the history of the British Isles. Part of the Institute of Historical Research. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/
@sainsburycentre.bsky.social
"The UK's most radical museum" -The Guardian ✨ Where art is alive 📸 Now showing: #CanTheSeasSurviveUs 🎟 Pay if and what you can 💭 Life’s biggest questions sainsburycentre.ac.uk #LivingArt
@pittriversmuseum.bsky.social
Anthropology and archaeology collections from world cultures past and present. https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk
@nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social
One of the finest collections of natural history literature, art and online resources. Come and research with us Tuesday - Thursday 10.00 - 16.00 (by appointment). linktr.ee/nhmlibraryarchives (Natural History Museum, London and Tring)
@ihrlibrary.bsky.social
The Wohl Library of the @ihr.bsky.social is a national resource for everyone researching or writing history. Membership is free to everyone and we are an open access, reference library holding over 200,000 books and journals.
@bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
Amazing collections and breath-taking libraries. Facilitating research at the University of Oxford. Readers: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk Visitors: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
@wienerlibrary.bsky.social
The world's oldest Holocaust archive and Britain's largest collection on the Nazi era. Website: www.wienerholocaustlibrary.org Digital Archive: www.whlcollections.org Donate: www.wienerholocaustlibrary.org/what-we-do/support-our-work/donate/
@museumsassociation.org
Membership organisation and network for everyone working in museums and heritage 🤝 based in the UK 📍 museumsassociation.org
@angelamcshane.bsky.social
Historian of 17th cent polito-pop, intoxicants and material culture Now Hon Reader at Uni of Warwick Formerly Head EM Studs V&A/RCA History of Design Head of Research Wellcome Collection Finishing a book and slightly insane as a consequence.
@douglasdodds.bsky.social
Independent curator, formerly at the V&A. All things digital - especially computer art, digital art, algorithmic art, generative art, etc. Plus museums, libraries, digital humanities, Charles Dickens, Laurence Sterne and more. www.douglasdodds.org
@museumofloot.bsky.social
Museum of Looted Antiquities is a virtual gallery that collects, displays and studies looted antiquities that have been repatriated since 1950 – and the trafficking networks behind them. MuseumOfLoot.org
@jebarr.bsky.social
@J_E_Barr at the other place. City of Angels. #Provenance with a dash of Pleistocene. Collector of images of dealer stamps and stickers. Bad photos of good art & all opinions strictly my own. #jhuprovenance
@clairewintle.bsky.social
Historian of museums, exhibitions, collecting, imperialism, decolonisation, India, thinking about now. Director of the Centre for Design History and teaching MA Curating at University of Brighton.
@jayneknight29.bsky.social
Photographic historian and Kodak Museum Collection researcher 📸
@meganahamilton.bsky.social
Historian • PhD student at King's College London & Imperial War Museum (CDP) • Researching SWW army training across the British Empire • 🇨🇦 living in 🇬🇧
@charjoyjohnson.bsky.social
Writing my PhD ‘Imperial Connections: Re-examining Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire’, AHRC M4C CDA, National Trust and University of Birmingham
@libertypaterson.bsky.social
AHRC PhD, Birkbeck & the National Portrait Gallery, London Cultural Legacies of Slavery Exhibition Curator 'Slavery & the Bank' (2022-24), Bank of England Museum
@inbalharding.bsky.social
Senior Creative lead at big city art gallery. Lover of art and dogs, vaguely fond of my kids. Online nonsense a mixture of all these things. All views my own.
@leenalindell.bsky.social
AHRC CDP PhD at the Uni of York & NRM/ Science Museum Group - Transnational networks, SNA, colonialism, railways & 1930s China. Visiting researcher at Uni of Helsinki - Nordic colonialism, Petsamo, tourism & photography. Archivist. 🇫🇮🇬🇧🚂
@archive.org
Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine.
@c19thnewshound.bsky.social
PhD student at Edge Hill University & The British Library, researching the nineteenth-century press, focussing on short-lived newspapers. Funded by the AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership scheme.
@sambrady.bsky.social
Collections Engagement Officer for the National Paralympic Heritage Trust. PhD in the history of sport wheelchair technology @ Uni of Glasgow Check out the UK Disability History and Heritage Hub SSF nerd / ✡️ & proud. www.samuelbrady.wordpress.com
@louisebell.bsky.social
Researches artificial limbs in #ww1 and #ww2 | PGR rep @socialhistsoc.bsky.social | co-founder @ukdishisthub.bsky.social | goes to a lot of gigs | she/her
@alientalks.bsky.social
Digital Archaeologist, AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership PhD student at Uni of Yok, Historic England and Archaeology Data Service. Believer in making data as open and accessible as possible
@themuseumfolk.bsky.social
I love a good museum. But also the bad ones. Jack of all trades currently embedded in art registration.
@musebloom.bsky.social
Exhibitions Manager in London, UK Views own | she-they | ♿️🦿🌱🏴🇪🇺 I am musebloom everywhere
@sathnam.bsky.social
Writer @thetimes. FRSL. FRHistS. WTF. Join me on my Empireworld tour in 2025. Pre-order my book on George Michael, Tonight the Music Seems So Loud, published by Picador in 2026. www.sathnam.com
@kmitch.bsky.social
PhD candidate @ Birkbeck UoL collecting digital objects at the V&A Museum. Digital media theory, elusive objects, AI, failure studies. Prev film studies + architecture.
@shreyagupta.bsky.social
AHRC CDP PhD student at Exeter and Ashmolean Museum researching the history of collecting coins in colonial India https://linktr.ee/Shreya.gupta11
@mooregraham.bsky.social
Maritime & social historian; 18th-C Collections Researcher for The National Archives UK. Sometime pirate. Views own &c
@eicathomefinn.bsky.social
Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)