Catriona Wilson

Hello to everyone on @bsky.app! We are home to one of the world's largest and most important collections of Egyptian and Sudanese archaeology, telling the stories of people who lived in the Nile Valley in the past. www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll...

Absolutely fantastic research talk today if you can make it!

How women pioneered public access to UCL’s museum collections In celebration of Women’s History Month, we’re reflecting on the women who opened the Petrie and Grant Museum collections to the public for the first time.

In celebration of Women’s History Month, we’re reflecting on the women who opened the Petrie (@uclpetriemuseum.bsky.social) and Grant Museum (@uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social) collections to the public for the first time. Read more here:

A fantastic insight into the importance of preserving videogame magazines by @keefstuart.bsky.social highlighting the important work of @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social and ourselves in ensuring this important part of videogame culture remains accessible.

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Scans for the memories: why old games magazines are a vital source of cultural history – and nostalgia As the Video Game History Foundation opens a new digitised archive, what can titles like Crash, Mega, Edge and GamesMaster tell us about the early days of gaming?

The brilliant @nvmuk.bsky.social featured in @theguardian.com yesterday: www.theguardian.com/games/2025/j... 👌

Always look for the helpers. A niche but really beautiful way to help ease a horrible situation.

Hello!! So lovely to find you on here :) I hope life is really really good for you. X

I wondered what this was on my way past too!

A small black bead in the middle of a white museum box

Returning some objects to permanent display from a short term loan today meant that I got to hold this meteoric iron bead - one of only 8 or so (from Gerzeh in Egypt) and considered to be the earliest worked iron (c.5000 years old) found anywhere in the world. Absolutely incredible.

Research in Focus talks This free monthly lunchtime talk series presenting current research into UCL's Museums and Collections continues with three talks in the Petrie Museum.

Kicking off the year with a public "Research in Focus" talk at the Petrie Museum, on archaeological ephemera:

🟠 Friday 17 January, 1.15-2pm 🟠
"Excavating museum drawers: Archaeological ephemera in the Petrie collection"

www.ucl.ac.uk/culture/what...

#MakingEphemeraHappen

I miss 12th Night in Guildford - always a lot of fun! Really recommend joining that wassail if you ever get a chance (and haven't already)

This has been extended to 22 December - bit more time to apply if you're keen! Come work with me 😊

Well then, a trip to Oxford it is! Thanks :)

Belatedly - I need one of these (no exaggeration); does the PRM sell them? I can't find any online

Could easily be both 😅

Ah ha! I think you're correct!

I don't know, I spotted that too! It seems to be a true story and sharing news is surely the point?

💡 Light up the holidays with a festive fusion of classic gaming and modern technology 🎄⁠
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Illuminate The Play this Christmas by experiencing a radiant collection of LED games designed by indie developers and enjoy Virtual Reality as it makes its debut with an immersive version of a retro classic.⁠

Four Roman roof tiles made of terracotta arranged in a row with markings including dog footprints and makers' marks

Loved these Roman roof tegulae at Yorkshire Museum - replete with makers' marks, factory stamps, hobnail boot marks and dog footprints. A delightful category of object because of these marks; such an immediate connection to people and animals in the past. Guildford's even had goat hoofprints :)

Start your day with something that lets a little light in

I actually don't know! It was certainly on display in their Celts exhibition around 2014 (I forget the exact year). Either way it's right up there in my most favourite objects ever. Stunner!

The one on the left looks like visiting my dad at British Antarctic Survey in the 80s. I can smell that corridor.

I forgot it was in this collection! Haven't seen it in person since it featured in the BM Celtic exhibition (god, ten years ago??)

An iron age British horse harness mount in the shape of the face of a very solemn and wise horse, made of bronze

Pure essence of horse. One of my top ten objects in any museum anywhere in the world (Stanwick horse mount, Yorkshire Museum)

For anyone coming to @tag45.bsky.social next week-end, you can catch my presentation on "Excavating the Museum Drawer" (yes, this very drawer) at Session 17, and see what all this Archaeological Ephemera business is about!

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#ArchaeologicalEphemera

Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi at The Petrie Museum - Poetry Translation Centre Sudanese poet, Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi, was Poet in Residence at The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology. He was commissioned to write new poems inspired by their collection of ancient Sudanese artefacts

Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi wrote a collection of poems inspired by objects in the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology in 2012 during his residency there - www.poetrytranslation.org/event-series...

The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology first opened its doors in 1915, and since then has attracted visitors from all over the world as well as providing valuable teaching resources. Named after its...

11. Bonus book today!

The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology: Characters and Collections: (ed) @alicestevenson.bsky.social Prof Alice Stevenson

uclpress.co.uk/book/the-pet...

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Just spotted this - thank you for your recommendation 😊 shout when you're next in, would love to say hi!

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

Not one but two job alerts today!

Laboratory Technician (Archaeobotany) - bit.ly/3BhIa7m
Laboratory Technician (Osteology) - bit.ly/3OI6q5O

Closing date for both 1st Jan 2025

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