Christina Riggs

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🔔 Next Thursday 19 March:

Dr Rochelle Rowe (Edinburgh) will be speaking @ihrblackbritish.bsky.social seminar on ‘The ‘West African Village’: Romancing Scottishness at the National Exhibition of 1911.’

In person and online. Book now and join us if you can! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

I miss it...!

Get stapling! The joy of paper. And in today's currency, they must be at least £2.99?

I only recently finished the box of staples I’d bought at the old Oxford student union stationery store in Little Clarendon Street, c. 1998 or 1999. They survived a dozen moves and several jobs. I nearly kept the box! Best 75p ever spent?

poster for 'Oral History Training'. A woman holding a mic and a man sit at a table talking

Join the Glasgow Housing Struggle Archive for a hands-on oral history training led by historian Kate Wilson.

Saturday 14th March, 10am – 2pm
The Deep End, 21 Nithsdale Road, Glasgow

DM me to book!

Oversimplification of evidence plus patterns of self-aggrandisement and self-publicity. Frustratingly I see how this filters down so easily to students….

Exactly.

I was about to leave the museum after years of bullying (in part over this very issue), so I told the reporters I would have to pass it on to the museum registrar. The response? No, no damage at all. Damage, after all, depends on who defines it and how. 📜🏺

Reminds me of FOI request I received in 2006 asking if ancient Egyptian human remains at Manchester Museum had ever been ‘damaged’. Of course they had, from excavation onwards, including endless ‘scientific’ analyses enthusiastically supported by museum, local press, funders, and Egyptologists. 📜🏺

Good to see Guardian highlighting this, and always worth remembering how many curators, academics, and activists of colour (often women) have spoken and campaigned on this topic for many years. 📜

Sergio Cammariere Sergio Cammariere, from Crotone (Italy), a pianist who has gained recognition thanks to his talent and enthralling interpretations, draws inspiration from both the renowned school of Italian composers...

One of the many gifts that learning a language gives you is more music. Not sure enough people outside Italy know the piano jazz of Sergio Cammariere. Here’s his YouTube channel if you need some silky songs to bring a little light into dark times.

With @olliedouglas.bsky.social of @themerl.bsky.social and my esteemed colleague Julie-Marie Strange @durhamhistory.bsky.social - in the recently restored Redhills, historic home of the Durham Miners’ Association and the Pitmen’s Parliament. 🗃️📜🐄

Very much enjoyed doing this video interview about my article! Thanks to @erikahanna.bsky.social and @urbanhistory.bsky.social for the opportunity. Hopefully of interest to colleagues across urban history and environmental humanities #UrbanHist #UrbanStudies #EnviroHums #CoastalHist

Maybe next year!

Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in San Jose houses the largest collection of Egyptian artifacts on exhibit in western North America The Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum is currently open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.  The Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum houses the largest collection of Egyptian artifacts on exhibit in western North Ameri...

Do you know the way to San Jose…? One of the weirder museums I have visited in my life, and that’s saying something.

egyptianmuseum.org

I would ignore it. If you’ve done W8 BEN (or whatever it is) form to declare yourself a UK tax resident, no US tax paperwork required. I have always refused to get a TIN as well; have never had any issues.

Could it be fake…?

Coming up this SUNDAY! A true story of family, love and anti-Nazi resistance — researched and presented by yours truly. Live on BBC Radio 4 or listen later on BBC Sounds.

Help us test the “Whose Bias? Ways of Seeing” pilot, a new community-led approach to handling outdated and biased language in collections:

17 March, 13.30 – 14.30: https://bit.ly/3OD48bi
24 March, 13.30 – 14.30: https://bit.ly/4r58mFX

@dh-researchhub.bsky.social @warburginstitute.bsky.social

Very on-brand for a mummy-troubler, though.

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It's Freedom & Liberation Day in Charlottesville, commemorating the day Union soldiers commanded by George Armstrong Custer ended slavery in this region. Many freed people became prominent citizens. Some of their portraits & stories are in our catalog. The pdf is free!👇🏽
at.virginia.edu/vop-catalog

River Wear in twilight, with bridge in far distance and a darkening blue sky. Towers of Durham cathedral lit up above bare tree line to right. Trees reflect on the river.

Teaching until 6 pm much easier when the sky is still light and the blackbirds are trilling. #Durham

Now available from @reaktionbooks.bsky.social
reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/sons-of...
Here I've tried to give an account in English of the Ming ruling house as a family enterprise (and not forgetting imperial aunties)

New-ish film I participated in about colonial Yorkshire. See thread for link and password to see the film @themerl.bsky.social @handhyorkshire.bsky.social

Long-haired black cat with white neck, lying on a pale blue yoga bolster that is balanced across two chairs (one metal yoga chair; one rattan armchair), with a yoga mat visible below and floral wallpaper in the background.

Joined online for a workshop with my Netherlands-based yoga teachers - which gave Mitzi a chance to demonstrate her mastery of the supported backbend. Call it Mitz-Iyengar. 💙🐈‍⬛ #cats

From one writer to as many others as I can reach. You're welcome.
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Long haired black and white cat sitting on an induction hob next to a saucepan, blue green and white patterned tiles in splashback, kitchen utensils left and right.

Well, I guess it’s cat for dinner again. 🐈‍⬛💙 #cats

(Honest, she is not allowed on the kitchen counters.)

If anyone is in Dublin on Tuesday March 3rd IADT are hosting a talk by Gail Day and Steve Edwards on their recently published book Amphibious Realities - details below 👇

📖 Call for Papers 📖: Our project is hosting a workshop on 8-9 July at the University of Lincoln, UK for scholars working at the colonialism-migration governance intersection.

Read the call here: tinyurl.com/bdhhejam

Submit a paper here: tinyurl.com/43yh85c4

Deadline: 26 March