Lily Crowther
@lilcrowther.bsky.social
Historian, curator, DPhil student, museum trustee, Yiddishe mama.
Museums, craft, design, architecture, making, teaching with objects.
Museums, craft, design, architecture, making, teaching with objects.
So many layers of snobbery around Christmas decorations (as in every other aspect of British life). I reckon the ‘tasteful’ tree - white lights, Scandi-chic - is very middle-middle/new money, whereas the upper middle classes are all about clashing colours, tarnished glass and threadbare tinsel.
Coloured lights are definitely lower class.
December 8, 2025 at 11:24 AM
So many layers of snobbery around Christmas decorations (as in every other aspect of British life). I reckon the ‘tasteful’ tree - white lights, Scandi-chic - is very middle-middle/new money, whereas the upper middle classes are all about clashing colours, tarnished glass and threadbare tinsel.
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Museum folks! I'm running a small, anonymous & unscientific survey about how much museums and other heritage organisations pay writers. If you have a moment, please respond, and share if you can. Thank you!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
How much do museums and heritage organisations pay freelance writers?
An informal, unscientific and totally anonymous survey asking how much museums pay writers. This is for my personal research only, results won't be published.
docs.google.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Museum folks! I'm running a small, anonymous & unscientific survey about how much museums and other heritage organisations pay writers. If you have a moment, please respond, and share if you can. Thank you!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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PhD studentships available in: Creative and Cultural Industries, Media, and Arts Practice (EDI in Practice); Identity, Representation, and Social Justice (EDI in Theory and Experience); Humanities, Philosophy, and Literature (EDI in Knowledge and Method). More details in link below.
Oxford Brookes University has a huge raft of AHRC-funded PhD studentships in the Arts, Humanities and allied subjects! Both fees and a stipend covered. Take a look at the ad below - the closing date is 30th January 2026. Anyone interested at all, get in touch!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPM937/p...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPM937/p...
PhD Studentship : AHRC Landscape Award PhD Studentship in the Arts and Humanities at Oxford Brookes University
Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...
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December 2, 2025 at 10:28 AM
PhD studentships available in: Creative and Cultural Industries, Media, and Arts Practice (EDI in Practice); Identity, Representation, and Social Justice (EDI in Theory and Experience); Humanities, Philosophy, and Literature (EDI in Knowledge and Method). More details in link below.
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Bumper harvest of PhDs on offer at Kew Gardens at the moment - on many aspects of plants including ethnobotany and humanities approaches. Closing dates December -January: www.kew.org/science/trai...
Available PhD opportunities
Discover our funded PhD opportunities in environmental science and plant humanities and learn about our involvement with a range of Doctoral Training Partnerships and similar schemes.
www.kew.org
November 30, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Bumper harvest of PhDs on offer at Kew Gardens at the moment - on many aspects of plants including ethnobotany and humanities approaches. Closing dates December -January: www.kew.org/science/trai...
The soft animal of his body loves what it loves (it loves blankets)
November 28, 2025 at 6:52 PM
The soft animal of his body loves what it loves (it loves blankets)
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Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research?
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research?
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
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Job alert! 🚨 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Edinburgh Uni to work w/a team of historians on a new project, Voices in Slavery's Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana, which will build a digital archive out of the recorded words of enslaved people. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN147/p...
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The University of Edinburgh
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
www.jobs.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Job alert! 🚨 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Edinburgh Uni to work w/a team of historians on a new project, Voices in Slavery's Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana, which will build a digital archive out of the recorded words of enslaved people. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN147/p...
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A description of a machine that manufactures lies, from Gianni Rodari’s ‘Telephone Tales’ (1962).
November 8, 2025 at 11:43 PM
A description of a machine that manufactures lies, from Gianni Rodari’s ‘Telephone Tales’ (1962).
A description of a machine that manufactures lies, from Gianni Rodari’s ‘Telephone Tales’ (1962).
November 8, 2025 at 11:43 PM
A description of a machine that manufactures lies, from Gianni Rodari’s ‘Telephone Tales’ (1962).
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Some excerpts from my piece in the current issue of BBC History Magazine @historyextra.bsky.social on the stories that museums can & should tell with a focus on my new book & Charlotte Schreiber’s incredible collection of over 5,000 objects that are now spread across the V&A & the British Museum
November 5, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Some excerpts from my piece in the current issue of BBC History Magazine @historyextra.bsky.social on the stories that museums can & should tell with a focus on my new book & Charlotte Schreiber’s incredible collection of over 5,000 objects that are now spread across the V&A & the British Museum
Exciting things are starting to happen @thebrooking.bsky.social (where I am a trustee). If you’re interested in buildings and their history you should be following! @constructionhist.bsky.social one for your followers maybe?
👋 Here at @thebrooking.bsky.social, our collection casts a new light on British #architecture, revealing the stories behind #doors, #windows, and other details we often overlook. We breathe life into the familiar and invite you to see the remarkable in the everyday. thebrooking.org.uk
October 22, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Exciting things are starting to happen @thebrooking.bsky.social (where I am a trustee). If you’re interested in buildings and their history you should be following! @constructionhist.bsky.social one for your followers maybe?
Fab conference on 19th-century museums coming up in Birmingham next month. Taking the focus away from the big names to think about the regions, the empire and the working classes. Hope to see you there!
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October 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Fab conference on 19th-century museums coming up in Birmingham next month. Taking the focus away from the big names to think about the regions, the empire and the working classes. Hope to see you there!
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I haven't had the capacity to keep up with moderation lists for a bit, but this one is really obvious, so I'm stealing some energy from Future Me: a list for the extremely obvious wave of inauthentic accounts following today's newly-created US gov accounts
bsky.app/profile/did:...
bsky.app/profile/did:...
October 18, 2025 at 9:51 AM
I haven't had the capacity to keep up with moderation lists for a bit, but this one is really obvious, so I'm stealing some energy from Future Me: a list for the extremely obvious wave of inauthentic accounts following today's newly-created US gov accounts
bsky.app/profile/did:...
bsky.app/profile/did:...
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As Halloween creeps closer, I'm chuffed to have been invited to share spooky tales with the young folk of the Warwickshire Wildlife Trust.
Online, laid-back, and free to people aged 18–30 who live, work, or study in Coventry, Warwickshire, Solihull, or nearby.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/webinar-fo...
Online, laid-back, and free to people aged 18–30 who live, work, or study in Coventry, Warwickshire, Solihull, or nearby.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/webinar-fo...
October 18, 2025 at 11:25 AM
As Halloween creeps closer, I'm chuffed to have been invited to share spooky tales with the young folk of the Warwickshire Wildlife Trust.
Online, laid-back, and free to people aged 18–30 who live, work, or study in Coventry, Warwickshire, Solihull, or nearby.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/webinar-fo...
Online, laid-back, and free to people aged 18–30 who live, work, or study in Coventry, Warwickshire, Solihull, or nearby.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/webinar-fo...
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Apply for this free PhD course on Energy Humanities in Stavanger, Norway!
Please pass the opportunity on to students you know. Students from anywhere are welcome.
#envhum #envhist
Please pass the opportunity on to students you know. Students from anywhere are welcome.
#envhum #envhist
I am really excited to announce the call for the PhD Course in Energy Humanities!
Held at the @greenhouseuis.net from 1-5 December.
Applications are welcome until 24 October.
#envhum #envhist #energyhistory
Held at the @greenhouseuis.net from 1-5 December.
Applications are welcome until 24 October.
#envhum #envhist #energyhistory
October 2, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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This is a problem.
September 26, 2025 at 5:59 AM
This is a problem.
Likelihood of getting any work done this afternoon: severely limited.
September 25, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Likelihood of getting any work done this afternoon: severely limited.
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Are you free next Sunday? Do you live in Oxford? I'm running a noticing workshop at Caper Books for children ages 5 to 9. We'll be finding joyous, tiny stories in ordinary things to help with overwhelm and discover magic in the everyday! And tickets are only £3! To book: tinyurl.com/4tutvvfm #oxford
September 21, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Are you free next Sunday? Do you live in Oxford? I'm running a noticing workshop at Caper Books for children ages 5 to 9. We'll be finding joyous, tiny stories in ordinary things to help with overwhelm and discover magic in the everyday! And tickets are only £3! To book: tinyurl.com/4tutvvfm #oxford
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An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade
Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’
Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'
Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’
Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'
September 19, 2025 at 10:25 AM
An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade
Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’
Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'
Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’
Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'
The contract is signed so it’s official - I am joining the Future Ecologies of Clay project at Westminster Uni/V&A as a Research Fellow. If you are a museum collecting contemporary ceramics please watch this space!
September 19, 2025 at 7:09 AM
The contract is signed so it’s official - I am joining the Future Ecologies of Clay project at Westminster Uni/V&A as a Research Fellow. If you are a museum collecting contemporary ceramics please watch this space!
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📢 Reminder: the deadline for the Social History Society Small Grants is coming up soon!
💷 Up to £1000 available to support research, events & activities in social & cultural history
🗓️ Apply by 1 October for events Dec–Apr
🔗 socialhistory.org.uk/funding/smal...
✨Apply today!
💷 Up to £1000 available to support research, events & activities in social & cultural history
🗓️ Apply by 1 October for events Dec–Apr
🔗 socialhistory.org.uk/funding/smal...
✨Apply today!
Small Grants
The Social History Society maintains a Small Grants Fund to support research, events and activities by members of the Society. We give priority to activities and research that would otherwise remai…
socialhistory.org.uk
September 15, 2025 at 7:47 AM
📢 Reminder: the deadline for the Social History Society Small Grants is coming up soon!
💷 Up to £1000 available to support research, events & activities in social & cultural history
🗓️ Apply by 1 October for events Dec–Apr
🔗 socialhistory.org.uk/funding/smal...
✨Apply today!
💷 Up to £1000 available to support research, events & activities in social & cultural history
🗓️ Apply by 1 October for events Dec–Apr
🔗 socialhistory.org.uk/funding/smal...
✨Apply today!
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If you're aged 16-18 and are looking for help achieving your artistic, academic, or creative goals, the Arts Emergency mentoring programme might be exactly the opportunity you need!
More info 👉 www.arts-emergency.o...
Applications close 29 Sep 25
More info 👉 www.arts-emergency.o...
Applications close 29 Sep 25
September 14, 2025 at 7:54 AM
If you're aged 16-18 and are looking for help achieving your artistic, academic, or creative goals, the Arts Emergency mentoring programme might be exactly the opportunity you need!
More info 👉 www.arts-emergency.o...
Applications close 29 Sep 25
More info 👉 www.arts-emergency.o...
Applications close 29 Sep 25
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g o o d m o r n i n g
September 8, 2025 at 5:49 AM
g o o d m o r n i n g
Some wonderful work at this year’s British Ceramics Biennial.
September 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Some wonderful work at this year’s British Ceramics Biennial.