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Minette Butler ⚰️🏰⚓️

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Assistant Curator @ Historic Royal Palaces 👑 Coffins, Palaces & Polar Explorers ❄️ “If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg” 🍒🐧 she/her 🌈 views my own ✨

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Minette Butler ⚰️🏰⚓️ @minbutler.bsky.social · 10h

dont usually post art on main but we saw del toro’s frankenstein and it was the most beautiful and devastating thing I’ve ever seen @realgdt.bsky.social

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Peter Chilvers @peterchilvers.com · 2d

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

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Minette Butler ⚰️🏰⚓️ @minbutler.bsky.social · 6d

vroom vroom 🏎️ 🏁✈️

Minette Butler ⚰️🏰⚓️ @minbutler.bsky.social · 14d

5 Palaces. 1 Walk.
(+ 4 more palaces because why not)
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@gabrielle-fields.bsky.social

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Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social · 16d

Oscar on set (honoring Wrightson)

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Minette Butler ⚰️🏰⚓️ @minbutler.bsky.social · 25d

Very cool bit of scaffolding at Hampton Court!

It depicts the palace’s iconic ‘Great Gatehouse’ as Wolsey would have known it, standing two storeys higher than the current structure today 🏰

Minette Butler ⚰️🏰⚓️ @minbutler.bsky.social · Sep 18

True!!!

Minette Butler ⚰️🏰⚓️ @minbutler.bsky.social · Sep 18

you know you’ve been in the TNA too long when you shut your eyes and can still see your order locker

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Minette Butler ⚰️🏰⚓️ @minbutler.bsky.social · Sep 12

visited our oxford so had to revisit lyra’s oxford 🧭🐻‍❄️🌌

Minette Butler ⚰️🏰⚓️ @minbutler.bsky.social · Sep 11

Oxford ⛈️🏛️👻📚

Minette Butler ⚰️🏰⚓️ @minbutler.bsky.social · Sep 10

The legendary Sir Peter Scott at the WWT London Wetland Centre - full disclosure, I spotted him from a distance and thought “I’d know that (inherited) forehead anywhere!”

Minette Butler ⚰️🏰⚓️ @minbutler.bsky.social · Sep 3

Stunning stuff! 🇦🇶

Scott Polar Research Institute @scottpolar.bsky.social · Sep 3

Check out this BBC article for a few quotes from SPRI staff alongside exciting footage of the Terra Nova shipwreck.

Terra Nova: Captain Scott’s polar ship filmed on the sea floor

The Terra Nova carried Captain Scott and his men on their doomed expedition to the South Pole.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Minette Butler ⚰️🏰⚓️ @minbutler.bsky.social · Aug 23

Sir John Ross (and the Boss!)

#nationalportraitgallery

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Minette Butler ⚰️🏰⚓️ @minbutler.bsky.social · Aug 13

it’s not just the ravens who you’ve gotta watch out for

#toweroflondon

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · Aug 12

Maybe the most beautiful possible description of what an essay can do, what I feel my job is. Of course it's from Patricia Lockwood.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Tara overestimated my reading, as people often do. She gestured to one essay: so much information arrayed there. No, I said, look.
You can put things in an essay that you yourself do not know. There is a library all around you. You take a book off the shelf, find the fact or the sentence and put it where it fits. It never belonged to you, you never really had it. It comes from the library, it goes back to it. And it waits there for the next one who needs it.

Really it's choosing a lifetime of homework, I said. Did they ask you to write about the X-Files? someone piped up. No, I wanted to write about the X-Files.

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British Antarctic Survey 🐧 @bas.ac.uk · Aug 11

BBC News have carefully written up Dennis' story, including interviews with his brother, David.

You can read that article here ⬇️
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

British man who perished in Antarctic glacier found 65 years later

His brother tells BBC News that he had lost hope he would ever be found.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Alison @finger-post.blog · Aug 10

It's August and there's only one question that matters.

Are you Beechey Body Ready?

The 1850 sketch by George Frederick McDougall (of HMS Resolute) showing the three Franklin Expedition graves on Beechey Island, from ADM 7/190 at the National Archives.

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Minette Butler ⚰️🏰⚓️ @minbutler.bsky.social · Aug 1

The most scandalous man in Elizabethan England? Forgot to share this little piece I wrote about Robert Dudley last month 🗡️🏰👑🥬

www.hrp.org.uk/tower-of-lon...

Minette Butler ⚰️🏰⚓️ @minbutler.bsky.social · Jul 29

nice little eBay find 🇦🇶

Minette Butler ⚰️🏰⚓️ @minbutler.bsky.social · Jul 22

the sky was a paid actor

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Alison @finger-post.blog · Jul 18

Jane, Lady Franklin died OTD in 1875, aged 83. She was interred in the catacombs of Kensal Green Cemetery, and I'm not kidding when I say that getting down there to pay my respects in person was one of the best days of my life.
www.illuminator.blog/p/jane-catac...

Vault 61: Jane Franklin in the Catacombs of Kensal Green Cemetery.

By Logan Zachary & Alison Freebairn. April 7th, 2024. { ▽ Jane Franklin, nameplate and coffin. } Jane Franklin’s final resting place ...

www.illuminator.blog

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Minette Butler ⚰️🏰⚓️ @minbutler.bsky.social · Jul 18

looking through caricatures on the npg and william iv is giving big golden path energy

Minette Butler ⚰️🏰⚓️ @minbutler.bsky.social · Jul 15

Nothing to apologise for! We had a great time - really enjoyed all the wonderful excerpts from William, Eleanor and Franklin’s letters (and this slide was a particular highlight 😁)

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Minette Butler ⚰️🏰⚓️ @minbutler.bsky.social · Jul 14

Had a fab time at the NMM listening to @sampopewriter.bsky.social and her wonderful talk on the life of Eleanor Anne Porden - thanks so much for a fascinating evening (and happy 230th birthday to EAP herself!)

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Minette Butler ⚰️🏰⚓️ @minbutler.bsky.social · Jul 5

“may have”