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Owen Gower

@owentg.bsky.social

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Doing comms for a charity tackling health inequalities at a hyperlocal level. Recovering museum professional. Historian of vaccination, smallpox, and Edward Jenner. Life between Bristol and Gloucester. Personal account, own views. He/him. owengower.co.uk

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Owen Gower @owentg.bsky.social · 9h

Our local refugee charity, which does such important work welcoming people fleeing persecution, is facing an uncertain future. Over the next six months I’m walking the 112 mile Cotswold Way to try and raise money for them. I’d be thrilled if you’d sponsor me: www.stewardship.org.uk/pages/cotswo...

Owen, with brown hair and glasses, smiling, wearing a rucksack and a green jumper, and standing in a field

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Owen Gower @owentg.bsky.social · 9h

I’m very much a “fair weather” walker, so trying to do a fair chunk of this in the winter is definitely outside my comfort zone. Follow along with my journey on here, I’ll be trying to share some of the history of the places I travel through.

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Cape Cod Adventure Pictures @capecodpictures.bsky.social · 1d

Unmarked headstones at Provincetown Pest House/Smallpox Cemetery

#Graveyard #Cemetery #CemeteryPhotography #photography #Gravestone #Headstone #GraveyardPhotography #31DaysofGraves #Provincetown #CapeCod #BlueskyArtShow #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersofBluesky

NO 12 is the grave of William H. Butler Died 01/07/1873 age unknown

NO 4 is the grave of Elizabeth Hill who died 05/20/1860 aged 51

NO 5 is the grave of Kennis Fergerson who died 05/20/1860 aged 22

NO 10 is the grave of Frank Sofrine who died 12/24/1872 aged unknown

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Owen Gower @owentg.bsky.social · 1d

The wonderful @gmmedicalmuseum.bsky.social

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the wicker mang @mangmangmang.bsky.social · 14d

A simple, haunting poetry in this information from a medical musuem website.

The museum’s floor has a gradual slope. Our displays reference life and death. There are mannequins.

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 2d

Tomorrow: DEAD ENDS comes out in the US! Aimed at kids aged 8-12, @tealcartoons.bsky.social and I think everyone will love this grisly romp through medical history. Please consider ordering a copy, and enjoy the weird stories we've uncovered that prove failure is essential to scientific progress.

Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 6d

When does death begin?

In the 18th century, no one could agree—some said when the pulse stopped, others when the body began to rot. Out of that debate came a century of strange experiments on severed heads.

Learn more in our kids’ book DEAD ENDS (w/ @tealcartoons.bsky.social): shorturl.at/FS3nd

A cartoon by Adrian Teal that depicts a guillotine and a severed head, with a modern-looking doctor holding a stethoscope to the head.

The cover of DEAD ENDS featuring a cartoon man being electrocuted back to life

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Owen Gower @owentg.bsky.social · 3d

To The Regal in Tenbury Wells last night for Seth Lakeman with Benji Kirkpatrick & Archie Churchill-Moss. We now think we’ve seen all of the performing Lakemans this year (also Sean L with Kathryn Roberts, Geoff L, and Sam L with Cara Dillon) unless there are any others out there!

The stage at The Regal, full of instruments and illuminated in green and blue

Owen Gower @owentg.bsky.social · 3d

I’m afraid this does mean this account will be dedicated to my holiday photos for the next couple of weeks. Sorry about that.

Owen Gower @owentg.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve been away and vaguely offline in Cornwall for a few days, what did I miss? It’s been lovely to have a little break but I was so glad to make it back just in time for this amazing sunset on Friday evening.

Sunset over Berkeley Town Hall, a two-storied Georgian building.

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Owen Gower @owentg.bsky.social · 11d

Eek, hope everything’s ok.

Owen Gower @owentg.bsky.social · 11d

Managed to get tickets (just!) to the Charlie and Daisy May Cooper event, really looking forward to that conversation!

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Jack Shoulder @jackshoulder.bsky.social · 11d

A huge thank you to everyone who has explored LGBTQIA+ history with me at Bristol Museum and Art Gallery.

I had some great questions from your goers and I got to ask them some Big Questions too, like "What's your favourite dinosaur?"

A group of people exploring a dinosaur gallery in a museum

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Peter Gibbs @petergibbs.bsky.social · 11d

Geeking out at the National Hedgelaying Championship on the Waddesdon Estate in Bucks. Around 100 competitors laying in 10 different regional styles over 5 hours on a very challenging hedge.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 13d

Enid, the surprising and eccentric owner of the brilliant Sound Records in Stroud, UK, has an encyclopaedic knowledge of jazz, soul, funk, ocean fish and wool.

Enid the cat on top of the Soul & Funk section in (the old, smaller) Sound Records in Stroud.

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Onni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social · 11d

Storm Amy is blowing the flags down, she's on the side of immigrants and refugees. Wind knows no borders, learn from the wind.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11d

Keeping people in poverty is an expensive luxury.
My column on the false economies of austerity, which costs us all a fortune. Despite the government's claims, austerity continues under Labour. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It hurt when I crashed my bike into a pothole – and it taught me the true price of austerity | George Monbiot

Fixing that hole could have cost under £100; the cost of not doing so is limitless. My prang highlights the neoliberal folly of false economies, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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Simon Opher @simonforstroud.bsky.social · 12d

Spent time at Hammonds Farm, who run a social prescribing programme with farm visits. Great to see how community farming and social prescribers support local people by connecting them with nature while providing fresh, locally grown produce.

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Owen Gower @owentg.bsky.social · 12d

Some really interesting and important initiatives here that will make such a difference to people's lives and relieve pressures on overstretched public sector services. I'm looking forward to finding out more as the projects progress.

Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · 15d

Meet the grantees of our Health and Wellbeing in Museums Fund 🪴

We've awarded our first round of grants for health and wellbeing programmes in museums, funded by the Julia Rausing Trust, to support nine museums in developing and continuing their groundbreaking work.

More about the projects 👇

Health and Wellbeing in Museums Fund: meet the grantees - Museums Association

The Museums Association has awarded its first round of grants from the Health and Wellbeing in Museums Fund, a programme of grant-making, networking and

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James Wright @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social · 13d

Happy 259th anniversary of the Nottingham Cheese Riot to all those who celebrate...

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Queer Heritage and Collections Network @queerhcn.org · 13d

📢 REGISTRATIONS OPEN! 📢

Registrations are open for the upcoming QHCN Symposium, exploring the innovative queer heritage work being developed by cultural organisations across the UK and beyond

📆 Date: 25-26 November 2025
📍 Location: National Trust - Heelis

Registration links below ⬇

Decorative Banner: QHCN Symposium 2025 - Registrations Open
Logos included: National Trust, Historic Royal Palaces, English Heritage, Historic England, RCMG, University of Leicester, Arts Council England

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Owen Gower @owentg.bsky.social · 13d

Exciting post from @jonpountney1.bsky.social today. I’m a big fan of the Valleys and a big fan of Jon’s work, so I think I’m going to enjoy this.

Valleys photography book on a green and blue painted desk

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Amplify Stroud @amplifystroud.com · 14d

GLOUCESTER WELCOMES REFUGEES
In the wake of anti-refugee protests outside the Ibis hotel in Gloucester, an upcoming gathering in solidarity with refugees and asylum seekers is planned for Sunday 5 October.

amplifystroud.com/gloucester-w...

Gloucester Welcomes Refugees

A peaceful, non-confrontational gathering will be held in Gloucester on Sunday 5 October to show support for people seeking asylum and challenge attempts to stoke division and racism.

amplifystroud.com

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Owen Gower @owentg.bsky.social · 14d

Too much to do and not enough time. I need a

Green button on wall with label reading “Day Extension Button”

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Owen Gower @owentg.bsky.social · 14d

Cannot wait to hear how this turns out!

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ClareRed @clarered.bsky.social · 19d

First speakers announced for Meeting the Moment, a one day event for the culture sector on speaking up in troubled times. Wed 26 Nov 10:00, @wshed.bsky.social Am very EXCITED. Shares appreciated. www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/1356...

Meeting The Moment

A one day event for the culture sector on speaking up in troubled times.

www.watershed.co.uk

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