Kitty Ross
@CuratorKitty
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Curator of Leeds History for Leeds Museums and Galleries. All views are my own. Mostly posting now at Blue Sky @curatorkitty.bsky.social
Leeds
Joined January 2016
Join me online at 11am on Friday 10th January for a FREE talk on the fascinating history of The Bradford Reform Jewish Burial Ground. 🪦 Sign up via Abraham Events mailing list 👇 https://t.co/WRJuVBG5xu
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We cover a variety of topics from politics to current affairs, biographies to history and have had approaching 120 speakers.
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Lovely to see so many visitors here today at Abbey House Museum. @LeedsMuseums @leedscitycounc1 @VisitLeeds @Welcome2Yorks
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This is the consultation on the future of @LeedsMuseums Abbey House #Museum which is threatened with closure to save £160,000. Please do respond if you can: https://t.co/R9D9P43Pvs...
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For those escaping to alternative platforms I am now at https://t.co/QdMaeBIAof and https://t.co/5y36cupSsD See you there
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56 Followers • 0 Threads • Curator of Leeds History at Leeds Museums and Galleries. All views my own. On Twitter for now as @CuratorKitty. See the latest conversations with @kitty.ross.90.
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Today, we officially opened our new @ChangingPlaceUK toilet at Abbey House Museum @LeedsMuseums with some pupils from @West_SILC, local councillors, tea and cake. Note the wall handles on the left, a first for #Leeds for assisted changing whilst standing. #toilet #dignity
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Local museums are places of inspiration, education and civic pride but are increasingly under threat… Letter @thetimes from English Civic Museums Network.
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Let there be light! Thanks to generous funding from the Friends of Leeds City Museums @LeedsMuseums and the expertise of @Glasshaus_ visitors to Abbey House Museum can enjoy our displays without straining their eyes!
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Great afternoon spotting wildlife of all sizes on Big Moor @Natures_Voice @WildSheffield @wildmoorsuk @EasternMoors @cprepdsy (Fox moth caterpillar, kestrel, red deer). Never get used to having such a spectacle on our doorstep.
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We’re recruiting for a parental leave cover Curator of Exhibitions role (22 hours a week) to deliver the exhibition programme @LeedsCityMuseum within @LeedsMuseums 👉🏻
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If you have a mammoth clean-up that needs doing, @LeedsMuseums are up to the tusk! Lovely to see our mega mammoth tusk (found right here in #Leeds) making bags of national news today! 🦣 📰
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“Part of the UK’s malaise is our talent for creating the kind of vacuums that are then filled by the worst actors. Our museums, are repositories of real and powerful stories: if they fall into more decay and disrepair, we should all fear the consequences”
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Brutal cuts to council budgets have decimated museums and forced some to close. We’re at risk of losing our shared memory, writes Guardian columnist John Harris
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Mammoth clean-up task for Ice Age tusk
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The woolly mammoth tusk was unearthed in a former open cast mine near Temple Newsam in Leeds.
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It's a good day to be in Leeds. Celebrating the city's anti fascist heritage & raising the profile of the Battle of Holbeck Moor - 30,000 people turned out to tell Oswald Mosley to shift off & a good they did too
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‘Model-making’ (1977) This picture was clearly captured in the 4-minute interval between opening the packet and the plasticine colours getting mixed up. Artist: Harry Wingfield
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Here is the 1875 poster from the fantastically named "Whisker Order" spoofing antiquarians, museums, friendly societies & local politics in #Armley #Leeds. Lots of topical jokes to unpick. @LeedsMuseums
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Any experts in #Victorian #sports know how to play "nack"? Knurr & Spell we know well, and it also mentions quoits and cricket. 1875 poster linked to the #Armley Feast and the Union Cross Inn. @LeedsMuseums
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Lots of squabbling siskins and gold finches enjoying the feeders @NTLongshawWE @nationaltrust @Natures_Voice @RSPBEngland @WildSheffield
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@ClassicalMusic_ @MadeleineM_Vln Read the full article here: https://t.co/YwM8kbJU80
@MichaelBerkele2 @LeedsConcerts @southasianartuk @Seven_Arts @LeedsTours @UoLConcerts @LCEventsEnts @sinfoniaofleeds @yaniewicz @leedslibraries @HobgoblinMusic @Everymancinema @LonChamberEns @tom_greed @Opera_North
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The Red Violin festival takes place in Leeds next month, celebrating the violin in different guises throughout the city. Artistic director Madeleine Mitchell reflects on how the festival’s revival bri
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Upcoming talk about Felix Yaniewicz violinist & composer performed at Leeds Music Hall in 1807. Story of virtuosity, intrigue and migration. @yaniewicz @theleedslibrary
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@bbcmtd 1. Council's own art in trust for the public 2. Very little, if any council money is spent acquiring art. Acquisitions by most museums are made via private donations, trusts and foundation or @HeritageFundUK 3 I get tedious FOIs at least once a month about these matters
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