Sandra Freshney 🔍📜📖
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Archivist @SedgwickMuseum 🦖🪨. Committee @CamDissFair 💻. Trustee, Centre for Scientific Archives 🔬📜. #ExploreYourArchives #WomeninSTEM #BlackLivesMatter
Cambridge, England
Joined September 2016
Drop in next week for the 2025 @CamDissFair. This year we are thrilled to welcome several new organisations including @archiveshub, @ihr_history, @SenateHouseLib and Cambridgeshire Association for Local History (CALH). #ArchiveFair25 #ExploreYourArchive #GLAM.
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Daily Bread Cambridge has been a lifeline for our community for over 30 years. They're facing tough times and need our help. Please consider donating or sharing to keep this vital resource alive. https://t.co/jWRftBOMDa
#LoveCambridge #VisitCambridgeshire
#SupportLocal
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Could you be our next Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities and Film and Screen Studies? Apply by 15 April 2025 ⬇️ https://t.co/VlO1gbiGvE
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Need a break? The Reading Room at the UL has a supply of colouring sheets and crosswords, as well as guides on coping with stress and exams. Readers can borrow what they need and return them when they're done - no need to ask staff! #StressAwarenessMonth
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Our latest online talk 'Sam Hanna: Documenting Lancashire Life' is now online via the link in our bio. Includes extracts from colour films he shot in and around Burnley, Lancashire using stock first obtained in 1942. #Lancashire #streetgames #knockerupper
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📢 BSHS Hughes Prize 2025 – Submissions Open! Help us find the best accessible #HistSTEM 📚 out there! 🏆 Best accessible book in #HistSTEM 📚 Published in 2023 or 2024? You’re eligible! 📅 Deadline: 11 April 2025 💰 Prize: £300 + Public Lecture https://t.co/nBiVq9FZv0
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Thanks to everyone who's listened to Journey Through Time with me and the brilliant Sarah Churchwell. We're grateful for all the feed back and kind words. Amazing to get to the No. 1 spot on @ApplePodcasts
@GoalhangerPods
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The Vagina Museum is just one month away from closing. Forever. A perfect storm of circumstances means that we may have to close our doors permanently and cease all digital activities. But we're not going to go down without a fight. Save the Vagina Museum.
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The Vagina Museum is saved from closing immediately. But we still need your help. The world f… Vagina Museum needs your support for Save The Vagina Museum
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Join us as we celebrate the launch of our new exhibition, #CuriousCures! See the exhibition, have a drink, & enjoy music from the Cambridge Timeline Choir. ⏰27 MARCH, 7.30PM-9PM 📍Cambridge University Library 🎟️Tickets are free, booking is essential: https://t.co/A0rsKuP7En
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Thrilled that the Archives & Collections Fair is going ahead again this year & we will be welcoming some exciting new stall holders too! #ArchiveFair25
The next Cambridge Archives and Collections Fair is on Thursday 13th March at the Student Services Centre. Please see our website & follow us on Instagram (camarchivesfair) for more information #ArchiveFair25 #ExploreYourArchive
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Applications are open for the Munby Research Fellowship 2025! This 2 year Research Associate position in Bibliography and Natural History Humanities is a collaboration between Cambridge University Libraries & @CamGLAMresearch Closing date: 17 Jan APPLY: https://t.co/bmTNOUUvzk
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Are you a PhD student? Do you use our collections? Join us for our 2025 Doctoral Open Days and: - Learn how to access our collections - Speak to curators and reference specialists - Build your academic network Find out more: https://t.co/u4SM7pugfB
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'In the Grip of Change' – Poetry Workshops✍️ Join award-winning poet @JennyMitchellGo for creative sessions inspired by a range of vibrant materials from Senate House Library's Caribbean & Black History Collections. 👉 BOOK NOW https://t.co/ocCM1dDeMs
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This is the most valuable thing I own. It’s a folder of photos of my father, spanning his life from being a baby, an educator, a husband and a father. It’s the only evidence of his life that will exist over time. These are the “documents” you read about people taking from their
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Thanks to the 1,600 people/organisations who responded to the Ministry of Justice’s proposals on the retention of wills. Good news: UK Government will not proceed with any reforms that involve the destruction of original wills. Read in full here: https://t.co/gJclR5eXkn
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We're looking for an Evaluation Consultant to develop a framework to evaluate activities focused on the environment and sustainability across our collections. Find out more and submit your proposal by 10 February: https://t.co/qL3Xi3uLQA
#MuseumJobs #CambridgeJobs
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🚨Last chance to apply!! 🚨 Deadline is TOMORROW 😱
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Why not take a break from eating mince pies to submit a proposal for #ARA2025? The theme is 'Innovation and Imagination in Recordkeeping' - find out more and submit by 17 January ➡️ https://t.co/zCMgHA6iZj
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There's still time to apply to become an Archives Centre By-Fellow!
❓ Do you want to come and carry out research here at Churchill Archives Centre? 💻 We have a range of By-Fellowships, related grants and smaller research funds that are open to interested applicants. Find out more & apply 🔽 https://t.co/RvdAW3ydOn
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Don't forget to join us tomorrow 10am-1pm for some festive fossil fun.❄️
On Saturday 14th December, drop in 10am-1pm for some festive fossil fun.❄️ Investigate tiny fossils and spectacular minerals close-up, using our powerful microscopes. Use snapshots of these minerals and fossils to make festive decorations to take home. Free, no booking required.
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