Caroline Shenton 🇺🇦
@dustshoveller
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Archivist, Historian, Medievalist, Author of The Day Parliament Burned Down, Mr Barry's War and National Treasures. #RCEWA member.
Cambridge, England
Joined May 2011
It’s official! I’ve been appointed to the govt’s Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art. Very much looking forward to getting stuck into helping to save outstanding heritage for the nation, esp #archives and #manuscripts #RCEWA @ace_national
https://t.co/nNV1HMco6i
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The Secretary of State has appointed Dr Helen Jacobsen and Dr Caroline Shenton, and reappointed Christopher Baker and Stuart Lochhead to The Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and...
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Fantastic news!
The archive of enigmatic 19th-century writer Amy Levy has a new home at Cambridge University Library. Find out more: https://t.co/EBPZykWF5i
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And so ends 528 years of Parliamentary recordkeeping at Westminster. No further words.
Today we say a fond farewell to the Victoria Tower. As our collections move to @UkNatArchives, it’s exciting to know they’ll reach a wider audience. Thanks for following us and look out for our new social channels focusing on the collections across the Palace. Updates soon!
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Jeff Bezos appears to be wearing the wrong waistcoat for his wedding. This is a dinner suit (aka tuxedo) and thus requires a formal waistcoat, which is cut lower on the body. He's wearing a business vest, which is designed for business suits. Needs a waistcoat like the right.
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#OnThisDay 1836 Hansard gave an insight into some of the people who kept the 19thC House of Commons running, with a debate on the salaries of the door-keepers, waiting-room attendant and deputy house-keeper. For more on the 19thC Commons staff, see
victoriancommons.wordpress.com
Inspired by the #OnePlaceServants blogging prompt from the Society for One Place Studies, we turn our focus away from MPs to looking at the staff who kept the Palace of Westminster running, from th…
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When you go round grandma's and she always has the same biscuit selection
A selection of old Assyrian documents in the Yale Babylonian Collection
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Charles Barry, architect of the new Houses of Parliament, was born #OnThisDay 1795, a stone’s throne from the old Palace of Westminster. This guest article from @dustshoveller looks at his background and knowledge of Westminster:
historyofparliament.com
On the night of 16 October 1834, thirty-nine year old Charles Barry was travelling back to town from business in Brighton. As his stagecoach trundled over the top of the North Downs, and began its...
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Strongly recommended.
Just in case you’re at a loose end, my book National Treasures explains how #London protected its national art, museums and archives in WWII, mostly returned to the capital from their hiding places by 1945 #VEDay80 #VEDay2025
https://t.co/aM804Lk8EJ…
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Just in case you’re at a loose end, my book National Treasures explains how #London protected its national art, museums and archives in WWII, mostly returned to the capital from their hiding places by 1945 #VEDay80 #VEDay2025
https://t.co/aM804Lk8EJ…
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New paperback edition of Necessary Women by Dr Mari Takayanagi and Dr Elizabeth Hallam Smith reviewed on our blog by @dustshoveller :
londonhistorians.wordpress.com
Guest Post by Caroline ShentonReview: Necessary Women: The Untold Story of Parliament’s Working Women by Dr Mari Takayanagi and Dr Elizabeth Hallam Smith. Who do you think of when you think of wome…
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Please stop asking us to work for free. Yesterday, I had an email from an organisation that wanted a talk as a freebie. They were located 65 miles from my home & were not offering travel expenses. They were charging £18 admission. That's taking the p*ss. Don't do that. Ever.
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In the garden of the French Embassy in Washington DC. 🇫🇷✊🇺🇦
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Overpowering wallpaper BL Royal MS 6 E IX; Carmina Regia: Address of the City of Prato to Robert of Anjou; c. 1335 CE; f.10v @BLMedieval
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As for their demands, hellebores like a cool place; say a west aspect of a niche shaded by shrubs; a fairly heavy soil, and if it is moist so much the better. #gardening
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Try leading a beleaguered nation at war for three years with 100,000s casualties and a quarter of the nation ruined and keeping your cool in front of that aggressive, bullying and totally ignorant s**t show. I’m with Zelenskyy all the way on this.
@James1940 I think it was a poor performance by both sides. Trump and JD were very bullying indeed, but Zelensky was quite antagonistic himself. And he should have worn a suit. Doesn’t the man own one ?! You’re a guest in a foreign seat of power - dress respectfully !
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1/ Vladimir Putin is demanding that Ukraine should hold a presidential election in wartime. Nazi Germany demanded the same of Britain in July 1942. This is the story of why the UK delayed holding elections throughout World War II. ⬇️
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Trump managed to get John Bolton and Bernie Sanders to agree on foreign policy. Pretty incredible achievement.
John Bolton and Sen. Bernie Sanders making nearly identical statements on Ukraine this morning.
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Zelensky was elected with a majority of Ukrainian votes. His presidency was extended per the Constitution during the war. It’s odd to hear him called a dictator by someone who led a failed coup and is now expanding the executive branch in violation of American norms and processes
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