Tomas Brown
@tomasbnbrown
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History PhD student at St John’s, Cambridge - interested in 18th c. British ceramic repair practices, mudlarking and all things historical mending.
Cambridge, England
Joined August 2014
🚨 NEW CFP 🚨 The Material Culture pre-1850 Workshop is very pleased to announce a new call for papers on the theme of 'lifecycles'. We are looking for 20 minute papers from researchers of all career stages, deadline 28 April 2025
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Join us at 5pm today in the Arthur Quiller Couch Room, St John's College, for our second session of the term! We look so forward to welcoming our speakers, and there might even be wine and cheese👀 dm for the link if you want to attend virtually!
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We are pleased to announce our 🚨Call for Papers🚨 for Michaelmas! We're looking for 20 minute presentations responding to the theme of 'Embodied/Unbodied', from researchers at any career stage - deadline 17 September. We can't wait to read your submissions!
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Fish for Sale! A lovely weekend in Suffolk celebrating @carolinescobie_’s birthday. https://t.co/diVTR1HKLD
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Last day working in the Bod on my dissertation, marked by what seems to be the last light of summer! https://t.co/hi1NmAfmSz
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Post library fish supper at The Eagle the other night! @natalialuisa.c sorry for catching you chewing but it’s better than the one I took of joe and his sandwich @aaroncawte @joejohndines
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We’ve an exciting addition to Material History/ Virtual World. Join @tomasbnbrown as he explores the embodied knowledge of repair practices in his fascinating recreation of an 1896 ceramic lacing technique, stitching ceramics together with egg & brass. 1/2
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Take a look! Ware / Care is a new blog documenting my experiments with semi-professional mending techniques from the turn of the nineteenth century. In this first post I'm trying my hand at binding up pot sherds with brass and egg.
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Great time away last weekend repointing the flint boundary wall at the Saxon St Nicolas Church, Feltwell. Learnt some masonry skills, how to work with air-lime mortar, and spent a night by myself (bar the 🦇) sleeping in the church. Thanks to SPAB and… https://t.co/VhWFsEz9Ed
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It’s cooler down below! Got a fantastic impromptu tour of a Cold War bunker this weekend while taking part in SPABs Norfolk Working Party. In use until the 90s, there’s one of these every 8-10 miles in the UK. More photos to come 👀 https://t.co/iAdXG1MkwF
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A delightful weekend in the country! Landmark trust getaway at Cavendish Hall https://t.co/xmpCkiw8sd
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Quelle surprise. A continuing reminder that say about Oxford’s built environment is ‘not for thee’, and that the institutions in control are continually complicit in embedding racism in our public spaces.
theguardian.com
Campaigners dismayed by Oriel’s decision, made despite independent commission backing statue’s removal
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I’m on the Material History/Virtual World panel ‘Knowledge Exchange’ at 5pm tonight! We’ll be discussing knowledge, networks, professionalism and craft - hope you can join us, sign up here! https://t.co/AOVOAQRIdu
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