Two events coming soon hosted by co-curators of the wonderful Tensions of Belonging display at the Fitzwilliam Museum The first, an open discussion, will take inspiration from collections and folklore to explore fenland histories. Saturday 18 May. Free! museums.cam.ac.uk/events/connect…

Publication klaxon. Very pleased to be included in this volume alongside Elizabeth Crooke Heritage&MuseumStudies@Ulster sharing some insight from Museums, Crisis, and Covid19

Some good Ulster Applied Social and Policy Sciences Arts and Humanities representation in this series out today. @bredafriel1 David Farrell-Banks Heritage&MuseumStudies@Ulster and I have chapters relating to our Arts and Humanities Research Council Museums, Crisis, and Covid19 project "museums, crisis and Covid-19".

This Saturday it's our last event for the Tensions of Belonging display at Fitzwilliam Museum Co-curator Jade Pollard-Crowe will host Dr Carol Brown-Leonardi for a talk which brings to light the story of people of colour in medieval Britain and Europe. museums.cam.ac.uk/events/sir-mor…

Last chance to go and visit this display this week. I've just had a last walk through myself. Working with the co-curators of this show has been a privilege, one of the most enjoyable projects of my career.

Our Chapter on "Community Resilience and Recovery" and the role of museums is published by Manchester University Press and Open Access at the link below David Farrell-Banks @bredafriel1

'65,450 babies, children & young people [in NE] directly impacted by the policy' (North East Child Poverty Commission) 'Abolishing 2-child limit the most cost-effective way of reducing child poverty' (Child Poverty Action Group) Below, celebrating keeping children in poverty

“In one block of seven flats owned by Mr Athwal nearly half the tenants said they had to regularly clean their bathroom ceilings to remove mould”. Labour MPs now include slum landlords. Incredible. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

hard not to feel anything but overwhelming anger at the findings of the inquest and the “cavalier” attitude to the safety of overwhelmingly black and brown working class londoners, all thrown away in the pursuit of profit and neoliberalism. theguardian.com/uk-news/articl…

"The system isn't broken, it was built this way." Solidarity with Grenfell families and community and everyone still victim of a housing system that is fixated on profit and greed.

Apocalyptic scenes in Beirut tonight. Israel is raining bombs on innocent Lebanese families in the middle of the night. Again.

We're ready to go at our session on #antiracistwalesactionplan at Museums Association #Museums2024 in the Pearl Suite at Royal Armouries

"Time spent talking and understanding is time well spent" Really powerful point about mental welfare, support and communicating in relationship building with communities and colleagues in the workforce. The focus on wellbeing & stepping away when needing is great. #Museums2024

Ducked out from the busyness of #Museums2024 to visit the Quiet Room. I first suggested creating this space when I attended Liverpool in 2021. It has been great to see it become more refined each year. I recommend a visit to this space for anyone who needs some quiet time. ☺️

Glad to hear Sharon Heal state the MAs clear backing for continued work that deals with histories of empire and slavery through museums, rightly seeing this as essential in ensuring museums work to counter racism, including structural racism, in the present. #Museums2024