Missing our live shows? We have some news to share about new dates soon... 👀 ...but in the meantime this brilliant hands-on science and crafting show from Dr Anna Ploszajski - find me on Instagram and Royal Institution (now on Bluesky) may be the evening entertainment you are looking for. IT'S ALSO TOMORROW! Go go go!

We've spent #InternationalMuseumDay finishing installing our new exhibit 'Secret State: Cromwellian Spies & Intelligence'. Details at: cromwellmuseum.org/events/secret-… Huge thanks to Parliament Archives, National Civil War Centre, Cambridgeshire Archives & @EnglishCivilWar for their help with this exhibit!😀

We don't mean to brag, but we've just been voted Richmond's 'Ugliest Building' for the second year running 🎉 mylondon.news/news/zone-1-ne…

Just learned the class I'm teaching in 3 weeks is open to ANYONE, not just students at my uni! If you're interested in learning more about Medieval Women & Power, let me know & I can get you the info to sign up I need *one more student* for it to run -- please share!

The more women representation the better, also on the walls 😊

Continuing our A-Z of the Archives, here is an unusual item. See ‘O’ for Oil Slick Specimen. This bagged sample from the Eleni V was given at a Commons Science & Technology Committee in 1978. The oil tanker was pierced, releasing 5000 tonnes of fuel into the North Sea. #TowerA-Z

It’s publication day for #NecessaryWomen! The culmination of years of research and writing by me and Liz Hallam Smith. Many thanks to our agent Clare Grist Taylor and publisher The History Press. Looking forward to actually getting a copy later today!

Just managed to get my signed copy of Necessary Women. The untold story of Parliament Working Women by Mari Takayanagi and Elizabeth Hallam Smith! It will be a great read #NecesseryWomen #booklaunch

What a lovely surprise ☺️ thank you Waltham Forest Council for putting our #Windrush75 cohesion event on the cover of #WalthamForestNews and thanks to all the lovely, people including council staff who worked so hard along with WIILMA volunteers to make this a significant day for all 🙏🏿🙏🏾🙏🏻

Big Soutine show in Düsseldorf. Have to see it! I’ll travel anywhere for Soutine.

Calling all conservators 🙈

Absorbed by experiences of early Churchill Archives Centre staff inc first female archivist Patricia Ackerman - offered lower salary on her appointment in 1975 than male counterpart, and told this was because he had a wife and children! #ac50

Co tam panie w polityce? I love Wyspiański’ pastels!

It was an amazing buzzing event 🩵

What can the back of a painting tell us about the life it’s led? The over 100-year-old stretcher that backs Pablo Picasso’s “Three Musicians” helped our team discover details about the painting’s history and global travels. Go behind the scenes → mo.ma/499CsQx

Happy International Museums Day!!!! Promoting our knowledge and expertise in inclusive and accessible way is what we are very passionate about! 🫶

Let’s celebrate Behind the scenes with Museums Week: youtube.com/watch?v=HZRjb1… #BehindTheScenesMW#DetrásDeEscenaMW#CoulissesMW#DietroLeQuinteMW#BastidoresMW#HinterDenKulissenMW#KulissienTakanaMW#BakKulisseneMW#ΠίσωΑπόΤιςΚουρτίνεςMW#ZaKulisyMW

We finish off our Tudor Tower Treasures with one of the big ones! The 1534 Act of Supremacy declared Henry VIII as the official head of the Church of England, displacing the power of the Pope who had denied Henry’s divorce to Catherine of Aragon. #TowerTreasures

Some things change and some stay the same. Back in 1957, this Assistant Clerk of the Records was checking through our Main Papers collection and these volumes are still the same today. However, the rolled records on the shelves now have more protective packaging. #TowerHeritage

Attending and presenting at ICOM Museum Storage international conference. Such a pleasure to talk alongside so many talented colleagues from word’s renowned heritage organisations! #heritage #conference