Take a look at the Brighton Museums blog where you can read my piece on the work of the Women’s Land Army, the ‘Cinderella Service’, during World War Two. There are lots of links to the #Brighton and #Sussex area! Read it here: bit.ly/3B9XKwN #WW2 #history #archives

We're very excited about our new grant awarded by the James Henry Green Trust to increase diversity and improve equality at Royal Pavilion & Museums Trust. Interviews available - just let me know. brightonmuseums.org.uk/2021/07/21/maj…

Beautiful Anglo-Saxon gold disc pendant decorated with filigree and three cloisonné birds’ heads aranged in a triskele. Early 600s AD. From King’s Field Anglo-Saxon cemetery, Faversham, Kent, discovered by workers digging a new railway cutting in 1859. #Archaeology

🏘️ Ever wondered about the history of the place you live? Join HS2 Ltd's webinar which will discuss the first large scale changes to the landscape for human settlement and agriculture and what evidence can be found of this along all phases of the HS2 route and more! 1/2

This is an international endeavour, no nation is a boundary. But we want to engage with YOU, what graves (or funerary markers) are near you that might be in need of urgent repair, or highlighting the history. Share your photos too 👇

Prof Janina Ramirez BBCFour British Museum Sadly not all museums will reopen after covid. There’s a campaign to save Swindon Museum and Art Gallery it would be great to have your support change.org/p/swindon-boro…

Very pleased that we are reopening the wonderful #Hove Museum on Monday Brighton Museums with the clever and funny “Mantlepiece Observations “ by Richard Slee VisitBrighton

Another scorcher today! We have a new Six Minutes To Midnight poster up in our Augusta-Victoria exhibition. This is the poster aimed at American audiences. #Bexhill

Schools out and we're open! This summer share the history of #Sussex with your family. A day out could spark a shared lifelong passion! 📸 Fishbourne Roman Palace

This little gem came out of one of the trenches and dates to around 1815! There's an "S" on one side of the clay pipe+ we think a "P" on the other. This is a common place for a maker's mark so we hope to identify them soon! #Archaeology #localhistory #claypipe @Sussex_Heritage

Lovely to see that the National Gallery plans to purchase Thomas Lawrence's 'Portrait of Charles William Lambton', aka 'The Red Boy'. Some may think it's a sentimental painting best suited to chocolate boxes, but I rather like it. More here: bit.ly/2W5J1my #artists #art

'Thomas Gainsborough’s The Blue Boy, a popular painting that left Britain a century ago to a public outpouring of anger and sadness, is to return temporarily to the National Gallery in London.' Story here: bit.ly/3wZggVt #art #artists #arthistory #london 18th Century Studies #painting

And here's the portrait of George IV seated, also by Sir Thomas Lawrence. Note the similar use of texture - and the colour red - in the painting. This sensitive portrait is currently on display in Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, so do stop by and take a look. #art 18th Century Studies #painting pic.x.com/d8jeWvIy88

A picture of #Bexhill from a few days ago. Glyne Gap beach.

A quick black-and-white snap of the Moon, taken in the heart of the South Downs National Park a couple of nights ago. #astronomy #NationalPark #blackandwhitephotography #moon #Astrophotography South Downs Ranger

#OnThisDay 1979: BBC News explained the mysterious markings that had started appearing on supermarket products.

#OnThisDay in 1890 Alfred Waterhouse's Hotel Metropole opened in Brighton, with its amazing #TurkishBath considered more luxurious than its not-insignificant rival in West St, by then 22 yrs old. Destroyed when new owners AVP built a swimming pool in its place in the early 1960s.

Interesting piece taking a look at the work that’s gone into restoring and reimagining Dennis Severs' 18th Century house in Spitalfields, east London, here: bbc.in/3l2xijn #Spitalfields #London #Museum #HistoricHouse 18th Century Studies

The #weather forecast for #Brighton doesn't look too good this week. Here's a throwback to 17 July 1850, when a 'most terrific and destructive' storm, with a 'deluge of rain', hit the town. Busy areas of the town, such as Pool Valley, were flooded. #Floods #archives #storms