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Today's decision emanating from Southwark Crown Court is an outrage . It is an attack on our civil liberties , we must defend our right to peaceful protest . @AttorneyGeneral , please meet with us urgently . This grotesque miscarriage of justice must be fixed . #WholeTruthFive

Last stop on the #closedmuseums of NE Scotland tour: The Falconer

Dressed in culturally non-conforming religious attire to openly practice the rituals of a Middle-Eastern religion which came over here and imposed its customs and values on the indigenous population...

The longest sentence handed down to a violent racist rioter this week is shorter than the sentences imposed on entirely peaceful environmental protesters last month. Labour must repeal the Tory laws that treat peaceful protest more severely than violent disorder and assault.

Raiford Guins (Books: Game After; Atari Design; Edited Clean Version) will be talking to me and Jo Morra about his new work on video game museums School of Historical Studies, Birkbeck London at 6pm 24/10/24. Come along Video Game History Foundation More information here: bit.ly/3zcN98i

Collecting information on closed museums has proved to be an investigative challenge. I've written about our lines of enquiry in the new blog for Mapping Museums Lab mapping-museums.bbk.ac.uk/blog/

What happens to collections when museums close? I'll be talking about that and other topics with Raiford Guins and Jo Morra at the 'Afterlives of Objects' event at Birkbeck, London, 6pm on 24/10. Everyone is welcome. bit.ly/3BeUx3C RaphaelSamuelHistCen AIM

I'm visiting museums in the very far north. Today Pyramiden, a deserted Russian mining town in Svalbard, now open to visitors. instagram.com/fionacandlin/

A reminder of this excellent event on Thursday 24th October at 6pm - make sure you book!

Only two days to go to the Afterlives of Objects event! We'll be talking about museums, video games, taxidermy, permanence, interaction, care, and so much more. Places are free but you need to book in advance.Mapping Museums Lab mapping-museums.bbk.ac.uk/2024/09/05/aft…

In 2009 Ray Guins and I published The Object Reader with Media, Cultural and Communication Studies Tomorrow we're meeting up again at Birkbeck, London 6pm to discuss our continuing interest in objects. Places are free but do please book mapping-museums.bbk.ac.uk/2024/09/05/aft…

Calling museum geeks. We've googled, telephoned, checked archives, newspaper reports, and spoken to specialists, but after a year of collecting data on closed museums in the UK we're officially stuck on some venues. Can you help? Have a look at our list: bit.ly/40rmJuV

Some new info Dr Mark Liebenrood

More on the museum closure project. Our new blog discusses how we started visualising complex data. Read more here. mapping-museums.bbk.ac.uk/blog/

When is a museum closed? Read more in the new Mapping Museums Lab blog mapping-museums.bbk.ac.uk/blog/