Dr Kate Nichols(@plaster_figleaf) 's Twitter Profileg
Dr Kate Nichols

@plaster_figleaf

Art historian at Birmingham Uni, often found "debating about statues". Attempting to write a Global History of Victorian Art. She/her 🏳️‍🌈

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linkhttp://www.birmingham.ac.uk/map calendar_today12-09-2011 17:17:16

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Midlands Art Papers(@MAP_UoB) 's Twitter Profile Photo

What can a bike in Thinktank Birmingham tell us about histories of technology and empire? A new article by historian Nathan Cardon explores cycling as an act of resistance to British imperial occupation of eastern African thinktankmuseum College of Arts+Law birmingham.ac.uk/schools/lcahm/…

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social(@johnjamesmunro) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The Birmingham UCU bike picket will ride again.

10 AM every strike day, from Bournbrook Pavilion Picket Line.

Warm up, stop in at each picket gate, claim public space, defend public education.
All UCU members and supporters welcome.

The @BirminghamUCU bike picket will ride again. 10 AM every strike day, from Bournbrook Pavilion Picket Line. Warm up, stop in at each picket gate, claim public space, defend public education. All @ucu members and supporters welcome.
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Dr Kate Nichols(@plaster_figleaf) 's Twitter Profile Photo

It is 'Gallery Week' here @TheGolovine & I have been having an interesting time exploring public art & museum collections with our students. Yesterday I went on a sculpture & memorial walk looking at legacies of industry & empire with MA 'Made in Birmingham: Art & Urban space'

It is 'Gallery Week' here @TheGolovine & I have been having an interesting time exploring public art & museum collections with our students. Yesterday I went on a sculpture & memorial walk looking at legacies of industry & empire with MA 'Made in Birmingham: Art & Urban space'
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Dr Kate Nichols(@plaster_figleaf) 's Twitter Profile Photo

BRUMMIES: Can anyone confirm that Luke Perry's Forward Together sculpture is still in Colmore Sq?? I'm taking students on a sculpture walk tomorrow and completely failed to double check ... normally I'm not worried that public art will just vanish but this has a history of it..

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Voted YES today in UCU reballots. Fair pay, pensions & an end to casualisation is the very least we deserve. Industrial action is working. Get voting folks, let's get this done! @birminghamucu (also loving all the yarnbombed postboxes)

Voted YES today in @ucu reballots. Fair pay, pensions & an end to casualisation is the very least we deserve. Industrial action is working. Get voting folks, let's get this done! @birminghamucu #ucuRISING (also loving all the yarnbombed postboxes)
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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social(@johnjamesmunro) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Thank you Dr Francesca Berry (she/her), Dr Kate Nichols, & Francis Clarke, Mastodon [email protected].

The Birmingham UCU Bike Picket will ride again

10 AM
10 February
Bournbrook Pavilion Picket Line

UCU members, students, members of the public all welcome.

Reclaim public space, defend public education!

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Dr Kate Nichols(@plaster_figleaf) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Many congratulations Bharti Parmar ! This is richly deserved and wonderful news. Am so looking forward to exploring aspects of this work with you in Febraury Crafts Council UK with Race, Empire and the Pre-Raphaelites - still time to see Cotton: Labour Land & Body which closes march 4

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One of the things I've noticed about all the amazing photos of striking colleagues is how many of them look the same because of the horrible corporate identikit campus architecture people are standing in front of...

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e l i z a b e t h(@lzbthcx_) 's Twitter Profile Photo

if you’re a FT permanent academic & you’re not on strike, PLEASE rethink. think of the casual staff using food banks. the fixed termers who can’t put the heating on. the future gens who can’t have academia as a future because of crap conditions. it’s for us & them

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Dr Francesca Berry (she/her)(@FrancescaBerry9) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Just me and my History of Art ⁦Birmingham UCUUCU pals in the ⁦The Guardian⁩ 🥳

Today, tmw, Weds we go again!



More than 70,000 UK university staff go on strike over pay and pensions theguardian.com/education/2022…

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Jo Grady(@DrJoGrady) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I NEED EVERY UCU MEMBER AND SUPPORTER TO RT THIS THREAD.

University bosses are rattled. Across the UK they are threatening UCU members with unfair and immoral pay deductions if they take part in action short of striking. This thread exposes every single one of them

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Dr Kate Nichols(@plaster_figleaf) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Many congratulations Caitlin! I cannot wait to read this and it is already on order at our library. This is going to be an absolutely transformative publication

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Dr Kate Nichols(@plaster_figleaf) 's Twitter Profile Photo

So many congratulations. Really pleased for you and really looking forward to seeing what happens next with your fantastic research. For now though have a wonderful celebration!

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Race, Empire and the Pre-Raphaelites(@race_empire_prb) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Alison Solomon's talk on 'Home Is Where The Art Is: 'Collecting Home', a story of co-production is now out on our YouTube!

An introspective piece on how objects connect our pasts today; in the present moment through collaboration.

Watch it here:
youtu.be/wv7AI8MMkZE

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Dr Kate Nichols(@plaster_figleaf) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Brilliantly put. What is happening at Birkbeck is devastating, & it is part of a much wider phenomenon. There is something truly magical about birkbeck. I know of no other university that instantly conjures the phrase'changed my life' from so many. It certainly changed mine.

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Gareth Atkins(@AtkinsGarethW) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Very pleased to announce a Ph.D. opportunity: Collaborative Doctoral Award based at Cambridge to work with me & Barbara Wood (National Trust) on the Acland family of Killerton House, Devon and their imperial connections. Please spread the word! oocdtp.ac.uk/aclands-killer…

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