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Last chance to catch the entertaining and informative Dressing the Georgians #exhibition Royal Collection Trust's King's Gallery in #Edinburgh. Only till Sep 22. We saw it in London last year: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2023/06/dedica…. Detail from Thomas Rowlandson (1757-1827), New Invented Elastic Breeches, 1784.

Thinking about a city break this autumn? VisitBrighton is a great city to discover your artistic side, to soak up the cosmopolitan vibes. A city made for walking & exploring. An ideal autumn destination with bracing seafront walks & easy access to Stanmer Park, the cities

On #WorldFirstAidDay we’re thankful for our medical advancements & professionals!👩🏻‍⚕️ In Classical Greece things were a bit different...or were they!? In this episode we talk wine, snakes & womb fumigation🍷🐍💨 #sensory #classicstwitter #ancientgreece #medicalhistory #medicine

Some things never change! A 2,000 year-old Roman souvenir pen with joke inscription roughly equivalent to: “I went to Rome and all I got you was this cheap pen!" 😂 Dated c. 70 AD, the stylus pen was found in London during excavations by MOLA. The Roman inscription reads:

Thrilled to have finally made it to The Regency Town House to enjoy the last day of their #HeritageOpenDays exhibition: house history, architecture, planning, fashion, tea and cake, maps - could not have asked for more. Thanks to all volunteers 👏 #HODS #Brighton

And it's Mrs Finnegan's fault!

We all love a digital resource and if you're doing place-based studies, this one is BLOODY AMAZING and I only found out about it today: populationspast.org/imr/1861/#6/53…

⭐️ We’re hiring ⭐️    Would you like to join our Fundraising Team at Brighton & Hove Museums?    Could you be our new Individual Giving Manager?    More information and to apply: brightonmuseums.org.uk/job-opportunit…

Blue skies in Brighton 💙

Reasons recorded for worker absence on this 3,200 year-old ancient Egyptian attendance register include ‘brewing beer’, ‘stung by a scorpion’, and ‘embalming brother’! 🤯 Written in Hieratic Script. From Deir el-Medina. More info: britishmuseum.org/collection/obj… 📷 my own #Archaeology

'Henry VIII was the original rizzler' is a GOAT museum take

'I fear some of you will make but so-so Husbands; when you do not please to be diverted yourselves, you'll not let us be either.' From 'The ladies answer to the gentlemen’s apology for disappointing them at the play-house ... 1746-7', the only copy of which survives in Marsh's!

Bathtub full of spaghetti, sauce & Parmesan from the tap? Welcome to The Mechanical Circus! See incredible automata by Cabaret Mechanical Theatre Cabaret Mechanical Theatre at Hove Museum. Whimsy & wonder await! #MechanicalCircus #AutomataArt #VisitHove

Thought - what would be really useful is if someone created an interactive historical weather database that historians could update as and when we find references to weather in the archives.

Spitalfields. That’s some reflection in this first floor windows.

From our housekeeper...

14th century Doodle of a man includes hairs in the nostrils. Such detail!

Telegrams were popular from the 1900s to the 1920s. The quickest way to send a message & often the source of bad news, such as wartime Missing-in-Action notices, the Greetings Telegram was introduced in 1935 to boost sales and give the service a more cheerful reputation.

Alongside Soane’s many busts of gods, bards and emperors, discover a sculptural ‘who’s who’ of Georgian London! 🗿⏳ Overlooked by history, let’s get face-to-face with some of the most influential, talented and scandalous of Soane’s contemporaries, represented in his Museum. 👋

Thank you to the 600 visitors we welcomed over the last two weekends. We loved meeting and talking with you on such diverse subjects as the plans to re-develop Brunswick Square in the 1930s & waist sizes in the 19C. Plus tea, cake, costumes, local history...did we mention cake?