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Recycle Archaeology will be part of an exciting panel at London Museums Group discussing "What Roles Can Museums Have in Tackling the Climate Crisis" on May 17th at The Cartoon Museum. Please come along!
https://www.londonmuseumsgroup.org/lmg-events
Join our events today, here we are listing our latest and past events LMG hosts/hosted in London museums.
Recycle Archaeology has finally put it's toe into the scarey space of twitter. Please please follow us if you can!https://twitter.com/RecycleArchaeo
Recycle Archaeology has successfully secured funding to pay two Undergraduate Summer Interns. The interns will curate a collection of over 200 historic bone specimens to enable further research and teaching in Life Sciences at Kingston University. Dr Wickstead and Dr Layla Renshaw will be interviewing candidates in the next few days.
I' delighted to announce that Recycle Archaeology will be creating a temporary museum at the fabulous Out and Wild Festival in June: https://www.beoutandabout.co.uk/out-wild-festival/
The UK's first Wellness Festival designed for q***r, questioning and curious women and those who are non-binary. Wellness, music, comedy, wild swimming, sports, spoken word, workshops. Try new experiences, embrace new friendships and explore the beauty of Pembrokeshire National Park.
Guess how many items are in the Recycle Archaeology store? The only way to find out is count them. I make it 12,230 objects we will be giving away!
Selecting artefacts for our Thrown-Out Museum at Union of Kingston Students last Tuesday. Join us for the Thrown-Out Museum's debut this Tuesday at 2.30pm
Free education is a right. Here is another free teach-out at Kingston University School of Art on Tuesday
Recycle Archaeology is making our "Thrown Out Museum" at Kingston University Student's Union on Tuesday.
Here is a free teach-out making Cyanotypes at Kingston University Student Union on Monday
Free education is a right for everyone. There are free teach-outs on Monday 28th Feb and Tuesday 1st March at Kingston University. The first is on situationism
Our Recycle Archaeology community mosaic has just arrived with Kingston Heritage Service for display in Kingston Museum. The design is one of Edward Muybridge's early cat animations made of ancient artefacts from Muybridge's home turf. He was a keen antiquarian and enjoyed old things. Thanks to all the Recycle Archaeologists who made this.
Thanks to everyone who joined us at Pub Archaeology on Monday - the bone button and horn handled knife were my favourite items.
Thanks to the amazing people Balance at Stud Nursery today who managed to decipher the writing on this pot. It turns out it is a pedestal pot for Singleton's eye ointment - the UK's oldest proprietary medicine dating back to 1596. The Science Museum has an exact parallel for our pot which dates 1760-1830.
A rare anti-slavery to***co pipe has been discovered among boxes of artefacts saved from landfill by the Recycle Archaeology project. The pipe features Josiah Wedgewood’s design “kneeling slave” originally accompanied by the slogan “Am I Not a Man and a Brother?”. Designed in 1787 “kneeling slave” is widely seen as the industrial era's first logo for a political campaign. It is criticized for showing a passive slave beseeching for freedom instead of the reality of active resistance and rebellion by Africans that eventually defeated the transatlantic slave trade. The pipe has been photographed and conserved by Museum and Gallery Studies student Camilla Terhorst who has been using it to develop teaching resources for schoolchildren learning about the histories of slavery. Anyone interested in using the pipe in teaching or research can contact Helen Wickstead to borrow this item.
Please sign the petition to support Stoke on Trent's world famous pottery museums: https://www.change.org/p/stoke-on-trent-city-council-keep-stoke-on-trent-s-pottery-museums-open
In honour of Stoke on Trent's City Council I am posting a Border Ware chamber pot
Another postcard from Long Ditton St. Mary's CE Junior School to our 17th century oyster - "How do you eat? How are you?" I don't know how the oyster will reply, but, in answer to Eva's postcard, I have found out that, yes, oysters do wee.
Another postcard from kids at Long Ditton St. Mary's CE Junior School to our 17th century oyster shell "To oyster, How are you? Do you have covid-19?" Any one know if oysters can catch human viruses?
A postcard to an Oyster: How you wee? Good question
A few months ago our curator Marco took a 17th century oyster shell into Long Ditton St. Mary's CE Junior School and asked the children to write postcards to the oyster. Genius!
We love the pearly kings and queens Cockney Museum especially because of the number of old buttons and badges we have!
This Monday 13th December is "Pub Archaeology" at The Lamb Surbiton from 7.30pm. This extra special Pub Archaeology is combined with the launch of Jeeva D's remarkable new book (free online and paper copies only £20 on the night): https://www.uclpress.co.uk/collections/contact-133254/products/177435
A study of the conditions of being a citizen, belonging and democracy in suburban Britain, this book focuses on understanding how a community takes on the social responsibility and pressures of being a good citizen through what they call ‘stupid’ events, festivals and parades. Building a communi...
Many thanks to Recycle Archaeology's Dr Layla Renshaw and Kerryan Dawson for making all this new science happen - let's do some more soon!
Kingston University students found evidence for bone cancer in 17th century cattle (along with lots of cut marks and butchery evidence) in London's old bones.
Huge thanks to Kingston University Forensics students for making many new discoveries about our early modern animal bone assemblages at the launch of Recycle Archaeology: Forensics yesterday.
A spooky display of ancient bones at Long Ditton St. Mary's CE Junior School "Night at the Museum" last week
17th century imported Chinese porcelain in Lillian's museum-in-a-box at Long Ditton St. Mary's CE Junior School school museum
Danielle's museum-in-a-box of Fourth Dynasty Egyptian pottery Long Ditton St. Mary's CE Junior School "Night at the Museum"
Camilla's box of clay pipes in use at our school museum Long Ditton St. Mary's CE Junior School
More information about our student curators' one day take-over of Tolworth overground station.
At 10am there will be a Workshop with special needs children in the kitchen area of Community Brain.
At 12pm the main event will start. This includes displays in the hallway of the station and an interactive installation in the kitchen area.
"The interactive installs in the kitchen area is all about the feeling of home through food. If you like we would love for you to take part and bring a recipe. The recipes will be displaced and later published in a Community Brain cookbook".
There will be a performance at around 5pm on Platform 2.
Recycle Archaeology helped children from Long Ditton St Mary's Primary School create a magnificent "Night at the Museum" last week. Here is just one of the fantastic displays (this one shows how kids learnt about ancient Egypt).
For one day only our students are taking over Tolworth Train Station. Come over and taste our community cookbook, get your portrait and enjoy the artworks on the platforms on Wednesday Dec 1st
Photos from EAA European Association of Archaeologists's post
After Mairi Davies' excellent tip off identifying our pie funnel I have been looking up pie funnels in museum collections. Most of them have a wider base rather than the design of our funnel which is more like a chess piece. However this wooden example from the Science Museum is much more like ours perhaps suggesting that ours is earlier in date (late 19th century). Well Done Mairi!
https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co49425/wooden-pie-funnel-conical-crudely-carved-holes
This workshop is making natural inks using our historic iron slag and corroded artefacts.
Go green this Christmas! 💚
Join us at Kingston Museum to learn how to make cards for the holidays using natural inks in our workshop this Saturday. Read more and book via our website at https://buff.ly/3CnfLXZ.
Huge thanks to Glen Rowden, John Randall, Pete Knowles, Marley Treloar, Liz Lamb Lewis and others for another exciting night of discoveries at Pub Archaeology. Many 19th century bottles and jars, including a "penny ink" and another inkwell. Any opinions on the mystery ceramic nozzle in the foreground?
Thanks very much indeed to everyone who joined us at Pub Archaeology on Monday night. The marvelous Pete Knowles brought the oldest piece of art I have ever held - a handaxe that was made 450,000 years ago by an extinct species of human. Here we are unpacking some boxes.
Could you draw the creature that once possessed these bones? Xin Jin has been collecting drawings from our school child curators of beasts (real and fantastical) whose bones are inside her museum-in-box. She is working with a Kingston University graphic designer to bring the drawings to life.
Ning, our Mandarin Speaking Audiences Advocate, took two objects into school last week. The smaller piece is the base of a tea bowl made in China in the Reign of the Kang-xi Emperor and imported into London. It has a lotus flower - one of the 8 Buddhist symbols of good fortune -on it. The plate (called a 'charger') is English Delft, hand-painted with Chinese-inspired designs. 做得好 (Zuòde hǎo) Ning!
Several of our student curators have been exploring the connections between European tin-glazed earthernwares and Chinese imported porcelain in the 17th and early 18th century. Here is Bella's museum-in-a-box with beautiful examples of both. Can you tell which is which?
Recycle Archaeology updated their website address.
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