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#FlashHistories19 @DigiVictorian on his @VictorianHumour account - leading to a book and joke search engine 
An enjoyable experience, a way of sharing research.
Raises questions about ...
Sara Spike of @smallhistory on sharing snippets of everyday life in Nova Scotia late19C early 20C
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Rationale: celebrating details of ordinary life, which can be entry points into bigger themes - taken from newspapers
Giant turnips, the raspberry crop, other snippets. Short paragraphs, about the same length as a tweet
Kate Newnham: timelines can say a lot in little space
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Boiling down research into an 80-word label. Or can "thread" labels if a no. of objects tell the same story
Had a 1920s Italian dress, struggling to explain it, so got in touch with the family who had given it, and luckily they had info, photos
Kate Newnham of Bristol Museums on writing interpretations for museum displays
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When planning an exhibition, always start with the audience
Use Maslow's hierarchy of needs as planning checklist
#FlashHistories19 @NTPamelaSmith on how to tell the stories of the plants in National Trust gardens?
Photos of plants at one season make them unrecognizable at other seasons
Labels spoil the look of historic gardens, people visit gardens to get away from tech, and often a poor signal in countryside
#FlashHistories19 Rachel Piercey on witing/editing The Head That Wears A Crown, poems for children about kings and queens
No set format for poems, gives variety, can acknowledge different interpretations of history, serves as models for children's own poetry
Poems function by asking questions rather than giving answers - got round that with notes and introduction
