mastodon 4.7.3🎙️ The C Word: The Conservators' Podcast 🎧
Curious about the world of conservators? You're in the right place! Let Jenny and Kloe talk to you about life in conservation and collections care, and all the other c-words our profession is full of. 😉
We bring you an array of guest co-hosts, interviews, reviews, and answers from our agony aunt Dear Jane. New episodes fortnightly! (Well, when in season.)
A Wooden Dice production. 🎲
We're very, very, very excited to announce that our podcast has been shortlisted for the Museums + Heritage Awards this year! 🌟
We're in the Sector Impact category, meaning the judges agreed that we've had a long-lasting and positive impact on the heritage landscape since we started the show in 2017.
We're looking forward to the big reveal in May! We're up against some AMAZING projects so it's an honour to have been recognised in the same league.
Woohoo! Do they make nitrile purple prosecco?
Oh boy, with Jenny on maternity leave last autumn we haven't updated you guys on the latest season!
In case you missed it, season 17 included:
🪑 Furniture conservation
🍵 Being sustainable with the Green Tea Podcast
🪬 Conserving the sacred
👻 A Halloween special
🇩🇰 Natural History Museum Denmark takeover
🇨🇾 A road trip
🇧🇷 A Brazilian conference special
⛄ A little Christmas chat
Go check it out here (or wherever you get your #podcasts from): http://www.thecword.show
Our researcher friend Panos needs your help! ♹
What — if anything — do you know about bioplastics and their preservation? This survey is open to ANYONE (not just heritage professionals), so please take a couple of minutes to fill out his survey here:
https://forms.office.com/r/XJv81gneMW
Seriously, ANYONE. Artists, museum folk, people with 3D printers, wargamers, teachers, someone who just thinks 3D printing is neat - please contribute!
Liz visited the Our Lord in the Attic Museum in Amsterdam's red light district - an unexpected little gem with a very rich history!
Go listen to the whole story in our latest episode. 🎧
#museums #TheCWordPodcast #museum #Amsterdam #TheNetherlands #podcasts #conservators
Kloe paid an intergenerational visit to Shibden Hall for our latest episode: here she is with her mother and her baby boy!
If you'd like to hear her visit a place where you can practically smell the wood panelling through your headphones/speakers, listen to our latest episode here: https://thecword.show/2025/04/16/s16e03-local-little-museums/
#museums #TheCWordPodcast #heritage #conservators #podcasts #ShibdenHall
Here's Phedra and her tiny daughter visiting the Museum of Greek Refugees for the podcast. Danae was the youngest ever visitor!
Here they're being told about old customs around how to look after a baby, including a lovely lullaby sung by the staff. How's that for a unique museum visit? 💜
Listen to our latest episode to hear more. 🎧
New episode! 📍
What happens when five #conservators visit five local little #museums? An adorable #travel episode, of course!
🇨🇾 Phedra goes to the Museum of Greek Refugees
🇬🇧 Solange visits Derwent Pencil Museum
🇳🇱 Liz visits the Our Lord in the Attic Museum
🏴 Kloe goes to Shibden Hall
🏴 Jenny visits the Dylan Thomas Boathouse
What's your favourite little museum? Have you been to any of the above?
Listen here: https://thecword.show/2025/04/16/s16e03-local-little-museums/
New season has dropped! ✨
We're starting season 16 (can you believe it?!) with Liz and Solange chatting to Mary Lewis from Heritage Crafts about heritage skills and the joy of making things with your hands. 🫶
Listen here: https://thecword.show/2025/03/20/s16e01-heritage-skills/
#TheCWordPodcast #conservation #podcasts #conservators #heritage #crafts
New episode! ✨
What's it like leaving university and heading straight into the world of #freelancing and/or private practice? 🎓 Liz, Isabella and Sophie spill the beans!
Listen here: https://thecword.show/2025/05/29/s16e06-early-career-freelancing/
#TheCWordPodcast #conservation #podcasts #conservators #freelancers #business #SmallBusiness #EarlyCareer #EmergingProfessionals
Our lovely Solange was on holiday and took a detour to Derwent Pencil Museum with her kids: let's get immersed in the world of #pencils with them, shall we? ✏️
Listen to our latest episode here: https://thecword.show/2025/04/16/s16e03-local-little-museums/
New episode! ✨
How do self-employed conservators find clients? 🔎
Jenny, Solange, and Liz share some strategies, while listeners in private practitioners reveal what really works.
One of our most useful episodes ever, we reckon!
Listen here: https://thecword.show/2025/06/11/s16e07-finding-clients/
#TheCWordPodcast #conservation #freelancers #conservators #freelancing #customers #PrivatePractice #selfemployed #clients #SmallBusiness #podcasts
New episode! ♻️
Jenny and Solange are joined by Panos Morfis as we figure out #bioplastics: what they are, how we can look after them, and why #conservators should get onboard with #3Dprinting.
Listen here: https://thecword.show/2025/05/14/s16e05-bioplastics/
#TheCWordPodcast #podcasts #HeritageScience #plastics #ConservationScience #conservation #science
New episode! ✨
We've been overthrown! Wait, no, scratch that. *shuffling of notes* We've invited people to do a takeover! That's less alarming and more fun.
Listen here: https://thecword.show/2025/05/01/s16e04-heritage-trust-network-youth-forum-takeover/
New episode! ✨
Conservation may be the profession but within it are many, many specialisms: how is anyone supposed to choose?! 🤔
Liz, Solange and Jenny have a chat about how they picked their specialisms and give some tips on how people can find theirs if they're struggling to choose.
Listen here: https://thecword.show/2025/04/02/s16e02-choosing-a-specialism/
#TheCWordPodcast #conservation #podcasts #conservators #specialism #episodes #specialist
Season finale! 🎉
We get a little philosophical in this one: Liz, Solange and Jenny talk about use of #collections and objects, #access and human nature 💭
We'd originally intended for this episode to be a road trip special but due to Life Events (a house move) for one of our team members this'll now be a Patreon bonus episode instead. 🗺️ Thanks for understanding!
Listen here: https://thecword.show/2025/07/03/s16e08-objects-for-use/
#TheCWordPodcast #conservation #podcasts #collections #access #conservators
You've not missed our lovely Liz reviewing the nifty little loggers from BevArt, have you? 👀
(Full disclosure: BevArt are kindly sponsoring us this season and sent Liz the sensors for free to try out. Cheers, guys!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwnAiRIJ8ic
#reviews #sensors #loggers #museums #archives #environmentalmonitoring #CollectionsCare #GLAM #TheCWordPodcast
It's that time of year: the voting is open for the #BritishPodcastAwards!
We're small fish but we'd really appreciate your vote if you like our show.
Simply go here, type in The C Word and select the podcast with our awesome logo from the drop-down: https://www.britishpodcastawards.com/voting
Thank you!
@AmazingMeagen@historians.social Oh definitely and we're 99% sure Solange treated it that way!