Ellie Munro

@elmunro.bsky.social

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Researcher. Voluntary & community action: history, policy, theory. @cdjplus.bsky.social board. Former trade union bureaucrat & policy wonk. Brand: charity archives, institutional theory, campaigning, communities, disability, Godzilla. All snark mine.

Article in a paper magazine called "a gardeners guide for survival in the modern world"
Brass band dressed in lots of gold items playing jazzy tunes outside a University building
Women's drumming group She Booms dressed in red, with lots of drums
A presentation slide with a picture of lunch on one side and a toilet on the other. Text is: 2026 Fracture #1. I am between you, the lunch and a toilet break. We are in a mind-body split moment... and usually in our lives the mind wins OVER the body... which of course plays out in our practice. Some suggest this is the essence of the colonial mindset.
Photo of a street looking up towards Strathclyde University. Lots of the walls have murals now.
A picket line of maybe 30 people? In raincoats and under umbrellas, clearly in the rain, some holding signs, some with fists raised in the solidarity pose, in front of the Sheffield Hallam Owen Building Main Entrance.
Garden: strawberries to the front, tomatoes in the back, a small tabby cat stuck in the middle.
Miss Reina Fenix, a tabby cat, sat on a wooden bench with her front paws including white socks dangling off the front of the bench. Underneath the bench is an assortment of pots and trays and a plastic bag full of junk.
Hand holding a line of square stickers that read "Does anyone remember when working here was actually quite nice?" On pale pink with a UCU logo in the corner
A blob of grey probably made up of old wool strands and dead plant material. It's moving a bit, and you can see the bum of a bee shifting things around for herself.
Four UCU Hallam placards reading: 1. These are not just sector wide challenges, they gambled our future on vanity projects 2. No to sham subsidiary employment 3. They gambled our future on vanity projects 4. A long reworking of the Only Fools and Horses theme tune
A lion statue wrapped in black plastic on a concrete plinth, it's for a lion tour round sheffield organised by/for Sheffield Children's Hospital Charity. Launching 8th June!
Tabby cat with a white bib looking at camera through bannisters
Static parade of Beefeater in their red jackets and tall black hats on the Mall.
Book propped up in library stacks called "Cartographies of time: a history of the timeline"
Quote: Summing up, this book presents no novel approaches or foundational insights. I must say I have learned nothing from this book, and cannot recommend it to others.
The interior of Firth Hall at University of Sheffield, which has a very high ceiling like a church. It does have a screen, but fit into a sort of rectangle with a roof on it, a very tall shape rather than wide.
An unopened flat card construction kit for an n-guage low relief tower block, for a model railway. They look like quite fancy flats as they've all got balconies with French sliding patio doors (rather than normal doors), but i imagine it as v 1980s.
A very very large crab in a museum exhibit.
Research poster for project called "Murder shows and comfy clothes: working class women and true crime", designed like a cork board with clues and evidence like what you'd get in a true crime show.
Back of the head of a black cat sat on my wrist facing towards a portrait orientation monitor with a word doc open on it. His paw is reached up and resting on it.
Photo of the backs of a group of activists sitting on the grass, standing up, waving pride flags, under a lovely blue sky.
A targeted ad on linked in from a company called Aimlay, offering me the opportunity to nominate myself for an honorary doctorate. The image in the ad reads Add "Dr." before your name & receive an honorary doctorate in your own passionate skill. Hassle free process. More than 100+ categories. Expert profiling. The picture is of a white man in maybe his 60s with quite a red face and a smug look, in academic robes holding a red degree tube. Perhaps I'm being rude, but...
Book - A Queer Scrapbook: Britain and Ireland since 1945, editors Justin Bengry, Matt Cook, Rebecca Jennings and E-J Scott.
Tin for playing cards, clearly.
A ridiculous collection of tat celebrating the launch of the Aurora train by EMR. Includes tiny Teddy, crayons, box of cards, chocolate, tiny jigsaw puzzle, and a drawstring "bag of fun".
Out of focus aggressive looking tabby cat with white paws sitting on top of my very thick blue hardbound phd thesis, labelled E.M.Munro PhD 2022.
Foyer at Sheffield Hallam University with hand painted square fabric election banners for each student Union election candidate, strung up high on string.
Three Guides patches from Guiders Against Trans Exclusion. One has the trans flag and text around reading make a promise keep a promise. The se on has a picture of a warning sign and a clipboard with the text the revolution will be risk assessed. The third says 100 for 100, World Thinking Day and a blue and white shark (like the ikea one) is holding up a sign with the second 100 on it.
Stacks of books with three pulled out - the anti-social family, the gift relationship, and the local state, all with nice 1970s/80s cover designs.
30 or 40 copies of Community Action magazine starting in the 1970s
Large poster on one of the Sheffield train station platforms advertising EMR's new Aurora trains, with the slogan "Comfortable. Spacious. Connected. Sustainable."
A work in progress patchwork quilt made of old band tshirts, making a large rectangle. Some very shoddy sewing on show, uneven borders, total lack of planning, highly unskilled.
Grade 2 listed front of Salvation Army Citadel redbrick building with Castle turret edging and some new arty swirly patterns painted colourfully on its metal shutters.
Cutting of private eye article on stress in UCU and terrible response to ASOS.
A black cube, maybe intended as a bench, or just an arty installation, inscribed with the words "solidarity with workers; solidarity with strikes; solidarity forever; for the many not the few". With additions of UCU stickers.
Targeted ad on Facebook for Sheffield Hallam University with a photo of a boy drinking a coffee at Pom (local cafe) and text reading "Sheffield Hallam is the 4th most affordable university in the UK, based on average weekly costs of rent, food, drink and transport".
Poster from the Keep Britain Tidy campaign
Long billboard poster that reads "reuse it or lose it" from the 20th century society campaign to protect the metal kettle shaped building that currently houses Hallam students union
Stone Gate Post with a sign for John Eaton's Almshouses - private grounds, no public access
Museum display including first aid equipment, a triangular sling with illustrations on it showing how to sling different body parts, a large cross and a decorative plate.
Black book, larger than average, line drawing of a deconstructed and embellished ram's skull. Title: Fab Press presents a spectacular optical book Satanic Panic Pop-Cultural paranoia in the 1980s Edited by Kier-La Janisse and Paul Corupe
Reina Fenix, a small tabby cat, in happier times sat on a small rectangular crocheted mat.
Documents relating to founding and operations of gay and lesbian telephone switchboards in and out of London.
Dark wooden church pew with single seats, and on the separation bit between two seats there is a wooden carved man bent double with his head between his legs and his trousers ed down showing his bum. It is from All Saints Church in Bakewell.
An orange stripey cat greasing up to the cat sitter's hand.
I am sat with a blanket over me and my legs stretched out resting on a footstool. My laptop, on which I am editing a document in word, has been shoved to one side, because my lap is taken up by a black cat with a white nose, beard and bib, and green eyes, looking at me unconcernedly
Two books with beautiful binding and printed covers, both red-orange. On the left is Desi Pubs: Black Country pubs from the Punjab, title in gold script. On the right is This way to the revolution: art, activism and upheaval in Birmingham 1968, with a monochrome photo of someone with his hand up outside Birmingham City Hall offset to the right hand corner.
A tabby cat looking direct into camera with her green eyes, curled up in my arms and in my fluffy tie dye jumper.
My back garden with a decent layer of snow on it. The garden is small and most of the image is a red and white brick wall. There is a washing line left up with a bunch of snow on it. There is a gnome with a red hat sat on a brick. There are lots of flower pots, and one square flower bed with a very young apple tree in it which I'm worried is going to die.
Bottle of conditioning shampoo mounted on the wall of a hotel bathroom. Label reads "mischief with eucalyptus and frankincense".