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Explore our FREE online collection of film and audio recordings documenting 100 years of children’s #songs, #rhymes, #nurseryrhymes & #playground games here: https://t.co/MUCVubrlaT
#FolkloreThursday #Playtimes
Spring is here! Happy #FirstDayOfSpring everyone 🌼
Today is the #SpringEquinox meaning Winter is officially over.
#InternationalDayOfHappiness #GoogleDoodle
Richard Brandon was the Common Hangman of London in 1649, it is debatable as to whether he beheaded Charles I as his identity was concealed on the scaffold & his confession, shown here, was published posthumously.
More here https://t.co/AV6ifq36Yd
#OTD #OnThisDay #historyteacher
Eric Blair, better known as George Orwell, died #onthisday in 1950.
We asked @TheProfRog to tell us about the political environment in which George Orwell wrote and published 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'.
Read the article here:
https://t.co/yoCyZzKwh9
#DiscoveringLiterature #otd
#Didyouknow the London Underground opened #onthisday in 1863?
This 1898 photo shows workers constructing the British Museum Station on the Central Line. The station remained in service until 1933 & was later used as a #WW2 air raid shelter.
See more here https://t.co/WRbAAAWa5k
Join us on Thursday 17 January, 6pm for an audio-described tour of our Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War exhibition. #BLAngloSaxons #AudioDescribed @VocalEyesAD @RNIB https://t.co/rGvWebryfB
Henry III died #OTD in 1272. In 1216 Henry inherited the throne in difficult circumstances. England was in the midst of civil war & on the verge of defeat to the French Prince Louis. Henry decided to re-issue Magna Carta to ensure stability. Discover more: https://t.co/mFnRuoskGW
Predating 'Dracula' by nearly half a decade, 'Varney the Vampire' (1845) is one of the earlier examples of the vampire in popular literature & the first to attribute 'fang-like teeth' to a vampire.
Discover more about Varney https://t.co/8gbfhTuUC0
#HappyHalloween #Halloween2018
In the 1866 edition of 'The Ingoldsby Legends' we find an apparently more fashion conscious Death.
These 'Legends' were mainly humorous parodies of medieval folklore. #DiscoveringLiterature #FolkloreThursday