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"Please, sir, I want some more."

For #WorldBookDay we're celebrating Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. We recently acquired this manuscript that contains watercolours by Joseph "Kyd" of the Artful Dodger and Oliver Twist...amongst many others.

Who's your favourite character?

@BL_ModernMSS has been working hard to catalogue the natural history albums of the Hans Sloane mss collection. Here's a little taster of some of the treasures they hold. #manuscripts

Add MS 5282, containing birds, flowers, trees, birds & insects from the gardens of England, 1684

NEW PLACEMENT: Now accepting applications from Phd students for placements in 2021. Here @BL_ModernMSS we offer a placement working with natural history mss albums collected by Hans Sloane such as this wonderful album of birds at Add MS 5265.

More info @ https://t.co/TNqElCyyXN

Lets leave you with something beautiful and calming before a long weekend of stormy weather. These are from a volume of paintings of Indian Plants and Fruits dated from the 1700s, painted by local artists. Add MS 26624. https://t.co/dvt1BrJShG
#FridayFeeling #weekend #StormAlex

Some watercolours taken from this rather lovely 18th century volume of monastic costumes (Add MS 22664) https://t.co/lFbIHraVes

There are lots of 'memento mori' or 'vanitas' images hidden in friendship albums. A putti blowing bubbles is another way to remind us of the passing of time. We've squeezed two more into our @britishlibrary display #FriendshipBeforeFacebook https://t.co/jUAU8xHPCc Add MS 18975

What a fine green woodpecker from a 1680 album of birds and plants in London gardens Sloane MS 5282

There are lots of flower drawings in our manuscripts colls like this 18th c one in Liber Amicorum Egerton MS 1604.

Yikes! What a gruesome Easter story from @UntoldLives. Don't choke on your eggs. https://t.co/dWl7Md22ZU