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Head of a Unicorn, killed near the City of Mashow. Illustration from Rev. John Campbell's Travels in South Africa, 1822. You can browse the digitized version through our catalogue here: https://t.co/ibKHgMO7ob
Happy Midsummer's Day, everyone!
Illustration: An Elf and a Fairy kissing, by Richard Doyle
[BL Shelfmark: C.194.c.16. ]
#Midsummer
John Nash, the architect and city planner, responsible for many areas of central London, died #OTD in 1835. This image, taken from James Elmes' Metropolitan Improvements ... (1830), shows All Soul's Church Langham Place, which Nash designed: https://t.co/r9rjFohyz5
Thanks everyone and bye from #BLRefChat for now. We look forward to chatting to you again soon. Stay well.
Harley MS 3567, f. 149
A great page of resources by ASAN, the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, including toolkits, reports, and books on inclusiveness, accessibility, acceptance, and neurodiversity: https://t.co/Rfll7wh09Z
#AutismAcceptanceMonth #AutismAcceptance
Another pea plant, pisello salvatico, from the sixteenth-century Add MS 22333, containing paintings of flora of the Roman States, by botanist Gherardo Cibo.
You can browse the whole digitized manuscript here: https://t.co/fdA3fv2j8X
#BLisOpen #LetsGetDigital #LibrariesFromHome
The sweet pea is one of the flowers associated with April, so for this sunny first day of the month, here are some beautiful pea illustrations!
First one is pisum sativum, from Jean-Jaques Rousseau's Letters on the Elements of Botany.
Discover many images from our curious collections from home. https://t.co/kR3KBwsjkR Here is a charming #watercolour of Bermondsey near the #riverthames in early 19th century developing London. Add MS 36489 A, f.108
The Arabian Gulf Digital Archive is a free online resource which you can access from home. You can search for documents and photographs and even browse online exhibitions: https://t.co/zEABqn7U51
Pictured here, #Falconry Exhibition, Abu Dhabi, 1976
Illustrator John Tenniel was born #OTD 200 years ago. Here are some of his beautiful illustrations from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland used in the shortened 'Nursery Alice' from 1890 (shelfmark Cup.410.g.74) #JohnTenniel200 #DiscoveringChildrensBooks https://t.co/RbeAyr5GDI