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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

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2020-08-11

Happy Midsummer's Day, everyone!
Illustration: An Elf and a Fairy kissing, by Richard Doyle

[BL Shelfmark: C.194.c.16. ]

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2020-06-24

John Nash, the architect and city planner, responsible for many areas of central London, died 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

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2020-05-13

Thanks everyone and bye from for now. We look forward to chatting to you again soon. Stay well.
Harley MS 3567, f. 149

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2020-05-01

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

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2020-04-01

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.

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2020-04-01

Discover many images from our curious collections from home. https://t.co/kR3KBwsjkR Here is a charming of Bermondsey near the in early 19th century developing London. Add MS 36489 A, f.108

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2020-03-16

Illustrator John Tenniel was born 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) https://t.co/RbeAyr5GDI

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2020-02-28

The first English Parliament called in 1265 by Simon de
Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (c. 1208–1265) reformer, in the reign
of Henry III. Drawing of the Battle of Evesham and death of
Simon de Montfort, Cotton MS Nero D. II, f.177 https://t.co/4GmGL5sV7b

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2020-01-20

Welcome to the birth flower this month is the Chrysanthemum. The images below are from 'The Chrysanthemum, its History and Culture' by J. Andrews, 1865 (shelfmark 7055.dd.22) which can be viewed online here - https://t.co/XLuKAWpq6j

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2019-11-01