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Sir Walter Raleigh, the Elizabethan explorer, courtier and adventurer, died #OnThisDay in 1618. The Library holds the notebook which he wrote while he was held prisoner at the Tower of London, which includes a number of detailed maps: https://t.co/AytVn4taXE

The various growing stages of the cashew apple and nut, depicted all at the same time in an engraving by James Forbes from 1813. Forbes was Warehousekeeper of the Factory at Anjengo, #Travancore, and produced numerous works illustrating the landscape and nature of #SouthIndia.

Mary Stuart was crowned Queen of Scotland at Stirling Castle #OTD in 1543. This image is taken from our copy of L.S. Buckingham’s Memoirs of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland (1844) (shelfmark 601.e.26): https://t.co/zjp5bjfmE1

On #WorldElephantDay here's a lovely illustration from Travels in Africa in the years 1875-78, c1890 (shelfmark 010096.i.59). Find more on our BL FLickr account with 1M+ images from our printed collections free to use as you wish - https://t.co/LdFPXlznWn

#OTD 1900 - public train services began on the London Underground's Central Line. Here is the British Museum station under construction in 1898 https://t.co/FkvWTxx3xm @centralline

Interested in 19th century ephemera? A fascinating collection created by the conjuror and ventriloquist Henry Evans (Evanion) is available to view online via the Evanion Catalogue - https://t.co/GXotbpPlQF

Happy #SummerSolstice! Here is a 16th c. painting of #Stonehenge and Two Ancient Britons, by Lucas De Heere, from @britishlibrary manuscript Add MS 28330 (folios 36r and 8v). You can browse the whole manuscript in our Digitized Manuscripts page here: https://t.co/3Zx8WZe5lJ

With the Women’s World Cup starting today. Find out all you need
to know about the Women’s game searching our e-books online https://t.co/1QqeP5rg1N available to Readers using the Library's PC's in our Reading Rooms. Image, Daily Graphic, 25th March 1895 https://t.co/iWfmQldejC

Do you use the British Library Flickr? You can search thousands of images like this from our collection. 'The Fashionable Lover", 1774, is from our Fashion & Costumes album. #FashionFriday https://t.co/t71Arv9gMV

Want to know more about Victorian women’s lives? Diaries can be useful resources see some references in Humanities 1 on the open shelves under history at shelfmark HLR 920.02