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Today is day 16 of so here's a delightful arctic fox from John Ross's 'Narrative of the 2nd Voyage in Search of the Northwest Passage', 1835.

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2019-12-16

For day 3 of here's a little robin from Eleazer Albin's 'A Natural History of (1738-40). This was the first British work of to feature hand-coloured plates, with over 300 by Albin & his daughter Elizabeth.

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2019-12-03

Did you know medieval pilgrims brought gifts to St Cuthbert’s Shrine in ?

We have an inventory of gifts dated 1383 which lists a unicorn’s horn & griffin's claw. 🦄

Can you guess what these mysterious objects were?

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2019-11-29

Right. We've done the research and you were spot on!

As long as a platypus with tail & as wide as a platypus without tail. 😀

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2019-10-29

In 995 the monks came to Durham. (Here’s the bishop and the cow part of the story!)
Bishop Aldhun had a vision of St Cuthbert, instructing that his body should be taken to 'Dunholme' (hill island), but no one knew where it was...

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2019-03-08

Day 17
The familiar tradition of decking the halls with boughs of holly for winter festivals pre-dates Christmas. Today is the Roman festival of Saturnalia, when Romans would decorate their houses with holly & exchange gifts.

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2018-12-17

Day 11
A & Sami family, from a 1674 English translation of 'The history of Lapland', by Swedish humanist Johannes Schefferus. Did you know the Sami are the northernmost indigenous people of Europe?

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2018-12-11

Day 6
A little robin from Eleazer Albin's 'A Natural History of (1738-40). With over 300 hand-coloured engravings by Albin & his daughter Elizabeth, this was the first British work of to feature hand-coloured plates.

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2018-12-06

Day 4
It was a frosty morning in this morning, so here's a lovely arctic fox from John Ross's 'Narrative of the 2nd Voyage in Search of the Northwest Passage', 1835.

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2018-12-04