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@durhamcathedral All God's creatures.
Hedgehog, rabbit, mole, fox, seal, crow, gull and a little spider hiding in the corner.
Details from the St Aidan altar @durhamcathedral.
#SaintsAndTheirAnimals
#AnimalsInChurches
#AnimalsInChurchesHour
What has a spine but no bones?
A book.
#UKPunDay #LibraryTwitter
Hello new followers! *waves cheerily*
Thank you for supporting our independent historic library. We tweet rare books & manuscripts, with smatterings of Cathedral life on a World Heritage Site.
It’s a grey day in Durham, but we have cyclamen growing outside our office window.😍
@RHUL_Library @natlibscot @BLprintheritage @bodleianlibs @LivUniLibrary @OrkneyLibrary @BtfdLibrary Beelzebub has a devil put aside....
#LibraryBohemianRhapsody
@RHUL_Library @HistLibForum @bodleianlibs @theULSpecColl @natlibscot @OrkneyLibrary @BLprintheritage @durhamcathedral We ate the plums. But we still have figs.
@durhamcathedral #OldRockDay
'Glory be to God for dappled things' - Gerard Manley Hopkins
We love the pied beauty of the sandstone in the south quire aisle of @durhamcathedral. 😍
Built of local sandstone, the foundation stone of this great Romanesque Cathedral was laid on 11 August 1093.
Today is the #WinterSolstice.
Dark skies of the arctic circle from John Ross's 'Narrative of the 2nd Voyage in Search of the Northwest Passage', 1835.
Only 89 days until Spring Equinox on 20 March!
#RareBooks #Winter
For the 19th day of #LibraryAdvent, a reindeer & 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?
#RareBooks