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A real highlight are Henry Clifton Sorby's lantern slides: /9
https://t.co/14dftG9ibg
Rev Robinson Duckworth was the other person present at the boat trip on the 4th of July 1862 when the tale of Alice's Adventures Under-Ground was first told. He later became Chaplain to Queen Victoria. (MSS in this post are in @britishlibrary & @TheRosenbach)
Excited that an article about our "Insects Through the Looking-Glass" exhibition project will appear in the next @BSHSViewpoint(we were awarded the BSHS Outreach&Engagement grant for it) Stay tuned! @CTJeffs @insectweek @RoyEntSoc #envhums #envhist #litsci
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Halloween idea (but also reality): Zombie Brexit #BrexitExtension
(Courtesy of @TheNewEuropean)
@MadeleinaKay The guys from @TheNewEuropean did those phenomenal Brexit Halloween masks, just saying. #Brexit #halloween2019
Lewis Carroll's Alice again being evoked to make sense of #Brexit by @fotoole, interpreting the Sun title page after the #MeaningfulVote "a lot of frantically anarchic running overseen by a defunct creature, the Brextinct dodo." - Not the first May Dodo! https://t.co/wHVVvrgRO6
But not only Christmas tree ornaments seem to have had a life of their own - the Victorian imagination was apparently equally fascinated with what went on in the lives of snowmen (TW: these might give you nightmares forever) #Victorian #Christmas #Snowman /11
But #Victorian Xmas cards also reflected the still relatively new Christmas traditions - which, of course, included now traditional Christmas foods, such as the Christmas Pudding - who seems to be a real character #xmas #traditions #FolkloreThursday /8
But in times of Darwin and popularisation of the natural sciences, exotic and extinct animals made their way not only into public consciousness, but also popular culture & Christmas cards /6 #histsci #scicomm #FolkloreThursday
@ianholmes @CNahaboo @MGLnrd @RoyEntSoc @insectweek @PunchCartoons Or indeed the Frog Hat
#histsci #scicomm #illustration #cartoon @PunchCartoons