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There are a couple of new collections that have been added to our website, including this lovely 'The Fiddler and the Crocodile' (Butler (Joan) Collection, Butler 050 GOO). & take a look here: https://t.co/43rjpLHcFK

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2019-02-19

This photo from the BM archive shows a couple watching TV in 1950. They’re watching the first ever live TV screening from the Museum featuring the helmet from the Sutton Hoo ship burial, just seen in the picture.

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2018-12-12

Well, okay, couldn't resist a for - I mean, we couldn't, could we? AND you can p-pick up your own Glad Eye Penguin in our shop - don't forget this weekend and our new show

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2018-11-23

Oh look amongst our pilgrims brought gifts to St Cuthbert’s Shrine in . An inventory dated 1383 lists a unicorn’s horn & griffin's claw (narwhal tusk & ibex horn). Sadly lost during the Reformation.

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2018-11-23

Glamorous Messel & friends dine on the liner SS Liberté, 1951.

Sneak preview of our exhibition 'Wake up and Dream - Theatre, Art and Society’', which starts tomorrow https://t.co/5ilgIZzJhg

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2018-11-21

Into with some pages from the travel journal of John Walter (Jack) Lindsay. His studies were interrupted by WWII and he won the Haldane Travel Scholarship in 1950. His journal (DC 032/3) reflects his travels round Europe

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2018-10-15

We've found some autumn hats in our Jenners archive collection. Just right for the increasingly chilly weather, but don't forget a hatpin when it gets blustery!

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2018-09-25

You've seen our Archives Alphabet - now are getting involved in 's Archive Decades campaign in the run up to Starting things off in the are these gorgeous watercolour sketches by Violet McGlashan! (DC 022/1/2)

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2018-09-10