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Much of our art collection is now digitised and sits on the brilliant https://t.co/t6n6r7Otfa. Art UK is an amazing resource which allows you to explore art collections across the UK.
(pictured: Circe by J. Waterhouse)

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2019-08-22

1909: women stop work & eyeball the photographer

In the soldering section of a tin box factory (likely to be Peek Freans)

More on the often dangerous work of tin box makers in our 'sweated trades' digitised collection https://t.co/OECL2OZE56

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2019-08-20

What do a kayak and igloo have in common? Both words are derived from languages (ᖃᔭᖅ and ᐃᒡᓗ in syllabics).

Can you think of more examples? Bonus points for illustrating with digitised items!
https://t.co/rKTnafatPH
https://t.co/qmUaTmLRz3

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2019-07-26

To make this high resolution estimate of the ancestral snake, digitised ~1000 landmarks on over 180 skulls of living and extinct snakes, lizards, and their close relatives to analyse how the shape of the skull has evolved over 200 million years

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2019-07-16

Digitised my Popuri doodle! 🌸✨

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2019-07-15

It’s still

These spectacular are from Férussac & D’Orbigny’s ‘Histoire naturelle: generale et particuliere des cephalopodes’ (1835)

copy was digitised by for last year —> https://t.co/ESbAIsI12V

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2019-06-26

Vases, finneals, garden edging tiles and toilet bowls from Uriah Clark's Terra-Cotta Pottery Works at From his brochure c1885, digitised and available to view at The Keep

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2019-06-21

Feeling fruity and ready for the weekend!

Another weird and wonderful creature from Seba’s ‘Thesaurus’ (1734-1765)

copy digitised by for 👉🏼 https://t.co/Gxf6fGt3f6

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2019-06-13

This is a new one for me - beautiful illustrations painted on fig leaves.

These two manuscripts will soon be digitised as part of the project
Or 8855 & Add ms 11746

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2019-06-12

"Slap bang. Here we are again!"

More documents digitised & uploaded! - you can now explore conditions for laundry workers in the early 20th century at https://t.co/tsxfQxpkyo

Featuring unexpected use of childhood slang & a case of malaria

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2019-05-23

The 1st scientific description of the Mirror Dory Zenopsis nebulosus (Temminck & Schlegel 1845).
https://t.co/u0MyzEjmwu (digitised for by )

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2019-04-30

Some leafy initials for - all and newly added to the website

Cotton MS Faustina A V https://t.co/WEXvvevJVn
Add MS 18298 https://t.co/mqRdMVGS3W
Add MS 37517 https://t.co/RjNw7q9Scx

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2019-03-29

Spectacular cephalopods from MM. de Férussac & Alcide D'Orbigny's 1835 "Histoire naturelle: generale et particuliere des cephalopodes acetabuliferes vivants et fossiles" digitised for by . cc https://t.co/GQAwXowRWG

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2019-02-27

Several of the manuscripts in our Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms exhibition were digitised and described as part of our partnership with , sponsored by The Polonsky Foundation.

You can read more about them here (go on, we dare you):

https://t.co/rYZcxwBylj

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2019-02-12

Mylodon darwinii joins the rest of the Darwin fossil mammal collection that have been digitised including the Toxodon and Megatherium visit https://t.co/gxyNfMhIhS to find out more this

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2019-02-12

Portrait of with....herself. I drew this with my digitised blood (I didn’t) ((I should’ve ))

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2019-02-04

John Lewin's "The Birds of New South Wales" (1813) is the 1st illustrated book published in Australia. We have digitised the extremely rare 3rd (1822) & 4th (1838) editions of this momentous work from 's rare book collection: https://t.co/96N0TYR8cM

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2019-01-02

Digitised another drawing, this time it's my boyfriend's, ^.^
Traditional sketch is done by him, (though he's said he's used references, I'm unsure who's) and i've inked and coloured it as his sona!

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2018-12-25

We have just digitised the final volume of Gregory Mathews "The Birds of Australia". All 12 volumes of this monumental publication (1910-27) are now freely available online (volumes 11&12 are from 's rare book collection) https://t.co/edoolxaQn5

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2018-12-21