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For the last of the
(he’s in there somewhere?) &

‘What I Saw After Eating my Xmas Pudding’
Alfred Crowquill, London Society Xmas No. 1867

Nadolig Llawen! Merry Christmas!

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2020-12-25

Today's theme is Reindeer antlers were found in a peat bog in Rousay in the 1930s. They were a size larger than any previously recorded from Scotland. So reindeer were in Orkney in prehistoric times. Ref: PSAS 1935-6 Vol20

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2020-12-19

‘The Laplander's Song’ illus. by Johann Baptiste Zwecker, poem by Fans Michael Franzen published in Good Words, 1867. “As a wild reindeer with a tame one is paired, So am I bound, O maiden, to thee; With a cataract’s strength Thou conquerest me.” Ecky pecky

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2020-12-19

No sign of in our collections but we've got prancing deer instead. This chromolithograph by Maurice Pillard Verneuil comes from L'animal dans la decoration (The animal in decoration), 1897 https://t.co/7ujWpODiL7

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2020-12-19

For 'The Good Samaritan' 1863, from John Everett Millais' The Parables of Our Lord series published in Good Words, 1864.

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2020-12-18

In 1917 Vesta Tilley (Worcester born Music Hall star) gave a Grafonola (record player) and records of her singing, as a Christmas present to a Military Hospital. They sent this letter of thanks to her, which we kept in her scrapbook

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2020-12-17

Victorian botanist Margaret Rebecca Dickinson's watercolour of a Holly branch. Gorgeous! Archive

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2020-12-17

There are so many beautiful examples of paper in our collections, it would be great if we could make them into wrapping paper!

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2020-12-15

A warm fire is the perfect place to gather for a story.

This illustration is from our copy of Little Dorritt by Charles Dickens.

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2020-12-07

We love this evocative 1930s photograph of nurses carol singing (?) by lamplight on the Grand Staircase in the North Wing of !

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2020-12-05

For the some desolate window 'The Toy Shop', illustration by Frederick Gilbert in London Society Xmas Number, 1870.

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2020-12-04

For a falling or two in the angry heavens of Hans Brosamer's Apocalypse, woodcut, c.1550. (Over to the left, by the evil moon.)
In Collections.

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2020-12-03

A traditional staff kids Christmas party at St. Ambrose Hall, Westbourne in 1935! Not sure if any were but there is nothing better than a good old sing song at a party.

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2019-12-03

We've opened our 2019 in a flurry to find this snowy view over Voe of Dale with Shetland ponies

Painted by Muriel Helen Dawson, her inscription reads '1st week Dec '61 from the porch'

This collection was bequeathed
https://t.co/G1tnkjY2Me❄️

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2019-12-01

A very cute delivery from Cordelia Oliver in this card from the 1950s. Image courtesy of the Cordelia and George Oliver Archive (DC 066/3/2/2/2)

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2018-12-05

Engraving entitled 'Marons Rotia' or Roast Chestnuts


A Highland soldier in Paris 1816 - the kilt held a great fascination for the French & print sellers frequently used puns about the wearers' anatomy


https://t.co/RBMM8s0cqt

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2018-12-02