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‘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



When not on the hop, this tinplate reindeer resides and was manufactured between 1975 & 1979

If wound up, the reindeer will make a dash for it, hopping along on its legs which are connected to an internal mechanism.

https://t.co/JFLsHjM71D

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2019-12-18

"Giddy-up, giddy-up, giddy-up, let's go". This impressive toy horse and cart is a fitting carriage to transport imaginative young children to a "wintry fairy land". The toy cart was used as a prop to amuse children in a local photographer's studio.#ArchiveAdventCalendar

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2019-12-12

Behind today's door we have a These images show Jess Cattanach next to her peat fire in a cottage in Whigginton, Glenesk.

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2019-12-10

theme is Coal. In 1598 Haddington was destroyed by fire. To stop this happening again, the Town Crier proclaimed the poem 'Coal and Candle' through the streets every night for the next 250 yrs to remind people to put out their flames.

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2019-12-08

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

Christmas 1920 at Whitehaven workhouse. This scene is from the nursery. Note the Christmas tree and the ivy hanging off the ceiling in an attempt to make it festive. We are intrigued by the figure in the doorway. Any ideas anyone?

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2018-12-16