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Chaucer is well known for his fictional works but did you know he also wrote scientific treatises? This is a page from a manuscript dated 1391 on the Astrolabe, written in Middle English rather than Latin. Find out more at https://t.co/kguv311cAf

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2017-11-23

An insight into the work of a food technologist during a visit to a supplier. What do you think about spending a week in a cake factory?!#archivescience

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2017-11-23

Happy day! From the Oliver Messel Archive we have this article on the 'new uses of sugar cane' and a photograph by Messel of the cane being used as a building material!

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2017-11-23

Another gorgeous exhibition running for by is “Beranger’s Ireland: 18th Century watercolours by Gabriel Beranger, c. 1729-1817” Beranger was a Dutch Artist who came to Ireland in 1750 staying until his death https://t.co/DxWt8cVsOO

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2017-11-22

Photographs by John Vickers from the Beau Stratagem, , 1949. Check out those WIGS!!

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2017-11-23

Various depictions of our Regius Keeper between 1845 and 1879, John Hutton Balfour https://t.co/aMWiP4ini0

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2017-11-23

Black and white photograph of the founders and staff of White and Poppy motor engineers. C1890s 174 CTM

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2017-11-23

How is disability represented in our archive? New display to mark Disability History Month. More material to come on our blog

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2017-11-22

Artist Hilda Quick hard at work in this self portrait from . Chosen for for showing more hair than face.

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2017-11-22

A taster of some of our artwork The early green hairy Engraved by S. Watts after an original by Augusta Withers. The Pomological Magazine, 1828.

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2017-11-22

Today's theme is

This Black and White Colobus monkey has some amazing hair!

(From a plate in our 'Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London' by Joseph Smit)

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2017-11-22

It's today in - find all manner of culinary treats from Scottish collections here: https://t.co/AB99sCLbGX

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2017-11-21

themed comic postcard, from an age of fabulous hats, furs and gender stereotypical puns.

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2017-11-21

5. Here is Messel (l) and Rayne (r) discussing the model Messel made of his proposed designs

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2017-11-21

Physicians used the clothing they wore in their portraits to show their mental and social prowess. A turban could display intellectual freedom, while a toga symbolised power https://t.co/eYkyHUWMY6

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2017-11-20

Nice series of drawings showing how the bridges have changed over time

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2016-11-27

You’d be amazed at the variety of our collections! Check out our research guides & catalogue here: https://t.co/k2z9KAMzJm

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2016-11-26

In 1819 the true dandy hipster was cruising on his hobby bike (from / CTC archives)

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2016-11-24