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Working hard to get the mail through for the festive season. Cartoon from the 1951 Almanack by Rowland Emett whose first cartoon appeared in PUNCH 1939

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2019-12-20

Working on a book, I can’t help but recall the reading I was lucky enough to absorb. These are four books that fostered
1.Old Rhymes For All Times
2.Brothers Grimm
3.H Christian Anderson
4.Narnia
Barker, R Sheppard, P Baynes

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2019-11-14

Moon Almanack for Sunday, 29 Sept 2019

Waxing, Crescent Moon Age: 0 ¾ days

Moon in Via Combusta

Moon in 18th degree of the Sign Libra, the Balance; also in 25th deg. of the Constellation Virgo, the Virgin.

Moonrise: 7:45 morn. Midheaven: 1:55 eve. Moonset: 8:00 eve.

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2019-09-29

Moon Almanack for 16 Sept 2019

Waning, Gibbous Moon Age: 17 ¼ days

Ascending Node is at 14° Crabba

Moon in 21st degree of the Sign Aries, the Ram; also in 21st deg. of the Constellation Pisces, the Fishes.

Midheaven: 2:33 morn. Moonset: 8:55 morn. Moonrise: 8:49 eve

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2019-09-16

Moon Almanack for Friday, 23 August, 2019

Last Quarter Moon, at 10h. 58m. morning

Moon Void of Course.

Moon in 29th degree of the Sign, and 7th degree of the Constellation of Taurus, the Bull.

Midheaven: 6:46 morn. Moonset: 2:00 eve.

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2019-08-23

'The Ladies Diary or The Woman's Almanack' is an interesting artifact to explore life in the year 1740 - but this one is extra special. It was used 20 years later by the Presbyterian church in Mansfield's Old Meeting House to record baptisms. (RG 4/2486)

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2019-08-23

Moon Almanack for 22 Aug 2019

Waning, Gibbous Moon Age: 21 ½ days

Ascending Node is at 15° Crabba

Moon in 18th degree of the Sign Taurus, the Bull; also in 20th deg. of the Constellation Aries, the Ram.

Midheaven: 6:00 morn. Moonset: 12:58 eve. Moonrise: 11:45 eve

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2019-08-22

Moon Almanack for 21 Aug 2019

Waning, Gibbous Moon Age: 20 ¼ days

Ascending Node is at 15° Crabba

Moon in 5th degree of the Sign Taurus, the Bull; also in 7th deg. of the Constellation Aries, the Ram.

Midheaven: 5:16 morn. Moonset: 11:59 morn. Moonrise: 11:14 eve

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2019-08-21

Moon Almanack for Thursday, 25 July, 2019

Waning, Crescent Moon 22 ¾ days

Ascending Node is at 16° Crabba

Moon in 8th degree of the Sign Taurus, the Bull;also in 10th deg. of the Constellation Aries, the Ram.

Moonrise: 12:40 morn. Midheaven: 7:19 morn. Moonset: 2:08 eve

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2019-07-25

Spring, from Kate Greenaway's 1886 Almanack

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2019-03-20

Kate Greenaway
Spring from the 1883 Almanack

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2019-03-20

21 January Feast of St Agnes
Eclipses are and have been ever looked upon as Ominous to Mankind, as denoting Revolutions of States and Kingdoms, Deaths of Illustrious Persons, Wars, Pestilence, and diverse other Calamities. (Almanack,1752)

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2019-01-21

Sunrise on New Year's Day. An elegy for peace in PUNCH Almanack for 1941.. One of the last pictures by the brilliant artist Pont (Gavin Graham Laidler) painted before his tragic early death at the end of 1940.

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2019-01-01

In the "fortune-hunting" issue of Godfrey's Almanack, we track the bizarre lives of history's most artful rogues.

Our journey takes us from the streets of London to the hinterlands of Siberia: https://t.co/DprzCpEB5D

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2018-07-21

February calendar page taken from ‘Kate Greenaway’s Almanack for 1892′ by Kate Greenaway (1846-1901).
Published by George Routledge & Sons Ltd.
Image and text information courtesy NYPL Digital Collection.
https://t.co/D81iE0ncSd

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2018-02-02

And introducing red in the masthead and border was a big innovation! On the other hand, colour Almanack covers were introduced in the early 1900s...

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2018-01-17

Best wishes for the from PUNCH, with Pont's elegaic vision of the English landscape bathed in the winter sunrise of From PUNCH Almanack for 1941 published in the midst of & of the last of Pont's brilliant work produced before he died in November 1940

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2018-01-02

New on All Things Thomas Carr of dealer in almanacks and... fish! Image via .
https://t.co/8zuBCpJHZE

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2017-10-04

New on All Things Thomas Carr of (1718-1807), dealer in almanacks and... fish!
https://t.co/8zuBCpJHZE

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2017-10-03