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Alfred Swaine Taylor, expert & real-life came to forensics as a jr doc in the and his includes tests for bodily fluids, notes on poisons, witness statements, even fan letters!
https://t.co/JcRr1U1q3Y

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2021-04-27

We have all sorts of items in our collections, but some of the most interesting, are a collection of drawings by former pupil John Leech.

He really was one talented chap!

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2021-04-27

Want to see ghosts everywhere and of any colour? Then we have just the book for you! Despite an ‘apparent disregard of taste and fine art’ Spectropia (1866) promises to make spectres appear in front of your eyes.

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2021-04-26

This marvellous colourwash drawing of 'The Vampire Bat’ was painted c.1820 by John Harrison Scott, whose family were associated with It's captioned, 'It sucks the blood of a human being till he dies, it's in the Act of Pouncing on its prey'!

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2021-04-26

Here's one for the catwalks! Balloon inspired from TISSANDIER, G. Title: Histoire des ballons et des aeronautes celebres 1783.

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2021-04-22

It started with a tweet showing Club Athletico Paulistano X Scottish Wanders, no Velódromo (1914). It made me ask how did football (soccer) supporters experience the sport prior television? Through the radio, through artist impressions, drawings?

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2021-04-21

We could go on! But to finish, I'll leave you with this wonderful volume of pattern designs featuring crane birds 🪶🪶

Tennen hyakkaku (天年百寉): https://t.co/BvxJe72aNM

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2021-04-14

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One of our members has links with Arkleys who gave their collection to . It's digitised!
"offers fascinating glimpse at gender roles, as croquet one of the first games that men & women played together."
https://t.co/jdCLUyb0gJ

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2021-04-14

Who doesn't love knitwear and dogs? Here's Leon Trotsky in a fine sweater with his adoring pooch. We've got other revolutionary sources including a note he wrote to his friend Tom Mann - find all these and more here: https://t.co/Trrqm2BZQy

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2021-04-14

Day 14 🌼

This is a charming collection of sketches with text descriptions of habitats, colours, and blossoms (c.1860s-70s). It was purchased in Japan and given to the University in 1882. 🌸

(MS 2004)

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2021-04-14

Edward Tyson was hot on This book of his notes and drawings, containing human and animal life in all its splendour, is a definite contender for

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2021-04-14

Our is the Anvār-i Suhaylī (1570)
This beautiful manuscript is recognized as one of the masterpieces of early Mughal painting
https://t.co/hkRMEXzfFa

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2021-04-14

Francis Sibson created extraordinary drawings. For a few we can piece together their Mary Ann Gathercole died of a lung condition aged 34. Her husband Charles managed to keep their four kids out of the workhouse and keep the family together

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2021-04-13

includes of former staff sports clubs & football team, & the archive from the Ancient Olympic Games exhibition in 1980, but the enquiry suggesting we had the toenails of the Blackheath Pedestrian proved false!

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2021-04-12

This artwork by automotive illustrator Frederick Crosby captures the speed and glamour of early motor racing. It shows a 744 cc Austin in 1938.

Check out more of Crosby's automotive artwork in the gallery here:

🔗https://t.co/2GBlAMPupJ

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2021-04-12

The theme for day 12 of is

These plans for a new ground for Manchester United Football Club in Old Trafford were submitted in 1909. At the first match played at the stadium the following February, it held a crowd of 80,000 people.

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2021-04-12


In April 2020 wrote this blog post:
'A Guide for Students to Our Online Catalogue, Digitised Images and Other Resources'
and it's jolly useful, not just for students...

https://t.co/KgYlAy5j6i

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2021-04-11

There are hundreds of images from our collections waiting to be explored over on CollectionsCaptured, like this one, of the railway arch over Dean Street in Newcastle https://t.co/V6xPGCKzAs

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2021-04-10

We have a growing number of that can be accessed by our users including student registers, HIV and AIDS posters, maps and photographs, more info in this blog: https://t.co/FIJiJUUY0Y

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2021-04-10