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What's behind our door number eleven?

Its an illustration of a man and a giant Christmas pudding with the line 'Christmas Fare Beyond Compare'

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2021-12-11

What's behind our door number ten?

It's a 1953 poster for The Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes Christmas Fare, sending Christmas comforts to the armed forces serving abroad or in the UK.

What holiday comforts do you enjoy each year?
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2021-12-10

A reindeer, the most festive of animals.
This sketch by G.S. Davies accompanies an 1884 article in The Greyfriar on time spent in Norway.

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2021-12-09

What's behind our door number nine?

It's an illustration of Santa Claus on a snowy moonlit rooftop to advertise a shortbread company.

Do you leave Christmas treats out for Father Christmas? (Or eat any yourself?) https://t.co/0cGC5UZZPu

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2021-12-09

Wonderful image from "A Winter in Lapland and Sweden, with various observations relating to Finmark and its inhabitants", by Arthur de Capell Brooke (1827).

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2021-12-09

When you think of there is only one thing that springs to mind - Skiing!

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2021-12-08

What's behind our door number eight?

It's a drawing of a Christmas feast in the reign of King James I and VI.

How does it compare to similar images of the reigns of Henry VII and Queen Anne?
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2021-12-08

Time to start the Christmas From the collection here is an image of some shop assistants waiting for the arrival of customers at the opening of the NAAFI Toy Fair at the Moascar military camp near Ismailia, Egypt

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2021-12-06

What's behind our door number five?

It's a Christmas card design showing in the snow as seen from the Thames. (COPY1/130/127)

Have you had snow recently?
Watch our Autumn & Winter Seasons story with Dani the storyteller: https://t.co/vljv4CnC3v

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2021-12-05

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

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

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

It's that time of year when we yearn to sit snuggled up by a warm fire - this 1830 painting by Carthusian pupil, W D Douglas, features a nice toasty-looking fire in the old Gownboys boarding house at don.

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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

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
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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


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2018-12-02