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Apurva Srihari, Seed Fabric: The Eternal Value of an Ephemeral Cloth, 2019 - 2020. UAL Art Collection. © the artist

From the curated 'Sustainability' digital collection.

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2021-11-23

Today's theme is In a recent blog archivist Max discusses the importance of digital preservation & details some of the challenges we continue to face: https://t.co/sDG4eIfcBn

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2021-11-23

1695 John Bevis was born in In 1731 he discovered the Crab Nebula & in 1737 observed Venus eclipsing Mercury, the only recorded observation of one planet eclipsing another. This pic is from his star atlas Uranographia Britannica of 1750

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2021-11-10

Slingshot may not be in the but we think waitstaff are This sporting way of making cocktails was created by for Lilac Hedges greeting cards.

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2021-08-06

Today is to celebrate this day here is a photograph from the Museum's photographic archive showing the West Lulworth Coast Guards taken outside the Coast Guard Cottages in 1860

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2021-08-04

1919 a national day of peace was held to mark the end of World War 1. Court hosted a children's sports day & refreshments. In 2019 the event was recreated as part of centenary celebrations. Here's the court on a non-festival day, c.1905

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2021-07-19

1811 architect George Gilbert Scott was born. His works include Savernake Hospital (1871–2) & Christ Church He also restored the Trinity Chapel & choir stalls of to how they looked pre-James Wyatt's alterations

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2021-07-13

We're continuing our theme with this image of a William Baird & Co canal barge at Townhead, Glasgow, unloading pig iron in c. 1900. A general cargo was taken on the return journey to Gartsherrie. W. Rogan of Dundyvan Road is holding the horse.

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2021-05-11

Here's a cautionary transport-themed tale for a Friday morning. Back in the days of stagecoaches a postillion rider drowned at after he fell into the river riding over the bumpy bridge. This statue was placed in his honour, complete with coaching horn

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2021-05-07

Day 27 of is The William Wallace Papers (no, not that William Wallace) include patient catalogues, illustrations and published material relating to Wallace’s career and study of skin diseases: https://t.co/5GjlPtqZ4S

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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

"The materials and methods of hand-colouring zoological illustrations", 1000s were employed over 2 centuries. Paper by C.E. Jackson in our journal 'Archives of Natural History': https://t.co/ZEyuzV0gmu
Free access for members

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2021-03-10

1870 architect Harold Brakspear was born. His restoration work included & the east front of the abbey at plus many churches such as St Michael's He lived for many years in

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2021-03-10

North again over the & we pass 2 white horses carved into the chalk. Don't be fooled, these are more recent additions to the landscape. The horse (left) was created in 1838 & the horse (3 miles away) followed in 1864.

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2021-02-23

Beautiful engravings from "Select Specimens Of Natural History, Collected In Travels To Discover The Source Of The Nile, Egypt, Arabia, Abyssinia and Nubia" by Scottish explorer, travel writer & draughtman James Bruce (1790). https://t.co/Ja9mlIgGLg

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2021-02-10

Found a 17th century Dorset map held within the online catalog, could not resist embedding the image into the library finding aid. https://t.co/ZX6k49Uyc9

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2021-02-04

Happy Hope you're celebrating appropriately.
Here's a Cheese Party 1850 style, the opening of the Great Cheese Market, as depicted in The Illustrated London News.

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2021-01-20

opened its doors to the public in 1759. Here’s its 1st home, Montagu House - its gatehouse, a view of its painted ceilings, and the layout of the gardens, which opened to the public in 1756.

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2021-01-15

Next on our tour it's Back Avon Bridge. This flimsy wooden crossing stood at the end of River Street near where Lovers Walk now stands. It led to an island called The Ham. It was regularly lost due to floods & erosion, the final time being in 1927

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2020-12-28