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We have reached 5000 followers on twitter! Thanks for following over the last 4 yrs so we can share stories about digitisation with you. To mark the occasion we thought we would share how long it take us to digitise our audience if they were different types of specimens…

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2019-09-09

After my shock discovery last week that Harry Lime's cat in THE THIRD MAN was played by 3 cats, now I discover that there was a SECOND DOG! Baron Kurtz's dog seems to have had its very own stand-in (or friend). Evidence thanks to newly digitised stills from National Archive

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2019-09-09

Had to digitise my sketches from last night :D

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2019-09-06

The mysterious, illustrated Voynich manuscript (ca.1401-1599) is written in a language or code that language experts & cryptographers have failed to decipher. The plants drawn in it are equally mysterious Digitised here: https://t.co/Ddwa0GC8RU

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2019-09-05

Newly digitised from the archive. From a Mod/Scooterist weekend in Scarborough at Easter 1998. Film, obviously!

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2019-08-30

I digitised that little sketch I did! I’ve missed drawing Ruby 😿

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2019-08-27

Much of our art collection is now digitised and sits on the brilliant https://t.co/t6n6r7Otfa. Art UK is an amazing resource which allows you to explore art collections across the UK.
(pictured: Circe by J. Waterhouse)

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2019-08-22

1909: women stop work & eyeball the photographer

In the soldering section of a tin box factory (likely to be Peek Freans)

More on the often dangerous work of tin box makers in our 'sweated trades' digitised collection https://t.co/OECL2OZE56

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2019-08-20

Never-before digitised negative, New York, 1997. This negative has been in a box for 22 years.

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2019-08-10

To celebrate here is one of Australia's beautiful native cats: the Eastern Quoll. Illustrated by A. Prévost in Freycinet's "Voyage autour du monde" (1824). https://t.co/lFhJmUhFlZ (digitised for by )

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2019-08-08

It's been a week since and I've finally got myself together enough for this tribute to a wonderful weekend.

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2019-07-27

What do a kayak and igloo have in common? Both words are derived from languages (ᖃᔭᖅ and ᐃᒡᓗ in syllabics).

Can you think of more examples? Bonus points for illustrating with digitised items!
https://t.co/rKTnafatPH
https://t.co/qmUaTmLRz3

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2019-07-25

Another 19th century English publication from the collection - this time and online
'A Peep at the Esquimaux; or, scenes on the ice. To which is annexed, a Polar Pastoral [in verse], with forty coloured plates...By a Lady'
https://t.co/uAvQ1is6Z8

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2019-07-23

To make this high resolution estimate of the ancestral snake, digitised ~1000 landmarks on over 180 skulls of living and extinct snakes, lizards, and their close relatives to analyse how the shape of the skull has evolved over 200 million years

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2019-07-16

Digitised my Popuri doodle! 🌸✨

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2019-07-15

It’s still

These spectacular are from Férussac & D’Orbigny’s ‘Histoire naturelle: generale et particuliere des cephalopodes’ (1835)

copy was digitised by for last year —> https://t.co/ESbAIsI12V

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2019-06-26

The spectacular illustrations of the spectacular "Echinoderms from Australia" (1938) digitised for by .
https://t.co/RWBB1D4EHH

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2019-06-22

Vases, finneals, garden edging tiles and toilet bowls from Uriah Clark's Terra-Cotta Pottery Works at From his brochure c1885, digitised and available to view at The Keep

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2019-06-21

Australian parrots are among the most colourful birds in the world. But their eggs? This is the least colourful plate in AJ North's 1889 "Nests & eggs of birds found breeding in Australia" https://t.co/IKWPb1aX6y (digitised for by )

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2019-06-20