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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

Feeling fruity and ready for the weekend!

Another weird and wonderful creature from Seba’s ‘Thesaurus’ (1734-1765)

copy digitised by for 👉🏼 https://t.co/Gxf6fGt3f6

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2019-06-13

Newly digitised portraits of Dorothy Dandridge - part of shoot to promote the release of CARMEN JONES (1954) - from National Archive. Film shows 13/6 https://t.co/0I75OkiapY

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2019-06-13

This is a new one for me - beautiful illustrations painted on fig leaves.

These two manuscripts will soon be digitised as part of the project
Or 8855 & Add ms 11746

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2019-06-12

Prince of Wales decided to remodel Brighton Pavilion & commissioned to produce Red Book showing it redone in oriental style. have digitised book https://t.co/ebXfKQFTLH ’s designs weren’t used & eventually was commissioned

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2019-06-03

🧐Sksshhhhhh - that's what you would hear if you were the one digitising this map! (Instead our Specialist Digital Production Operator gets to have all the fun.)

Read the latest blog post on how we the library's
https://t.co/nWGgVPONpp

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2019-05-31

"Slap bang. Here we are again!"

More documents digitised & uploaded! - you can now explore conditions for laundry workers in the early 20th century at https://t.co/tsxfQxpkyo

Featuring unexpected use of childhood slang & a case of malaria

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2019-05-23

Hip hip hooray, it’s 🐢

By sheer coincidence I just got this beast of a tome out for some behind the scenes tours tonight

Seba’s ‘Thesaurus’ was digitised by for 👉🏼 https://t.co/x0hwqgttlE

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2019-05-23

Occasionally we get critter-cised for being too focussed on the feathered & furred, so here's something hairy for a change: Tarantula from "A manual for the study of insects" (1923), digitised for by https://t.co/DXDABTk2Mv

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2019-05-14

Cuban Botany Manuscript Lost for 190 Years, Now found and digitised. Just look at the pages! They're stunning! https://t.co/v8ISzdS52h

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2019-05-11

The Pacific Baza was described by Gould in 1838 (as Lepidogenys subcristatus) & beautifully illustrated by Elizabeth Gould. https://t.co/sLgvQ5B8Gn (digitised for by )

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2019-05-04

The 1st scientific description of the Mirror Dory Zenopsis nebulosus (Temminck & Schlegel 1845).
https://t.co/u0MyzEjmwu (digitised for by )

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2019-04-29

Just one of the beautiful illustrations from "The natural history of the Tineina" (1855) by HT Stainton & illustrated by EW Robinson. Digitised for by https://t.co/axSEDfl1Ml

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2019-04-24

Oh hey I redraw another old drawings X3

One of my fav tbh so I decided to digitise it X3

For

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2019-04-20

The medical drawings used in our Twitter campaign were conserved and digitised in a collaboration between UCD Archives and of , funded by and . We are still interested in your feedback! Please contact us here.

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2019-04-10

Today's divides the books of Genesis and Exodus in a 14th century Pentateuch from Germany. Add MS 19776, f.28v. Fully digitised here: https://t.co/lmwUk7SX33

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2019-04-01

Some leafy initials for - all and newly added to the website

Cotton MS Faustina A V https://t.co/WEXvvevJVn
Add MS 18298 https://t.co/mqRdMVGS3W
Add MS 37517 https://t.co/RjNw7q9Scx

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2019-03-29

A quick cartoony Umbra I decided to digitise. Still getting used to drawing her this way for my final year film

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2019-03-27

Spectacular cephalopods from MM. de Férussac & Alcide D'Orbigny's 1835 "Histoire naturelle: generale et particuliere des cephalopodes acetabuliferes vivants et fossiles" digitised for by . cc https://t.co/GQAwXowRWG

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2019-02-27

On Digitiser today, a tribute to Roger Tissyman, the artist responsible for one of the most iconic game covers of all time: Jet Set Willy! https://t.co/WugDbRGVu2

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2019-02-19