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From our collection of prints by illustrator Frederick Crosby comes this scene from the 1935 German Grand Prix showing Nuvolari (in the Alfa Romeo) overtaking von Brauchitch (in the Mercedes). View more illustrations here: https://t.co/IWIKealm3S

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2020-04-15

plays a big part in the lives of our pupils and football has a long history and tradition at the School.

Within our collection are many team photos throughout the schools’ history.

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2020-04-15

Today for the theme of we bring you an 1840s image of dragonflies from the wonderful series The Naturalist's Library by Sir William Jardine.

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We hold some beautiful old maps & plans illustrating the natural in our archives. This one, of Sheffield Park, depicts the lake, deer park and wooded areas. From a book of maps by Edward Wakefield, 1816 (ACC 10528/1)

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2020-04-14

Missed our 2018 panel with on French & Boutet de Monvel’s "Jeanne d’Arc"?
Hear Nora Heimann (), (), Elizabeth Emery (), & more: https://t.co/Df4JtmO3VX.

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2020-04-14

These strawberries in various stages of ripeness have us looking forward to summer already. The entire book of fruit and flower series images from Darrow and Brothers is full of luscious looking plates.

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2020-04-11

Day 9 - Exploring the wonderful watercolour landscape drawings of Mary Jane Hancock (1810-1896) today - Derwent Valley, Tynemouth & Jesmond Dene

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2020-04-09

day 9: holds some marvellous original artwork from the WWII "Careless Talk Costs Lives" campaign. Here are just a few. [📁INF 3/272, INF 3/271, INF 3/262, INF 3/275]

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2020-04-09

We don't keep - we aim for but here's a woodblock print of the execution (1855) of members of the Small Sword Society, (offshoot of secret societies like the Society of Heaven (or the Triad) and Earth and the White Lotus Sect)

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2020-04-09

These aquatints and etchings from George III's collection are hand-coloured and painted with varnish to produce transparencies, designed to be seen held up to a light.
https://t.co/qRPpfPd4vg

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2020-04-08

Day 7 of 'Famous archives'

The dodo is an iconic specimen , but it is believed that Lewis Carroll, author of 'Alice's Adventure's in Wonderland,' was actually inspired by Jan Savery's 1651 painting of the infamous extinct species displayed in the Museum

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2020-04-07

This wall painting, depicting parts of the story of David and Goliath, was revealed in 1852 under whitewash at the Minster Church of St Nicholas, Great Yarmouth. Watercolour from Dawson Turner's collection : https://t.co/XDVVojqQ9M

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2020-04-05

(5) Lenski’s collection provides a wonderful opportunity for scholars, students, and writers to study her works, including changes between handwritten, typed, edited, and published versions. Her illustrations have notes about layout and size.

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2020-04-05

Day 3 of is
Join us for a wander in Drumlanrig Flower Garden, with this gorgeous manuscript plan of 1848.
https://t.co/be3zwFReu7

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2020-04-03

Day 2 . How to choose, we have so many? How about these watercolour images from William Lloyd's diaries https://t.co/c4JT2e4ZDu

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2020-04-02

Another is this delicately drawn lady. She’s from a sketchbook with drawings and paintings by various students from around a century ago, including Elizabeth Mary Watt NMC/1528 https://t.co/htMpXNL06A

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2020-04-02

Training to be an anchorite c1920s.

Our , the witty poems and cartoons by former St Paul's college student William A Freeman.

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2020-04-02

This 16th-century Greek manuscript features a wide range of animal illustrations. Which one is your favourite?

https://t.co/AA9ljTQyyw (Burney MS 97)

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2020-04-02

day 2! Our changes daily (sometimes hourly), but the current fave is this interloper's eye view of Bermondsey boxmakers in 1909 (complete with ranks of glaring women solderers)

You can find out more about the image at https://t.co/OECL2PheWE

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2020-04-02

They widen our horizons. Explore how images have shaped our view of the world from Roman antiquity to the modern age at https://t.co/QggKrmNqFz, over 120 articles by emerging and established experts and over 700 prints, drawings, books, and maps.

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