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Our documentation assistant Lucy recently came across some when she was browsing through our images and discovered pieces from our collection in previous homes - can you spot them in the photographs?

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2020-04-22

Here's an This scroll was found in an unmarked box, no catalogue records. It carries imperial seals and we think it might be imperial passes - what do you think??
https://t.co/D1KU5Xkx9C

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2020-04-20

Day 20 of and the theme is

These rubbings are the only record of details of the 10th Duke of Hamilton's Sarcophagus, in which the eccentric Duke's mummified body was interred in 1852 .Read more about the Hamilton's at https://t.co/JPjEVpCqwC

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2020-04-20

We hold many examples of abstract artworks, sometimes what they depict can be an ! What do you see when you look at these examples? Let us know in the comments! See here: https://t.co/x6pLlyT5v4 and here: https://t.co/QdDiOffgZ1 for more info

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2020-04-19

Our previous at Chancery Lane housed the Public Record Office until 1977 when we moved to Kew. The building suffered damage in the Second World War so the documents were moved out of Central London to keep them safe.

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2020-04-18

This year's Olympic games may have been postponed to next summer, but here is a look back at the Olympic Champions of 1908. How many sports can you spot?
📜 = COPY 1/527/202 - Photograph montage of Olympic medal winners

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2020-04-16

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

Exercises we all can do from home, as shown in the Charterhouse 'Greyfriar' magazine of 1927!

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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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2020-04-15

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

Searching for some This portrait of Charterhouse founder, Thomas Sutton, was found hidden behind panelling in one of his manor houses.

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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