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shop window displays and illustration as recorded by Turners Visuals Ltd of including shoes made from the hides of deer.

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has a long history, home to companies such as Cannocks and Loretta Bloom. Read more in this history of Limerick industries, trade and commerce, ed by David Lee and Debbie Jacobs, published by in 2003

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Caricatures of parachutes and ballooning from Tissandier's Histoire des ballons et des aeronautes celebres 1783-1800 published 1887 https://t.co/I3eodbW6hN

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""Rational" or ridiculous?"

Two opposing views on - mockery from magazine 'Fun' & marketing opportunity for Dunlop Tyres

(both images from https://t.co/2yZomhiTGW)

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Stunning designs from Thelma Afford (1908 - 1996), Australian costume designer, theatre performer, and fashion journalist

https://t.co/EUH7laQmiU

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We hold several special collections of maps, including the Marischal collection of 137 maps of Scotland - compiled by Jacobite sympathisers in exile. This is Marischal 71, an 1808 map by Benjamin Smith. https://t.co/Gk6MXWxAqo

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2019-04-20

Day 20, Challenge - Our theatre collection starts in 1907 and continues up the present day. It contains programmes, photographs, tickets, set designs and other documents.

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2019-04-20

All you need is and ;)
Bartholomew's Cordiform globe, from his 1904 Handy Atlas of the British Empire (https://t.co/x4HnpWbJ6r)

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2019-04-18

Of course we can't talk about for without sharing some of our cards. These were sent anonymously by to female customers from 1938 to the mid 1970s. The clues to the sender came from the poems and the shells scattered around the drawings!

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2019-04-18

Work at the intersection of & as our Postgraduate Fellow. Apply by May 1: https://t.co/FPR9JbHoTV.

📷: dedicated to President born 1660.

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2019-04-17

and result. Map of Priory Estate properties in town which inspired this splendid by Beryl Lewis, one of Explore Your Archive 2017: Making History entries!

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2019-04-13

‘Our trainee shares these from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Sir Ronald Ross, about how Doyle urges Ross to study "psychic matters" and how Ross was far too busy c’

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2019-04-12

How could we have missed yesterday's We have just a few (thousands), take your pick. Detail of Blackfriars bridge; Hanois Lighthouse, Guernsey; Dundas Aqueduct, Kennet and Avon canal from George Rennie notebook; locomotive drawing from Mackenzie collection.

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This letter from Arthur Augustine Booth-Clibborn to his father, Arthur Booth-Clibborn, 1902 has the most wonderful little flower drawing.

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Shamelessly appropriating the campaign to share this painting of The White Ox of Nannau, with cowman Sion Dafydd. The ox was slaughtered and roasted to celebrate the 21st birthday of Robert Williames Vaughan in 1824. Now https://t.co/PTdiLq274t

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2019-04-10

- Animals

"British & Foreign Animals, A New Game, Moral, Instructive, and Amusing"

This intriguing game is described as 'designed to allure the minds of youth to an acquaintance with the wonders of nature'

https://t.co/iE8ssOHzmJ

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It might be a bit obvious to show more images of our home at Blandford Square - so instead, here's an archive of building taking place - photographs of the construction of the

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These quirky colour illustrations are certainly a fun way to address an envelope! We hope they brightened up the postman’s day as well as the recipients’.

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Adoption and the work of as seen by a 1948 watercolourist

These sketches (made on the back of wallpaper) are included in the archives of pioneering social worker Dame Eileen Younghusband - https://t.co/G0ji2zKfGy

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‘Julius Caesar: A Record by Ethel Webling’ 1898. Just one of many richly coloured treasures in

For more on Ethel Webling, see this blog by for

https://t.co/ip1cqsZpTA

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