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(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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2019-04-30

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

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2019-04-25

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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2019-04-25

The of the early 1900s is strongly represented in these wonderful illustrations from our collections. Muted colours and very large hats galore.

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2019-04-25

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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2019-04-25

""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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2019-04-25

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

https://t.co/EUH7laQmiU

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2019-04-25

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