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Tomorrow will be in the Museum with Archivist showing off some festive treasures
🎅🎄🔍📜 Drop in for any advice you need about caring for your family records too. 11-3pm.

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2019-11-30

Tomorrow I will be in 11-3 with some festive treasures from the Archive - Christmas cards from Svalbard, New Zealand, Russia, Germany and the Isle of Man! Pop in and say hello.

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2019-11-30

Did you know medieval pilgrims brought gifts to St Cuthbert’s Shrine in ?

We have an inventory of gifts dated 1383 which lists a unicorn’s horn & griffin's claw. 🦄

Can you guess what these mysterious objects were?

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2019-11-29

The Archives often take in new material & were recently given this sketch of a name plaque for the Chapel. It’s from 1882 & lines up with sketches we already have but the Chapel doesn’t depict St Peter or use cherubs around the names

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2019-11-29

One of my favourite posters in BT's collection is this unusual view of the UK on its side to show the GPO coastal wireless radio stations chain, essential in 1938 for ship to shore maritime communications. Artist MacDonald (Max) Gill.

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2019-11-28

Joining week with the image from our Edinburgh & Scottish Collection. Newhaven fishwives photographed by David Octavius Hill in 1847 https://t.co/fsmnIREAUH

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2019-11-28

People visiting the today may be surprised to learn what was previously in the space now taken up by the Great Court, including what was there before the Round Reading Room, built in the 1850s.

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2019-11-26

Today's hashtag is ! We love these photos of Education student William J Ireland having fun around campus with his friends! Find out more about his collection here https://t.co/4HlrgtvEfP

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2019-11-25

day 2 This is just too easy! Our hirsute past members James Mansergh, Sir William Anderson, William Henry Preece and George Parker Bidder

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2019-11-24

This oil Igloo Cake (2007) by Annabel Dover is from our Collection. It was part of a wider series in which one small painting was made every day for a year from a that was close to the

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2019-11-24

Does LMA have an extensive collection of cakes?

Well, they don't last very long in the staff tea room! We do however have an extensive collection of cakey businesses, including Lyons, as you can see here.

Explore > https://t.co/5OlGJxhm5l

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2019-11-23

Explore your Archive Arts, Culture and Literature. Drop in to in Barrow Library to see documents telling the artistic, cultural and literary history of the Furness area. Wednesday 27 November 5-7pm. Free. All welcome

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2019-11-15

Here's a few more of Thomas Annan photographs Glasgow extensively in the 1860s from the MacKinnon Collection

These photos show the children in the dark alleyways and washing hanging out to dry



https://t.co/tdfO5qfT3J

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2019-11-08

It’s around 20 years since the Great Court was built. Here’s what the space looked like beforehand, including a drawing of the quadrangle in the 1850s before the building of the Round Reading Room.

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2019-10-04

With you can invite virtually everyone in for a visit to your archive stores!

Share photos of your open stores every day in September with We’ll like and retweet!

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2019-09-05

One of the most frequent misconceptions you've mentioned this month is that archives are dusty!

They aren't!

We come across less than pristine files/volumes every so often. But is it just us or are smoke sponges the most satisfying tools ever?

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2019-05-24

Strangest enquiry this week did George Wilson, the Blackheath Pedestrian, donate his toenails to the Museum in 1815? Here’s an image of him from the collection, but I can’t find any reference to his toenails...thankfully!

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2019-05-10

ship burial was discovered 80 years ago. Here’s a photo of a couple watching a TV show a about the find, which was filmed by in in 1950, the first TV show to be filmed there.

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2019-05-09

Day 2 of 's is from the archives. Here we have a massive safety pin designed by one of Scotland’s best-loved artists, George Wyllie, in 1996. It now stands in campus! https://t.co/BmkeUzJYNF (T-WYL/2/6)

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2019-04-02

On St David's Day celebrate with a watercolour of a Wild Daffodil by local botanist Margaret Rebecca Dickinson taken at Shotley Bridge, Durham in 1849. https://t.co/BRsFmB6R9q Archive

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2019-03-01