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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

For today’s some images of the cookery and appliance demonstrations which took place during ⚡️

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2020-04-10

Day 10 of 'Food & drink'

's 1705 copy of ‘Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium’ by Maria Sibylla Merian illustrates the life cycle of insects and includes the plants that would be a source of food to the species. Her favourite was the pineapple.

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The theme for day 10 of is

Each year there is a celebration on our Founders’ Day which involves the Founders’ Feast. Have a look at the type of foods that were eaten at the feast in 1863.

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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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a Fred Lanchester letter mentions secrets in a WW1 profiteering case https://t.co/VtayGSfMey. Secrets are also in potential archive material in buildings, offices, cupboards (inc. uni ones) so get in touch if you have anything! https://t.co/Qjy5j3nZAf

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2020-04-09

Neben offiziellen Durchsuchung führte die auch illegale, konspirative Durchsuchungen durch, bei denen heimlich in Wohnungen oder Büros eingebrochen wurde. Wie hier bei Wolf Biermann: https://t.co/dXV6x9tyIU Mehr dazu: https://t.co/gb9aVnVjvU

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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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Day 8 The Crawford Chinese collection contains this fabulous scroll (Crawford 419) depicting Beijing in 1717, showing people engaged in the Kangxi emperor’s birthday celebrations! Read more here (Page 112): https://t.co/IiXa4SrCBQ

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2020-04-08

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

One of our most would be the collection. We have extensive resources on the SS on our website, inc. original footage, photos, key facts & figures and reports. Available at https://t.co/VDuneidjYV

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Well, on 27 April 1937, King George VI declared the National Maritime Museum open (HSR/V/12). As for the it's named after Sir James Caird, the principal benefactor in the Museum’s founding. His bust sits in our Reading Room.

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2020-04-07

It's a with a twist this week. Can you solve this puzzle using characters from 9 collection items in our most

Check out our Treasures online & see if you can guess which ones feature: https://t.co/XPHNe6I3Oq Clues to follow!

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2020-04-07

Our most are probably those in our Mackintosh Recognised Collection. It includes iconic furniture (MC/F/20), architectural drawings (Windyhill, MC/G/40) & artworks (Gaillardia, MC/G/14) Over 600 images are available at https://t.co/wLs6hV7lu1

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Leonardo da Vinci's notebook , 'a collection without order, drawn from many papers, which I have copied here, hoping to arrange them later each in its place according to the subjects of which they treat' https://t.co/qt4T7PwAoD

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is the Mander & Mitchenson Collection, the result of the lifetime’s work of Raymond Mander (1911 - 1983) and Joe Mitchenson (1911 – 1992) collecting the archives and ephemera of Britain’s theatrical history. Here they are (twice!) in this brilliant...

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2020-04-06

recently acquired the archive of General James Primrose (1819-1892). The archive includes journals & notebooks Primrose kept whilst commanding British Forces in Kandahar (1878-1880), and feature sketches he drew on his journey from Kandahar

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