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Of all the weird & wonderful things in government archives this must be one of the quirkiest: an underwater wedding scene showing a seahorse marrying a
📂 INF 3/1017 https://t.co/zYHLfP17FZ

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2020-05-20

Honourable mention also goes to Smoker, used as a sniffer dog on the building site of New Scotland Yard during the Whitehall Mystery of 1888. (5/n)

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2020-05-18

B is for Busy Beavers on Herman Moll's 1715 map of British colonial territory in North America.
📂 WO 78/419/8 https://t.co/5CfHSVWkyc

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2020-05-18

This 2007 prescient cartoon by from 's collection highlights the climate crisis. The cartoonist & author's work is our next top 10 resource https://t.co/cOKoZ7E6UV

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2020-04-15

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

(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

For this weeks here is a lovely sketch that was probably used for teaching purposes. It's based on specimens collected by Lyell & figured by Bunbury. Miller illustrated the published text....but these are very much 🔍🎨🌿

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2020-04-04

The poster features May Wirth, one of the most famous equestrian circus performers of her day. Her act highlighted her ability to do somersaults forwards and backwards on a running horse.

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2020-03-31

Found in the archive: drawings made when planning new galleries for the Natural Sciences collections in the 1960s/1970s.

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2020-03-12

That gaze showcases quite the Pictured here is the famous circus performer Tom Thumb with his family. The image shows a detail from a lithograph on a cabinet card mount.

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2020-02-08

equals another gem for you: Add Mss 28784 - a 1631 map of Cuckfield, Lindfield and Wivelsfield - is beautifully detailed, including an acorn & rose border, open books with readable text, & the pedigree of the Hardham family going back 5 generations.

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2020-01-27

This diseased larynx drawn by Neil Stewart in 1852 is part of an incredible series of watercolours of various parts of the body. The medical comments are by pathologist William Tennant Gairdner.

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2019-12-01

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

Our post for is a challenge from our Baldwin Family Papers. Can you decode the message from Rudyard Kipling to his Uncle, Edward Poynter? Sent in 1870, this postcard is written as a mysterious picture code. https://t.co/B3W8GisPl2

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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

James Henry Pullen, ‘idiot savant’ resident at Earlswood Asylum was obsessed with ships and wore an Admiral’s outfit. His artistic legacy includes this sketch of a fantastical ship design, 1862-5 (6817/3/6/2)

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2019-11-28