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On Valentine's Day how can you communicate your without words? Try the "Tulips (red) - Declaration of Love" or the "Stamp tilted right - A Kiss". Mary Beck from received these postcards in 1905 and 1908.

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2020-02-14

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 photograph is part of a series 'Christmas with the Trawlers' showing members of the Escort Trawler HMS Turquoise preparing for Christmas onboard ship 1943
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2019-12-20

To enable overseas soldiers to vote (July 1945), the swung into action to deliver forty tons(!) of ballot papers overseas then back to the UK
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2019-12-13

Valérie Belin's Reflection series took inspiration from Worsinger Albums Photography Centre

Worsinger Window Service; New York firm who photographed shop windows & interiors, these albums document their work


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2019-12-06

An early 17th century tooth-drawer performing an extraction, with a spectator clutching the patient’s wrist. Dental instruments hang on the wall of this dark cellar, with the assistant holding today's

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2019-12-05

In 1849 Thomas Layton presented to the Natural History Museum fossil bones of oxen and bear, together with numerous antlers. The specimens were found during the excavation of the cutting at Station. https://t.co/DDJsPlDo8k

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2019-12-01

For today's final post, what could be more than the Wild West?! This is one of the performers who visited the Alexandra Hospital for Children with Hip Disease c1950 to entertain the patients

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2019-12-01

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

Womens’ voices haven’t always been heard. Sylvia Pankhurst requested admission to the Reading Room in 1908, wishing to look at Govt papers relating to the employment of women. This was addressed by trustees in 1920s

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2019-11-30

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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2019-11-29

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

The imprisonment of The Suffragettes brought attention & reform to women's prisons, leading to abolishment of hard labour and flogging

These images from show prison downtime of games and reading

Images: Hall Hill & Holloway

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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

We can’t help feeling that Mr Edward Stretton, sexton at parish church in 1893, would have been a mysterious and rather unnerving sight in the graveyard! (9752/1/2/1)

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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