# archives exploreyourarchive newzealand unexplained atoz xfiles waterfall mapmonday rafts rescue northshields vintageadvert recruitment ww2 design dundee justforfun dundeeuniculture internationaldogday neolithic bronzeage archive

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2021-06-01


Z is for New ZEALAND.
This beautiful snapshot shows a meeting of the members of Newton corps, 1962.

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2020-11-04

X is for the X-Files - the We can't explain these photographs!

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2020-10-23

We love 😍the gorgeous views of Corra Linn and the Fall of Foyer shown on John Thomson's comparative view of the rivers of Scotland, 1832. W is for in https://t.co/EpwR2mbA6X

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2020-10-14

Let's celebrate letter 'V' with a lovely watercolour of Marsh Valerian (Valeriana dioica) from the Margaret Rebecca Dickinson collection

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2020-10-09

V is for Valletta, capital city of Malta. This map probably dates from the late 1630s / early 1640s & is part of a volume of C17th European town plans.
📁 WO 78/5816, f 255 https://t.co/ADs9CwLFyv

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2020-10-05

This week for the challenge the letter is U, so we thought we would show off our underwear! From our Jenner's archive,these advertisements show examples of of the undergarments used to keep you modest and warm in the 1920s

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2020-09-28

T is for Thames Tunnel, the first successful tunnel to be built under a river. Designed by Sir Marc Isambard Brunel and built 1824-43, it was originally designed to carry carriages, shown by the large circular entrances on these drawings which were never built

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2020-09-23

This week for the letter is S. S is for Society, as our library was started By over 235 years ago! We hold the Society Archives and they contain lots of important Archaeological information (and lots of interesting images too!)

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2020-09-14

R is for and The firm of Linkleters Patent Ship Fittings Co. made travelling on the sea safer with their range of buoyancy apparatus.
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2020-09-11

R is for

We have a large collection of recruitment posters in the collection, including these lithograph posters created by Abram Games, 'Official War Poster Artist', during the Second World War

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2020-09-11

P is for presidential portraits - John Rennie, Sir John Wolfe Barry, Robert Stephenson and Sir John Coode. We probably have the largest collection of portraits of civil engineers in the world, though it is a bit of a niche area.

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2020-08-26

P is for plan. Here are some details from one of our favourite plans. Do you recognise the landmark? 🤔#Justforfun have a guess!

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2020-08-26

P is for Pooches which we celebrate on Here we have Trotsky, sporting some fabulous knitwear, with his beloved mutt. No we don't know their name. (ref https://t.co/m9nBS4FH7X)

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2020-08-26

For this week we are looking at the letter P. Did you know that we hold a collection of paintings? Our collection includes this painting (oil on canvas) of Frank Whittle's development of the jet engine. See more here: https://t.co/AaanA4hxoY

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2020-08-26

P is for pneumatic railway. Long before Hyperloop, the Victorians used pneumatic railways to transfer parcels and later passengers. Examples from The Pneumatic Dispatch by Alfred E Beach, 1868

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2020-08-25

P is for Pilgrimage!
St Cuthbert’s Shrine was a major site of pilgrimage in medieval England.
In 1383 the Shrine Keeper listed the gifts brought by pilgrims: relics, treasures 😍, and exotic objects such as a unicorn’s horn & griffin's claw ... 🦄

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2020-08-24

- 'N' is for lovely, leafy Newland Park. "the most pleasing of Hull's late Victorian middle-class planned developments." Here's the original layout plan of 1877 [C DBHT/9/356] by Wm. Botterill.


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2020-08-12

N is for Neolithic!

The Review of Animal Remains from the and Early of Southern Britain includes a database of 205 animal bone assemblages from 117 Neolithic and Early Bronze Age sites.

https://t.co/eak0xxLgcq (, 2011)

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2020-08-11

This week's letter is N!

We have a number of archives in our collection, including:

Cult, Religion and Pilgrimage. Archaeological Investigations at the Neolithic and Bronze Age Monument complex of Thornborough, North Yorkshire.

https://t.co/F4Sm04R3T5

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2020-08-10