While we're a long way off from Monday night football, we thought it would be fun to show off this 1949 football costume design by Miles White for

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Drawings can teach us a lot about how people in Wales lived in the past. This collection of South Wales characters is by George Delamotte, shows the dress of ordinary people at the beginning of the 19th century. https://t.co/HFmOqVEn4Q

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The archive is stored in the main BM building and some of it relates to the building itself. This shows the building works to repair the Iron Library in 1951 after bomb damage during WWII.

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Where did the Welsh costume come from? It’s mainly associated with Augusta Hall, who designed the costume to include a hat, petticoat and bedgown. In the 1830s Hall asked A. Cadwaladr to create a series of watercolours of Welsh county costumes. https://t.co/MXKtAJyp5T

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