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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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Looking out to sea from near in 1792. One of '110 Sketches of Seventeen Days Tour from London by Margate to Brighthelmstone in the Summer of 1792' by Thomas Baskerfield.

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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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It looks a lot warmer for these two young people sitting on a bathing box around 1900 than it feels today! Clarke Collection

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Can you tell what this is? Well this by Felix Allen depicts a conger eel. Allen purposefully depicts lifeform which have no specific relation to himself. From Art Collection

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