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Published in 1852, The Naturalist’s Library, Vol VI, contains many beautiful artworks of the Britain's bees. This and other vibrant plates show a range of native in exquisite detail.

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2021-09-10

Our Society Papers, presented at general meetings for peer review, cover various topics of and are often accompanied by wonderful

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2020-11-26

What are working on? It's our Briton Ferry Estate map, the longest one we have. By Thomas Hornor and dating from 1815, it is beautifully drawn. Here are some extracts showing a very rural Briton Ferry, Neath and Swansea

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2020-01-29

Join us tomorrow for our new Escape Room - LlyfrGELL 2.0! Don't miss out on the chance to explore the hidden parts of the Library and to win an Explore Your Archive prize!

Will you escape from the Gen?!

Tickets: https://t.co/oTda432xYs

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2019-11-29

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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2019-11-28

Afternoon tea at the Great Western Royal Hotel, London in 1907. The poor chap is doing his best to tempt his friends with some cake, but they're clearly more interested in the telephone conversation.

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2019-11-27

Not so much a ‘before & after’ as an 'in progress’ of our new archive accession.

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2019-09-20

Another busy week at The Keep, with early photoshopped pics of a discovery of some Nazi propaganda, and the royal funeral of a Maharaja in Bexhill - all in our latest Keeping Up: https://t.co/fY4S41ecvT

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2019-09-04

This fantastic photograph was taken at Patrick Geddes's Summer Meeting (a kind of international summer school) held in Edinburgh in 1896, Find out more here: https://t.co/cI0tF1PEcu

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2018-11-25

Our show the huge variety of sports that the crew and passengers on board ships have enjoyed over the years: https://t.co/3t0Tkp5TwP

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2018-11-24

Have you seen the Archives 'In Memory of the Fallen of the University: 1914-1918' project yet? The aim of the project was to identify all 97 men listed on the War Memorial Plaques to put faces and stories to the names.



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2018-11-23

Celebrating for with these wonderful beasties from Sloane MS 4015

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2018-11-23

It's today so here's an adorable dog having a bath on a chocolate box!

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2018-11-23

Glamorous Messel & friends dine on the liner SS Liberté, 1951.

Sneak preview of our exhibition 'Wake up and Dream - Theatre, Art and Society’', which starts tomorrow https://t.co/5ilgIZzJhg

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2018-11-21

Frank Scudamore, GPO senior manager who oversaw the nationalistaion of the electric telegraph network in the UK in 1870. What he lacked on top was more than compensated by his splendid whiskers.
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2018-11-21

This sampler was made by Annie Parker, aged 33, with her own hair while she was in prison, in 1880. It quotes the first three verses of the hymn ‘My God, my Father, while I stray’, written in 1834 by Charlotte Elliott

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2018-11-20

What locks! 19th & early 20th century anatomical illustrations often show fashionable hair and beards. To modern eyes it both humanises the body & also emphasises the brutality of the dissection. This drawing is by Francis Sibson, from c1840-60.

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2018-11-20