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Day 5 #Archive30 @ARAScot #ArchiveFashion & here is a lovely selection of hats from the archive including a sketch of the trilobite Angelina sedgwickii 😉. What’s your favourite type of hat? 🤠👒🎩🧢#ExploreYourArchive #Hats #HatsAndHammers
For the final day of #ExploreYourArchive we wanted to share some images from #OurArchive from the four ongoing #VirtualTrinityLibrary projects.
From Manuscripts for Medieval Studies, we have a page from the Winchcombe Psalter depicting a portrait of Matthew. (IE TCD MS 53).
#EYAnews. We have a few issues and some cuttings from illustrated London News, with some great illustrations. Bridge at London Bridge, opening of London main drainage, Kings X station, deepening Fleet sewer #ExploreYourArchive
Professor Thomas McKenny Hughes set about raising funds for a new Museum as a memorial to Adam Sedgwick & his work in acquiring new collections. The new Museum was opened by King Edward VII on 1st March 1904.➡️https://t.co/K2qOgnuLEx
#EYAThrowback #ExploreYourArchive
Look! It's an Old Man's Beard (Clematis vitalba) with an old man's beard! Watercolour by JRG Gwatkin; owner of magnificent beard is Jacob Bobart the Elder (1599–1680), a German botanist and the first head gardener of Oxford Botanic Garden. @OBGHA
#EYABeards #ExploreYourArchives
What better than this stunning illustration of Iris germanica, commonly known as the bearded iris, to follow today’s theme for #ExploreYourArchive #EYABeards Kew’s Library and Archives holds illustrations describing both propagated plants and those growing in the field.
Mirabilis jalapa is known as the 'four o'clock flower' because its beautiful flowers tend to open in the late afternoon. 🕓 🌺
Painted by Caroline Maria Applebee in 1832.
#ExploreYourArchive Day 2: #EYATime @ExploreArchives
Here's an #EYAAnimals drawing from the notebook of Edward Pleydell Bouverie of Longford Castle, aged 11 in 1829. It's a precarious-looking stepladder against a giraffe's head. As you do. Edward was later a Liberal politician & President of the Poor Law Board
#ExploreYourArchive
These illustrations depicting China come from the book 'The Chinese Empire' by Thomas Allom, published in 1858. There is speculation that Allom never visited China himself... Can you spot the cats? https://t.co/wozFkAcBo9 #ExploreYourArchive #EYAAnimals
This propaganda poster depicts excited villagers waving flags and carrying food and flowers to welcome soldiers from the Chinese People's Liberation Army arriving on horseback. https://t.co/jpHkLI2oIy #EYAAnimals #ExploreYourArchive
College has a number of phrases which date back many years, and are still used today. One such term is the ‘Milky Way’ - the tiled area between the Marble Corridor and the Music Department where morning milk and buns were served. #SchoolHistory #ExploreYourArchive
Today is #SomethingScary of #Archive30. #DYK that #Dracula visited London Zoo? A Keeper recalled 'a tall, thin chap, with a 'ook nose and a pointed beard...He had a 'ard, cold look and red eyes.' #ExploreYourArchive
We have had quite a lot of talented artists come through the school, as this selection of artwork submitted for The Greyfriar Magazine demonstrates.
#ExploreYourArchive #EYAArt #SchoolArchive
To celebrate #WorldBookDay we're re-sharing this #archive teaching resource all about @ObserverUK political cartoonist and children's book author and illustrator Chris Riddell. @GFheadlines
https://t.co/MuoWrqZDWc
#archives #cartoonists #illustrators #ExploreYourArchive
#ThrowbackThrusday
It’s a survey taken in 1838 of Cootehall Bridge on the River Shannon.
This drawing can be viewed in the WI Digital Archive
https://t.co/3jAmO50E96
#WIArchive
#ExploreYourArchive
#RoscommonHeritage
There are so many #LilacHedges cards with #Santa that we had to share a few more. The party invitation is signed Gropp, the animals in line is by @MrHilaryKnight. @ARAScot #ExploreYourArchives #ArchiveAdventCalendar #LitchfieldHistory
This youngster surely knows that if anyone deserves #Presents for all of their hard work, it's #Santa! This is another wonderful #LilacHedges card designed by @MrHilaryKnight. @ARAScot #ExploreYourArchives #ArchiveAdventCalendar #LitchfieldHistory
If you need help with your #Decorations be sure to ask the #cats! This #LilacHedges card was designed by @MrHilaryKnight. @ARAScot #ExploreYourArchives #ArchiveAdventCalendar #LitchfieldHistory
For the most #FestiveClothes we turn again to @MrHilaryKnight. Even the cat is well dressed! #LilacHedges. @ARAScot #ExploreYourArchives #ArchiveAdventCalendar #LitchfieldHistory
Cataloguing the Thames Conservancy records during the pandemic was a big #achievement for our Project Archivist & the BRO Team. The project began in Dec 2019 & finished in Feb 2021. You can access the catalogue here: https://t.co/tDCVaEpjlH 📸 : Hambleden Lock #ExploreYourArchive