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Day 5 & 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

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2023-04-05

For the final day of we wanted to share some images from from the four ongoing projects.

From Manuscripts for Medieval Studies, we have a page from the Winchcombe Psalter depicting a portrait of Matthew. (IE TCD MS 53).

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2022-12-06

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

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2022-12-04

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

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2022-12-01

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.

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2022-11-30

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.

Day 2:

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2022-11-29

Here's an 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

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2022-08-31

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

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2022-08-19

The caricaturist and illustrator John Leech was a pupil at the School when it was still based in London, and we are lucky to have some of his work within our collections.
Including this drawing of a girl on a horse.

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2022-08-12

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

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2022-08-08

For all those cat lovers out there, here are some charming illustrations from The Greyfriar Magazine 1958.

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2022-08-04

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.

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2022-06-13

Today is of that 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.'

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2022-04-03

Here is a wonderful illustration from 1890 of Godalming High Street, depicting what was the White Hart pub.

Artwork can really help us see into the past as this pub closed in 1932.

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2022-03-28

We have had quite a lot of talented artists come through the school, as this selection of artwork submitted for The Greyfriar Magazine demonstrates.

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2022-03-10

To celebrate we're re-sharing this teaching resource all about political cartoonist and children's book author and illustrator Chris Riddell.

https://t.co/MuoWrqZDWc

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2022-03-03

It's best not to get in the way of teenagers when they are hungry, as this illustration from the 1884 issue of The Greyfriar proves.

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2022-02-07



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



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2022-02-03

Today is so to brighten the mood let us share these charming illustrations of a cat from the 1958 edition of The Greyfriar.

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2022-01-17

There are so many cards with that we had to share a few more. The party invitation is signed Gropp, the animals in line is by .

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2021-12-25