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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

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

This youngster surely knows that if anyone deserves for all of their hard work, it's This is another wonderful card designed by .

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2021-12-19

Day 27 of is The William Wallace Papers (no, not that William Wallace) include patient catalogues, illustrations and published material relating to Wallace’s career and study of skin diseases: https://t.co/5GjlPtqZ4S

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2021-04-27

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

Today's theme for week is 'plans'.

This plan of the Gallery has been inscribed with hand-written notes in red indicating areas that were hit by bombs during the Second World War including the dates of the attacks.

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2020-11-23

We missed yesterday! Our are truly international: from the depiction of avocado on the island of St Vincent to that of a red panda in Nepal.
Discover more on our archives catalogue https://t.co/ChDn3Bk9k8

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2020-06-11

To enable overseas soldiers to vote (July 1945), the swung into action to deliver forty tons(!) of ballot papers overseas then back to the UK
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2019-12-13

This diseased larynx drawn by Neil Stewart in 1852 is part of an incredible series of watercolours of various parts of the body. The medical comments are by pathologist William Tennant Gairdner.

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2019-12-01

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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2019-11-28

This oil Igloo Cake (2007) by Annabel Dover is from our Collection. It was part of a wider series in which one small painting was made every day for a year from a that was close to the

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2019-11-23

Day 13 am often inspired by archive visitors. Their enthusiasm is very infectious and often a timely reminder of why we do what we do

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2019-04-13

There are a couple of new collections that have been added to our website, including this lovely 'The Fiddler and the Crocodile' (Butler (Joan) Collection, Butler 050 GOO). & take a look here: https://t.co/43rjpLHcFK

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2019-02-19

Dr Torrance riding a camel in Tiberius c1930. Has he got the hump after a hard day? He looks happy enough to us using this mode of transport

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2018-11-23

We've found some autumn hats in our Jenners archive collection. Just right for the increasingly chilly weather, but don't forget a hatpin when it gets blustery!

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2018-09-25

You've seen our Archives Alphabet - now are getting involved in 's Archive Decades campaign in the run up to Starting things off in the are these gorgeous watercolour sketches by Violet McGlashan! (DC 022/1/2)

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2018-09-10