A black and white archive photograph of a cat sitting on a cannon and arching his back. A dog is sitting right in front of the cannon.
If you've got a better photograph of a cat trying to fire a cannon at an unsuspecting dog then we'd like to see it.
#Caturday #Archives #SaturdayMorning
Wow, how thrilling! What next?!
A venn diagram. The three circles are labelled: The Archaeologist The Pirate The Dog The area where all threel overlap is labelled: Loves digging things up Dog/Archaeologist overlap is labelled: Gets excited by bones Pirate/Archaeologist overlap is labelled: Good with maps Dog/Pirate overlap is labelled: Buries things for later
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.bsky.social
🎥 Remix creative works like THE SKELETON DANCE for our 2025 Public Domain Day Remix Contest!
Use one or more classics from 1929 to create your 2–3 minute short film.
📆 Deadline: Jan 17, 2025
💰 First prize: $1,500
👉 Details: blog.archive.org/2024/12/16/2...
A cheese and meat board, with an arrangement in the shape of master criminal Feathers McGraw.
While you've all been slaving over Turkey, I've been preparing this Chicken for later.
It is Dec 22 and I have been remiss in not yet posting any bizarre Victorian Christmas cards, so…
Here’s a reminder to make sure you remember to give the gift of a severed head with embedded cleaver this Yuletide.
An illustration of a man with various wounds and weapons, and accompanying text.
“Wound Man” is an illustration which first appeared in European surgical texts during the Middle Ages. It laid out schematically the various wounds a person might suffer in battle or in accidents, with accompanying text stating treatments.
Tag yourself as a wound ahead of the holidays!
Photo of a red letter box on a London street, bicycles behind it, the arm of a small child pointing at it. There's a small blue circle at its base
Photo of base of red letter box. There's a blue sticker of a blue plaque. It states "Danger Mouse The Greatest Secret Agent In The World Lived Here"
Photo of bkack base of a letter box. There's a blue sticker of a blue plaque. It states "Danger Mouse The Greatest Secret Agent In The World Lived Here"
Found the greatest ever Blue Plaque in the whole of Great Britain today. We only went and spotted the Blue Plaque commemorating the greatest, most fantastic secret agent in the world!
#BluePlaque #BakerStreet #HesTheGreatest #HesFantastic #WhereverThereIsDangerHellBeThere #CrumbsDM #DangerMouse
🎶 All we want for Christmas is...
...that copy of Billy Bunter The Hiker that we've been looking for since 1983. 🎶
Found in an attic and finally returned this morning. 👏
Now we're trying to remember who was waiting for it...
Pomander recovered from wreck of The Mary Rose
Fantastic afternoon SW Museums Fed event @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social my favourite object of the day was definitely this pomander! Big thanks to the host and organisers
Cashew (Anacardium occidentale), Berthe Hoola Van Nooten, from 'Fleurs, fruits et feuillages choisis de la flore…de Java' (1863)
Afternoon snack? As well as being delicious, cashews (Anacardium occidentale) are beautiful plants, as drawn here by Berthe Hoola Van Nooten (1863).
Van Nooten lived a globetrotting life, travelling to America and Java.
Available as a card, poster or print: www.magnoliabox.com/collections/...
A cover illustration from John Bull magazine of a view over a bridge to frozen lake covered with small figures skating and trying to skate. Around them are buildings and winter trees.
Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 1
‘Winter Village’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
B&W illustration showing the interior of a vast reference library in Birmingham in Britain. More than a dozen desks are placed in the foreground. A handful of readers are seated at these, with books and papers spread before them. Pillars surround the room. There is a high, domed ceiling with stained glass windows in the lower part of the dome. The impression is of a church or cathedral.
…the sheer splendour of Birmingham reference library in the 1880s!! At this time, 12,000 readers made use of the library each day. Newspapers were a big draw, particularly for those in search of work who crowded into the building bright & early to consult the “jobs vacant” columns.
#PubLibs 💙📚
Just because it was SO sad to see the fire and I am so delighted to see the pictures coming out today..
The Quai Saint-Michel and Notre-Dame by Maximilien Luce 1901
Oil on Canvas
(Musée d'Orsay)
A handwritten letter that reads: "But I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything."
Following on from my last post on Charles Darwin's walking stick, here's a letter he wrote in 1861: "But I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything."
Same, Darwin. Same.
Here’s a Piggy Postcard for you from the Hampshire collection collections.hampshireculture.org.uk/object/pig-d...
A wren is perched on a twig with its beak wide open singing. The background is blurred, with more blurred twigs in the foreground. Photo by Dougie Holden.
A common whitethroat perched on a birch tree has its beak wide open, singing against a blue sky. Photo by Nick Upton
A wren stands on a long with its beak wide open singing against a blurred background. Photo by Barry Edwards.
A robin sits on a wall with its beak open singing. Photo by Hanne Siebers
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⚠️ Pontypridd has been hit by devastating floods and our wonderful independent bookshop, Storyville Books, has seen much of its stock destroyed.
If you’re able to buy a book from them, this would go such a long way to help support them rebuild in the aftermath.
👉 uk.bookshop.org/shop/Storyvi...
more users are joining
and the hog grows longer
“I’ve noticed I’m not in your starter pack. Any particular reason for that?”
Some conservation in action at the Malta Archeological Museum in Valletta on a recent trip - an amazing building, stunning detail!
