Spine of a red book titled: Newspaper cuttings and advertisements Jan 1908 - Nov 1915

Programme of Music

Inside the program of music detailing what was planned to take place

For #ArchiveAdventCalendar today, only just!! We had to delve deep to find #ArchiveElves now does this count?? A music programme from 1909 and saved for posterity in the red cuttings book… The Elfin call @arascot.bsky.social

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Front cover of Fairyland Pictures from the Elf-World by Richard Doyle

Colour illustration of an elfen land.

Colour illustration of an elf with an audience of coulourful birds in a clearing.

Unfortunately all the real #ArchiveElves were hiding today but we did find some helpful ilustrations of elves in Fairyland: Pictures from the Elf-World, for today's #ArchiveAdventCalendar theme.

The book is part of our Marcus Crouch collection of children's books. Ref. crouch 398.4 DOY

Today, we're enjoying two of our favourite pastimes: examining old photograph albums in our archives, and getting hashtags wrong. #ArchiveElves #ArchiveAdventCalendar #IsleOfMan #ExploreYourArchive

Poem 'The Christmas Elves'. The Christmas elves are out to-night, While all the land is veiled in snow; They deck the trees with hoar-frost bright, And bid the yule-fires warmly glow. They build ice-bridges o'er the stream, Hang icicles from roofs o'erhead, And make the holly branches gleam With stores of berries rich and red.

No elves on our shelves, but they did sneak into 'The Land Worker'in December 1920 #ArchiveAdventCalendar #ArchiveElves

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"Whatever you get for Christmas" - London Underground poster, 1919. An exhortation for shoppers to avoid the peak hours and travel for shopping between 10.0am and 4.0pm. The date is given as 1919 and that would make it spot on for early use of the redrafted version of the roundel by Edward Johnston and for the use of his typeface. Anyhow, otherwise a collection of eleve or pixies appear busy, with even one on a bike delivering by 'express'! The poster is on a blue background, the elvish border topped by an UndergrounD roundel and with a Christmas tree below, centre. The text is in white uppercase Johnston typeface "Whatever you get for Christmas - Get it in good time - Shope between 10.0am & 4.0pm"

#ArchiveElves eh? Well, this 'gang' appear to be good and busy in this 1919 London Underground poster advising you to "shop between 10am & 4pm". Set in the company's 'Johnston' #typeface
@arascot.bsky.social #ArchiveAdventCalendar #Christmas #london #poster #transport

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A plush elf doll is perched on the corner of a computer monitor displaying a black-and-white vintage advertisement for The Barnsley British Co-operative Society Ltd. The monitor sits on a wooden desk in a bright room.

#ArchiveAdventCalendar The #ArchiveElves are looking through old editions of the Barnsley Chronicle

We hold the complete Barnsley Chronicle archive as well as having free access to the British Newspaper Archive

An elf collecting document request slips

Elves in the strongrooms

Elves using the rolling stacks

An elf searching for a book in the strongroom

On #ArchiveAdventCalendar we're up to #ArchiveElves – and we’ve had a couple of seasonal assistants ‘helping’ us with document productions from the strongrooms this month..!

Godric’s called on a festive friend to help us out in the office! Watch to see what our #ArchiveElves have been up to… www.youtube.com/shorts/XZPTc...
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Music: Christmas by SigmaMusicArt used under the Pixabay Content License

#ArchiveAdventCalendar theme 18 is #ArchiveElves. Perhaps Archives Elves for Dunblane’s historic Leighton Library this year have to be project team of Books & Borrowing 1750-1830 (in which Leighton Library collection & borrower records feature, & several members of team are…/👇

#ArchiveAdventCalendar theme 18 is #ArchiveElves. Dunblane Museum’s elves are all of our team of volunteers, giving their time, enthusiasm, & experience in welcoming visitors when museum is open, or myriad of behind-scene tasks to run a museum. Get in touch if you’d like to join our merry band!

If you visit the #Archives you may be lucky enough to spot the #ArchiveElves working hard in their office. To give them time to finish some important work (and a bit of a holiday), our searchroom closes this afternoon and will re-open on Monday 5th January.
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Rows of archive shelves filled with archival boxes, the shelves are decorated with festive garlands of greenery, red berries, and strings of warm yellow fairy lights. Three cartoon-style elves in green hats and outfits are playfully positioned among the shelves—one holding a gift box, another standing on a shelf, and a third appearing to wave.

Send help! Our archive shelves have been invaded by #ArchiveElves! Are they using our boxes for presents, or writing wish lists on catalogue cards? Either way, we might need to start issuing reader tickets to the North Pole...🎄✨
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We the have found an elf hiding in plain site in this photograph from Hill House, Pulham St Mary #ArchiveAdvent #Advent #Christmas2025 @arascot #ArchiveElves

Behind the scenes, all the #ArchiveElves are hard at work sharing festive finds for @arascot.bsky.social's #ArchiveAdventCalendar with special shout-out to our @dmu.ac.uk Frontrunners cataloguing the St. Clare Collection of cult TV scripts: buff.ly/i2pULUR
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Tell us what your hard working #ArchiveElves have been up to recently #ArchiveAdventCalendar

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This is Rascal 😊, one of our #archiveelves & he is usually up to all kinds of mischief. Yesterday, however, he wanted to help curate our #rottenrow exhibition & so he did some research. Opens 2026 & it promises to be our best one yet!

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