Monday's #Archive30 hashtag was #ArchiveMyths. There has long been a myth at RBA that one of our strongrooms is haunted. However, Godric has investigated this for us and he can confirm that he definitely hasn't seen any ghosts... 👻
the inside double page of a book with a sketch of the Uffington White Horse with hundreds of people scouring the white horse
The Uffington White Horse is surrounded by myths & legends, it's believed to be a wish granter, a representation of St George's slayed dragon and that it gallops to Wayland Smithy every 100yrs
The inside double page from the Scouring of the White Horse book by Thomas Hughes
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Colour photograph of Bryan Donkin works at Chesterfield being handled with blue non-latex gloves.
#ArchiveMyths for #Archive30 - archivists and researchers very rarely wear white gloves to handle collections, this is often a media request. We do wear non-latex gloves for handling photographic material, which is more sensitive to residue on your fingers.
Section from OS map c.1881. St Mary's Church, Walthamstow is at centre left. Vinegar Alley (unnamed here) is the path running in a north-eastern direction from the church, to the south of St Nicholas's Industrial School, before the junction with Shernhall Street.
Was Walthamstow’s Vinegar Alley named from a local plague pit? Recent features claim so, but appear to lack supporting evidence to date. In 1973 A D Law wrote 'so named since at least the 18th century, but no satisfactory explanation has yet been found'. @arascot.bsky.social #ArchiveMyths #Archive30
Did someone say #ArchiveMyths ? We're the place to visit if you're right interested in Appalachia folklore, myths and culture.
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Visitors looking at a display of archives in the reading room
Conservator Sarah and a visitor looking at conservation materials
Overhead view of the Jock Colville Hall during the Open Day
Visitors looking at archives on display in the reading room
One of the #ArchiveMyths we'd like to debunk is that archives are locked away and aren't accessible to the public...
We welcome all with an interest in history! At our recent Open Day, it was great connecting local history enthusiasts, families, and students. We hope you'll return!
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Photograph of Marsh Street Congregational Church burial ground at Willow Walk, at rear of High Street Methodist Church, Walthamstow, c.1970s. 📷 ©Vestry House Museum, from collection available in our Searchroom.
Willow Walk burial ground sketch plan from 'Marsh Street Congregations' by S D Hanson, Walthamstow Antiquarian Society (1969).
Text regarding the grave of Sarah Razafy, buried in Walthamstow, 1840. From 'Marsh Street Congregations', S D Hanson, Walthamstow Antiquarian Society (1969).
The Abduction of Pocahontas, Algonquian princess in North America. Engraving by Johann Theodore de Bry after Georg Keller. Created: 1624 engraving, based on 1617 engraving. 📷 Creative Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abduction_of_Pocahontas_Engraving_by_Johann_Theodore_de_Bry.jpg Note: Pocahontas was buried at Gravesend, Kent in 1617.
Was Pocahontas buried in Walthamstow? No!Buried at Gravesend 1617. Her 1613 abductor Samuel Argall held Low Hall manor, Walthamstow 1623-26. Local memory sometimes confused her grave with that of Sarah Razafy at the former Willow Walk burial ground 1840. @arascot.bsky.social #ArchiveMyths #Archive30
What are the common misconceptions and #ArchiveMyths that you would like to put right? What assumptions do people make about archives, archivists or the record themselves. #Archive30
Day 21 #Archive30. Our #ArchiveMyths comes with a don’t try this at home warning! Dr MacNamara’s 'Do-it-yourself medicine in County Clare during the first half of the nineteenth century’ has medical receipts for eye inflammation, sore throats & deafness. Spoiler 🥚 required
#Archive30 #ArchiveMyths The collection of Welsh tales, the Mabinogion, finds a place in our industrial #GuestKeen&Nettlefolds archive. It was translated in the 1840s by Lady Charlotte Guest, industrialist, educator and philanthropist, whose husband ran the Dowlais Ironworks. @arascot.bsky.social
Black and white photo of a ward garden showing the veranda and various trees and shrubs
Aerial view of Cardiff City Mental Hospital, a postcard
Black and white photo of the front of the hospital showing parked cars, trees and the water tower and front entrance in the background
Newspaper article - Evening express 22 Nov 1906
Day 21 #Archive30 @arascot.bsky.social
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Whitchurch Hospital➡️progressive Edwardian Mental Hospital, NOT a Victorian Asylum.
Opened 15th April 1908, Cardiff City Mental Hospital
Newspaper clipping from the Evening express 22 Nov 1906 - thanks Mike
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Photograph of Queen Elizabeth's Lodge, Chingford, early 20th century. 📷 From VHM collection, available in our Searchroom.
Drawing of the staircase, reproduced in 'An Account of Queen Elizabeth's Lodge (Chingford)', Essex Field Club (1925). From our printed collections.
Local legend claims that Queen Elizabeth I rode her white palfrey upstairs at her Chingford Hunting Lodge, to celebrate defeat of the Armada. However, the Lodge was built during reign of Henry VIII. We've yet to find proof that Queen Elizabeth I visited! @arascot.bsky.social #ArchiveMyths #Archive30
Lots of choice for #ArchiveMyths! The Welsh Eisteddfod ceremonial looks ancient but was actually invented by Iolo Morganwg in the late C18. The letters of the artist Thomas Henry Thomas describe his work redesigning bardic robes and regalia in the late C19 www.southwalesrecordsociety.co.uk/25.htm
The #ArchiveMyths we want to debunk is that they can be hard to access! We're open to the public 3 days a week - and you dont need an appointment (although our librarian will get items ready for you if you call in advance) #Archive30
The 1972 British Museum Tutankhamun exhibition was opened by Queen Elizabeth II. Members of the public wrote to the Trustees concerned about the perceived curse of the Tomb of Tutankhamun & risk of exposing the Queen to its dangers. Fortunately all went well! #Archive30 #ArchiveMyths #BritishMuseum
#DMUat155 – Where myths meet mastercraft! 📚✨ These stunning books, Celtic Mythology 1935 and The Garden of Prosperpine 1961, were beautifully produced by @dmuleicester.bsky.social printing trades students. #ArchiveMyths #Archive30 @librarydmu.bsky.social #alumni #art #printing @arascot.bsky.social
Me and my twin with rare photo of us on holiday with my dad. He worked on the underground and usually worked through his holidays and very often did double shifts. A lovely decent hardworking man. This is about 1960. I love it.
My husband’s great aunts and great grandad. That lawn mower would fetch a few bob on bargain hunt now I reckon!
Enjoying the water! Such a great ‘action shot’. That’s my mum in law in about 1930. She seems so free and uninhibited.
Give a child a bucket and spade and they are happy!! My mum in law and brother c1926.
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Only ‘important’ people or big archives matter!
Yes, even a photo of a man 100 years ago with a lawnmower is interesting! historicalclues.blogspot.com/2022/04/
Colour photograph of shelves holding black archive boxes. Each box has a white label with a number.
Countering the common held assumption that archives are often 'lost' in 'dusty' rooms and are just awaiting a researcher to 'discover' them. Not so. All our archives are housed in conservation grade numbered boxes in an organised room. #ArchiveMyths #Archive30
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Well it has to be the ghosts doesn't it?
Who has seen the the floating sister or the grey lady or Archie over in ward 27?
Fact or fiction? Who dares to find out?
@arascot.bsky.social
👻👻 at #GRI😱
The Grey Lady took her own life & roams the 🏥tormented
Archie, ward 27, worked here or did he?🧐
The Floating Sister
In the press so must be true😉
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Maybe but are you brave enough to take the chance😬
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