#Artxiboa 🔎 #DocumentOfTheMonth March 2026

📷 Lola Flores—who had come to San Sebastián to present ‘La danza de los deseos’ (Florián Rey)—receiving a trophy in a pigeon shooting competition (1954).

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Typescript signed letter from Frances Evelyn Greville, Countess of Warwick, regarding arrangements for Socialist lectures in autumn 1912. Dated 27 May 1912.

Photographic portrait of Frances Evelyn Greville, Countess of Warwick, 1930. From VHM collection, available in our Searchroom.

Letter from Frances Greville, Countess of Warwick, regarding Socialist lectures in 1912. Born Frances Maynard in 1861, she held Walthamstow Toni manor from 1865. A society hostess & later a campaigning socialist, she lived at Shern Hall, Walthamstow as a child #DocumentoftheMonth #WomensHistoryMonth

#Artxiboa 🔎 #DocumentOfTheMonth January 2026

The 38th edition (1990) stood out for becoming a pioneering meeting place for professionals from European film archives.

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Page recording women residents of Walthamstow workhouse in Jan 1826. From Walthamstow workhouse admissions register for Jul 1821-Feb 1827.

From 200 years ago, entries from Walthamstow workhouse admissions register listing women residents in Jan 1826. They range from Ann Burrell aged 95, to Elizabeth Webb aged 19, admitted when pregnant. Entries for several long stay inmates include Mary Pickett, recorded as Blind. #DocumentoftheMonth

#Artxiboa 🔎 #DocumentOfTheMonth November 2025

While the struggles of the 1968 movement shook other international film festivals, the Spanish regime sold the image of a “calm” San Sebastián Film Festival.

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#Artxiboa 🔎 #DocumentOfTheMonth – October 2025

In 1990 the Festival programmed the film ‘Im Glanze dieses Glückes’, by the Brick ins Land collective, which comprised artists from both sides of the wall.

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🖼️ The 7th edition was presented with this official poster designed by Alfredo Tienda, in lithograph format. The Festival Archive has added it to the collection following its recovery.

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Page from the memoir of Joel Johnson of Walthamstow (1720-1799), transcribed by his daughter. This page shows entries for 1779 and 1780.

Page from the memoir of Joel Johnson of Walthamstow (1720-1799), transcribed by his daughter. These entries for 1780 record his children's smallpox inoculation, and the fires in London caused by the [Gordon] Riots, as observed from Johnson's house in Clay Street.

Pages from the memoir of Joel Johnson of Walthamstow (1720-1799), transcribed by his daughter. Entries for 1780 record his children's smallpox inoculation, and the fires in London caused by the [Gordon] Riots, as observed from Johnson's house in Clay Street (now Forest Road). #DocumentoftheMonth

#Artxiboa 🔎 #DocumentOfTheMonth – July 2025

Letter from Luis Gasca to Jorge Luis Borges on the occasion of his participation in the round table discussion ‘Latin American Literature and Cinema’ (1981).

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Western section from map of Friday Hill Estate, Chingford, surveyed by Jared Hill, 1738.

North-eastern section from map of Friday Hill Estate, Chingford, surveyed by Jared Hill, 1738.

South-eastern section from map of Friday Hill Estate, Chingford, surveyed by Jared Hill, 1738.

Friday Hill Estate, Chingford, Jared Hill's map of 1738. A rich resource for its depiction of buildings & natural features, this is the earliest known large scale map of Chingford. View it during our Searchroom tours on Sat 5 July! Book here www.ticketsource.co.uk/walthamfores... #DocumentoftheMonth

Excited to be working with the team @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social on this!

Join us for an insight into our research including news of our hybrid 'Invisible Treasures' event; a new release of literary fragments on our digital corpus; and July's #documentofthemonth.

#digitalhumanities #takeover

#Artxiboa 🔎 #DocumentOfTheMonth – June 2025

Under the title ““Chile Inside from Outside”, the @sansebastianfes.bsky.social dedicated an entire section to Chilean cinema in 1987, which included 36 films.

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Print of old Friday Hill House, Chingford in 1798. From records of Chingford parish.

Print of old Friday Hill House, Chingford in 1798. Named from the Friday family, local landowners in the 15th-16th century, this was the manor house of Chingford Earls by 1588. It survived until 1838-39, when Robert Boothby Heathcote replaced it with Lewis Vulliamy's new design. #DocumentoftheMonth

#Artxiboa 🔎 #DocumentOfTheMonth May 2025

📷 Actress Gina Lollobrigida presenting the San Sebastian Award for Best Female Performance to the distributor Procinor for “A Woman Under the Influence” (1975)

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Message from Major General Stratemeyer on Victory in Europe

Today is the 80th anniversary of VE Day so our #DocumentOfTheMonth is a copy of a signal from Major General George E. Stratemeyer, USAAF, to allied air forces: “The German Army has surrendered unconditionally...” @explorearchives

Printed sale particulars for estates in Clay Street, Walthamstow, 1854.

Sale particulars for estates in Clay Street (now Forest Road), Walthamstow in 1854, including a Capital Mansion with pleasure grounds & garden, let to Mrs Morris at £100 p.a. This was Winns, or Water House, home of the Morris family from 1848-56, & now the William Morris Gallery. #DocumentoftheMonth

#Artxiboa 🔎 #DocumentOfTheMonth – April

📷 Actress Josefa Flores González, better known as Marisol or Pepa Flores, at the Hotel María Cristina (1960)

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First page of manuscript feature 'Nature notes in Chingford', from Chingford Literary and Social Guild magazine, Feb 1908.

Cover of Chingford Literary and Social Guild magazine, Feb 1908. The top image shows trees in silhouette against a gold sky. The lower image shows two quill pens in an ink well between books, and a candle on the left.

Page from Chingford Literary and Social Guild magazine, Feb 1908. This shows a photograph of a man in profile, his right arm stretched out. He wears a cap, and looks towards the robin perched on his right hand. Below is a manuscript copy of verses on 'The Legend of the Robin'.

The Chingford Literary & Social Guild magazines contain an array of manuscript articles & stories, alongside photographs & watercolours of local scenes. From Feb 1908, here are nature notes in Chingford recording sight of a stoat, plus a photograph of a robin with related verses. #DocumentoftheMonth

Page from the log book of Canterbury Road School, Leyton in 1916. The bottom entry records a Zeppelin raid on 23 September, which damaged many local houses, and left 60 panes of glass broken at the school.

School log books are a rich resource for family & local history. This 1916 page from Canterbury Rd School, Leyton records a pupil's name & scholarship, names of two student teachers, a lightning strike, & extensive impact of a Zeppelin raid, with 60 panes of glass broken onsite. #documentofthemonth

A 1974 letter to Lord Mountbatten from Christopher Cockerell on the Admiralty and the hovercraft

January’s #DocumentOfTheMonth is a 1974 letter to Lord Mountbatten from Sir Christopher Cockerell, inventor of the hovercraft, who from 1960 lived and worked at Hythe in Hampshire @HantsCulture where he headed Hovercraft Ltd @BeginsHistory #HBAHAllAboutThatPlace

Delighted to share December's Document of the Month, available now on our website: bit.ly/DocoftheMonth

A fascinating read from Robert Hoyland of
@isawnyu.bsky.social

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