Before 1960, The National Hospital for Nervous Diseases' logo showed just three of the four of the UK national flowers - rose (England), shamrock (Ireland) and thistle (Scotland). The Hospital is now called the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (NHNN) and has all four UK national flowers, since about 1961.

The current logo of The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, which was introduced in around 1961, including the daffodil this time. It replaced the three UK flower emblem logo that was in use from 1860 to 1961.

Today’s images link Feb. and March’s #ExploreYourArchive themes, #EYAConnections, #EYAWildlife, and St. David’s Day.

After its centennial in 1960, the National Hospitals for Nervous Diseases (as known then), added the daffodil to its logo with the other 3 UK national flowers. Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus!

For February, we are highlighting the Explore Your Archive theme of #EYAConnections
Memorial No. 40345 from 1729 relates to Benjamin Parry leasing land to King George II at the site of Chichester House [now Bank of Ireland], College Green, Dublin for use by the Irish Houses of Parliament @araIreland

Who are better at #EYAConnections but ambassadors! You can view the full 17th Cent. 'Procession of Korean Ambassadors' scroll at https://ow.ly/RouS50Y9Pn4 (MS 86566)

@exploreyourarchive.bsky.social #EYAConnections
#Letters home
My husbands great uncle Tom emigrated to Oz 1910. We have his many letters home. He stayed connected
Sadly he volunteered to join the Australian army and died at Gallipoli
#FamilyHistory
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Front cover of the publication 'Strutt Street Belper – ‘The First Fifty Years’ by Belper u3a Local History Group 3. It features a black and white photograph of Strutt Street ca. 1905.

New in our #LocalStudies library, 'Strutt Street Belper – ‘The First Fifty Years’ is a fascinating study of street development from the first proposal of a thoroughfare in 1877, to the interconnected history of its residents and businesses up until 1939.

#EYAConnections #LocalHistory

Covers of Yellow Pages 1978 for Cardiff, Edinburgh, Northern Ireland and Reading

Did you know that we hold the national archive of Yellow Pages telephone directories? ☎️ For #EYAConnections we’re shining a light on this once-essential tool that helped people stay connected!

The West Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education had connections across the world. Here is a newspaper article about a stained glass exhibition by Swansea students at the Chartres Cathedral in France.

#UWTSDlib #EYAConnections #StainedGlass

@uwtsd.bsky.social

The image is a scanned newspaper clipping that features an article titled "The French Connection." It includes two visual elements: a black and white photo of stained glass artworks and text blocks. The photo shows a person observing stained glass panels, with intricate designs visible, likely part of an exhibition. The article text details an exchange between Swansea students and French partners at the West Glamorgan Institute of Further Education, focusing on stained glass artistry. The text discusses the collaboration and skills shared between the two groups. The bottom of the image displays logos and text for "Prifysgol Cymru University of Wales Trinity Saint David" and "LLYFRAUrHAGOR BOOKS & BEYOND." A teal background frames these logos at the bottom.

Roedd gan Athrofa Addysg uwch Gorllewin Morgannwg gysylltiadau ledled y byd. Dyma erthygl papur newydd am arddangosfa gwydr lliw gan fyfyrwyr Abertawe yng Nghadeirlan Chartres yn Ffrainc.

#LlyfrPCYDDS #EYAConnections #GwydrLliw

@uwtsd.bsky.social

A handwritten page in a notebook. It begins 'Friday May 29th 1840. Journey to London.' It then lists each stop on the journey and how many miles there was in between.

A double page from the same notebook continuing the details of the journey.

A modern document, showing a table which summarises the journey, giving place names and distances in miles.

Our #ArchiveOfTheWeek, this fascinating notebook, shows that if you were travelling from Chesterfield to London in 1840 you would have changed coach 17 times and have needed 65 horses in total! The 158 mile journey would have taken 7 hours and 45 minutes.
#EYAConnections

Cardiff’s docklands community photographs - Glamorgan Archives From May to Etta with Love is a series of six short audio dramas inspired by an extraordinary photo collection held by Glamorgan Archives. The pictures are from the studio of Fred Petersen, an early p...

Read here about how they were then incorporated into an amazingly creative project:
glamarchives.gov.uk/cardiffs-doc... 💞 #EYAConnections

Collage of three sepia photographs from the Cardiff Docklands Collection. The first shows a formal portrait of a couple [a White woman sitting, Black man standing] and a small Multiethnic boy. The second shows a young Black woman dressed smartly sitting posed in an artist’s studio - “From May to Etta with Love” is written in the top left of the photo. The third photo shows a White woman [in smart Edwardian clothing] standing alongside a very small Black boy standing on a chair, dressed in a smart velvet suit with white frilled collar and white knee-high socks.

Our volunteers loved working on this collection of portraits from Cardiff’s docklands community, taken between 1900-1920.
The images are held at @glamarchives.bsky.social @archiveswales.bsky.social @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social #EYAConnections

Connecting Refugee Histories Through the Living Refugee Archive — Explore Your Archive Paul V Dudman has written about the refugee histories within their archive collections and the importance of building connections

✨New Blog✨

For our February theme #EYAConnections we have a new blog from @livingrefarchives.bsky.social, exploring the refugee histories within their archive collections and the importance of building connections.

www.exploreyourarchive.org/connecting-r...

#ExploreYourArchive

Sir Robert Hart, Inspector General of the Chinese Maritime Customs Service became a key figure in the history of China in the 19th century and its foreign relations with the West. Read more here: https://ow.ly/1aRU50Y9jYP #EYAConnections

In this blog Professor Niki Alsford unveils Taiwan’s Formosa Church News, a missionary publication that also became a platform for local voices, a tool for linguistic preservation, & a record of Taiwan’s evolving identity. #EYAConnections https://ow.ly/Xl6A50Y9jm6

12 various photos of love and romance

A selection of various photos related to love ♥️ & Connections @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social

#ValentinesDay2026
#romance
#valentinesday
#HospitalRomance
#EYAConnections

A small printed plan, with the title ‘A Plan of the Navigable canal now making from Chesterfield in the County of Derby to the River Trent near Stockwith in the County of Nottingham surveyed in 1770’. It shows the route from Chesterfield to Gainsborough and distances between various places.

We love this small-scale plan of the navigable canal connecting Chesterfield to the River Trent near Stockwith, surveyed in 1770 by J Lodge, showing journey distances and landmarks along the route. What an amazing achievement it was!

#EYAConnections #18thCentury

Mikidadi Kichange’s relationship with anthropologist Pat Caplan began during her 1965 fieldwork on Mafia Island & developed into a decades‑long friendship, with the two calling each other 'brother & sister.' Caplan later wrote a biography of Mikidadi in 2014. #EYAConnections

Collage quartet of four images, two letters written to Edward Thomas by his children [decorated with flowers], one black and white photograph of Edward Thomas and a sepia photograph of his daughter, Myfanwy in ballerina shoes, dated 1919.

Our volunteers have now transcribed THREE collections of #EdwardThomas related material – they’re held at Cardiff University Special Collections & Archives and National Library Wales. #CrowdCymru connecting the archives of Wales since 2022! #EYAConnections @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social

The Solway Viaduct from Seafield postcard. This shows a large bridge stretching across the Solway. This is a black and white postcard photo from years gone by.

Anyone heard of The Solway Viaduct? 🌉

Did you know that during WW1 this helped to supply H.M. Factory Gretna?🤔

The Solway Viaduct was a railway line and bridge that once connected England and Scotland.

#EYAConnections #ExploreYourArchive
@exploreyourarchive.bsky.social @arascot.bsky.social

Browse Our Archives | University of Brighton Design Archives Explore our unique, world-renowned collections, documenting British design and global design organisations, with a focus on the period since the 1940s.

Just some of the interconnections between our collections. @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social #EYAConnections

Explore all our archives here: blogs.brighton.ac.uk/brightondesi...

As well as the catalogues on the ArchivesHub here: archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/locat...

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Newspaper article with two images of women in their homes (Barbara Jones and Natasha Kroll), as well as an advertisement for bedroom furniture.

The Design Archives has over 20 collections about mid-20thC design. For @explorearchive #EYAConnections explore some of the connections among our collections.

This article about artist, designer, curator & collector Barbara Jones (1912-1978) also includes a feature on Natasha Kroll.
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Newcastle Infirmary with green-roofed towers and red-brick walls.

Text transcription: We were so pleased to hear Tom has arrived quite safe and that he got the presents through safely. You will have got used to him by this [?] Hope he is quite better. Sorry he had been so ill. You will get quite conversant with English folk and their ways but of course we have to adapt ourselves to the situation we are placed in. Hope you are […] Grandpa and Grandma.”

Take some time to explore the RCN Archives. Here's a postcard from the Biley collection, showing a family connecting during difficult circumstances in 1914.

New Infirmary, Newcastle on Tyne, 3 May 1914 - front and back: https://bit.ly/4rcgohp

#ExploreYourArchive
#HistNursing
#EYAConnections

Herman Moll's 1728 map of Connacht is part of his Atlas of Ireland, produced using inks and colour washes.

Moll's vibrant maps were the first maps to accurately illustrate Ireland's road network.

#EYAConnections #ExploreYourArchive @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social @araireland.bsky.social

From 1930s Whitechapel, Stencl championed Yiddish through his writing and as editor of Losh un leben, reconnecting refugees, poets and workers across borders. #EYAConnections digital.soas.ac.uk/archives/papers-of-abrah...

Page of a volume showing a handwritten family tree. At the top of the page written in red capital letters is the family name of Gell. The rest of the page is covered in writing with lines linking family members. Next to some names are the relevant family coat of arms in the shape of shields with various colourful decorations, including stripes, rosettes and swords and crowns.

Lineage, inheritance, or simply knowing who was who—pedigrees were once essential. Our #ArchiveOfTheWeek, this 1830 volume tracing the Gell family of Hopton Hall (and their connections) is packed with beautifully illustrated coats of arms. A striking window into family history.
#EYAConnections

Jean-Martin Charcot's letter of recommendation in support of Victor Horsley's appointment as neurosurgeon at the National Hospital, Queen Square, London, 1886 - page 1, French. Queen Square Archives (ref: QSA/2141)

Jean-Martin Charcot's letter of recommendation in support of Victor Horsley's appointment as neurosurgeon at the National Hospital, Queen Square, London, 1886 - page 2, French. Queen Square Archives (ref: QSA/2141)

No doubt many, many connections were made at this hugely popular event in 1881. Charcot stands in one of the bottom left-hand side groups. Members of the International Medical Congress, London. Wellcome Collection. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Here we have connections between Charcot, hypnosis and suggestion. Caricature de Jean-Martin Charcot and ‘Suggestion’, Pont-Calé, 1890, Le professeur Charcot, drawing by Luque, in the « Les hommes d’aujourd’hui » collection, vol. 7, n° 343.

Eminent French neurologist, Jean-Martin Charcot had many connections with Queen Square (QS), home of UK neurology. Charcot’s demos at Salpêtrière Hospital also attracted many young British physicians to Paris. Discover more in our QS Library display. www.queensquare.org.uk/archives #EYAConnections

Mail art turns the postal system into a creative playground - small works like drawings, collages, stamps, poems, & textiles sent across the world. It’s non‑commercial, open to everyone, and makes communication itself the artwork #EYAConnections #HassanMusa

The Explore Your Archive theme for Feabhra | February is #EYANaisc | #EYAConnections

Get involved and remember to tag 🏷️ @araireland.bsky.social & @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social in your posts #ExploreYourArchive #CuardaighDoChartlann

The image is square with a teal background. In the centre of the image there is a portrait photograph of Meurig Griffiths. The photograph is black and white. He is wearing a shirt, tie and jacket. His hair is thin and white. In the bottom left corner there is the UWTSD logo and in the right corner there is the UWTSD library logo.

The image is square with a teal background. In the centre of the image there is a photograph taken from a newspaper. The photograph shows a line of students walking through town. Below the photograph there is text that says “Th Archbishop of Canterbury accompanied by trainbearers on his way to the church service.”. In the bottom left corner there is the UWTSD logo and in the right corner there is the UWTSD library logo.

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#EYAConnections This is Meurig Griffiths who has a lovely connection with St David’s College. He was a pupil at St David’s College School & was picked to carry the train of the Archbishop of Canterbury when he visited St David’s College.

A 1960 menu from CNCo’s ship Changsha reveals a world of caviar & lobster. But it’s more than a record of opulent dining. Covered in passengers’ signatures, it captures a golden age when ocean voyages forged friendships & sparked autograph‑collecting. #EYAConnections