Poster with text reading 'MEN OF THE TREES (Ilford Group Essex) / Campaign:- / To PREVENT HEATH and WOODLAND FIRES - / To KEEP TOWN and COUNTRY BEAUTIFUL - / PLEASE HELP to SUPPRESS the LITTER MENACE'

Please help to suppress the Litter Menace as you enjoy Redbridge’s parks this Spring! 🌍

This poster was produced by the Men of the Trees, an environmental awareness group formed nationally in 1924 who became active in Ilford by the late 1930s.

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Sheets of paper pasted with newspaper cuttings from the 1950s featuring articles on supposed earthquakes in the village of Winster. One title states "Down they go to solve Winster's mystery". Another includes a photograph of male cavers underground. They wear helmets and carry acetylene lamps.

Our #ArchiveOfTheWeek are papers of Margaret Howard, member of the Operation Mole Speleological Group and Peak District Mines Historical Society. They investigated “earthquakes” or tremors at Winster in the #1950s which turned out to be collapsing limestone caverns.

#ArchiveCollection #EYAEarth

Front cover of the booklet 'Soil Fertility'. It features a black and white photo of large haystacks being made, on red background.

The contents page of the booklet, with headings such as 'How the Farm is Run', 'Below the Surface' and 'Balance Sheet of Soil Fertility'.

This Young Farmers’ Club booklet from the early #1960s explains how farms are managed and soil fertility is maintained, by looking at the example of Green Cowden farm in Derbyshire. You can find a copy in our #LocalStudies library.

#EYAEarth #LocalHistory

green booklet cover with a map of Britain made up of an image of a figure throwing paper in a trash bin. The background is green, the image is dark green and the text, Annual Report 1972 Keep Britain Tidy Group, is in white.

The environment has long been a concern in design. The 1972 Annual Report from the Keep Britain Tidy Group was found in the @designcouncil.bsky.social archive's documentation for their 1973 Recycling Exhibition at The Design Centre.
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Black and white photograph of sixth form students and staff standing in and around a school minibus. Some of the students are holding field studies equipment.

Princethorpe College sixth formers and staff boldly setting forth on a Biology field trip, 1971. The students enjoyed a week of ecological studies, and apparently all survived the teachers’ ‘gastronomic experiments’ in their self-catering accommodation!

#EYAEarth #SchoolArchive #ExploreYourArchive

For World Quantum Day, listen to British physicist and professor of quantum optics Sir Peter Knight talk about where he sees the direction of quantum computing
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Photograph showing a someone reading panels in front of the Giant Sequoia in 1971.

Felled in 1891 (from Kings Canyon National Park, Sierra Nevada), a slice of the ‘Mark Twain’ tree first went on display at the Museum in 1894, installed in one of the bays of the Central Hall (now Hintze Hall).

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Photograph of excavations at the site of Salisbury Hall manor house, Walthamstow, 1952. From VHM photo collection, available in our Searchroom.

Excavations at the site of Salisbury Hall manor house, Walthamstow in 1952. Following demolition of the late 16th century manor house, the 1952 excavation revealed the foundations of the earlier medival building. 📷 VHM photo collection, available in our Searchroom. #EYAEarth #ExploreYourArchive

It's Explore Your Archive day 🔎

Get involved using the hashtags for this month's theme!

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🎉 It's #ExploreYourArchive day! 🎉

We’ve loved seeing your #EYAEarth posts so far this month, let’s see what you have for the theme today! 🌍🌱

Make sure to tag us and use the hashtag! 💚

Photo of the book 'General View of the Agriculture and Minerals of Derbyshire Vol 1' by John Farey. It is bound with a brown leather spine and corners and marbled paper.

Pulled out page from the book. It consists of 28 small coloured drawings showing different sections of strata.

A pulled down blind over a window. The design on the blind consists of the coloured drawings inthe book.

We love the illustrations of sections of Derbyshire strata in this 1811 book by geologist John Farey so much, that we had them put on our blinds! You can see both the blinds and the book (General View of the Agriculture and Minerals of Derbyshire Vol 1) in our #LocalStudies library.

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These colourful and distinctive natural history lecture slides were collected by Arthur Edgar Beet, an academic in the Applied Science Department at the University of Sheffield.

Digitised images of the Beet Lantern Slide Collection can be found here: tinyurl.com/2v8abbfm #EYAEarth

Photograph of Cllr Yemi Osho, Mayor of Waltham Forest, planting a memorial tree for First World War servicemen at Queen’s Road Cemetery, Walthamstow in 2017. Cllr Osho is on the left in her mayoral robes of office. She is placing a young tree in the hole prepared. John (surname not known) stands on the right holding a spade, behind the pile of earth dug to create the hole for planting. Image ©Vestry House Museum, available in our Searchroom.

Cllr Yemi Osho, Mayor of Waltham Forest, planting a memorial tree for First World War servicemen at Queen’s Road Cemetery, Walthamstow in 2017. 📷 ©Vestry House Museum, from collection available in our Searchroom. #EYAEarth #ExploreYourArchive

For this month's #ArchiveDive as well as for #EYAEarth we've found this photo, taken in 1971, showing ground excavation to support the seawater research facilities @thembauk.bsky.social A lot has changed since then, most recently with a high-tech upgrade www.mba.ac.uk/pioneering-w...

Photograph of works to remove a tall tree in the Old Vicarage garden for widening of Church Road, Leyton in 1933. From VHM photo collection, available in our Searchroom.

Photograph of works to remove a tall tree in the Old Vicarage garden for widening of Church Road, Leyton in 1933. From VHM photo collection, available in our Searchroom.

Moving a tree in the Old Vicarage garden for widening of Church Road, Leyton in 1933. 📷 VHM photo collection, available in our Searchroom. #EYAEarth #ExploreYourArchive

An C18th Chinese classified encyclopaedia featuring illustrations of subjects in the three divisions of the universe, Heaven, Earth and Humanity. It covers a wide range of topics, ranging from mythological subjects to everyday objects and animals. #EYAEarth digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA005729/0...

This image from the papers of anthropologist JP Mills, shows a long heap of soft earth with a tilted block of stone, the hazoa, at one end, from which young Naga men take off in a ritualised long jump after the harvest is brought in. #EYAEarth ow.ly/U2fQ50Vx9Bc

Irish postage stamp dated 1995 and valued at 32p featuring a painting of the National Botanic Gardens with Crinum moorei, a whitish-pink flower, in the foreground and greenhouses in the background

Irish postage stamp dated 1995 and valued at 38p featuring a painting of the National Botanic Gardens with Sarracenia x moorei, a tall plant with green tubes and a reddish hood, in the foreground

Irish postage stamp dated 1995 and valued at 44p featuring a painting of the National Botanic Gardens with Solanum crispum, a purple flower, in the foreground and an ornate bridge in the background

April is #NationalGardeningMonth!

These vibrant stamps from 1995 celebrate 200 yrs of Ireland's National Botanic Gardens. Discover more in the Irish Postage Stamp Collection deposited in DRI by An Post Museum and Archive doi.org/10.7486/DRI.... #EYAEarth #Philately @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social

April's #ExploreYourArchive theme is #EYAEarth 🌍

Find out more about Explore Your Archive (@exploreyourarchive.bsky.social) via www.exploreyourarchive.org

Photograph of raised flower beds with daffodils, in the garden at Vestry House Museum, Walthamstow. 2003. Image ©Vestry House Museum.

From 2003, raised flower beds with daffodils in the garden at Walthamstow's Vestry House Museum, our former home! For #EYAEarth #ExploreYourArchive 📷 ©Vestry House Museum, from collection available in our Searchroom.

The cover of the book 'Deep Down. Great achievements in pot-holing' by Garry Hogg. The cover is a deep blue colour with the title and authors name in light blue capital letters. Around the sides are four line drawings of pot holers underground highlighted in yellow.

Derbyshire is known for its beautiful scenery above ground, but have you ever wanted to see what treasures lie beneath? The world of pot holing is not for the faint hearted. ‘Deep down’ describes eight underground adventures including one in Peak Cavern. Find a copy in our #Localstudies.

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Front page of printed sale particulars for building land in Chingford, 1894.

Section of plan from printed sale particulars dated 1894, with pink shading to show the plots south of Endlebury Road, Chingford.

Newly received this week, with thanks to Surrey Heritage: 1894 sale particulars for estate with 'grand and charming views', south of Endlebury Road, Chingford. Mention of 'an abundance of excellent brick earth upon the Estate' makes this a timely arrival for April's #EYAEarth! #ExploreYourArchive

Pictured are Figwort and Honeysuckle plants.
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🌎 Happy April! Spring is in the air and Earth Day is on its way. To celebrate, we have a new theme. Earth!

💫 Use #EYAEarth to get involved, share the items in your archive, and celebrate our lovely planet with us.

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The Aibreán / April #CuardaighDoChartlann / #ExploreYourArchive theme is Domhan / Earth! We can’t wait to see what everyone shares! Don’t forget to 🏷️ @araireland.bsky.social & @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social with the hashtags #EYADomhan / #EYAEarth