Woman wearing all black sitting cross legged on a table next to a large book of plans

This is one of our oversize plan books of London properties owned by St Bartholomew’s Hospital 1848-1927

(normal sized archivist for reference)

#EYAHuge #Archives

[SBHB/HC/55]

UCD Archives & UCD School of Music commissioned a cantata to commemorate the centenary of the start of the civil war with a libretto written using the documents in UCDA. Ed Vulliamy and theatre artist Kellie Hughes wrote the libretto and Anne-Marie O'Farrell composed the music. #EYAHuge #EYAOllmhór

Day 4 of #ExploreYourArchive and today we share one of the #EYAHuge tasks that we’ve been undertaking to make our
@dmuleicester.bsky.social press cuttings more accessible (no archives were harmed during the process – promise!).
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#archives @araireland.bsky.social

#ExploreYourArchives theme today theme is #EYAHuge and this drum from Hopetown Hostel for Women in Whitechapel is the biggest thing in our London museum. We do have a full-size industrial Indian loom which is #huge, but that's in storage.

Photo credit: Lauren Foster

35mm-negatives from the #archive of the huge cement-silo being craned into position @ Kent Station, Cork, part of CIÉ's freight modernisation. 🏗️👷 #EYAHuge #ExploreYourArchive #irishrailarchives

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It’s such a huge honour to have worked/be working on @uniofgalwaylib.bsky.social’s biggest and second biggest collections: the Mary Robinson and Conradh na Gaeilge archives (660 & 600 boxes!). Both immensely rich & diverse collections.

#EYAHuge @araireland.bsky.social

Storage room with metal shelving. Filing cabinets are in the foreground. Large cardboard storage boxes are on the shelves. This was just one of the many rooms filled with records belonging to the National Union of Mineworkers.

Large freezer compartment at Harwell's, two men are loading crates into the freezer as part of the archive conservation drying process.

The first batch of conserved NUM archives on the shelves in our store. They are shelved on grey roller racking.

Piles of papers in a box and on a desk, they are in the process of being catalogued.

Onsite appraisal, conservation, cataloguing & outreach work - working with the vast National Union of Mineworkers archive is a huge project & we're excited that we're now starting to share the records with researchers!

Find out more at sslh.org.uk/2024/03/06/i...

#ExploreYourArchives #EYAHuge

Woman wearing all black sitting cross legged on a table next to a large book of plans

This is one of our oversize plan books of London properties owned by St Bartholomew’s Hospital 1848-1927

(normal sized archivist for reference)

#EYAHuge #Archives

[SBHB/HC/55]

Wooden book case, with glass front panel lying open. Inside are six large volumes with cream covers and a red label on each spine.

Large book standing upright to show its very wide spine. It has a cream cover with a red label, inscribed Volume II.

Large book open to show Leyton's printed order of the memorial service for the late George V, and a painting of the interior of Leyton parish church, both dated 1936.

Robert Bren's 1930s expanded version of John Kennedy's 1894 'History of Leyton' is filled with his collection of documents, prints, photos, ephemera & notes. A rich resource for local history, it comprises six large volumes. Vol 2 is especially hefty, measuring 0.2m across its huge spine. #EYAHuge

For #EYAHuge we present one of seven #huge bound volumes of incoming correspondence, part of our Domestic Archives collection. The letters were pasted into these volume as they were received by the Society dating from the 1860s right up until the 1920s.
#Huge #EYA

This book press from the Hayes, Conyngham & Robinson Pharmaceutical Chemists collection is definitely #huge!
From the research I’ve done so far it would have been used to copy letters, very useful for Victorian record keeping I would think! #EYAHuge @araireland.bsky.social #explorearchives

Some huge (and long) items in our collections are scrolls created by traditional scroll painters from Naya Village in West Bengal as part of the AHRC project 'Famine and Dearth in India and Britain, 1550-1800'.

Here is archivist Hollie unrolling a scroll!

🎥 EUL MS 485

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Poster with white writing on a blue background reading 'SCOTLAND YARD OFFERS YOU A 'CAPITAL' JOB'. Below and to the left of the writing a smiling male Met officer in jacket (bearing a Distinguished Flying Cross ribbon) and George VI-era helmet, along with a semi-abstract design with photographs of the Houses of Parliament and Trafalgar Square and a circle listing perks of the job.

This newly-conserved recruitment poster is so #EYAhuge that we may need to hang it or get a specialist box made! #EYA #ExploreYourArchive

Newspaper clipping from 1908, describing the hospital building

Cover to Will Paynter’s book, My Generation

Page from the book describing the hospital as huge

Day 4 #ExploreYourArchive

#EYAHuge

Many sources have described the hospital as huge over the years. Is it a wonder looking at this newspaper clipping!!

The Cambrian newspaper 17th April 1908

One example is Will Paynter in My Generation, see page photo.

#hugehospital
#whitchurchhospital

Photo taken looking down onto a large volume opened so both pages are visible. There rows and columns indicating the name of the student, and the modules taken each year [SBHMS/S/2/10]

You can now browse our largest volume - this huge student register, covering 1888-1902 (SBHMS/S/2/10) - alongside the other registers in the series. Digital access will help avoid damage to the volume, which takes two people to carry it!

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#EYAHuge #HistMed #Archives

Photograph of a redheaded woman sat on a pallet in front of piles of banker boxes

The Brendan Kennelly Literary Archive is the largest boxed collection we have in The Library of Trinity College Dublin. It consists of 457 archive boxes and covers all facets of his life! #EYAHuge #EYAOllmhór @araireland.bsky.social

A photo of a very long parchment roll spread across an even longer table in a room with books, tables and chairs.

This is one of the largest documents we've dealt with on the project: a huge roll of depositions taken in 1656 in the Nettleton v Wandesford Chancery case, about money owed from the estate of Alice Thornton's late father, Christopher Wandesford.
#EYAHuge #EarlyModern 📜 🗃️

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Share your favourite archive items that relate to today’s theme - #EYAHuge

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Roinn na míreanna cartlainne is fearr leat a bhaineann le téama an lae inniu -
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Black and white illustration in a book of a skeleton, with drawing of a rhinoceros in the background and a pencil at the bottom of the illustration showing the large scale of the book. From Bernhard Siegfried Albinus's 'Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani', first published in 1747, illustration by by Jan Wandelaar

We also went #huge with an anatomical textbook from 1747 featuring rhinoceros Clara in the background. Medical textbooks were often large to be able to show the illustrated details accurately. Poor Clara was exhibited around Europe, and died in London in 1758

#EYAHuge #ExploreYourArchive