🥂A #ChampagneDay toast with Aileen Marson and Jan Kiepura, ready for #NewYearsEve. Out with the old and in with raising a glass to 2026. May it #EYASparkle.
From Film Pictorial Annual, 1934 @dmu.ac.uk
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Walthamstow Palace programme cover 1913. The art work depicts a woman in a red costume, scattering glitter from a red sack on her left. She sits above a circular panel inscribed with The Walthamstow Palace against a decorative background.
Walthamstow Palace programme cover 1913. A popular music hall venue in its early days, the Palace Theatre operated in Walthamstow High Street from 1903 to 1954. It was demolished in 1960. #EYASparkle #ExploreYourArchive @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social
The cast of the pantomime Aladdin pose dressed in sparkly costumes. As is traditional a woman plays Aladdin and is at the front with the lamp, while the rest of the cast look on with expressions of happiness, puzzlement and surprise.
How many of you include going to a pantomime as one of your Christmas traditions? If you fancy some festive #EYASparkle see what’s being performed locally, like this production of Aladdin at The Playhouse Theatre, Pavilion Gardens, Buxton in 1968.
#PhotoFriday #1960s
A blonde young girl is dressed head to foot in sequins and she is grinning at the camera, laying on her side with her feet around her ears.
Yes, your eyes are correct. This is Jennifer Parkin of Ripley in the 1970s and those are her feet around her head! We don’t know much about Jennifer except she performed as a dancer and contortionist, but it must have been quite the show!
#PhotoFriday #EYASparkle
❄️ #WinterWonderland or Snow Queen chic this #FashionFriday? Anna Neagle brings the glitz & glamour with #festiveclothes for @arascot.bsky.social's #archiveadventcalendar. From Film Pictorial Annual 1937.#filmhistory #filmarchives #EYASparkle
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Majālis al-muʼminīn ( MS 46421), is written in a modern, Persian, Shikastah script. It's opening chapter is embellished with gold illuminations, a decorative art form known as Tahzib. #EYASparkle
A lit up Christmas tree in the RBA reception area
The RBA Christmas tree in reception - viewed from outside the window
We think these #DarkNights make our Christmas tree look rather lovely and glowy! 🎄 This evening is our last late opening of the year. Give us a call or email today if you would like to pop in. #ArchiveAdventCalendar #EYASparkle
Thank you to all who participated in the #EYAFocusWeek2025! There is still one more #ExploreYourArchive / #CuardaighDoChartlann theme for December for all those who already have or want to get involved and it is #EYASparkle | #EYADrithle ✨ @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social
A little festive #EYASparkle. These beautiful illustrations of the odd bobtail squid, Heteroteuthis dispar, can be found in the reports from the expeditions of Albert I Monaco. This volume, 66, was published in 1923
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A Christmas card in the shape of a Christmas tree. The tree is decorated with gingerbread men, pretzels, baubles and white candles and it is enclosed by a small picket fence.
This fabulous Victorian Christmas card shows a sumptuously decorated Christmas tree. How will you be decorating yours this year?
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Three young girls of different ethnicities are chatting together, dressed in costumes with silver sleeves and ruffles, and large black and gold hats.
As the days get more wintry and darker, lets remember some summer sunshine and sparkle, with a visit to the West Indian carnival in Derby, in July 2002. These children are ready to join in with the fun and music in their beautiful costumes.
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A colour photograph of a modern detached house with a car in the drive. The whole house is covered with illuminated Christmas decorations: there are at least three Santa's, the words 'Merry Christmas' in large letters and a big star on the roof.
If you were hoping to see some #FestiveLights in 1998, you could have driven past this house in Riddings and marvelled at the illuminated Santa's!
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