Last day of #EYAWildlife and a new blog post is up from the British Trust for Ornithology about their archives 🦤
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www.exploreyourarchive.org/the-archives...
Continuing with the #EYAWildlife theme for March - we share a 1920 letter on New Forest ponies, speed limits and road accidents - addressed to Wilfrid Ashley MP from a Burley resident @historicalsoton.bsky.social
Front cover of the book 'Tree Hunting. 1,000 Trees to Find in Britain and Ireland's Towns and Cities' by Paul Wood. It features a hand drawn map of Edinburgh, with captions such as 'New Town' and 'The Botanics'. The locations of several trees are indicated with numbers.
New in our #LocalStudies library: the ‘Dew’, ‘Blushing’ and ‘Seen it all’ are trees in Derby Arboretum which feature in Paul Wood’s concise and fascinating compendium on fabulous trees and where to find them.
#EYAWildlife #tree
#EYAWildlife Trinity College’s play in 1960 was Noah
by André Obey in which students acted the roles of animals including a bear, lamb, elephant, cow,
wolf and tiger. They played to a full house every night.
Derbyshire’s countryside is full of wildlife wonders. This recording from 2013 features Steve Furness describing the unique flowers and animals along the River Derwent in Calver. Can you hear any in the background?
#EYAWildlife #LocalHistory #OralHistory
Spotted outside our conservation studio!
Not one of our regulars… but to be fair to Mr/Ms Fox our website does say we have a café selling a small selection of hot and cold drinks.
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🐦✨ This month’s @exploreyourarchive theme is wildlife! We’re sharing newly catalogued diaries by Ken Spalding, warden at Tamar Lakes in the 1970s–80s. His daily notes on weather, fisheries and wildlife offer a fascinating record of ecological change.
#eyawildlife #tamarlakesreservoir
These beautiful watercolour illustrations of moths, and their caterpillars is from an Album of Paintings of Insects by Cantonese artist Fatqua (early-mid C19th) #EYAWildlife https://ow.ly/UfOY50Yp7yj
🌷 Riffing on @folklorethursday.bsky.social 'cheery' daffs, here is the gorge Flora Symbolica, 1870? and the #spring tulip, symbol of perfect love, elegance and #renewal. Phew! 😍
@librarydmu.bsky.social #folklorethursday #springequinox @dmu.ac.uk #EYAWildlife #NationalYearofReading
On a family visit to the zoo on 18 September 1885, Gowers sketched this drawing of a Yak. From 'The Children's Journals' (c.1886), vol.2, page 91.
Gowers' pencil drawing of an Eagle Owl. Gowers wrote, "Much amusement was occasioned by the quaint and grave appearance of the eagle owls, who look as if Solomon was foolishness itself compared to them." From 'The Children's Journals' (c.1886), vol.2, page 297.
A wonderful sketch of a majestic Lion lying down, facing the viewer. From 'The Children's Journals' (c.1886), vol.2, page 89.
A rare colour drawing by Gowers. This Peacock Butterfly had flown into the room and was literally captured for posterity. From 'The Children's Journals' (c.1887), vol.3, page 162.
Today’s images were drawn by famous neurologist Sir William Gowers in his Children’s Journals. The scrapbook-type diaries depict family life and trips, dotted with sketches of animals and places they saw. More of Gowers work is available at Queen Square Archives tinyurl.com/y3epuxph
#EYAWildlife
This fantastic image of men fishing with cormorants was taken in China by businessman George E Cormack, 1915. Cormorant fishing is a traditional method in which trained birds dive for fish, and it has a long, layered history across East Asia #EYAWildlife
Colourful map of Windsor Safari Park.
The Berkshire attraction Legoland turns 30 today! 🥳 Did you know that before it was built the site was occupied by Windsor Safari Park? We hold various documents relating to the park including a guidebook that contains this lovely map. #EYAWildlife
Hertford County Hospital badge featuring a deer.
Chase Farm Hospital Enfield badge featuring stag antlers and a lamp.
West Hertfordshire School of Nursing featuring a deer.
Watford and District Peace Memorial Hospital badge featuring a deer.
This month's #ExploreYourArchive theme is #EYAWildlife. We've delved into the RCN Archive's nursing badges collection. There was a lot to choose from: storks, lions, horses, a crab, serpents and liver birds.
But we've picked out these charming deer badges from Herts and Enfield
#HistNursing
Here is our contribution to the #EYAWildlife theme in March! We think the combo of #Bundesarchiv #Berlin #Archivhimmel & #wildlife is marvelous. Do you agree? #ExploreYourArchive
#history #geschichte #historians #skystorians
On 20 October 1970 buff.ly/rYZkCcf Lord Mountbatten spoke about the importance of nature conservation at an event held in the orangery at Broadlands - supporting the local group of the World Wildlife Fund #EYAWildlife @explorearchives
A colour photograph of of six children in a classroom. On the wall behind three children standing is a large hand drawn poster of the world, highlighting the rain forests of South America. The classroom is decorated with rainforest wildlife and one of the children is holding a hand made mask in front of their face.
A throwback to 1997: children from Barlborough Primary School learning all about rainforest wildlife — complete with curious faces and big imaginations. A lovely snapshot of classroom exploration!
#EYAWildlife #1990s
Fish being sun-dried in Aberdeen, Hong Kong, photographed by Henry Rue in 1910-1913. #EYAWildlife https://ow.ly/UNwV50Yp6ek
A colour illustration of the John Dory fish. The image is a side on view. The illustration is signed by William Yarrell
For this month's @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social prompt #EYAWildlife we have selected a watercolour illustration of a John Dory by William Yarrell. Yarrell authored 'A History of British Fishes' and it's believed these watercolours were used in preparation for the publication
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For @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social 's March theme #EYAWildlife, we are sharing two pages from an early 20th-century teacher’s notebook featuring the order of the corvids (Corvidae)- complete with beautifully colorful illustrations.
Éamon de Buitléar's independent filmmaking in the 1960s produced pioneering Irish wildlife films and series for RTÉ and British television
His archive and book collection are held at the University of Galway
#EYAWildlife #ExploreYourArchive
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A handwritten manuscript listing gardening expenses
One of the most important parts of the medieval Abbey was College Garden, which was used to grow food and medicinal herbs and was home to a fishpond and beehives. The gardener's expenses are recorded in these handwritten accounts in our archive.
#ExploreYourArchive #EYAWildlife
White text Explore Your Archive with black text underneath saying 10th of each month. Includes small Explore Your Archive logo in the corner
🎊 Happy #ExploreYourArchive Day! 🎊
This month's theme is #EYAWildlife 🐘
Let's celebrate the wild and wonderful items in our collections 🐅
Tag us in your posts or use our hashtags!
Page of a newsletter with letters from members detailing accounts of wildlife spotted around the Redbridge area
A page from the Wren Conservation Group newsletter, Autumn 1977, with mention of wildlife spotted at Wanstead Park and a sighting of parakeets in Ilford! 🦜
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This cheeky monkey in a tree was photographed by anthropologist Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf somewhere in the border region between Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh in 1943. #EYAWildlife https://ow.ly/8y9F50Yp5Rm
Anthropologist, Christoph von Furer Haimendorf was lucky enough to capture a photo of this young wild elephant in upland Kerala in 1953 #EYAWildlife https://ow.ly/ZLCf50Yp4ZY
Black and white print with title "The White Wolf and a View of the Dog Rib Rock". It shows a rather ferocious looking wolf, standing in a mountainous landscape.
This fabulous print of an arctic wolf and landscape was based on drawings made by Lieutenant Robert Hood and Lieutenant George Back during #SirJohnFranklin's first Arctic land expedition in 1819.
#EYAWildlife #arctic #19thCentury #wolf
black and white photo of a woman standing on scaffolding in front of a painted mural of a lake surrounded by homes as well as natural flora and fauna including a turtle
colour image of the a mural of a lake surrounded by houses and natural flora and fauna including a painted turtle. a taxidermied tiger is placed in front of the mural.
For @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social #EYAWildlife this display from the Commonwealth Institute designed by James Gardner who commissioned a mural by Barbara Jones complete with taxidermied tiger.
Black & white photo of Jones: LJG/3/3/1/8/1
Charles Skilton's picture postcard: BJR/2/1
The Explore Your Archive theme for Márta | March is #EYAFiadhúlra | #EYAWildlife
Get involved and remember to tag 🏷️ @araireland.bsky.social & @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social in your posts #ExploreYourArchive #CuardaighDoChartlann
🌸 Spring is in the air!
For March, we're celebrating #EYAWildlife
Use our hashtag to share what's in your collection 🌿🦌
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