Only a few days left of February to share you #EYALove

The front cover of the book 'Convict love tokens' edited by Michele Field and Timothy Millett. The cover is in brown tones with the title over an image of tokens laid haphazardly one on top of another.

The book 'Convict Love Tokens' from our #LocalStudies library describes the tokens British convicts often made before their transportation to Australia. An informative and touching book.

#EYALove #history #LocalHistory

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@exploreyourarchive.bsky.social "Love...should make you feel wanted happy contented secure", used on a pamphlet designed by the Campaign for Homosexual Equality to teach school children about love & homosexuality cdm21051.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...

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Hand-coloured print, showing a couple lying asleep in bed, snuggled up closely together and apparently snoring. Their clothes are draped around the room. Pinned on the wall by the bed is the verse 'Hush every breeze | Let nothing move | My Celia sleeps | and dreams of love.' The title underneath reads 'The bassoon with a french horn accompanyment'.

Our Woodward collection also contains works by some of his contemporaries, such as this print by Thomas #Rowlandson from 1811. What better way to celebrate enduring love than by gently - or not so gently - snoring together 😴

#EYALove #18thcentury #art

Sir John Franklin’s loss At 7 p.m. on 22 April 1825 the Arctic explorer John Franklin received the tragic news of the death of his first wife Eleanor. He was then at Penetanguishene on the shore of Lake Huron, now in  the …

#OnThisDay in 1825 the poet Eleanor Anne Porden died. A remarkably bright, witty, intelligent and compassionate woman, who was also the first wife of arctic explorer #SirJohnFranklin. It would be two months before he received the devastating news: recordoffice.wordpress.com/2019/04/23/s...

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This month's @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social theme is #EYALove. Here are two pages of poems about love from "Poems, by That most Famous Wit, William Drummond of Hawthornden" from our 17th C Book Collection.

Find the whole book on CollectionsCaptured: collectionscaptured.ncl.ac.uk/digital/coll...

An extract from a typewritten tv script for 'Love in the shadows' by Norman J. Crisp

Valentine’s Day may have passed, but that’s no excuse not to dwell on love @explorearchives #EYALove - here's a snippet from the Papers of Norman J. Crisp - ‘Love in the shadows’ from 1959 (MS199/A807/98/2)

A group of six small children all dressed in white lacy outfits, the girls with ribbons in their hair and the boy wearing a wide brimmed hat. The girl on the left has a big grin on her face and carries a teddy bear in her arms – almost as big as she is!

How many of us loved our teddy bear growing up? Maybe you still do! Here’s some children from Chapel en le Frith in 1912 dressed up for a photograph. Judging by her smile it certainly looks as if the girl on the left loves hers.

#EYALove #PhotoFriday #history #20thcentury

A hand-coloured print, showing a female singer and male musicians standing on what could be a bandstand. A group of people are standing below them, watching the performance. The text above reads 'Come listen to the voice of Love'.

In this print typical Woodward characters are being encouraged to 'Come listen to the voice of Love'. This probably refers to the song 'Oh listen to the voice of Love' by late 18th century composer James Hook. Play on, we say!

#EYALove #history #18thcentury #music

Alice Thornton’s Heart: An Early Modern Emoji Blog article - 13 February 2023

Happy #ValentinesDay! Alice Thornton often referred to her husband as 'dearest heart' and sometimes with the symbol ❤️.

See our post: thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/2...

@exploreyourarchive.bsky.social #EYALove #EarlyModern 🗃️ 📜

Photograph of a poem about prisoners in Richmond Prison in 1883, written by Michael Davitt

Photograph of a poem about prisoners in Richmond Prison in 1883, written by Michael Davitt

An alternative Valentine's poem to the traditional "Roses are red, violets are blue" ❤️🌹

Michael Davitt was inspired to compose a humorus doggerel verse about his fellow prisoners in Richmond Prison in his 1883 diary.
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Victorian Valentine's card. The design features gold and white paper lace on a pink background, framing an assortment of scrapbook illustrations of children, flowers and a peacock feather fan. A young woman's face is in the centre. In top centre, a hand proffers a spray of roses, with the message: Take this rose and be For ever true to me!

Happy Valentine's Day! 🩷 🌹💐 Victorian Valentine's card for #EYALove @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social 📷 VHM image collection, available in our Searchroom.

Cards from my husband’s grandad to his wife in #WW1

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A 1988 Irish stamp depicting a letterbox with hearts and a love letter, celebrating love

Happy #ValentinesDay! ❤

We're celebrating the @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social theme of #EYALove by highlighting Love stamps from the 'Irish Postage Stamp Collection' deposited in the Digital Repository of Ireland by An Post Museum and Archive doi.org/10.7486/DRI.... #Philately #EYAGrá

A Victorian greetings card with a colour drawing of a lady with blonde flowing hair, dressed in a purple dress and purple flowers in her hair. Around her are more flowers, the same purple as her dress and the words ‘With Love From Ilkeston’. The words and flowers are highlighted with glitter.

No secrecy here on #ValentinesDay. Ilkeston is openly sending you its love on this Victorian greetings card.

#PhotoFriday #EYALove

Pale green card with a delicate lace design decorated with coloured flowers and the text "Faithful to thou"

#HappyValentinesDay! @explorearchives #EYALove
Our collection of Valentines date largely from the 1830s and 1840s. They represent the stock of a stationer’s, and were purchased by W.W.Ashley, Lord Mount Temple, in June 1910
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Valentine card measuring 7.5cm by 4.5cm. Rectangular in shape the edges are finely pierced resembling lace. The center is a viola type flower in pale and dark pink with green leaves. One petal opens to reveal a message.

Valentine card measuring 7.5cm by 4.5cm. Rectangular in shape the edges are finely pierced resembling lace. The center is a viola type flower in pale and dark pink with green leaves. The pale pink petal is opened to reveal the printed message "Ever True to Thee".

This exquisite example has to be the smallest Valentine card we have in our collection. It was sent to Thomas Crofts of Belper (1815-1904), a poet, by his wife Martha. A collection of his work was published in 1892 as 'A Castle in the Air and other Poems'.

#EYALove #ValentinesDay

Colour page with embroidered garments.

Text reads: Embroidery on two bridal shawls, 1777, probably from Telemarken.

❤️ or loathe #ValentinesDay, these beautiful C18th Norwegian bridal shawls are prefect for a romance-themed #FashionFriday. From Peasant Art of Europe, 1927.
@librarydmu.bsky.social @astitchintime.bsky.social #archivehashtag #fashionhistory #EYALove @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social

Red trade directories arranged in a heart shape.

Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
We love trade directories,
We hope you do too!
#HappyValentinesDay
#ExploreYourArchive #EYALove

page with felt heart on a white page with typed words in capitals RED FELT HEART LONG FELT WAIT EQUALITY

Members of the campaigning group Women in Media sent a felt heart with a survey to all MPs to gauge their support for the second reading of the Anti-Discrimination Bill in 1972. The Bill later became the Sex Discrimination Act 1975.

@exploreyourarchive.bsky.social #EYALove

Card with a puppy shooting an arrow towards another puppy.

Poem and drawing of the two puppies. One has been shot by an arrow.

Valentines Day card from the Ellis collection in the IBCC Digital Archive. #ExploreYourArchive #EYALove @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social
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Print of photograph of Aldermen Mr and Mrs V L McEntee c.1948. [Valentine McEntee became 1st Baron McEntee in 1951.]

Cover of Walthamstow Borough programme for presentation of Freedom of the Borough to Alderman Valentine McEntee and Alderman Catherine McEntee, 15 Jan 1948.

Valentine McEntee, 1st Baron McEntee, Walthamstow West MP, & his very own Valentine, Lady Catherine McEntee! Married for 33 years, they were an influential couple in Walthamstow, each serving two terms as Mayor. They received the Freedom of the Borough, 1948. @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social #EYALove

First page of a hand written letter.

Two pages of a hand-written letter.

Transcript of two passages from the letters, which reads "My one and only darling, Your letter this morning fills me with thoughts that I cannot utter now, but which I will answer in our whole life together. My child how can you dream that you have failed in any single thing throughout our betrothal than to give me of your best? …My own darling did I not tell you long ago that I love you best because you were “very woman of very woman” – You are to me the incarnation of all the qualities of womanliness. I care not whether what you bring to me is woman’s weakness or woman’s strength, for am I not destined to strengthen one & to draw strength from the other?..."

A bundle of letters.

These are love letters from Philip L. Gell to his future wife Edith Brodrick. On 25th July 1889 he tells her "I care not whether what you bring to me is woman’s weakness or woman’s strength, for am I not destined to strengthen one & to draw strength from the other?"

#EYALove #19thcentury

Two tied bundles of letters inside envelopes lying on a table.

Letters sent home to America from Edinburgh by a medical student in the 1930s. He writes of his first dissection class at Surgeons' Hall, the Royal Infirmary’s “beautiful amphitheatre”, and also meeting his first love.
#EYALove #ExploreYourArchive

Irish stamp dated 2018 featuring a red stylised heart design

💘We're continuing our celebration of the @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social theme of #EYALove with another #Love stamp design from the 'Post Office Irish Postage Stamp Collection', published in the DRI repository by An Post Museum & Archive doi.org/10.7486/DRI.... #Philately

He has his sweetheart on his mind 💘💌

We have an undated photograph of a Cavalry Lance Corporal from our Scottish Horse collection. This photograph features an inset image of what we assume to be the Soldier's wife or girlfriend.

#EYALove #ValentinesDay #history #regimental

Victorian Valentine's card. At top is the inscription 'A Token of Sincere Affection!' The image shows a mauve and yellow flower and bud resembling morning glory, sprays of green foliage, and appliqué dark green leaves, all tied with a pink ribbon.

'A Token of Sincere Affection!', Victorian Valentine's card. Designer not known. #OnlineArtExchange for Valentine's and Palentine's @artukdotorg.bsky.social. Also for #EYALove @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social 📷 VHM image collection, available in our Searchroom.

LJMUH/IMM/4/6/4/8, sepia photograph album photo c.1900s-1930s p.9, showing life ‘companions’ Kathleen M Henderson (left) with Irené Mabel Marsh (right) and their small terrier dogs Demon, Dodger, and Dock sat on their laps at their holiday cottage ‘The Shanty’ in Abersoch, Wales.

Combining #EYALove w/ #LGBTQ+ History Month to share 'life companions' Kathleen Henderson & Irené Mabel Marsh, the Vice Principal & Principal of I M Marsh College, w/ dogs Demon, Dodger, & Dock at their Abersoch holiday cottage, c.1920s 🧵1/6
#lgbthm #lgbtq #gayhistory #archives #history #queer #lgbt

Irish stamp dated 1986 and valued at 26p featuring a heart-shaped green letterbox.

💘💞💓We're celebrating the #ExploreYourArchive theme of #EYALove this week with this stamp from 1986 featuring a heart-shaped letterbox design. Discover more in the Irish Postage Stamp collection deposited in DRI by An Post Museum & Archive doi.org/10.7486/DRI.... #Philately