Andrea Hart
@andreahart.bsky.social
Head of Library Special Collections @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social. Love all things paper & vellum, the natural world & its history, mudskippers, running and drinking tea.
Previously @drewyhart on Twitter/X
Previously @drewyhart on Twitter/X
Has been a bit of a #bony day today in the collections - these two plates published in A series of engravings representing the bones of the human skeleton .. by John Barclay in 1819 perhaps being my favourites. Both engraved by E. Mitchell #rarebooks #skeletons #barebones
October 28, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Has been a bit of a #bony day today in the collections - these two plates published in A series of engravings representing the bones of the human skeleton .. by John Barclay in 1819 perhaps being my favourites. Both engraved by E. Mitchell #rarebooks #skeletons #barebones
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Just a 1399 unicorn watermark from a paper manufacturer from Valencia to make your day. Friends of #paperhistory know that these paper sheets of around 1400 are among the first sheets of European paper to appear on the market. European #bookhistory was a different game afterwards. #skystorians
October 25, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Just a 1399 unicorn watermark from a paper manufacturer from Valencia to make your day. Friends of #paperhistory know that these paper sheets of around 1400 are among the first sheets of European paper to appear on the market. European #bookhistory was a different game afterwards. #skystorians
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October 23, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Even more #cyanotypes from over 150 years ago by the pioneering Anna Atkins (1799-1871) - her 3 volumes of cyanotypes of British Algae created between 1843-53 preserved @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social all digitised & freely available to view nhm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/44... #photography
This week at the Linnean: Cyanotypes galore!
📸 A cyanotype is a type of photography - a technique using no cameras, but instead a special solution of light-sensitive salts, which is exposed to UV light and then washed
💙 The result is a stunning print of your object, in a rich blue and white hue!
📸 A cyanotype is a type of photography - a technique using no cameras, but instead a special solution of light-sensitive salts, which is exposed to UV light and then washed
💙 The result is a stunning print of your object, in a rich blue and white hue!
October 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Even more #cyanotypes from over 150 years ago by the pioneering Anna Atkins (1799-1871) - her 3 volumes of cyanotypes of British Algae created between 1843-53 preserved @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social all digitised & freely available to view nhm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/44... #photography
“Wonder” the new #exhibition @linneansociety.bsky.social - wonder in title and wonderful in choice of objects, humour and celebration of all things natural world-
y! And what's even better is that it is
free to go see! www.linnean.org/research-col... #collections #proudtrustee #HarryStyles #science
y! And what's even better is that it is
free to go see! www.linnean.org/research-col... #collections #proudtrustee #HarryStyles #science
October 16, 2025 at 6:10 PM
“Wonder” the new #exhibition @linneansociety.bsky.social - wonder in title and wonderful in choice of objects, humour and celebration of all things natural world-
y! And what's even better is that it is
free to go see! www.linnean.org/research-col... #collections #proudtrustee #HarryStyles #science
y! And what's even better is that it is
free to go see! www.linnean.org/research-col... #collections #proudtrustee #HarryStyles #science
Happy Departmental #Birthday to us! Our shelves are still happily full of wonderful books but I’m just wondering how on earth the ones on the top shelf got there or were retrieved?!? (Loving the ladder too even though a H&S nightmare … ) #libraries #books #NHM #Collections
October 1, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Happy Departmental #Birthday to us! Our shelves are still happily full of wonderful books but I’m just wondering how on earth the ones on the top shelf got there or were retrieved?!? (Loving the ladder too even though a H&S nightmare … ) #libraries #books #NHM #Collections
For anyone needing a little lift today, here’s a link to the botanical drawing #master that is Georg Ehret (1708-1770) and some of his watercolours held by nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social all freely available to view and make you #smile nhm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fu... #botanicalart
September 11, 2025 at 8:17 AM
For anyone needing a little lift today, here’s a link to the botanical drawing #master that is Georg Ehret (1708-1770) and some of his watercolours held by nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social all freely available to view and make you #smile nhm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fu... #botanicalart
Delighted to have come across this lovely book for a patron visit - Isabella Sinclair’s Indigenous Flowers of the #Hawaiian Islands (1855). The first book published with colour images of Hawaiian flowering plants. A great blog here blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2019/03/isab... #rarebooks #flowers
September 10, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Delighted to have come across this lovely book for a patron visit - Isabella Sinclair’s Indigenous Flowers of the #Hawaiian Islands (1855). The first book published with colour images of Hawaiian flowering plants. A great blog here blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2019/03/isab... #rarebooks #flowers
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Mycologist Arthur Peck (1870-1940) was such a fun guy (sorry, not sorry) we've added his 150+ images of British fungi to our Digitised Special Collections buff.ly/DwrpsMW. #NaturalHistoryMuseum #SpecialCollections #NatureInArt #Photography #SciArt #Mushrooms
Alt text: Reel of sepia photos of fungi
Alt text: Reel of sepia photos of fungi
August 29, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Mycologist Arthur Peck (1870-1940) was such a fun guy (sorry, not sorry) we've added his 150+ images of British fungi to our Digitised Special Collections buff.ly/DwrpsMW. #NaturalHistoryMuseum #SpecialCollections #NatureInArt #Photography #SciArt #Mushrooms
Alt text: Reel of sepia photos of fungi
Alt text: Reel of sepia photos of fungi
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Surely one of the most exquisite zoological publications of the nineteenth century: Richard Owen's Monograph on the Aye-Aye (1863), with plates drawn by Joseph Wolf and lithographed by James Erxleben. Also a key statement of Owen's conception of evolution. (The @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social copy.)
August 9, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Surely one of the most exquisite zoological publications of the nineteenth century: Richard Owen's Monograph on the Aye-Aye (1863), with plates drawn by Joseph Wolf and lithographed by James Erxleben. Also a key statement of Owen's conception of evolution. (The @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social copy.)
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New on advance access: "Colonial world-making and global knowledges at the early modern Cape of Good Hope"
by @gianamar97.bsky.social (@uvahumanities.bsky.social)
#OpenAccess
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by @gianamar97.bsky.social (@uvahumanities.bsky.social)
#OpenAccess
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Colonial world-making and global knowledges at the early modern Cape of Good Hope*
Abstract. As the Cape of Good Hope was integrated into early modern colonial world-making projects, it came to be regarded as ‘the western part of the East
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August 7, 2025 at 6:26 AM
New on advance access: "Colonial world-making and global knowledges at the early modern Cape of Good Hope"
by @gianamar97.bsky.social (@uvahumanities.bsky.social)
#OpenAccess
academic.oup.com/past/advance...
by @gianamar97.bsky.social (@uvahumanities.bsky.social)
#OpenAccess
academic.oup.com/past/advance...
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BIG NEWS: For the first time in six years, Britain's rarest breeding bird has successfully nested in the UK!
A pair of Montagu's Harriers have raised four healthy chicks, all of which have taken their first flights.
A pair of Montagu's Harriers have raised four healthy chicks, all of which have taken their first flights.
July 30, 2025 at 9:04 AM
BIG NEWS: For the first time in six years, Britain's rarest breeding bird has successfully nested in the UK!
A pair of Montagu's Harriers have raised four healthy chicks, all of which have taken their first flights.
A pair of Montagu's Harriers have raised four healthy chicks, all of which have taken their first flights.
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One of the cuddliest, fluffiest predators on the planet.
Hyperechia consimilis (Asilidae), female. This beauty was collected from Mulanje Massif, or Mt Mulanje in southern Malawi. She is over a hundred years old....
@dipterists.bsky.social @nhm-london.bsky.social #digitising
Hyperechia consimilis (Asilidae), female. This beauty was collected from Mulanje Massif, or Mt Mulanje in southern Malawi. She is over a hundred years old....
@dipterists.bsky.social @nhm-london.bsky.social #digitising
July 30, 2025 at 4:12 PM
One of the cuddliest, fluffiest predators on the planet.
Hyperechia consimilis (Asilidae), female. This beauty was collected from Mulanje Massif, or Mt Mulanje in southern Malawi. She is over a hundred years old....
@dipterists.bsky.social @nhm-london.bsky.social #digitising
Hyperechia consimilis (Asilidae), female. This beauty was collected from Mulanje Massif, or Mt Mulanje in southern Malawi. She is over a hundred years old....
@dipterists.bsky.social @nhm-london.bsky.social #digitising
I’m getting “oh really” or “do I have to listen to this for the umpteenth time” vibes from this marmoset drawn by Weber in Wagner’s Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur (pl.13, supplementband, 1855). #animalexpressions #specialbooks #illustration
July 22, 2025 at 1:09 PM
I’m getting “oh really” or “do I have to listen to this for the umpteenth time” vibes from this marmoset drawn by Weber in Wagner’s Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur (pl.13, supplementband, 1855). #animalexpressions #specialbooks #illustration
Richard Owen was born #OTD 221 years ago .. Also born on 20th July: Gregor Mendel (1822-1884), Jimmy “Teddy Bears’ Picnic” Kennedy (1902-1984), Mad Dog Coll (1908-1932), Edmund Hillary (1919-2008), Ted “3-2-1” Rogers (1935-2001), Diana Rigg (1938-2020) and Chris Cornell (1964-2017) #birthdays
Some birthday facts and faces of Sir Richard Owen, founder of the Natural History Museum, London who was born #OTD in 1804. A very Happy Birthday to anyone else with a birthday today! #NaturalHistoryMuseum #Palaeontology
Alt text: Reel of portraits of Professor Richard Owen [has sound]
Alt text: Reel of portraits of Professor Richard Owen [has sound]
July 20, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Richard Owen was born #OTD 221 years ago .. Also born on 20th July: Gregor Mendel (1822-1884), Jimmy “Teddy Bears’ Picnic” Kennedy (1902-1984), Mad Dog Coll (1908-1932), Edmund Hillary (1919-2008), Ted “3-2-1” Rogers (1935-2001), Diana Rigg (1938-2020) and Chris Cornell (1964-2017) #birthdays
You can also now see it as part of the Richard Owen: A Natural Legacy display in the @nhm-london.bsky.social ‘s free Images of Nature gallery alongside other original #illustrations from Owen’s fascinating drawings collection #naturalhistory #art #gallery #echidna #anatomy
July 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
You can also now see it as part of the Richard Owen: A Natural Legacy display in the @nhm-london.bsky.social ‘s free Images of Nature gallery alongside other original #illustrations from Owen’s fascinating drawings collection #naturalhistory #art #gallery #echidna #anatomy
Currently prepping these wooden beauties for a new display on Richard Owen’s science, art and legacy going into the NHM’s Images of Nature gallery tomorrow! #woodengraving #megatherium #bones #specialcollections
July 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Currently prepping these wooden beauties for a new display on Richard Owen’s science, art and legacy going into the NHM’s Images of Nature gallery tomorrow! #woodengraving #megatherium #bones #specialcollections
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One of the earliest European accounts of an Australian mammal was of a #quokka, by Willem de Vlamingh in 1696, here on #Rottnest - in fact, he named the island after them (Rottnest means Rat's nest in Dutch - of course it already had a Noongar name: Wadjemup). The account of the voyage... 1/2
July 10, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Celebrating the first anniversary of Fern the Diplodocus in our garden @nhm-london.bsky.social , here's a little movie explaining exactly how we did it, starring yours truly: www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7Xb...
Creating a bronze dinosaur for the Natural History Museum gardens | The story behind Fern
YouTube video by Natural History Museum
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July 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Celebrating the first anniversary of Fern the Diplodocus in our garden @nhm-london.bsky.social , here's a little movie explaining exactly how we did it, starring yours truly: www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7Xb...
A true privilege to be able to observe such iconic wildlife up close in the wonderful Galápagos Islands - especially my all time fav, the blue footed booby. So very special to appreciate how humans and wildlife can thrive together #santacruz #sancristobal #respect
July 8, 2025 at 12:38 PM
A true privilege to be able to observe such iconic wildlife up close in the wonderful Galápagos Islands - especially my all time fav, the blue footed booby. So very special to appreciate how humans and wildlife can thrive together #santacruz #sancristobal #respect
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hello. if you work at a university please ask your library to buy my book. it is all about books and libraries and also plants, museums, the Royal Society, and the ways we learn. I think it will be interesting to lots of people, hopefully. thank you www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
Hans Sloane's Library Collection and the Production of Knowledge | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
www.cambridge.org
June 30, 2025 at 1:34 PM
hello. if you work at a university please ask your library to buy my book. it is all about books and libraries and also plants, museums, the Royal Society, and the ways we learn. I think it will be interesting to lots of people, hopefully. thank you www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
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Morning all. Meet Enigmacursor mollyborthwickae, a new neornithishian dinosaur from the Morrison Formation. It goes on display @nhm-london.bsky.social from tomorrow. Paper by @profpaulbarrett.bsky.social and I in @royalsocietypublishing.org Open Science.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
June 25, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Morning all. Meet Enigmacursor mollyborthwickae, a new neornithishian dinosaur from the Morrison Formation. It goes on display @nhm-london.bsky.social from tomorrow. Paper by @profpaulbarrett.bsky.social and I in @royalsocietypublishing.org Open Science.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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The fab jackdashby.bsky.social is giving us @nhm-london.bsky.social’ers a talk on the topics in his new book ‘Nature’s Memory’
The history of how collections develop is not always pleasant - some have a dark past -check out the publication below & read his book!
www.natsca.org/sites/defaul...
The history of how collections develop is not always pleasant - some have a dark past -check out the publication below & read his book!
www.natsca.org/sites/defaul...
June 24, 2025 at 9:42 AM
The fab jackdashby.bsky.social is giving us @nhm-london.bsky.social’ers a talk on the topics in his new book ‘Nature’s Memory’
The history of how collections develop is not always pleasant - some have a dark past -check out the publication below & read his book!
www.natsca.org/sites/defaul...
The history of how collections develop is not always pleasant - some have a dark past -check out the publication below & read his book!
www.natsca.org/sites/defaul...
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Well this is exciting! Here's an interview I did for @nature.com about #NaturesMemory - talking about how natural history #museums can help save the world, as the best evidence we have for understanding environmental change, plus colonial legacies, male bias, and more:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘Natural history museums can save the world’: anti-colonialism, conservation and climate change
Zoologist Jack Ashby explains why it’s vital to invest in protecting specimens stored in scientific collections.
www.nature.com
June 23, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Well this is exciting! Here's an interview I did for @nature.com about #NaturesMemory - talking about how natural history #museums can help save the world, as the best evidence we have for understanding environmental change, plus colonial legacies, male bias, and more:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...