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Emma Banks
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Hampshire-based museum professional with a passion for connecting past and present. Caffeine-powered and voracious reader.
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orkneylibrary.bsky.social
If you've got a better photograph of a cat trying to fire a cannon at an unsuspecting dog then we'd like to see it.

#Caturday #Archives #SaturdayMorning
A black and white archive photograph of a cat sitting on a cannon and arching his back. A dog is sitting right in front of the cannon.
March 15, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.bsky.social
A venn diagram. The three circles are labelled: The Archaeologist The Pirate The Dog The area where all threel overlap is labelled: Loves digging things up Dog/Archaeologist overlap is labelled: Gets excited by bones Pirate/Archaeologist overlap is labelled: Good with maps Dog/Pirate overlap is labelled: Buries things for later
January 12, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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archive.org
🎥 Remix creative works like THE SKELETON DANCE for our 2025 Public Domain Day Remix Contest!⁠
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Use one or more classics from 1929 to create your 2–3 minute short film.⁠
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📆 Deadline: Jan 17, 2025⁠
💰 First prize: $1,500⁠
👉 Details: blog.archive.org/2024/12/16/2...
January 3, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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simonpegg.bsky.social
While you've all been slaving over Turkey, I've been preparing this Chicken for later.
A cheese and meat board, with an arrangement in the shape of master criminal Feathers McGraw.
December 25, 2024 at 5:10 PM
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folklorepod.bsky.social
It is Dec 22 and I have been remiss in not yet posting any bizarre Victorian Christmas cards, so…

Here’s a reminder to make sure you remember to give the gift of a severed head with embedded cleaver this Yuletide.
December 22, 2024 at 12:23 PM
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“Wound Man” is an illustration which first appeared in European surgical texts during the Middle Ages. It laid out schematically the various wounds a person might suffer in battle or in accidents, with accompanying text stating treatments.

Tag yourself as a wound ahead of the holidays!
An illustration of a man with various wounds and weapons, and accompanying text.
December 22, 2024 at 3:45 PM
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curatorwithout.bsky.social
Found the greatest ever Blue Plaque in the whole of Great Britain today. We only went and spotted the Blue Plaque commemorating the greatest, most fantastic secret agent in the world!
#BluePlaque #BakerStreet #HesTheGreatest #HesFantastic #WhereverThereIsDangerHellBeThere #CrumbsDM #DangerMouse
Photo of a red letter box on a London street, bicycles behind it, the arm of a small child pointing at it. There's a small blue circle at its base Photo of base of red letter box. There's a blue sticker of a blue plaque. It states "Danger Mouse The Greatest Secret Agent In The World Lived Here" Photo of bkack base of a letter box. There's a blue sticker of a blue plaque. It states "Danger Mouse The Greatest Secret Agent In The World Lived Here"
December 15, 2024 at 9:32 PM
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orkneylibrary.bsky.social
🎶 All we want for Christmas is...

...that copy of Billy Bunter The Hiker that we've been looking for since 1983. 🎶

Found in an attic and finally returned this morning. 👏

Now we're trying to remember who was waiting for it...
December 5, 2024 at 3:11 PM
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Fantastic afternoon SW Museums Fed event @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social my favourite object of the day was definitely this pomander! Big thanks to the host and organisers
Pomander recovered from wreck of The Mary Rose
December 4, 2024 at 4:42 PM
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linneansociety.bsky.social
Afternoon snack? As well as being delicious, cashews (Anacardium occidentale) are beautiful plants, as drawn here by Berthe Hoola Van Nooten (1863).

Van Nooten lived a globetrotting life, travelling to America and Java.

Available as a card, poster or print: www.magnoliabox.com/collections/...
Cashew (Anacardium occidentale), Berthe Hoola Van Nooten, from 'Fleurs, fruits et feuillages choisis de la flore…de Java' (1863)
December 4, 2024 at 4:10 PM
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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 1
‘Winter Village’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
A cover illustration from John Bull magazine of a view over a bridge to frozen lake covered with small figures skating and trying to skate. Around them are buildings and winter trees.
December 1, 2024 at 8:00 AM
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historitage.bsky.social
…the sheer splendour of Birmingham reference library in the 1880s!! At this time, 12,000 readers made use of the library each day. Newspapers were a big draw, particularly for those in search of work who crowded into the building bright & early to consult the “jobs vacant” columns.
#PubLibs 💙📚
B&W illustration showing the interior of a vast reference library in Birmingham in Britain. More than a dozen desks are placed in the foreground. A handful of readers are seated at these, with books and papers spread before them. Pillars surround the room. There is a high, domed ceiling with stained glass windows in the lower part of the dome. The impression is of a church or cathedral.
November 30, 2024 at 4:02 PM
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Just because it was SO sad to see the fire and I am so delighted to see the pictures coming out today..
The Quai Saint-Michel and Notre-Dame by Maximilien Luce 1901
Oil on Canvas
(Musée d'Orsay)
November 29, 2024 at 3:36 PM
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drlindseyfitz.bsky.social
Following on from my last post on Charles Darwin's walking stick, here's a letter he wrote in 1861: "But I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything."

Same, Darwin. Same.
A handwritten letter that reads: "But I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything."
November 28, 2024 at 1:19 PM
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nationaltrust.org.uk
The only tweets we're interested in seeing on here:
A wren is perched on a twig with its beak wide open singing. The background is blurred, with more blurred twigs in the foreground. Photo by Dougie Holden. A common whitethroat perched on a birch tree has its beak wide open, singing against a blue sky. Photo by Nick Upton A wren stands on a long with its beak wide open singing against a blurred background. Photo by Barry Edwards. A robin sits on a wall with its beak open singing. Photo by Hanne Siebers
November 25, 2024 at 5:00 PM
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folklorewales.com
⚠️ Pontypridd has been hit by devastating floods and our wonderful independent bookshop, Storyville Books, has seen much of its stock destroyed.

If you’re able to buy a book from them, this would go such a long way to help support them rebuild in the aftermath.

👉 uk.bookshop.org/shop/Storyvi...
Storyville Books Bookshop UK
Nestled in the rolling hills of the South Wales valleys, we are the only independent bookshop in Pontypridd, selling new books and more.
uk.bookshop.org
November 24, 2024 at 6:41 PM
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and the hog grows longer
A painting of a long hog, made even longer. It is very long.
November 21, 2024 at 12:51 PM
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“I’ve noticed I’m not in your starter pack. Any particular reason for that?”
November 17, 2024 at 11:34 AM
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Some conservation in action at the Malta Archeological Museum in Valletta on a recent trip - an amazing building, stunning detail!
November 14, 2024 at 10:32 PM