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
A beautiful painting of a bird by Wang Guochen, late C19th. #EYAWildlife
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
For #EYAWildlife we share a 'Managing England's marine wildlife' booklet kept by Professor Terry Langford of the @Universityofsouthampton as part of his Historic River Data Archive. buff.ly/i6sI1H7 You can find out more about the collection here: buff.ly/NLVJ6AE
Before 1960, The National Hospital for Nervous Diseases' logo showed just three of the four of the UK national flowers - rose (England), shamrock (Ireland) and thistle (Scotland). The Hospital is now called the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (NHNN) and has all four UK national flowers, since about 1961.
The current logo of The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, which was introduced in around 1961, including the daffodil this time. It replaced the three UK flower emblem logo that was in use from 1860 to 1961.
Today’s images link Feb. and March’s #ExploreYourArchive themes, #EYAConnections, #EYAWildlife, and St. David’s Day.
After its centennial in 1960, the National Hospitals for Nervous Diseases (as known then), added the daffodil to its logo with the other 3 UK national flowers. Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus!
A sepia coloured page with two adult coots, one standing and one floating on the water. A coot chick is running towards the floating adult with its tiny wings flapping and beak open. Its parent is calm and sedate, floating on the water.
It's #worldwildlifeday and here are a group of beautiful coots, drawn by illustrator E. H. Shepard.
Shepard, best known for his illustrations for 'Winnie-the-Pooh', often made studies of wildlife in his sketchbooks.
Ref. ST/SB/7, (c) The Shepard Trust
#coots #ehshepard #eyawildlife
🌸 Spring is in the air!
For March, we're celebrating #EYAWildlife
Use our hashtag to share what's in your collection 🌿🦌
#ExploreYourArchive
For February, we are highlighting the Explore Your Archive theme of #EYAConnections
Memorial No. 40345 from 1729 relates to Benjamin Parry leasing land to King George II at the site of Chichester House [now Bank of Ireland], College Green, Dublin for use by the Irish Houses of Parliament @araIreland
Who are better at #EYAConnections but ambassadors! You can view the full 17th Cent. 'Procession of Korean Ambassadors' scroll at https://ow.ly/RouS50Y9Pn4 (MS 86566)
Front cover of the publication 'Strutt Street Belper – ‘The First Fifty Years’ by Belper u3a Local History Group 3. It features a black and white photograph of Strutt Street ca. 1905.
New in our #LocalStudies library, 'Strutt Street Belper – ‘The First Fifty Years’ is a fascinating study of street development from the first proposal of a thoroughfare in 1877, to the interconnected history of its residents and businesses up until 1939.
#EYAConnections #LocalHistory
@exploreyourarchive.bsky.social #EYAConnections
#Letters home
My husbands great uncle Tom emigrated to Oz 1910. We have his many letters home. He stayed connected
Sadly he volunteered to join the Australian army and died at Gallipoli
#FamilyHistory
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Covers of Yellow Pages 1978 for Cardiff, Edinburgh, Northern Ireland and Reading
Did you know that we hold the national archive of Yellow Pages telephone directories? ☎️ For #EYAConnections we’re shining a light on this once-essential tool that helped people stay connected!
New blog post by #UEL Archivst @PaulVDudman about the work of the Living Refugee Archive via the #ExploreYourArchive portal:
Connecting Refugee Histories Through the Living Refugee Archive
www.exploreyourarchive.org/connecting-r...
Read here about how they were then incorporated into an amazingly creative project:
glamarchives.gov.uk/cardiffs-doc... 💞 #EYAConnections
A handwritten page in a notebook. It begins 'Friday May 29th 1840. Journey to London.' It then lists each stop on the journey and how many miles there was in between.
A double page from the same notebook continuing the details of the journey.
A modern document, showing a table which summarises the journey, giving place names and distances in miles.
Our #ArchiveOfTheWeek, this fascinating notebook, shows that if you were travelling from Chesterfield to London in 1840 you would have changed coach 17 times and have needed 65 horses in total! The 158 mile journey would have taken 7 hours and 45 minutes.
#EYAConnections
The West Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education had connections across the world. Here is a newspaper article about a stained glass exhibition by Swansea students at the Chartres Cathedral in France.
#UWTSDlib #EYAConnections #StainedGlass
@uwtsd.bsky.social
![Collage of three sepia photographs from the Cardiff Docklands Collection.
The first shows a formal portrait of a couple [a White woman sitting, Black man standing] and a small Multiethnic boy. The second shows a young Black woman dressed smartly sitting posed in an artist’s studio - “From May to Etta with Love” is written in the top left of the photo. The third photo shows a White woman [in smart Edwardian clothing] standing alongside a very small Black boy standing on a chair, dressed in a smart velvet suit with white frilled collar and white knee-high socks.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7cswerpm6grj7sb2af5nbh5j/bafkreibn5l5touyk5cqwqezo7gtlqp5mszohb5kiip64ggpywmmosucdfu@jpeg)
Collage of three sepia photographs from the Cardiff Docklands Collection. The first shows a formal portrait of a couple [a White woman sitting, Black man standing] and a small Multiethnic boy. The second shows a young Black woman dressed smartly sitting posed in an artist’s studio - “From May to Etta with Love” is written in the top left of the photo. The third photo shows a White woman [in smart Edwardian clothing] standing alongside a very small Black boy standing on a chair, dressed in a smart velvet suit with white frilled collar and white knee-high socks.
Our volunteers loved working on this collection of portraits from Cardiff’s docklands community, taken between 1900-1920.
The images are held at @glamarchives.bsky.social @archiveswales.bsky.social @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social #EYAConnections
✨New Blog✨
For our February theme #EYAConnections we have a new blog from @livingrefarchives.bsky.social, exploring the refugee histories within their archive collections and the importance of building connections.
www.exploreyourarchive.org/connecting-r...
#ExploreYourArchive
Sir Robert Hart, Inspector General of the Chinese Maritime Customs Service became a key figure in the history of China in the 19th century and its foreign relations with the West. Read more here: https://ow.ly/1aRU50Y9jYP #EYAConnections
White text on blue background. Under the spotlight. Keele University: North Staffordshire Miners' Wives Action Group Archive. Image of a group of women from the Action group.
💡Take a look at the latest Spotlight exhibition hosted by @keelelibraries.bsky.social 💡
🎊 Click to read more about the North Staffordshire Miners' Wives Action Group Archives
www.exploreyourarchive.org/spotlight-no...
#ExploreYourArchive
In this blog Professor Niki Alsford unveils Taiwan’s Formosa Church News, a missionary publication that also became a platform for local voices, a tool for linguistic preservation, & a record of Taiwan’s evolving identity. #EYAConnections https://ow.ly/Xl6A50Y9jm6
12 various photos of love and romance
A selection of various photos related to love ♥️ & Connections @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social
#ValentinesDay2026
#romance
#valentinesday
#HospitalRomance
#EYAConnections
Mikidadi Kichange’s relationship with anthropologist Pat Caplan began during her 1965 fieldwork on Mafia Island & developed into a decades‑long friendship, with the two calling each other 'brother & sister.' Caplan later wrote a biography of Mikidadi in 2014. #EYAConnections
A small printed plan, with the title ‘A Plan of the Navigable canal now making from Chesterfield in the County of Derby to the River Trent near Stockwith in the County of Nottingham surveyed in 1770’. It shows the route from Chesterfield to Gainsborough and distances between various places.
We love this small-scale plan of the navigable canal connecting Chesterfield to the River Trent near Stockwith, surveyed in 1770 by J Lodge, showing journey distances and landmarks along the route. What an amazing achievement it was!
#EYAConnections #18thCentury
![Collage quartet of four images, two letters written to Edward Thomas by his children [decorated with flowers], one black and white photograph of Edward Thomas and a sepia photograph of his daughter, Myfanwy in ballerina shoes, dated 1919.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7cswerpm6grj7sb2af5nbh5j/bafkreic6jgayuvymobhri43k4pvyjkori5cofslspr42ouxi5nugcfoip4@jpeg)
Collage quartet of four images, two letters written to Edward Thomas by his children [decorated with flowers], one black and white photograph of Edward Thomas and a sepia photograph of his daughter, Myfanwy in ballerina shoes, dated 1919.
Our volunteers have now transcribed THREE collections of #EdwardThomas related material – they’re held at Cardiff University Special Collections & Archives and National Library Wales. #CrowdCymru connecting the archives of Wales since 2022! #EYAConnections @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social
The Solway Viaduct from Seafield postcard. This shows a large bridge stretching across the Solway. This is a black and white postcard photo from years gone by.
Anyone heard of The Solway Viaduct? 🌉
Did you know that during WW1 this helped to supply H.M. Factory Gretna?🤔
The Solway Viaduct was a railway line and bridge that once connected England and Scotland.
#EYAConnections #ExploreYourArchive
@exploreyourarchive.bsky.social @arascot.bsky.social
Just some of the interconnections between our collections. @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social #EYAConnections
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As well as the catalogues on the ArchivesHub here: archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/locat...
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Newspaper article with two images of women in their homes (Barbara Jones and Natasha Kroll), as well as an advertisement for bedroom furniture.
The Design Archives has over 20 collections about mid-20thC design. For @explorearchive #EYAConnections explore some of the connections among our collections.
This article about artist, designer, curator & collector Barbara Jones (1912-1978) also includes a feature on Natasha Kroll.
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Jean-Martin Charcot's letter of recommendation in support of Victor Horsley's appointment as neurosurgeon at the National Hospital, Queen Square, London, 1886 - page 1, French. Queen Square Archives (ref: QSA/2141)
Jean-Martin Charcot's letter of recommendation in support of Victor Horsley's appointment as neurosurgeon at the National Hospital, Queen Square, London, 1886 - page 2, French. Queen Square Archives (ref: QSA/2141)
No doubt many, many connections were made at this hugely popular event in 1881. Charcot stands in one of the bottom left-hand side groups. Members of the International Medical Congress, London. Wellcome Collection. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Here we have connections between Charcot, hypnosis and suggestion. Caricature de Jean-Martin Charcot and ‘Suggestion’, Pont-Calé, 1890, Le professeur Charcot, drawing by Luque, in the « Les hommes d’aujourd’hui » collection, vol. 7, n° 343.
Eminent French neurologist, Jean-Martin Charcot had many connections with Queen Square (QS), home of UK neurology. Charcot’s demos at Salpêtrière Hospital also attracted many young British physicians to Paris. Discover more in our QS Library display. www.queensquare.org.uk/archives #EYAConnections
