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Our College around 1900, showing rooms filled with ferns. This was during the fern fever (also known as Pteridomania) of the Victorian period. Fern collecting was a hugely popular pastime and was even rumoured to enhance virility and improve mental health


Black and white photograph of a room with large roman columns. In the middle of the room is a large table covered in fernsBlack and white photograph of a large museum display case containing wet specimens in jarsBlack and white photograph of a staircase leading up to an open door. The door is flanked by two statues

Clothworkers’ Textiles Through the Lens 📷 “Ull er Føroya gull” - “Wool is Faroese Gold”. This 1903 photograph by Nelson Annandale captures a mother and daughter spinning Faroese sheep’s wool, offering a glimpse into the Faroe Island’s enduring wool and knitting traditions. 🐑🧶

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Did you know? In the Victorian era, one extraordinarily wealthy English duke spent decades constructing a vast underground world beneath his country estate? William John Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, the 5th Duke of Portland, inherited Welbeck Abbey in Nottinghamshire. #Victorian #history

It shows a photograph of the 5th Duke of Portland.

A Viking axehead found in the River Colne raises more questions than it answers. The hole in the blade comes from centuries underwater, not combat. Some archaeologists think it may have been deliberately placed in the river as an offering rather than accidentally lost.

Viking axehead seen from the right side, showing curved blade and large corroded hole near the lower edge, set against a white background.Corroded iron Viking axehead with wide blade and socketed end for a handle, photographed from the left side against a white background.