"Keep your Programme! It may win you a Wristlet Watch!... The Lucky number will be exhibited at the information Bureau, De La Warr Pavilion, for one week following the Regatta. The winner will receive a Lady's or Gentlemen's Wristlet Watch by presenting this number to Mr C. Emary, Jeweller..."

If you'd like something even more dangerous, our archive is so old that we don't use these fancy modern rolling stacks. Ours are attached to a motorised chain that runs the length of the room. This means sometimes they like to move by themselves just a little, enough to keep you on edge.

alix e. harrow@alixeharrow.bsky.social · 22h ago

i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys

"Bexhill Regatta 5th August, 1962. Lucky Number Programme." Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex 5.8.1962. #Bexhill #Sussex #Regatta #Seaside #History #1960s

What are the rules of a library? 📜 Acclaimed artist Peter Liversidge spent eight months researching our collections, speaking to staff, and studying library rules from around the world to create 'The Rules of the Library' – a large-scale artwork now on display in our General Reading Room.

The 'silly season' has arrived and it's only going to get sillier! Have you been reading 'The Daily Scare'..? PUNCH cartoon by Bernard Partridge 1909 #August #media #press #communications

Great to see Osterley House, National Trust engage again with the long legacy of the East India Company and its material cultures in Hounslow. Exciting to see another exhibition on this theme: Journeys: Wedding Shawls, Baghs and Phulkaris from the Karun Thakar Collection, open until 1 November. 1/4

Karun Thakar brings British Asians into Osterley House with National Trust exhibition

Exhibition of shawls invites visitors to rediscover estate's India links

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Also reintroduced its natural prey over a number of years 🐅

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Latest from our Stephen M. Bland Kazakhstan has released a tiger into the wild for the first time in more than 70 years, marking a major step toward restoring the species in the Ili River delta https://ow.ly/3ETK50ZvKjS #WildlifeConservation #TigerRestoration #Kazakhstan #EndangeredSpecies #Tigers

Latest from our Stephen M. Bland Kazakhstan has released a tiger into the wild for the first time in more than 70 years, marking a major step toward restoring the species in the Ili River delta https://ow.ly/3ETK50ZvKjS #WildlifeConservation #TigerRestoration #Kazakhstan #EndangeredSpecies #Tigers

Kazakhstan Releases First Tiger into Wild in More Than 70 Years - The Times Of Central Asia

Kazakhstan has released a tiger into the wild for the first time in more than 70 years, beginning the practical phase of a long-running program to restore the

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Before GPS, sailors relied on coastal landmarks. In 1801, John Thomas Serres used aquatint engraving to create clearer, more detailed coastal profiles in The Little Sea Torch, helping mariners navigate more safely. 🗺️🌊 Discover the story 👉 heritage.lrfoundation.org.uk/stories/navi...

A little Roman octopus to wish you a happy week! 🐙❤️ From a Roman villa mosaic at Villaquejida, León, Spain. Limestone, AD 100-200. Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid 📷 by me #MosaicMonday #Archaeology

This stamp was found in the early 19th century near the Roman settlement at Inveresk in East Lothian. Oculists were specialised eye doctors. The original stamp would have been used to seal jars or mark the blocks of eye-ointment before they became hard.

Liverpool looking rather magnificent yesterday morning 😃🌞

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Why can you not be contented to have hair of the colour nature gave you?

Seven Brilliant Black Inventors You Never Learned About In History Class By Natasha Ishak From George Washington Carver to Madam C.J. Walker to Lonnie Johnson, meet some of the most iconic African American inventors who shaped history. allthatsinteresting.com/black-invent... #culture #history

Very much looking forward to seeing this new Mary Anning exhibition @dorsetmuseum.bsky.social which opens 6 months today, on 30 January 2027. More on it here: www.dorsetmuseum.org/whats-on/mar... where you'll also find a link to contribute to the museum's fundraising campaign for the exhibition.

Any other researchers/historians having issues with new British Newspaper Archive interface? My bookmarks have been migrated but 13 years of research bookmarked is now totally unsearchable without starting from scratch and my attached notes have disappeared!

Apply for our PhD placement scheme to get involved in extraordinary research at the Library. There are eight available placements exploring a variety of themes including war poetry, 21st-century digital tools, illustrated newspapers and decarbonisation. Find out more: link.bl.uk/PhDPlacements

Absolutely delighted to let you know that the Punch's Pocket Book Archive project has just been selected for a substantial grant from the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (2026-2030). We would like to thank all members of the project, past and present, for their contribution to the venture.

ANR - Agence nationale de la recherche@agencerecherche.bsky.social · last wk.

📢 Appel à projets générique #AAPG 2026 : l’ANR publie la liste des projets sélectionnés pour financement (JCJC, PRME, PRC et PRCE) dans le cadre de l’ensemble des comités d’évaluation scientifique. ➡ anr.fr/fr/detail/ca...

Punch's Pocket Book Archive has been selected for a substantial award from the @agencerecherche.bsky.social! This will allow us to create two jobs, and bring the project to completion in 2030. With thanks to @rs4vp.org, @l19cmanmet.bsky.social and all members of the project, past and present.

Great news for @punchspocketbook.bsky.social @drhorrocks.bsky.social @fbaillet.bsky.social! 🥳 You can read more about the project on the page below and its Hypotheses #OpenScience notebook (link in the page) 👇 #BAVS2026

Punch's Pocket Book Archive Project · ERIBIA - Équipe de recherche interdisciplinaire sur la Grande-Bretagne, l'Irlande et l'Amérique du Nord

Punch’s Pocket Book – Presentation Punch, or the London Charivari (1841-2002) is certainly one of Britain’s central cultural institutions. Launched in

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Punch's Pocket Book Archive@punchspocketbook.bsky.social · last wk.

Absolutely delighted to let you know that the Punch's Pocket Book Archive project has just been selected for a substantial grant from the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (2026-2030). We would like to thank all members of the project, past and present, for their contribution to the venture.

Seeing as I am in Liverpool for #BAVS2026 speaking about #musichall it would be rude not to pop into the Walker Art Gallery to check out their Sickert masterpiece

Music hall star Gus Elen – You Have Made A Nice Old Mess Of It

A hare among plants and grasses, German School, c.1800.

Here’s a kimono-clad dancer in a traditional Noh play, painted by Uemura Shōen (Jo-No-Mai, 1936). Shōen was the first female recipient of the Order of Culture award by the Emperor. I particularly like the way the pale cloud pattern emerges on the hem and sleeve

"Before filmmaker Chris Nolan raised eyebrows with the casting of Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy in his blockbuster The Odyssey, Orson Welles had cast Eartha Kitt in the same role in his 1950 stage production of Time Runs..." #FilmSky wellesnet.com/eartha-kitt-...

Eartha Kitt was cast as Helen of Troy in 1950

Eartha Kitt co-starred with Orson Welles in "Time Runs."

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I seem to be everywhere.

I can’t believe it took me this long into the Odyssey discourse to think to post this but… if you loved the Sirens and Scylla and Charybdis and you also love stuff Elon Musk would consider too woke, have I got a book for you

Women and Other Monsters by Jess Zimmerman: 9780807055540 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

A fresh cultural analysis of female monsters from Greek mythology, and an invitation for all women to reclaim these stories as inspiration for a more wild, more “monstrous” version of feminism...

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A toy ball from #Roman Egypt, made from linen with strips of reed (painted red & green), & with stone chips inside so it would rattle when used. First played with some 1600+ years ago... (📷 British Museum) #AncientBlueSky

Knock, knock….🌞