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
Wow, how thrilling! What next?!
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.bsky.social
🎥 Remix creative works like THE SKELETON DANCE for our 2025 Public Domain Day Remix Contest!
Use one or more classics from 1929 to create your 2–3 minute short film.
📆 Deadline: Jan 17, 2025
💰 First prize: $1,500
👉 Details: blog.archive.org/2024/12/16/2...
While you've all been slaving over Turkey, I've been preparing this Chicken for later.
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.
“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!
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
🎶 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...
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
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/...
Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 1
‘Winter Village’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
…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 💙📚
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)
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.
Here’s a Piggy Postcard for you from the Hampshire collection collections.hampshireculture.org.uk/object/pig-d...
The only tweets we're interested in seeing on here:
⚠️ 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...
more users are joining
and the hog grows longer
“I’ve noticed I’m not in your starter pack. Any particular reason for that?”
Some conservation in action at the Malta Archeological Museum in Valletta on a recent trip - an amazing building, stunning detail!
