@ohreallyhells.bsky.social
Researcher Services Librarian nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social 🏛️ Natural History Museum, London. ❤️ paper, ephemera, pangolins, cats, genealogy, social media & serendipity! Very proud Mum & Auntie. West Sussex. MY VIEWS Previously on Twitter @ohreallyhells
Person wearing a jumper with ‘protect the pangolins’ written on it, stands in a library behind a large bound volume of artwork on a table. The volume is open at an image of a pangolin.
When your pangolin wardrobe choice aligns with a reading room visitor requesting to see a volume of bound artwork, which includes a pangolin 😍
#NaturalHistoryMuseum #SpecialCollections #Artwork #TeamPangolin
I’m not a huge Christmas decoration person, but Festive Dippy tugged on my heart strings 😍
14.10.2025 19:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Awful news from Wales, the St Fagan's Museum has been broken into and prehistoric goldwork has been taken. Its painful to think what objects might now be at risk. Thoughts with the museum team who must be devastated, all speed to the police and a curse on the crooks.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Small white autumn flowering crocus.
Yellow and red flowers.
Large clump of pampas grass in the foreground, with tall trees in the background.
Close up of the tops of grasses with blue sky behind.
I love the beauty, colour and texture of autumn 🍂 ❤️
Very lucky to have Nymans National Trust next door. #NymansNT @nationaltrust.org.uk
Image of people standing round a table displaying library and archives material
Library & Archives Open Day (free)
19 September 2025
When: 10.00 - 16.00
Where: Lasting Impressions Gallery (red zone)
Our team have developed four themed displays:
🐋 Whales, science and conservation
🌱 Ordering and naming nature
✏️ Writing from the field
❄️ Polar expeditions
#NaturalHistoryMuseum
Group of people standing round a table displaying artwork and photographs.
Library & Archives Open Day (free)
19 September 2025
When: 10.00 - 16.00
Where: Lasting Impressions Gallery (red zone)
Our team have developed four themed displays:
🐋 Whales, science and conservation
🌱 Ordering and naming nature
✏️ Writing from the field
❄️ Polar expeditions
#NaturalHistoryMuseum
Three chairs on a theatre stage with a large screen behind them.
View of a theatre stage from a box with two seats.
View from a box of the audience seating ornate Hackney Empire Theatre.
Well that was a fun evening watching David O’Doherty and Max Rushden recording their podcast ‘Who Did You Do Yesterday’. Special (return) guest Nish Kumar. One of my favourite podcasts 😍
A lot of laughter! Shared box for 3 strangers, we all had a fab time!
#WhatDidYouDoYesterday #HackneyEmpire
A photo of a conservator cleaning a bronze statue's upper thigh
Remember gang, it's the same rule for museum objects and artworks as it is for people: no touching without consent! 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums
Gaston Lachaise' "Standing Woman", 1932, undergoing some conservation work at @moma.bsky.social 😁
In the 50p charity bookstall - would
have been rude not to.
#WorldWarTwo #Gardening #BuySecondhand #Books
A large blue whale skeleton suspended from the ceiling. Under the whale, there’s text saying, ‘The Natural History Museum will be closed on 3 October 2025’. Behind the skeleton, there are three large arched windows and highly decorated architectural details.
Our South Kensington Museum, including our gardens, will be closed on 3 October 2025 as we are hosting a charity gala. 🦖
We’re sorry for any inconvenience this may cause and look forward to welcoming you another time.
An old finger post where all the destinations are country pubs. (Singleton, Sussex)
The original local pub crawl guide!
It's #WorldEchidnaDay so here's a drawing by Joseph Wolf (1820-1899) of this extraordinary egg laying mammal. It was published by Richard Owen in the Philosophical Transactions (Pl.39, 1865). If you look closely, you can see a young baby in the pouch and a small outline sketch of it! buff.ly/8ErERyK
19.07.2025 14:34 — 👍 39 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 1Some birthday facts and faces of Sir Richard Owen, founder of the Natural History Museum, London who was born #OTD in 1804. A very Happy Birthday to anyone else with a birthday today! #NaturalHistoryMuseum #Palaeontology
Alt text: Reel of portraits of Professor Richard Owen [has sound]
You can also now see it as part of the Richard Owen: A Natural Legacy display in the @nhm-london.bsky.social ‘s free Images of Nature gallery alongside other original #illustrations from Owen’s fascinating drawings collection #naturalhistory #art #gallery #echidna #anatomy
19.07.2025 15:57 — 👍 42 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 0Reverend J. G. Wood, born #OTD in 1827, published dozens of popular books on natural history. To celebrate his 198th birthday, here are a few of our favourites... #Bookbindings, #IllustratedBindings, #Victorian, #SpecialBooks, #TradeBindings
Alt text: Reel of Victorian bookbindings [has audio]
External shot of ted brick Victorian building.
Interior of Victorian building. In the ceiling is a large glass dome.
Victorian marble staircase.
Interior of Victorian building.
Alfred Waterhouse, architect of the #NaturalHistoryMuseum also designed the Kimpton Clocktower Hotel, Manchester (formerly Refuge Assurance Building), along with his son, Paul.
I went and took a look today. Beautiful!
Large very old Manor House.
Decorative pond with statue of a woman, in front of a Manor House.
Grand gates leading to grassland.
Person standing in front of a chalk board with ‘Hellens’ written at the top.
Hellen needed to visit ‘Hellen’s Manor’ - my retirement pad?! #Herefordshire #HellensManor
16.07.2025 17:07 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Advert for Bovril.
Advert for Sutton Seeds.
Page from a journal showing an advert.
I spent some time studying the Cyprus Agricultural Journal in our collections today, from the early 1930s.
#Journals #Science #ModernCollections #Travel #Tourism #Advertising #Marketing
Title cover of the Cyprus Agricultural Journal.
Page from a journal.
Image of two pages showing adverts.
Journals contain lots of information for those who love history, not just in the articles.
The adverts can tell us a lot about businesses, the history of brands / products, and life at that time.
#NaturalHistoryMuseum #NHMLibrary
A group of eleven people sitting round an oblong table, eating a meal and smiling at the camera.
The back of a red clipboard that reads ‘Team Red Steg’, with the cartoon of a fossil Stegosaurus.
My favourite ‘other job’ for the last 11 years - Team leader for the NHM Kids Dinosnore sleep overs @nhm-london.bsky.social 😍
Although it is very warm in the museum for this one!
Oh I did enjoy making this one 🤣😂
18.06.2025 11:57 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Two photos side by side showing the front and back of a pub sign for the ‘King Charles I’ pub, which are different.
I love spotting these double sided pub signs!
King Charles I (Northdown Street N1 9BL)
Exhibition room with glass cases and items displayed.
Label and object displayed in glass case.
12th century plant book showing images of plants and text.
16th century book opened.
Interesting exhibition at the British Library ‘Unearthed: the power of gardening’.
Lots of items: books (old and new), manuscripts, ephemera and objects.
Some familiar items and people connected to the collections at the NHM and lots of interesting things to learn.
Made my own insect house - rather chuffed! It started life as half a wooden wine box.
04.05.2025 20:03 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
NEWS! The future of Biodiversity Heritage Library #BHL have your say and spread the word 📢📢 #ILOVEBHL
blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/04/new-...
A little green spider sitting on a lilac flower.
A little green spider sitting on a lilac flower.
A lilac bush.
I love the lilac in my garden. At this time of year, I start my day with a cup of tea in my hand and lilac before my eyes. 😍
22.04.2025 05:51 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0There’s something fishy about these Easter bunnies! 🕵️🐰
From Hortus Sanitatis (1491) a herbal compiled by Jacob Meydenbach.
#SpecialCollections #NaturalHistoryMuseum #BookSky #Easter #EasterBunny #Herbals
Image: An illustration from an early book depicting three long eared creatures in water.
Fully funded (4 year) PhD studentship supervised across Keele Univ. and the British Library: "Eighteenth-Century Knowledge Work in the Harleian Collection". You'll generate your own project focused on how this unique collection was created and used: www.keele.ac.uk/study/postgr...
03.04.2025 09:34 — 👍 49 🔁 42 💬 0 📌 2
Ok so that’s me re-subscribed for a month then!
@netflix.com
#Pangolin #TeamPangolin
Yeah, sure, I have a pangolin corner in my home 😜
#TeamPangolin #Pangolin #EndangeredAnimals
