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Dover Castle in the snow
❄️ Feeling nostalgic? #ThrowbackThursday ❄️
Check out these stunning snowy shots of Dover Castle! 🏰 Can you guess the year this festive treasure was captured?
Drop your guesses in the comments! ⬇️
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A vintage Christmas menu from 1944 Japan, featuring a watercolor portrait of a woman with flowers on the left. The menu lists breakfast, lunch, and supper items like rice, meat stew, and coffee.
🎄 Ever thought of trying a Christmas menu from history? 🎅
Imagine swapping your traditional turkey for the POW camp KOBE menu from 1944!
#EYAFestive #EYA #Archive
#pwrr #christmasdinner
Cream yellow coloured paper with dark brown black ink
Cream yellow coloured paper with dark brown black ink
On Boxing Day in 1800, Frances Temple writes to her brother Harry (later Lord Palmerston) asking about his Christmas and giving an account of her own. Is anyone else feeling tempted to claim that “it belonged to their religion to eat mince pyes”?! @exploreyourarchive #EYAFestive
Large group of soldiers and staff (nursing and medical staff) with Christmas decorations above and beds in the front of the photo.
Last day of the #ArchiveAdventCalendar
#MerryChristmas
Ending with a favourite Christmas postcard from the First World War
Thank you for all your support, we have really enjoyed joining in
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#hospitalChristmas
#HistNursing
#militaryhospital
#matronraynes
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It’s #ChristmasEve and the perfect time to finish sharing wonderful holiday cards from 2 iconic archives I’ve worked/ I’m working on @uniofgalwaylib.bsky.social . First up is this card from Queen Sonja of Norway to #MaryRobinson 1/2
@president.ie @araireland.bsky.social #EYAFestive
An old black and white photo showing Father Christmas on the left giving a woman a present
The Christmas menu cover from 1984, rudolf stuck in a chimney on the left and Father Christmas coming out of a chimney on the right
Christmas Eve
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can only be #Santa
We have two vintage offerings! One from 1949 and one from 1984
Thank you to Angela for the 1st photo
Happy ChristmasEve 🎅🏻
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#HospitalChristmas
#Whitchurchhospital
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A beautiful Christmas card from the #MaryRobinson archive @uniofgalwaylib.bsky.social which also includes material relating to the design of the card itself such as correspondence with the artist John Nankivell whose work features on the card. 1/2
@araireland.bsky.social #EYAFestive
Handwritten letter. Brown ink of creamy pale paper
[We] "must in this season of mince pyes, add the good wishes that belong to it."
We love the notion of Christmas being the mince pie season!
Our reference comes from a 19th century letter from Lady Olivia Sparrow to the future Duke of Wellington https://buff.ly/3D2DxOY@exploreyourarchive #EYAFestive
Another card from the #MaryRobinson archive @uniofgalwaylib.bsky.social from her time as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, this time marking the 10th anniversary in 2000 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
#UNCRC #CRC #IrishArchives
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Cárta eile agam daoibh deartha ag Brian Ó hUiginn, ó chartlann Chonradh na Gaeilge anseo @uniofgalway.bsky.social - nach bhfuil sé galánta!
Another beautiful card for you, designed by Brian Ó hUiginn, from the Conradh archive here @uniofgalwaylib.bsky.social
@araireland.bsky.social #EYAFestive
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In a last minute panic & need some🎄gift suggestions?!
Here’s a 🧵 👇of archive related recent publications as recently shared in @araireland.bsky.social ‘s Winter 2024 newsletter
( araireland.ie/newsletters )
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A purple and white-coloured programme for a 1973 performance of Dickens' Christmas Carol at the Nuffield Theatre
The cast list for a 1973 performance of Dickens' Christmas Carol at the Nuffield Theatre, Southampton, with advertisements on the opposite page for a curry house, a hotel and a restaurant
The programme for a 1973 performance of Dickens' Christmas Carol at the Nuffield Theatre by the Wayfarers Dramatic Society https://buff.ly/3VMQJOr @exploreyourarchive #EYAFestive
These pics show the dining room of the Imperial Maritime Customs Lappa Commissioner in 1908, ready for Christmas dinner. We’d love to know more about the significance of the model - presumably of a customs officer?! #EYAFestive ow.ly/KYbw50U1ZpG
Minister Alexander Sandilands MBE was appointed as a London Missionary Society (LMS) missionary to Botswana in 1926. This pic (1937) shows an improvised Christmas tree and eldest son Ian dressed as a full-browed Father Christmas #EYAFestive ow.ly/7YRK50U2528
This modern Christmas card titled ‘Aya Musas Bonne Année et Meilleurs’ features the image of Santa Claus. It was produced in 1997 by Aya, the daughter of artist Hassan Musa, and is an example of Mail Art. Read more here: ow.ly/8igy50TXmKf #EYAFestive
The earliest examples of greeting cards we have date from the 1900s. This series of four mounted sepia prints, some of which have been hand coloured, show African people in a variety of occupations #EYAFestive blogs.soas.ac.uk/archives/202...
Work Christmas parties were often held by businesses operating far from ‘home’ across the world. This receipt for a music band, microphone, prizes, presents and sandwich platter shows John Swire & Sons’ staff were certainly having fun in Kobe, Japan, in 1962! #EYAFestive
Recital programme from December 1909
Inside of the recital programme shown in first photo
Patients dance and Christmas tree programme December 24th 1910
The Merry Milkmaids programme, no date
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#MerryAndBright
These fit the bill and sound very #MerryAndBright
All the photos are from the red cuttings book
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#HospitalChristmas
#MerryMilkmaids
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Ó chartlann Conradh na Gaeilge anseo @uniofgalwaylib.bsky.social cárta Nollag oifigiúil ón Uachtarán Eamon De Valera, 1967.
From the Conradh archive here @uniofgalway.bsky.social an official postcard from President De Valera, 1967
@president.ie
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A black and white illustration of the Bernacle and Canada goose from Reec’s Cyclopedia
Most meat-eating British families now serve turkey for the Christmas meal but previously goose was traditional. As they only laid eggs seasonally, they were fattened for Christmas. As families grew, turkey gained popularity due to larger size. @exploreyourarchive #EYAFestive
Ó chartlann Chonradh na Gaeilge anseo @uniofgalwaylib.bsky.social cárta galánta daoibh, deartha ag Brian Ó hUiginn. Beannachtaí na Féile daoibh uilig!
From the Conradh archive here @uniofgalway.bsky.social a lovely card designed by Brian Ó hUiginn, for the festive season.
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The text reads: To wish you a Christmas Greeting. With all kind thoughts and every good wish for Christmas and the Coming year.
This pretty engraving for a seasonal postcard is by Frank McFadden of Southampton and dates from around 1890. Christmas greetings are coupled with views of the city, including the historic West Gate and Bar Gate.
Find out more https://buff.ly/41nVBxj @exploreyourarchive #EYAFestive
Girls of the Chaotung School singing carols, Yunnan, China, taken by Rev. Kenneth W May, c.1925-c.1934. #EYAFestive ow.ly/gZnj50TXmhs
Top part of the photo shows part of an old archive advent themes and the bottom part is a selection of small archive photos
Top part is a group photo of First World War Nursing staff and the bottom part of a selection of small archive photos
Top half is Christmas archive themes and a few photos from the archive
Day 15
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#FestiveTraditions
One of ours is taking part in this event annually 🎅🏻🎄
When did it all start?
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#WhitchurchhospitalChristmas
#Moderntraditions
A Christmas card sent to the Reverend James William Parkes from a friend, 1976 @ExploreArchives #EYAFestive
First part of the newspaper clipping from the Western Mail
Full newspaper article from the Western Mail
Large group photo of soldiers in their hospital uniforms and others in their khaki uniforms. Seated in the middle of the photos is Matron Florence Raynes with other unknown nursing staff. Christmas decorations hanging from the ceiling, a wreath on the left hand side window. Some hospital beds on both sides of the postcard
Day 13 already!!
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#ChristmasCracker
“The Giant Cracker”
Western Mail, Monday December 27. 1915.
No photo but this is a cracker of a post card of those who may well have been in the actual “Giant Cracker”
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#FWW
#HistNursing
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The Ceylon Christmas Annual, probably made for children, includes large colour images in an Asian illustration style and contains a series of articles on Christian subjects. The annual for 1952 begins with an article on the Nativity #EYAFestive ow.ly/ZPwu50TXlAS
Children of the Malua Theological College, Samoa, play with a Christmas nativity scene c.1940-c.1970.
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Children holding Christmas gifts from the American Red Cross at the Gemo Hospital Mission, Papua (1962) #EYAFestive ow.ly/zfjj50TXm9Y
Watercolour of two small children pulling a sled. They are wearing hat and mittens
A snowy scene from 200 years ago. This little watercolour appears in a lady’s commonplace book, a 19th century version of a scrapbook. It documents her travels to Scotland and the East Indies around 1820-1825. Learn more about it here https://buff.ly/3Vwbiic @exploreyourarchive #EYAFestive
