It's #BatAppreciationDay! 🦇 This small chap from our collections is a Whiskered bat found in Duncombe Park, Yorkshire in 1959. Bats help control pests and insects, with some types even helping to pollinate certain flowers or spread their seeds - we'd be lost without them!

A 🧵 devoted to my fav. exhibit from the #FindingMiddlemarch🔎 exhibition I curated Exploring Eliot The Bree family butterfly collection, 🦋 masterfully disguised as leather-bound volumes 📖 📚 of British Entomology (1833-42). 🪲 🐛 exploringeliot.org/FM/6

Have you explored the wild world yet? As part of #TheWildEscape 1000s of children across the UK have already submitted their creations. Get your children involved - visit your local museum or gallery or take part from home. Art Fund | #EarthDay | thewildescape.org.uk

📢Historic historian alert!📢 William Dugdale (1605-1686) was an antiquarian who recorded Coventry’s monuments, ‘much short in glory and riches’ a century after the dissolution⛪️ Discover Coventry Archives’ Dugdale material in this new Research Guide, theherbert.org/history-centre…

You can leave your hat on! A sneak peak at the preparations for Herbert Art Gallery & Museum's summer exhibition, Work on Walls. The flying helmet and goggles from #Coventry born WW2 RAF pilot Bryan Woolston, DFM

Thanks to Nigel Larkin for the conservation work, sheep for sponsoring and to WMG who will be scanning the skull next week

The Archive team has been working hard to set up the Reading Room in preparation for reopening at the end of this month 📚 We rediscovered a few gems along the way… All reopening updates can be found here ⬇️ theherbert.org/history-centre…

Welcome back ichthyosaur! Looking great after a face lift by Nigel Larkin and a 'quick' scan WMG. The skull and matrix is very dense, but some features have shown up, we hope to update more on the future. For now, enjoy our Jurassic Warwickshire display over half term

#FindingMiddlemarch’s last chapter is now available! ✨ A window into women's lives in 19thC Coventry, from the limits of female education to the mercenary nature of the marriage market. Feat. exhibits from Herbert Art Gallery & Museum Royal Holloway Art & Culture & more… exploringeliot.org/FM/7

There's a wonderful collection of samplers at the Herbert, check them out at tinyurl.com/Herbert-sample… but not before you read the latest Funding Middlemarch exhibition 👇

For a woman born in 1819, George Eliot led an extraordinarily progressive & independent life. Yet Middlemarch’s women find no such freedom. Why is this? Find out at #FindingMiddlemarch🔎 exploringeliot.org/FM/7 feat. an assortment of Eliot's writing tools...

On this special 75-year anniversary of #WindrushDay we want to celebrate the brilliant artists, athletes & activists of Caribbean descent who make our city great. Find out more in our Black History Research Guide ⬇️ theherbert.org/history-centre… Reggae Fever event, ©️ Coventry Atlas

Today marks 30 years since filming started on Andrew Davies' adaptation of Middlemarch and our latest blog is now live! Justin Smith of dmuleicester writes about the project which links the novel to the BBC adaptation Tinyurl.com/transforming-m…

I will scan the inner pages but a lovely little leaflet from the "original" 1976 cross opening. #Coventry Herbert Collections Visit Coventry Coventry Digital