To celebrate Bede’s heavenly birthday (he died 26 May 735), I’ve been thinking about manuscripts that were made at his monastery at Wearmouth + Jarrow and that are now available online.
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#DidYouKnow that when the India Museum was dispersed in 1879 botanical drawings were sent to Kew Gardens with duplicates going to Edinburgh Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

The BL also houses natural history works from the India Museum. Here’s one with some furry friends NHD1/19 #CollectionsUnited

Inspired by a tale from a medieval bestiary, this animation explores the story of the whale and the danger it could pose to unsuspecting sailors.

Check out the Medieval England and France website to learn more: ow.ly/xi3L50AMwu9

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Elizabeth Blackwell's 'A Curious Herbal' (1737) was an unprecedented enterprise for a woman of her time
To survive and pay her jailed husband's debts she produced this beautiful herbal; drawing, engraving and illustrating it single handedly
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#collectionsunited Francis Hamilton’s Latin field notes on Indian fishes online British Library; corresponding drawings Natural History Museum. Here, Cypressus Mosul, 1815 (BL MssEur E70b f.197r; NHM MSS HAR 20A). An endangered species today. The Ray Society

Cassiano dal Pozzo (1588–1657) collected a ‘Paper Museum’ of drawings and prints for his library. British Library now holds most of the surviving prints, catalogued atshorturl.at/eCEY0
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James Sowerby was so frustrated by the fading colours in his illustrations that he set out to develop a standard, universal and permanent method of representing colour.

The theory used the basic colours of red, yellow and blue.
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A carved wooden sculpture of a bird on a branch catching a caterpillar. Carved by Charles Humphriss in 1895, a member of the 19th century crafts group the Warwickshire Woodcarvers. #WarwickshireMuseums #CollectionsUnited

Six children learn the disastrous consequences of playing on farmyards, in one of the most famous and disturbing #COI75 films.

Watch for free on #BFIPlayer #CollectionsUnited

And here’s a colourful copy of Magna Carta printed in the 18th century – object record: ow.ly/Nvfj30qMyt0

Find out more about this important document from British Library #CollectionsUnited

Architect Sir John Soane, founder of Sir John Soane's Museum 🏛️🖼️, was born #onthisday in 1753.

His house – shown in this early 19th-century print – now holds his collection which you can visit for free from 1 October. Find out more here: ow.ly/ksxL30r5jMB #CollectionsUnited

We ❤️ connections between our collections and those of other museums.
Here's the genealogy of John Dee, the magician, held British Library. His magical disc is kept British Museum. Both belonged to Robert Cotton.
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The Coventry Album by William Henry Brooke
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Between December 1819 and January 1820, William Henry Brooke made a survey of Coventry, which provides a fascinating record of how the city looked at the time.

These views show the city’s guildhall and Bayley Lane.

The largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever found was discovered #otd in 2009 ✨

Weighing over 5kg, the Staffordshire Hoard contains 4,600 items from sword hilts to fine jewellery.

See it at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery or read more: ow.ly/CQGp30qPfaR #CollectionsUnited

John Bonehill unites a print British Library and an oil YaleBritishArt in his article 'The View from Brackenthwaite: Matthias Read’s Whitehaven Prospects':
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Finger-counting was an important way of performing calculations during the Middle Ages. These intricate diagrams demonstrate the technique. Read this article to learn more about medieval approaches to science and maths: ow.ly/ByIk50AMw4O #CollectionsUnited #PolonskyPre1200

We're delighted to be part of the launch of #collectionsunited .

We'd love you to find connections between our collections and those of other libraries & museums.

Take Sloane MS 1044. This leaf is from the same manuscript as one kept Cambridge UL Special Collections.

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Did you know..? We house the largest and most diverse botanical and mycological collections in the world. With over 8.5 million items, they represent approximately 95% of vascular plant genera and 60% of fungal genera: ow.ly/RFn650zDI4p 🌿🍄 #CollectionsUnited

Given by Marie Antoinette: an often spurious provenance associated with museum objects. From our collection a fan inscribed 'given by the Queen in 1783 to Mme de Lage de Volude. From British Museum, a locket of hair 'given' to Lady Abercorn. #collectionsunited #HumanConnections

Christmas in Belfast at the height of the Troubles.

Film courtesy of Northern Ireland Screen #COI75 #CollectionsUnited