This 1940's press cutting from our Nutrition collection features some of the best #ArchiveAdvice you'll ever receive... 🍪
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We've used reproductions of some of our archives to decorate our office and research room. #Archive30 #ArchiveAdvice
Geoffrey Chaucer was buried in the Abbey not because of his fame as a writer but because he lived in a house in the precincts here from 1399.
This is the lease for the premises, rented for 53 shillings, 4 pence a year which survives in our archive.
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Whether you're a student, academic researcher, or interested member of the public, our website contains lots of #ArchiveAdvice to help you find information about us and our collections.
ncl.ac.uk/library/specia…
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#ArchiveAdvice to ourselves - it helps if you put titles on photographs when you can still remember when you took them. Did we take the image below when parking meters first appeared on Kendrick Road in the Christchurch CA? #Archive30
Find out more about our business collections via
libguides.swansea.ac.uk/richardburtona…
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Ladies over 35 rejoice! The VeeDee Massager is here to fix that double chin! Here's all the advice you need on how to use the VeeDee to banish double chins.
If you're not a lady over 35 you can also make good use of the VeeDee - it cures everything!
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We love how Thomas Preston included careful advice on how to make it safely into harbour on his chart: A new hydrographical survey of the islands of Shetland, published 1781. maps.nls.uk/view/74400306
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From blankets to breweries, motor cars to marmalade, we hold #BusinessArchives for many Oxfordshire-linked companies #Archive30
Do you want to use an archive but have never done so before?
We asked staff from archives across Wales for some top tips for visiting an archive for the first time, here are their answers: archives.wales/?p=3631
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#ArchiveAdvice is today's #Archive30 theme.
Ours is simple. The newspaper cuttings are really heavy and quite large. Get help if you need it!
Also - we're impressed at the way someone got as many clippings as possible into one of our cuttings files but never again.
The club isn't exactly a business - but it still works a bit like one.
So our archive includes ledgers, cash books and subscription records.
We've featured a few #Everest24 related records below!
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Just some of our boxes of archives waiting to be catalogued as we make our way through our backlog. #SomethingScary #Archive30
Plaque to Dr Anthony Addington physician to George III on London Street #rdguk . #HealthArchives #Archive30
This illuminated prayer book belonged to Lady Margaret Beaufort, who had a long association with the Abbey and is buried in the Lady Chapel. She was terrified of plague and was keen to venerate saints that might protect her and her family from sickness
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In 1989 Sainsbury's launched their first environmentally friendly range - Greencare #ArchiveSustainability #Archive30
