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Explore Your Archive @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social · Aug 28

🎉 Exciting announcement….🎉

The daily themes for EYA Focus Week are here!! ✨

Focus Week will take place from the 29th November to the 7th December. It’s time to start planning your posts! 👀 We can’t wait to see them in November ❤️

#ExploreYourArchive

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Explore Your Archive @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social · 11h

✨It's #ExploreYourArchive Day! ✨

The 10th of every month is a day to share and celebrate your archives - our monthly theme for October is #EYAMonsters 👻

Get involved by using the hashtag, we've loved seeing your spooky posts so far this month!👍

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soas-speccoll.bsky.social @soas-speccoll.bsky.social · 14h

The lion-faced ogre kirtimukha—seen in the text boxes of this 1903 Javanese manuscript—appears across Hindu, Buddhist & Islamic art in SE Asia. Derived from South India’s “face of glory,” it’s a symbol of protection #EYAMonsters https://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA005781/00004/5x

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CBHC / RCAHMW @rcahmwales.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re going on a monster hunt, look up! Gargoyles are an excellent place to start. This particular specimen looks out over St Michael’s Churchyard from the Old College, Aberystwyth
📸Arthur Chater, December 1968
zurl.co/slpuC
#EYAMonsters #Architecture #welshhistory #coflein #cbhc

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soas-speccoll.bsky.social @soas-speccoll.bsky.social · 2d

This image is of Zeeba, a mythical Tibetan beast created by Shiva #EYAMonsters https://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAB000124/00001?search=beast&cid=

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Kresen Kernow @kresenkernow.bsky.social · 2d

This pantomime version was written by Wilfred Miller and features Sinbad visiting the realm of King Neptune! 🔱

@redruthoperatic1909 #RAOS #pantomime #sinbadthesailor #eyamonsters @exploreyourarchive #redruthamateuroperaticsociety

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University of Brighton Design Archives @designarchives.bsky.social · 1d

For this month's @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social theme #EYAMonsters, these illustrations by Dorrit Dekk for a mural for the Trust Houses Forte Edinburgh, now known as the Balmoral Hotel

Dorrit Dekk Archive
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colourful illustrations of mythological or medieval creatures like a sphinx with wings, beaked armadillo, a winged goat, a dragon, and so on

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Explore York Archive @yorkarchive.bsky.social · 3d

We are sharing some of the #monsters in our Knowles collection. The collection contains lots of early illustrations, templates, and research notes of existing artworks and designs in churches in York, England, and parts of Europe.

#EYAMonsters #EYA #archives

Two medieval-style illustrations of a person figting mythical monsters. Text above describes designs on glass at York, text below describes the wool embroidary that these images are from.

Pencil sketches of a heraldic eagle, a shield, a fish and a dragon-like creatures on aged paper.

Two images of creatures from St. Martin's Church in Spurriergate, York; left: a horned demonic creature, right: a lion-like creature.

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Hartley Special Collections @hartleyspecialc.bsky.social · 3d

This month's @explorearchives.bsky.social theme is #EYAMonsters. Here is a photograph from 1926 of Lord and Lady Louis Mountbatten and Laddie Sanford on Lord Mountbatten's yacht, MY Shrimp. Lady Mountbatten is holding an inflatable sea monster, possibly a shrimp like the yacht's namesake.

Black and white photograph from 1926 of Lord and Lady Mountbatten with Laddie Sanford on board Lord Mountbatten's yacht MY Shrimp. Lady Louis Mountbatten is standing with an inflatable toy in the shape of a simplified sea monster between her legs

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MBA Library @nmbluk.bsky.social · 3d

From our rare books collection we have this illustration of Vampyroteuthis infernalis, also known as the vampire squid from hell. In an order of its own, we don't really think the vampiric moniker is fair either as they actually feed on detritus and not blood #EYAMonsters

A colour illustration of Vampyroteuthis infernalis. The main body is painted black, with eyes painted to look bioluminescent

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Newcastle Uni Special Collections & Archives @ncllibspeccoll.bsky.social · 7d

This month's @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social
theme is #EYAMonsters

Read about the spooky alleged 1890s haunting of Ballechin House near Perth in Scotland, and the book detailing it's unexplained phenomena, on our blog:

blogs.ncl.ac.uk/speccoll/202...

[Ref. Clarke-Misc-437]

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soas-speccoll.bsky.social @soas-speccoll.bsky.social · 8d

This title, Werewolf among the Torajas of Central Sulawesi, was written in 1899 by A C Kruyt, Dutch Calvinist missionary, ethnographer and theologian #EYAMonsters ow.ly/hK7e50WNy5E

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UWTSDlib @uwtsdlib.bsky.social · 7d

Conrad Gessner’s natural history encyclopaedia Historia animalium (1551-1558) attempted to provide information on every known creature. It contains this illustration of a monk-fish, said to have been washed up on the coast of Norway.

#UWTSDlib #EYA #EYAMonsters

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soas-speccoll.bsky.social @soas-speccoll.bsky.social · 7d

The woodblock print on this letter paper from Nepal shows a Garuda, a mythical Tibetan monster #EYAMonsters ow.ly/tiv050WV4wi

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Derbyshire Record Office @derbyshiredro.bsky.social · 7d

On #PhotoFriday we visit Ripley in 1932 when you might have been surprised to see the Loch Ness monster taking a stroll along Cromford Road. But don’t worry, this magnificent beast was taking part in Ripley Carnival and definitely friendly!

#EYAMonsters #1930s

The Loch Ness Monster made from a long length of fabric and a papier mache head. You can see children’s legs underneath and standing alongside is a man dressed in a kilt and sporran, and a child carrying a sign reading 'Loch Ness Monster Beware Do Not Touch'.
Image courtesy of www.picturethepast.org.uk

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Explore Your Archive @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social · 9d

💫New Theme!💫

The Explore Your Archive theme for October is #EYAMonsters 👻✨

Use the hashtag and tag us to get involved, we can't wait to see your spooky collections! 🎃

#ExploreYourArchive

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UWTSDlib @uwtsdlib.bsky.social · 9d

It is officially spooky season but lucky for us the only #monsters we have in our archives is this photo from the Swansea RAG parade in 1965 which features Daleks. Wonder if they knew that over 60 years later Doctor Who would still be running?

#UWTSDlib #EYA #DoctorWho #EYAMonsters

Black and white photo of a 1965 parade with a vintage car and Dalek models.

Transcribed Text:

Photo from the Swansea Rag Parade 1965

Prifysgol Cymru
Y Drindod Dewi Sant
University of Wales
Trinity Saint David

LLYFRAUaRHAGOR
BOOKS&BEYOND.

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Archives of IT @archivesofit.bsky.social · 9d

⚡English Electric's London HQ in Aldwych housed two bronze giants, 'Power' and 'Speed,' by Sir Charles Wheeler. Sold to an American bank in 1971, they were returned as 'unacceptable' due to their realism. Now at Eltham College. Photo: Express & Star Newspapers, Wolverhampton Archives. #EYAMonsters

Two naked bronze giants atop a building entrance which says 'English Electric'. Each statue holds aloft a creature from the natural world, a lion and an eagle and represent power and speed.

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araireland @araireland.bsky.social · 9d

This month’s Explore Your Archive theme is #EYAMonsters / #EYAArrachta! We want to see everyone’s archives relating to monsters (and Halloween & Samhain as well!) 🎃👻 Don’t forget to 🏷️ @araireland.bsky.social & @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social in your posts #exploreyourarchive #cuardaighdochartlann

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Explore York Archive @yorkarchive.bsky.social · 11d

New blog alert!
One of our wonderful placement students from @yorkstjohn.bsky.social , Kate Hastings, looks at some of the postcards in our collections and the power of the stories that they tell.

https://shorturl.at/79MX5

#archives #exploreyourarchive #york #postcards

Souvenir snaps and personal stories: The power of a postcard.

This blogpost was written by Kate Hastings, one of our wonderful placement students from York St John University. Kate was part of a group working with some of our photographic collections here at …

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Explore York Archive @yorkarchive.bsky.social · 10d

Today is National Sporting Heritage day! 🚴

To celebrate we are sharing a few photographs from our collection of the Clifton Cycling Club. The club was founded in 1895 at the Old Grey Mare on Clifton Green and are still going strong today

#NSHD2025 #archives #exploreyourarchive #sport #cycling

A vintage photograph of a tandem bicycle labeled "White Wings II, the fastest tandem in York" on an old scrapbook album page.

Clifton Cycling Club group photo from 1906, York. Men and women in formal attire with bicycles, trophies in front, posed outdoors.

Cover of "The Cliftonite," The magazine of Clifton Cycling Club, Autumn 1985 issue. Features an ad for H. Watson & Son (York) Ltd.

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University of Surrey Archives and Special Collections @archives-unisurrey.bsky.social · 15d

We're showcasing some of the objects in our University Archives, dating back to 1891 when we started out as Battersea Polytechnic in south London.
This pennant dates from the 1960s, when the Polytechnic became a University at Guildford.

It may have been waved at sports events.

#EYAEducation

A turquoise-blue pennant with a gold braid border. The University of Surrey coat of arms is in the centre.

Close up of the embroidered University of Surrey coat of arms, featuring three swords denoting the three polytechnic institutes, originally planned in South London, below the Surrey County blue and gold chequers and two woolsacks, denoting the university's new location in Guildford.

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Derbyshire Record Office @derbyshiredro.bsky.social · 14d

Do you remember acting in a school play? We bet few had such grand costumes and scenery as this by pupils of Derby Grammar School in the #1930s. Can we even see real chainmail?

#PhotoFriday #EYAEducation

A scene from a school play on a stage. Everyone is in very detailed costumes. There is a king on a throne surrounded by courtiers, dignitaries and a bishop. A knight wearing chainmail kneels before the king. The set is dressed with banners with what look like gold coats of arms.
Image courtesy of www.picturethepast.org.uk

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Crowd Cymru @crowdcymru.bsky.social · 11d

Our volunteers are working on scrapbooks compiled by Ysgol Rhydfelen, first Welsh comprehensive school to open in south Wales in 1962.
This is the flyer for a production of a Welsh language musical play, A Big Day in Merthyr, performed by the pupils in 1979 #EYAEducation #neverstoplearning 💞

Image shows a flyer for a musical play, A Big Day in Merthyr, performed by Ysgol Gyfun Rhydfelen on October 12 and 13, 1979. A red background with a simple black, stylized image of Stevenson’s “Rocket” with the following black text in Welsh:
Diwrnod Mawr ym Merthyr
Cwmni drama
Ysgol Gyfon Rhydfelen
Cerddoriaeth: Ann Hopcyn
HYDREF 12, 13, 1979
Gan Emyr Edwards

This collection is held at Glamorgan Archives

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Hartley Special Collections @hartleyspecialc.bsky.social · 10d

The new academic year starts this week @unisouthampton.bsky.social. Welcome to all new and returning students! Here is a photo of students soaking up the sun on the green between Hartley Library and Building 38 in 1996. How much has changed in nearly 30 years? #EYAEducation

Photograph of students sitting on the green between Hartley Library and Building 38 in Spring 1996

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Derbyshire Record Office @derbyshiredro.bsky.social · 10d

Our #ArchiveOfTheWeek is a plan of an extension to Wirksworth Infant National School. Erected in 1851, fees were £4 pa for the upper room, £2 for the lower. Free places limited to 12, but trustees could admit more giving due regard to the character of the school.

#EYAEducation #LocalHistory

The plan shows two images. The top image shows the extension on the left hand side, measuring 17.6 by 16 yards. The extension and the desks on the right hand side, are coloured in yellow. The second image is a sketch of the front of the school. The roof and three windows are coloured blue.

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