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Hellen Pethers
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🏛️ Natural History Museum, London.

❤️ paper, ephemera, pangolins, cats, genealogy, social media & serendipity!
Very proud Mum & Auntie. West Sussex.
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🔎Discovering the Okapi
🌍The Museum: creating advocates for the planet - the history of exhibitions and galleries at the NHM, and the way these have helped to develop a knowledge and appreciation of the natural world
🐋 Whales, Science and Conservation
🌱Ordering and Naming Nature

#Archives #Art
Group of people looking at a table display of artwork and photographs, surrounded by bookshelves.
November 27, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Our family don’t have many family history objects and this medal being on a dealers website has been really bothering me. It was time to bring it back into the family fold.

So today 1/3 each is now owned by my Mum,y daughter and myself. His great, 2x great and 3x great nieces!! ❤️ #AncestryHour
A close up of the back of a World War One medal, held in the palm of a hand. The inscription is Private J Buckley.
November 12, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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I spent some time studying the Cyprus Agricultural Journal in our collections today, from the early 1930s.

#Journals #Science #ModernCollections #Travel #Tourism #Advertising #Marketing
Advert for Bovril. Advert for Sutton Seeds. Page from a journal showing an advert.
June 21, 2025 at 10:23 AM