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There’s a long history of pets in the hospital - how many animals you can spot in this photo of an 1850s ward? The Victorians believed a homely environment, with pets, was beneficial for patients. Today, we have our own Hospital cat, who has to be gently kept away from our artworks…
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December 3, 2025 at 5:51 PM
The Boy Who Drew Cats from the Ringling North collection.

Lafcadio Hearn, in The Boy Who Drew Cats, retells a Japanese folk tale and explores themes of creativity and individuality.

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December 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Can you spot the animal in this photo? #EYAPets
We also have a beautiful example of a baby #swaddled in a #Welshblanket to a woman wearing a very impressive hat! From the Edwin Miles Collection held @glamarchives.bsky.social @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social #Margam
December 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Did you know botanist Sir Joseph Hooker travelled with two Bhotea mastiff dogs? Today’s featured image for #ExploreYourArchive Week #EYAPets is a playful drawing from his letters, showing Kinchin the dog being ‘taught’ to write.
December 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Today's #ExploreYourArchive theme is #EYAPets #EYAPeataí 🐶❤️

This photograph captures a moment of quiet seaside reflection for a man and his dog.
From the Ports, Past and Present Collection, deposited in the DRI by University College Cork.

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December 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Day 5 of #ExploreYourArchive and it's all about #EYAPets in our collections.

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December 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Half-length picture of woman by Utamaro Kitagawa c.1804 shows her holding a pet dog in her arms https://ow.ly/qeeH50X8roe #EYAPets
December 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Dr Pye-Smith’s scrapbook includes an ode by James Hadfield to Jack Squrriel, one of many pets he had while held in Bethlem for trying to assassinate George III. The British state would rather criminalise those with mental health conditions than support them in the community
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December 3, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Missed a few days but ready to go again today with #EYApets

Matron King with her beautiful dogs at the Cardiff City Mental Hospital.

THE NURSING TIMES FEB. 24, 1934.

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December 3, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Some more #EYAPets in our archives!

Siobhán McKenna's dogs, a terrier called Pegeen Mike, and her beloved elkhound, Rory. After Rory passed away, a friend of Siobhán's wrote this tribute to him.

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December 3, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Can we combine all of today's archive hashtags in one post? Yes we (tenuously) can!

We bring you 'Help', Railway Dog of England & absolute Bestest Boy, in 1883, collecting for orphans of railway workers, amongst boxes and a bow-clad child

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December 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM
For today's Explore Archives - #EYAPets: the amazing Amy Dillwyn, pioneer of industry AND lesbian fiction, with her pet dog. For her diary see www.southwalesrecordsociety.co.uk/37.htm
December 3, 2025 at 2:27 PM
This group photograph was taken in around 1900. It shows the employees of J S Shepton, builder, of Station Road, Penarth, outside the company’s office. The smart clothes and buttonholes suggest it was a special occasion. And if you look carefully, you’ll be able to spot their pet dog.
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December 3, 2025 at 2:19 PM
It’s safe to say that Wales can be considered a nation of animal lovers; indeed, the 2021 National Survey for Wales revealed that 52% of Wales’s households own a pet. 🐶🐹🐰🐮🐱🦆 #EYAPets
December 3, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Carl Linnaeus's beloved pet raccoon, Sjupp, was a gift from the King of Sweden, and regularly stole snacks from Linnaeus's students. This drawing is thought to be Sjupp. (LM/PF/ALS/1) #EYAPets
December 3, 2025 at 1:30 PM
For #EYAPets we are highlighting the Will of Thomas Knox registered on 1st July 1721 in the Registry of Deeds. It includes great detail on how he was bequeathing his estate and possessions, including bestowing his animals to many of his friends and family.

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December 3, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Here's Nancy McCarthy with her two poodles 'Mike' and 'Mel' #EYAPets #archives @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social @ucclibrary.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 12:48 PM
One pampered Pekingese for #ExploreYourArchive #EYAPets! Here is the ironically-named Rags atop his velvet cushion in the yard of Grove Farm Dairy, Nightingale Lane, Wanstead, 1920s 🐶

🔗 Find out more about local rural history at Redbridge Museum: visionrcl.org.uk/museum
December 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Despite a ban on pets recorded in the Vice-Principal’s Register of 1851, we have quite a few photos of pets in the Archives. One of these was the College tortoise. Here you can see it with the Brasenose Rugby XV in 1912 and 2nd Eight in 1913. #EYAPets #ExploreYourArchive #EYA
December 3, 2025 at 11:51 AM
At Bexley we have a huge collection of images taken by amateur photographer Arthur Boswell. As well as local landmarks, he liked to photograph people, including his gardener whose dogs liked to pose for the camera. #EYAPets #ExploreYourArchive
December 3, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Today we are also celebrating the #ExploreYourArchive theme of #EYAPets. This panorama tile features a design inspired by observations over York of the astronomers John Goodricke, Nathaniel Piggott and Edward Piggott. (archive ref: GPP)

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December 3, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Today's Explore Your Archive theme is #EYAPets, and we've picked some more items from the Scottish Theatre Archive. Amongst this collection of autographed theatrical postcards are a number featuring actor John Martin Harvey posing with his dogs 🐕

Refs: STA Gen 15/1/14, 13 & 12
December 3, 2025 at 11:18 AM
This parrot is one of the more unusual items in the Abbey's collection. It belonged for 40 years to Frances Stuart, Duchess of Richmond, and is on display with her funeral effigy in our museum, The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries. It's thought to be the oldest stuffed bird in the UK.

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December 3, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Today's #ExploreYourArchive theme is #EYAPets

From his Presidential archive, a photograph of Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland, with his friend Richard Kearney and his family, along with his two dogs Bród and Misneach, 31 Jan 2016.

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December 3, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Dog health in #EarlyModern recipe books! The 6th recipe down in the 1st image asserts that ox blood poured into an open wound ‘cureth ye scabs in dogs,’ and the treatment for mange involves train oil (from whales), soap, gunpowder, and flower of brimstone (sulphur)

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December 3, 2025 at 10:19 AM