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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…
#EYAPets #Arlo
December 3, 2025 at 5:51 PM
uniofgalwayasc.bsky.social
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.

#EYAPets #ExploreYourArchive
December 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
crowdcymru.bsky.social
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
Image shows black and white photograph of three buildings behind a low walled kitchen garden. On the right of the image is a woman with a baby swaddled against her in a blanket with what looks to be an over-sized peaked cap on. On the left of the image are a little boy and slightly older girl – the girl is holding a dog in her arms. Smoke is coming from the chimney stacks on two of the houses [centre and wright]. On the left is a low roofed building with a hexagonal roofed extension. Behind the buildings are dense trees. Written at the bottom of the image in white is the following text: The Groes, Margam M.218. Image taken by Edwin Miles circa early 1900s. Collection held at Glamorgan Archives.
December 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
rbgkew.bsky.social
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.
A letter which at the top includes a drawing in ink and the number ‘151’ printed and written in the top left corner. The drawing depicts from left to right: a pot cooking with steam rising from it; a Bhotea mastiff dog writing a note using a quill; a tent with a person sat at a table inside. There are mountains drawn in the background. Underneath, the letter notes that it was sent from Darjeeling on April 2. The contents of the letter discuss Joseph Hooker’s Bhotea mastiffs – Bruno and puppy Kinchin. It mentions that Kinchin is cleaned daily with mustard oil and woods ashes, he steals cheese from Joseph Hooker’s dinner and that Kinchin learnt English was being taught how to write. Ref: JDH/1/10, ff.151
December 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
dri.ie
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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A person and a dog stand on a sandy beach, gazing at a distant ship on a calm, overcast ocean.
December 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
librarywales.bsky.social
Day 5 of #ExploreYourArchive and it's all about #EYAPets in our collections.

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December 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
soas-speccoll.bsky.social
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
rcpmuseum.bsky.social
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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A Victorian scrapbook containing drawings of dissected body parts, bugs, and other items. A handwritten poem about a squirrel, written in 1829.
December 3, 2025 at 2:50 PM
whitchurchhospital.bsky.social
Day 5 #EYA @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social

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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Black and white grainy photo showing two dogs, one standing on the left and one lying on the right with Matron King sitting in between them. Trees in the background Full page of the THE NURSING TIMES FEB. 24, 1934 article
December 3, 2025 at 2:39 PM
uniofgalwayasc.bsky.social
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
mrcwarwick.bsky.social
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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Engraving from 'The Railway Review', 26 October 1883. It shows Help, a black and white collie type of dog, getting out of the guard's carriage of a train with a heavily bearded, uniformed guard following him. A woman and child are looking enquiringly at Help, who has a metal plate with his name on around his neck. A basket and box can be seen on the railway platform. The child has a vast bow around the waist of her dress.
December 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM
swalesrecordsoc.bsky.social
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
Woman in early C20 costume, smoking cigar, with dog, on steps of substantial house
December 3, 2025 at 2:27 PM
glamarchives.bsky.social
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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The employees of J S Shepton, builder, of Station Road, Penarth
December 3, 2025 at 2:19 PM
archiveswales.bsky.social
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
linneansociety.bsky.social
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
A greyscale illustration of a raccoon, hunkered down and looking mischievously at the viewer.
December 3, 2025 at 1:30 PM
tailteeireann.bsky.social
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
theriversideucc.bsky.social
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
redbridgemuseum.bsky.social
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
Black and white photograph of a Pekingese dog sat on a plump velvet cushion on a wooden chair in the middle of a dairy-yard.
December 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM
brasenose.bsky.social
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
bexleyarchives.bsky.social
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
yorkarchive.bsky.social
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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)

#archives #York #Christmas #adventcalendar
Colorful ceramic mural depicting constelations with animals, plants, and swirling patterns. Text mentions Civil War, archaeology, and chocolate aroma. A handwritten page from 1787 detailing observations of a comet, with a sketched map showing its trajectory past constellations and coordinates.
December 3, 2025 at 11:20 AM
uofglasgowasc.bsky.social
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
westminsterabbey.bsky.social
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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A stuffed African grey parrot displayed on a stand A life-sized wax figure of Frances Stuart, dressed in robes and a coronet, on display in a museum gallery. Beside her is a stuffed gray parrot on a stand.
December 3, 2025 at 11:18 AM
uniofgalwayasc.bsky.social
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
rcpmuseum.bsky.social
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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Eighteenth century handwritten medical recipes Eighteenth century handwritten medical recipes
December 3, 2025 at 10:19 AM