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The #britishmuseum celebrates its birthday on 10th December & this year will be its 272nd anniversary. Here is the Deed of Foundation from 1753 & its 250th anniversary bow in 2003. It’s also the 25th anniversary of the Great Court, which opened in 2000! #EYA #eyaanniversaries #archives
December 7, 2025 at 8:17 AM
🎊 Today's focus week theme is #EYAAnniversaries. Let us know what big milestones your archive or your items have achieved! 🎊

#ExploreYourArchive
December 6, 2025 at 8:23 PM
We're delving into the Post Office Irish Postage Stamp Collection for today's #ExploreYourArchive theme #EYAAnniversaries #EYACuimhneacháin

This stamp was published in 1997 to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Irish state:
doi.org/10.7486/DRI....
December 6, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Day 8 @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social

For #EYAAnniversaries we thought we would look back at the Whitchurch Hospital Centenary back in 2008.

Who remembers coming along to the open day back in April 2008?

#ExploreYourArchive #Archives #EYAFocusWeek #heritage
December 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM
2026 marks 350 years since Bethlem moved from its medieval Bishopsgate home to a purpose-built site at Moorfields, with the iconic Raving & Melancholy statues installed over the gates. Today’s site still sits on a 999-year lease from the City of London, so only 649 years left...
#EYAAnniversaries
December 6, 2025 at 5:41 PM
This December marks the 70th anniversary of the University of Exeter, having been awarded its Royal Charter in 1955. To celebrate, this autumn we put the charter on display in the Forum Library for students, staff & the public to visit and enjoy.

📷 EUL MS 294

#EYAAnniversaries #UniOfExeterArchive
December 6, 2025 at 3:35 PM
#ExploreYourArchive Thank you to everyone who has helped celebrate 400 years of Worsbrough Mill with us this year.

#WorsbroughMill400 has been a year long celebration made possible with funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund &
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December 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Friends and family celebrating 25 years of marriage for the Silver wedding anniversary of D.H. and Rina Scott, with a handy key to remember all of those many faces. (SCO/1/6/3) #EYAAnniversaries
December 6, 2025 at 1:30 PM
#ExploreYourArchive 2025 marked 80 years since the end of WWII. College was taken over by the military, and most BNC students moved to Christ Church. This is an image of sandbagging in 1939 from Principal Stallybrass’s photo collection. brasenosecollegelibrary.wordpress.com
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December 6, 2025 at 1:13 PM
This year it’s our 90th birthday 🎂 and to celebrate we have recreated the exhibition put together for our Golden Jubilee in 1985, but this time it's online! Filled with collection highlights plus additions that reflect our last 40 years #EYAAnniversaries www.oxfordshirehistory.org.uk/public/exhib...
December 6, 2025 at 12:40 PM
This image was an entry as part of the “Snap your street” collection from 1998, which was a collection of images from York’s recent history. The image itself is from the 1984 York Minster fire, with this year marking the 41st #EYAAnniversaries of the fire. 

#archives #york #yorkminster
December 6, 2025 at 12:30 PM
The anniversary of the first 100 years of St David’s College started at 7am and finished with a well-deserved tea at 4.30. It included a series of student tableaux recording the history of Lampeter, from the Druids to Modern Lampeter.

#EYAAnniversaries #UWTSDlib
December 6, 2025 at 12:15 PM
For #EYAAnniversaries, we delved into collections on our Millennium Seed Bank, which opened at Wakehurst 25 years ago. Among the reports & articles on the development of one of the world’s largest seed banks, we discovered publicity materials featuring none other than Sir David Attenborough! #KewLA
December 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Festive greetings between two poets from 114 years ago on #EYAAnniversaries. Our most recent collection comes from Cardiff University Special Collections & Archives and features letters from #EdwardThomas to fellow poet and friend, #GordonBottomley. @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social #WWI #warpoets
December 6, 2025 at 11:54 AM
#ExploreYourArchive Day 8 #EYAAnniversaries

Read more about the 100th Anniversary of the construction of the Bodie Creek Bridge in our Archives newsletter from 2024 and 2025 (Issue. 1):
nationalarchives.gov.fk/about-archiv...

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December 6, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Our current #CM150 exhibition at Sidcup marks 150 years of the Crime Museum collection, whilst its successor next year will mark the 125th anniversary of Assistant Commissioner Edward Henry's formation of the Met's Fingerprint Bureau on 1 July 1901. #EYAanniversaries #ExploreYourArchive
December 6, 2025 at 11:40 AM
The Isle of Man Sea Terminal turned sixty this year! The Modernist design with its 'crow's nest' was in complete contrast to the Victorian structure it replaced. Our Harbours records span nearly 250 years, starting with the first Commissioners' minutes from 1771. #EYAAnniversaries #ManxArchives
December 6, 2025 at 11:00 AM
🎉#EYAAnniversaries🎉Next month we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the first public demonstration of the television, by UofG alumnus John Logie Baird. Related items in our collection include a Phonovision disc containing a unique copy of the earliest surviving television recording! [MS Gen 1774/3]
December 6, 2025 at 11:00 AM
#OnThisDay in Derby in 1745, Bonnie Prince Charlie abandoned his march to London to restore the Stuart monarchy in England, Scotland and Wales. The Jacobite rebels were ultimately defeated at the Battle of Culloden in Scotland on 16 April 1746.

#EYAAnniversaries #18thCentury
December 6, 2025 at 10:55 AM
2025 has been a year of anniversaries for #CelebratingBexley and #BexleyArchives – Dissolution of Lesnes Abbey (500 years), Crossness Pumping Station (160 years), Danson Park (100 years), London Borough of Bexley (60 years). #EYAAnniversaries #ExploreYourArchive
December 6, 2025 at 10:46 AM

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December 6, 2025 at 10:10 AM
2025 marked the anniversaries of the opening (1895) & closing (1935) of the Galway-Clifden railway. Arthur J. Balfour's album documents the railway's construction.

The Balfour album is fully digitised: digital.library.universityofgalway.ie/p/ms/categor...

#EYAAnniversaries #ExploreYourArchive
December 6, 2025 at 10:05 AM
On this day, in 1916, David Lloyd George became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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December 6, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Ar y diwrnod hwn, ym 1916, daeth David Lloyd George yn Brif Weinidog y Deyrnas Unedig.
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December 6, 2025 at 10:01 AM