If you are looking for #SomethingScary for #Archive30 , then we know just where to find Big (and little) Scares!
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Today’s #Archive30 theme is #SomethingScary and our Speaking Out Project Archivist was terrified when she saw how many staples she had to remove from this bundle of call cards 😱
You can read more about the horrors of staples and paperclips in this blog: shorturl.at/ckoEF
For #SomethingScary of #Archive30 we give you monsters! These images are from 'Monstrorum historia..' by Italian naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522-1605)
The protective fencing around the Zinzan grave before it was beautifully repaired in 2023 was #SomethingScary #Archive30
In the mood to do #SomethingScary ? Perhaps not as scary as this man from 1958, in the act of the first crossing of Conwy's Road Bridge. He might have been a bit too eager. #Archive30
#SomethingScary 😨 A minute book eaten by pests 😱 ARA Scotland #Archive30 Explore Your Archive Archive Hashtag
Handling fragile documents is #SomethingScary ! 😱 We are fortunate to have an in-house Conservation team who can repair our most delicate records and make them more stable. #Archive30
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This remedy for teething pain from our 18th century herbal notebook will give your child nightmares. Rub their gums with hare or hen brains twice a day. Lovely!
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Looking for #SomethingScary ? We've got some spooking cooking ideas from our Halloween feast recipes
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This image still brings chills to the spine of our staff…
A bird’s nest found in some records, thankfully before they were transferred to the archives, back in the 1980s.
What's the worst thing you've found in a collection before deposit?
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#SomethingScary When mysterious circumstances occur out of the corner of your eye, where unknown noises are heard and items disappear from shelves & reappear on another...This is what is reported in an account @ the haunted Mill, Willington 1840 blogs.ncl.ac.uk/speccoll/2016/… #Archive30
Just some of our boxes of archives waiting to be catalogued as we make our way through our backlog. #SomethingScary #Archive30
‘The sickness is much dispersed in the County’.
This is a letter dated 28th May 1652 from Haverfordwest borough council to the Mayor, concerning the spread of the plague.
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If truth be told - I've always found the cat on this 1950 Siemens lamp advert a wee bit scary so for #SomethingScary from my collections for #Archive30 this it it ARA Scotland ! #cat
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For #SomethingScary we’ve gone for criss-crossed letters. Sure, they saved on paper & whatnot, but they give archivists a major headache when listing them. Could the recipient of the letter read it easily?! #Archive30 #WhySoStingyWithThePaper ARA Scotland
Taken in 1936 in the Mon district of Nagaland in India by anthropologist Christoph Von Fürer-Haimendorf this photograph shows a calabash (gourd) which has been painted to scare away illness. #SomethingScary #Archive30 ow.ly/Eonr50Rc1K8
Scary or adorable? 🦇
This slide from 1975 shows vampire bats in the old Nocturnal House, one of only a handful of such night exhibits in the U.S.
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