Hen Lockhart
@archivewhg.bsky.social
Curator at Winterbourne House and Garden, Birmingham, posting about collections, archives, The Winterbourne Press, University of Birmingham Herbarium www.winterbourne.org.uk
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Edward Strutt (1st Baron Belper), who died #OnThisDay 1880, was Liberal MP for Derby 1830-48, Arundel 1851-2, Nottingham 1852-6. As Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster he wore this court dress; more on this in @archivewhg.bsky.social's guest post: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2024/05/14/f...
From Parliament to Fancy Dress: the life story of an MP’s court dress
In this guest blog, Henrietta Lockhart, Curator of Museum Collections at Winterbourne House and Garden, at the University of Birmingham, tells the story of a unique piece of costume once owned and …
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June 30, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Edward Strutt (1st Baron Belper), who died #OnThisDay 1880, was Liberal MP for Derby 1830-48, Arundel 1851-2, Nottingham 1852-6. As Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster he wore this court dress; more on this in @archivewhg.bsky.social's guest post: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2024/05/14/f...
Has anyone come across this clothing brand? Probably 1940s or earlier? We have it on a cotton apron - house livery or waitress. @19cdandtreframed.bsky.social @katestrasdin.bsky.social @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social
June 6, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Has anyone come across this clothing brand? Probably 1940s or earlier? We have it on a cotton apron - house livery or waitress. @19cdandtreframed.bsky.social @katestrasdin.bsky.social @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social
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Just 2 weeks left of the beautifully curated ‘Rembrandt. Masterpieces in Black and White. Prints from the Rembrandt House Museum’ at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery.
Not just 40+ Rembrandts. Also 19C etching revival & 20C Birmingham etchers influenced by Rembrandt & the lure of light & dark.👌🏽
Not just 40+ Rembrandts. Also 19C etching revival & 20C Birmingham etchers influenced by Rembrandt & the lure of light & dark.👌🏽
May 18, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Just 2 weeks left of the beautifully curated ‘Rembrandt. Masterpieces in Black and White. Prints from the Rembrandt House Museum’ at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery.
Not just 40+ Rembrandts. Also 19C etching revival & 20C Birmingham etchers influenced by Rembrandt & the lure of light & dark.👌🏽
Not just 40+ Rembrandts. Also 19C etching revival & 20C Birmingham etchers influenced by Rembrandt & the lure of light & dark.👌🏽
#VEDay Female students lived at #WinterbourneHouseandGarden from 1944, and recall the impact of rationing. “On Saturday and Sunday evenings we had ‘supper supplies’ - a slice of ham, an egg, a tomato, a piece of plastic cheese, and some bread…allocations of butter and margarine and sugar.”
May 8, 2025 at 2:12 PM
#VEDay Female students lived at #WinterbourneHouseandGarden from 1944, and recall the impact of rationing. “On Saturday and Sunday evenings we had ‘supper supplies’ - a slice of ham, an egg, a tomato, a piece of plastic cheese, and some bread…allocations of butter and margarine and sugar.”
#VEDay After the war Guest Keen & Nettlefolds (GKN) were keen to inform their employees about the contribution their products were making to reconstruction. This poster showed exactly how many screws went into a prefab house. #GKNarchive #WinterbourneHouseandGarden #WW2 @archiveswm.bsky.social
May 7, 2025 at 3:21 PM
#VEDay After the war Guest Keen & Nettlefolds (GKN) were keen to inform their employees about the contribution their products were making to reconstruction. This poster showed exactly how many screws went into a prefab house. #GKNarchive #WinterbourneHouseandGarden #WW2 @archiveswm.bsky.social
#Archive30 #WhyArchives Archives provide the bedrock for an infinite variety of projects! Our university interns contribute blog posts to our website about their discoveries. @arascot.bsky.social @theironroom.bsky.social @archiveswm.bsky.social
www.winterbourne.org.uk/blog/2024/12...
www.winterbourne.org.uk/blog/2024/12...
A passion for plants: women in botany - Winterbourne House and Garden
Discover the inspiring stories of women in botany at Winterbourne. Explore their contributions to the University Herbarium and the fascinating world of plant genetics.
www.winterbourne.org.uk
April 30, 2025 at 2:56 PM
#Archive30 #WhyArchives Archives provide the bedrock for an infinite variety of projects! Our university interns contribute blog posts to our website about their discoveries. @arascot.bsky.social @theironroom.bsky.social @archiveswm.bsky.social
www.winterbourne.org.uk/blog/2024/12...
www.winterbourne.org.uk/blog/2024/12...
#Archive30 #ArchiveCollection The arrival of archive collections can be chaotic. The #Herbarium was moved to Winterbourne in one day - 1000+ boxes plus the wooden cabinets. Now it's a calm and tranquil space! @arascot.bsky.social @lukaslarge.bsky.social @herbarium.bsky.social @cuherb.bsky.social
April 29, 2025 at 8:21 AM
#Archive30 #ArchiveCollection The arrival of archive collections can be chaotic. The #Herbarium was moved to Winterbourne in one day - 1000+ boxes plus the wooden cabinets. Now it's a calm and tranquil space! @arascot.bsky.social @lukaslarge.bsky.social @herbarium.bsky.social @cuherb.bsky.social
#Archive30 #ArchiveBuildings Our store in the 1960s when it was first built as laboratories for the Botany Dept of the University of Birmingham. It now houses Winterbourne's archive and object stores, including the #Herbarium, #GKNarchive and family archives. @arascot.bsky.social
April 28, 2025 at 9:00 AM
#Archive30 #ArchiveBuildings Our store in the 1960s when it was first built as laboratories for the Botany Dept of the University of Birmingham. It now houses Winterbourne's archive and object stores, including the #Herbarium, #GKNarchive and family archives. @arascot.bsky.social
#Archive30 #ArchiveNightmares This series of hand-made lantern slides depicting Three Blind Mice is surely the stuff of nightmares! @arascot.bsky.social
April 28, 2025 at 8:56 AM
#Archive30 #ArchiveNightmares This series of hand-made lantern slides depicting Three Blind Mice is surely the stuff of nightmares! @arascot.bsky.social
#Archive30 This #ArchiveObject came to us with our #GuestKeen&Nettlefolds archive. We had no idea what it was until a volunteer came across a reference to the 'constant velocity joint' designed for the new #Mini in the 1960s! A piece of motoring history. @arascot.bsky.social #vintagecars
April 28, 2025 at 8:49 AM
#Archive30 This #ArchiveObject came to us with our #GuestKeen&Nettlefolds archive. We had no idea what it was until a volunteer came across a reference to the 'constant velocity joint' designed for the new #Mini in the 1960s! A piece of motoring history. @arascot.bsky.social #vintagecars
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This beautiful miniature cabinet of microscopic slide preparations belonged to Professor of Materia Medica, Ralph Stockman. With the obligatory pencil for scale! #Archive30 #ArchiveObject
April 26, 2025 at 10:00 AM
This beautiful miniature cabinet of microscopic slide preparations belonged to Professor of Materia Medica, Ralph Stockman. With the obligatory pencil for scale! #Archive30 #ArchiveObject
#Archive30 #SomethingNew This portfolio, donated this year, was published in Birmingham for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. Birmingham artists inc. Walter Langley contributed drawings which were reproduced as mounted prints. @arascot.bsky.social @archiveswm.bsky.social @theironroom.bsky.social
April 25, 2025 at 8:02 AM
#Archive30 #SomethingNew This portfolio, donated this year, was published in Birmingham for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. Birmingham artists inc. Walter Langley contributed drawings which were reproduced as mounted prints. @arascot.bsky.social @archiveswm.bsky.social @theironroom.bsky.social
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Today is #ArchiveTravel for #Archive30
Due to the paucity of English mountains we're all about travel. Travel means mountains! ... and alpine dragons. So many dragons.
#ExploreYourArchive
Due to the paucity of English mountains we're all about travel. Travel means mountains! ... and alpine dragons. So many dragons.
#ExploreYourArchive
April 19, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Today is #ArchiveTravel for #Archive30
Due to the paucity of English mountains we're all about travel. Travel means mountains! ... and alpine dragons. So many dragons.
#ExploreYourArchive
Due to the paucity of English mountains we're all about travel. Travel means mountains! ... and alpine dragons. So many dragons.
#ExploreYourArchive
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Amy Malden's diary includes details of a tour of Switzerland in August 1898 and cycling tours through Kent, Devon, Surrey and North Wales. The diary includes photographs, postcards and pressed flowers and ferns. #Archive30 #PopularItem
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April 24, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Amy Malden's diary includes details of a tour of Switzerland in August 1898 and cycling tours through Kent, Devon, Surrey and North Wales. The diary includes photographs, postcards and pressed flowers and ferns. #Archive30 #PopularItem
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I queued for hours with my mother to see this exhibition in 1972. Unforgettable.
The 1972 British Museum Tutankhamun exhibition was opened by Queen Elizabeth II. Members of the public wrote to the Trustees concerned about the perceived curse of the Tomb of Tutankhamun & risk of exposing the Queen to its dangers. Fortunately all went well! #Archive30 #ArchiveMyths #BritishMuseum
April 24, 2025 at 11:46 AM
I queued for hours with my mother to see this exhibition in 1972. Unforgettable.
I remember consulting these records years ago as part of the Birmingham History Galleries project at Birmingham Museums Trust. A fantastic resource for social history.
This photograph album of known or wanted criminals,1860-1930, is a #PopularItem #Archive30
April 24, 2025 at 11:38 AM
I remember consulting these records years ago as part of the Birmingham History Galleries project at Birmingham Museums Trust. A fantastic resource for social history.
#Archive30 #PopularItem This tiny sketch book full of hand-painted #botanicalillustrations by Beatrice Nettlefold of Winterbourne always proves popular at handling sessions! @arascot.bsky.social @lukaslarge.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
April 24, 2025 at 8:10 AM
#Archive30 #PopularItem This tiny sketch book full of hand-painted #botanicalillustrations by Beatrice Nettlefold of Winterbourne always proves popular at handling sessions! @arascot.bsky.social @lukaslarge.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
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Become a Documentation Detective! Explore and transcribe #Birmingham Museums collection records online
New uploads released every three weeks - new uploads today!
New uploads released every three weeks - new uploads today!
Research | Documentation Detectives: Transcribing Accession Registers | Zooniverse - People-powered research
Transcribe Birmingham Museum's object accession registers to help us build an accessible collections database.
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April 23, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Become a Documentation Detective! Explore and transcribe #Birmingham Museums collection records online
New uploads released every three weeks - new uploads today!
New uploads released every three weeks - new uploads today!
#Archive30 #CommunityArchives Our #GuestKeen&Nettlefolds archive at Winterbourne reflects the many communities within the company. During #WWII female employees enjoyed a strong community spirit and even taught each other dancing in the aisles. @arascot.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social
April 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
#Archive30 #CommunityArchives Our #GuestKeen&Nettlefolds archive at Winterbourne reflects the many communities within the company. During #WWII female employees enjoyed a strong community spirit and even taught each other dancing in the aisles. @arascot.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social
#Archive30 #ArchiveAction 'The Way to Camp' by S.H.Walker (1946) offers all kinds of invaluable advice including the correct action when walking. As he says, 'Few townfolk know how to walk'. I am definitely guilty of what he calls the 'townie slouch'. @arascot.bsky.social @jdk653.bsky.social
April 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
#Archive30 #ArchiveAction 'The Way to Camp' by S.H.Walker (1946) offers all kinds of invaluable advice including the correct action when walking. As he says, 'Few townfolk know how to walk'. I am definitely guilty of what he calls the 'townie slouch'. @arascot.bsky.social @jdk653.bsky.social
#Archive30 #ArchiveMyths The collection of Welsh tales, the Mabinogion, finds a place in our industrial #GuestKeen&Nettlefolds archive. It was translated in the 1840s by Lady Charlotte Guest, industrialist, educator and philanthropist, whose husband ran the Dowlais Ironworks. @arascot.bsky.social
April 21, 2025 at 9:52 AM
#Archive30 #ArchiveMyths The collection of Welsh tales, the Mabinogion, finds a place in our industrial #GuestKeen&Nettlefolds archive. It was translated in the 1840s by Lady Charlotte Guest, industrialist, educator and philanthropist, whose husband ran the Dowlais Ironworks. @arascot.bsky.social
#Archive30 #FunandGames Evie and Nina Nettlefold loved real horses and ponies, and both look a little bit dissatisfied with this toy one! Taken around 1898. @arascot.bsky.social #vintagetoys
April 21, 2025 at 9:14 AM
#Archive30 #FunandGames Evie and Nina Nettlefold loved real horses and ponies, and both look a little bit dissatisfied with this toy one! Taken around 1898. @arascot.bsky.social #vintagetoys
#Archive30 #ArchiveTravel W.S.Laycock's railway and steamship fittings were the pinnacle of luxury in the early 20th century, as this catalogue shows! They later became part of the #GKN group of companies. @arascot.bsky.social
April 21, 2025 at 8:47 AM
#Archive30 #ArchiveTravel W.S.Laycock's railway and steamship fittings were the pinnacle of luxury in the early 20th century, as this catalogue shows! They later became part of the #GKN group of companies. @arascot.bsky.social
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#BirminghamShops Who remembers Barrow’s Stores which stood on the southern corner of Corporation Street and Bull Street. Developed from a shop opened by John Cadbury in 1824 and named Barrows in 1849. Here’s a bill from 1923. Ref: MS 1342/17 #LibraryofBham
April 19, 2025 at 9:12 AM
#BirminghamShops Who remembers Barrow’s Stores which stood on the southern corner of Corporation Street and Bull Street. Developed from a shop opened by John Cadbury in 1824 and named Barrows in 1849. Here’s a bill from 1923. Ref: MS 1342/17 #LibraryofBham
#GoodFriday #Crucifixion Auchonvillers cemetery, Somme.
April 18, 2025 at 2:28 PM
#GoodFriday #Crucifixion Auchonvillers cemetery, Somme.