Illustration of the robin or robin redbreast (Erithacus rubecula) from the hand-coloured engraved plates of Prideaux John Selby’s Illustrations of British ornithology, published in 1841… Read More »Advent Calendar: 6 December – Robin
Engraved illustration by Robert Seymour of a pantomime performance in Thomas Hervey’s The book of Christmas, published in 1836 (s GT4895.H2). Pantomime is a musical… Read More »Advent Calendar: 5 December – Christmas Pantomime
Illustration of English fashion for the month of December in 1832, from The Royal Lady’s Magazine and Archives of the Court of St. James’s (rper… Read More »Advent Calendar: 4 December – Winter Fashion
Photograph of Professor and Mrs Dickie skiing on Jacob’s ladder [North Haugh], St Andrews in 1950 (GMC-19-75-2). Edgar Primrose Dickie was Professor of Divinity at… Read More »Advent Calendar: 3 December – Skiing on Jacob’s Ladder
Christmas Rose or Helleborus niger from the first volume of Curtis’s botanical magazine, 1787 (rper QK1.C8M2 Volume 1). Despite its name, the Christmas Rose is not… Read More »Advent Calendar: 2 December – Christmas Rose
This year Echoes from the Vault will be posting an image of winter or Christmas from our collections every day from the 1st to 25th… Read More »Advent Calendar: 1 December – The booke of common prayer
