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Happy #MonkeyDay! Mark Beeson, a poet/playwright/primatologist, studied Blue Monkeys in Malawi, describing them as "beautiful creatures [...] blending with the colours of leaves, bark, fruits clouds and blue sky.” 🐒 📷 EUL MS 488/PRI/37 Find out more:

We hope you've enjoyed delving into our archives with us for Explore Your Archive week! 💫 As a final note, we just want to say: our archives are also your archives. We look after them for you, and everyone is welcome - for research or fun! #YourArchive #ExploreYourArchive

We love finding animals in the archives! (With the exception of rodents, and insects like moths, silverfish and woolly bears, which can cause major damage to collections! 😱) Here are some of our favourite animals from the archives! #EYAAnimals #ExploreYourArchive

📷 EUL MS 68/PERS/3/1/23 & EUL MS 68/PERS/3/1/16

RT @DevonshireAssoc: Theo Brown was the Recorder of Folklore for the Devonshire Association and wrote 9 papers for our Transactions

RT @artsandculturex: Calling all @UniExeCornwall staff! Join us for a drop-in session on 4 Dec to discover more about what we do, how we co…

RT @ExeterCathedral: For centuries, artists and printmakers have imagined the nativity of Jesus, based on accounts in the Gospels of Matthe…

For #EYADisco we have an advert for the Al Mansour Melia Disco Club in Baghdad. According to the advert, it was “the most unusual disco club” in Baghdad and surely the best place to hear the hottest “international hit parades” 🪩🕺 📷: EUL MS 143/19/8

Hag stones are thought to have magical properties & be able to ward off the evil eye. These stones are from the folklorist Theo Brown's archives, which contain fascinating records relating to Devon folklore, legends & mythology. 📷 EUL MS 388 #EYAMythology #ExploreYourArchive

For today's Fashion theme, we can't resist showing off our academic dress! Can you spot any famous faces among these honorary graduates in 1961? From L: Agatha Christie and Theodor Heuss. From R: Bernard Leach and William Hodge. 📷 EUL UA/P/5i #EYAFashion #ExploreYourArchive

RT @TotnesImageBank: Snow at Totnes Castle, 1963

Some huge items in our collections are scrolls created by traditional scroll painters from Naya Village in West Bengal as part of the AHRC project 'Famine and Dearth in India and Britain, 1550-1800'. Here is archivist Hollie unrolling a scroll! #EYAHuge #ExploreYourArchive

For Day 3 of Explore Your Archive Week, we have something very tiny - but also very large! The Hudson Transparencies are large paintings on paper screens, used as visual aids in the 19th century to teach about microscopic organisms. 📷 EUL MS 442 #EYATiny #ExploreYourArchive

Who are the real heroes in this photo? 🤔 For Day 2 of Explore Your Archive Week, we want to celebrate all the archivists around the world who preserve and provide access to archives in so many different ways. You're all heroes to us! #EYAHeroes #ExploreYourArchive #Archivists

Decisions, decisions, decisions. Archiving is all about decision-making! Using professional standards, archivists decide how to order collections, how to describe them, and how best to store them #EYADecisions

Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the anteaters, for today is their special day! This engraving of an anteater is from the book 'The Illustrated Natural History' by J. G. Wood, published in 1863. 📷 Reserve 590.2/WOO #WorldAnteaterDay #AnteaterDay #RareBooks

RT @ExeterDH: Did you know we have a LinkedIn Page? We are starting to post more on LinkedIn, Check out the link and give us a follow to s…

RT @ExeterCouncil: A two-day exhibition about the Polish 307 Squadron who defended Exeter during the Second World War starts on Thursday 14…

RT @kresenkernow: Have you visited our current exhibition ‘Cornish Connections’ yet? It highlights a recent addition to our collections –…