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These flyers and pamphlets were produced by the Central Office of Information in the 1960s as part of a campaign to reduce drink driving.
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They focused particularly on the Christmas period when numbers of alcohol-related road accidents were particularly high.
The pamphlet 'Less Drink than You Think Means Danger on the Roads' states:
'All drivers with more than a certain amount of alcohol in the blood are much more likely to have accidents. This is true whatever their age, experience, or drinking habits.'
📷: INF 13/119-200
'All drivers with more than a certain amount of alcohol in the blood are much more likely to have accidents. This is true whatever their age, experience, or drinking habits.'
📷: INF 13/119-200
@RoySocChem Astronomers had observed red flame-like prominences around the solar disc during total eclipses, but didn't know whether they came from the Sun, the Moon, or the Earth's atmosphere. De La Rue's precise photography proved that they came from the Sun #CollectionsUnited @RoySocChem
@RoySocChem As an astronomer and chemist, Warren De La Rue was able to carry out pioneering work in astrophotography. He was the first to use the wet collodion process instead of daguerrotypy for capturing celestial objects, and made the the first lunar stereograph images #CollectionsUnited
@RoySocChem The Kew Photoheliograph, designed by Warren De La Rue for the @royalsociety , was used at Kew Observatory, then at @ROGAstronomers, and is now in the care of the @ScienceMuseum collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co8186…. #CollectionsUnited #MuseumFromHome
To celebrate Bede’s heavenly birthday (he died 26 May 735), I’ve been thinking about manuscripts that were made at his monastery at Wearmouth + Jarrow and that are now available online.
wdl.org/en/item/20150/…
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Manuscripts made at Bede’s monasteries during his lifetime include
St Cuthbert Gospel bl.uk/manuscripts/Fu…
Codex Amiatinus wdl.org/en/item/20150/
Bible bits bl.uk/manuscripts/Fu… + bl.uk/manuscripts/Fu…
Gospel fragments psalter.library.uu.nl/page?p=209&res… +
iiif.durham.ac.uk/index.html?man…
St Cuthbert Gospel bl.uk/manuscripts/Fu…
Codex Amiatinus wdl.org/en/item/20150/
Bible bits bl.uk/manuscripts/Fu… + bl.uk/manuscripts/Fu…
Gospel fragments psalter.library.uu.nl/page?p=209&res… +
iiif.durham.ac.uk/index.html?man…
Manuscripts of Bede's writings made at Wearmouth-Jarrow:
Earliest copy of Bede's Ecclesiastical History (@theULSpecColl Kk.5.16) cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-KK-000…
Another Ecclesiastical History bl.uk/manuscripts/Fu…
Bede's Commentary on Proverbs (Bodley 819) digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/p/15af…
Earliest copy of Bede's Ecclesiastical History (@theULSpecColl Kk.5.16) cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-KK-000…
Another Ecclesiastical History bl.uk/manuscripts/Fu…
Bede's Commentary on Proverbs (Bodley 819) digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/p/15af…
