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Lesbian identities are often difficult to uncover in the archive. Unlike male homosexuality, sexual relationships between women were never criminalised, which led to less visibility. But their stories and experiences
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Marginalia but as you scroll it gets less artistic - a thread
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#OTD in 1545 the #MaryRose sunk. In our collections, we hold the original warrant for two new ships in 1510, one of which was the Mary Rose, and the other
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#OTD in 1845, the Franklin Expedition set sail from Greenhithe, England, led by Royal Navy officer and explorer, Sir John Franklin.In 1848, the British government offered £20,000 (£1.6 million today)
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We’re pleased to confirm that we will be giving everyone free access to our digitised collections very soon, but it’s taking our amazing digital team a bit of time to
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