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[Aaron Law @AaronLaw92]

I will scan the inner pages but a lovely little leaflet from the "original" 1976 cross opening. #Coventry @HerbertCurators @visit_coventry @covdig

[Exploring Eliot @ExploringEliot]

Today marks 30 years since filming started on Andrew Davies' adaptation of Middlemarch and our latest blog is now live!
Justin Smith of @dmuleicester writes about the project which links the novel to the BBC adaptation
https://t.co/qvCHxzO8KJ

[Herbert Collections @HerbertCurators]

On this special 75-year anniversary of #WindrushDay we want to celebrate the brilliant artists, athletes & activists of Caribbean descent who make our city great.

Find out more in our Black History Research Guide ⬇️
https://t.co/cRVhET5AyH

Reggae Fever event, ©️ Coventry Atlas

[Exploring Eliot @ExploringEliot]

For a woman born in 1819, George Eliot led an extraordinarily progressive & independent life. Yet Middlemarch’s women find no such freedom. Why is this? Find out at #FindingMiddlemarch🔎 https://t.co/pHX8BZ4KR9 feat. an assortment of Eliot's writing tools...

[Herbert Collections @HerbertCurators]

End of🧵– we hope you’ve enjoyed finding out more about these monarchs & their links to Coventry.

View them in all their glory in the #PortraitMode display at Coventry Archives🖼️

We're carrying out ongoing research into how these engravings became part of our collection.

[Herbert Collections @HerbertCurators]

4 monarchs, 4 engravings, and 4 special connections to Coventry…

Coventry Archives has reopened, and soon the @NPGLondon will too!

In joint celebration, we have unearthed a selection of engraved portraits from our Borough Archives✒️

Discover more below🧵
#PortraitMode

[Herbert Collections @HerbertCurators]

4)👑James I, engraving by George Vertue, 1732-1733

This monarch visited Coventry in 1617. A lavish banquet was held in his honour at the guildhall🍻

His daughter, Princess Elizabeth, was educated at the nearby Coombe Abbey

[Herbert Collections @HerbertCurators]

There's a wonderful collection of samplers at the Herbert, check them out at https://t.co/XLK2Q5LIcv but not before you read the latest Funding Middlemarch exhibition 👇

[Exploring Eliot @ExploringEliot]

This sampler was made by Mary Ann Tidye in 1813 at age 11. @The_Herbert houses an impressive collection of samplers stitched in the 19thC by girls as young as nine. As a child, George Eliot would have produced comparable work. 🪡🧵#FindingMiddlemarch🔎 https://t.co/dImll2Dfez

[Exploring Eliot @ExploringEliot]

#FindingMiddlemarch’s last chapter is now available! ✨ A window into women's lives in 19thC Coventry, from the limits of female education to the mercenary nature of the marriage market. Feat. exhibits from @The_Herbert @RHUL_Gallery & more… https://t.co/dImll2Dfez

[Herbert Collections @HerbertCurators]

Welcome back ichthyosaur! Looking great after a face lift by @MrIchthyosaurus and a 'quick' scan @wmgwarwick. The skull and matrix is very dense, but some features have shown up, we hope to update more on the future. For now, enjoy our Jurassic Warwickshire display over half term

[Herbert Collections @HerbertCurators]

The Archive team has been working hard to set up the Reading Room in preparation for reopening at the end of this month 📚

We rediscovered a few gems along the way…

All reopening updates can be found here ⬇️

https://t.co/Qy6kc7eiiD

[Herbert Collections @HerbertCurators]

Thanks to @MrIchthyosaurus for the conservation work, @BIGsheep for sponsoring and to @wmgwarwick who will be scanning the skull next week

[Herbert Art Gallery & Museum @The_Herbert]

It’s #NationalMuseumDay, and we are thrilled to announce the return of the ichthyosaur skull to The Herbert Art Gallery on May 26th. This will coincide with the launch of ‘Dipp-E VR’ on the 3rd of June.

#IchthyosaurSkull #RestorationWork #NationalMuseumDay #Coventry #Dinosaur

[Herbert Collections @HerbertCurators]

You can leave your hat on!

A sneak peak at the preparations for @The_Herbert's summer exhibition, Work on Walls. The flying helmet and goggles from #Coventry born WW2 RAF pilot Bryan Woolston, DFM

[Herbert Collections @HerbertCurators]

📢Historic historian alert!📢

William Dugdale (1605-1686) was an antiquarian who recorded Coventry’s monuments, ‘much short in glory and riches’ a century after the dissolution⛪️

Discover Coventry Archives’ Dugdale material in this new Research Guide,

https://t.co/cRVhET5AyH

[Herbert Art Gallery & Museum @The_Herbert]

Have you explored the wild world yet?

As part of #TheWildEscape 1000s of children across the UK have already submitted their creations.

Get your children involved - visit your local museum or gallery or take part from home.

@artfund | #EarthDay | https://t.co/GwGjsCPU5u

[Rosie White @DrRosalindWhite]

A 🧵 devoted to my fav. exhibit from the #FindingMiddlemarch🔎 exhibition I curated @ExploringEliot

The Bree family butterfly collection, 🦋 masterfully disguised as leather-bound volumes 📖 📚 of British Entomology (1833-42). 🪲 🐛

https://t.co/LQiEOSlajp

[Herbert Art Gallery & Museum @The_Herbert]

It's #BatAppreciationDay! 🦇

This small chap from our collections is a Whiskered bat found in Duncombe Park, Yorkshire in 1959.

Bats help control pests and insects, with some types even helping to pollinate certain flowers or spread their seeds - we'd be lost without them!