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Day 5 catch up for #Archive30 is #ArchivesFromHome. We've tweeted a lot of #SOASFromHome posts over the last year. Our digital collections are here: https://t.co/AZ6nqeI8RL but we also have a blog: https://t.co/U0Hp3u8o3a and post material on instagram: https://t.co/CUWS6XwdQ0
Thank you @colourful_hist!
We do miss our readers, but we try to make this long-distance relationship work in the meantime indeed!
#SOASfromHome
Can anyone tell us what this pretty flower is? We think it might be an orchid? This 1944 photo is from the Haimendorf anthropological collection (PP MS 19)
https://t.co/RFw2Gbt2Z3
#ExploreYourArchive #Nature #SOASFromHome
Don't know about you, but we could do with some cheering up! So here is a video of some very cute Rhesus Macaque monkeys filmed c. 1980 by Dr Gupta
https://t.co/jsvkILTpcY
#SOASFromHome
We love this photograph of daughters of Japanese ambassador, sledging on frozen river, Harbin, circa 1915, taken from the Cormack collection of glass slides. All of the images have been digitised and can be seen on SOAS Digital Collections https://t.co/WcFx2KuOyC #SOASfromHome
Happy New Year to all our lovely readers and fellow archivists!
Image from the Hassan Musa Mail Art Collection #SOASFromHome
We finish #ArchiveZ with this Zulu course. Promising easy, elementary lessons, now could be a good time in Lockdown 2.0 to work on some additional language skills! https://t.co/1UDibPMigI #SOASFromHome
Final week! Z for Zambia. We have a number of related digital resources online here: https://t.co/gFmmRW60wF
Including this map drawn by David Livingstone on his travels in 1853 #ArchiveZ #SOASFromHome
This photograph from the Warren Swire collection shows the Butterfield & Swire frontage at Amoy [Xiamen], c. 1906 #ArchiveZ #SOASFromHome
https://t.co/0hRi1QlDmO
![SOAS_SpecColl's tweet photo. This photograph from the Warren Swire collection shows the Butterfield & Swire frontage at Amoy [Xiamen], c. 1906 #ArchiveZ #SOASFromHome
https://t.co/0hRi1QlDmO https://t.co/xNg23ozSSJ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ek245CFXgAEOZRh.jpg)
W for Water, carried on the head of a woman in this 1908 fabric painting by Malagasy artist James Rainimaharosoa #ArchiveZ #SOASFromHome
https://t.co/axb4ZlWRBD
Vocabularies of the languages of the indigenous peoples of Australia compiled by William Dawes in 1790-93 (MS 41645) believed to be the first written documentation of the Aboriginal languages #ArchiveZ #SOASFromHome
https://t.co/hfdj54Nd8b
https://t.co/GKGRJyZyV0
And on to V for violin played by a Greek musician in this early 19th century illustration from MS 60368, a series of portraits of traditional Turkish costumes #ArchiveZ #SOASFromHome
U for Universe as illustrated in this Chinese encyclopedia It has 106 chapters, 14 categories, and ranges from mythological subjects to everyday objects and animals. Pictured is a rong, a large ape and a zhu, a large stag, the leader of a herd. #ArchiveZ #SOASFromHome
We love this karakasa Umbrella in this c.1780 image by Shunshō Katsukawa of actor Segawa Kikunojō portraying a woman (JWP 44.96) #ArchiveZ #SOASFromHome
Another T for Turtle today. This image by Paul Fox was published in 1978 #ArchiveZ #SOASFromHome
https://t.co/zbpqghJckG
The pic is captioned 'Tiffin Party at Tai Koo' (1894) and features the tea-trader John Charles Oswald in the back row, far right (MS 380876) These photos of Oswald's time in China are fascinating - read more here: https://t.co/kBoAGKsHnm
#ArchiveZ #SOASFromHome
S for this beautiful 'Sun Lady' postcard by Studio Mwahib, El Obeid featured in the Khartoum School Sudanese Modern and Contemporary Art exhibition, 2016 (MS 381333) #ArchiveZ #SOASFromHome
We are very glad to be hosting this amazing digital archive on our Digital Collections portal! #MEWA #Women #Activists #MiddleEast
#SOASFromHome
After more work than I anticipated, am happy to share with you this on-line archive of interviews with more than 90 women activists in Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon, conducted between 2013 and 2014, thanks to a British Academy mid-career fellowship.
https://t.co/bRQqa1yk4G
R brings us to the photographs of Henry Rue (MS 381233 c. 1910-1913). These were mainly of expat life in Hong Kong but also Canton, Shanghai and Peking #ArchiveZ #SOASFromHome
N for Nanchang II In 1934 six of her officers were captured by pirates and held prisoner on a junk for 5 months #ArchiveZ #SOASFromHome
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