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markhburton , to random
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If anyone is trying to access stuff at the British Library but can't due to the , National Library of Scotland is worth a try.
For example, it has some historical maps of the entire UK.
I've been looking at a large scale one for Suffolk, where my grandmother's family farmed up til the 1880s, and overlaying a modern satellite view.

https://www.nls.uk/

ClaireFromClare ,
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@markhburton While awaiting the return of digitised manuscripts & context to the British Library website, I've been hoping to find alternative sources after all the international collaboration on IIIF etc? but meanwhile just discovered that some popular images are at https://imagesonline.bl.uk

🎨 , f161v - East Anglia c.1325-35.

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ClaireFromClare ,
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@markhburton While awaiting the return of digitised manuscripts in full context to the main British Library website, I've just discovered some favourites in their Images Online section: see for example https://imagesonline.bl.uk/search/?searchQuery=Luttrell+Psalter

🎨 , f161v (East Anglia c.1325-35)

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BenjaminHCCarr , to random
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Some May Have Been Wiped Out by
A study of hundreds of specimens from European digs found two of that are no longer present in the continent’s waters.
https://archive.ph/w1MqJ

ClaireFromClare ,
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@BenjaminHCCarr Thanks for highlighting this analysis suggesting widespread consumption of gray & right - & the interesting , the of 1539, with its splendid illustrations of a wide range of & their diverse tactics for dealing with aggressive seafarers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carta_marina
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ClaireFromClare , to medievodons
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The wine-trading , which sank in the c.1469, has just returned to - in 2,500 pieces, after in Portsmouth by the team. Now to find a site for reassembly & display of this great future tourist attraction! Superb storytelling & imagery in the 3 min video at https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-64151535

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ClaireFromClare OP ,
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"More than 500 years underground, gone through cleaning, conservation, soaked in wax and freeze-dried - and yet these isotope signatures are still in the timbers... vessels and timber structures that previously didn't date with traditional ring dendrochronology can now potentially be dated with oxygen isotope or stable isotope dendrochronology."
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-67302907
H/T @iuculano
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