The EYA theme for this month is #EYACreideamh/Spioradáltacht | #EYAReligion/Spirituality. We want to see everyone’s archives relating to religion & spirituality! Don’t forget to 🏷️ @araireland.bsky.social & @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social in your posts #ExploreYourArchive #CuardaighDoChartlann

For this month’s #ExploreYourArchive theme of #religion, we have an extract from the 1913 issue of The Swan talking about their #ChristianUnion. The Swan was the college magazine for the Swansea Training College. #UWTSDlib #EYAReligion

The theme this month for Explore Your Archives is religion and spirituality. This collection of documents relate in different ways to what was known as the ‘Shouters’ chapel, situated at the top of Campfield Hill in Truro.

The Cattle Plague outbreak of 1865-1867 killed around 10% of the country's population of cattle. During this time, there was also a large outbreak of cholera. A national day of prayer, or 'humiliation' was called on 7 March 1866 to pray for release from the situation. #EYAReligion/Spirituality

Interested in your family history? Then Parish Registers are a great resource to consult. See our guide to the baptism, marriage and burial registers we hold for Church of England and Non-Conformists churches: https://recordoffice.wordpress.com/2020/04/28/church-registers/ #EYAReligion/Spirituality

This month's #ExploreYourArchive theme is #EYAReligion/Spirituality. Today’s intricate images are by pioneer neurologist, Sir William Gowers, from his Dover, Broadland and Southwold sketchbooks (c.1890s). More about “Gowers” can be found in Queen Square Archives tinyurl.com/2j3av656

C17th composite manuscript in Gǝ’ǝz (Ethiopic). Written in several hands, it includes a variety of religious texts, the Ethiopian calendar, and passages from Scripture with comments exemplars #EYAReligion https://ow.ly/ABqE50X922K

Gate of spiritual Valour, entrance to the Forbidden City, Beijing, c.1910 #EYASpirituality

💫 New Theme! 💫 The new #ExploreYourArchive monthly theme for November is #EYAReligion / #EYASpirituality ✨ We can’t wait to see your posts for this theme - make sure to tag us and use the hashtags! 😊

🎃 Nos Kalan Gwav Lowen dhyworth an govskrifva! / Happy Halloween from the archives! 🎃 We're sharing some of books relating to horror films from our Bill Douglas and Peter Jewell Collection. Scary stuff! The Special Collections are open to browse, 10am-4pm, Monday to Friday. #Archive #EYAMonsters

As it's #Halloween today we've had a hunt around our stores, and here are some scary things we've found lurking there! We hope you don't find them too scary! @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social #EYAMonsters

If you were in Bolehill at #Halloween 2003, then you may have opened your door to this scary bunch of trick or treaters. The stuff of nightmares! #PhotoFriday #EYAMonsters

Initially, this might look like an unfortunate soul being pursued by a monster. However, the carvings might represent Adam and Eve. Either way, they don’t look thrilled about the situation Carving at St Padarn’s Church, Llanbadarn, Radnorshire. 📸RCAHMW, 2012 zurl.co/bG7z5 #EYAMonsters #coflein

Yes, yes we may have posted this before, but he is the most handsome 'groom' and she the most fab look-no-hands witch! From Old King Cole's Nursery Rhymes, 1901 for #BlackCatDay 🐈‍⬛ @librarydmu.bsky.social @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social #EYASpooky #NurseryRhymes #illustration #Halloween

It's not long until Explore Your Archive Focus Week 🎊 💫 We've spoken to a number of different archive services ahead of Focus Week. Hear all about it in our new blog post: www.exploreyourarchive.org/explore-your... #ExploreYourArchive

Who doesn’t love a map? 🗺️ This 1576 Elizabethan map by Christopher Saxton features sea monsters—once drawn to spark imagination or hint at ocean mysteries. They vanished by the late 1600s as science advanced. #eyamonsters #cornishmaps #seamonsters @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social

Is it a monster? Or a badger with a hangover? Either way, this little creature was carved into stone at All Saints’ Church, Gresford. The church was mentioned in the Domesday book, but was almost wholly rebuilt in the 15th century 📸RCAHMW, October 2009 zurl.co/GDrhc #EYAMonsters #rcahmw #coflein

How's this for a creepy monster? This puzzle appeared on a late 19th century advert for the Derby Repairing Co. "The Great Repairing Kings". #EYAMonsters #Victorian #puzzle

1979 Smith's #Monster Munch #EYAMonsters #Archives #Advertising #Food #Snacks

This huge block of coal was hewn from Pollington Colliery, near New Brinsley, at the time the largest single piece of coal taken from a mine, 4 Tons 12 hundredweights (4,600Kg), loaded onto an Oakes railway truck to be taken to the London Colliery Exhibition 1903. #EYAMonsters #coalmining

Trickery, temptation and a toasting fork! 🔥 Folkloric Red Devil #HalloweenCostume inspo from Der Bazaar, 1880 is super hot this week for #FashionFriday 😈 🎃 #Halloween #fashionhistory #fashion #costume #historicfashion @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social #EYASpooky @librarydmu.bsky.social

Clocking on for spooky season.

📣The EYA Resource Team is working on the 'ArchI’ve Learned' project and would love to hear from you!📣 This project will connect archives, schools and young people, and boost awareness of our sector. Please click the link to complete the survey: forms.office.com/e/ALrtENDn0w #ExploreYourArchive

👹 This October, we're featuring monsters for the Explore Your Archive theme, and the collections at Kresen Kernow are full of fascinating folklore and fearsome tales!

Poster of Durga as the killer of the buffalo demon, 1976-1978 #EYAMonsters https://ow.ly/tL5c50X1xBo

Need inspiration in #NationalBakingWeek? How about a Bakewell Pudding? It doesn’t need to be as big as this one made in 1987 at The Old Original Bakewell Pudding Shop, which weighed a massive six hundredweight. That’s 672 pounds, or 304.81kg!! #PhotoFriday #EYAMonsters

The lion-faced ogre kirtimukha—seen in the text boxes of this 1903 Javanese manuscript—appears across Hindu, Buddhist & Islamic art in SE Asia. Derived from South India’s “face of glory,” it’s a symbol of protection #EYAMonsters digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA005781/0...

Poster of Durga as the killer of the buffalo demon, 1976-1978 #EYAMonsters https://ow.ly/tL5c50X1xBo

Reminiscent of the Indian Mkara and the sino-annamite dragon an ornate twelfth-century figure of a fantastic monster representing the more violent aspect of cham design in culture. #EYAMonsters https://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA000392/00001

This 19th-century Burmese silver bowl showcases deep repousse work & vivid storytelling. Figures like Ravanna, Princess Sita & the ogress Ma Gambi (the golden deer) animate compressed local versions of the Rama tale, popular across the region. #EYAMonsters https://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA005819/00001

Krishna kills the demon Keshi. Image by Paul Fox, 1978 #EYAMonsters https://digital.soas.ac.uk/AA00000160/00001

The lion-faced ogre kirtimukha—seen in the text boxes of this 1903 Javanese manuscript—appears across Hindu, Buddhist & Islamic art in SE Asia. Derived from South India’s “face of glory,” it’s a symbol of protection #EYAMonsters https://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA005781/00004/5x

📣The EYA Resource Team is working on the 'ArchI’ve Learned' project and would love to hear from you!📣 This project will connect archives, schools and young people, and boost awareness of our sector. Please click the link to complete the survey: forms.office.com/e/ALrtENDn0w #ExploreYourArchive

✨It's #ExploreYourArchive Day! ✨ The 10th of every month is a day to share and celebrate your archives - our monthly theme for October is #EYAMonsters 👻 Get involved by using the hashtag, we've loved seeing your spooky posts so far this month!👍

The lion-faced ogre kirtimukha—seen in the text boxes of this 1903 Javanese manuscript—appears across Hindu, Buddhist & Islamic art in SE Asia. Derived from South India’s “face of glory,” it’s a symbol of protection #EYAMonsters https://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA005781/00004/5x

If you’re going on a monster hunt, look up! Gargoyles are an excellent place to start. This particular specimen looks out over St Michael’s Churchyard from the Old College, Aberystwyth 📸Arthur Chater, December 1968 zurl.co/slpuC #EYAMonsters #Architecture #welshhistory #coflein #cbhc

This image is of Zeeba, a mythical Tibetan beast created by Shiva #EYAMonsters https://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAB000124/00001?search=beast#EYAMonsterscid=

This pantomime version was written by Wilfred Miller and features Sinbad visiting the realm of King Neptune! 🔱 @redruthoperatic1909 #RAOS #pantomime #sinbadthesailor #eyamonsters @exploreyourarchive #redruthamateuroperaticsociety

For this month's @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social theme #EYAMonsters, these illustrations by Dorrit Dekk for a mural for the Trust Houses Forte Edinburgh, now known as the Balmoral Hotel Dorrit Dekk Archive DDK/4

We are sharing some of the #monsters in our Knowles collection. The collection contains lots of early illustrations, templates, and research notes of existing artworks and designs in churches in York, England, and parts of Europe. #EYAMonsters #EYA #archives

This month's @explorearchives.bsky.social theme is #EYAMonsters. Here is a photograph from 1926 of Lord and Lady Louis Mountbatten and Laddie Sanford on Lord Mountbatten's yacht, MY Shrimp. Lady Mountbatten is holding an inflatable sea monster, possibly a shrimp like the yacht's namesake.

From our rare books collection we have this illustration of Vampyroteuthis infernalis, also known as the vampire squid from hell. In an order of its own, we don't really think the vampiric moniker is fair either as they actually feed on detritus and not blood #EYAMonsters

This month's @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social theme is #EYAMonsters Read about the spooky alleged 1890s haunting of Ballechin House near Perth in Scotland, and the book detailing it's unexplained phenomena, on our blog: blogs.ncl.ac.uk/speccoll/202... [Ref. Clarke-Misc-437]

This title, Werewolf among the Torajas of Central Sulawesi, was written in 1899 by A C Kruyt, Dutch Calvinist missionary, ethnographer and theologian #EYAMonsters ow.ly/hK7e50WNy5E

Conrad Gessner’s natural history encyclopaedia Historia animalium (1551-1558) attempted to provide information on every known creature. It contains this illustration of a monk-fish, said to have been washed up on the coast of Norway. #UWTSDlib #EYA #EYAMonsters

The woodblock print on this letter paper from Nepal shows a Garuda, a mythical Tibetan monster #EYAMonsters ow.ly/tiv050WV4wi

On #PhotoFriday we visit Ripley in 1932 when you might have been surprised to see the Loch Ness monster taking a stroll along Cromford Road. But don’t worry, this magnificent beast was taking part in Ripley Carnival and definitely friendly! #EYAMonsters #1930s

💫New Theme!💫 The Explore Your Archive theme for October is #EYAMonsters 👻✨ Use the hashtag and tag us to get involved, we can't wait to see your spooky collections! 🎃 #ExploreYourArchive

It is officially spooky season but lucky for us the only #monsters we have in our archives is this photo from the Swansea RAG parade in 1965 which features Daleks. Wonder if they knew that over 60 years later Doctor Who would still be running? #UWTSDlib #EYA #DoctorWho #EYAMonsters

⚡English Electric's London HQ in Aldwych housed two bronze giants, 'Power' and 'Speed,' by Sir Charles Wheeler. Sold to an American bank in 1971, they were returned as 'unacceptable' due to their realism. Now at Eltham College. Photo: Express & Star Newspapers, Wolverhampton Archives. #EYAMonsters