Edward Strutt (1st Baron Belper), who died #OnThisDay 1880, was Liberal MP for Derby 1830-48, Arundel 1851-2, Nottingham 1852-6. As Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster he wore this court dress; more on this in @archivewhg.bsky.social's guest post: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2024/05/14/f...

Has anyone come across this clothing brand? Probably 1940s or earlier? We have it on a cotton apron - house livery or waitress. @19cdandtreframed.bsky.social @katestrasdin.bsky.social @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social

Just 2 weeks left of the beautifully curated ‘Rembrandt. Masterpieces in Black and White. Prints from the Rembrandt House Museum’ at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery. Not just 40+ Rembrandts. Also 19C etching revival & 20C Birmingham etchers influenced by Rembrandt & the lure of light & dark.👌🏽

#VEDay Female students lived at #WinterbourneHouseandGarden from 1944, and recall the impact of rationing. “On Saturday and Sunday evenings we had ‘supper supplies’ - a slice of ham, an egg, a tomato, a piece of plastic cheese, and some bread…allocations of butter and margarine and sugar.”

#VEDay After the war Guest Keen & Nettlefolds (GKN) were keen to inform their employees about the contribution their products were making to reconstruction. This poster showed exactly how many screws went into a prefab house. #GKNarchive #WinterbourneHouseandGarden #WW2 @archiveswm.bsky.social

#Archive30 #WhyArchives Archives provide the bedrock for an infinite variety of projects! Our university interns contribute blog posts to our website about their discoveries. @arascot.bsky.social @theironroom.bsky.social @archiveswm.bsky.social www.winterbourne.org.uk/blog/2024/12...

#Archive30 #ArchiveCollection The arrival of archive collections can be chaotic. The #Herbarium was moved to Winterbourne in one day - 1000+ boxes plus the wooden cabinets. Now it's a calm and tranquil space! @arascot.bsky.social @lukaslarge.bsky.social @herbarium.bsky.social @cuherb.bsky.social

#Archive30 #ArchiveBuildings Our store in the 1960s when it was first built as laboratories for the Botany Dept of the University of Birmingham. It now houses Winterbourne's archive and object stores, including the #Herbarium, #GKNarchive and family archives. @arascot.bsky.social

#Archive30 #ArchiveNightmares This series of hand-made lantern slides depicting Three Blind Mice is surely the stuff of nightmares! @arascot.bsky.social

#Archive30 This #ArchiveObject came to us with our #GuestKeen&Nettlefolds archive. We had no idea what it was until a volunteer came across a reference to the 'constant velocity joint' designed for the new #Mini in the 1960s! A piece of motoring history. @arascot.bsky.social #vintagecars

This beautiful miniature cabinet of microscopic slide preparations belonged to Professor of Materia Medica, Ralph Stockman. With the obligatory pencil for scale! #Archive30 #ArchiveObject

#Archive30 #SomethingNew This portfolio, donated this year, was published in Birmingham for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. Birmingham artists inc. Walter Langley contributed drawings which were reproduced as mounted prints. @arascot.bsky.social @archiveswm.bsky.social @theironroom.bsky.social

Today is #ArchiveTravel for #Archive30 Due to the paucity of English mountains we're all about travel. Travel means mountains! ... and alpine dragons. So many dragons. #ExploreYourArchive

Amy Malden's diary includes details of a tour of Switzerland in August 1898 and cycling tours through Kent, Devon, Surrey and North Wales. The diary includes photographs, postcards and pressed flowers and ferns. #Archive30 #PopularItem mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/NCA/...

I queued for hours with my mother to see this exhibition in 1972. Unforgettable.

I remember consulting these records years ago as part of the Birmingham History Galleries project at Birmingham Museums Trust. A fantastic resource for social history.

#Archive30 #PopularItem This tiny sketch book full of hand-painted #botanicalillustrations by Beatrice Nettlefold of Winterbourne always proves popular at handling sessions! @arascot.bsky.social @lukaslarge.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Become a Documentation Detective! Explore and transcribe #Birmingham Museums collection records online New uploads released every three weeks - new uploads today!

#Archive30 #CommunityArchives Our #GuestKeen&Nettlefolds archive at Winterbourne reflects the many communities within the company. During #WWII female employees enjoyed a strong community spirit and even taught each other dancing in the aisles. @arascot.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social

#Archive30 #ArchiveAction 'The Way to Camp' by S.H.Walker (1946) offers all kinds of invaluable advice including the correct action when walking. As he says, 'Few townfolk know how to walk'. I am definitely guilty of what he calls the 'townie slouch'. @arascot.bsky.social @jdk653.bsky.social

#Archive30 #ArchiveMyths The collection of Welsh tales, the Mabinogion, finds a place in our industrial #GuestKeen&Nettlefolds archive. It was translated in the 1840s by Lady Charlotte Guest, industrialist, educator and philanthropist, whose husband ran the Dowlais Ironworks. @arascot.bsky.social

#Archive30 #FunandGames Evie and Nina Nettlefold loved real horses and ponies, and both look a little bit dissatisfied with this toy one! Taken around 1898. @arascot.bsky.social #vintagetoys

#Archive30 #ArchiveTravel W.S.Laycock's railway and steamship fittings were the pinnacle of luxury in the early 20th century, as this catalogue shows! They later became part of the #GKN group of companies. @arascot.bsky.social

#BirminghamShops Who remembers Barrow’s Stores which stood on the southern corner of Corporation Street and Bull Street. Developed from a shop opened by John Cadbury in 1824 and named Barrows in 1849. Here’s a bill from 1923. Ref: MS 1342/17 #LibraryofBham

#GoodFriday #Crucifixion Auchonvillers cemetery, Somme.

#Archive30 #ArchiveAdvice Don't pigeonhole archival collections! Artists have been inspired by our industrial, botanical and historical archives. Here is Carolyn Blake's interpretation of a 1911 lantern slide, in her exhibition @Winterbourne House and Garden till Sept. @arascot.bsky.social

#Archive30 #MiniMilestones One of our archive volunteers is cataloguing around 1000 botanical prints by James Sowerby, engraved by Sowerby and then hand-coloured by a specialist team in the early C19. She was excited to reach the 700th print! @arascot.bsky.social #Herbarium @lukaslarge.bsky.social

#Archive30 #SomethingSmall This 1920s invitation was from teddy bears Mary and Peter, addressed to dolls Isobel and Kate. We don't know whether the invitation was accepted, but all four are now part of our collection! @arascot.bsky.social #vintagetoys

#Archive30 #ArchiveFoodandDrink 'Cookery and Household Management' 1920s recommends this nursery breakfast for children - including raw carrots! @arascot.bsky.social

#Archive30 #UnusualArchives Our #Herbarium archive has thrown up some fascinating items including a set of leaf-shape posters with real leaves pasted on to paper and hand-written titles, probably used for teaching, 1890s. @arascot.bsky.social #WinterbourneHouseandGarden

#Archive30 #ArchiveTechnology Joseph Sankey of Bilston were at the forefront of providing component parts for the electrical industry at a time when this was still exciting new technology. @arascot.bsky.social @postcardjim.bsky.social #GKNarchive #WinterbourneHouseandGarden

Thanks to @victoriancommons.bsky.social for reposting this article about Winterbourne's stunning court dress!

#Archive30 #ArchiveFashion Catalogues from the 1970s and 1980s in our #GKNcollection reveal more than just the products! Women were often posed next to products as 'decoration', fashionably dressed, while men were shown in work clothes operating the machinery. @arascot.bsky.social

#Archive30 Alongside the Nettlefold family, a whole community of servants lived at Winterbourne House. Margaret's household diary gives us a glimpse into these #HiddenHistories. She records the age and salary of each person she employed, and why they left. @arascot.bsky.social

#Archive30 #ArchiveAnimals Margaret Nettlefold's sister and nephew are putting the family dog through his paces - the photographer has brilliantly captured not just the leaping dog but also his shadow on the path! #dogs @arascot.bsky.social @postcardjim.bsky.social @jdk653.bsky.social

#Archive30 #SomethingBig These enormous scrap books contain all the catalogues and advertising material from Hardy Patent Pick of Sheffield, along with notices from the factory. They made tools for every possible application, from gardening to coal mining. @arascot.bsky.social #GKNarchive

#Archive30 #ArchivePlan Winterbourne's walled garden was a research facility in the 1950s, as this 1952 plan shows - set out according to the Bentham and Hooker classification. It's planted with cottage garden plants now but the basic layout has not changed. @arascot.bsky.social

#Archive30 #ArchivesToday At Winterbourne we archive copies of our newsletters and events leaflets - they will become the archives of tomorrow. @arascot.bsky.social

#Archive30 #ColourfulArchives This page from a Guest Keen & Nettlefold promotional book of 1948 shows all the different coloured screws that were available, including violet and green! @arascot.bsky.social #IndustrialArchives

#Archive30 #BusinessArchives Guest Keen & Nettlefolds 'Things We Make' c.1948 features this stunning painting by industrial artist Terence Cuneo. Did they commission it? A student intern is researching it for a display @ Winterbourne House and Garden. @arascot.bsky.social

#Archive30 #ArchiveConservation OK, Giselle and Cedric are not exactly archives, but they are the latest of Winterbourne's objects to go for conservation treatment! We can't wait to see them come back cleaned and repaired! They were made in France in the late C19. @arascot.bsky.social #Vintagedolls

#Archive30 #SoundandVision Our oral history collection contains testimony from women who worked at GKN in the war: "we had some good old sing-songs and the music of them days, the forties like...there was a girl used to teach me how to dance in the dinner hour and we used to dance up the aisles!"

#Archive30 #Archivebeginnings One of the first items we acquired at Winterbourne was this tiny household diary in which Margaret Nettlefold recorded every servant she employed between the 1890s and 1930s. @arascot.bsky.social

#Archive30 #Yourarchive We have some unexpected treasures in our archive at Winterbourne House and Garden - including this tiny letter from Charles Darwin, which lay undetected for many years in the University Herbarium!

Museum friends! I have made a free toolkit to help small museums boost the use of their collections by universities. Lots of practical tips & a summary of how collections are proven to benefit HE teaching, learning & wellbeing. Please download & share! 🙏 AHRC for funding.

Heavy metal! Come to my lunchtime talk about Birmingham's history as centre for manufacture of iron-framed glasshouses. 8 April, Winterbourne House & Garden, Edgbaston. Image shows their Camellia House at Wollaton Hall - and all that bedding made possible by this new technology.

#WorldBookDay One of our tiniest tomes! Jack and the Giant Killer by Grace Rhys, 1894, illustrated by Birmingham artist R. Anning Bell.

#InternationalWomensDay 8th March at Winterbourne - programme of 'drop in' talks on women, print and the #Pre-Raphaelites! Free (entrance fee to Winterbourne applies). www.winterbourne.org.uk/whats-on/int...

We've had an exciting few days at Winterbourne House and Garden installing Carolyn Blake's new exhibition 'Further than Memory can Reach'. Opens Monday 24th Feb! www.winterbourne.org.uk/blog/2025/02...

My brilliant student intern Lottie talks about her research in this brilliant blog post #Herbarium #WinterbourneHouseandGarden #Botany #Women'sHistory www.winterbourne.org.uk/blog/2024/12...