It’s almost Christmas! That means good cheer, Christmas spirit and….a fight to the death competition?!
Although technically the 12 days of Christmas begin with 25 December, we won’t be around over the break – so we had a 12 Days of Christmas #12off competition with the Museum of English Rural Life and the Ure Museum in early December! We’d like to think that we came out on top. Here’s what we came up with – follow us on Twitter or Tumblr to see the other collection’s choices.
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- On the 12th day of Christmas, my archive gave to me…12 chocolate biscuits (Huntley and Palmers collection)
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- On the 11th day of Christmas, my library gave to me…11 ornaments (Owen Jones, Grammar of Ornament)
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- On the 10th day of Christmas, my archive gave to me…10 massive ledgers (WH Smith archive)
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- On the 9th day of Christmas, my library gave to me…9 small vignettes (Vincard’s L’art du typographie)
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- On the 8th day of Christmas, my library gave to me…8 Mills and Boons (from our Mills and Boon library)
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- On the 7th day of Christmas, my library gave to me…7 hydra heads (from Topsell’s History of Serpents)
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- On the 6th day of Christmas, my library gave to me…6 heliocentric orbits (Copernicus, De Revolutionibus)
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- On the 5th day of Christmas, my archive gave to me…five allied leaders (from the Republic of Salo archive)
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- On the 4th day of Christmas, my library gave to me…four winged monkeys (from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, 1900)
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- On the 3rd day of Christmas, my library gave to me…three medieval pigs (from our Book of Hours)
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- On the 2nd day of Christmas, my library gave to me…two angelfish (from Bloch’s 1796 Ichthyologie)
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- On the first day of Christmas, my library gave to me…a microscopic flea (from Hooke’s 1665 Micrographia)
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