GW4 Treasures

1. Digitized slide from the Charles Woolf Slide Collection – one of 13000 images from the collection available on JSTOR Open Community Collections (University of Exeter, Cornwall).  Accordian players, Obby Oss Day, Padstow. ICS12/16044

https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.29925854

1. Digitized slide from Charles Woolf Slide collection. Mermaid Bench End Zennor Church one of 13000 images from the collection available on JSTOR Open Community Collections (University of Exeter, Cornwall)

Mermaid Bench End, Zennor Church on JSTOR

1. Feminist Archive South.  Special Collections, University of Bristol holds many examples of artworks used to convey the messages of the feminist movement in the 1970s and 1980s to women’s groups and the wider community.  This image, “Alone”, was produced by the See Red Women’s Workshop, (ref DM2123/7/Portfolio 4).

1. Black and white photograph featuring members of a botany research expedition to the Lizard, Cornwall, 1950
2. Black and white glass plate negatives featuring hemisphere images of tree canopy, Madingley Wood, Cambridgeshire, 1951For more information about the David E. Coombe Collection see:

https://www.bath.ac.uk/corporate-information/david-edwin-coombe-collection/

1. Poster entitled ‘For Physical and Mental Poise and Efficiency: Judo’, Budokwai, South Kensington, London, UK, nd c 1957. For more information about the Richard Bowen (Judo) Collection see:

https://www.bath.ac.uk/corporate-information/richard-bowen-judo-collection/

https://archives.bath.ac.uk/exhibits/show/judo-a-cultural-history/introduction

1. Black and white photograph from an album compiled by hockey player Hilda M. Light, 1914-1921.

Click here for information about the AEWHA Collection

1. Printed sheet (annotated) of illustrated exercise instructions entitled ‘Are You A Sensible Susan?’, nd c 1936.

Click here for more information about the Betty Fairgrieve Hockey Collection

1. Watercolour illustration from a scrapbook entitled ‘Hockey Jottings’, 1898

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1. The Theatre Collection has been developing the use of 3D digitisation as a way of preserving and providing access to fragile objects within its collections.  This 1994 piece of toast (RLAP/G/94) from the live art collections is now available as a 3D digital access copy.

Take the toast for a spin on Sketch Fab

1. A headdress by Oliver Messel, fashioned from twisted wire pendants and painted paper worn by Vivien Leigh in George Cukor’s 1946 ration-stricken film of Caesar and Cleopatra.

1. All theatre productions are brought to life by creative communities: this photograph by Desmond Tripp is from the 1957 production of Look Back in Anger, starring Peter O’Toole.

1. The radical artists collective, Welfare State International, sought to offer art for all on the same basis as education and health as being essential to wellbeing.  Part of their practice involved pioneering secular ceremonies as illustrated by this poster.

1. One of 120 manuscript letters by the poet John Jarmain to his wife Beryl with whom he regularly corresponded after being shipped to North Africa and South Italy during the Second World War from June 1942 until November 1943. Some of the letters include drafts of the poems which were later published as a collection, providing an insight into his poetry and the context which inspired it.

1. Poem entitled “Wedding Eve”, Jack Clemo, Cornish Poet (Jack Clemo collection, University of Exeter)

1. One of a set of 58 transparencies measuring approximately 1m x 1m, created by the Victorian Charles Thomas Hudson, to use in his lectures.  Hudson was an expert on Rotifera, a phylum of tiny multicellular animals in fresh water and marine ecosystems and co-wrote The Rotifera: or, Wheel-animalcules, with P.H.Gosse, published in 1889 which is also available in Special Collections. This slide shows Asplanchna Ebbesbornii A. Female B Male  (Text courtesy R J Wootton)

1. Cardiff university ladies hockey team 1945-46

1. Advertisement for Beecham’s Pills, London: George Routledge 1889

1. Data preparation facilities, 1970s
2. Interior of the Computer Centre, 1967-79
3. Using the ICL 4-50 computer, 1967-79
4. Detail of the ICL 4-50 computer, 1967-70
5. Interior from the viewing gallery, 1967-79
6. Using the ICL 4-50 computer, 1971-79
7. Using the ICL 4-50 computer, 1967-70
8. Lecture, 1971-79
9. Student using a mini-computer, 1971-79
10. Mathematics’ computer room, with students, 1971-85
11. Technician operating Recortec magnetic tape equipment, 1980s
12. Students using the ICL System 4-50 computer, late 1960s
13. Students using the ICL System 4-50 computer, late 1960s
14. Students using the ICL System 4-50 computer, late 1960s
15. Students using the ICL System 4-50 computer, late 1960s
16. Students using the ICL 4-50 computer, 1967-70
17. Job reception, 1967-79
18. Interior from the viewing gallery, 1967-79

1. University of Exeter, St Luke’s College Sports day c.1905

1. Experiment in human physiology, 1970s
2. Respiration experiment [1], 1970s
3. Respiration experiment [2], 1970s