Tower Treasures

New Year’s Eve

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We close the year with a final flourish from the Twigs, with…
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Twenty Fourth Day of Advent – Christmas Eve

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Now wake little people dressed in white, Old Father Christmas…
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Twenty Third Day of Advent

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This illustration is from The Twigs, or, Christmas at Ruddock…
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Twenty Second Day of Advent

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Some flowerpot robins from The Bright Surprise for Little Eyes,…
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Twenty First Day of Advent

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from Oh Dear Oh Look at the Snow by Jack Frost, published by…
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Twentieth Day of Advent

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Engaging servants – This important business is usually thought…
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Nineteenth Day of Advent

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Such a wonderful battle you never did see, As the battle between…
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Eighteenth Day of Advent

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What a surprise! Dazzling streams of light! Fancy a fine tree…
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Seventeenth Day of Advent

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Let bright holly shine and glow In winter-time of frost and…
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Sixteenth Day of Advent

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In Canada, North America, and some parts of Russia where the…
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Fifteenth Day of Advent

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This illustration from A Snow Baby: merry rhymes for pleasant…
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Fourteenth Day of Advent

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Bring frost, bring snow, Come winter, bring us holly. Bring…
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Twelfth Day of Advent

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Away they went, helter-skelter! Tom and Joe, Bob and Dick, and…
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Eleventh Day of Advent

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With cold and with hunger half-famish’d and weak Then tap…
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Tenth Day of Advent

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Twice ten are twenty, We shall all have plenty, Each a slice,…
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Ninth Day of Advent

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Peace on earth, good-will towards men, Peaceful messengers are…
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Eighth Day of Advent

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Keep on rolling as fast as you can go ! The further you push…
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Seventh Day of Advent

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At last the day of the grand dinner-party arrived, and the guests…
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Sixth Day of Advent

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From "Father Christmas' ABC" published by F. Warne & Co.,…
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Fifth Day of Advent

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The earth, in colours brown and gray, Seems to forget to lure…
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Fourth Day of Advent

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The children had been up early in the morning, and beginning…
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Third Day of Advent

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O is for Orange – good, eaten in reason, P for Plum Pudding,…
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Second Day of Advent

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Come to the window, little folks, And read these tiny Story-books! From…
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First Day of Advent

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Tower Treasures Advent Calendar
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For Truth’s Sake

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It is hard to explain the sensation of reading something in your own language and not having a clue as to its meaning
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The Babes in the Wood

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What a sorry little tale this is ...
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A Family of Phrenologists

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When we think of seaside promenade attractions, such as fortune-telling, palm-reading and so forth, we tend to imagine stripey booths and bead curtains.
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Discovering Tower Treasures

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What’s really housed in Cambridge University Library’s fabled…
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The Average Boy

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“When stress of weather, or the coming of long winter evenings,…
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