We are pleased to announce the daily themes for the 2025 #ArchiveAdventCalendar. A reminder that anyone can take part in December. Just post something with the daily hashtag and #ArchiveAdventCalendar. We can't wait to see what you will all share this year! 😁🎄🎅

Have you started your Christmas #Shopping yet? Give us some inspiration from the Archives. #ArchiveAdventCalendar

Archivists, let us see your #FestiveClothes. We know you all have a favourite Christmas Jumper for working in those chilly archive stores. #ArchiveAdventCalendar

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The nights are fair drawing in. Great for viewing Christmas Lights or maybe a starry sky. But mind and wrap up warm! #DarkNights #ArchiveAdventCalendar

#archiveadventcalendar #day11 Well behind the door today it's #darknights so we shall oblige and supply you with a very special Dark Knight Mind that time THE Batman, yip the actual batman, the dark knight himself, visited #glasgowroyalinfirmary @arascot

#archiveadventcalendar #day10 #christmascards We don't know what year this is from but it is a lovely old-fashioned card.... The modern card with the bee was the only year we did paper cards in December 2022. @arascot

This little Christmas Card was probably sent home in 1918. Sadly there is nothing written inside. It is part of the David McLaren collection, so maybe he sent it home to his wife. Read more about the collection here: https://t.co/Eq0Cc11Zg0 #ChristmasCards #ArchiveAdventCalendar

This #ChristmasCards from John & Pauline Dower, sent in their 2nd year of marriage, to Pauline’s parents, Charles Philips & Lady Mary Trevelyan of @WallingtonNt. The Dowers went on to help shape England & Wales’ National Parks #ArchiveAdventCalendar @ARAScot

In the noughties SSE produced #ChristmasCards with a quality selection of brand history sweets on them! @ARAScot #ArchiveAdventCalendar

On today's theme of #ChristmasCards, here's a lovely one from William and Dazine Hoggatt to unknown recipients. The photograph within the card shows the artist and his wife in their home at The Darragh, Port Erin. #ManxArchives #ArchiveAdventCalendar #IsleOfMan #Christmas

Behind today’s #ArchiveAdventCalendar door… a festive selection of Christmas Cards from our collections!

How's your Christmas card writing going? We like the approach of this Christmas card from the Sellwood collection, part of our Windsor Borough collection. It features a festive greeting and pop-up Christmas scene with no writing required! #ChristmasCards #ArchiveAdventCalendar

#ArchiveAdventCalendar theme 10 is #ChristmasCards. Christmas cards of Dunblane landmarks have been created over the years by artists including (clockwise) Jane Dunbar, Lorna Brown & Lynn Garrett 🚶Visit Dunblane Museum on Sats until 20 Dec 🕥 10.30am-4.30pm (last entry 4pm)

#ArchiveAdventCalendar theme 10 is #ChristmasCards. Wintry Christmas card scene of Dunblane’s historic Leighton Library is available from online shop as tea-towel, mug, coaster & placemat https://t.co/64bjRQv5en 🚶Library closed for winter, except by special arrangement

No #Nativity references in our records but a close second with staff children entertaining their peers with The Nutcracker at a 1935 family Christmas party! We love the mice/rat costumes! #ArchiveAdventCalendar @ARAScot

Some fabulous costumes here at Welling's Hook Lane School nativity play in 1963. Photograph from our Kentish Times collection. #Nativity #ArchiveAdventCalendar

Here's a scene from around 1960 that will be repeated in primary schools all over the country in the next couple of weeks: the children of Brookfield School in Shirebrook performing the #Nativity. #ArchiveAdventCalendar

Thurnscoe Hill Infant School Christmas nativity in 1985, do you recognise anyone in this photo? We have records for many schools in the borough, there's more details in the link below. #ArchiveAdventCalendar #Nativity

We thought this photo of children performing the Sunday School nativity play in Clifford Chambers Church in 1952 was too good to not use for #Nativity! 📸 WCRO, CR3106/4/177 #ExploreYourArchive #ArchiveAdventCalendar @ara_scotland

We love this #Nativity scene, drawn for the 1987 Christmas Tilehurst Parish magazines. Note the wonderful Magnificat! It wouldn't be a nativity without him 😉 🎄 #ArchiveAdventCalendar

Woodblock from a copy of St Ignatius' Spiritual Exercises in our archive, printed in 1630 #ArchiveAdventCalendar #Nativity @ARAScot