Valentine urls from the #loveheritage day on Twitter

I was hoping for more collections of valentines to be surfaced through the Twitter's #Askarchivists #loveheritage initiative, and I was not disappointed.  Many collections put valentines online through Flickr or blogs. Here are some urls to explore:

Cambridge Tower Project blog on valentines (C) Cambridge University Library

Ulster Museum

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.389792327701804.111431.114762798538093&type=3&l=adac465970

National Museums Northern Ireland

http://www.nmni.com/Home/Online-Collections?Cat=502172&SubCat=502181

Cambridge Tower Project

http://vl203.wordpress.com/2012/02/14/happy-valentines-day/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

http://vl203.wordpress.com/tag/valentines/

http://vl203.wordpress.com/2011/02/11/valentine-season/

American Historical Association

http://blog.historians.org/resources/1570/valentines-day-for-history-lovers?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/from-the-archive-blog/gallery/2012/feb/13/valentines-day-history-in-pictures#/?picture=385915411&index=7

Europeana

http://blog.europeana.eu/2012/02/happy-valentines-day/

Museum of London blog

http://www.mymuseumoflondon.org.uk/blogs/blog/the-more-unusual-valentine-cards-in-our-collection/

Museum of London Collection

http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/Collections-Research/Collections-online/group.aspx?g=group-18638

Glamorgan archives

http://www.flickr.com/photos/33508309@N02/sets/72157629313501949/

Mass Observation archive

http://yfrog.com/oblbdfdj

Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery

http://birminghammag.posterous.com/valentine-of-the-day-sealed-with-a-kiss-or-30

http://birminghammag.posterous.com/valentine-of-the-day-beauty-is-in-the-eye-of

http://birminghammag.posterous.com/vinegar-valentines-for-the-one-you-love-to-ha

http://birminghammag.posterous.com/tag/valentine  (= all posts so use this)

V&A

http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O543693/print-first-british-st-valentines-day/

Postal Heritage Museum

http://postalheritage.wordpress.com/2012/02/14/valentines-day/

http://www.postalheritage.org.uk/page/valentine-postcards

About ‘comic’ valentines from Times Archive

http://twitpic.com/8jqpuv

About valentines

http://twitpic.com/8jrezy

New York Public Library

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150104801027351.294683.21557622350

History wired

http://historywired.si.edu/object.cfm?ID=240

National Archives of Scotland

http://www.nas.gov.uk/about/120208.asp

Herbert Art Gallery

http://ow.ly/i/sxsu

Beamish Museum

http://www.beamish.org.uk/valentines-day/
National Library of Ireland
http://www.nli.ie/blog/index.php/2012/02/14/the-course-of-true-love/

Valentines

There is a major initiative today by #AskArchivists encouraging archives, libraries and museums to surface their collections which relate to love. The Twitter hashtag is #loveheritage.  Undoubtedly, valentine collections will form a major part of this.

My other blog: The John Johnson Collection: now and then has a new post about valentines in the John Johnson Collection and the Harding Collection, featuring Comic Valentines. In 2010, we had a small display of valentines in the Bodleian: The season for love. The poster, exhibition leaflet, captions and images are online.

There are already six tags for valentines in this blog (The Scrap Album site, the Museum of London, the Shell Art Collection at the National Motor Museum, the American Antiquarian Society, the Imperial War Musuem and The Library Company of Philadelphia).   Here are some more links:

•  Blog on The History of Valentine Day from Hull Museum Collections 
• The American Antiquarian Society's Making valentines online exhibition and Recent acquisitions at the American Antiquarian Society (a comic valentine).
• The Library Company of Philadelphia's (see yesterday's blog) Annotated bibliography on comic valentines by Elizabeth Donaldson
• A major repository for valentine cards is the Laura Seddon Collection, for which there is a short guide Victorian valentines : a guide to the Laura Seddon Collection of Valentine Cards in Manchester Metropolitan University Library compiled by Laura Seddon. The MMU Victorian ephemera web page  features three valentines from the Laura Seddon Collection.

 The standard work on the history of valentines is by Frank Staff:: The valentine and its origins. London, c. 1969