dropthedrawing:

Preparing for Inktober 2017?

I am too! And to get inspired, I have put together 8x Inktober prompt lists, to help us create something really cohesive and cool this October

Prompt lists:

– Post Apocalyptic Wanderers

– Anthropomorphic People

– A Steampunk Adventure

– Space Travellers

– Super People

– Characters for a fairytale

– Characters for an urban fantasy

– Characters of the Forest

Enjoy and share!

What’s the oddest thing you’ve come across in your work at the National Archives? Excluding the stuff hushed up, of course.

todaysdocument:

This isn’t WWI, but it is still very odd.  A widow sent a dead mole to prove her husband served in the Civil War.  

Mole in a Civil War pension file:

https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2010/12/21/mole-in-place-at-the-archives/

Its dating Sir Henry Cole’s rat from the National Archives at the Kew.