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File:Celtic Hebridean rug design by George Bain.jpg|Through our Wikimedian-in-Residence at Museums Galleries Scotland we worked with the George Bain Collection at Groam House Museum - a Recognised Collection of National Significance to Scotland
 
File:Bodleian Library MS. Arm. d.13. Armenian Gospels-0042-0.jpg|At Bodleian Libraries we uploaded handpicked items from their collection of cultural treasures showing the diversity of world heritage
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File:F3.v. Southern hemisphere constellations - NLW MS 735C.png|At the National Library of Wales we focused on Welsh heritage, e.g. images from a Images of an 11th-century scientific Manuscript. We also placed 70,000 related items on different language Wikipedias via Wikidata.
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File:Butterfly Man.jpg|The Natural History Museum has millions of images under a free licence on their data portal, and we are making progress towards uploading a selection to Commons; ensuring reusability by matching specimens to Wikidata items with support from a volunteer.
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File:Roscoe GJR(1839) p176 - Map of Manchester.jpg||Volunteers have been uploading maps from the British Library’s extensive collection, and we are working on a process to release key metadata onto Wikidata.
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File:Raglan Castle (0184).jpg|We received a donation of 24,000 photo files from a volunteer (covering the UK) - he was looking for help with uploading those. We recruited another volunteer for his, and have also been supporting this donation by promoting it, aiming for increased reuse of the files.
<big>The ''[[Friends Newsletter]]'' for members and friends (March 2014 to present)</big>
File:Pride in London 2016 - Sadiq Khan and Matthew Barzun with the director of Pride at the opening of the parade.png|Our project grants scheme allows us to support volunteers, for example [https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2016/06/3566/ travel to Pride London to create a visual record of this LGBT event].
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File:Shane Williams - David Griffiths.jpg|Within the Europeana 280 Art History Challenge, 8 high quality images were uploaded from NLW, resulting in12 new articles across five languages.
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<big>''[[Recent Changes]]'', the newsletter for donors and supporters</big>
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[[Membership/Newsletter]], the membership newsletter (January &ndash; December 2013)<br/>
[[Reports]], yearly and monthly reports on the activities of the chapter, formerly known as newsletter.
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