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2025
- The British Library as a Global Archive
- Little Worlds of Food Control
- Summer Scholars Lunchtime Talks 2025!
- Two New Eccles Fellowships for Creative Practitioners!
- Eccles Institute Visiting Fellows, 2025-26
- Photobooks and the Creative Journey: An Interview with James Clifford Kent
- The deadly women of crime fiction
- ‘America Now!’ continues: True Crime in the USA
- Call For Papers: Twentieth-Century Black Periodicals and Space
- PhD placement scheme in North and Latin American sections at the British Library - applications open until 21 February 2025
- Remembering Velma Pollard
- The Inauguration of a New President: Where Will American Politics Go From Here?
- African American short fiction and magazines in the mid-twentieth century
- Delayed Promises and Steadfast Dreams: Mapping Out a Young Black Loyalist’s Fictional Journey
2024
- 'US Politics Today' A Level Conference 2024: Student Notes
- On the Road Again: “America Now!” events series continues at the Eccles Institute
- The Eccles Institute Visiting Fellowship: Applications Now Open
- From the Supreme Court to Cowboy Carter: “America Now!” events series launches at the Eccles Institute
- Moving Texts and Individuals between New England and England in the Mid-Seventeenth Century
- 'US Politics Today' A-level conference 2024
- Reframing Dominant Narratives: Jewish History on the Island of Jamaica
- Researching and Unraveling Haitian Stories in the Archives
- Hello - and moving forward...
2023
- Tales from the Philatelic Crypt: The ‘Haunted Canada’ Postage Stamp Series
- Carybé, Mario de Andrade and the Brazilian ‘hero without a character’
- Grenada, 1973-83 | Beginnings of a Revolution, Invasion, Aftermath
- On the Trail of the Contemporary Singing Voice
- Verse and Reverse: Uncovering the work of the Toronto Women’s Press Club
- Machado de Assis, Portinari and the Bilingual Brazilian Book Club at the British Library
- Cold War Whiteness: Literature and Race between Canada and Czechoslovakia
- Antislavery Print Culture in Nineteenth Century Canada West
- Spiritualism, Creatively Reimagined
- On my desk: Celebrating the Faculty of Humanities of the University of East Anglia
- The Art and Life of Francesca Alexander
- Call for Papers: Grenada, 1973-1983 | Beginnings of a Revolution, Invasion and After
- Tracked Changes: Looking for Migrant Editors in Publishing Archives
- Why Research is Good for the Artist's Soul
- Reclaiming Fédon’s Rebellion: Identifying and Acknowledging the ‘Rebels’ in Modern Grenada
- Transatlantic Mormon Connections and Historical Fiction
- Writer's Award winner Philip Clark on the Sounds of New York City: Part II
- Outernational: Researching Black music and its transatlantic connections
- PhD Placement Opportunity – The Pacific Islands in print: surveying the British Library collections
- The World According to Monty Wedd: Philatelic Comics, Cartoons and Caricatures
- Into the Crucible of Revolution: Hindu Anticolonialism and Radicalism in Early Twentieth Century America
- Sculptures, time machines and vampires: items from the Americas collections on display in Leeds
- Rotimi Fani-Kayode Transatlantic Vision
- On my desk: Night Fall in the Ti-Tree by Violet Teague and Geraldine Rede
2022
- Towards a People’s History of the 'Permissible Dose'
- Celebrating the work of Aline Kominsky-Crumb
- “The Flying Researcher”: South Asians and Indigenous Peoples of the Pacific Northwest
- Tracing Italian Opera Performers in the Nineteenth Century Americas
- Black Theatre Makers: Una Marson
- North American Indigenous Print Heritage Early Career Fellowship
- On my desk – On Spirit Lake: Georgian Bay Stories from Church Street Press
- E-resources: Performing Arts in the Americas
- French Quebec Imprints, 1764-1990
- Reading Eighteenth-Century Enslavers for Sources on the History of Africa and Africans
- Gre-nay-dah, not Gra-naah-da. That’s in Spain.
- Delicate Materials - Imaginative Texts
- On my desk: Double Persephone by Margaret Atwood
- E-resources: magazines and comics
- Exploring the Andrew Salkey Archive I: Literary Friendships of the Windrush Era Writers
- Electronic resources for research in Oceania studies
- Empires, Oceans, and Emotions: Unexpected Encounters in the Archive
- In Search of Vanilla
- Black Women’s Activism in the Americas
- A Case of "Archive Fever" (Cause: Due to Drafts)
- Electronic resources for research in Caribbean Studies
- US Radicals in Revolutionary Mexico
- The British Library’s Canadian Copyright Collection: An Introduction
- Publishing in the Colonial Anglophone Caribbean: A New Guide to the British Library's Holdings
- Electronic resources for African American History
- Food and Freedom in 19th-Century Jamaica
- E-Resources on European Colonization in the Americas to c.1650
- The Revolution Will Be Sexualized
- Cross-media Research: Searching for Poets, Painters and Photographers
- The Falklands forty years on
- Writer's Award Winner Philip Clark on the Sounds of New York City: Part I
- Electronic Resources for US Politics
- A welcome return for on-site Doctoral Open Days
- Electronic Resources for Literary Research
- Cherokee language printing at the British Library
- In conversation with Frank Brannon
- The Advent of a Newspaper
- The Value of Libraries: a report from the Hay Festival, Cartagena, Colombia
- E-resources for Women in the United States
- Sheila Watt-Cloutier on the British Library Player
- "Hope’s ragged symbol": 50 years of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in poetry and prose
- Commemorating Roberta Bondar's voyage into space
- Slavery and the Sugar Trade: cataloguing five bills of lading
- Uncovering Free Ports in the Colonial Caribbean
2021
- Bibliographic E-resources: or, how to give up footnote-chasing forever...
- Dystopian Fiction & Long Feminist Histories
- Celebrating Viola Desmond, Carrie Best and a new philatelic acquisition
- E-resources: US historic and contemporary newspapers
- Shoot Me with Flowers
- The Eccles Centre at 30
- Witnessing climate change: COP26 and Oceania book artists
- Music and migration, environments and spiritualties – introducing the new Eccles Centre Visiting Fellowship programme
- Loyalists, Race and Atlantic Canada
- The Day of the Dead Celebration. A safe space to share the stories and memories of our lost ones
- US Fine Presses: a new guide to the Library's holdings
- Americas and Oceania e-Resources: An Introduction
- The Masters of Margarita – Anglo-Spanish rivalry, treason and the slave trade
- Follow up: Important information for email subscribers
- Americas blog email subscription service ending - Please follow us on Twitter for updates
- Two Conflicting Pioneers and their Precursors in the Amazon
- Inheritance Books: Rachael Culley, Interim Curator for North American Published Collections
- “We Must Speak with Our Bodies”
- Columbus and the Idea of Cuba
- Shape-shifting: Creative research and 'The Owner of the Sea'
- The Paradoxes of Power: Photographic records and postwar nuclear testing
- Hazel Daniels: Pepperpot Philosophising
- Rod Westmaas: A Hotchpotch of History and Hospitality
- Natasha Ramnarine: Doubles Queen
- Celebrating Juneteenth
- Anselm Berkeley: From Field to Shelf to Plate
- Marking 40 years of AIDS activism
- Ranette Prime: Food and Identity in Britain
- Sandra Agard: An Ode to Ridley Road
- Reading Brood X
- Digital resources on the 17th, 18th and 19th century Caribbean
- Charlie Phillips: The Story Behind Smokey Joe's Diner
- Joe Williams: ‘the need for flavour’
- Finding the Humor in 'Sappho'
- Ann Husbands: Black Pudding and Roti at Notting Hill Carnival
- Sor Juana's reply: a 17th century feminist manifesto
- Two treaties: Waitangi Day in conversation
- We're calling for your Caribbean food stories
- Curry goat to political rallying
- Beyond the Exhibition: Unfinished Business – Curators' Lunchtime Session
- or, The Whale
- Moby-Dick;
- 25 Years of the Moby-Dick Marathon
2020
- Cooking a Christmas Meal in the Caribbean Collections
- The American newsroom as seen in cartoons: 1930-1960. By Dr Will Mari
- Art in a pandemic: exploring manifestation of art and design
- PhD Placement Opportunity – National Library Curator Conference
- The 2021 Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer's Award shortlistees: researching the Americas
- New additions to our electronic resources
- Māori Language Week 2020
- Paradise in London: the Paraíso School of Samba and the beginnings of urban Brazilian carnival in Rio de Janeiro
- The Centenary of the Nineteenth Amendment and US women's right to vote
- Mrs. America: Still Unfinished Business
- Mrs. America: Unfinished Business
- Reactions to HIV in the 1980s and COVID-19 stigma
- Exploring Robert Lowell's English years in the Sound Archive
- Colonial American Theatre
- The Perils of Diplomatic Protection in the Early 19th Century
- Tracing the History of Northern Ontario at the British Library
- Atomic Holiday Snaps? Depictions of ‘normality’ in the official photography of postwar atomic bomb tests
- Colonial Training in Canada
- Inheritance Books: Lucy Rowland, Curator Oceania Collections
- The Black and Indigenous presence in the story of how Breadfruit came to the Caribbean
- Dancing in the archives...
- Remembering Dr King: US Black activism in the UK and beyond
- Hell You Talmbout
- ¡La lotería! palabra mágica¡ ¡palabra encantadora!* The lotería! Magic word! Charming word!
- Views from the shore
- A brief history of nursing in the US
- On "American Foreign-Born Workers"
- The Library Quest: Andrés Bello (1781-1865)
- Poems from the edge of extinction (part 2)
- The Substance of Libraries
- Poems from the edge of extinction (part 1)
- Bernard and Mary Berenson at Villa I Tatti
- All Cooped Up: Notes from the Arctic
- In the Temporary Absence of Libraries
- Online Access to United States Government Printing Office Publications
- Happy birthday, Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- Dancing in the archives...
- From the collections: A Streetcar Named Desire
- Dear Diary....Mark Twain and a timeless love story
- Edward Kamau Brathwaite (1930-2020) – a mind of many talents
- Walter Rodney's Enduring Legacy Through Archival Collaboration
- One more step along the road I go: Tracking the first three months of my Chevening Fellowship
2019
- Best American Ghost Story?
- The American and British Authors of Today’s Secular ‘Traditional Christmas’
- Literary lip warmers for Movember
- British Library x Charles Jeffrey Research Competition launched: show & tell top picks from the American Studies team
- Women and Buddhism in the United States
- Poe, pumpkins and parades – it must be Halloween
- Black History Month
- National Poetry Day 2019
- From the Collections: Pacific
- ‘To Robert Frank I now give this message: You got eyes’
- Banned Books Week
- Five reasons why we can’t wait to read The Testaments
- Eisenhower to Obama and beyond: new US political material now available to researchers
- Book Lovers Day
- A tribute to Toni Morrison
- A Tour of Indigenous London
- Herman Melville at 200
- James Knight’s “History of Jamaica”
- Is ‘America’s National Pastime’ Up for Grabs?
- The Power of Memoir
- The New York World's Fair, 1939
- América Latina: Artists’ Books at the British Library
- 25 Cats Named Sam
- North American Indigenous languages
- The Power of History - Honouring Andrea Levy
- Event: Doctoral Open Day 2019
- Witch-hunts and the iconographic power of fear
- A man of his word: Abraham Lincoln and the Proclamation of Emancipation
- The Federal Theatre Project's 'Living Newspapers'
- To Edgar, from Aubrey: bringing Poe’s tales to life
- New Collaborations: Announcing the Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer’s Award
- Cats from the stacks: The Cat in the Hat
- A Belated Happy Junkanoo: the Caribbean Christmas
2018
- Hallie Flanagan and the House Committee on Un-American Activities
- American Cooking for English Kitchens
- Putting to Ruins the Absence: Jason Moran, James Reese Europe, and Orlando Patterson
- Wilson Bueno, Portuñol/Portunhol, and Interlanguages
- ‘A Triple Threat Woman’: The Letters of Sylvia Plath
- Closing thoughts on the “North American Migrant Narratives” PhD Placement Scheme
- My Ántonia – 100 year on
- ‘Beautiful’, ‘impeccable’, ‘fantastic’, ‘wonderful’, ‘complex’, ‘superb’, ‘energetic’; a bookbinding by Sol Rébora
- Instapoetry & Twiction: social media, short form migrant writing & collection practices
- Eric Fisher Wood: An American in Paris
- CFP: Revisiting the Black Parisian Moment, 1918 - 1919
- Americas Digital Newspaper Resources
- Help in finding Americas Newspapers & Magazines at the British Library
- US & Canadian Newspapers and Magazines at the British Library
- Canada and Its Literature: A Tale of More Than Two Cultures 2/2
- Canada and Its Literature: A Tale of More Than Two Cultures 1/2
- Reporting from the reading rooms: Brazilian writers and translation
- From Neptune to Trident: How the Colonial Deputed Seal for Barbados evolved into a national symbol
- Seeing Blindness: The Danish West Indies
- Summer reading: Canada in the Frame
- Call for Applicants: Eccles British Library Writer’s Award
- The Forgotten Voyages: beyond Windrush
- Beyond the Spectacle: Native North American Presence in Britain
- Founding Greatness: Migration on United States Postages Stamps, 1869-1987
- Call for Applicants: Fulbright-British Library Eccles Centre Scholar Award
- On Funeral Trains
- Indigenous Australian Comic Characters in the British Library
- Over There, All Over Again: American Sheet Music, World War 1 and Nostalgic Musicals
- Spring news from the Eccles Centre
- L is for Labor
- Researching American political pamphlets
- Diplomacy and bibliophily: a gift from Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Grenville?
- “Why can’t we study ourselves?”: The case for Caribbean history in the West Indian Gazette
- Resources for engaging Māori contemporary culture and politics
- The Garden of Good and Evil
2017
- Andrew Salkey’s Christmas Mento….Sixty-four years later
- Early American Science: Benjamin Rush
- The 1867 British North America Act
- Winston Whyte’s Barber Shop Trial
- Martha Gellhorn: The Reporter as a Young Poet
- Early American Science: Benjamin Franklin
- George Pilkington and abolitionism in Brazil
- Following Sarah Royce
- ‘Stealing Signs’: Baseball, Past and Present
- LGBT activism and creativity in the Bay Area
- Coronela Zapatista
- Resources for engaging with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander contemporary culture and politics.
- Miniature books: a Lilliputian world - Part two
- Soldaderas y Revolucionarias
- Black Power: Reading, Roots, and Rhythm in the British Library
- Miniature books: a Lilliputian world - Part one
- Indian into Scotsman
- Russia, Brazil and Concrete?
- Australasia in the Americas blog
- Franklin and Jefferson – An Understanding that Crossed the Generations
- Stamp for Independence: A brief philatelic tour of the Declaration of Independence
- George Washington’s Legacy of Liberty
- Women in the California Gold Rush
- Resources for Film Studies and Movie Merchandising in the British Library
- The buck starts here: Early paper money from British Colonial America in the British Library
- PhD Opportunities in the Americas Collections
- Did you know about the Museum of French Art in New York?
- In various light: a farewell to Derek Walcott
- Pocahontas and After in the Library's Catalogues
- Marking International Women’s Day: The Lowell Offering
- First Ladies, Fashion, Funerals
- The Tale of Josefa
- The Flint Sit-down Strike, 1936-37
- Have you tried the Electroburger? A 1962 menu for the North Shore Line’s Electroliner dining car
- Founding Mothers (I): Postage Stamps depicting women’s contributions towards the formation of the United States of America
- Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917
2016
- American Studies Training Day in Boston Spa
- American Pamphlets 1920-1945: Call for academic partners
- The private life of the Canadian beaver
- Canada and slavery in literature
- Shakespeare, Montaigne and Rio de Janeiro.
- Dorothy Livesay: Canada, the Spanish Civil War and the 1930s
- Goodbye, and stay tuned for the Cold War symposium!
- Cricket, Marching Bands, and Empire
- Cabin Fever: Deconstructing the Log-Cabin Myth of Appalachia
- Stranger Things at the British Library
- New Gods and Old
- Dialogue with a Dead Poet: Jack Spicer's After Lorca
- Operation Crossroads: 70 Years on from the Bombs at Bikini
- Kay Boyle, American in Paris
- Join us for the Eccles Centre Summer Scholars series
- The principle of the process of creation: Adolfo Best Maugard
- Langston Hughes translates Nicolás Guillén
- On the outskirts of the world: Movimiento Hora Zero
- The Brooklyn Dodgers
- What's Next?
- An Irish Account of the First Days of the American Civil War
- Cartonera: a hand-made literary phenomenon
2015
- Tun Tun: a Venezuelan Christmas carol
- Mark Twain's Scrapbook & Earworm
- Scrapbook
- Isaiah Thomas and A Narrative of the excursion and ravages of the King's troops
- America Answers Lindbergh!
- The Kingdom of Flying Men
- Guadalupe: from Tepeyac to the British Library
- New Deal Teaching Session
- A Thanksgiving Proclamation
- Theatre in Video
- Georeferencer (do not post)
- Sea Birds, Castaways, and Phantom Islands off Newfoundland
- Illustrating Moby-Dick
- Arthur Miller
- Curator, North American Published Collections
- More Animal Tales: Ozzie the Eagle
- Tarrant's Seltzer Aperient
- Ted Hughes and Leonard Baskin
- Reagan's Critic: Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- HC SVUNT DRACONES
- Team Americas meets Reverend Jesse Jackson
- Animal Tales exhibition list
- Over the Ice: Polar Exploration from the Air
- Voting Rights Act Fifty Years On
- Call of the Wild: Animal Tales
- Homes Illustrated
- Three American Libraries from Homes of American Authors (1853)
- Loyalist Lawyers: Exiles from the American Revolution
- Our ‘Young Gentleman’ Thomas Russell and the emerging ‘Problem’ of the Caribbean Language
- The Future of the Written Word... and the Arctic
- Canada in the UK: waiting and training in WW1
- Celebrating Independence Day
- Happy Canada Day
- Reading the #Charlestonsyllabus
- An Oil Creek Valley Diary: a guest post by Janet Floyd
- Searching for Saul Bellow
- Festival thoughts: Antipodean literary beginnings
- Conference: Visual Urbanisms
- Off the Wall Fridays
- Stories Weaved in Cloth
- Off The Wall Fridays
- The Many Uses of Whiskey: a Bryant Lecture roundup
- Off the Wall Fridays
- Inventing The Great Gatsby
- Off the Wall Fridays
- From the Collections: US Historical Newspapers
- Magna Carta's Americas Adventure
- Lincoln's Funeral Cortege
- Commemorating Conflict: Australia, New Zealand and Canada
- Discovering the Northwest Passage
- The Man Who Ate His Boots
- Nixon and Hoover
- Team Americas bookshelf: How much did Carl Jung learn from his trip to India? (pt II)
- Team Americas, redux
- Symposium: Alaska, the Arctic and the US Imagination
- Team Americas bookshelf: How much did Carl Jung learn from his trip to India?
- More Polar Bears
- Pais de maravillas: Cuba on the mind…
- Perspectives on the Passage: encountering the explorers
- Forgotten histories of the Passage: the whalers
- New Brazilian Acquisitions
- Polar publishing (Locked in the Ice pt II)
2014
- Christmas, locked in the ice
- Access World News/ NewsBank
- American news dailies and weeklies: current acquisitions
- Bringing the Arctic to Leicester Square
- Mark Twain and the SS Batavia
- Baseball in the Library
- Olaudah Equiano and the draw of the Arctic
- Wheel Outings in Canada
- The Unbuilt Room
- Finding Franklin
- Farthest North Cricket (and other Arctic sports)
- Taking the Train to America: The Royal Scot and 'A Century of Progress'
- "Na-no, Na-no!"
- Sampaio: public works, protest and the Brazilian nation
- 50,000 Moths and Butterflies Died in the Making of this Post
- Coming up: Lines in the Ice
- Remembering Babe Ruth
- Remembering American success in the 1986 Tour de France
- Tour de Lead Graffiti: 23 posters in 23 days
- Amistad Revolt
- Lakeland Meetings: the Crafts and Harriet Martineau
- Tour de France: Stoller's Depart
- Anti-Slavery News: Frederick Douglass’s The North Star
- World War One: Inter-Allied Games
- New exhibition: Enduring War
- Africa's Sons Under Arms: the British West India Regiments
- Robert Frost in England
- Erica Wagner: Credit for Cleopatra's Needle
- Olivia Laing: Leee Black Childers
- Erica Wagner: A Trojan post
- Why We Blog
- Marking ANZAC Day: 'Fighting Australasia'
- Newsiest and Best: Team Americas Browse the News
- Old bits of Trees by Andrea Wulf
- Tall Stories
- Early American science
- Comics Unmasked vs Capt. America
- ‘This is the U.S.A’ – American Propaganda in Post-WWII Bahrain
- Early American Women Writers
- Armistead Maupin Tells Tales
- Reflections on the 2012 Elections
- Brazil: treasures from a fascinating New World
- Federal Writers' Project publications
- Slavery in America: anti-slavery pamphlets, newspapers and magazines
- Slavery in America: newspapers and travellers' reports
- Slavery in America: slave narratives
- A British Visit by an Acquaintance of Solomon Northup
- US Civil War Maps
- Twelve Years a Slave, the Narrative of Solomon Northup
- Metadata
2013
- Happy Holidays from Team Americas!
- A million first steps: some early Team Americas favourites
- The Canadian $4 bill: not so awkward after all
- The Canadian $4 Bill: Awkward Notes
- The Transition
- Team Americas celebrates Movember
- The Earliest Surviving Printed Book from the Americas
- Team Americas on the move
- Civil War Transformations
- "All these books are published in Heaven"
- John Burnside: In Good Company
- Before the Avatar, the Mugshot
- In remembrance of Carolyn Cassady 1923-2013
- Want therefore shall not I: The Whole Book of Psalmes
- Rebuilding after 9/11
- An Incident in the Retreat at the Battle of Manassas (21 July 1861)
- The Art of Occupy
- The Fierce Urgency of Now: Dr King's 'I Have a Dream' revisited
- Celebrating: World Dog Day
- Andrea Wulf: Out of Archives and Libraries
- Literally, a blog post
- The Cats of Canada
- John Burnside: Lost Brother
- A Special Relationship? Winston Churchill and Anglo-America Revisited
- The New York Cosmos
- Prince George - British Columbia
- The Royal Baby and Photos for Every Occasion
- Ay, if I know the letters and the language: The Elements of Style
- Digitised Collections: more Arctic journeys
- William Gibson
- From Ben Franklin to Brian Cox
- From the collection: Arctic journeys
- Eisenhower and European Integration
- Eccles Centre Writer in Residence: Andrea Wulf
- Happy Independence Day!
- Happy Canada Day!
- Bert the Turtle: or, how they learned to stop worrying and love the bomb
- From the Collections: Native Americans visit London
- Tossed Salad and Scrambled Eggs: The Constitution 225 Years Later
- Naomi Wood
- Civil War Project update – A journey through the Southern (and Northern) States
- John Burnside: Finding Jennifer
- J. Montgomery Flagg and Uncle Sam
- The Secretary: a journey with Hillary Clinton
- Connected histories: the East India Company and the Caribbean
- Lyse Doucet at the British Library
- Norman Rockwell and the Four Freedoms
- The early US Navy in the Gulf
- Justin Webb, James Montgomery Flagg and Uncle Sam
- Noam Chomsky and Propaganda
- On Acadie: thoughts from the 18th Bryant Lecture
- Changing Scenes: Canadian landscape views
- Pynchon Day 2013
- Commodore Perry goes to Japan
- Getting our skates on: Team Americas gets playoff fever
- A Cuban directory
- Picturing Canada: going live (gradually)
- Team Americas On the Road: a busy spring
- Looking Forward: Congress to Campus, Party politics, and election prospects
- New Resources: online Latin American Newspapers
- New acquisitions: 2 early Mexican imprints
- Picturing Canada: mapping a collection
- John Muir is going 'Sequoical' in the Yosemite
- Obama's Inauguration
- Guest Post: Miss Frank E. Buttolph – menu collector extraordinaire
- Editing Canada: help Team Americas and Wikimedia with a new digital collection
- Democratic Brazil at the British Library
- Posada’s ‘Biblioteca del Niño Mexicano’
- Lincoln, Alexander Gardner and the Silent Indian
- Oil, Ambergris and the Grand Ball of the Whales
- Let's Emigrate! To Canada
- George Catlin's 'Indian Ball'
- The Serendipity of Research: the case of Coren, Thoreau and the missing sentence
- From the collections: Mary Seacole
- The Great Comet of 1861 and the Civil War
- Slavery and Abolition in the Caribbean: a new UK Web Archive Special Collection
- Our Great Iceberg Melting Away
- British Library Magna Carta Internship
- Map of Nevis and St. Christopher: an evolving object
- Time, ever pressing on
- Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation
2012
- Season's Greetings from Team Americas
- Cold Comfort: Royalty and Polar sovereignty
- Thomas Nast and the birth of Santa Claus
- Valhalla of Famous Army Pigeons
- Exploring the Yucatán and Mayan Culture
- Caribbean Gothic: colonial and postcolonial views
- The Aura of the Object: Jack Kerouac's manuscript scroll
- Ernest vs Martha vs War
- A Disputed Boundary: mapping the Gadsden Purchase Treaty
- Mapping risk: Goad's Fire Insurance Plan of Québec
- From the Collections: Captain Cook and the Nuu-Chah-Nulth
- Exploring Cuba - from St Pancras
- Tecumseh's warriors: First Nations and the War of 1812
- US Presidential Election: Bill Clinton at Penn
- Down to the wire: the U.S. election
- A History photographed: Canada in World War 1
- Post the Post-Tropical Storm
- A Philadelphia Tempest: Hurricane Sandy
- Lions and Pink Slips
- Typing - and Retyping On the Road
- A History of Conflict: Québec City and War
- The Sense of Hemingway's Endings
- Film and On the Road
- Three weeks, fuelled by coffee: Jack Kerouac's On the Road scroll
- On the Road: scroll versus book
- James Evans and the Cree Syllabary
- David Amram, Then and Now
- Sheila Rowbotham: Helen Tufts Bailie and the Daughters of the American Revolution
- Pet-Names and Pillow-Talk: Ernest Hemingway’s Softer Side
- Waiting for the scroll: On the Road is coming
- The Empire of Haiti: digitising some of the Nineteenth Century
- Not Just Anne of Green Gables: Canadian Literature and the Library
- The radical life of Moncure Daniel Conway
- A Bond formed with conviction: linking Australia and Canada
- The Battle of Bladensburg: some War of 1812 project notes
- Breadfruit, Rum and Mutinies: the career of William Bligh
- Mrs Hemingway, Mr Hemingway and Miss Pfeiffer
- Team Americas looks forward to a great Fall events programme
- Go USA!
- The Good, the Bad and the Dentons
- The Long and Winding Road to the Olympics
- The Siege of Atlanta
- Olympians in the collections: Tom Longboat
- Colonel Wiggins
- Know Your (Union) Generals
- Only Connect: the secret lives of Hemingway's wives
- US Civil War Project: What time is this place?
- Civil War Project: Abraham Lincoln in Black and White
- Forging Indendence
- Sheila Rowbotham, Eccles Writer in Residence: The Case of William Whittemore Tufts
- Notes on the Beginning of a Rivalry: England vs Australia
- Politics, Plantations and Camels: early publishing about Barbados
- Martha Gellhorn, pursued and in pursuit
- Cree in the Library
- The World of Jorge Amado
- From the Collections: Seneca Snakeroot
- Travel, Landscapes and Kodaks: Picturing Jamaica
- Framing Canada: the work of William Notman
- Sheila Rowbotham, Eccles Centre Writer in Residence: Meeting Mrs Satan in a hedged garden maze
- Exploring Nouvelle-France: the voyages of Samuel de Champlain
- My dear Harold: discovering Carlos Fuentes in our archives
- Taking a stroll on Sandymount Strand
- The Hull is a Boundary: on cricket, ships and empire
- Writing Britain: An Entertainment
- Read, Ride & Be Happy: Collection Development with the Bike Snob NYC
- Sheila Rowbotham: Joseph Ishill, Free Vistas
- The Best Jackets this Side of The Flying Burrito Brothers
- The World of Jorge Amado
- They were happy, these Americans, to be in Paris
- Sports Day at the British Library
- Malaria in Ontario: a World Malaria Day post
- Sheila Rowbotham, Writer in Residence: From Whitman to The Wire
- The Sinking of the RMS Titanic
- There will never be anything more interesting than that American civil war
- From the collections: twelve (very similar) views of Jamaica
- Go Team Americas, Go Go Go!
- ¡Que Viva La Constitución de Cádiz!
- Published in Paris
- Naomi Wood, Writer in Residence: Martha Gellhorn & The Great Depression
- The Voyage of HMS Beagle: zoological views
- The Arctic Regions: William Bradford's ambitious book
- 3 March 1931: O! Say Can You See. The Star Spangled Banner
- Civil War Manuscripts: Foliation Slip
- Civil War Project: Maps - Birds Eye View of the Seat of War (Prang, 1861)
- Civil War Project: The Great Seal of the Republic Redux
- Guest Post: a side of Australasian studies
- St. Valentine’s Roses and Massacres
- At the BAFTAs
- Mapping 1812
- Picturing the Great Alone: photography and the Antarctic
- Kodak: framing the last 120 years
- War, Struggle and Equality: the Tuskegee Airmen
- #Occupy
2011
- A Hankering to Travel: Charles Dickens and North America
- Canada walks away from Kyoto: another Official Publications post
- The National Archives' 'Today's Document Series'
- Narrating Slavery and Freedom in Canada
- 'the most elegant Thing I ever saw': royal libraries and republicans
- Printing Money
- The Group of Seven comes to Dulwich
- Team Americas in Space
- Oslo, 2011?
- Robert Zimmerman goes to Oslo?
- HIGHRISE at the British Library
- Literatura de Cordel
- American Studies Resource Portal (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
- Tweet Tweet: John James Audubon's Birds of America
- From Margate to Manhattan...
- Jackie O
- USA: Olympic Rugby Champions
- Remembering 9/11 again (or What you won't be reading on your Kindle, part 3)
- Negative feedback
- "That symbol - the Great Seal of the infant Confederacy - sent to it by its nurse, England", or Civil War Digitisation Project Update (II)
- The American Civil War in the Round (Digitisation Project Update I)
- A Research Guide to Secondary Sources on the American Fifties
- Please Allow Us to Introduce Ourselves: (I) Dr Philip Hatfield, Curator, Canadian and Caribbean Studies
- Moby Dick on Horseback
- Another guest post on Out of this World
- In Memory of the Patriots who Fell: Manassas and the Bull Run
- Guest posts on Out of this World
- 'There is no there, there': William Gibson
- INDEPENDENCE/ JULY IV/ MDCCLXXVI
- Mounties, Music, Hockey: Canada Day in Trafalgar Square
- Guest Post: First Impressions of the Library
- Aeluyd f'Ewythr Robert, or Uncle Robert's Hearth: Uncle Tom in Translation
- Ring Any Bells? Paul Revere and printmaking
- How do you measure a Sequoioideae?
- ... and the Pacific (II)
- President O'Bama and the Pacific (I)
- Out of this World Rapture
- High Water Marks (and League Tables)
- Readex Digital Resources Pilot
- Mulberry Row
- 'I remember the day when I first came here'
- "A monument to the faith and energy which have created the Empire": Canada and the Royal Family
- On the Road: BAAS II
- On the Road: British Association for American Studies, Preston, 2011
- All the Presidents' Musings
- Major Robert Anderson, Hero of Fort Sumter
- Bang!
- Guest Post: Finn's work experience reflections
- Team Americas on the Road 2011: news from Birmingham
- "It is quite the fashion now to decry all just sentiment regarding the late war"
- Last week of Evolving English
- Friday
- Thursday
- Borders: Canada, the U. S. and a very important line
- Miles O'Reilly and Irish Americans in the Civil War
- Commonwealth Listening: aka, the Queen Mother’s record collection
- Dusting off the DeLorean: Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian
- California doodling: Figueroa, Zamorano and the Manifesto
- High Society at the Wellcome Collection
- From Punched Cards to the Census
- A Presidents' Day Present
- Norman Rockwell and Benjamin Franklin
- Brighton Rock & Entertainment
- Canadian First World War Internment Recognition Fund
- The U.S. Civil War on the Web: a guide [updated 2.8.11]
- Commemorating the Civil War: "The War We Want to Forget"?
- What's Next: Patterns and Practices in History in Print and Online, Part 1 (AHA)
- Sir Morton Peto and the Funk Well
- Civil War Project, Charlottesville and Stonewall Jackson's Birthday
- Spotted while at the AHA
- Seeing Double: Impressions of America (1899)
- Cliopatria Blog Awards: and the winner goes to... [updated]
2010
- What the #?~!?
- Woodpecker Pie
- Happy Thanksgiving
- Our German studies colleagues have been posting about Christmas markets and Germanic USA
- Evolving English Exhibition
- Yes We Can!... But...
- Interconnected worlds: thinking across the Library's collections
- Mining the collections
- Polar resources: 400 years of exploring the final frontiers
- Guest Post: In Search of Meaning
- Americans in Britain: Mather Brown
- Talking plants
- Remembering 9/11
- No-one wears white after Labor Day... a post-summer treat
- Drilling deeper: resources on oil in the Canadian collections
- Interstate 5 Time Lapse Video
- The Right to Dry
- Hidden Histories in the North West Passage: finding H.M.S. Investigator
- "His Excellence in the Art of Swimming"
- What you won't be reading on your Kindle, part 2
- Monticello and the Great Pumpkin
- War Logs Again
- Mark Twain's Autobiography
- Cricket in the Collections
- Argentinian Endangered Archives Accessions
- Happy Birthday Canada
- Building the Collections: Donations and Acquisitions
- Entente Cordiale: Joseph Hodges Choate
- Deficits and the Star Chamber: why look to Canada?
- Oil Spills and Tag Clouds
- The Arctic perspective (or Future of the Polar Regions, part 2)
- Colonial dress and a creative compass
- The Future of the Polar regions
- Robin Hood
- Politics and Bookstore diversions
- Little Red Book
- Celebrities
- Volcanic Ash and "Cruise Control"
- Mexican Poets on tour
- Thomas Jefferson's Birthday [updated]
- American Studies in Norwich (II)
- American Studies in Norwich
- Team America on the road
- Posted history: Canadian postcards
- Beats and friends: part deux
- Healthcare Reform
- The Beats and friends
- American Studies Blogs [Updated]
- A bitter sweet history
- Photo-shoots
- Hidden Herstories: or, finding Amy Ashwood Garvey
- Salmon fishing in Canada: a lengthy preoccupation
- ¡Viva La Libertad!
- Through the stereoscope: the past in three dimensions
- Revolt against the English
- Declassified Documents
- Happy Washington's Birthday (or is that Presidents Day?)
- Celebrating snow: Canada in the winter
- Am Lit 101
- In Search of J. D. Salinger
- Hearing 'island' voices
- In search of the first Mrs Garvey
- There was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me...
- Dusting off the DeLorean for International Women's Day: More from the New Yorker
- Haiti on my mind
- Panoramas and New Chapters
- Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian
- Goodbye to the Nadas
2009
- Nixon and Bob Hope
- Unfortunately, Aquiles cannot be with us tonight... the Medal Jose Mindlin for Cultural Achievement
- The Shark's Behind You!
- Letters to Santa
- Speakin' O' Christmas
- Extensive Still Despite Fangled Chance
- Good Morning To All
- Milk and Honey Route
- Declaration of Independence
- Still remembering the dead
- Communication Tools, and A Little Bit of Fry and Twitter
- Nixon, China and the Foreign Broadcast Information Service
- The Twelve Stars of Our Republic
- Canada at War, Officially
- Remember, Remember, 5th November
- Remembering the dead
- Too Close to Call? US Elections and New Jersey
- There never will be anything more interesting than that American Civil War
- Canaan and the New England Courant
- British Caribbean accents
- Harmony and Armonicas
- What you won't be reading on your Kindle
- 550 Years after Gutenberg
- I think I'll....maybe, no, wait a minute
- The North West Passage and the Serial Set
- Mexico Heads to London
- The New World
Asian and African
2025
- Caring for the Dead: a unique Mon funeral book
- The Provenance of the Colebrooke Collection (5): Commemorating a Collector
- A veterinary text between Mongols, Mamluks and Armenians
- The Provenance of the Colebrooke Collection (4): Accusations of Corruption
- A showcase for the British Library from Göttingen: The Bohairic–Arabic Holy Week lectionary Add MS 5997 dated 1273 CE
- The Perfection of Wisdom in 8000 Lines: a Mahayana Buddhist text
- An Egyptian stela for the highly-born woman Imaw: one of the oldest items in the British Library
- Early Arabi-Malayalam printed books in the British Library
- The Provenance of the Colebrooke Collection (3): Colebrooke and the Pandits
- New display of manuscript textiles from Southeast Asia
- The Provenance of the Colebrooke Collection (2): Colebrooke’s manuscripts on Hindu law
- The Provenance of the Colebrooke Collection (1): The Colebrooke Family and the East India Company
- Heritage under Occupation: The Japanese Commercial Postcards of a Unified Korea
- Not Fowl: Feathered friends in Coptic and Armenian Manuscripts
- A Priest and an Artist: Tracking Down Who Sold Baybars' Qur'an
- Exploring Thai art: Frederick S. Harrop (1887–1969)
- A Missing Mirror: The British Library's Mir'atü'l-hubûş and Ottoman Ethiopian Studies
- Doctoral fellowship opportunity in African collections at the British Library
- Colonel Jayakar's Omani Treasures
- Ⲡⲓⲭⲣⲓⲥⲧⲟⲥ ⲁⲩⲙⲁⲥϥ! The Nativity in two Copto-Arabic Gospels
2024
- A Printed Christmas: Images of the Nativity in early Armenian Printed Books
- Without Remedy: Mysteries of the Provenance of the Divan-i Bîçâre
- The Lalitavistara, a Sanskrit text on the life of the Buddha
- Passports and Identity Documents in the Hands of Artists
- The Gitagovinda and the Jagannatha temple at Puri
- Revisiting Early Photography: Ethics, Legal Constructs, and the Seligmans’ Legacy
- Gitagovinda, a 12th-century Sanskrit poem devoted to Krishna
- Celebrating Ten Years of the Qatar Digital Library: Expert Articles
- Digital access to Malay and Indonesian manuscripts in the British Library
- Access restored to a number of digitised manuscripts
- Rustam's war attire in Firdawsi's Shahnamah
- The Hidden Mughal Princess-Poet Zebunnisa 'Makhfi'
- Song of Resistance: Iraqis’ Response to British Occupation
- 87 more Arabic scientific manuscripts on the Qatar Digital Library: The British Library/Qatar Foundation Partnership, Phase Three
- Islam Aly: a new acquisition of contemporary artist’s books at the British Library
- Ilana Tahan, 1946-2024
- Narrating Rebirth: an exhibition of Jātaka illustrations from digitised Thai manuscripts
- A Who's Who of Early Saudi Statehood: The British Library's 'Wahhabi' Manuscript
- Henry Alabaster’s “Catalogue of Siamese manuscripts” (2): miscellaneous texts, novels and dramas
- Art Fund New Collecting Award: Collecting Arab Visual Cultures (1960 to Today)
- Burkhard Quessel, Curator for Tibetan, retires from the British Library
- A Gastronomic Feast
- After three decades of pioneering research, the IDP launches a new and improved website
2023
- Urdu Poetry, Women and Well-being at the British Library
- Joseph Gaye (1852-1926) photographic views of the Kathmandu Valley and India donated to the British Library
- New display of Buddhist manuscripts and block prints in the Sir John Ritblat Treasures Gallery
- Drawn from across the globe: manuscript textiles in the Southeast Asian collections
- Sang Hyang Hayu: an Old Javanese 'Great Book' in three different scripts
- The Romantic Sufi: an early copy of the Divan of Kamal Khujandi copied by Jaʿfar Tabrizi
- How Old is the Language of Young Malay Manuscripts?
- Javanese palm leaf manuscripts written in Buda script in the British Library
- Drawings of the Taj Mahal and Agra monuments commissioned by Lady Maria Nugent in the early 19th century
- Literary manuscripts from Southeast Asia on display
- Babur the Naturalist
- Edmund Edwards McKinnon: donor of rare books on north Sumatra
- New display of Islamic manuscripts in the Sir John Ritblat Treasures Gallery
- Manuscript Textiles: Weaving the Thread of Faith
- EFEO Java-Bali Palmleaf Manuscripts Digitisation Project
- Henry Alabaster’s 'Catalogue of Siamese manuscripts' (1): royal edicts and books of laws
- Provenance histories of Batak manuscripts in the British Library (3): From the BM to the BL
- Bollinger Javanese Manuscripts Digitisation Project completed
- Better than a Pearl: a letter to the Bayinkan of Burma from the people of Mergui
- World Bee Day
- Animals in William Marsden’s The History of Sumatra
- Drawings of a gharial, llama and tiger for Lady Hasting
- Manuscript Textiles in the Southeast Asian Collections: Project Update
- Animals: Art, Science and Sound
- The Lotus Sutra Project: Conserving and Digitising 800 Manuscripts in the British Library
- The Diversity of Arabic scripts
- Talipot and ceremonial fans in Thai manuscript art (2)
- A Panegyric from the Deccan’s Golden Age
- Talipot and ceremonial fans in Thai manuscript art (1)
- Akbar and Alexander the Great
- Alexander the ‘Accursed’ and Zoroastrianism
- Alexander’s origins: a Persian Perspective
- Alexander/Iskandar: Ancestor of Malay Kings
2022
- A beloved in every port: Iskandar's encounters with women
- A Baniya Letter from Surat
- Hampi: Photography and Archaeology of southern India
- A book of Malay pantuns from Portugal
- Batik designs in a Javanese manuscript: Serat Damar Wulan
- Three northern Thai manuscripts from Carl Bock’s collection
- Alexander, Meet İskender: Turkic Manuscripts on Alexander the Great
- Manuscript Textiles in the Southeast Asian collections
- An Early Modern Khavarnamah from Bijapur
- Alexander the Great in Firdawsi's Book of Kings
- Verhandelingen: a rare 1816 issue of a periodical printed in Java
- ‘Under The Mantle Of Plague’: A British Medical Mission To East Persia In 1897
- Five Centuries of Copying, Illustrating and Reading Amir Khusraw’s Poetry
- The Story of Inabe no Suminawa: Master Craftsman of Hida
- Frederik Jacob Rothenbühler and his wife as collectors of Javanese manuscripts in the early 19th century
- Alexander the Great: The Making of a Myth
- Two Golden Commissions from the Shan States
- Glimpses from the ‘Golden Land’: Decorative manuscript art in Thailand and beyond
- Translating Piracy: On the origin of the Arabic words qurṣān/qarṣanah
- 40 more Javanese manuscripts now accessible online
- Stories of the Prophets: an illustrated Persian manuscript by Nishapuri
- Disfigured Ghosts and Gory Tortures in Phra Malai Manuscripts and Thai Cosmological Parks
- Golden Connections
- Ratu Ageng Tegalreja, Prince Dipanagara, and the British Library’s Serat Menak manuscript
- Beneath the glitter: Kinzan emaki, inside the gold mines of Sado
- A Historical Narrative of the Kaʿba and the Hajj Season Reflecting on the Visual Materials Found in the IOR
- The provenance histories of Batak manuscripts in the British Library (2): The India Office collection
- ‘I wish to be made free and to remain in this country’: Testimony of liberated enslaved women, girls and boys
- Satyajit Ray's visit to the India Office Library to conduct archival research for Shatranj ke Khilari or 'The Chess Players' in 1976
- The Nomadic Chemist: Alfred Sercombe Griffin (1878-1943) and Burma
- More highlights from our GOLD exhibition
- Bollinger Javanese Manuscripts Digitisation Project: 120 more Javanese manuscripts to be digitised
- From Georgian Slave to Safavid Master: Some Possible Additions to the Corpus of Siyavush Beg Gurji
- Three unusual illuminated Javanese manuscripts
- Reunited at last: a classical Thai verse novel from Ayutthaya
- The provenance histories of Batak manuscripts in the British Library (1): The British Museum collection to 1900
- Christian Bibles in Muslim Robes with Jewish Glosses: Arundel Or.15 and other Medieval Coptic Arabic Bible Translations at the British Library
- Ariya Metteyya, the Buddha of the future
- Photographs of the Government Printer in Tanganiyka
- Recent acquisitions in Asian and African Collections
- Lost and refound: a Batak note on bamboo to John Anderson
- Arabic Manuscripts from Southeast Asia in the British Library
- Covers of Batak pustaha manuscripts
- Technical challenges of digitising Batak manuscripts
- Batak manuscripts in the British Library digitised in collaboration with Hamburg University
- The art of small things (5): Recitation markers in Qur’an manuscripts from Southeast Asia
- A puzzling fragment from a Thai meditation manual
- Accessing West African Manuscripts in the British Library
2021
- Situations of Delicacy and Embarrassment: Ill-considered Favours in 1830s Persia
- A farewell to Jerry! J. P. Losty (1945-2021).
- Khmer manuscripts at the British Library (Part 2)
- Two Centuries of Indian Print: South Asia Seminar Series at the British Library 2016-2021
- Khmer manuscripts at the British Library (Part 1)
- A Tale of Two Enigmas: A Magtymguly Pyragy Manuscript in the British Library Collections
- Transcribed from the boundary wall of the universe: Early Dhammasattha manuscripts in the Burmese collection of the British Library
- Reunion of Krishna icons: A painting of the Festival of the Seven Svarups in the Johnson Album
- The Georgetown-IDP Lecture Series: Following the Silk Roads to North America
- Who reads digitised Malay manuscripts?
- Chulamani Chedi, a celestial stupa
- Khadija Saye’s Art and the ‘Toothbrush Tree’
- The art of small things (4): Juz’ markers in Qur’an manuscripts from Southeast Asia
- Kālāma Sutta and the premise of free thinking
- Epic Iran: Manuscripts from the Islamic era
- Sisters from the shadows - Lady Akikonomu
- Lu Tianjiao: The First Female Stamp Designer of the People’s Republic of China, 1934-2021
- Epic Iran: Some Zoroastrian Treasures
- Important information for email subscribers to British Library's Asian and African Studies Blog
- Catch-up: Histories and Archives of Arabic Publishing
- Motherhood: A Form of Emancipation in the Turkish Minority Press in Bulgaria (1878-1944)
- Real Sultans of the Ottoman Empire
- The art of small things (3): Surah headings in Qur’an manuscripts from Southeast Asia
- How to Digitise Scrolls: A Step-by-Step Guide from the Lotus Sutra Project
- Glorious chariots in Thai manuscript paintings
- The Term 'Shater' and its Use in the India Office Records
- The art of small things (2): Text frames in Qur’an manuscripts from Southeast Asia
- Sisters from the shadows – Katsushika Ōi
- The art of small things (1): Verse markers in Qur’an manuscripts from Southeast Asia
- Black Sea Noir: Who was Ian MacPherson and Why Was He in Crimea?
- Three Qur’an manuscripts from Aceh in the British Library
- Portrait of Charles Weston (1731-1809)
- A comparison between Rustam and Arjuna
- Fragments of Abbasid Sciences: From Desert Monastery to Digital Reunion
- The Qatar Digital Library’s Two Millionth Image: ‘Isa bin Tarif returns to Qatar
- An inspiring Indonesian woman writer: S. Rukiah
- "Oyez, Oyez, Oyez": Hebrew Manuscripts Exhibition Re-opens
- The many names of the General Treaty with the Arab Tribes of the Persian Gulf
- Bollinger Singapore digitisation project completed
- The View from a Hill: Making Sense of Ras Dharbat Ali in the Archive
- Konlabot: Thai poetry from 'Jewels of Thought'
- An enigmatic Javanese manuscript in the British Library: Sĕrat Jaya Lĕngkara, Add 12310
- An ‘enhanced’ Qur’an manuscript from Madura
- Histories and Archives of Arabic Publishing
- Tomayto, Tomahto: Identifying Azerbaijani Manuscripts in the British Library Collections
- A beautiful Qur’an manuscript from Kampar, Riau, digitised through EAP
- An early Tai-Chinese glossary in the Hua yi yi yu
- A Malay Qur’an manuscript from Patani
- The Courtesan and the Preacher: The Romance of Mahsati, an Early Female Persian Poet
- Qur’an manuscripts from Southeast Asia digitised by the Endangered Archives Programme
- Patchwork for a Prince: Exploring Persian Anthology British Library Or.13193
- ‘Khadija Saye: in this space we breathe’ at the British Library
- The Burmese Harp: (3) Heaven and Earth
- An Earl, a collection, and a shopping list: Mail-order military manuscripts
- Boys, Boys, Boys: Enderunlu Fazıl Bey’s Hubanname
- Qur’an manuscripts from Southeast Asia in the British Library
- Highlights from the British Library’s Collection of Ethiopian Manuscripts
- Digitisation in Asian and African Collections 2019 to 2021: what’s new online and where to find it
- Inspiring women writers of Laos: (2) Kongdeuane Nettavong and Phiulavanh Luangvanna
- The Gombroon Diaries: a Rich Source on Eighteenth Century Persia and the Persian Gulf
- Inspiring women writers of Laos: (1) Dara Viravong Kanlagna and Douangdeuane Bounyavong
- Export paintings of Ming and Qing Chinese Interiors and Furnishings
2020
- The Burmese Harp: (2) Matters of the Heart
- ‘A cessation of plunder and piracy… for ever’: the General Treaty with the Arab Tribes of the Persian Gulf
- Plugging the holes in history: banned political pamphlets in colonial India
- Unlocking Buddhist Written Heritage: Conference at the British Library 7-8 February 2020
- A Golden Legacy: Vakfiyeler and Evkâf in the British Library Collections
- Christian Arabic Bible Translations in the British Library Collections
- Object, Story and Wonder: Museum Collections Revealed with the British Library
- The Burmese Harp: (1) Seduction of the Senses
- Muhammad Najib Khan, a Sufi soldier in 18th century southern India
- Libraries and manuscripts of Laos (1994-2012)
- A Family Affair: The Dukagjinis in the British Library’s Ottoman Turkish Collections
- For your eyes only: Charles Masson’s observations on the Durrani states
- Defining Dialects: Accounting for Turkic Languages in the British Library Collections
- Tickling the trees, dancing with clouds: Birds in Thai manuscript illustration (2)
- Curating Curation: Making Sense of the British Library’s Chagatai Collections
- Unsōdō and the evolution of design book publishing in Japan
- eReading Karma in Snakes and Ladders: two South Asian game boards in the British Library collections
- Tickling the trees, dancing with clouds: Birds in Thai manuscript illustration (1)
- Early Yorùbá books at the BL and how to find (some of) them online
- Hebrew Manuscripts: Journeys of the Written Word
- When you wish upon a star: The Celestial Weaver Maiden at the Star Festival
- The Tree of Knowledge: magic spells from a Jewish potion book
- How Should We Write Yorùbá? Diacritics in Modern Yoruba Writing
- Magic and Divination in Ethiopian Manuscripts
- At the crossroads of cultures: a Hebrew manuscript of Johannes Sacrobosco’s De sphaera mundi
- A Mughal Musical Miscellany: the journey of Or. 2361
- Anglo-Jewish deeds from medieval England- a treasure trove for historians
- Bombay Plague Visitation, 1896-97
- Autograph responsum of Moses Maimonides, pre-eminent Jewish polymath and spiritual leader
- Suthon and Manora: A jewel of Thai literature, art and performance
- Toys and ephemera in a fifteenth-century multilingual illustrated dictionary from India
- Count your fingers: calendrical hand diagrams in Hebrew manuscripts
- Two Miscellanies in the Manuscript Collection of Sir William Jones
- Radicals and Rebels: The published works of Issachar Jacox Roberts
- An eighth century Judaeo-Persian letter from Dandan-Uiliq
- The First Gaster Bible: a fine Hebrew manuscript from a Muslim land
- The Politics of Prognostication in the Cairo Sultanate
- A Thai royal edition of Pannasa Jataka (ปัญญาสชาดก)
- Written in your palm, just read it!
- Èṣù at the BL: Journeys Through Literature and Technology
- Zuan-cho – Japanese design albums in the late Meiji Period
- The Kaifeng Torah Scroll: A British Library Treasure
- Digitised East India Company ships’ journals and related records
- Portrait miniatures of the young sons of Wajid Ali Shah of Awadh
- Drawing Ire: Illustrated Ottoman Satirical Magazines
- The Buddha and his natural environment in Thai manuscript art
- Sir William Jones’ manuscript copy of al-Fatawa al-'Alamgiriyyah
- Animal days: three Bugis amulets in British collections
- Mah Nishtanah? Why is Tonight different from all other nights? In celebration of Passover
- Qom mashiho! : Easter in the British Library's Syriac Manuscripts
- Sân khấu: a Vietnamese magazine on theatre and performing arts
- Ulli Beier at the British Library
- Hands off! This book is mine! Ownership inscriptions in Hebrew manuscripts
- Serial Feminists or Idealized Beauties? Mehasin, A Women’s Magazine in the Late Ottoman Period
- Until the donkey ascends the ladder: Hebrew scribal formulae
- William Jones, al-Mutanabbī and Emotional Encounters
- Guanyin: the Bodhisattva of Great Compassion
- Exquisite patterns: Japanese Textile Design Books
- Buddhist-themed stamps: Religious didactic tool or postal ephemera?
- Bugis flower power: a compendium of floral designs
- Moloch gibbons and sloth bears: the work of the Bengali artist Haludar
- The Light of Asia: Western encounters with Buddhism
- Sacred images made to be trampled on: kami fumi-e from Japan
- Women in Buddhism at the time of the Buddha
- Digital Zoroastrian at the British Library
- The Vessantara Jataka on the move
- The Royal Library of Bone: Bugis and Makassar manuscripts in the British Library
2019
- African Literature through the Language Lens: The Yorùbá Example
- Christmas from Bethlehem to Bethnahrein
- Chinese Botanical Paintings in the British Library Visual Arts Collection
- The Avar Miscellany, a rare manuscript from the North Caucasus: (1) Historical background
- Three fish with one head (2): from the Buddha’s footprints to Beat poetry
- Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Designers promoting Aids awareness on Asian, African & Middle Eastern postage stamps (2)
- Three fish with one head: (1) Sufi sources from Southeast Asia
- Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic designers promoting Aids awareness on Asian, African & Middle Eastern postage stamps (1)
- The Ring of Solomon in Southeast Asia
- Buddha From Kashgar to Istanbul
- A testament to diversity: Kurdish manuscript collections at the British Library
- British Library receives gift of the Pāḷi Tipiṭaka
- Malay Seals from the Islamic World of Southeast Asia
- The Star Tablet of the Bab
- BUDDHISM at the British Library
- The Buddhist Kathina Festival
- Arts of the South Asian Sultanates at the British Library
- Vietnamese manuscripts in the British Library
- Buddhism in Practice: The Yogacara Food Offering Service
- Marking the bicentenary of the birth of the Bāb
- Monastic ordination in Theravada Buddhism
- Daghistani Qur’an manuscripts in the British Library
- Emanating light: Illumination in Islamic manuscripts
- Charles Wilkins as a type designer: hand drawn Modi script
- From Caucasia, not from Southeast Asia: Daghistani Qur’ans with spurious colophons
- Countdown: Biruni-Galileo-Apollo, British Library astronomy manuscripts in new visual forms
- African cosmologies in the British Library’s collections
- The first Iranian newspaper: Mirza Salih Shirazi’s Kaghaz-i akhbar
- Asalha Puja or Dhamma Day: the start of the Buddhist Lent
- Suanplu Chorus from Thailand performs at the British Library
- Rustam: The Hero with Red Hair
- 125 More Arabic Scientific Manuscripts in the Qatar Digital Library
- The Buddha’s long ‘journey’ to Europe and Africa
- Shubbak at the British Library, 30 June 2019
- Naskhi-divani: a little-recognized sultanate script
- Islamic Painted Page: Growing a Database
- Mazal tov ve-siman tov (Good Luck and Good Sign): Jewish marriage contracts in the British Library’s Hebrew collection
- Same-Sex Relations in an 18th century Ottoman Manuscript
- Zee JLF at the British Library, 14-16th June 2019
- Some new old books on and from the Malay world
- 'South Asia Series' talks from June to October 2019
- The Buddhist Vesak Festival or Buddha Day
- Jesuit Mission Press ‘Feiqe monogatari’ now online
- Soviet Labour Unions in Uzbekistan in the 1920s: Views from the Magazine Mihnat
- Vijayanagara Research Project at the British Library
- Pouring wine on Haggadot: a Passover exception
- The 'Gilbert artist': a possible pupil of Sita Ram
- A Jesuit Atlas of Asia in Eighteenth-Century China
- Javanese manuscripts from Yogyakarta digitisation project completed
- Musicians and Dancers in the India Office Records
- Vietnamese collection milestone: retroconversion of card catalogue completed
- The largest Javanese manuscript in the world? Menak Amir Hamza
- Primbon, Javanese compendia of religious knowledge
- The Underground Rainbow: A Look at LGBTI Sources from Turkey in the British Library Collections
- Jewish love potions: a user's guide
- Javanese poetics and canto indicators: Jaya Lengkara Wulang (MSS Jav 24)
- Classical Central Asia in the Digital Age: Three Newly-Digitised Navoiy Manuscripts at the British Library
- Happy Chinese New Year! Year of the Pig 2019
- Javanese manuscripts in the Mackenzie collection: the publication of Weatherbee’s 'Inventory'
- Researching the Asian and African Collections at the British Library
- The Other March of the Penguins: A Flightless Mascot for Dissent in Turkey
- History from Between: Global Circulations of the Past in East Asia and Europe
2018
- Download Hebrew Manuscripts for free, in partnership with BL Labs
- Christmas at Lahore, 1597
- The Arrival of the Black Ships
- Bombay satire: Rudolf von Leyden's political cartoons in India in the 1930s and 40s
- Tales of cats and dogs
- Refashioning the Dilkusha Palace, Lucknow
- Beautiful Burmese Barges and Boats
- Pawukon, Javanese calendrical manuscripts
- Buddhism Illuminated through Southeast Asian Manuscript Art (2)
- The Judeo-Persian manuscript collection in the British Library
- The Javanese 'Chronicle of the Kingdoms': Babad Kraton
- A Photographic Tour of the Persian Gulf and Iraq, 1906
- A Vietnamese Lord’s letter to the East India Company
- Menak Amir Hamza, the Javanese version of the Hamzanama
- The Queen’s poetry book: Hamidah Banu’s Divan-i Hijri
- Panji in Javanese manuscripts
- ‘South Asia Series’, Autumn/Winter 2018
- 15,000 images of Javanese Manuscripts from Yogyakarta now online
- A new display of Southeast Asian manuscripts from the Sloane collection
- Malay writing culture
- Wonders 'Gone Viral' in the Sixteenth-Century Deccan
- The Star Lovers
- Testimonial presented to Sir Henry Lawrence
- Traditional games in Burma
- ‘An inexperienced and incompetent chauffeur’: the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran
- Bugis manuscript art
- Explore the British Library’s collections for Black British and Asian British Studies
- Sophia Plowden, Khanum Jan, and Hindustani airs
- The Bugis diary of the Maqdanrang of Bone
- Sir Hans Sloane’s Old Javanese manuscript, Sloane 3480
- Javanese manuscripts in the Sloane collection
- Two Makasar manuscripts now digitised
- Thirty-leaved Qur’ans from India
- Charles Wallace India Trust Fellowship at the British Library
- Buddhism Illuminated through Southeast Asian Manuscript Art (1)
- Another Chinese paper stamp in a Malay manuscript
- 'South Asia Series' talks, Summer 2018
- Classes and costumes in traditional Vietnamese society
- From the Page Up: The Peking Gazette and the Histories of Everyday Print in East Asia (2)
- From the Page Up: The Peking Gazette and the Histories of Everyday Print in East Asia (1)
- Over 2,000 pages in gold: Sultan Baybars’ Qur’an now online
- ‘Soo Dhawoow’: Somali community welcomed to the British Library
- Tracking down the earliest copy of Khvaju Kirmani's collected works: British Library Or. 11519
- Sketchfab 3-D modelling of trooper Ami Chand of Skinner's Horse
- The Burmese New Year
- Adam Munni Ratna, a Buddhist monk in England in 1818
- Burmese marionette theatre
- Making his mark: the seals of Tipu Sultan
- Two Christian manuscripts in Malay
- Canonical Hindustani music treatises of Aurangzeb ‘Alamgir’s reign
- Javanese Manuscripts from Yogyakarta Digitisation Project launched by Sri Sultan Hamengku Buwono X
- A Mughal copy of Nizami’s Layla Majnun (IO Islamic 384)
- Introducing the Lotus Sutra Project
- 'South Asia Series' talks from April to May 2018
- Endangered heritage: cultural sites at risk from conflict on postage stamps
- Happy Chinese New Year: Year of the Dog!
- Shifting Landscapes: mapping the intellectual writing traditions of Islamic Southeast Asia
- Introducing Doctoral Students to the Asian and African Collections at the British Library
- African Scribes: Manuscript Culture of Ethiopia
- The evolution of the Malay title page
- The 'Agra Scroll': Agra in the early 19th century
- Tales of the Malay World
- “The Hero’s Rock”- When the Kurds Rebelled
- Of unicorns and other oddities: an 18th century Persian medical manual
- The script of the Naxi, their religious literature and early translation attempts
- A papyrus puzzle: an unidentified fragment from 4th century Oxyrhynchus
2017
- The 'Flower Garden' (Phulban), an illustrated Dakhni romance
- Thai funeral rites and ceremonies
- A handbook of Ethiopian magic incantations and talisman art
- An Introduction to the Peking Gazette at the British Library
- Illuminating India: Photography 1857-2017
- Fifty shades of Kiều
- The latest from the British Library’s Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project: Introducing Phase 2
- Il Kaulata Maltia – The only extant copy of the first journal in Maltese
- Adat Aceh: royal Malay statecraft in the 17th century
- Mastering the art of a strong background: examples from Thai manuscripts
- Bestiary of Fears – an artist’s inspiration from illustrated Hebrew manuscripts
- The Establishment of BBC Arabic & Egyptian 'Nahwy'
- A Judeo-Persian epic, the Fath Nama (Book of Conquest)
- The oldest example of Thai script printed in Europe
- Vietnamese traditional markets
- A Hindu munshi’s ‘Chain of Yogis’: a Persian manuscript in the Mackenzie Collection
- New Online Resources on the History of Kuwait
- Colin Mackenzie: Collector Extraordinaire
- Illumination and decoration in Chinese Qur'ans
- Shubbak Literature Festival 2017: Catch-up Audio
- The Mutiny Scroll, Add Ms 37153
- Malay manuscripts from Patani
- A unique Judaeo-Urdu manuscript, Or.13287
- Children of Sir John Spencer Login in Lucknow in 1846
- Animals in Southeast Asian manuscripts
- Chinese shuttlecock: a game for all
- Some bindings from Tipu Sultan's court
- Shubbak 2017: contemporary Arab culture at the British Library
- Photographic Portraits of Tribal Leaders of the Trucial Coast c. 1939
- 'South Asia Series' talks from August to December 2017
- A Rainbow in Stormy Skies: LGBT Writing in the northern Middle East
- The Flotilla Tour of 1933: a Demonstration of British Naval Power in the Gulf
- Malay and Indonesian manuscripts exhibited in 1960
- Portraits of Dara Shikoh in the Treasures Gallery
- Pem nem: a 16th-century Urdu romance goes on-line
- Exploring Thai art: Reginald Le May
- Japanese puppet play revived
- 33 Burmese manuscripts now digitised
- The Jaipur Literary Festival comes to the British Library
- Elephants, kingship and warfare in Southeast Asia
- Okinawan manuscripts digitised
- Pushing the envelope: Siam’s stunning stamps
- A 17th century copy of Saʻdi’s collected works (IO Islamic 843)
- Raising Kurdish Armenia: Kurdish Children’s Books from Soviet Armenia
- Calcutta to Bihar: an artist's journey
- Campaign medals from the India Office collections
- Take a feather and a candle: why thorough spring cleaning is so important
- On display in the Treasures Gallery: Humayun’s meeting with Shah Tahmasp
- 'South Asia Series' talks from April to June 2017
- First Impressions: The Beginnings of Ottoman Turkish Publishing
- British ‘Islamic’ style seals from the Malay world
- The Book of Esther and the Jewish Festival Purim
- Vietnam and Dragons
- Armenian Diaspora Publications at the British Library
- Arabic manuscripts of al-Ghazālī
- Knowledge Exchange visit to the National Library of China
- Kammavaca: Burmese Buddhist ordination manuscripts
- Romancing the Tome: Love in Illustrated Persian Manuscripts
- Some British ‘Islamic’ style seals in Persian manuscripts from India
- Abdul Samad of Palembang, Malay guide to the writings of al-Ghazālī
- ‘South Asia Series’ talks continue
- The Year of the Rooster, from a Thai perspective
- East India Company headquarters on Leadenhall Street
- The Seal of Prophethood: Malay prayers for protection
- Şəhidlər: Azerbaijan's Black January
- The curious tale of Solomon and the Phoenix
- Malay literary manuscripts in the John Leyden collection
2016
- A Rose by Any Other Name: Turkish in its Various Apparitions
- The Christmas Story: Images from Ethiopic Manuscripts
- Old Javanese copper charters in the British Library
- O graceful fawn, o gentle doe: Deer in Thai manuscript art
- A Malay work on Islamic law from Aceh: Mirat al-tullab
- Batak manuscripts in the British Library
- Nasir Shah's Book of Delights
- The Ottoman Turkish Zenanname (ʻBook of Womenʼ)
- Daikoku and Ebisu: two Japanese deities of good fortune
- The Anvar-i Suhayli or 'Lights of Canopus'
- Jerusalem 1000-1400: Four Gospels in Arabic
- Launch of ‘South Asia Series’ talks
- Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts: conference at the British Library, 21 November 2016
- 1500 titles of Thai printed books added to the British Library’s electronic catalogue
- The Archive of Yogyakarta digitised
- What do you think about our digitised Hebrew manuscripts?
- Where’s Arjuna? Renaming the Monoliths of Mahabalipuram
- Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project Phase 1 completed
- Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned: the legend of the bell of Dōjō-ji
- The formation of the British Library’s Vietnamese collection. Part 2: South Vietnam
- Merdeka: Malaysian independence day
- The formation of the British Library’s Vietnamese collection. Part 1: North Vietnam
- The Indonesian Proclamation of Independence
- Ascetics and Yogis in Indian painting
- Rivals past and present: Global powers converge on the Gulf of Aden
- New display of Dara Shikoh Album in Treasures Gallery
- An in-depth look at the British Library’s collection of Arabic manuscripts from West Africa
- Jainism in the early 19th Century: Drawings from the Mackenzie Collection
- The Wise Collection: Acquiring Knowledge on Tibet in the late 1850s
- Female figures in Thai illustrations of Buddha’s Birth Tales (Jātaka)
- Intelligence mapping of British East Africa: a new online resource from the British Library
- The Sixteen Sacred Lands of Buddhism
- Revisiting the provenance of the Sindbadnamah (IO Islamic 3214)
- A Mughal Shahnamah
- The Great Palace at Madurai
- Ofuda: in with the good, out with the bad (Part 2)
- Imperial Vietnamese scrolls in the British Library
- Exploring Thai art: Doris Duke
- An 18th Century North African Travelling Physician's Handbook
- Ofuda: in with the good, out with the bad (Part 1)
- Tang Xianzu, the great Ming dynasty playwright
- Can’t judge a book by its cover? Perhaps you can!
- Online Historical Resources for the Study of the Modern History of Bahrain and the Persian Gulf
- The Perak Times: a rare Japanese-occupation newspaper from Malaya
- Lights, Camera, Action! Filming for the Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
- Malaysia and Football
- An A-Z of Arabic Propaganda
- Razmnamah: the Persian Mahabharata
- Mythical creatures in Vietnamese culture
- The Polonsky Foundation and the Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project at the British Library
- A gold letter from Bali
- Further Delhi paintings on ivory
- The British Library’s oldest Qur’an manuscript now online
- Eighth and ninth century versions of the Rustam cycle
- The British Library’s West African manuscripts collection
- “A bar of pure gold”: Shan Buddhist manuscripts
- Celebrating Noruz in Delhi with new 'Everlasting Flame'
- Buddhist rebirth in different planes of existence
- More than a Book: a new display of Southeast Asian manuscripts
- Jain manuscripts in the British Library
- A Digital Revolution - hundreds of Hebrew manuscripts go on-line
- The seals of Sultan Ahmad al-Salih of Bone
- Lebanese LGBTQ publications: essays, magazines, memoirs and narratives
- Academic thought in the South
- The Vietnam War: Children at War
- Kaempfer’s cat
- Nine myths about West Africa
- A Group of Sikh Miniatures on Ivory
- Exploring Thai art: James Low
- ‘Spying’ on 100 Black Men of London: A Ceremony of Learning
- The British Library’s Collection of Chinese Propaganda Posters: An Overview
- Chief Nike Davies-Okundaye visits the British Library’s West Africa exhibition
- Scenes from Burmese popular dramas
- A Dictionary Packed with Stories from Eighteenth-Century Delhi
- Last Chance to See: Records of a lunar eclipse from over 3,000 years ago
- From Samarkand to Batavia: a popular Islamic catechism in Malay
- The rediscovery of an unknown Indian artist: Sita Ram's work for the Marquess of Hastings
2015
- Revolutionary nian hua in the British Library
- Tuồng/Hát Bồi in Vietnamese Theatre
- Scenes from the Life of the Buddha
- A Malay manuscript artist unveiled: Datuk Muda Muhammad of Perlis
- 4,000 Arabic manuscripts by the River Niger
- Henry Salt and the Highlands of Ethiopia (Abyssinia)
- The Chinese collections and the Library’s growing links with Chinese partners
- The Twenty Attributes of God in Malay: Sifat Dua Puluh
- Laos and the Vietnam War
- When Good Literary Taste Was Part of a Bureaucrat’s Job Description
- Royal Malay letters and seals from Pontianak
- Japanese Nara ehon manuscripts digitised
- Further Deccani and Mughal drawings of Christian Subjects
- BICC Cultural Engagement Partnership: Maoist posters at the British Library
- A Scottish poet’s favourite Malay poem? Syair Jaran Tamasa
- Exploring Thai art: Karl Siegfried Döhring
- New evidence for the style of the "Fraser artist" in Delhi: Portraits of Afghans 1808-10
- Till death us do part – or not?
- Oracle bones: genuine and fake
- Marking the Aftermath of the Massacre at Karbala: New manuscripts of the Mukhtarnamah
- The Cat and the Rat: a popular Persian fable
- West Africa: Word, Symbol, Song
- Problems in Deccani and Mughal drawings: a marbled ox fight and the Virgin of the Apocalypse
- Chinese collections opened up by Libcrowds
- Women and the Vietnam War
- The ‘Blood Moon’ in a Thai manuscript
- An Artist’s Journey: Inspired by Persian Manuscripts
- The Chakrabongse collection of Thai royal letters (Or.15749)
- Persian and Turkish manuscripts on view in the Treasures Gallery
- The Mahabharata in Malay manuscripts
- Battle of Panipat 1761
- Yongle Dadian on display in our Treasures Gallery
- Oracle bones on display in our Treasures Gallery
- Early Malay trading permits from Borneo
- Forty more Arabic scientific manuscripts go live in Qatar Digital Library
- The travels of a manuscript: Rashid al-Din's Compendium of Chronicles (Add.7628)
- Paintings of birds from the collection of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles
- LibCrowds: How your contributions can help improve access to the collections of the British Library
- Cats in Persian manuscripts
- Festivals in Burma (Myanmar)
- On the road: some user guides to libraries and archives
- Ten Birth Tales of the Buddha (IO Pali 207)
- Out of the margins: Arabic literature in English
- Indonesia calling! Crowdsourcing catalogue records for the British Library’s Indonesian collection
- Shubbak Literature Festival at the British Library
- The story of Sinbad or the seven sages
- Haile Selassie and the United States of America
- The Life of the Buddha in Thai manuscript art
- West Africa: Word, Symbol, Song
- Panji stories in Malay
- Captain Linnaeus Tripe: Photographer of India and Burma
- 28 Buddhas
- The archaeology of a manuscript: the Khamsah of Khvaju Kirmani
- Tipu Sultan’s dream book (IO Islamic 3563)
- Introducing LibCrowds: a crowdsourcing platform aimed at enhancing access to British Library collections
- British Library loans to Sultans of Deccan exhibition in New York
- Japan Times Archives Online – free trial
- Weird and wild monsters in the ocean’s dark depths: revelations from the Thai Mahajanaka Jataka
- The 1937 massacre in Addis Ababa
- 40th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War
- A Jawi sourcebook for the study of Malay palaeography and orthography
- The Henry Ginsburg photo collection: an insight into a curator’s life and work
- Malay manuscripts on Javanese history
- Propaganda and ideology in everyday life: Chinese comic books
- Qur’an manuscripts from Java
- ‘White Mughal’ William Fullerton of Rosemount
- Foreign travellers to 19th-century Siam
- Malay manuscripts from south Sumatra
- Happy New Year – with a splash of cool water!
- Royal genealogies from Indonesia and the Malay world
- Propaganda and ideology in everyday life: Chinese collection posters
- Early vocabularies of Malay
- What to give the English king who has everything?
- Britain’s ‘Interest’ in Bahrain
- From Anatolia to Aceh: Ottomans, Turks and Southeast Asia
- A new manuscript of 'Inayatallah's Bahar-i Danish
- An alternative Cinderella: The girl with a kneading bowl (not a pearl earring)
- The Jatakas: Birth Stories of the Bodhisatta
- Soother of sorrows or seducer of morals? The Malay Hikayat Inderaputera
- Japan’s first 'curry rice' recipe?
- The Malay Tale of the Wise Parrot
- The truth about the Japanese doll festival
- Lao collection at the British Library now fully catalogued
- Malay legal texts
- Happy Chinese New Year! The Year of the Goat
- Southeast Asian manuscripts digitised through the Ginsburg Legacy
- The wily Malay mousedeer
- The beauty of palm leaf manuscripts (3): storage and preservation
- A Mamluk Manuscript on Horsemanship
- Akbar's horoscopes: how to become a Leo if you are not
- A Malay spur to valour: the Hikayat Muhammad Hanafiah
- The beauty of palm leaf manuscripts (2): Northern Thai, Lao and Shan traditions
- Ibrahim: portrait of a Malay scribe
- Portrait of Major William Palmer and his family now on display
- Inscriptions in the Iskandar Sultan Miscellany (Add.27261)
- Early dictionaries of Southeast Asian languages
- Malay manuscripts on Bugis history
- Sources for the study of Muhammad Vajid 'Ali Shah
- The Bugis diary of the Sultan of Boné
2014
- Curzon’s Durbars and the Alqabnamah: The Persian Gulf as part of the Indian Empire
- Artistic visions of the Delhi Zenana
- Christmas and New Year in the Persian Gulf: Protocol and Ceremony
- The London Qazwini Goes Live
- The British Library and Shandong University sign a Memorandum of Understanding
- Early Chinese rhyme dictionary now on display at the British Museum
- William Beckford's albums on Hindu mythology
- George Percy Churchill’s Biographical Notices of Persian Statesmen and Notables
- Javanese manuscript art: Serat Selarasa
- Burmese scenes from the Life of the Buddha
- The beauty of palm leaf manuscripts (1): Central Thailand
- Digital Hebrew treasures from the British Library collections
- An early Malay letter from Brunei
- A popular Chinese game: the Qi Qiao Tu, or Tangram
- The Brutal End of Persia’s Zand Dynasty
- Arabic scientific manuscripts go live in Qatar Digital Library
- Ghoulish images from East Asia
- Twenty more Persian manuscript treasures now online
- A royal Malay letter from Ternate
- Indian Music in the Persian Collections: the Javahir al-Musiqat-i Muhammadi (Or.12857). Part 2
- Three volumes of the Yongle Dadian now on display at the British Museum
- Indian Music in the Persian Collections: the Javahir al-Musiqat-i Muhammadi (Or.12857). Part 1
- Heirloom manuscripts from Jambi
- Ernest Cromwell Peake in China
- Two Persian ‘Ming’ manuscripts on view at the British Museum
- The Magic of Birds
- One-day Symposium: British Library Persian Manuscripts: Collections and Research
- Fifty more Malay manuscripts to be digitised
- The original Japanese Moon Princess
- Charles D'Oyly's voyage to Patna
- A new catalogue of Malay and Indonesian manuscripts in British collections
- 'A very ingenious person': The Maratha artist Gangaram Cintaman Tambat
- A rare Vietnamese map of China
- Persian letters from the Nawabs of the Carnatic 1777-1816
- A Javanese manuscript artist at work
- The accident that befell Sir Donald Friell McLeod
- The British capture of Java, 1811
- James Skinner's Tazkirat al-Umara now digitised
- A Malay letter from Madura
- ‘Tanabata (七夕) Star Festival’ - is it 7 July or 2 August 2014? (2)
- ‘Tanabata (七夕) Star Festival’ - is it 7 July or 2 August 2014? (1)
- Malay thoughts on the afterlife
- Malay letters from Bengkulu
- Malay manuscripts on Javanese paper
- A newly digitised unpublished catalogue of Persian manuscripts: postscript
- A Khamsah with illustrations ascribed to the painter Bihzad (Add. 25900)
- A Malay account of Calcutta
- A newly digitised unpublished catalogue of Persian manuscripts
- Some more unpublished Deccani paintings
- Indian paintings in the Sir John Ritblat Gallery from July 2014
- The Couling-Chalfant collection of oracle bones in the British Library
- Two letters in Maguindanao
- ‘The Kuwait Cat’s Meat Crisis’ & British Imperial Control
- Royal Malay letters from Mindanao
- Sir Thomas Reade: Knight, ‘Nincumpoop’ and Collector of Antiquities
- A rare map from Mindanao
- Some portraits of the Zand rulers of Iran (1751-1794)
- An Album of Maratha and Deccani Paintings - Add.21475, part 2
- Alexander Dalrymple’s Treaties with Sulu in Malay and Tausug
- The beginnings of Thai book production: rare Thai books at the British Library
- British Library releases over 200 Japanese and Chinese prints into Public Domain
- John Crawfurd and Malay studies
- The Death of Queen Victoria: the Politics of Mourning and Memorialisation in the British Persian Gulf
- Some recent Japanese acquisitions
- The Khamsah of Nizami: A Timurid Masterpiece
- The Ramayana in Southeast Asia: (4) Indonesia and Malaysia
- The New Age (Ruzgar-i naw): World War II cultural propaganda in Persian
- Manga, comics and an alternative view of the British Library
- The Ramayana in Southeast Asia: (3) Burma
- ‘White Mughal’ Richard Johnson and Mir Qamar al-Din Minnat
- The Ramayana in Southeast Asia: (2) Thailand and Laos
- Romeo and Juliet in Thai
- The Ramayana in Southeast Asia: (1) Cambodia
- An Album of Maratha and Deccani Paintings - part 1
- Sermons in the Malay world
- 45 Hebrew manuscripts go digital
- A conduit of shared values: CSMVS-BL collaboration
- Shaikh Ahmad goes to England: The Politics of Official State Visits
- Islamic seal matrices in the British Library Philatelic Collections
- Curator's perspective: accessing the Mewar Ramayana
- The Miscellany of Iskandar Sultan (Add.27261)
- Performing Authority: the ‘Islamic’ Seals of British Colonial Officers
- An Illuminated Qur’an manuscript from Aceh
- Mewar Ramayana Digitally Reunited
- BL Event: Korean Literature: Past and Present
- The road to Mandalay
- Mughal flower studies and their European inspiration
- A Malay document from the Aru Islands
- Distinctive leg-of-mutton legs and fine jewels: a new display of Indian paintings in the Treasures of the British Library
- The tales of Darab: a medieval Persian prose romance
- The Adviser (المستشار): Charles Belgrave and Modern Bahrain
- Indonesian and Malay manuscripts in the Endangered Archives Programme
- Malay manuscripts on Chinese paper
- A Malay ballad from Kedah: the naval battle for Phuket
- Fashion in 14th century Mosul: a new exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery
- New display of Southeast Asian manuscripts
- Morbid meditations in Thai manuscript art
- Mantiq al-tayr ('The Speech of Birds'), part 4
- Important Judeo-Persian bibles in the British Library
- Happy New Year 新年快樂
- Rare Malay newspaper in the Wellcome Library
- 15,000 images of Persian manuscripts online
- Vietnam War Art
- Pahari Paintings at the British Library
- A prodigal Balinese manuscript leaf is reunited with its family
- North Korea in the news
- Mantiq al-tayr ('the Speech of Birds'), part 3
- A new portrait miniature by Jivan Ram acquired
- Malay 'eye candy': illuminated literary manuscripts
- When an angel meets a demon: Advice on love and relationships in a Thai divination manual
- A year of blogging on Asian and African Studies
2013
- An overlooked 17th century illustrated Shahnamah
- How many people does it take to digitise a Malay manuscript?
- Mantiq al-tayr ('the Speech of Birds'), part 2
- Malay manuscripts digitisation project completes first year
- Lakshman cuts off the nose of Shurpanakha
- Reading Malay manuscripts with children
- Disentangling the Robert Smiths
- Malay manuscripts from Borneo
- Zoroastrian visions of heaven and hell
- The Javanese story of the Prophet Joseph
- Mirza Abu’l Hasan Khan, the ‘Envoy Extraordinary’ from Persia
- Two Malay manuscripts from Wales: Sejarah Melayu and Hikayat Hang Tuah
- ‘The Speech of the Birds’: an illustrated Persian manuscript
- The Mughals: Life, Art and Culture in New Delhi
- The Malay Story of the Pig King
- Henri Mouhot’s (almost forgotten) epigraphic notes
- Symposium: From Floor to Ceiling, South Asian floor drawings and murals
- Semarang: Javanese city of Malay scribes
- The Search for Alexander Hadarli
- Conference on Digital Islamic Humanities
- Malay manuscripts in the Sloane collection
- Opening up the Hebrew manuscript collection
- War cartoons and propaganda from North Vietnam
- Ramayana Re-Imagined
- Hikayat Raja Pasai: the oldest Malay history
- Review of the 9th Annual Conference of the Islamic Manuscript Association
- Early studies of the Malay language
- New exhibition opens on Zoroastrianism
- Another Malay ‘Mirror for Princes’
- Islam, Trade and Politics across the Indian Ocean
- Persian Ambassadors gather at the Rietberg Museum, Zurich
- A Thai book of merit: Phra Malai’s journeys to heaven and hell
- International Dunhuang Project: 20th Anniversary
- Hang Tuah: the Malay Rollo or Rustam
- Some Syriac Manichean Treasures in the British Library
- Marianne North's Visions of India
- Sejarah Melayu: a Malay masterpiece
- The Shah of Iran's Copy of ʻA Gift to Kingsʼ
- The Crown of Kings: a deluxe Malay manuscript from Penang
- Commoners in traditional Vietnamese society as portrayed in early 20th century drawings
- Ovum Zoroastræum: ‘Zoroaster’s egg’
- A 'Golden letter' in Malay to Napoleon III
- British Library's Malay manuscripts to be digitised
- Austere portraits of Aurangzeb
- Elephants in all shapes and sizes
- Aurangzeb Ponders the Afterlife
- Natural History Drawings from South Asia
- Japan400 – Hirado and the British in Japan
- The Everlasting Flame: Zoroastrianism in History and Imagination
- An illustrated 14th century Khamsah by Khvaju Kirmani
- An Ottoman Turkish Mosque Library Register
- The Treasures of the Asian & African Studies Reading Room
- West Africa’s little-known manuscripts
- Book of Affairs of Love
- Some paintings by the 17th century Safavid artist Muhammad Zaman
- A rare example of Chinese calligraphy by Sir Ernest Satow
- Spectacular firework displays
- A rare, smoked Ahom manuscript from Assam
- Recent acquisition - Rao Arjun Singh worshipping Sri Brijnathji
- Sir Elijah Impey, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in Calcutta
- Jahangir’s Hafiz and the Madrasa Jurist
- Burmese Horoscopes (Myanmar Zata)
- South Asia Archive and Library Group Conference, 5-6 July 2013
- Frances Wood, Curator of Chinese Collections
- Stitched up with Silk: Naqd ʻAli Beg’s journey to London in 1626
- Over 26,000 Japanese records added to Explore The British Library
- A Judeo-Arabic serial issued in Bombay
- A Buddhist sutra and illustrated cover
- The Shahnameh as propaganda for World War II
- Book containing 1000 beautiful paintings from the Song Dynasty period is donated to the British Library by Zhejiang University
- A recently digitised Korean royal manuscript
- A Mughal Flower Show
- Bombay and Calcutta in Sydney
- 'The Mughals: Art, Culture and Empire' in Kabul
- Thai massage in the early 19th century
- Mughal painting by Faizallah recently acquired by the British Library
- Persian manuscripts digitisation project
- A 16th century Ottoman polymath: Matrakçı Nasuh
- A farewell to the Mughals
- What were the Mughals' favourite books?
- A rare commentary on the Divan of Hafiz
- Two 15th century Timurid masterpieces to be digitised
- Jai Singh’s Observatories
- Jai Singh and European Astronomy
- Rare portrait of Ikhlas Khan, the African Prime Minister of Bijapur, acquired by the British Library
- Easter Celebrations at the Mughal Court
- Imperial legal compendia: from the Mughals to the British
- A nobleman celebrating the festival of Holi
- Jahangir celebrates the New Year
- A lavishly decorated Indian Qurʼan
- The highjacking of the Ganj-i Sawaʼi
- Milo C. Beach explores 'The Gulshan Album'
- 18th century route map from Delhi to Kandahar
- A 19th century album of imperial calligraphy
- Pigeon keeping: a popular Mughal pastime
- A Jewel in the Crown
- East-West knowledge transfer in Mughal India
- Mughal India: A Study Day
- From Mongols to Mughals
- Princess Jahanara’s biography of a Sufi saint
- William Baffin’s 1619 map of the Mughal Empire
- Fayżī’s Mawārid al-kalim, a literary tour de force
- Akbar's most influential adviser
- Art of Painting
- A Hindu scholar's contribution to Persian literary studies
- A Mughal Princess's autobiography
- Mughal India exhibition
- Who were the Mughals' ancestors?
2012
Collection care
2025
- Conservation for Digitisation: Arakanese Buddhist Manuscripts from the Murray Collection by Ana C. García Pérez
- Funded Conservation Internship 2024/25 by Ana C. García Pérez
- Collaborative Solutions for Digitising Oversized Foldouts: Conservation and Imaging Challenges in the British Library and Qatar Foundation Partnership by Batoul Asgara
- When Textile and Paper Shake Hands: Conservation of Textile Samples in the Instructions on Needle-work and Knitting Book by Gee Roxas
- Conservation Treatment and Workshop of oversized textile bunting by Storm Scott
2024
- IOR/F/4/1767: A Curious Case in Conservation for Digitisation by Camille Dekeyser
- Conserving Manuscripts: Insights from My Placement at the British Library Qatar Foundation Partnership by Moda Farfour
- The Mystery of Swarbreck’s Sketches in Scotland by Eloise Halliwell
2023
- A day in the life of a book conservator
- Taking the British Library by Storm Scott
- Conservation of Maps in the digitisation project: Qatar Foundation Partnership – Part 2
- Whales, horses and zebras—oh my! Conservation work for the Animals: Art, Science and Sound exhibition
- Preserving Bach’s manuscripts
2022
2021
- Textiles in Ethiopian Manuscripts at the British Library
- Conservation of the Granville Archive papers
- Important information for email subscribers
- Conservation of Thurloe’s State Papers
- Iron gall ink on paper: Saving the words that eat themselves
- Conservation for Digitisation: A collaboration with the Palestinian Museum
2020
- Lotus Sutra Project: Storage Solutions
- Lotus Sutra Project: Scroll with Blue Cover
- On light: conserving material for our exhibition Unfinished Business: The Fight for Women’s Rights
- Learning to Communicate: Before and After Lockdown
- Joining the British Library Salvage Team
- Salvage training during lockdown
- Disaster Response Plans during COVID-19
- A Book Conservator Without Any Books: Part 1
- Starting with A Book – A Conservator in the Lockdown
- Paper Express! A Hand-Made Tale
- Rolls from the King’s Library: An Unexpected Arrival
- Lotus Sutra Project: Conservation of a Scroll with Pre-11th Century Repairs. How Do We Avoid Disassociation?
- The Mahārnava, Conservation of a 19th Century Birch Bark Manuscript
- Conservation of 19th century ivory miniature portraits of the two young sons of Wajid Ali Shah
- Saved from the fire: conserving Charlotte Canning’s burnt diaries
- Conservation treatment of late 19th and early 20th century silk theatre playbills from the Western Heritage Collections
- Lotus Sutra Project: Conservation of a burnt scroll (Or. 8210/ S.2155)
- The mannequin must be unpacked!
- From Integrated Pest Management to Preserving Historic Photos - Spring and Summer 2020 One Day Courses at British Library
2019
- Conservation and Storage of the Panorama of Lahore
- From Tackling Digitisation to Preserving Historic Photos - Autumn One Day Courses at British Library
- All sewn up: British Library colleagues work together to ensure the survival of 100 embroidered and textile bookbindings
- Consider the cover: conserving a Chinese book
- British Sign Language Tours at the British Library Centre for Conservation
- Condition Surveying British Library on Demand
- West Dean College of Arts and Conservation to hold series of courses in collaboration with the British Library
- Remembering Legendary Bookbinder Bernard Middleton 1924-2019
- Course on Asian Papers and their Applications in Paper Conservation
- Exploring and Recording Textiles in the British Library Collections
2018
- Dealing with computer viruses in digital collections
- Conservation Cats: An Exhibition
- What’s in a box?
- Textiles come in all shapes and sizes at the British Library
- Rehousing two 12th century charters
- Handle Books with Care
- Deaf Tours at the British Library Centre for Conservation
- Summer workshop: Twined end-bands in the bookbinding traditions of the Eastern Mediterranean
- Unravelling an archaeological silk bundle
- Preventive Conservation Work Placement
- A Taste of Training
- Textile Discovery in the Rare Books Reading Room
- Digitising books as objects: The invisible made visible
- Conservation Internship in Digitisation (British Library, The National Archives, Bodleian Libraries)
- Workshop on Asian Papers and their Applications in Paper Conservation
- Job Opportunity: Conservator, Gulf History and Arabic Science
2017
- Unpicking the parcel! What we did on Friday 13 October in the British Library Centre for Conservation
- Magic in Conservation – using leaf-casting on paper and palm leaves
- Talk: Iron Gall Ink - Conservation challenges and research
- Everything you need to know about birch bark book conservation
- Do more together than we can ourselves: The unique partnership between curator and conservator
- Vacancy: Collection Care North Manager
- Time-lapse Video Showing Conservation of Tangut Documents
- Craft Week - Conservation at the British Library
- Beauty is only Skin Deep – Installation of the 101st Soviet Rifle Regiment Banner for the Russian Revolution Exhibition
- Workshop on Understanding Asian Papers and their Applications in Paper Conservation
- Conservation demonstration at London Craft Week
- The beauty within: conservation of manuscript Delhi Arabic 1928
- Understanding leather - from tannery to collection
- Job opportunity: Conservator – Adam Matthew Digitisation Project
- PhD placement opportunity: Textiles in the British Library
2016
- Applications of Image Processing Software to Archival Material
- The Conservation and Spectroscopic Analysis of a Burmese Concertina Binding
- The British Museum Bindery heroes
- Mounting and Framing: Preparing the Maps and the 20th Century Exhibition at the British Library
- Talk: Fabric of the Library: discovering textile conservation
- Research Strategy Summit - National Heritage Science Forum
- From West to East: Conservation of the Chinese novel ‘Dream of the Red Chamber’
- Conservation code cracking: finding meaning in hidden symbols
- Fingerprints & their potential impact in relation to handling library collections
- Job Opportunity - Digitisation Conservator (Hebraic Digitisation Project)
- Job Opportunity - Digital Conservator
- Job Opportunity - Preventive Conservator
- Growing a thick skin
- Hidden horoscopes and puzzling predictions in Papyrus 98
- Washing badly degraded silk flags from the India Office collections
- Fragments in bindings
- Much Ado About…Possibly Something
- Opportunity: Digitisation Conservator
- UPDATE – we have added three more courses to the 2016 programme
- Play your part in preserving our heritage
- Video: The removal of linen backed paper from a silk scroll cover
- Call for Sound Heritage Conservation Consultant
- Torah Mantle Conservation
- Hidden figure in Leonardo da Vinci notebook revealed
- British Library/West Dean College Partnership Courses 2016
2015
- Oracle Bones – a conservation collaboration with the National Library of China
- Magna Carta (an embroidery) - now on display at the Bodleian Library
- Farewell to all that
- How do you decide what to conserve?
- Magna Carta Conservation Team at the ICON Awards
- Parchment Internship at the British Library
- Making connections – a speed meeting with The National Archives
- The Marriage of East and West: Conservation of a Photographic Album from Burma
- Digitising Hebraic Scrolls
- Under the Microscope with Magna Carta
- A CT Scan of the St Cuthbert Gospel
- Public event - Magna Carta: Under the Microscope
- Making Islamic-style paper
- The House Of Lords, Commoners, And Everybody Else
- Rusty Rusalka
- Preserving our digital heritage: how are we really doing?
- Discovering textiles at the British Library
- Photographed by the Hand of a Sinner
- What you should know about self-service photography
- 135th Anniversary of Printer Joel Munsell's Death
2014
- Book now for preservation and collection care courses 2015
- ‘The Salmon Book’: Conservation in Reverse
- The conservation of two late medieval Hebrew manuscripts
- Bookbinder Bernard Middleton celebrates 90th birthday
- Paper cuts: small but mighty!
- Burnt Cotton Collection survey enables digitisation prioritisation
- 800 year old Magna Carta manuscript reveals its secrets
- Conservation and preservation training to continue with West Dean College
- Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination
- Meet Adopt a Book Conservator Rick Brown
- Eighteenth-century Country-house Guidebooks: Tools for Interpretation and Souvenirs
- Collection Care Top Ten
- Fleas, mould and plant cells: under a 17th century microscope with Robert Hooke
- Secret underdrawings & cover-ups in the Mewar Ramayana
- Selfie as methodology: researching sedilia in English parish churches
- A visit to Doha and an exciting new reality
- Books depicted in art
- A book binder for Mr Taylor
- ‘Enduring War: Grief, Grit and Humour’ - World War One Exhibition
- Know Your Yellow!
- Materials Testing: The Oddy Test
- Discovery of a watermark on the St Cuthbert Gospel
- Meet Our Adopt a Book Conservators
- Microscopy of the Lindisfarne Gospels, folio 3r
- Recreating the Medieval Palette
- As white as a...colour calibration target
- Time-lapse video of Kitaj Tapestry rehanging
- Boom! Pow! Wham! Conservation Unmasked
- Handle with Care: Using Collections
- Cleaning and rehanging the Kitaj tapestry
- Father Kögel and the ultra-violet examination of manuscripts
- The Colour Green
- CSI at Festival of the Spoken Nerd: I Chart the BL
- “Islamic/Western” features in three India Office Records manuscripts
- The Brickish Library
- ‘No pigments were harmed in the making of this post’
- Sea Snails and Purple Parchment
- The Colour Red
- I’ve got tone, halftone: under the microscope with a printing block
- Digital Preservation Training Programme: snuggling up with OAIS
- From a caterpillar to a butterfly: the story of a rolled Thai painting
- Read All About It #2 - Building a Future
- Scalable Preservation Environments: the nuts and bolts of digital preservation software tools
2013
- New Year’s Resolution: 300 ppi?
- New hyperspectral imaging capabilities at the British Library
- Supporting the UK digital preservation community through SPRUCE
- Digitisation as a preservation tool; some considerations
- Read All About It #1 - What’s in the Papers?
- Conservation gets mobile
- Fail to prepare for digitisation, prepare to fail at digitising!
- Goldfinisher: He’s the man, the man with the Midas touch
- Read All About It! Preserving the National Newspaper Collection
- Conservation Revealed! The conservation work behind our latest exhibition, Georgians Revealed
- Collection Care Conference 2013: Evolution or Revolution: the Changing Face of Collection Care
- What the CMYK? Colour spaces and printing
- Victorian trade bindings
- Collection Care is now on Twitter!
- Here’s looking at you kid: Under the microscope with leather
- A Guide to British Library Book Stamps
- Is not parchment made of sheepskins? Ay, my lord, and of calfskins too...
- A-a-a-chooo! Collection Care’s Dust Busters
- The Twelve Principles of Digital Preservation (and a cartridge in a repository…)
- The Bookie Monster: attack of the creepy crawlies!
- Iron gall ink and wasps
- Conserving a mould-damaged iron gall ink manuscript
- Under the microscope with the Lindisfarne Gospels: name that folio – the answer
- Collection Care fired up for BBC Four appearance
- Under the microscope with the Lindisfarne Gospels
- Evolution or revolution! The changing face of collection care
- Going Digital: Making manuscripts more accessible
- The conservation work behind our latest major exhibition, Propaganda: Power and Persuasion
- Revealing hidden information using multispectral imaging
Digital scholarship
2025
- Automatic Text Recognition in Cultural Heritage Institutions survey: a brief analysis and a published dataset
- A Geographer’s Initiation Into Digital Humanities: Part 1
- The Digital Research team at DH2025
- Reflections from the IIIF Annual Conference 2025
- Discover Digital Sustainability
- DHNB 2025 - Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Conference Report
- Wikisource 2025 Conference: Collaboration, Innovation, and the Future of Digital Texts
- Help us explore Automatic Text Recognition in cultural heritage institutions!
- Fantastic Futures 2025 (FF2025) Call for Proposals
- Universal Viewer v4.1.0 is here!
- 2024 Year in Review - Digital Scholarship Training Programme
2024
- AI (and machine learning, etc) with British Library collections
- The challenges of AI for oral history: theoretical and practical issues
- The challenges of AI for oral history: key questions
- Open cultural data - an open GLAM perspective at the British Library
- Closing the language gap: automated language identification in British Library catalogue records
- Looking back on the Data Science Accelerator
- Automating metadata creation: an experiment with Parliamentary 'Road Acts'
- MIX 2025: Writing With Technologies Call for Submissions
- Working Together: The UV Community Sprint Experience
- Collaborating to improve usability on the Universal Viewer project
- British National Bibliography resumes publication
- Digital Humanities Congress 2024
- Recovered Pages: Crowdsourcing at the British Library
- Welcome to the British Library’s new Digital Curator OCR/HTR!
- Happy Twelfth Birthday Wikidata!
- Southeast Asian Language and Script Conversion Using Aksharamukha
- Research and Development activities in the Qatar Programme Imaging Team
- memoQfest 2024: A Journey of Innovation and Connection
- Open and Engaged 2024: Empowering Communities to Thrive in Open Scholarship
- Charting the European D-SEA Conference at the Stabi
- 'AI and the Digital Humanities' session at CILIP's 2024 conference
- Embracing Sustainability at the British Library: Insights from the Digital Humanities Climate Coalition Workshop
- DHBN 2024 - Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Conference Report
- IIIF Annual Conference 2024: A Journey of Innovation and Inspiration
- Join the British Library as a Digital Curator, OCR/HTR
- China trip report – IDP, DH, and everything in between
- blplaybills.org: leveraging open data from the British Library
- Meet our new Universal Viewer product team
- Recovered Pages: Computing for Cultural Heritage Student Projects
- Recovered Pages: A Digital Transformation Story
- Recovered Pages: Digital Scholarship Training Programme
- DH and the International Dunhuang Programme at Ryukoku University
- Curious about using 'public domain' British Library Flickr images?
- Handwritten Text Recognition of the Dunhuang manuscripts: the challenges of machine learning on ancient Chinese texts
- Call for proposals open for DigiCAM25: Born-Digital Collections, Archives and Memory conference
- Rethinking Web Maps to present Hans Sloane’s Collections
- Safeguarding Tomorrow: The Impact of AI on Media and Information Industries
2023
- Join the British Library as a Digital Curator, OCR/HTR
- Strike a Pose Steampunk style! For our Late event with Clockwork Watch on Friday 13th October
- Last chance to see the Digital Storytelling exhibition
- Late at the Library: Digital Steampunk
- Let’s learn together - Join us in the Cultural Heritage Open Scholarship Network
- Convert-a-Card: Helping Cataloguers Derive Records with OCLC APIs and Python
- London Fashion Week SS24: British Library x Ahluwalia
- What's the future of crowdsourcing in cultural heritage?
- Convert-a-Card: Past, Present and Future of Catalogue Cards Retroconversion
- Join the British Library's Universal Viewer Product Team
- Open and Engaged 2023: Community over Commercialisation
- ICDAR 2023 Conference Impressions
- Huzzah! Hear the songs from Astrologaster live at the Library
- The British Library Loves Manuscripts on Wikisource
- My AHRC-RLUK Professional Practice Fellowship: A year on
- Writing tools for Interactive Fiction - an updated list
- Share Family: British National Bibliography (Beta) service is live
- Our team at Digital Humanities 2023 Conference, 10-14 July
- MIX 2023 Storytelling in Immersive Media
- Explore Windrush Tales in our Digital Storytelling exhibition
- Webinar on Open Scholarship in GLAMs through Research Repositories
- Detecting Catalogue Entries in Printed Catalogue Data
- Repository Training Day in Cardiff: Research in GLAM and research repositories to facilitate open scholarship activities for cultural heritage organisations
- Topics in contemporary Digital Scholarship via five years of our Reading Group
- Mapping Caribbean Diasporic Networks through the Correspondence of Andrew Salkey
- BL Labs Symposium 30 March 2023: AI and GLAM data
- Digital Storytelling at the 2023 BL Labs Symposium
- Next in York - Join us at the University of York for the Repository Training Programme for Cultural Heritage Professionals
- BL Labs Symposium 2023: Programme and Speakers announced
- Legacies of Catalogue Descriptions Project Events at Yale
- Repository Training for Cultural Heritage Professionals
- Reading Along with Readers Reading Digital Comics
- A Year In Three Wikithons: The Lord Chamberlain's Plays
- Join us at the National Museum of Scotland for the Repository Training Programme for Cultural Heritage Professionals
- Digital Storytelling in 2023: A New Year of New Media
2022
- Skills and Training Needs to Open Heritage Research Through Repositories: Scoping report and Repository Training Programme for cultural heritage professionals
- My AHRC-RLUK Professional Practice Fellowship: Four months on
- 'Expanding Voices, Expanding Access: Social and Community Centered Metadata'
- Learn more about Living with Machines at events this winter
- Open and Engaged 2022: Climate research in GLAM, digital infrastructure and skills to open collections
- Learn more about what AI means for us at Living with Machines events this autumn
- #WikiLibCon22: An International Experience
- Burmese Script Conversion using Aksharamukha
- UK Digital Comics: More of the same but different? [1]
- IIIF-yeah! Annual Conference 2022
- Working With Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons: Poetry Pamphlets and Lotus Sutra Manuscripts
- Picture Perfect Platinum Jubilee Puddings on Wikimedia Commons
- Importing images into Zooniverse with a IIIF manifest: introducing an experimental feature
- Making British Library collections (even) more accessible
- Looking back at LibCrowds: surveying our participants
- Getting Ready for Black Theatre and the Archive: Making Women Visible, 1900-1950
- The Lotus Sutra Manuscripts Digitisation Project: the collaborative work between the Heritage Made Digital team and the International Dunhuang Project team
- Scoping the connections between trusted arts and humanities data repositories
- Black Theatre and the Archive: Making Women Visible, 1900-1950
- PhD Placement on Mapping Caribbean Diasporic Networks through Correspondence
- In conversation: Meet Silvija Aurylaitė, the new British Library Labs Manager
- A Manuscript Reunited – and a IIIF Viewer Issue
- New PhD Placements on Enhanced Curation: Hybrid Archives and Emerging Formats
- Which Came First: The Author or the Text? Wikidata and the New Media Writing Prize
2021
- Three crowdsourcing opportunities with the British Library
- Intro to AI for GLAM
- Legacies of Catalogue Descriptions: prioritising agendas and actions
- Digital transformations and the pandemic: the Digital Scholarship view
- Open and Engaged 2021: Review
- BL Labs Online Symposium 2021, Special Climate Change Edition: Speakers Announced!
- The British Library Adopts a New Persistent Identifier Policy
- BL Labs Online Symposium 2021, Special Climate Change Edition: Book your place for webinar on Tuesday 7 December 2021
- Thought Bubble 2021 Wikithon Preparation
- On Digital Technologies, Our Cultural Heritage and Global Warming. How do they come together in Venice?
- Thought Bubble 2021 Wikithon
- You Can Now Make Your Own Online British Library Exhibit with IIIF
- Open and Engaged 2021: Understanding the Impact of Open in the Arts and Humanities Beyond the University
- Sailing Away To A Distant Land - Mahendra Mahey, Manager of BL Labs - final post
- Computing for Cultural Heritage: Trial Outcomes and Final Report
- National Libraries Now: Wikimedians Unite!
- Dabbling in DCMI
- Important information for email subscribers of the British Library's Digital Scholarship blog
- Dates to discuss Wikidata at Wikimania 2021
- Automating the Recognition of Chinese Manuscripts: New Chevening British Library Fellowship
- Building the New Media Writing Prize Special Collection
- Subjects Wanted for Soothing Sounds Psychology Studies
- My placement: Using Transkribus to OCR Two Centuries of Indian Print
- The VHS Tapes: Preserving Emerging Formats at the British Library
- Adding Data to Wikidata is Efficient with QuickStatements
- Libraries & Museums & Archives (Oh My!)
- Triangulating Bermuda, Detroit and William Wallace
- Endangered Archives and Notable Women
- Two Million Images Inspire Creativity, Innovation, and Collaboration
- Making Games In The Woods With Twine
- Getting a head start for the online Urban Tree Wikithon
- Making Games In The Woods With Bitsy
- Laying Down Roots With WikTreePedia
- Games in the Library and Games in the Woods
- The Butcher, the Baker, but not the Candlestick Maker
- 1Lib1Ref Wikidata Online Office Hours
- A Novel Approach To Novels That Shaped Our World!
- Wrangling Wikidata With #1lib1ref 2021
- British Library x British Fashion Council Student Fashion Awards
- Welcome to the British Library’s new Wikimedian in Residence
- The game was ne'er so fair
- Competition to Proofread Bengali Books on Wikisource
- AURA Research Network Second Workshop Write-up
- Investigating Instances of Arabic Verb Form X in the BL/QFP Translation Memory
- Legacies of Catalogue Descriptions and Curatorial Voice: training materials and next steps
- Hacking the BL from home
- Identify yourself!
- The New Media Writing Prize collection is now available in the UK Web Archive
- Happy 20th Birthday Wikipedia
2020
- Highlights from crowdsourcing projects at the British Library
- BL Labs Awards Symposium 2020, Rewind, Reflections, Box-sets and Seasons Greetings
- Digital Research and the year that was
- Faint Signals
- AURA Research Network Second Workshop
- Shortlist and voting for BL Labs People's Choice: Public Awards 2020 announced! Last chance: Book BL Labs Symposium!
- New PhD Placements Opportunities: Born-digital Legal Deposit and the New Media Writing Prize Collection
- Using British Library Cultural Heritage Data for a Digital Humanities Research Course at the Australian National University
- Early Circus in London: Astley's Amphitheatre by Professor Leith Davis
- Reflections during International Games Week and Transgender Awareness Week
- BL Labs Online Symposium 2020 : Book your place for Tuesday 15-Dec-2020
- World Digital Preservation Day 2020
- Transforming Legacy Indexes into Catalogue Entries
- Mind Your Paws and Claws
- Happy Eighth Birthday Wikidata!
- BL Labs Public Award Runner Up (Research) 2019 - Automated Labelling of People in Video Archives
- The Botish Library: developing a poetry printing machine with Python
- The 2020 British Library Labs Staff Award - Nominations Open!
- Fiction Readers Wanted for PhD Research Study
- 2020 New Media Writing Prize is Open
- Making Data Into Sound
- Mapping Space, Mapping Time, Mapping Texts
- Hiring a new Wikimedian in Residence
- Digital geographical narratives with Knight Lab’s StoryMap
- BL Labs Public Awards 2020: enter before NOON GMT Monday 30 November 2020! REMINDER
- When is a persistent identifier not persistent? Or an identifier?
- British Library Joins Share-VDE Linked Data Community
- Taking a Virtual Walk on the Wild Side
- Not Just for Kids: UK Digital Comics, from creation to consumption
- Having a Hoot for International Owl Awareness Day
- Ira Aldridge In the Spotlight
- World of Wikimedia
- Legacies of Catalogue Descriptions and Curatorial Voice: Training Sessions
- Readings at the intersection of digital scholarship and anti-racism
- Archivists, Stop Wasting Your Ref-ing Time!
- Marginal Voices in UK Digital Comics
- Making Watermarks Visible: A Collaborative Project between Conservation and Imaging
- International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling 2020: Call for Papers, Posters and Interactive Creative Works
- IIIF Week 2020
- The British Library Simulator
- Bringing Metadata & Full-text Together
- Tree Collage Challenge
- Searching eTheses for the openVirus project
- How to make art when we’re working apart
- What did you call me?!
- VisibleWikiWomen 2020 Campaign
- BL Labs Learning & Teaching Award Winners - 2019 - The Other Voice - RCA
- Clean. Migrate. Validate. Enhance. Processing Archival Metadata with Open Refine
- BL Labs Research Award Winner 2019 - Tim Crawford - F-Tempo
- BL Labs Community Commendation Award 2019 - Lesley Phillips - Theatre History
- Rapidly pivoting to online delivery of a Library Carpentry course
- BL Labs Artistic Award Winner 2019 - The Memory Archivist - Lynda Clark
- Legacies of Catalogue Descriptions and Curatorial Voice: a new AHRC project
- Poetry Mobile Apps
- Just stand-up and Kanban!
- Learning in Lockdown: Digital Research Team online
- A Season of Place – Journal Article Published!
- Call for participants: April 2020 book sprint on the state of the art in crowdsourcing in cultural heritage
- New project! 'From crowdsourcing to digitally-enabled participation: the state of the art in collaboration, access, and inclusion for cultural heritage institutions'
- 2019 Winners of the New Media Writing Prize
- How historians can communicate their research online
- Using Transkribus for Arabic Handwritten Text Recognition
2019
- Do you want to see my butterfly collection?
- Introducing Filipe Bento - BL Labs Technical Lead
- The British Library / Qatar Foundation Partnership Project Hack Day - Theme: Collaboration
- Hacking Web Maps-T
- Digital Conversation: Games, Literature and Learning
- Workshop on “Digitisation Workflows & Digital Research Studies Methodologies”
- BL Labs Symposium (2019): Book your place for Mon 11-Nov-2019
- The 2019 British Library Labs Staff Award - Nominations Open!
- Labbers of the world unite to write a book in 1 week through a Book Sprint
- BL Labs Awards 2019: enter before 2100 on Sunday 29th September! (deadline extended)
- Results of the RASM2019 Competition on Recognition of Historical Arabic Scientific Manuscripts
- Using Transkribus for automated text recognition of historical Bengali Books
- Chevening British Library Fellowship working with Chinese historical texts
- Innovation Labs and the digital divide
- Reflections from the First Sub-Saharan African Workshop on Digital Innovation Labs in Cultural Heritage Institutions
- Creating Geo-located Digital Sound Walks
- A New System for the Digital Paleography of Middle Eastern Manuscripts
- Invitation to join ‘Digital Cultural Heritage Innovation Labs Book Sprint’, Doha, Qatar, 23-27 September 2019
- Our highlights from Digital Humanities 2019: Nora and Giorgia
- Our highlights from Digital Humanities 2019: Rossitza and Daniel
- Our highlights from Digital Humanities 2019: Mia and Yann
- British Library Digital Scholarship at Digital Humanities 2019
- Digital Conversations: Celebrating Ten Years of the New Media Writing Prize
- BL Labs Awards 2019: enter before midday on Monday 9th September!
- Imaginary Cities Exhibition at the British Library
- The Shape of Contemporary British Interactive Fiction
- Palestine Open Maps mapathon: follow up and data usage experiments
- Collaborative Digital Scholarship in Action: A Case Study in Designing Impactful Student Learning Partnerships
- Palestine Open Maps: using open source tools for historic maps research
- Exploring with Sound Walks
- The ‘Season of Place’ – learning about all things digital mapping
- Collecting Emerging Formats
- BL Labs 2018 Commercial Award Winner: 'The Library Collection'
- Net Art
- The British Library’s new Collection Metadata Strategy
- Staying Late at the Library ... to Algorave
- Algorave till Late in the Imaginary City
- BL Labs Staff Award Runners Up: 'The Digital Documents Harvester'
- BL Labs 2018 Commercial Award Runner Up: 'The Seder Oneg Shabbos Bentsher'
- The British Library / Qatar National Library Partnership Imaging Hack Day – International Women’s Day
- The World Wide Lab: Building Library Labs - Part II
- Competition to automate text recognition for printed Bangla books
- Automatic Transcription of Historical Arabic Scientific Manuscripts - Round 2
- BL Labs 2018 Teaching & Learning Award Runner Up: 'Pocahontas and After'
- Updated Eighteenth-Century Collections Online
- Sign up for a research workshop on books written for mobile devices!
- BL Labs 2018 Artistic Award Runner Up: 'Nomad'
- BL Labs 2018 Research Award Honourable Mention: 'HerStories: Sites of Suffragette Protest and Sabotage'
- Interactive Fiction in the UK
- BL Labs 2018 Research Award Honourable Mention: 'Doctoral theses as alternative forms of knowledge: Surfacing "Southern" perspectives on student engagement with internationalisation'
- The British Library / Qatar Foundation Partnership Imaging Hack Day – Part 2
- BL Labs 2018 Staff Award Winner: 'The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project: Manuscripts from the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 700–1200'
- Reading 35,000 Books: The UCD Contagion Project and the British Library Digital Corpus - Workshop & Roundtable
- BL Labs 2018 Teaching & Learning Award Winner: 'Pocket Miscellanies'
- BL Labs 2018 Artistic Award Winner: 'Another Intelligence Sings'
- Innovation Fellow for Interactive Fiction in the Emerging Formats Project
- Can you help us with user experience testing for books designed for mobile devices?
- BL Labs 2018 Research Award Winner: 'The Delius Catalogue of Works'
- The BL Labs Symposium, 2018
- Digital Conversations @BL: Data, Place and Digital Economies
2018
- Introducing an experimental format for learning about content mining for digital scholarship
- The British Library / Qatar Foundation Partnership Imaging Hack Day
- Digital Conversation: History and Games
- The submission deadline for BL Labs Awards 2018 is next week!
- Building Library Labs around the world - the event and complete our survey!
- Visualising the Endangered Archives Programme project data on Africa, Part 3. Finishing up
- Student project report: Scribal Handwriting: An automated manuscript analysis tool
- BL Labs Symposium (2018): Book your place for Mon 12-Nov-2018
- Seeking researchers to work on an ambitious data science and digital humanities project at the British Library and Alan Turing Institute (London)
- The Parts of a Playbill
- Visualising the Endangered Archives Programme project data on Africa, Part 2. Data visualisation tools
- Reminder about the 2018 BL Labs Awards: enter before midnight Thursday 11th October!
- Visualising the Endangered Archives Programme project data on Africa, Part 1. The project
- British Library Labs Staff Awards 2018: Looking for entries now!
- New features on In the Spotlight
- Workshop for South Asian Archivists and Librarians
- Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval
- Crowdsourcing comedy: date and genre results from In the Spotlight
- Get Involved in the Gothic Novel Jam
- Team @BL_DigiSchol join @thecarpentries at #CarpentryCon2018 in Dublin
- Interactive Fiction Summer School and Settle Stories
- Seeing British Library collections through a digital lens
- Digital Conversations @BL: Empowering Technologies
- The Italian Academies database – now available in XML
- What do deep learning, community archives, Livy and the politics of artefacts have in common?
- New Digital Curator in the Digital Scholarship Team
- Some challenges and opportunities for digital scholarship in 2018
- On the Road (Again)
- Gaming the Gothic on Friday the 13th
- British Library Labs application for Digital Research support
- The 2018 BL Labs Awards: enter before midnight Thursday 11th October!
- Ambient Literature Festival
- Digital Conversations @BL: Digital Comics
- Shine a light on past entertainments with In the Spotlight
- BL Labs 2017 Symposium: Vittoria's World of Stories, Learning & Teaching Award Winner
- Working with BL Labs in search of Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose
- The Ground Truth: Transcribing historical Arabic Scientific Manuscripts for OCR research
- Breathe, A Digital Ghost Story
- Announcing the BL Labs roadshows locations and dates for 2018!
- The Cartographer's Confession
- BL Labs 2017 Symposium: Picturing Canada and Interactive Map (Staff Award Runner Up)
- BL Labs 2017 Symposium: Opening up the British Library’s Early Indian Printed Books Collection (Staff Award Winner)
- BL Labs 2017 Symposium: Git Lit, Learning & Teaching Award Runner Up
- BL Labs 2017 Symposium: Movable Type, Commercial Award Winner
- BL Labs 2017 Symposium: Samtla, Research Award Runner Up
- 8th Century Arabic science meets today's computer science
- Building a Handwritten Arabic Manuscript Ground Truth Dataset يد واحدة لا تصفـّق
- Fashion Design Competition Winner Announced
- Converting Privy Council Appeals Metadata to Linked Data
- BL Labs 2017 Symposium: A large-scale comparison of world music corpora with computational tools, Research Award Winner
- Linking Privy Council Appeals Data
- BL Labs 2017 Symposium: Face Swap, Artistic Award Runner Up
- Using Transkribus for handwritten text recognition with the India Office Records
- BL Labs 2017 Symposium: Data Mining Verse in 18th Century Newspapers by Jennifer Batt
- BL Labs 2017 Symposium: Imaginary Cities by Michael Takeo Magruder - Artistic Award Winner
- BL Labs 2017 Symposium: Keynote Talk by Josie Fraser
2017
- The Flitch of Bacon: An Unexpected Journey Through the Collections of the British Library
- All I want for Christmas is... playbills!
- Cleaning and Visualising Privy Council Appeals Data
- Workshop report: Identifiers for UK theses
- Crowdsourcing using IIIF and Web Annotations
- Heritage and Data: Challenges and Opportunities for the Heritage Sector
- You're invited to come and play - In the Spotlight
- International Games Week 2017
- Imaginary Cities - Summary video of project
- Databeers Descends on Digital Scholarship!
- In the Spotlight: Application design
- BL Labs Symposium (2017), Mon 30 Oct: book your place now!
- Introducing... Playbills In the Spotlight
- Announcing the new British Library Research Data Strategy
- Last Chance to Book for Game Library Camp Tomorrow
- BL Labs Awards (2017): enter before midnight Wednesday 11th October!
- A workshop on Optical Character Recognition for Bangla
- Russian Language Books Research Project by Nadya Miryanova
- Through the British Library Looking Glass - A Continuation of Nadya Miryanova's Work Experience
- A Wonderland of Knowledge - Behind the Scenes of the British Library (Nadya Miryanova work experience)
- It Must Have Been Dark By Then
- Game Library Camp
- Ambient Literature
- Odyssey Jam Games
- Digital Conversations @BL - Web Archives: truth, lies and politics
- Series of public Data Debates delivered in collaboration with the Alan Turing Institute
- Michael Takeo Magruder @ Gazelli Art House
- How can a turtle and the BBC connect learners with literature?
- New technologies challenging author and reader roles
- Off the Page; Playing and Reading in the City
- Off the Page: Literature and Games
- Free Public Lecture and Workshop: Exploring Scissors-and-Paste Journalism in The British Library’s Newspaper Collections
- Mobile devices meet author, text, and reader
- British Library Launches OCR Competition for Rare Indian Books
- Poetic Places and World Poetry Day 2017
- Archaeologies of reading: guest post from Matthew Symonds, Centre for Editing Lives and Letters
- British Library resources on digital scholarship for PhD students
- Library Carpentry: software skills workshops for librarians
- Map Games and Odyssey Jam
- Publication of Quarterly Lists: Catalogues of Indian Books
2016
- Mobius programme – on the beach of learning
- Re-imagining a catalogue of illuminated manuscripts - from search to browse
- There's a new viewer for digitised items in the British Library's collections
- International Games Day: Steampunk, Murder Mystery and Game-Poetry
- WordPlay Festival for International Games Day
- British Library Labs Symposium 2016 - Competition and Award runners up
- British Library Labs Symposium 2016 - Competition and Award Winners
- SherlockNet update - 10s of millions more tags and thousands of captions added to the BL Flickr Images!
- Black Abolitionist Performances and their Presence in Britain - An update!
- Quarterly Lists: Digitally Researching Catalogues of Indian Books
- An Overview of 6 Second History Animated British Library Photographs & Illustrations
- Datamining for verse in eighteenth-century newspapers - British Library Labs Project
- 2016 Shakespeare Off the Map Competition Winners Announced at GameCity11 Festival
- Imaginary Cities - British Library Labs Project
- Maurice Nicholson - British Library Flickr Commons Map Tagger and Top Georeferencer
- BL Labs Symposium (2016), Mon 7 Nov: book your place now!
- Digital Conversations @BL: Multimedia PhD Research and Non-text Theses
- Poetic Places on National Poetry Day
- Comics and Play In The Sunshine State
- Multimedia PhD Research and Non-text Theses Case Studies
- Multimedia PhD Research and Non-text Theses
- British Library Labs Staff Awards 2016: Looking for entries now!
- Black Abolitionists: Performance and Discussion for Black History Month by Hannah-Rose Murray
- BL Labs Symposium (2016): book your place for Mon 7th Nov 2016
- Digital Scholarship in Brazil: an expanding field
- BL Labs Awards (2016): deadline extended to Monday 12 September!
- Fashion Utopias and the British Library’s Flickr collection
- Digital Conversation @ British Library: EThOS & Multimedia PhD Theses
- SherlockNet: tagging and captioning the British Library’s Flickr images
- BL Labs Awards (2016): enter before midnight 5th September!
- Black Abolitionist Performances and their Presence in Britain
- Dealing with Optical Character Recognition errors in Victorian newspapers
- Ruby Dixon Work Experience
- Finding digitised books and images about Finland in a collection of 65,000 books
- A temporal & spatial investigation of disease in 19th century British newspapers
- Two Centuries of Indian Print: Enhancing Scholarly Research
- Announcing the BL Labs Competition finalists for 2016
- Digital Humanities in the Chinese Context: Project Kick Off
- BL Labs Awards (2016): looking for entries now!
- Success story: the @BL_Labs Roadshow (2016)
- Diamonds are forever. What about research data?
- The Georgian Pingbacks Project
- Exploring Poetic Places: Launching the App
- 'Why Londoners need not stand in fear of Drought': Depictions of Late Nineteenth Century London in the Pall Mall Gazette
- Poetic Places App Launch Event
- Cambridge @BL_Labs Roadshow Mon 15 Feb (9.30am - 12.30pm) and (1.30pm - 4.30pm)
- PhD placements in Digital Scholarship
- Book Now! Nottingham @BL_Labs Roadshow event - Wed 3 Feb (12.30pm-4pm)
- Come to our first @BL_Labs Roadshow event at #citylis London Mon 1 Feb (5pm-7.30pm)
- The @BL_Labs Roadshow (2016)
- BL Labs Competition and Awards for 2016
- BL Digital Scholarship goes Latin
- BL Labs Entrepreneurial Award (2015): runner up project ‘The British Library “Library Wall”’
- Finding a Platform for Poetic Places
2015
- BL Labs Awards (2015): Entrepreneurial category Award winning project
- BL Labs Creative/Artistic Award (2015): runner up project ‘Nix’
- BL Labs Awards (2015): Creative/Artistic category Award winning project
- BL Labs Research Award (2015): runner up project ‘Palimpsest’
- From Data to Art: the Internet of Cultural Things
- Using Open Refine to create XML Records for Wikimedia Batch Upload Tool
- New member of the Digital Scholarship team
- Games, Literature, Libraries and Learning
- Gyre and Gimble, plus Gambling Lambs!
- BL Labs Awards (2015): Research category Award winning project
- British Library Labs Awards (2015) – The winners and runners up announced at the 2015 BL Labs Symposium
- The third annual British Library Labs Symposium (2015)
- Digital Conversations @BL: Games, Literature, Libraries and Learning
- Introducing our newest Digital Curator
- International Games Day at Your Library 2015
- 2015 Off the Map Competition Winners Announced at GameCity10 Festival
- Electronic Beowulf 4.0
- 'Following the Chartists around London' event (BL Labs Competition winning project)
- British Library Labs Symposium (2015)
- New opportunities for digital humanities PhD research at the BL
- Working with news data
- #CitizenHums and #MakingBigDataHuman
- What is a Game Jam? By Adam Crymble
- What makes the Crowdsourcing Arcade Machine tick?
- Fin; or reflections on thirty months of Digital Research
- Crowdsourcing as Interesting Decisions: Update from BL Labs 2015 Competition Winner
- Update on Political Meetings Mapper - BL Labs Competition Winner 2015
- British Library Labs Project Awards (2015): Call for entries!
- Women in Food Wikithon with the Oxford Food Symposium at the British Library
- Welcome to Sarah Cole the British Library’s New Creative Entrepreneur-in-Residence
- Turning research questions into computational queries: outputs from the 'Enabling Complex Analysis of Large Scale Digital Collections' project
- My Digital Rights: Where next for our Magna Carta for the digital age?
- British Library Labs Competition 2015 - Winners Announced!
- Crossroads of Curiosity - 6 Days to Go!
- My Digital Rights: Where are we now?
- Digital Conversations @ BL: Digital Music Analysis
- The British Library Machine Learning Experiment
- Looking back on Digital Conversations: A Web of Rights
- Library Carpentry: call for volunteers, call for participants
- Rob Sherman's End of Residency Seminar
- Digital Music Events at the British Library
- Enabling Complex Analysis of Large Scale Digital Collections
- Texcavator in Residence
- BL Labs Competition and Awards Roadshow 2015
- Jisc Digital Festival 2015
- Magna Carta: My Digital Rights Project
- What would Library Carpentry look like?
- THATCamp British Library Labs
- Alice's Adventures Off the Map
- Picaguess: a prototype crowdsourcing app from the British Library Big Data Experiment
- Meet Rob Sherman in the Lines in the Ice gallery tomorrow
- Help #bldigital to help you do better digital research
2014
- British Library Labs Symposium 2014 – The Winners
- British Library Labs Symposium 2014 – Keynote
- Curious Roads to Cross - 21st Century Curatorship Talk by David Normal
- Two 'Off the Map' games available as free downloads
- Software Sustainability Institute Fellowship
- Celebrating Historic Newspapers
- Doctoral Students' Open Day: Digital Scholarship
- International Games Day at Your Library
- BL Digital Scholarship survey: how are users engaging with our digital content?
- 2014 Off the Map Competition Winners Announced at GameCity9 Festival
- British Library Digital Scholarship Training Programme: a round-up of resources you can use
- Victorian Meme Machine - Extracting and Converting Jokes
- Curious Roads to Cross: British Library, Burning Man and the art of David Normal
- Introducing Paper Machines
- British Library Labs Symposium 2014
- The Art of Data
- Applying Forensics to Preserving the Past: Current Activities and Future Possibilities
- Finding Jokes - The Victorian Meme Machine
- Wikimania and UK Wikimedian of the Year 2014 Awards
- The British Library Meets Burning Man
- Interactive Fiction Writer-in-Residence for the Lines in the Ice Exhibition
- The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Production
- Digital Music Lab: Analysing Big Music Data
- The Emergence of the Digital Humanities
- Conference alert: Succeed in Digitisation, spreading excellence.
- The British Library at Digital Humanities 2014
- The British Library Big Data Experiment project update
- Data Driven?
- Open Source Digital Forensics Adapted for Archival and Memory Institutions
- Images Online: a selection
- Text to Image Linking Tool (TILT)
- Victorian Meme Machine
- British Library Labs Competition 2014 - Winners Announced!
- The British Library Big Data Experiment
- Digitisation Days in Madrid
- Crowdsourcing Comic Art
- Digital history and the death of quant
- Unconferencing; or a digital scholarship training experiment
- Tracking Public Domain Re-use in the Wild
- 50th Anniversary!
- The Strawberry Thief and Off the Map 2014
- Lessons from science: Digital Humanities, History of Science and Technology, and juking the stats
- #bldigital British Library Collaborative PhD studentship
- The Metadata Quest
- Valentine’s Day the 19th Century Way!
- Prototyping task for digital research novices
- Forthcoming EThOS webinar
- British Library Digital Research Doctoral Open Day
2013
- A million first steps
- open, Open and ‘Open’: conflations of openness is public discourse
- Interactive Narratives @ British Library
- Mixing the Library: Information Interaction & the DJ - Origins
- The georeferencer is back!
- Digital Research in the wild
- The Sample Generator - Part 1: Origins
- Guess the journal!
- Off The Map Winners Announced
- Visualising Joyce....yes I will Yes!
- Digital Conversations Event on Interactive Narratives
- Peeking behind the curtain of the Mechanical Curator
- Digital Scholarship training in and outside of the British Library
- The Mechanical Curator
- Digital Conversations Event on The Scholarly Use of Web Archives
- Data exploration through visualisation
- @HumaBirdProject + #inspiringwomen
- A perspective on Digital Scholarship at the British Library
- AHRC Big Data Research call
- British Library Labs Competition 2013 - Winners Announced!
- Why we are big on (big)data
- Seeking trends in article titles
- First World War Workshop – 29 June 2013
- A page, but not as we know it
- Does crowdsourcing capture the crowd at its wisest? An interview with Nick Hiley
- Round-Up: Upcoming UK Digital Scholarship Training Opportunities
- On metadata and cartoons
- Remembering the Great War - the Harold Ward Letters
- Improved access to newspapers: The Europeana Newspapers Project
- A novel, a writing machine and a leafy square in London
- Labs Competition - Win £3000!
- Wikipedian in Residence: conclusions
- British Library Labs Launch Event Report
- Biohumanities Symposium at University of Maryland
- This is not a post about MOOCs this is a post about learning
- The day after the #DayofDH
- Archive Fever at British Library
- Digital Scholarship, Resources and Research Workshop
- Europeana Collections 1914-1918 Digitisation Project
- BL Labs Launch Event
- THATcamp and GLAM-Wiki at the British Library
- TreeCurator, and 3D Visualisation of Computer Directories
- The demise of Google Reader: On the path to driverless information retrieval
- HUMlab at the British Library
- New Media – Making or Breaking Connections?
- Common Place Books, Total Fiction and Twitter
- We meet again, Mr Bentham, and you're being transcribed.
- Phylogenetic Tree Visualisation and Annotation
- Anyone for a spot of TEI?
- Recognising speech
- "Off The Map" Competition: Student Visit from De Montfort University Leicester
- Wikipedia and the British Library
- Mashups, Linked Data, APIs, Oh My!
- Digital Conversations series: Debating the Cloud
- “….some say word clouds are the mullets of the internet”
- Videogaming meets cartography: Students are challenged to go "Off the Map" in a new competition
- IIIF: Enhancing Digital Scholarship
- BL Labs
- Welcome to the British Library Digital Scholarship Blog
Endangered archives
2025
- Round 21: call for applications, webinars and our new portal
- Bringing the heritage of the Bonpos to the world
- Projects that went online in 2024-25
- Celebrating 20 Years of EAP: Highlights from the 2024 Conference
2024
- Round 20: call for applications, important deadlines & more webinars
- Webinars for Applicants — Round 20
- A Horizon Europe MSCA Secondment at the British Library Endangered Archives Programme: Accessing the Textual Literary Heritage of Bhutan
- Digitising The Histories of Islamic West Africa
2023
- Preserving History: Manaki Brothers' Archival Collection Declared Cultural Heritage in North Macedonia
- The call for applications to Round 19 is now open
- Stampa Migrante: a Window on Multi-Lingual Egypt
- New online - July 2023
- EAP Digital Lecture Series
- Sounds of the shellac!
- PhD Placement focussing on Manuscripts from West Africa
- New online - March 2023
- New online - February 2023
2022
- New online - November 2022
- New online - October 2022
- EAP Cataloguer Vacancy
- New online - September 2022
- EAP video
- New online - August 2022
- The Marvels of the Manaki Brothers
- Webinars for Applicants – Round 18
- West African Manuscripts Crowdsourcing Project Fellowship: Call now open
- New online - July 2022
- EAP Regional Hub Event at Jadavpur University, 14 September 2022
- Job Opportunity
- New online - June 2022
- Digitising Haalpulaar Islamic Manuscripts (EAP1245 Project)
- New online - April 2022
- Digitising Arabic Manuscripts in Mattool, North Kerala (EAP1390)
- New online - December 2021
- East African Life-Writing and Colonial History: New Perspectives from EAP Tanzanian Church Records
2021
- Updated Equipment List for Round 17
- EAP Round 17 – deadline extension
- Application Portal now open
- Webinars for Applicants
- Call for applications now open
- New online - August 2021
- The Backstory to Digitising the Barbados Gazette
- New online - July 2021
- EAP blog email subscription service ending - Please follow us on Twitter for updates
- Help trace the stories of enslaved people in the Caribbean using colonial newspapers
- New online - June 2021
- New online - April/May 2021
- Reflections on a virtual placement with EAP
- New online - March 2021
- EAP Publication translated into Arabic - مُترجَمًا إلى العربية: برنامج الأرشيفات المهددة بالاندثار يطلق أحد أهم كتبه
- New online - February 2021
- New online - December 2020 and January 2021
- The Endangered Archives Programme in a time of change - looking back on 2020
2020
- New Collections Online - November 2020
- What’s in a name? The Sovietisation of the Mongolian language and the Challenges of Reversal
- New Collections Online - October 2020
- New Collections Online - September 2020
- Apply for one of the 2021/22 Chevening British Library Fellowships and join the EAP team
- New Collections Online - August 2020
- New Collections Online - July 2020
- New Projects Online - June 2020
- The Legacy of Slavery: A 19th Century Newspaper and 21st Century Racial Inequity
- New projects online - May 2020
- New projects online - April 2020
- Help Needed To Describe Photographs Taken in Siberia
- Archival Contingencies and Eclectic Sources: Using Digitised Newspapers and Periodical Literature
- New projects online - March 2020
- EAP and the Covid-19 crisis
- Buddhism on the ground
- Using Urdu Periodicals to Uncover Women's Voices in India
- Beyond Digitisation: Engaging the Community Around The Barbados Mercury
2019
- Building Digital Archives: Tools, Techniques & Approaches - a training workshop offered by Jadavpur University, School for Cultural Texts and Records
- Locating and Sampling Arabic and Arabic-Malayalam Manuscripts in Kerala, South India
- Rare Buddhist Sanskrit Manuscripts from Rural Kathmandu and the Hill Areas of Nepal
- The hour is approaching!
- Preserving pious print - the Maalim Muhammad Idris Collection, Zanzibar.
- Eight weeks at EAP
- Introducing EAP in other languages: French, Spanish and Arabic webinars
- EAP Webinar: Completing a Successful Preliminary Application
- New collections online - June 2019
- Marking Refugee Week with the EAP collections
- United National Independence Party of Zambia Archive Online
- From Colombo to London: Encounters with the Endangered Archives Programme
- The artwork of Lalit Mohan Sen
- “The Barbados Mercury”: Thoughts from the digitisation team
- Introducing Sam van Schaik, the new head of the Endangered Archives Programme
- Let's rescue and disseminate the Chilean public education archives
- Early photographic work of the Hamilton Studios, Bombay.
- In Celebration of Djenné
2018
- Mandinka Ajami and Arabic Manuscripts of Casamance, Senegal
- EAP's first webinar - Completing a Successful Preliminary Application
- The British Library: the Place where Vastness and Warmth Meet
- A survey of archival material in small Jewish communities in rural areas of Argentina
- Call for applications now open
- Football in the Endangered Archives
- Digitisation of The Barbados Mercury Gazette
- A Football Team from Lesotho
- EAP and International Archives Day
- Endangered Urdu Periodicals
- Remote Capture: Digitising Documentary Heritage in Challenging Locations
- The Manuscripts of Mali
- World Radio Day: Recordings from the Endangered Archives Programme
- Endangered Penguins in the Endangered Archives
- Doctoral Research into the Migration and Settlement of Liberated Africans
2017
- Bulgarian Christmas and kissing of the ritual bread
- A project from Bhutan
- An Abundance of Bulgarian Bagpipes
- EAP Call for Applications - The Clock is Ticking
- Training at Jaffna Protestant Archives
- Rescuing Records on the Remotest Island in the World
- 2018 Call for Preliminary Applications for EAP grants
- Document to Digital: How does Digitisation Aid African Research?
- New collections online - June 2017
- A new chapter in the story of Timbuktu’s manuscripts: Sample digitisation of materials from the Infa Yattara Family Library
- Representing Self and Family: Preserving Tamil Studio Photography
- Photographs for International Labour Day
- New collections online - April 2017
- Yangon Photo Festival 2017
- In Search of Zoroastrian Manuscripts in Iran
- Celebrating International Women's Day Through Photography
- Rescuing precious recordings of Nepal’s folk music heritage
- The Textual Heritage of the Ural Old Believers
- What does one gift to the Dalai Lama?
- New collections online - February 2017
- Tracking the past – the preservation of the railway archives of Sierra Leone
- New collections online - January 2017
- Kaleidoscopic stories: first impressions from our new Grants Portfolio Manager
- Good Fortune for the Year of the Rooster
- New Horizons of Digitisation in Serbia
- A Royal Proposal of Marriage
- Mastering the manuscripts from Michoacán, Mexico
- New Year Greetings from EAP
2016
- Fragments of Sikkim
- New collections online - September 2016
- Impressions from Myanmar
- Why do you access EAP material?
- Call for Applications
- Come and work for EAP
- New collections online - May 2016
- New collections online - April 2016
- Disappearing book heritage of Siberian Buddhists
- New collections online - March 2016
- New collections online - February 2016
- Syliphone record label archive from Guinea
- Deciphering Wolof Ajami Texts
- A Living Archive - Emmanuel M. Mbwaye, Bokwango (Cameroon)
- Freetown and the transatlantic slave trade
- National Archives Kaduna Collection
2015
- Using face recognition to find an EAP Christmas Card
- Archive of Malian Photography
- EAP755: Annemarie Heinrich Photograph Collection
- Gaskiya ta fi Kwabo, World War II and the Romanisation of Hausa
- New images online - October 2015
- Safeguarding poetry by Usman dan Fodio and his contemporaries
- 5 million images online
- Call for Applications 2015
- New online collections - August 2015
- Spiked fiddles from Mongolia
- New images online - July 2015
- New images online – June 2015
- 'Voices from pre-partition India' - The Nur-i-Afshan Periodical from the Punjab
- New online collections - May 2015
- New online collections - April 2015
- New online collections - March 2015
- New online collections – February 2015 – Part 2
- Stories they tell: clues from endangered archives
- New online collections – February 2015 – Part 1
- New online collections – January 2015 – 4 million images now online!
2014
- KNOW YOUR CULTURE! OR ELSE…
- New online collections – December 2014
- New online collections – November 2014 Part 2
- New online collections – November 2014 Part 1
- A Chief and his Wheelbarrow: Digitisation and history in India’s Northeast
- September online collections 2014
- Faces and Places in Iran: Iranian photography at the turn of the 20th century
- New online collections – September 2014 – three million images online!
- New online collections – August 2014
- Tangut Manuscripts from St Petersburg
- New online collections – July 2014 – EAP now has over two million images!
- Homage to a Monk-Archivist
- Book heritage of Ural Old Believers
- New online collections - June 2014
- New online collections - May 2014
- New online collections - April 2014 - Part 2
- New online collections - April 2014 - Part 1
- Flowers of Persian Song and Music
- New online collections - March 2014
- The Good Woman named Bonfils
- New online collections - February 2014
- Year of the Horse
- New online collections - January 2014
2013
- New online collections – December 2013
- New online collections – November 2013
- Mongolia at a glance
- New online collections - October 2013
- New online collections – September 2013
- New online collections – August 2013
- New online collections – July 2013
- Syliphone - an early recording label from Guinea
- New online collections – June 2013
- Digitised Ahom manuscripts arrive at the British Library
- New online collections – May 2013
- Out with the old and in with the new
- New EAP Cataloguer, new collections now online!
- Preserving the endangered manuscripts of the Cham people in Vietnam
- 'Encounters between Art and Science' an exhibition at the British Library
- Mongolian New Year
- Timbuktu and book culture in Africa
- Postcards from the Ukrainian Steppe
- A visit to the British Library
- The New Year brings a new EAP Curator
2012
- Pa'O religious and literary manuscripts now online
- August Accessions
- Images of indigenous lives in Southern Siberia
- June Accessions
- Gypsy/Roma archives in Bulgaria
- The endangered archives of the Haynes Publishing Company, Argentina
- Dongjing musical scores feature on Music in the British Library
- June Accessions
- Highlighting Pre-colonial Documents from Northern Nigeria
- Survey Reports online
- International Archives Day, 2012
- More content online: manuscripts and colonial records from Kano, Enugu and Calabar regional archives, Nigeria
- April Accessions part 2
- More EAP119 content online, and updated guidelines
- April Accessions part one
- March Accessions
- More content available online
- February Accessions
- Highlighting Church Records from Tanzania
- EAP132 Catalogue Online
- December Accessions
2011
- Highlighting Indonesian Manuscripts
- November Accessions
- Making dongjing records available
- October Accessions
- September Accessions
- Research Grants 2011
- August Accessions
- EAP and Digitised Manuscripts
- Work on making EAP Collections available
- IMPACT project demo day
- June Accessions
- May Accessions Part Two
- International Archives Day, 9 June
- May Accessions part one
- April Accessions
- The Easter Story
- March Accessions Part Two
- March Accessions Part One
- EAP261 Digital Archive of Early Bengali Drama
- February Accessions
- International Mother Language Day
- January Accessions part two
- January Accessions part one
- EAP132: Digital Archive of North Indian Classical Music
- December Accessions
2010
- Memory and Identity, Truth and Reconciliation
- November Accessions
- Early Records of the Natural History of the Malay World
- More faces and places in Iran
- October Accessions
- Catalogue Announcement: EAP205 Endangered Manuscripts of Western Sumatra
- More faces and places in Iran
- UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage
- EAP001 Faces and places: Iranian photography
- August and September Accessions 2010
- Rescuing Dongjing Archives in Yunnan, China
- EAP127 Catalogue announcement
- 2010 Call for Applications
- University of East London Archive Discussion
- EAP at the pictures: Ganashatru (Public Enemy)
- July Accessions 2010
- EAP at the pictures: Sagina Mahato
- EAP at the Pictures: Goopy and Bagha
- June Accessions 2010
- Introducing the Rudrajit Mookherjee Collection
- International Archives Day 2010
- May Accessions 2010
- Introducing the Devajit Bandyopadhyay Collection
- Popular language primers
- April Accessions 2010
- Meeting of International Advisory Panel
- EAP119 Catalogue Announcement - al-Aqsa Mosque Library Periodical Collection
- March Accessions 2010
- Mothers' Day
- February Accessions 2010 and Endangered Languages Week
- Gopal Bhar
- January Accessions 2010
- Popular market books from Bengali
- Suppression of the Arabic press during the British Mandate
- December Accessions 2009
2009
- Advertising in Jerusalem, 1935
- November Accessions 2009
- New EAP Cataloguer
- October Accessions
- The Collections - Political Records
- Visits
- Endangered Archives and Climate Change
- September accessions
- Flowers of Persian song and poetry
- Back at the Library
- Society of Archivists Conference
- New accessions
- Records from Jamaica
- Records of the African diaspora in Matanzas, Cuba
- Testing new cataloguing system
- The story of the Yi archives
- The importance of story
- Mongolia and the free press
- Shared histories
- Saving the endangered records of Tuvalu
- Collapse of Cologne City Archives
English and drama
2025
- A Newly Discovered Lease by John Milton in the Portland Papers
- P.G. Wodehouse: the Man, the Musicals, the Manuscripts
- PhD placement opportunity: Curating the manuscripts in the Lady Eccles Oscar Wilde Collection
2024
- The Ashley Library of Thomas J. Wise
- Celebrating 40 Years of Wasafiri Magazine
- The Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets 2024 is now open
- One Love and Venceremos: Celebrating the Correspondence of Austin Clarke and Andrew Salkey
2023
- A writer’s war: the correspondence of Dorothy L. Sayers
- Re-reading Ted Hughes' Lupercal
- For Their Eyes Only – the letters of Ian and Ann Fleming
- Phantom of the Collection: Reaching Beyond the Material in the Theatre Royal Stratford East Archive
- Ted Hughes’s Expressionism: Visionary Subjectivity
- Andrew Salkey Archive – Mapping the Caribbean Diaspora through Letters
- The William Maskell Chapbook Collection
- Randall Couch's 'Peal' and other literary bells
- Jane Austen and the Georgian Social Whirl of Bath
- In Memory of Murray Melvin
- Edgar Mittelholzer’s Life in Guyana
- Fairy tales and creative campaigns
- Call for Papers for 'Ted Hughes’ Expressionism: Visionary Subjectivity'
- Artists’ Books and Fine Press at Small Publisher Fairs
- Digitisation of manuscripts from the Blavatnik Honresfield Library
2022
- ‘The Darker Side’ – Unpublished Arthur Conan Doyle Chapter Acquired by the British Library
- In Memory of Carmen Callil
- The Beatles and Hunter Davies
- East and West with D. M. Thomas
- A new prize for Environmental Poetry - Michael Marks Awards
- Amber Akaunu reflects on her work with the Beryl Gilroy archive
- A researcher's story: using the Robert Aickman Archive at the British Library
- Marking the bicentenary of the death of Percy Shelley
- Coleridge and The Ancient Mariner
- P. G. Wodehouse Society launches international Essay Prize
- Celebrating Beryl Gilroy
- John Berger and the 50th anniversary of Ways of Seeing
2021
- Book Now For Online Event 'Keep On Keeping On: Celebrating Andrew Salkey'
- Andrew Salkey: “Too Polemic. Too Political”
- The British Library is at the 2021 Thought Bubble Comics Festival
- A Bear called Paddington: published 13 October 1958
- Registration opens for Artist, Mentor, Friend, Activist: Andrew Salkey a Man of Many Hats
- Two new Daphne Du Maurier acquisitions at the British Library
- New Ted Hughes and Theatre display at the British Library
- Follow us on Twitter to stay updated!
- Birds, Bees and Waste in Christina Rossetti’s Nature Poetry
- Stories and Pictures: Women in Victorian Society
- Olive Schreiner: Feminism from the Cape Colony
- Charlotte Brontë’s miniature books
- What makes a beautiful word?
- Contemporary Poetry at the Library: A Quick Start Guide
- Thinking about Alasdair Gray and Lanark, forty years since
- Weetabix and beans: a linguistic take
- “Slow” Biography and the Ted Hughes Collection
- The Library acquires Theatre Royal Stratford East and Theatre Workshop archive
2020
- What’s in a Name? The Archival Legacy of Emilia Francis Strong/Pattison/Dilke
- Celebrating New Poetry Pamphlets: The Michael Marks Awards 2020
- New Acquisition: John Donne and the Melford Hall Manuscript
- What Have We Been Reading?
- Carmen Callil, Cats and Feminist Generations
- Harold Pinter’s Drafts of The Proust Screenplay
- ‘A Dittie most Excellent’: Catholic songs and poems from time of King James I
- In Memory of Sir Ronald Harwood (1934-2020)
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: A Lifelong Refugee (1927-2013)
- The Manuscripts of Thomas Chatterton
- William Wordsworth: From This Green Earth
- The Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets 2020 is Now Open
- Ted Hughes: A 90th Birthday Celebration
- Imagining Aliens and Looking for the Invisible: Imperialist Legacies in Science Fiction
- Andrew Salkey and the first Publishing Houses for Black Writing in Britain
- Two Inches of Ivory: A New(ish) Jane Austen Acquisition
- Mervyn Peake’s scariest drawings saved for the nation
- Blazing a trail for Black British writing: Jacaranda's Twenty in 2020
- New Blog Season: Anti-Racism and Excellence in Our Collections and Beyond, editor's comments
- Tales of Terror and Wonder – A Gothic Legacy
- “To Mr Pope att Button’s Coffee House”: translating Homer on scraps
- ‘For it was the middle of June’: Dalloway Day
- The Gersum Project: A New Resource to Dig Up Viking Treasure amongst English Words
- Invoking the Dunkirk Spirit: Thames to Dunkirk 1940 to 2020
- “Without being a burden to anybody”: A letter from Ann Radcliffe to her Mother-in-Law from afar.
- What Have We Been Reading?
- “List Ye Landsmen all to me” about Nautical Drama on Playbills
- Angela Carter: A Celebration
- Discovering Literature: a Q&A
- Andrew Salkey and The Multi-Coloured Bear of Moscow Road
- Writing Tools for Interactive Fiction
- Domesticity after the Housekeepers
- Tour of the Literary Modern Archive and Manuscript Digital Collections
- To Sir With Love, a new appreciation for an old favourite
- Collecting Literature on the Web: a Q&A
- Postcards for our times
- Born-digital Literary Archives — How We’re Capturing the Future
- Epistolary Novels and Social Distancing
- Digital Literary Collections — Variety, Complexity and Curiosity under Lockdown
- Three New British Library Collections Featuring Harold Pinter
- Community Printing in North Kensington: The Beryl Foster Archive
- Stirrings Still
- The Launderers
2019
- Evelyn Waugh and Vivien Leigh: Telegraphic Messaging
- Happy 200th Birthday George Eliot
- 'Anything But Petering Out' - celebrating Peter Nichols at Trafalgar Studios
- Call for Papers -- Creative Activism Now!: Andrew Salkey and Today’s Diasporic Cultural Networks
- Digital Literature and Emerging Media: 10 Years of the New Media Writing Prize
- Middlemarch on display to celebrate George Eliot’s Bicentenary
- Andrew Salkey: A Man of Many Hats
- Beyond the Unfortunates
- The Banning of a Man and the Making of a Book: The Walter Rodney Affair, 1968
- Publishing in America and the 1917 Espionage Act
- “That was our place.” - The Cambridge of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
- Stuff and Nonsense: Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear
- Penelope Fitzgerald’s Archive: A Human Connection
- Shame Deferred and Shame Transcended: Literary Reflections at the End of Pride Month
- Artists’ Books Now: Writing evening 13 May 2019
- Off the Page, Chapter 2
- The Book of Hours
- ‘What Do I Know About Beckett?’: B.S. Johnson’s Beckett Notebook
- 17th-century English literary manuscripts in the Harley collection: Donne and more
- World Poetry Day – listen to new readings from Michael Marks Awards
- My Life is a Book: Escape from Coney Island at the British Library
- Remembering Andrea Levy
- P.G. Wodehouse in Translation
- Creating Havana
- Graham Greene and the curse of the sausage roll: an image of class and disgust in Brighton Rock
- Harold Pinter: A Line, A Word, An Image
- The Sun-Artist, the Typewriter and Bridge of the Ford
2018
- Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets Announce 2018 Winners
- ‘Some little language of their own’: English and Scottish dialects, and the desire for a private language
- Judges Announce Shortlist for 10th Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets: Library Celebrates Awards’ Anniversary
- C M Taylor on ‘keystroke logging project’ with British Library
- Celebrating Poetry Pamphlets
- Introducing the Artists of Artists Books Now
- The Cambridge Love Letters from Ted Hughes to Liz Hicklin
- About Artists Books Now
- Shiva Naipaul: An Unfinished Journey
- Artists’ Books Now: 'Place'
- Poetic Afterlives: Change through Artistic Reimagining
- Banned Books Week 2018 has landed: 50 years of creative freedom on the British stage
- Making Magic: conjuring and ventriloquism in In the Spotlight’s regional theatre volumes
- Windrush Sounds
- 'I into history, now': Andrew Salkey's Jamaican epic
- Mary Shelley in Italy: ‘…tragedy with a scene both affecting and sublime’
- Remembering Bill Griffiths
- Michael Palin: Writer, Actor and Comedian
- The Daybook of Mrs. Pettigrew
- From the strange to the enchanting: the hidden surprises of poetry pamphlets
- Fine lines between fiction and reality: Emily Brontë’s Gondal poems
- Cataloguing James Berry
- Keitai shousetsu: the first mobile phone fictions
- Introducing the Women of Windrush
- Virginia Woolf's Haunted Walk
- Past Visions of the Near Future: The Afterlife of J.G Ballard’s High-Rise on London History Day
- Artists’ Books Now: Here and Now
- Harold Pinter and ‘The Birthday Party’: Don’t let them tell you what to do…
- T S Eliot in Margate: Writing ‘The Waste Land’
- [sic] Thus it was Written: Rachel Hand’s Ash
- The “rich pageant” of historical playbills
- The Lives of Typewriters and Large Data-sets: The Will Self Archive
- ‘A little giggle’: Cataloguing Michael Palin
- Limehouse Lights and the Lunar New Year: London's Two Chinatowns and Literature
- Nowadays and Anywhere: Jim Crace on his New Novel
- Just Plain Gone: Three Monographs from Etcher, Print-maker and Sculptor D.R. Wakefield
- It’s a kinda magick: Aleister Crowley
- Diaries: Recording History in Many Voices
2017
- Marking the centenary year of the death of the poet Edward Thomas.
- Get Ready for Quiz Night! A QI Elf's Recommended Reads
- Holy Days and Holidays: Angela Carter’s Ghost Ships: A Christmas Story
- Artist and Poet collaboration: Carolyn Trant and James Simpson
- Workshops, Websites and Belly-worms: Work Experience at the British Library
- Robert Aickman: Strange Stories in the Archive
- Discovering Literature: 20th century drama
- A guest blog by Henry Woolf
- Banned Books Week in prison
- Standing With Salman: Banned Books Week looks back at The Satanic Verses
- No Longer in the Garage: The Archive of Galloping Dog Press, Poetry Information and Not Poetry
- Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets: Call for Submissions
- ‘Candle in the Wind’ and the Cultural Legacy of Princess Diana’s Death
- The Puns of Punjab: Edward Lear’s India Letters
- Drawing, Not Drowning: The ‘bio auto graphic’ series.
- Gay UK: Love, Law, Liberty and Literature?
- First Steps into Interactive Fiction
- Undercurrent: British Library Associate Theatre Company
- New Acquisition: Three Works by Natalie d’Arbeloff
- The writing of J. G. Ballard’s Crash: a look under the bonnet
- Collecting Kenilworth: leaves of a Romance reunited
- Discovering Literature: Shakespeare and Renaissance Writers
- John Milton's publishing contract for Paradise Lost
- TRANSLATORS TAKE CENTRE STAGE AT THE BRITISH LIBRARY THIS SPRING
- ‘Post-it’ notes in the Will Self archive
- Visual Verses: John Vicars’s God in the Mount, or Jehova-jireh, 1641.
- First report from the Will Self archive: family matters
- Ken Campbell: 4 poems
- Jane Austen Among Family and Friends
- Busting the Myths of Music Hall
- A few ways through the window: welcoming Ken Campbell’s work to the British Library
- A New Acquisition: Celebrating 50 years of the Graphic Studio Dublin
- Lessons in Vampires and the Gothic
2017
- Will Self’s archive acquired by the British Library
- P.G. Wodehouse Archive at the British Library
- Countdown to the 2016 Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets
- Cathy Courtney talks about Ken Campbell at the British Library
- Foundations of a Movement
- Treasures of the British Library: Zephaniah meets Shelley
- Dan Leno: the original Pantomime Dame
- Angela Carter and the Visual Imagination
- 'Rhys-cycled’
- Capturing poetry across formats: from print to digital to electronic literature.
- Zines Workshop
- "The Lord Chamberlain regrets..."
- Banned from the classroom: Censorship and The Catcher in the Rye
- The Monk, the Bible and obscenity
- Melvin Burgess: Censorship and the Author
- Swimmers: pamphlets and events
- Philosophies of punk
- Visual Verses: Thomas Watson’s Hekatompathia, or Passionate Century of Love, 1582.
- From Shakespeare to rock music: the history of the word ‘punk’
- Last chance to see Shakespeare in Ten Acts
- William Shakespeare and The Learned Pig
- Celebrating poetry pamphlets: new readings online
- "All that glitters is not gold" - Curator's Choice
- What Are You Reading? #NationalBookLoversDay
- Nahum Tate’s King Lear: A Happy Tale?
- Kemp’s Nine Days Wonder: Curator’s Choice
- Zines resurgent
- Richard Burbage and The Dead Man's Fortune
- Zine but not heard: printed ephemera and research
- The Mystery in the Mystery Novel: Does William Henry Fox Talbot appear in Wilkie Collin’s The Woman in White?
- Shakespeare: Gentleman or Player?
- In Defence of Shakespeare: Tolstoy and Orwell
- Delving into the Laurence Olivier Archive: fan letters and Macbeth
- P is for Printess: New Acquisition
- Peter Brook and A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- Touching History
- Discovering Literature: 20th Century is launched!
- Punk fanzine ‘Oh Cardiff... Up Yours!’ donated to the Library
- International Dylan Thomas Day: New Acquisition
- Who was the first Shakespearean actress?
- From poets to punk: Who is Barry Miles?
- “the apparel oft proclaims the man”
- Seamus Heaney: From “Ex-poet” to Nobel Laureate
- Investigating the Price of Kindness
- ‘Is this a forgery I see before me?’
- Recent Acquisition: Shirley Jones’ ‘The Quest’
- How deep is the ocean, how high is the sky?
- J. G. Ballard: Streets in the Sky and the Secret Logic of the High-Rise
- Bringing a Liverpool Heart to Moliére
- The fairy tale queen: Angela Carter
- Seven things that you might not know about Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- Cataloguing begins on the Joan Littlewood Archive
- Olwyn Marguerite Hughes (1928-2016)
2015
- English and Drama End of Year Round-Up 2015
- How we created Alice in Wonderland
- An Unrequited Love? Charlotte Brontë’s letters to Constantin Heger
- The British Library acquires Kenneth Williams’s personal papers
- Congratulations to the winners of the 2015 Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets
- Alice in Wonderland exhibition opens today at the British Library!
- Countdown to the announcement of the Michael Marks Award winners
- Nell Gwyn the collector's favourite
- The various incarnations of Ronald Harwood’s The Dresser
- Nick Mann’s ‘A Short Fanzine about Rocking’ takes its rightful place in the British Library
- The Name's Bond, James Bond
- Artist Portraits: John Berger's latest book launch at the British Library
- The British Library acquires the D’Oyly Carte archive
- Animal Tales by S.F. Said, author of Varjak Paw
- International Translation Day 2015 at the British Library
- Shining a light on poetry pamphlets for National Poetry Day
- Celebrating Translation at the British Library
- The Michael Marks Awards 2015: now open for entries
- Lee Harwood: Sailing Westward
- Remembering the 4th of July...
- The British Library acquires the archive of the playwright and screenwriter, Julian Mitchell
- Podcast of 'A Celebration of Anthony Trollope' at the British Library
- Rupert Brooke and Phyllis Gardner
- Marking the Centenary of Virginia Woolf’s first novel: The Voyage Out.
- On novels and the art of writing them: the rules according to Anthony Trollope
- "Terror ... and the Supernatural": Stanley Kubrick's Gothic Adaptation of The Shining
2014
- What's in a name, or How Gothic is Goth?
- Jane Austen and the ‘very horrid’ Northanger Abbey
- ‘The Story is the Thing’: Graham Swift on reading his stories out loud
- The Face in the Glass: Mary Elizabeth Braddon and the Victorian Gothic Tale
- History at Stake! The Story Behind Vampire Slaying Kits
- Happy Birthday Bram Stoker!
- Mouse-skin eyebrows.
- George Orwell’s Burmese Days
- Carry on Screaming
- 'Think only this': war poets witnessing a century of war at the British Library
- London - A Literary Anthology. A new publication from the British Library.
- Tim Etchells on the Forced Entertainment collection
- The International Workshop Festival Collection (1988 - 2001)
- The Secret Life of Books (at the British Library)
- Living the Victorian Nightmare: The Damnation of Theron Ware
- We Will Remember Them
- 'Goodbye to All That': Lavinia Greenlaw guest blog...
- Aleister Crowley on record
- Arthur Graeme West’s 'Diary of a Dead Officer' remembered.
- Performance Archives: SIBMAS TLA 2014 - New York City
- ‘The most beautiful lyrical prose of the 20th century’: Happy birthday Laurie Lee
- Discover more about Jane Austen at the British Library
- Portraits Behaving Badly: Decadence, Degeneration and The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Reading Shelley’s Ashes and Byron’s Hair
- 'That is an amazing horrid book, is it not?'
- Something to smile about: Charles Dickens on Discovering Literature
- Discovering Literature - British Library literary treasures go digital
- Laurie Lee's lost diary on display
- The Spirit Voice of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- A Long Forgotten Poem by the Admirable Crichton
- More Shakespeare
- Laurie Lee's lost diary discovered
- ‘Don’t rip up old stories’: repeating oneself in Beckett’s Echo’s Bones
- Looking for Solace in a Busy World: The Best Gardens in Literature
- Happy International Children's Book day!
- Friends of Genius in Distress?
- Happy Birthday Ibsen!
- Two more Crime Classics found in the Library
- Wilfred Owen: 'The Poetry is in the pity'
- English literary treasures back on display - for free
- 8-9 March, A Date with The Folio Fiction Prize Literary Festival
- Required Blogging: The Philip Larkin Collection in the British Library.
- Trevor Eaton: The Chaucer Man
- In Berlin...
- Hanif Kureishi on why he deposited his archive at the British Library
- Recording the Future of Theatre
- Do you know the real Anne Brontë?
- Arthur Conan Doyle and The Adventure of the Executed Knight
- ‘The most influential radio programme ever’? Charles Chilton, P J Harvey, and soldiers' songs
2013
- Andrew Motion, Owen Sheers and P J Harvey read war poetry at the British Library
- A good murder for Christmas?
- Fifty Glorious Years! Doctor Who and the Invasion of Dusty Victorians
- Professor Heger's Daughter
- The Shakespeare sculpture at the British Library
- The Radfords
- Most of What Follows is a Complete Waste of Time
- Keith Sagar and Ted Hughes
- Rediscovered: the earliest recording of Ted Hughes?
- The Angel of Charleston - keeping house for the Bloomsbury Group
- Scientists Behaving Badly
- Jokes for David Frost
- Evelyn Waugh manuscripts at the British Library
- The first audiobook
- Theo Marzials: a bad poet, but possibly the British Library’s darling
- The Charleston Bulletin Supplements
- What's the longest play in the world anyway (anyone)?
- Robert Louis Stevenson and the Strange Case of the Spanish Vampire
- Ken Campbell is alive and you are dead
- Newly acquired W.H. Auden Journal
- The 'Sacred' seasons of live art at the Chelsea Theatre
- Six golden rules for writers
- The Keepsake Kiss
- New Beatles acquisition at the British Library
- In Praise of the Unloved
- James Joyce on record
- Royal Court Theatre recordings at the British Library
- Neil Bartlett's Desert Island Discs
- Goodbye to the Singing Hypnotist
- The other Knightley Chetwode
- 'Murder in the Library': the soundtrack
- From Agatha (Christie) to the Zodiac Murders - an A-Z of crime fiction
- New Year, New Acquisition
- 'Putting a bomb under Scottish literature'
2012
- Blockheads and coxcombs: a belated bicentenary mention for Edmond Malone
- Privates on Parade- Theatre of War
- Some gratuitous Christmas illustrations
- 'Just a name on a list'? Archives: traces of the past, guarantor of the future
- Two recent acquisitions
- "As I write this letter...Treasure these few words 'til we're together": John Lennon's Letters
- British Library has acquired the James Berry archive
- The Power of Caribbean Poetry – Word and Sound
- Written Britain
- A country life - a poem, the pastoral and the pretender
- Islington: "remote and faintly suspect"?
- Who Does He Think He Was?
- Coleridge, Wordsworth and digital mapping
- Brighton Rock
- The Art of Wandering (and competition)
- Happy Yorkshire Day
- The Man Booker Prize in Writing Britain (part one)
- A monstrous creature of the beetle tribe...
- Sound-making as place-making: Mark Peter Wright’s sound installations for Writing Britain
- James Berry's 'Windrush Songs'
- Peasant poets in Writing Britain
- "Only a small story ...." Laurie Lee and Cider with Rosie
- Roughened water
- 'A Grim Sort of Beauty'
- The Water Poet, pageants and the Thames
- "Why is there so much Dorset in this exhibition?"
- Sweeney Todd - a heart warming tale?
- "I went to a marvellous party..."
- Artist in Residence Christopher Green invites you to meet the mesmerists from ages past
- Grands projets…petits souvenirs
- Buddha of Suburbia and other loans
- Some advice for Boris
- Our Mutual Friend: Dickens, Staplehurst and the Thames
- Sneak Preview - Keith Waterhouse in Writing Britain
- A chlorine hit, a monorail, and 12 First Folios
- A Detective not of an Age but for All Time
- Mister Shakespeare, Mister Doyle, and me
- Send in the Writers
- I became in secret the slave of certain appetites
- Writing about Writing Britain
- Hello from English and Drama
European studies
2025
- The Scrapbooks of the Imprimerie Royale
- Tulips: Dutch, Turkish, or Flemish?
- Not lost in translation
- Printed cultural heritage of Slovenian émigré communities in Europe, Americas and Australia
- Celebrating Stanisław Wyspiański at the British Library
- New Italian Literature: Premio Strega 2025
- Works of Svetlana Aleksievich: editions, translations, interpretations
- Gnomes and Gardens
- Italian Connections Unearthed
- Seminar on Textual Bibliography for Modern Foreign Languages
- Terror, triumph and resistance: Women in the Yugoslav Partisans, 1941-1945
- Remembering Sacrifice, Celebrating Freedom
- ████ is ████. Navigating the Minefield of (Self-)censorship in Putin's Russia
- Historic maps of the Slovene lands
- Small and rare: a Spanish love story
- Learning - and Shouting out for - German over the Centuries
- Lidwina van Schiedam: Patron Saint of Ice Skaters and Chronic Illness
- From the Track to the Page: the Legacy of Zdeněk Koubek and Lída Merlínová.
- Kharkiv
- Queen Tamar – the ‘King of Kings’
- For the Love of Books: European Collections at the British Library Doctoral Open Days
- Medieval Women at the Press
- European Collections: From Antiquity to 1800 – Uncovering Rare Books at the British Library Doctoral Open Days
- A Balm on so many Wounds: Etty Hillesum’s Diaries 1941-1943
- Beyond Traditional Monuments: Commemorating the Lost Jewish Community of Kaunas
- Silenced memories: the Holocaust Narrative in the Soviet Union
- Through the Eyes of Terezín’s Ghetto Children
- Capturing ancient shadows: Vera Stein Ehrlich and the anthropology of the Western Balkans
- Fragments of the Past: Holocaust Legacies and Commemoration. Holocaust Memorial Day 2025
- New Year, Old Years: a Look Back
2024
- Christmas in Scheveningen 1942
- Devil in the details: Nikolai Gogol's ‘Christmas Eve’
- “Rendez-vous at the British Library”: 6 December 2024
- The wolf children of East Prussia
- Marx versus Kinkel – a tale of two newspapers
- A Lifeline of Books: The British Library and Polish Exiles
- Dimitrije Mitrinović: From the Decolonization of the Balkans to a United Europe
- How Bitter the Savour is of Other’s Bread? International Conference on European Political Refugees in the UK from 1800
- Wage Peace Not War. Leo Tolstoy and Mahatma Gandhi on Violence, Nonresistance, and Love
- Werther at 250 - an 18th-Century Bestseller
- Bulgarian Ethnography: photographic collections of the Ethnographic Institute and Museum in Sofia
- Underground Publishing in Poland under Communist Regime: Through Female Eyes
- Empire and French Caricature from 1870-1871 (Part 2)
- A short selection of new Ukrainian books to mark the Independence Day
- Religious Metaphors in French Caricature from 1870-71 (Part 1)
- The Marriage of Sport and Art: Poland at the Forgotten Olympic Art Competitions (1912-1948)
- Basketball: two small Baltic countries punching above their weight
- Divided by Politics – ‘United’ by Sport? The German Unified Olympic Team
- Defiance on the World Stage: Czechoslovak Protests and the Olympic Games
- How the Polish nobility and a "little Russian [? – Belarusian!] girl" shaped Belarusian sports
- Georgia’s acclaimed writer Aka Morchiladze
- Bulgarian minorities’ culture in the 20th century
- In Memory of Ismail Kadare (28 January 1936 – 1 July 2024)
- Premio Strega 2024: behind the scenes
- EURO 2024: The Dutch Legion takes over Hamburg
- Miracles and Fairy Tales: some German Football Stories
- Ukraine: A Life in Football
- Can you learn to play football from a book?
- Seminar on Textual Bibliography for Modern Foreign Languages 2024
- Preservation of Roma historical and cultural heritage in Bulgaria
- Continental cookbooks
- European prose in transformation (Part 2) The European Writers’ Festival returns to the British Library
- European prose in transformation (Part 1). The European Writers’ Festival returns to the British Library
- In a whirlwind of change. The European Writers’ Festival returns to the British Library
- The Hobbit – there and back, or what are you looking for? Braille books in Slavonic collections 2.
- “The hands want to see, the eyes want to caress”. Braille books in Slavonic collections 1
- The Endangered Archives Programme: Safeguarding the Private Archive of the Lazic Family
2023
- Repairing the Past: on We Slaves of Suriname
- Jon Fosse, 2023 Nobel Literature Laureate
- Forgotten stories still to be uncovered
- An Emblem Book without Emblems
- The Slovenian Age of Enlightenment
- Women in Translation Month 2023
- New light on the earliest ‘professor’ of Spanish in the UK?
- Paul Vincent - 40 years of translating
- Taras Shevchenko display at the British Library
- From the Book ‘Wooden Idols’: An Anti-Book
- Remembering Die Weisse Rose
- Georgian Manuscripts in the British Library
- The Petit Prince and animals
- Seminar on Textual Bibliography for Modern Foreign Languages
- Anthony Anaxagorou: An out-spoken poet, writer, publisher and educator
- Wim de Bie (1939 – 2023)
- EOKA pamphlets at the British Library
- PhD Studentship opportunity – The Belarus Collection at the British Library
- Siberian Ethnographic Museums: Indigenous Lives Exhibited
- The Art of Collecting and the Futurist Avant-garde
- Ingvar Ambjørnsen’s rare debut work Pepsikyss
- The Charta of Greece
- The Colonisation of Novaya Zemlya through the Photographs and Short Stories of Konstantin Nosilov
- The revolutionary career of a student drinking song
- Digital Shevchenkiana – a Joint English-Ukrainian Project
- Traders, spies, suffragettes? Women in cultural anthropology
- New acquisitions: Rab-Rab Press
- Marking one year since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine
- “All the strength I muster to live” – queer voices from Poland
- La Nuit des Idées
- Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis: a genius cursed by fate?
- PhD placement opportunity: Enhancing access to manuscripts and archives in the French language
- The Photographic Collection of Indigenous Childhood
2022
- An A to Z of the European Studies Blog 2022
- Songs, games and fortune telling: the story behind Koliada
- Propaganda or Protest? Hans Baumann’s ‘Alexander’
- He lived as he taught, and taught as he lived: Ukrainian philosopher and poet Hryhorii Skovoroda
- Stanisław Wyspiański: Shades of Melancholia
- British Library East View e-resources now available remotely
- The Curious Woodcuts in Hartlieb’s Late-Medieval Adventures of Alexander the Great
- Call for PhD project partners: ‘Postcolonial Discourse in East European Studies and its Application to British Library Collections’
- The spirit of freedom, or an episode in the life of a private person in the time of transformations
- An Encounter between Knowledge Systems: the Work of Snowchange Cooperative
- Annie Ernaux’s time in London
- Vicente Salgado: a new acquisition
- Cassandra by Lesia Ukrainka: a UK premiere
- Maylis de Kerangal and Shumona Sinha in conversation at the Institut francais
- ‘As if some long-since inhabited country had been fished up out of the bottom of the sea’: Travel Literature on Iceland
- Remembering Mikhail Gorbachev
- Women in Translation Month 2022 (Part 2)
- Women in Translation Month 2022 (Part 1)
- Remembering historians of Ukraine on the Day of National Independence
- Graham Nattrass Lecture 2022 - ‘Wittenberg 1522’
- A Bibliographical Mystery Solved
- Ukraine Lab: British Library workshop
- Reporting Victory
- Christian Boltanski’s ‘Les Habitants de Malmö’ (1994)
- Breaking the News - Breaking the Law
- Your name here: five Spanish bullfighting posters from 1769
- Icelandic manuscripts in the British Library
- Ceramics and the Avant-Garde: the life of Tullio d’Albisola
- Meet the Curators: A News-themed Session – 23 June 2022
- Italian Collections in UK Libraries: Past, Present & Future
- Jubilees Habsburg Style
- ‘Breaking the News’: Tajny Detektyw – crimes and sensationalism in interwar Poland
- Seminar on Textual Bibliography for Modern Foreign Languages
- The Art of Noises
- John Cruso of Norwich: a man of many parts
- Reframing the Tin Book
- The Man who Discovered his Homeland; or, a Polymath without Publications
- Swedish Bird Books
- Rare editions of Taras Shevchenko’s ‘Kobzar’ in the British Library
- “Your problems are also my problems” – tracing Ukraine in the British Library's Solidarity Collection
- Ukrainian collections in the British Library
- Love, like any other - Maria Dąbrowska and Anna Kowalska
- Discovering Limburgish
- In Defence of Armchair Travellers
- PhD Placement Opportunity - Contextualising a digital photographic archive of Siberian Indigenous peoples
- PhD Placement Opportunity - Displaced Persons (DP) Camp Publications in the British Library
- A Dutch Poet on ‘Tortured Majesties’: Reactions to the Executions of Mary Stuart and Charles Stuart.
- In Memoriam: Zuzanna Krzemien (1987-2021)
- “Only your work will be remembered”: the 150th anniversary of Jože Plečnik’s birth
- When Wagner 'met' Beethoven
- Art, poetry and social action – some of 2021’s less conventional Nordic acquisitions
2021
- Dutch New Year – Portuguese Oil Fritters
- Occupied City, 1921-2021
- Festive Feasts
- Stefan Zweig and the Rival Queens
- Vaclav Havel’s Pokouseni - Temptation of a bibliophile
- Dante and Esperanto
- Book Donation by Roberto L. Bruni (1945-2020): a collection on Italian Studies
- From Dositej Obradović with thanks: a donation of the first Serbian books
- Two new fine editions of Georgia's national poet
- ‘The Unknown Feminist of Fin-de-siècle Europe: Lesia Ukrainka’ at the British Library
- Elizabeth I and languages
- Astrid Roemer - unconventional, poetic and authentic
- Tove Jansson’s illustrations for Carroll and Tolkien
- Venice: Tales of a Sinking City – an online event
- Red Élisabeth: Émigré, Intellectual, Organiser, Communarde
- Lesia Ukrainka at 150: A journey through the British Library collections (Part II)
- Lesia Ukrainka at 150: A journey through the British Library collections (Part I)
- ‘Writing is a tattoo’ — Kamel Daoud and his work
- Investigating German colonialism in the British Library’s collections
- 1848 Revolutions: the Czech perspective
- Angela Merkel - a leadership in books
- ‘Ill scratches the bear’, an endangered proverbial species
- 700 years of Dante at the British Library
- Celebrating 700 years of Dante at the British Library
- Women in Translation Month 2021
- Connie Palmen’s Laws, Loves, and Stories
- Follow up: Important information for email subscribers
- Bears of Bern – Fictional and Real
- Important information for email subscribers
- Documenting the Belarus Protests, 2020-2021
- British Intellectuals and Russian Bears
- Inheritance Books: Annelies Dogterom, Cataloguer West European Languages
- Ten Years on from 22 July: The Cultural Imperative to Remember
- Poets and pen-pushers
- Euro 2020: Orange Madness
- Euro 2020: What to Read (Part II)
- The mystery link between The Brass Bottle and Soviet football revealed
- Euro 2020: What to Read (Part I)
- Portuguese liberal exiles in Plymouth
- I libertini - Same-Sex Desire in Italian Baroque Literature
- Translating the French Revolution: Italian printing culture during the revolutionary Triennio, 1796-1799
- The Fiery End of the Paris Commune
- The Gospels of Metropolitan Jakov of Serres
- The Toppling of the Vendôme Column
- Two women, a lawyer and a book chest
- Simon Vestdijk, 1898-1971
- A Burglarious Attempt to Declaw the Lion
- New Slavonic e-resources at the British Library
- Rosa Luxemburg: a brief glimpse in five items
- Georgian Collections in the British Library
- Doughnuts and Fools: Some Carnival Traditions
- Multi-tasking women from the 1920s to the 2020s
- Women's Suffrage in Switzerland
- A radical duo and their Italian connection
- Beyond the Exhibition: Unfinished Business – Curators' Lunchtime Session
- Antonio Gramsci: translator, storyteller and educator
- How to trick a lion
2020
- That was the year that was…
- A musical festive feast from around Europe
- Clothes mean more than bodies
- After Bodoni: Italian Typography in the 20th Century
- From Binding to Printing: Christophe Plantin
- Friedrich Engels: politics and paradoxes
- Celebrating the centenary of Sovremennye zapiski
- Feminism in Early Modern Venice: Lucrezia Marinella
- PhD Placement Opportunity - Interrogating German Collections
- Frederick Cosens, a forgotten Hispanist
- The Spanish Friar who “told Europe” about China
- Gianni Rodari, the logic of fantasy (part 2)
- Solidarity in satire
- Nomen est omen
- German Reunification - Before and Beyond 1990
- “Contested commemoration”: Trieste’s memorials of Fascism, Nazism and World War Two
- Shining a light on Wilkie Collins and the Low Countries
- Mały konspirator
- Edward Spencer Dodgson, an English eccentric
- Chernobyl: two new acquisitions at the British Library
- Jadwiga Piątkowska, the forgotten poet of Solidarity
- 21 Gdańsk Demands: the First Step towards Freedom
- Dutch Debut Wins International Booker Prize 2020
- Gutenberg Anniversaries - not all that they seem?
- The City of Rijeka: European Capital of Culture
- Inheritance Books: Marja Kingma, Curator Germanic Collections
- Gianni Rodari, the logic of fantasy (part 1)
- Translation and melancholy
- Inheritance Books: Susan Reed, Lead Curator Germanic Collections
- Inheritance Books: Katya Rogatchevskaia, Lead Curator East European Collections
- The Gilbert White of Bohemia? Aleš Pařízek
- Coronavirus (Covid-19) ephemera material from Southeast Europe
- Inheritance Books: Janet Ashton, West European Languages Cataloguing Team Manager
- Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History Month (Part 2)
- Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History Month (Part 1)
- Inheritance Books: Pardaad Chamsaz, Curator Germanic Collections
- Radio Londres
- Inheritance Books: Barry Taylor, Curator Romance Collections
- The Fall of the Berlin Wall from a Child’s Eye View
- Inheritance Books: Zuzanna Krzemien, Curator East European Collections
- Booktrade and publishing in Southeast Europe during the pandemic in 2020
- Libraries and librarians from Southeast Europe during the pandemic in 2020
- “City of exiles”: Trieste and its authors
- Esperanto and Endangered Languages
- Fairytales across borders
- General Władysław Anders – A soldier, politician and patron of culture
- Alfons Mucha and his Art Nouveau books
- Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman – a most unlucky printer
- PhD Studentship Opportunity – The Michael Hamburger Archive: Mediating European Literature
- Poems from the Edge of Extinction II
- Poems from the Edge of Extinction I
- This grain of sand is nevertheless a whole world: Literature of The Faroes
- Slovenian gay poetry in translation: Tracing the Unspoken by Milan Šelj
- PhD Studentship Opportunity - Caricatures from the Franco-Prussian War and Paris Commune
- Books that don’t look like books
- Bringing the News in Revolutionary Berlin
- The Royal Granny Catherine the Great as an author of the first books for children
- Stanislaw Lem: mimicretins and other smart machines
- Against books that 'look like paper rags'
- Friedrich Hölderlin
- Kashubia, where is it?
- Jean Cocteau’s ‘Drôle de Ménage’
- Children’s Tales from Across the Channel (2)
- Nordic Comics Today: A Day of Events
- Children's Tales from Across the Channel (1)
- Travelling through the British Library’s Dutch-Surinamese Collections via Johan Fretz’s ‘Onder de Paramariboom’
- The return of Miloš Crnjanski to London
- The Centenary of the Treaty of Trianon
- The grandmother of all Czech authors: Božena Němcová
- ‘Foreign Language Printing in London’ online
- ‘Suffering and sweat and tears’: Stratis Tsirkas
- ‘Humble books’: B. U. Kashkin’s wooden artist books at the British Library
- Difficult truths - recent literature on the Holocaust in Poland
- ‘How delightful to be a governess’ [not]: Anne Brontë in Translation
- Mysterious, Fierce and Fragrant: a 15th-Century Encounter with a Civet
2019
- Theodor Fontane’s British Wanderings
- One of the very best Danish bookplate artists: two recent Ebba Holm acquisitions
- Is it better to give or to receive?
- Travels with George Eliot: the Moulin/Moinho/Mühle on the Floss
- Beautifully meaningless: Codex Seraphinianus
- De Bezige Bij – 75 years and still buzzing
- From Bach to Jazz in Rotterdam
- Pippi and others: Astrid Lindgren’s young rebels
- ‘The Man Who Lost His Homeland’*
- British Library x Charles Jeffrey Research Competition launched: show & tell top picks from the European Studies team
- Recreating the Lost Sculptures of Umberto Boccioni
- Ceremonial greetings in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
- The Revolutionary Year of 1989
- The Book as a Project: Giambattista Bodoni
- ‘The Ark of Unique Cultures’: the story of a remarkable handmade book
- Franco Arminio: Poetry and Paesology
- UNOVIS – the Bauhaus of the East
- Dutch Literature takes Centre Stage at the British Library
- ‘The Shakespeare of the dance’: Jean-Georges Noverre
- “Free Croatia for Croatian people”: the Croatian journal “Hrvatska revija” 1951-2000
- The 2018 and 2019 Nobel Prizes in Literature
- 70 Years of Books From and About East Germany
- Defending a Nazi – a barrister’s path from opponent of Nazism to advocatus diaboli
- A Journey from St Petersburg to Moscow, or a story of Imperial glory, radical ideas and rare books
- Ik, Jan Cremer – controversial, but not banned
- How the Index Librorum Prohibitorum ended up on an illustrated magazine
- Crusoe’s Adventures in Enlightenment Germany
- How to Catch a Whale? (And Some Herring, Too)
- A European Autumn at the British Library
- A ‘Colonial Anecdote’ in Translation: Jean-Baptiste Picquenard’s Adonis in Swedish
- Digging within digging: ‘Rosso Malpelo’
- Women in Translation Month: top picks from the European Studies team (Part 2)
- Women in Translation Month: top picks from the European Studies team (Part 1)
- Raymond Roussel’s strange book
- Learning to read Cyrillic from 13th century Novgorod to the USSR
- ‘C’est un détournement’: Mezioud Ouldamer’s copy of Guy Debord and Asger Jorn’s Mémoires
- Max Havelaar: the Novel that Killed Colonialism
- A Letter to Panizzi with Echoes and Sparks
- The three lives of the Georgian alphabet
- Pérák, the only Czech superhero
- When moderation went out of the window: the First Defenestration of Prague
- Matilde Serao: proud to be imperfect
- Love, Art and Rejection: Mayakovsky’s Pro eto
- Animals, Folk Tales and Tragedy: the family story behind a Ukrainian reading book
- Phrenology and English teaching: Mariano Cubí y Soler
- Finliandets: the magazine of the Imperial Russian Finland Guard Regiment in Exile
- The Boyfriends of Giarre
- ¡Authentically Spanish!
- Translating Ibsen: monstrous rare of attainment
- ‘The Father of German Calligraphy’: Johann Neudörffer
- Transcending Text in Print: Lothar Schreyer’s Kreuzigung
- Olga in Spain
- Lalla Romano (1906-2001): from painting to writing
- P. G. Wodehouse under Continental Covers
- Script, history and ideology: German fonts and handwriting
- A Spanish pioneer of deaf education and his early English readers
- Up the garden path with the Brothers Čapek and friends
- Seminar on Textual Bibliography for Modern Foreign Languages
- English Recusants in Portugal, 1638
- Ukrainian Pysanka – the Writing on the Egg
- Poets in Power: the 1919 Bavarian Soviet Republic
- In the footsteps of Princess Izabela Czartoryska
- The Russian in Britain: the Most Essential Book for Every Traveller and Tourist
- John Bull, or the English People in their Great Peculiarity
- Fairytales on trial: the Good and the Beautiful in early Soviet children’s literature
- Documenting Georgian Costume in the 19th Century
- Pirandello’s nose
- “I only wish my works to be known”. Faddei Bellinsgauzen: The Voyages.
- The Cats’ Newspaper: or the Cat’s Pyjamas?
- It All Adds Up: a Quick Look at Chronograms
- The Archbishop and the Rogue: William Laud’s copy of ‘Guzmán de Alfarache’
- A Cat may Counsel a King: the Colourful World of Czech Cats
- Against Totalitarianism: the Serbian émigré review ‘Naša reč’, 1948-1990
- Unlocking Access to Ancient Science in Renaissance Italy: the vernacularization of Pliny’s ‘Historia Naturalis’
- Kater Murr at 200: ‘the cleverest, best and wittiest creature of his kind ever beheld’
- ‘Tom Puss, conjure up a trick!’
- Agustín Fernández Mallo and the Nocilla Project
- You can’t go out dressed like that! A crack-down on extravagance in 17th-century Lisbon
- Pan Kotsky
- Katharina Luther and a Letter to a Laureate
- Translating Cultures: French Caribbean History, Literature and Migration
- Pascual de Gayangos and the British Museum Library
2018
- A Look Back
- Two Distinguished Women and a Seasonal Greetings Card Mystery
- A Bioluminescent Christmas
- The ‘Artist Maks’: The Ukrainian Disciple of Aubrey Beardsley
- Russian cats 3: Muri in Search of his Kingdom
- Hundertwasser’s 90th and 35 Days In Sweden
- A Mysterious Linguistic Enclave in Southern Poland
- Russian Cats 2: The Hermitage Cats
- (Not?) Petrarch’s Cat
- From Culinary Staple to Prophetic Symbol: More on the Herring
- Some Russian Cats
- Hold the entire Bible in your head!
- The case of the two Simon Kaufmanns
- The Netherlands’ ‘Red Week’ in November 1918 – Troelstra’s Mistake
- Lady Paget and Serbia
- Signed by the artist: the free and honest life of Oscar Rabin
- The gentle giant of Russian literature: Ivan Turgenev
- ‘Umbra Vitae’: Expressionism in Word and Image
- Academy and Society in the Balkans
- Writing in a Time of Crisis: Serhiy Zhadan
- ‘Where are your Olympic Games?’ Panagiotis Soutsos (1806-1868)
- A pessimist on Parnassus: Leconte de Lisle
- Saving a city wiiiiiith a (red) herring!
- Václav Hübschmann’s satirical illustrations in the magazine Kopřivy.
- A long-lived Spanish book and a short-lived English king
- Centenary of the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine
- ‘The Mafia doesn’t exist’
- ‘This art, at once so beautiful and so ungrateful…’ Celebrating World Ballet Day
- 1918: A New Europe on Film
- Languages of Reckoning: The Gagauz Number System
- War-Painting: the End of Futurism
- Russian research resources – digital and free. Open access, digitisation and beyond.
- Translating Cultures: French Caribbean History, Literature and Migration
- ‘In constant movement without an end’: the warp and weft of fashion research
- The Portuguese Hobson-Jobson
- Protestant Propaganda from the Thirty Years’ War
- Byron’s ‘Breton cousin’: François-René de Chateaubriand
- A diary as a form of art: Jiří Kolář
- “Buried at his feet”: Fanny Susan Copeland, Triglav and Slovenia
- Pavlo Skoropadskyi – Hetman of the Ukrainian State 1918
- The two Belgians who were the first Europeans to reach Cape Horn
- A Bohemian bicentenary: Václav Bolemír Nebeský and the Národní Muzeum
- Failing Colonizers or Failing Memory: Sweden in the Americas
- Signs of different times: French First World War posters
- East European newspapers in the British Library collection
- Devout diplomat and dramatist: Paul Claudel (1868-1955)
- ‘We’re all excited about Brussels!’ – The Atomium at 60
- Wuthering around the world: Emily Brontë in translation
- Choose your poison: tobacco, coffee, tea or chocolate?
- ‘A work of art must be as logical as a machine’
- A Right Royal Gift Book: ‘The Wedding at Windsor’
- Antoine Vérard’s early printed books in the British Library
- Announcing the British Library’s new Translator in Residence
- Funding Victory: French posters from the end of the First World War
- ‘Youngest of the seven brothers’: Eino Leino (1878-1926)
- A Spanish cricket aficionado in late 19th-century Surrey
- Gӧrz, Gorizia, Gorica: digital scholarship brings a city’s history to life again
- Georg Forster: from ‘Resolution’ to Revolution
- Proto-internet trolls’: Johann Friedrich Struensee and freedom of expression in 18th century Denmark
- Put on your sky-blue hat for a day at the races with Adèle Hugo
- Flag Day celebrates the new ‘Maatjes’.
- From Sokol to Symbolism: the short life of Karel Hlaváček
- The Reign of Terror ends
- The Zagreb magazine ‘Nova Evropa’
- Ernst Friedrich and his War against War
- Silver Darlings, Icelandic Gold: Herring in the Northern Imagination
- Janusz Korczak – the champion of children
- More Mountains with Wild Men
- Do not lean out of the window – especially in Prague
- European Literature Night at the British Library: identity and translation
- Southern French printing during the Revolution: Le Journal de Marseille and La prise de Toulon
- An Eyewitness Account of Life in the Early 19th-Century Habsburg Empire
- ‘And so I came among the Germans’… Costantinos Chatzopoulos (1868-1920)
- “A rogue and a madman”: August Strindberg's Antibarbarus
- Karl Marx’s 200th Birthday
- Transparency and Too Much Information!!
- Why did Joseph Banks go to Iceland in 1772?
- Seminar on Textual Bibliography for Modern Foreign Languages
- La Diada de Sant Jordi: a History of Saint George’s Day Celebrations in Catalonia
- ‘Now my text will be destroyed by gingerbread men’: the collaboration between Arthur Sjögren and August Strindberg
- Montenegro in 19th-century Maps and History Books
- Esperanto – not what you thought?
- The British Library’s Russia in the UK Web Archive
- French 18th-Century Books with Colour-Printed Illustrations in the British Library
- Singing in the rain with Vítězslav Nezval
- Literature of the Baltic countries in English translation
- Public Passions: the Oberammergau Passion Play
- Obe Postma and Emily Dickinson’s bees
- Le Journal de Marseille: a new periodical in the British Library’s French Revolutionary collections
- The Centenary of the Belarusian Democratic Republic
- Why Oudewater was so attractive to ‘witches’
- Hygge, noir or both? The Films of Carl Theodor Dreyer
- The Russian Love Affair with the Arabian Horse
- Konstantin Somov and Hugh Walpole in Russia
- Mr Inkblot’s Academy – A Polish Children’s Classic
- Amid a thousand and one stars: the Crimean Tatar language
- Travels to Montenegro in the 19th century: a collection of digitised books
- The Battle of Valle Giulia 50 Years After - 1 March 1968
- Women on brooms and more such raging.
- Deluxe printing: Antoine Vérard’s 1498 illuminated Merlin
- The first grammar of modern Ukrainian: 200 years ago
- Chekhov, Sakhalin and the Russian Famine of 1891–92
- Silent Witnesses: Two Manuals of the Sart Language
- Rainbow sickness: Beauty and despair in Carlo Levi’s ‘Christ stopped at Eboli’
- 1918 and the Eclipse of Populist Marxism
- Maria Prymachenko’s fantastic world of flowers and animals
- Exporting the Animals’ Revolt: Kostamorov - Reymont - Orwell
- 10,315 x 2: the days of and after the Berlin Wall
- Arians in the age of the Polish Reformation
- Tolkien’s ‘Secret Vice’
- PhD placement opportunity at the British Library: First World War French Posters
- Another Revolt of the Animals: Nikolai Kostomarov’s ‘Skotskoi Bunt’
- The Adventures of ‘The Swiss Family Robinson’
- Three Alphabets of the Belarusian Language
- Mapping the Christmas Flood of 1717
- Władysław Reymont’s Revolt of the Animals
- ‘Do the Finnish people have a history?’ Zachris Topelius’s 200th birthday
- An Arthurian castle in Slovenia: the history, legends and future of Castle Borl
- Two Murders, a Suicide and an Anglo-German Newspaperman
- Algerian pirates, a famous Spanish captain and a lesser-known Virgin
- Polish mathematicians and cracking the Enigma
2017
- 2017: a Year in the Life of the European Studies Blog
- Like a Shadow. Heorhiy Yakutovych as Illustrator
- ‘Mild measures are of no use’: The Danish Church Order (1537), Doctor Pomeranus, and Henry VIII
- Yevgenіy Bolkhovitinov - Metropolitan of Kyiv
- Treasures of all nations in Esperanto
- Christmas with the Luthers
- Magic in the inventories
- Martin Luther, family man
- ‘The Gospels are as good in Danish or German as in Latin…’: the earliest Nordic vernacular Bibles
- The Scythians of the North Pontic Area
- New Sources for Book History Conference.
- Exhibiting Martin Luther – then and now
- Orwell in Translation
- A woman for all seasons: Halldis Moren Vesaas
- Magic swords just aren’t cricket
- Alberto Savinio. The social utility of Surrealism
- Heroes and victims of the Revolution
- Domesticating the Goddess ‘Liberty’ during the First World War
- 500 Years of Reformation
- Storm in October: Theodor Storm at 200
- Tolstoy’s Kreutzer Sonata
- Righteous Gentile and honorary Irishman: Zdeněk Urbánek
- Text into image: Quevedo and the Table of Cebes
- Montalbano’s Rice Balls
- Le rose et le noir: Jean Anouilh
- Luther the translator
- 'Poema a fumetti' by Dino Buzzati
- A Salamanca scholar defies the Inquisition
- Alexander Krasnitskii – a Labourer of Literature
- Candide or Candidus? A Swedish translation of the English translation of the French ‘translation from the German’
- Bertillons and others: some language textbooks of the past
- 150 Years of Capital
- International Collaboration: a Dutch Polymath and a Czech Printer in 17th-Century Rome
- ‘The father of evolutionism’: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
- No mean achievement: the first Basque New Testament
- ‘Le chef de l’école du laid’: Gustave Courbet in 19th-century caricatures.
- Hope, Tragedy, Myths - and Curation.
- The Aeneid of Bazylevych – celebrating Kotlyarevsky's masterpiece
- A Tale of Two Countries
- Devil, Rascal, Love Machine? The Afterlives of Rasputin
- Miracle on the Vistula
- Bread as a weapon in two Spanish wars
- ‘A Czechoslovakian epic’: the Czechoslovak Legion in the Russian Revolution
- Belarus Celebrates 500 Years of Printing
- Triumph and Tragedy: Esperanto and the Russian Revolution
- Reforming Switzerland
- Robotic and Quixotic
- A rediscovered incunable
- Esperanto as an Asian language
- A French Revolution Primer for Bastille Day!
- Victims and Pretenders: the Murder of the Romanovs
- Coppet, Constant and Corinne: the colourful life of Madame de Staël
- The Trans-Siberian Railway
- The British Library’s Romanian collections.
- To the Finland Station in a not-so-sealed Train
- Peoples and Languages of the Austrian Empire in 19th-Century Ethnographic Maps
- Joseph Bovshover: Yiddish Poetry, British Anarchism, and the Russian Revolution
- Dispersed Polish collections abroad
- Patterns for 16th-century Stitchers
- Sounds Of The Revolution
- Crying wolf: the Bête du Gévaudan
- Kamenets Tower
- Revolutionaries, spies and royals
- ‘A Man of Throbbing Vitality’: Leon Trotsky and the ‘Leatherites’
- One World, One Script, Many Lects: Early Soviet Turkic Language Reform
- The Death of Lenin
- Prize Papers Online
- Commemorating Russia’s last coronation
- The problem with Berlin Alexanderplatz
- Dmitrii Moor interrogates: Have *You* Bought Your Ticket?
- Short words strike home
- Not Lenin and Trotsky - a Mystery Solved?
- A feisty Finnish feminist: Minna Canth
- A New Path, A New Dawn: Women’s Magazines in 1920s Soviet Uzbekistan
- Seminar on Textual Bibliography for Modern Foreign Languages 2017
- Reformation 1517-2017 at the British Library
- Petro Lyzanets and his love for linguistics
- ‘Workers of all lands, unite!’: The Communist Manifesto
- Russian Revolution: Hope, Tragedy, Myths
- Bianca Bellová wins the EU Prize for Literature
- French Medieval Tales in the 19th Century
- Lenin's Birthday
- Four legs good? A Bohemian Wild Man
- Happy Easter from Imperial Russia
- La Majstro mortis!
- Translator in Residence
- Nature and naturalism: the short life of J. P. Jacobsen
- The Dutch Are Coming!
- Wagenseil, Wagner and the Mastersingers of Nuremberg
- Celebrating the Stefan Zweig Collection
- Hommage to the French Resistance: two recently donated books
- From Cubism to concentration camp: the life and death of Josef Čapek
- Actaeon was not a voyeur
- Poet of a pitiable time: Takis Sinopoulos
- Pskov, Pskov, 35.015: Railway and Revolution
- Polish Noir on the Rise
- The First Anthology of Belarusian Poetry in English: Sponsors and Censors
- Music of the Revolution: the Hymn of Free Russia
- French entertainment in the Evanion collection: from Robert-Houdin to La Foire du Trône
- A Silver Watch
- An irony-free zone: early French translations of Jane Austen
- Stefan Zweig’s Literary and Musical Treasures
- BeLgoLab 2017: Belgian Translations
- Short waves and new waves: Dobroslav Chrobák
- There, on the Other Shore of the Amur: Stories from Russian Life in China
- Mutilated history: Russian Revolution and Beyond
- “Ex musaeo” on a Latin title page = “from the library of” or “edited by”?
- The art of wrecking a friendship 2: Henrik Pontoppidan, L. A. Ring and Nattevagt
- PhD placement opportunity on ‘Karl Marx and the British Library’
- Lidia Zamenhof, a cosmopolitan woman and victim of the Holocaust
- Unsuccessful Persuasion: Jane Austen in 19th-century Germany
- Scratching the Surface: the Runic Imaginary
- The art of ruining a friendship: Zola, Cézanne and L’Œuvre
- Science, Art and Insects: Maria Sibylla Merian
- Father Manuel Alvares, the Portuguese Jesuit who taught the British Latin
- European Literature Network Salon: Three Wise Women
- Gysbert Japicx: founder of Frisian literature
- Making Good - a Cultural Restitution Story
2016
- The Universe in ‘the Galosh of Happiness’: Halia Mazurenko
- Christmas in the Trenches 1916: a Mystery Play.
- The Lettered Bridge: Aleksandr Kazem-Bek
- Stones, Coffins and Violin Cases: Andrey Platonov
- The dangerous language
- 'An absolutely essential handyman and busybody in Russian literature’…Nikolai Karamzin (1766-1826)
- Vincent Cabot, a 16th-century Jurist from Toulouse
- Commemorating the Russian Revolution
- The Brothers Jovanović National Library
- Ukrainians Mark 70 Years of AUGB
- Stefan Zweig and the ‘Magic of Manuscripts’
- ‘Our only epic poet…’: Emile Verhaeren (1855-1916)
- The philologist and the silkworm
- ‘In Catherine’s reign, whom glory still adores…’ : Catherine the Great in the British Library’s collections
- The Year of Henryk Sienkiewicz
- Afire for peace: Henri Barbusse’s Le Feu (1916)
- Knud Leem and the Sami People of Finnmark
- Samuel Boguslaus Chylinski’s Lithuanian Bible
- Shifting the Compass: Literature from the Dutch Antilles and Suriname
- To Naples with Nietzsche and beyond: Malwida von Meysenbug (1816-1903).
- Studying migration and diaspora through Russian language publishing
- Trotsky, Sri Lanka and an ‘Olympian goddess’
- In the service of the children of Serbia 1915-1947
- The Seagull has landed: 120 years of Chekhov’s ‘comedy’
- Frederick Cosens, Shakespeare and the Spanish drama of the Golden Age.
- Andreas Gryphius, monarchs and mechanicals
- Mistress, Mädchen and Minzmeat Pasteten: Kitchen English with Elsa Olga Hollis
- Pavlo Kovzhun or ‘adopt his enthusiasm...’
- ‘The only censor is honesty’: Press Freedom and its Limits in Revolutionary Vienna
- Giorgio Bassani 1916-2000
- Il Decamerone – “Corrected” by Rome
- ‘The greatest German storyteller’? Johann Peter Hebel
- Ira Aldridge's Polish Journey: Developing the Shakespearean Canon and Influencing Local Politics
- I was there when Jäki licked Iggy Pop’s leg: Punk in Germany
- More Virgil than Cervantes
- Tolstoy’s translator: a brief life of Aylmer Maude
- From China to Peru
- Verdi and Shakespeare
- Shakespeare’s role in the development of Esperanto
- Russian Hamlet(s)
- Staging Shakespeare in Soviet Azerbaijan
- The 1919-1921 Ukrainian Diplomatic Mission in London
- The First World War, Ukraine, and the Birth of Independence?
- Olympictures
- Umberto Boccioni 1882-1916
- The Spiritual Jewel of Kyiv
- Delacroix, Chassériau and Shakespeare
- ‘Happiness for ten crowns’: Milena Jesenská (1886-1944).
- Helena Modrzejewska, a Polish Shakespearean actress
- 80 Years Ago: the Berlin Olympics in Words and Pictures
- 'A Lifelong Touchstone': Delacroix and Shakespeare
- To the British Museum Library with the Author’s compliments: Dragoș Protopopescu’s Shakespeare translations
- Petrus Cuniculus, Noisy-Noisette and Frau Tigge-Winkel: Peter Rabbit’s foreign friends
- Facsimile editions of works by Taras Shevchenko with artistic designs of Volodymyr Yurchyshyn
- Esperanto and Fair Communication
- Delacroix, Shakespeare and the London Stage in 1825
- ‘The best of these was Derzhavin…’: Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin (1743-1816)
- Three symbols of Franco’s Spain
- Born on a Fourteenth of July: Joseph Arthur, Comte de Gobineau
- Balkan Day II in Drawings by Ian Long
- The English and football – then and now
- Grey Power
- From Darwinian epic to Christian martyrology: the mystical art of Odilon Redon (1840-1916)
- Continental Utopias
- ‘As a novel there is nothing like it ever again…’: Benjamin Constant’s Adolphe (1816)
- All the World’s a Stage: Shakespeare in Europe and the Americas
- Literary Translation: Whose Voice is it Anyway?
- An Unparalleled Authority on the History of Belarusian Literature
- An Introduction to Bulgarian Literature
- From Deluge to the Digital: Fifty Years of Research and Conservation in Florence since the 1966 Flood.
- What’s in a Name? Looking forward to Balkan Day 2
- Sheepskins and Shakespeare: Aleksandr Nikolaevich Ostrovsky (1823-1886)
- A Full Circle around Shakespeare
- ‘The rhythm of free speech’: Boris Pasternak translates Shakespeare
- ‘The whole gain of my life is to lament her loss’: Christiane von Goethe
- Cats and Dogs
- From Slapstick to Schlegel: Hamlet goes to Germany
- And yet the time will come: Ivan Franko in Memoriam
- All the World’s a Stage: Shakespeare in Europe and the Americas
- ‘All happy families are alike…’? The memoirs of Ilya Tolstoy (1866-1933)
- Seminar on Textual Bibliography for Modern Foreign Languages, Monday 6 June
- Personal is Political: Eurovision 2016 and the Crimean Tatars
- One that got away. Daniel Urrabieta Vierge’s illustrations of Don Quixote (1906)
- The Spanish Books of Sir Thomas Browne
- Curiosity Helps a Lot
- My Way of Looking/Breathing
- I Prefer Imagination
- Stamina! Stamina!
- Our May Acronym Heaven: EU, EL, EUPL, ELIT, ELF, ELN, ACE & BL
- The Bard, the Bear and Bohemia: Shakespeare and the Czechs
- The 'Shakespearomania' of Karl Marx
- The challenge of translating Cervantes’s Don Quixote
- The Trebnyk (1646) of the Metropolitan Petro Mohyla and its artistic design
- The Post-Chernobyl Library
- Vera Rich In Memoriam (1936-2009)
- Here, there and every Eyre: Charlotte Brontë goes global
- Shakespeare in Paris in the 1820s
- From Africa to Acmeism: Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev (1886-1921)
- Tolstoy and music
- Portuguese Anagrammatic Nun Novelist
- Dervish or spy? A Hungarian in Central Asia
- Graham Nattrass Lecture, 17 June 2016
- Till Eulenspiegel, a Fool for all Seasons
- The early illustrated editions of Don Quixote: the Low Countries tradition
- Passion and compassion: Nikos Kazantzakis’s Christ Recrucified
- A picture is worth a thousand words?
- Painting Russia’s past: Vasilii Surikov (1848-1916)
- I would rather till the soil with my bare hands: a letter from Balzac
- French with Tears – of laughter
- Global Voices in the Archive: British Library PhD Research Symposium
- Migration in Ukrainian literature
- A British Woman Soldier in First World War Serbia: Flora Sandes
- Champion of the smallest Slavonic nation: Jan Arnošt Smoler and the Sorbs of Lusatia
- Portraits of Ariosto, or not?
- Prometheus in Petersburg: Vyacheslav Ivanov (1866-1949)
- Strike!! Strike!! Strike!!
- To the Moon and back: Svatopluk Čech (1846-1908)
- Mysteries in Black and White
- Billiards is a noble game! Vignaux is the greatest player before God.
- Serbia celebrates British heroines of the First World War
- Don Quixote as Napoleon: propaganda in Spain’s war of independence, II: the print.
- Don Quixote as Napoleon: propaganda in Spain’s war of independence, I.
- Why can’t a tree be called Pluplusch?
- Sceptical medicine
- Playwright, peacemaker, polymath: Romain Rolland (1866-1944)
- Crossing European Borders with Diego Marani’s ‘The Interpreter’
- Art and Politics: the work of Igor Cherchenko
- Imagining Don Quixote
- Tolstoy’s Anglophone Admirers: British, Irish and American visitors to Yasnaia Poliana
- West African Literature and Thought in French
- East is East
- Indefatigable Pioneer, Zealous Propagandist, Organizer, Financier, Leader
- Definitely Not Lenin and Trotsky: Donald C. Thompson’s Photographs of 1917
2015
- ‘On the hay in horses’ stable’: a Kalevala nativity
- The Big Dictation: the Excitement of Spelling.
- The Stories of ‘Silent Night’
- Vodka - a panacea for all illnesses?
- World proverbs in speech, text and image
- “In true heroic mould”: witnessing the retreat of Serbia, 1915
- The Man who Hoped: Celebrating Esperanto Book Day
- The Russian Refugee Crisis of the 1920s
- Spanish books in the library of Mary Queen of Scots
- The Emperor’s Big Nose: Frederic Justen and Napoleon III
- Two bad boys, seven pranks and one children’s classic
- A tale of two Françoises: Madame de Maintenon (1635-1719)
- Wojtek, the soldier bear from the Polish Army
- 1267 Shots Later
- From Poetry to Songs: Hare, Rabbit and Sirens in Apollinaire’s Bestiary
- From Shakespeare and Stendhal to Stalin and Sarkozy: André Glucksmann (1937-2015)
- Germany's first female doctor: Dorothea Erxleben, 1715-1762
- Mechanics not Magic
- Politics and the Pepper-mill: Erika Mann (1905-1969)
- Despite the chocolate and the leather boots, one feels this country to be torture: Switzerland in 1915
- Nikolai Misheev, an art critic of ‘The Chimes’
- The ‘Esbatement moral des animaux’ : a 16th century French adaptation of Aesopian fables and their illustration
- The Panizzi Lectures - The invention of rare books
- A life for a language: Ľudovít Štúr (1815-54) and the Slovak nation
- The Tale of Mélusine
- History Written by the Victors, Poetry by the Losers? Charles d’Orléans, the Prisoner-Poet of Agincourt
- Hungary 1956: revolution, refugees, reprisal
- Some birthday thoughts on friendship, love and ‘luxury’ editions
- The Goats that Got Away
- The Truth about Waterloo?
- Solitary voices from the people’s chorus: the painfully human art of Svetlana Aleksievich
- Author’s fees for banned books, or a story of one donation: Lenin in the British Library 3
- Presents as propaganda: Lenin at the British Library 2
- Distinction or Discrimination: Honouring the female special agents of the Second World War
- I beg to apply for a ticket: Lenin at the British Library
- Michiel Adrianenszoon de Ruyter (1607-1676) Navigates the British Library
- Sir Roger L’Estrange, translator from the Spanish
- Old Newspapers and a League of murderers in Stockholm
- A Friendship with Freud: Stefan Zweig and the Father of Psychoanalysis.
- Joannes Stradanus and his Hunting Scenes
- ‘Fables of another type’: some Animal Tales from Russia
- Bruto, a clever dog from the 1490s
- Champfleury and his Cats
- Joost Zwagerman (1963-2015)
- A Series of Illustrated Books on Russia before the First World War
- The Lion, the Wolf and the Wardrobe: Smil Flaška’s council of Bohemian birds and beasts
- The Poor Palatines: an 18th-century refugee crisis
- Happy 60th Birthday Miffy!!
- Solidarity Collection
- Poet in a landscape: the drawings of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Mystic musings and Thomas Cook: Esper Ukhtomskii in the Orient
- “No longer a borderland”
- A lion at my feet
- Kafka’s Menagerie
- Was Stalin "The Monster Cockroach"?
- A Scotsman abroad: Walter Leslie in the Habsburg lands
- Monkeys ahoy!
- Daguerrean Excursions
- Arming for the Armada? A 16th-century German view of Drake
- The Following Story as a Matter of Life and Death
- Rationing and the Red Guard: a very British perspective
- Letter from Donbass miners
- What European Studies owe to J. M. Cohen (1903-1989)
- A stitch in time: embroidery as a force for social change
- From Boulogne-Sur-Mer to Lille
- The Lost Fame of Heinrich Böll?
- Pleasure and Death in Revolutionary Paris
- Basque and Georgian – are they related?
- Before & During
- Theophilos and Tériade
- The senses emblematised
- Never use your employer’s printing office for your own writings
- The people’s Book Fair: a personal view
- Back to Belsen: Using the British Library’s Newspaper Collections
- John Wardell, a British Engineer in the Russian Revolution
- Lisbon, 20 June 1647: assassination of king of Portugal foiled by miracle
- Waterloo’s Prussian Hero: Blücher and the British
- Pasolini and St Paul
- The guinea-pigs of a new era: Ludvík Vaculík (1926-2015) and the Czech dissidents
- A reluctantly modern voice from the 17th-century Russian storm: Archpriest Avvakum and the Life written by himself
- The Passion of Christ considered as an uphill bicycle race… and what should women wear?
- Cats and Quixote
- Child of the Revolution: the tragic story of Nelly Ptashkina
- Basque Books in the British Library
- How the spy John Peyton put Poland on the map (to keep King James on the throne)
- Looking back at European Literature Night
- The War Poet who wasn’t: Simon Gregorčič and the Soča Front
- Sequins, songs and sociopolitical change - 60 years of Eurovision
- The Basque Language
- Seminar on Textual Bibliography for Modern Foreign Languages
- Grimms’ tales in Translation (and in the British Library)
- Yasmina Khadra: A Writer of the World
- ‘World Literature’ and ‘World Languages’
- Woman in Green
- Constitution 3 May 1791
- European Literature Night: a vote for Europe?
- No literature please, we’re British?
- From governing a prison….to the Griffin Prize
- “As though everyone were alive…”
- The feckless fabulist who took on the Sun King: Jean de La Fontaine
- Educating Italians in 19th-century London
- Sonia Delaunay and Tristan Tzara
- Günter Grass (1927-2015)
- “I want to go on living even after my death!” Anne Frank and her Diary
- The Eyes Have It
- Speaking truth to power
- Hope, humanity and humour: Strindberg’s Easter message for a new century
- Every Day is Fools’ Day
- The Goddess of Air at The Stray Dog Café
- The Growth of the Beard
- Collection of hopes and despair: 30 years ago Mikhail Gorbachev started Perestroika
- The Serbian Typhus Epidemic - 100 years on
- Visions in the sky: a 17th-century eclipse
- The Cervantes Corpus
- Bohemian Leeds: the Fulneck Moravian Settlement
- Who loved Three Oranges?
- Writing for Equality: Early 20th-century Russian women’s journals
- Notes from an Old Profession
- Shevchenko: a voice for unsung heroines
- Some flights of Poe’s Raven – Mallarmé and Manet, Doré, and Rossetti
- ‘To the men and women of the British Empire … a Russian voice is speaking to you’: Once I Had a Home by ‘Nadejda’, an eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution?
- Allegories with labels
- Florio’s Montaigne – and Shakespeare’s?
- Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaia: London Adventures and An Unlikely Friendship
- The Champion of Slavonic Peoples: the Andrija Kačić Miošić collection in the British Library
- Overwintering: the Dutch search for the Northwest Passage
- Barcelona and the Avant Garde
- ‘Of all fairy-tales, the most beautiful…’ Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué’s Undine
- Spaniards in Victorian London, 1841 and 1856
- The Grand Budapest Hotel: The Vanished World (of Autograph Manuscripts)
- Love it or hate it!
- “A master craftsman in the European tradition”
- Textual Bibliography Seminar: Call for Papers
- Mind your Head! Constantijn Huygens’ response to Charles I’s execution.
- Beauty in word and image
- Haggis and houšky: Robert Burns in many guises
- Avant-garde Russian theatre in the 1920s
- Memories of a Nation: British Library loans at the British Museum
- Afterthoughts on the Spanish Gothic
- Weird science: Reagan, Rudolf and Philip the Prudent
- A Lost (and Found) Dutch Hymn Book from 1566
- Collecting the Renaissance: Aldus Manutius and his legacy
- European rivals in South Asia
- Epiphanies from Imants Ziedonis
- Learning English: Barcelona 1846
2014
- On the eve... Germans in Britain in 1913
- Tango with Cows – Mystical Images of War - Russian First World War posters: celebrating their centenary.
- Have yourself a scripturally correct Christmas
- ‘Russian glory’ of Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley
- Punishment as a Crime?
- A dish fit for the gods: 150 years of Offenbach’s ‘La belle Hélène’
- "I raised a fire in my heart": remembering Eroshenko
- From Sanatoria to Skis: Winter Holidays in Switzerland
- Velimir Khlebnikov – pioneer of trans-sense language
- ‘Say “Dracula” and you smile. Say “Nosferatu” and you’ve eaten a lemon’
- Spanish insiders and outsiders
- Nikolai Berdyaev and Lenin’s ‘Philosophy Steamer’
- The Two Sieges of Paris: more caricatures from the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune
- ‘All Horrid’ – but not all German
- Are you afraid of the fairies? You should be.
- When Cavafy met Marinetti
- The Death of a Countess and the Draw of Local History
- A postmodern ‘War and Peace’
- Mysterious Manuscripts, lost and found
- Silesia: a borderland in Central Europe
- “Cursed orthography”: Revolution, Language and Identity
- NISE – Providing an instrument for the comparative transnational study of national movements
- Is your governess really a spy?
- Hero of Montevideo: Ivo Lapenna in memoriam
- Concert to celebrate the Silver Jubilee of the Friends of the British Library - Brahms’ Requiem
- A Variety of Vampires
- Language and the making of nations
- Félicien Rops, Baudelaire and skeleton passions
- Person from a portrait: Ira Frederick Aldridge, the first black Othello
- Two Languages, One Nation?
- Ukrainian printing in the Russian empire
- One book, many faces: the Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano
- Lermontov – 200 years since the birth of the great Russian writer
- A German lesson for Europe: Siegfried Lenz (1926-2014)
- Legendary Goths (of Spain)
- The Art of War: Lepanto 1571
- Ploughing, scattering and translating, or, You know more German hymns than you think.
- The Warsaw Uprising of 1944: Epilogue
- A Glider Pilot amongst the Mosquitoes
- Kazimir Malevich - pioneer of Russian abstract art
- Silence is golden
- Dark blue world, little blue book: English for Czech servicemen
- ‘Sack of Louvain – Awful holocaust’ (Daily Mail headline, Monday 31 August 1914)
- The Colour of Hope – Irina Ratushinskaya in the ‘Small Zone’
- A Teuton take on tartan: Sco(t)tland and the Germans
- A nurse, a poet and a girl – women’s diaries of the Great War
- Before the ‘Miracle of the Marne’ – what if the Germans had reached Paris in September 1914
- Andorra spans the Channel
- Highlights of the Polonica collection
- Matisse and Tériade
- Is Bazarov human after all?
- Greek Orthodox Paper Icons in the British Library – their purpose, style and iconography
- Remembering the Isonzo Front
- Are exams getting easier?
- Postcards and Photographs from the Eastern Front
- The Drama of Marinetti by Mikhail Karasik
- St Helen – imperial archaeologist
- 'Pfui, der Struwwelpeter!' British Adventures of a German nursery classic
- Turbulent priest and polemical playwright: the life and death of Kaj Munk
- Albinia Lucy Wherry and Russian “knights” on war-time postcards
- Moomins and more…
- A very Dutch fire
- Cats, courtesans and Claudine: the colourful career of Colette
- The unvanquished city: Warsaw Uprising 1944
- FIETS (n): Origins Unknown
- Chess is good, dice are bad: but what about backgammon?
- Through the world a mighty voice is ringing…
- Tauchnitz and Marinack: the famous and the unknown bringing English literature to the Germans
- Jan Karski (1914–2000), a man of exceptional courage, high moral values and humanism
- The best days of their lives: going to school in Spain in 1761.
- Vive [la] France! 'Les Dieux ont soif' and the French Revolution
- You’ve got to shoot, or you can’t score.
- The [literary] godfather: Jan Neruda (1834-1891)
- Not just cycling: the other Tours de France
- Back in tachanka days…
- The Triumph of Mannerism – Pontormo and Rosso Fiorentino in Florence
- Early Photography in Spain
- How Jane Austen saved August von Kotzebue
- Through a glass darkly: the poetry of Francisco de Quevedo
- Napoleon III meets his nemesis: caricatures from the Franco-Prussian War
- Švejk in the First World War – and beyond
- Baroque death or the Death of the baroque?
- Italian Studies Library Group Annual Lecture, 30 June 2014
- St Anthony of Padua, alias Fernando of Lisbon
- Charles Bairnes, accused: a German on trial in 18th-century London
- Feasting, not fasting: Marie-Antoine Carême and the pleasures of the palate
- Malevolent magical realism: the enigmatic world of Franz Kafka
- Marko Marulić and the Croatian Latin Heritage
- One for the gentlemen?
- A collection of Primož Trubar Slovenian and Croatian Protestant books in the British Library
- "Tremendous in sublimity" or "Plunging into whirlpools": Coleridge's German books
- Alexander and the Elephant
- Seminar on Textual Bibliography for Modern Foreign Languages
- You plowed my blooming orchards, you did!
- Christian Doctrine for Slavonic People: an early Bosnian and Herzegovinian printed book
- “May its birthday always be celebrated…”
- Polish reportage - reality versus fiction
- Maria Geisweiler, translator
- Talking about translation
- Hell hath no fury… : More wrongdoing and further foul deeds in Spain
- A Translator in New York, and other adventures in language and identity
- Ivan the Terrible, primers, ballet and the joys of curatorship
- On translations and laughter
- Vuk Stefanović Karadžić and Serbian National Poetry: a Bicentenary
- On tour with a translation
- Whose Shakespeare?
- ‘Church, not Chocolate’: Easter eggs in Eastern Europe
- What price freedom? An author’s thoughts
- Crime Scene Investigation: Dateline Seville 1776
- ELN and the red shoes
- ‘Schirmer’s Children’: a German theatre troop
- Who or what were ‘the Vikings’?
- Hats off to Laurain! A tale of three translators
- From Vietnam to Vichy and beyond: Marguerite Duras
- European Literature Night 2014
- English proverbs that don’t exist
- Suffering from boredom? Get a raccoon – or read Hrabal!
- Theodora Grahn, language teacher
- Mistral blows in: Provence’s own Nobel laureate
- Aesop’s fables are not kids’ stuff
- ’Orrible crimes and ghastly murders
- Parishes, Printing and Pietism – the Pietist Mission and German Publishing in London
- A Marvel in the British Library Bulgarian Collections
- ‘The Tin Book’
- Politics, polemics and prostitutes: Josef Svatopluk Machar, 1864-1942.
- Testament for "beloved Ukraine"
- 'Paul et Virginie' - et Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
- Charles Meyer, Bookbinder to Queen Charlotte and the Princesses
- A Day to Celebrate Finnish Culture
- The not-so-wise ‘owl’: Antonín Sova and the ‘covetous dotard’
- The Battle of the Floods
- Handel – Händel – Hendel: Anglo-German composer
- Light links : Lithuania to Königsberg & Kyiv to Rembrandt
- 50 years of exhibitions: a celebration
- ‘Tonight put on perfection…’: the Valentine’s Day wedding which gave us the Georgians.
- The First ‘Kobzar’
- The history of Spain in 40,000 lives
- Children’s author wins LGBT award
- A King's grammar fit for a Prince? Immigration concerns and an early Georgian marketing ploy
- Alsace-Lorraine and Anglophilia: the obsessions of Paul Déroulède
- Libraries can change your life: the peregrinations of Ludvig Holberg
- A hedgehog writes
- One Family’s Story in Bobruisk during the Second World War
- The life and travels of a Tsar - and of a manuscript
- German Parish Life in London and an East End Church Library
- Portuguese revolutionaries in Plymouth: politics and the classics
- A Hundred Items of Joy
- Call for papers: Seminar on Textual Bibliography for Modern Foreign Languages, 2 June 2014
- Anglo-German centuries: a 'History in Objects' for 2014
- The ‘Prize Papers’: letters as loot
- Vasyl Stus in Memoriam
- Celebrating Kaliady
- The Panizzi Lectures - Censors at Work: Bourbon France, Imperialist India, and Communist Germany.
2013
- Anatomy of two anatomists
- C'est ma chanson
- BBC Ukrainian Book of the Year 2013
- Deventer does Dickens - and much more: literary heritage in a Dutch city
- “This country called Belarus”: our latest Belarusian acquisition
- Christmas Music and Popular Songs: Free Concert at the British Library
- From the Parnassus of the Peoples
- Straight man, funny man
- Coming to England with Alfred Kerr
- Not only for Christmas: St Nicholas in East and West
- A library of Macedonian literature in the British Library
- Spot the difference: a title page too far
- Olympe de Gouges and 'Les Trois Urnes'
- Valse Mélancolique with Olha Kobylianska
- A Saint and a Sinner
- Remembering Holodomor
- “A French Connection” : Concert by the British Library & British Museum Singers 21 November 2013
- Between Sacred and Profane, Word and Image: Marcello Macedonio’s Le nove muse
- Under the spell of the Tatras
- Gilt and gingerbread - celebrating a rare binding sample
- Day of Montenegrin Culture: a celebration of the 200th anniversary of Njegoš’s birth
- How the Georgian language first appeared in print
- D'Annunzio - Defiant Archangel and Pike
- Rights, rats and revolution: Albert Camus turns 100
- Classroom curiosities
- The Noonday Witch
- In search of the lost palace in Białowieża National Park
- A country made out of 'bits and bobs’
- Geometry has two sides
- Picturing Heidi
- Unicorn versus Rhinoceros
- Georg Büchner - German literature's great "what if...?"
- Verdi and Wagner: two composers, two bicentenaries, four portraits
- To Kolomea with love
- The British Library & British Museum Singers celebrate Verdi’s Birthday
- Alain-Fournier and Proust film adaptations. Part I
- Dancing with the Devil
- Theatre life in Soviet Kharkiv, Joseph Schillinger and Persimfans
- Six lyrics and Kalashnikov
- The three great K’s: Kaffee, Kuchen and Kultur
- Marcel Reich-Ranicki (1920-2013)
- Elisabeth of Austria - the Hapsburg Princess Diana?
- Alain-Fournier’s Le Grand Meaulnes
- A Lisbon earthquake pamphlet of 1757: but not the Lisbon earthquake; and the last gasp of heliocentrism
- St. Ludmila, patroness of Bohemia
- One Conference - Two Views
- A very brief encounter: Jesuits in Japan
- Spanish film and the British Library
- Macchiaioli: the Italian Impressionists?
- Henrik Ibsen and London - then and now
- Boccaccio at 700
- Everything you wanted to know about Russia, but were afraid to "ask a librarian"
- Church - Parliament - Monument
- Banter reborn
- Fond memories of a tin snail
- The Georgian anarchist prince and his gift
- Second World War Soviet Propaganda
- German propaganda in Esperanto
- Two Italian seventeenth-century female engravers : a recent discovery
- Britain and Russia in the First World War and the Revolution of 1917: some interesting sources in the British Library collections
- Some 2013 anniversaries
- Propaganda of Success
- A Dingy Corner of British Hispanism: Samuel Pepys and Spanish
- Lady on banknotes
- Registering the registrars
- La Unua Libro
- Multiculturalism in 18th-century Portuguese India?
- The Glory of Slovenia
- Propaganda from the skies
- Mikoláš Aleš
- Chiaroscuro of a Croatian master
- German Studies Library Group
- Brest Fortress: History, Defence, Memorial
- Pirates of the Mediterranean
- Marketing tools
- Make your own anti-soviet propaganda!
- Propaganda in the schoolroom
- LOL! Tragic Queen Christina of Sweden liked a funny book
- Opera crimes
- A Catalan classic rediscovered
- Mácha and Máj
- From Queen to King in the Netherlands
Innovation and enterprise
2025
- International LEGO Day: a history of LEGO and our favourite patents
- Beat the January blues: our best business advice
- Make Matisse your own: public domain and copyright in 2025
- 2024 at the BIPC: a year of business growth
2024
- £42 million of unwanted Christmas gifts end up in landfill every year - here's how small businesses are combatting Christmas waste
- A Sustainable Christmas - BIPC Gift Guide
- Why should you attend Start-up Day 2024?
- Happy Halloween:19th century patents to avoid being buried alive!
- From Coca-Cola to KFC: uncovering a spooky intellectual property secret
- How to set up a food business: hear from the experts this World Food Day
- How to make your business more sustainable: take your first steps this Green Libraries Week
- Celebrating women entrepreneurs: A recap of National Women’s Enterprise Week
- World Photography Day: the patents that have shaped the field
- The power of books: recommendations and the stories that have impacted our businesses
- Who owns the Olympics? How Intellectual Property supports Olympic excellence
- The Supermac vs Big Mac trade mark challenge
- Scarlett Johansson Vs. OpenAI: The blurred IP lines between human and machine
- Two worlds collide: when your family member becomes your business partner
- Starting up? Here are top tips from business owners to help you on your journey
- How IP can save the world: creating a sustainable future with intellectual property
- National Siblings Day: On building businesses together with Cultureville
- She means business: start-up tips from women entrepreneurs
- Write your own success story. Meet Martha Keith, our new BIPC business ambassador
- Show small businesses some love
- 2023: Our business journey continues
2023
- Celebrating small businesses this season
- Sonal Keay: A Silk Road to Business Growth
- BIPC Local Lewisham's one year anniversary
- BIPC Oxfordshire – helping young people to succeed in business
- An innovative history of the historic patent collection at the British Library
- A few of our favourite things about the British Library
- 50 Books for 50 Years of the British Library
- Lizzie Magie and the history of Monopoly
- Going into IP battle with Banksy
- 2022: Our Year In Business
2022
- How to research your high street business
- A day in the life of Ronke Jane Adelakun, co-founder of Cultureville
- Celebrating small businesses this festive season
- A week in the life of Amarachi Clarke, founder of Lucocoa Chocolate
- Sewing machines - who really invented them?
- Gold and the alchemy of Intellectual Property
- IP Corner: Breaking the News with groundbreaking technology
- A week in the life of Laura Sheeter, co-founder of Chalk & Blade
- Spotlight On... our IP experts!
- Ten Things I wish I knew about Intellectual Property when I was younger
- Meet Nick Hart, founder of Storm Skin
- Inventors of the Month: John Waddington and Anthony Pratt
- The Women Breaking Barriers in Business
- International Women's Day 2022: women that mean business in the BIPC
- Meet Nicole Tay, founder of Indomitable Beauty
- Meet Paul Jenkins, founder of Triple Double
- BIPC Style Guide
- Meet the Team: Nigel Spencer
- Small Business Resolutions for 2022
2021
- Celebrating Start-ups in London Libraries
- Shop local this festive season
- Introducing Fiona Wedderburn-Graham and Jennifer McLean, the co-directors of Amaze Associates
- Meet the sustainable speakers of Start-up Day 2021
- Sustainability in business
- How Do We Sell Sustainability to Consumers?
- Turn your brilliant idea into a business
- The Pandemic Business Boom
- Revisiting our Reset. Restarters
- Meet Chloe Bailey-Williams, Founder of The Breakhouse Café
- Introducing Rose Arouca-Claro, Rosy Clean Spaces
- Meet Sally Paull, Owner and Managing Director of Positive Signs
- The Story Cube: What you do matters
- Introducing Shari Bollers, founder of Self Love Club
- Inventor(s) of the month, Alexander Fleming and the story of Penicillin
- Waltham Forest Winners
- Introducing Authentic Worth, founded by Esther Jacob
- Meet Judy Chicangana-Matthews, founder of Delmora
- Introducing Katherine Tinoco, founder of ArtPerÚK
- A week in the life of Silvia Pingitore, founder of The Shortlisted Magazine
- Introducing Pranav Chopra, founder of NEMI Teas
- Nurture your ambitions with the Business & IP Centre National Network
- Beautiful Ethical's top tips for making your business sustainable
- Start-up Stars: Eco-conscious entrepreneurs
- Meet Marjorie Price, founder of Price Management Consultancy Ltd.
- Innovating for Growth Diary Part 2 - Sian Zeng
- Meet Donelle Grant, founder of The Brave Project
- A week in the life of Zachary Pulman, founder of Zachary Pulman Design Studio
- Inventor of the Month: Lucean Arthur Headen, 1879-1957
- IP and SMEs: taking your ideas to market
- How has IP played its part in finding a Covid-19 vaccine?
- A week in the life of Edward Draper, founder of Ortheia
- IP in the BIPC community
- Meet Chuong Van Dang, founder of Yum Seng
- Design for a better life – the legacy of William Morris
- Meet our delivery partner: Sam Lane
- Female patent pioneers you should know
- International Women's Day 2021: Meet the wonderful women of the BIPC
- A week in the life of James Seager, Company Director of Les Enfants Terribles
- Innovating for Growth Diary - Sian Zeng
- Start-up Stars: Taste of Success
- Meet the Reset. Restart experts
- Meet Yasmine Thomson, founder of YCM Events
- Finding a gap in the market. Nicola Lespeare Greeting Cards
- How entrepreneurs have Reset and Restarted their businesses
- Meet our delivery partner: Rasheed Ogunlaru
- A Week in the Life of Meenesh Mistry, founder of Wholey Moly
- Meet Annie Gibbs, Founder & Director of Amour Destiné CIC
- Meet Alison Cork, Ambassador for the British Library’s Business & IP Centre
2020
- Meet Caron Pollard, founder of Teal and Start-ups in London Libraries participant
- Meet our delivery partner: Pete Schönbeck
- Support small businesses this Christmas
- A week in the life of… Stéphanie Tumba founder of Sté Tumba Capital and Managing Director of Human Connections London
- Meet our delivery partner: Paul Grant, The Funding Game
- A week in the life of… Catherine Farrant, founder of Ossa Organic
- Innovating for Growth: Scale-ups diary – The Street Food Company – part 2
- Meet Aleksandra Horwood, founder of Happy Stance Yoga and Start-ups in London Libraries participant
- A week in the life of... Laura Rudoe, founder of Good Ventures Ltd
- Meet our delivery partner: The House
- How the BIPC can help you Reset. Restart
- Innovating for Growth: Scale-ups diary – The Street Food Company – part 1
- A day in the life of… Hazel Russell, co-founder of The Wood Life Project
- Julie Deane: Living proof that you can start and adapt a business from your kitchen table
- A week in the life of… Peter Hill, founder of Petvictus
- Meet our delivery partner: Melissa Addey
- Meet Patricia Gurman, founder of Sweet Paper Creations and Start-ups in London Libraries participant
- Meet Sol Ramos, co-founder of London Basketball Nation and Start-ups in London Libraries participant
- The beer lover’s guide to the perfect IP brew
- Meet our delivery partner: Mark Sheahan
- A week in the life of... Olivia Thompson, founder of Akila Dolls
- First aid and health and safety essential changes due to COVID-19
- How Innovating for Growth is helping business throughout the crisis
- Innovating for Growth: Scale-ups diary - The Good Slice – part 2
- Meet Ahmad Baracat, founder of Baracat Bros and Start-ups in London Libraries participant
- Meet our delivery partner: Centa
- 3-steps to get time back (and grow your business)
- A week in the life of… Rachel Jones, founder of SnapDragon Monitoring
- Meet Salma Attan, founder of Bushwood Bees and Start-ups in London Libraries participant
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- A week in the life of… Rowena Howie, founder of Revival Retro
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- Happy Birthday Start-ups in London Libraries!
- Innovating for Growth: Scale-ups diary - The Good Slice
- Book and podcast recommendations from the BIPC team
- Inspiring stories from our community of entrepreneurs
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- Book and podcast recommendations from our entrepreneurs
- National Tea Day with HumaniTea
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- From silk wedding dresses to cotton scrubs for the NHS
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- Getting to grips with IP: Back to basics
- Meet our delivery partner: Elaine Powell
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- The rise of flexitarians and veggie butchers
- The story behind proofreading
- What's your New Year's Resolution for 2020?
- A week in the life of… Siobhan Thomas, founder of What’s Your Skirt
- New business services around the Business & IP Centre National Network
- How to start a business in 2020 if you don’t know what to do?
- Meet our delivery partner: Bang Creations and London IP
- IP Corner: How to choose a trade mark
2019
- Meet our delivery partners: Bob Lindsey
- A week in the life of... Loretta Awuah, Start-ups in London Libraries Greenwich Champion
- The 12 Days of the BIPC
- Meet Warda Farah - owner of Language Waves and Start-ups in London Libraries participant
- A Day in the Life of… Rupert Holloway, founder of Conker Spirit
- Meet our delivery partners: Anis Qizilbash
- Start-up Day 2019 – How to use your networks to build your business
- Start-up Day 2019 wrap up - How to start up on a shoestring
- Start-up Day 2019 wrap up - How to build your business without burning yourself out
- Meet our delivery partners: Alison Lewy, Fashion Angel
- Start-up Day 2019 wrap up - How to combine profit with purpose
- Start-up Day 2019 – How to spot the key UK market trends right now with Mintel
- Generation Z - the new breed of entrepreneur
- What are the key takeaways from Start-up Day 2019?
- Follow JRPass' Director through the Innovating for Growth programme: Strategy 1:1 Part 2
- Follow JRPass' Director through the Innovating for Growth programme: Financial management 1:1 Part 2
- Start-up Day: What’s going on at the British Library
- Start-up Day 2019 - What's going on in the Start-ups in London Libraries boroughs
- Follow JRPass' Director through the Innovating for Growth programme: Product Innovation 1:1 Part 2
- Start-up Day: What’s going on around the Network
- Choosing revenue over retirement - starting a business in your 60s
- A week in the life of... Keri Jamieson, founder of KeriKit
- Follow JRPass' Director through the Innovating for Growth programme: Maximising Your Intellectual Property 1:1 Part 2
- Follow JRPass' Director through the Innovating for Growth programme: Marketing
- Inside an ethical fashion business
- Follow JRPass' Director through the Innovating for Growth programme: Branding
- Meet our delivery partners: Alasdair Inglis, Grow
- Follow JRPass' Director through the Innovating for Growth programme: Maximising your intellectual property
- Follow JRPass' Director through the Innovating for Growth programme: Financial Management
- Follow JRPass' Director through the Innovating for Growth programme: Product Innovation
- Celebrating International Cat Day with Rose Hill Designs
- Follow JRPass' Director through the Innovating for Growth programme: Creating a Marketing Strategy
- Working the crowd - how to successfully crowdfund
- Follow JRPass’ Director through the Innovating for Growth programme: Branding and research
- PRECIOUS Nights at Manchester Library
- How the Breakthrough Business Model Canvas can help your start-up
- First Aid and the Law – a quick and easy guide for SMEs
- IP Corner: The inventions of Leonardo da Vinci
- Scotland’s first Business & IP Centre launches in Glasgow
- A week in the life of…Emma Richards, Business Outreach Manager at the IPO
- New partnership for female entrepreneurs with Make It Your Business
- Getting musically inspired at the Business & IP Centre
- Positive ageing: include seniors in the wellness revolution
- Help! How do I change careers when I don't know what I want to do?
- From ‘hippy’ to ‘hip’ – how the wellness sector had a major re-brand
- Food Season at the Business & IP Centre
- IP Corner: Intellectual Property behind the Writing: Making Your Mark exhibition
- European Patent Office’s PATLIB Summit
- A week in the life of... Keira O'Mara, founder of Mama Designs
- An introduction to intellectual property (IP)
- How to build a brand?
- Start-ups in London Libraries: Business support on ten London borough high streets
- National Pet Month: Pawfect pet businesses
- A Week in the Life of... Hugh Duffie, co-founder of Sandows
- IP Corner: Reach for Gold - Intellectual Property and sports
- National Gardening Week with Natalie from Acacia Facilities
- What happened next? Start-up Day revisited
- How having a mentor can benefit your business
- Happy returns make for happy customers
- A week in the life of... Frankie Fox, co-founder and Head of Innovation for The Foraging Fox
- Six reasons why you should be writing a blog for your business
- Business support in London by Deputy Mayor of London for Business, Rajesh Agrawal
- A week in the life of... Angela Steel, founder and CEO of SuperWellness
- Targeting your audience through blogging
- Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs at the Business & IP Centre
- 12 tips for starting up a fashion business
- Brexit resources available
- A week in the life of... Rachel Walker, co-founder of The Fold Line
- Why have a mentor? Discover more about our Innovating for Growth: Mentoring programme
- A week in the life of... Merilee Karr, founder and CEO of UnderTheDoormat
- A week in the life of... Dr Jan Kattein, founding director of Jan Kattein Architects
- Five tips to drive traffic to your website
- Five elements to consider when choosing a winning domain
2018
- What a year it's been at the Business & IP Centre
- Contemporary twists on traditional festive gifts
- IP Corner: Registered designs and knitting
- Anne-Marie Imafidon is changing the future by engaging young girls with technology
- Q&A with the Queen of Shops, Mary Portas
- Celebrating Global Entrepreneurship Week at the Business & IP Centre
- How much money is Shakespeare worth?
- 10 SEO Tips Your Website Can’t Live Without
- Start-up Day 2018 in London and around the country
- IP Corner: Happy 20th Anniversary Espacenet
- Inspiring Entrepreneurs: Black Britain and the Creative Industries book recommendations
- Libraries Week: Celebrating our National Network
- Top tips from Start-up Day 2018
- Start-up Day: Meet the Speakers
- If the Shoe Fits… Finding your Business Niche
- IP Corner: Patent databases, which one is right for you?
- Meet Martha Silcott, breaking taboos, one period at a time
- Liz Earle MBE: live up to your brand principles which stand the test of time
- From Under Dog to Top Dog in the Male Skincare Industry
- Exploring the archives… and finding commercial treasures
- Royal Wedding designer inspiration: quirky and creative merchandise you may actually want to buy (and keep)
- Unleash Your Imagination With A Creative WordPress Blog
- IP Corner: Happy World Intellectual Property Day!
- IP Corner: Celebrating 400 years of the first British patent
- Jack Dorsey talks Square, cryptocurrencies and the future of the economy
- Building a Soulful Business with Motherhood Reconstructed
- Pall Mall Barbers: where a century-old tradition meets modernity
- A fashionable way to start your business
- The 6 steps that took Business Woman of the Year, Fleur Sexton, to the top
- Top 3 business resolutions for 2018
- The top 10 tips for starting up an online business from the experts
- Why would I need a book for my business?
- Meet the entrepreneurs who made their mark online
- Valentine's Day in numbers: a heart-stopping spending splurge in 2018
- 5 questions with... Karen Hanton, a dotcom veteran and serial entrepreneur
- How to unlock the power of the internet and social media for your business
- Lean writing: 18 ways to get maximum impact from minimum effort
- Is starting a business your New Year’s Resolution for 2018?
- 2017: A busy year at the Business & IP Centre
- Revival Retro: an award-winning London boutique creating timeless styles for every figure
2017
- A little bit of Christmas cheese: an interview with the owner of Chalton Street cheesemongers and café, Cheezelo
- Smartify: an image recognition app that's changing the art world
- The Five Step Facebook Marketing Strategy
- Keeping your business safe from the cyber criminals
- Why in-person marketing trumps content and digital
- Polly McMaster - Dressed for Success
- Innovating for Growth: We Built This City
- How JustPark found a space in the market
- Monday Motivation: what can mentoring do for your business?
- National Mentoring Day – Ken J Davey speaks about his experience on mentoring
- A social media trend to help your business grow
- Innovating for Growth: London tours with a tasty twist
- Business & IP Centre Norfolk opens its doors to the county’s SMEs
- Growing your business without burning yourself out
- The top questions asked on Start-Up Day 2017
- 10 things we learned from Start-up Day 2017
- Start-up Day 2017 live webcast: find out what you can tune in to
- The three tech steps every start-up business should know
- Profit with Purpose – Can you make money whilst also making a difference?
- Are you a business virgin? We’ve partnered with Virgin StartUp to support new business ideas around the UK
- Le Bun: Not your average burger van business
- From barrier to business opportunity: a spotlight on 121 Captions
- The Business & IP Centre’s Start-up Day is back!
- Three golden principles to master the art of public speaking and presenting
- Great partnerships and life-changing experiences
- Top business advice from the British Library Scale-up Summit
- London is the place to scale up your business
- How Intellectual Property helped Julie Deane start a £10 million business from her kitchen table
- Reach your business peak at our Scale-up Summit
- How the British Library can help you turbocharge your business
- How to get a granted patent
- Five email marketing tips to increase sales
- The proper way to build a brilliant brand
- A snappy rebrand for business growth
- Seven tips for standing out at a trade show
- Lavolio: The sweet taste of success
- Thinking little to achieve big
- How do you choose the right domain extension for your business?
- How to research digital trends with eMarketer
- Tech to boost your growing business
- Dry Patch - A BIPC success story with a great sense of humour
- Specialist advice for your growing business
- Getting your business ready to compete in a digital age
- Internet Icons: Creating big business online
- The serious business of saving lives
- SNO – The ski travel company with big ambitions
- Networking with confidence
- Get your bid in now for the Momentum Music Fund
- Vicki Psarias on how blogging gave her the confidence to be a successful mum and entrepreneur.
- Local Data Company shows coffee shops on a high
- Deliciously Ella: How to create a business empire with a blog
- SpareRoom: The flat-share company receiving over two million hits a month
- Unruly: The online video sharing company helping brands reach an audience of 1.44 billion people
- Bloom & Wild: How this company became the UK’s top rated flower delivery service
2016
- Why entering awards are good for you and your small business
- A Global Entrepreneurship Week thank-you. You made our week!
- Co-working spaces - the ideal place to do business
- Introducing the European exchange programme for new entrepreneurs
- First Aid for Life – growing a business, and taking it to the next level with Innovating for Growth
- Growing a love of chocolate into a successful business
- Enjoying Fireworks Safely with First Aid for Life
- Cereal Killer Cafe: how a killer business idea became a hit
- Writer in Residence update: Books mean business
- 10 Essential Reasons to Get Networking
- Tracking down old toy railway patents in the Business & IP Centre
- Get out of your own way - why you need confidence to raise your profile
- How British lifestyle label Toast went from strength to strength
- How Grub Club became a successful business in the pop-up market
- How Patrick Drake gave up the rat race and co-founded HelloFresh
- Find out how one man turned his “light bulb moment” into reality
- How one woman turned her passion for swimming into a successful business
- Tips guaranteed to cut your bills
- Tips on taking photographs for your business
- Waste not, want not. The business of turning discarded food into delicious chutney
- How we amped-up our business strategy and our trading firm took off
- How I took my business from a small start-up to a super success
- A finger on the pulse of sustainable food business
- Is your best content above the fold?
- Celebrating British IP Day – get IP savvy
- Spotlight on … Ed Salt, MD of Delamere Dairy
- How much is William Shakespeare worth today?
- Spotlight on … Paul Sulyok, CEO & Founder of Green Man Gaming
- Be business savvy like Shakespeare
- Writer in Residence Update: No Copyright? Wonderful!
- Kikka Digga - Business & IP Centre Success Story
- Scaling up with Innovating for Growth
- The Sacred Bundle: a magical way to express your core business values
- 5 ways to double your online sales with minimum investment
- Writer in Residence update: tips from the first workshops
- Present with confidence: 5 traits of a great presenter
- Spotlight on … Tangle Teezer
- Innovating for Growth - a success story for the Business & IP Centre London
- How to make your business an internet sensation
- Spotlight on ... Kalory Photo and Video Studio
- Spotlight on … Mumsnet founder, Justine Roberts
- Spotlight on … Original Dating
- How to have a successful business partnership
- Growing up: business success stories
- Spotlight on … Renaud Visage, Eventbrite Co-Founder
- Top 5 tips for pitching with confidence
- Speed mentoring tips
- Storytelling for businesses and business for storytellers
- Etsy Resolution: Top tips to sell online in 2016
2015
- Top tips for boosting your business’s web presence
- Top tips for running a photography business
- How to focus your entrepreneurial skills
- Top business tips from our panel with Deborah Meaden
- 5 top skills to make you a good salesperson
- Review of Etsy Four Corners of Craft Exhibition
- Top tips for social entrepreneurs from OHYO’s MD Guy Jeremiah
- Question time with Oliver Bonas founder Oliver Tress
- 5 things to ask yourself before starting a business
- Dare to dream: How to be a startup success
- How to take your business from a start-up to growth stage
- Designer Yinka Ilori on West Africa: Word, Symbol, Song
- Spotlight on…Designer Akosua Afriyie-Kumi
- How to spot a gap in the market
- Book review: Start a business for £99 by Emma Jones
- How should you choose a product design agency?
- Five Preparation Tips for Entrepreneurs
- Tips for getting back to business
- Spotlight on … The Decorators
- 3 common mistakes made by small business founders and how to avoid them
- 6 Tips for Pitching to Investors
- How to research your local area
- Social Media for Small Businesses: Finding Your Feet
- Top tips on online accounting for small business
- How to Get Press Coverage for Your Small Business
- Spotlight on … Packshot and Stills
- 5 essential summer tips for entrepreneurs
- Top 5 Intellectual Property Mistakes Made by Small Businesses
- How to turn you design business into an iconic brand
- Book Review: ‘The Luxury Strategy’ and ‘Kapferer on Luxury’
- Winning a NatWest everywoman Award changed my life
- Enterprising Libraries: A blueprint for delivering economic growth in UK cities
- Book review: How to Get Rich by Felix Dennis
- Celebrating the small business scene: The Guardian Small Business Showcase Award 2015
- Six tips for running a flagship store
- How to take your business online
- The importance of trade marks for your small business
- How to be effective at trade shows
- The Guardian Small Business Showcase
- Welcome to Paul Lindley - our new Ambassador
- Inventing Chocolate with Amelia Rope
- The future is looking Fab (Lab)
- 5 Tips for working with Illustrators by ChattyFeet
- Unlocking the Growth Mindset for SMEs
- A day in the life at the Business & IP Centre
- Copying – right or wrong?
- Redesigning Alice: Etsy and British Library competition
- Fight Intellectual Property Fraud
- Self-service photography comes to the Business & IP Centre
- Five tips for understanding intellectual property
- A business boost for libraries
- Supporting female entrepreneurs
- Hiring – The Hardest Choice
- Take part in our survey and help shape our future!
- Inspiring Entrepreneurs: Growing Pains and Gains
- In Conversation with Kell Ryan: The Ryanair Story
- Spotlight on... Caroline Brealey, Matchmaker
- 10 tips to help you start a successful business blog
- From Google to Poet in the City: London’s Knowledge Quarter to lead the UK's knowledge economy
- Supporting start-ups for National Libraries Day
- CMI Management Book of the Year
- Intellectual Property Matters
- Top tips: Pinterest as a visual bookmark for your business
- The Power of Partnerships in PR
- And the award for Celebrating and Promoting Your Business goes to…
- Avoid catching a “Cash” Cold in 2015
- Business & IP Centre webinars - learning wherever you are
- Top tips for 2015: Build your business dreams
2014
- Giving young people a taste for business with Citrus Saturday
- An umbrella with style and strength - the Senz° XL storm-proof
- Book Review - Salvation in a start-up? The origins and nature of the self-employment boom
- Loom Bands - the toy sensation of 2014
- What’s new on… Datamonitor Consumer
- Innovating for Growth: The AnnaLoucah story
- Book review - Noon, with a View by Stephen Fear
- Inspiring Entrepreneurs: Movers and Shakers
- What’s new on… eMarketer
- Book review - Lean Analytics by Alistair Croll and Benjamin Yoskovitz
- Healthcare Industry Market Research in the Business & IP Centre
- New database in the Business & IP Centre: Local Data Online
- Using Netmums to find local business listings
- Your Brand and Your Promise
- Trade marks during the Great War
- Back to business with Rasheed Ogunlaru
- Top tips from Blink Brow founder Vanita Parti
- Transformers: Age of Extinction - Intellectual Property in disguise
- Book review - The Directory of Grant Making Trusts
- Review - Luxury Briefing - the quarterly bulletin for the luxury industry
- Book review - The Name of The Beast by Neil Taylor
- Enterprise Enfield: An Enterprising Libraries case study
- Book review - Understanding your business finances by Johnny Martin
- What’s new on... Keynote
- How to avoid business failure
- Make a Date with Business
- Book review - The New Business Road test by John Mullins
- Confusion costs cash!
- Three business funding alternatives
- Loopwheels: how an idea for reinventing the wheel turned into our business
- Book review - Start Your Own Business: You can do it!
- Inspiring Entrepreneurs: Going Global
- Race to the finish - building a business in the sports industry
- Pop-up Businesses – here, there and everywhere!
- What’s new on… COBRA for business start-ups
- For the female entrepreneur who wants it all: Mistakes to avoid when building your business
- Book review - How to get your product to market by Louise Guinda
- Celebrating a year of boosting the North East Economy at Business & IP Centre Newcastle
- Book Review - Copywriting: Successful writing for design, advertising and marketing
- Book review - Cook Wrap Sell: A guide to starting and running a successful food business from your kitchen
- Act Local, Think Global
- Business book reviews from Dr Stephen Fear
- The Creative Sector in Britain is one of the largest in the world!
- From Rock Stars to Orchestras – making music in the Business & IP Centre
- Portobello Business Centre Ask the Expert session at Imperial College
- Review of How to generate PR for your Business by Jessica Huie
- The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Project Management - book review
- Supporting women in business
- 10 Reasons Why Your Content Isn’t Getting Read
- Make PR a priority for your business!
- How to use social media for your business
- Legal Issues of Web 2.0 and Social Media by Stephen Kunciewicz
- Your online content must be more like terrible journalism
- The A List: A guide to who's who in media, marketing and advertising 2014
- Inspiring Entrepreneurs: Internet Icons: Tuesday 25 February
- Review of How to Start a Creative Business by Doug Richard
- The secret to survive and thrive
- Are you the next Internet Icon?
- Building your business in 2014
- Empatika: fitted furniture with a difference
- Recycling Business Resolutions
2013
- Learning is Progess: welcome to the world of Lean Startup
- Helping to make a success story - Children's Qur'anic Pop-up Book
- Neoshop – Boutique de L’innovation France: Collaborating, Connecting and Showcasing
- Innovating for Growth success story - Socially Bright
- University innovation: using the wisdom of the crowd
- Aartizen – a healthy fruit and veg success story
- Local area business information in the Business & IP Centre
- Inspiring Entrepreneurs: In the Den with the Dragons
- Duke of Edinburgh visits Business & IP Centre
- The Internet has revolutionised marketing
- Setting Profitable Prices by Marlene Jensen
- Management Book of the Year 2013 shortlist announced
- Successful businesses know their numbers, understand them and act upon them
- Naturally Chinese Restaurant – an Innovating for Growth success story
- Global Entrepreneurship Week at the Business & IP Centre
- The coolest brands
- Fashion has nowhere to go but in circles
- Top tips from our Marketing Maestros
- My favourite brand is complete rubbish
- Trendspotting in a Nutshell for Innovators to Laggards
- China’s top 20 western brands
- Innovating for Growth Branding Workshop - Maximising Your Brand
- Cosmo Careers Masterclass
- Business success stories
- Innovating for Growth success story - The Hairforce
- The power of brand
- The role of UK University Business Schools in driving innovation
- The Apprentice 2013
- Congratulations to our FSB London Business award winners!
- Starting a food business
- Business & IP Centre customers showcase products at Boxpark
- Follow the footballers and protect your brand
- Checking your trade mark abroad
- Review of Start-Up Saturday
- Recipe for Success: the secret ingredients for business growth
- Cooking up Success for Food in London
- Soul Trader the workshop with Rasheed Ogunlaru
- Welcome to our new Innovation and Enterprise blog
Knowledge Matters
2025
- Transporting the Library into a steampunk universe
- Beyond the Bassline: making an impact in libraries across the UK
- Planting seeds of possibility
- Sharing our Annual Report highlights for 2024–25
- Discovering unexpected ancestors in the online newspaper collection
- Women’s voices in football fandom
- Deciphering a 20,000-year-old mystery: An interview with Bennett Bacon
- TikTok, activism and archives: the latest from Young Creators Lab
- Knowledge without borders
- Investigating forebears in the records of the past: An interview with Ken Foster
- Culinary manuscripts at the British Library
- Electronic Legal Deposit – April 2025 update
- Latest Pay Gaps Report published
- Finding out about service updates – March 2025
- Celebrating World Book Day® with schools and families
- Celebrating a wedding at the Library
- Increasing the digital impact of public libraries – evaluating LibraryOn’s £1.5m grants programme
- A unique 16th-century Reformation mandate enters collection
- Pursuing hippos through the stamp collections
2024
- Celebrating a year of The Last Word community hub
- Stories from Young Creators Lab 2024
- 30 years of National Lottery support
- It’s a wrap: Green Libraries Week 2024
- Delivering a world of ideas and opportunities
- Sustainability tour of the British Library
- Restoring our services – 10 October 2024 update
- Our new Sustainability and Climate Change Strategy
- Green Libraries Week
- Restoring our services – 30 August 2024 update
- Restoring our services – 30 July 2024 update
- Enjoying Time Together on Family Days
- Restoring our services – 28 May 2024 update
- Telling Stories That Help Children Learn to Read | User Stories
- Get into the heart of the Library with our new Bloomberg Connects digital guide
- Helping your research – 1 May 2024
- Sir Roly Keating to step down as Chief Executive of the British Library in April 2025
- Gender, ethnicity and disability pay gap reports published
- Learning lessons from the cyber-attack
- Helping your research
- Restoring our services – 22 February 2024 update
- Restoring our services - 9 February 2024 update
- Your Library this year
- Restoring our services – an update
2023
- Knowledge under attack
- Disruption to Public Lending Right (PLR) service
- British Library school services
- Cyber incident update – last updated 18 December 2023
- British Library Business & IP Centre (BIPC) services
- British Library events – last updated 5 December 2023
- Creating Art Using the Sound Archive | User Stories
- Interview with Sveta Dorosheva, artist for Fantasy: Realms of Imagination
- Untangling the History of Social Dance | User Stories
- Sustainability schemes in libraries across the UK
- New LibraryOn release showcasing public libraries
- Second LibraryOn digital grant programme launches
- Behind the Scenes at the British Library: Catherine Ross, Sustainability Manager
- Transforming Ancient Remedies into Pioneering Medical Research | User Stories
- A fun festive challenge!
- Designing a Board Game Using the Collection's Images | User Stories
- Performing Folk Music Found in the Archives | User Stories
- Following in the Footsteps of Adventurous Women | User Stories
- Building a Minecraft Gateway to the World of Books | User Stories
- 50 facts about the British Library
- 50th birthday wishes from the world's national libraries
- The Library in biscuit form
- Finding Forgotten Women in the Collection | User Stories
- Bringing Inspiration from the Reading Room to the Catwalk | User Stories
- Dreaming Up a Chocolate Factory in the Business & IP Centre | User Stories
- Becoming One of the British Library’s Most Prolific Authors | User Stories
- LibraryOn grants awarded to 27 public library projects
- Behind the Scenes at the British Library: Jamal Mohamed, Community Project Coordinator
- Launching Knowledge Matters – our new strategic vision to 2030
- Everything Forever – marking 10 years of digital legal deposit
- Our exhibitions are delighting people around the UK
- Improving the online presence of public libraries with a new grants programme
- Voyages of discovery: Collaborative Doctoral Partnership projects at the British Library
- LibraryOn: researching collaborations between public and university libraries
2022
- Our highlights of the year
- Doctoral Open Days – 15 years and counting
- Our role in building a brighter climate future
- Behind the Scenes at the British Library: Sandra A. Agard, Learning Facilitator for Schools
- Developing a Single Digital Presence for public libraries: our journey so far
- Warm, safe and we also have WiFi - ways to enjoy the British Library for free
- The First Lady of Ukraine joins us to launch 'Books Without Borders'
- Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the British Library
- Three of our most fascinating collection items from around the world
- Launching the Green Libraries Manifesto
- Library Lives: Susan Taylor, Glasgow
- What’s in a name? Update on the Single Digital Presence project
- Library Lives: Morgan Wadsworth-Boyle, British Library St Pancras
- Behind the Scenes at the British Library: Janis Black and Ged Prior from the Public Lending Right team
- Our top 10 most unusual collection items
- Library Lives: Paramjit Hans, Birmingham
- Behind the scenes at the British Library: Lucy Hinnie, Wikimedian-in-Residence
- Meet the Maker: Museo Design
- The British Library: building the future at St Pancras
- Library Lives: Katie Kinnear, Camberley
- Behind the scenes at the British Library: Tasha McNaught, Marketing and Communications Manager
- Memory of a nation – the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine
- Library Lives: Adrian Edwards, British Library St Pancras
- An update on the Single Digital Presence Project
- UK wide Breaking the News exhibition opens this February
- The impact of philanthropy
- Behind the scenes at the British Library: Graham Jevon, Cataloguer for the Endangered Archives Programme
- Enacting change – rolling out our Race Equality Action Plan
- Library Lives: Rosemary O’Hare, Glasgow
2021
- Taking your favourite exhibitions around the world
- Library Lives: Rebecca Binnington, Hull
- Meet the Maker: Katch Skinner
- Library Lives: Mark Freeman, Stockton-on-Tees
- Light Night Leeds 2021
- Libraries and a brighter climate future
- Behind the scenes at the British Library: Caan Walls, Membership Manager
- An interview with Patrick Hughes
- Meet the Maker: Eleanor Stuart
- Library Lives: Sally Halper, British Library St Pancras
- Library Lives: Thurstan Young, British Library Boston Spa
- Library Lives: Hedley Sutton, British Library St Pancras
- Library Lives: Caroline Kent, British Library Boston Spa
- Library Lives: Stella Wisdom, British Library St Pancras
- Behind the scenes at the British Library: Isabelle Reynolds-Logue
- Welcoming local friends back through our doors in London
- British Library welcomes a special Afghan guest
- Libraries (gradually) out of lockdown
- Meet the Maker: Pavilion
- Behind the Scenes: Vaccine volunteers
- Researching community online
- Meet the Maker: Here. Design
- Book bloggers and the British Library
- Behind the scenes at the British Library: Sophie Sabin
- Behind the scenes at the British Library: Eugenio Falcioni
- The designers behind the British Library gates
- Food Means Home
- Behind the scenes at the British Library: Susan Dymond, Interpretation Manager and Cleo Laskarin, Exhibitions Production Coordinator
- Making two million images freely available online
- An interview with Antony Gormley
- Reconnecting Oceanic communities with previously inaccessible cultural materials
- Behind the scenes at the British Library: Alexa McNaught-Reynolds, Conservation Exhibition and Loan Manager, Zoë Miller, Conservation Team Leader and Amy Baldwin, Book Conservator
- Meet the Maker: Claudine O'Sullivan
- Behind the scenes at the British Library: Amber Perrier, Community Engagement Officer
- Meet the Maker: Circular&Co.
- Towards an action plan on anti-racism
- Behind the scenes at the British Library: John Lee, Publisher, and Maria Vassilopoulos, Publishing Sales and Marketing Manager
- Unfinished Business in libraries across the UK
- Meet the maker: Literati & Light
- Behind the scenes at the British Library: Nicole Ioffredi Print Room Coordinator and Cataloguer
2020
- Seasons greetings from the British Library
- The most popular British Library content of 2020
- Enabling access for everyone: the British Library’s content strategy 2020-2023
- A timely take on food writing
- Digging up the secrets of Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Unfinished Business: Leeds Weekender
- British Library at London Fashion Week 2020
- Something for curious minds, wherever you are
- Our role in renewal: Living Knowledge For Everyone
- Open and Engaged Conference 2020: Inequities in Scholarly Communications
- Transforming the British Library
- Reopening and reinterpretation – our Front Hall busts
- Welcome back to our Treasures Gallery!
- The History of Parliament Trust Oral History Project: Q&A with Dr Emma Peplow
- Supporting public libraries through a national digital presence
- We can’t wait to see you again
- The collecting continues
- Love our library?
- Open for change: stories, articles and events to get you started
- Celebrating Pride in lockdown
- Explore the British Library from your home
- Be Bold With Bananas, or rediscovering your personal library
- The British Library’s Response to the UKRI Open Access Review Consultation
- Got a research query? Ask a librarian
- A Single Digital Presence for UK libraries: the project and the platform
- Exhibition on hold but women’s rights remain Unfinished Business
- Research, anywhere, anytime
- Coronavirus brings science and engineering under the media spotlight
- Coming soon – Unfinished Business: The Fight For Women’s Rights
2019
- British Library Shared Research Repository launched in beta
- Open and Engaged: Open Access Week at the British Library
- Why we collect digital publications
- A sea of colour and light: the British Library at Leeds Light Night 2019
- Museum as Muck – improving working class representation in museums and galleries
- Live event: The Novels that Shaped Our World
- What’s going on with the British Library logo?
- Public places and digital spaces
- When the personal gets political
- 10 reasons to love libraries
- Digitising the Private Case
- Collaboration key for advancing open research: repository progress for Jisc and the British Library
- ‘Rub the shin of the person on your left. With your face.’
2018
- Open Access Discovery Workshop at the British Library
- Open and Engaged: Open Access Week at the British Library
- Introducing our new Chevening Fellows
- The Single Digital Presence for public libraries: our research so far
- Collections in Verse – bringing exhibitions to life through poetry
- Meet our apprentices in Boston Spa
- Meet our apprentices
- The Library is open – celebrating a summer of Pride at the British Library
- An explorer on what James Cook: The Voyages means to her
- British Library joins the Open Library of Humanities
- British Library partners with Impactstory for open access discovery
- Celebrating the British Library at St Pancras
- Parting words from our Chief Librarian
- What we talk about when we talk about a single digital presence
- UK Research and Innovation launched at the British Library
- Snozzcumbers in Norwich: Quentin Blake’s Roald Dahl portraits on tour
- Jane Eyre in Shanghai – part one
- Building up a new Shop range
- Women of the British Library
- 2018 at the British Library – a peek into our plans (part II)
- 2018 at the British Library – a peek into our plans (part I)
2017
- A year of reading the Russian Revolution
- All to play for: games, libraries and sharing skills
- A peek into the life of… our Translator in Residence
- The mysterious pleasures of Golden Age detective fiction
- Going global – the British Library Annual Report 2016-17
- Bricks and knowledge: my week of work experience at the British Library
- The Library is open! Celebrating London Pride
- Mentoring and the Living Knowledge Network
- Sellout success: Jaipur Literary Festival lights up the Library
- Taking British Library literary treasures to China
- Celebrating Bengali New Year at the British Library
- Living Knowledge Network skills sharing day
- A Journey to Essex
- John Berger (1926-2017): The Company of the Past
2016
- The Elastic System: What Can You Do with a Library?
- Support the British Library by becoming a Member
- Exploring Treasures of the British Library on TV
- Launching the Living Knowledge Network
- Our Shakespeare: a collaboration between the British Library and the Library of Birmingham
- On the trail of the Essex Serpent
- Nudity, trees and biscuits: how we made Shakespeare in Ten Acts
- Work experience at the Library – more than meets the eye
- Never mind the British Library, here’s Punk
- Work experience in the British Library Press Office
- Help shape the future of our digital research spaces
- CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Children's Book Awards at the British Library
- Our Alice in Wonderland exhibition travels north to Newcastle
- Our plans for St Pancras – new caterer appointed
- How do you create an Alice in Wonderland Pop-up Shop?
- British Library Shakespeare playbills…on tour!
- The British Library and India – an exciting new chapter
- The British Library’s research collections – slide shows from our Doctoral Open Days
- Building the future – our plans for St Pancras
- The Knowledge Quarter: One Year On
- National Libraries Day - the great legacy of our public libraries
- PLR figures reveal the nation's most borrowed books
- Library of Surprises – Part III: Is the British Library the original LinkedIn?
- Happy Public Lending Right statement day!
- Exploring the British Library’s research collections – Doctoral Open Days
2015
- Library of Surprises Part II – Personal Archives
- A dazzling diversity of primary sources
- From Shakespeare to 20th century maps – our cultural highlights for 2016
- Library of surprises Part I – Digital Ghost Towns
- If books were bricks...
- Alice’s Adventures in Philadelphia
- Opening up the Library through international fellowships
- Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities
- British Library Chief Librarian confirmed as CILIP Trustee
- Millions more legal deposit items now available at Boston Spa
- How we did it: unifying the four original Magna Carta manuscripts
- Comprehensive, open and clear: explaining our Annual Report and Accounts
- The British Library in Yorkshire – a treasure trove for researchers
- One million Twitter followers
- British Library Imaging Studio – opening up our collections
- CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals awarded at the Library
- Improving collection security – an international challenge
- Picture This: British Library exhibition comes to Newcastle
- 20 millionth item ordered into the Reading Rooms
- PLR: benefiting authors, illustrators – and even narrators!
- Digitising Spare Rib magazine: The inside story
- British Library web strategy: start anywhere, go anywhere
- Redesigning Alice: Etsy and British Library competition winners
- Reference Services: assisting with your enquiries
- Celebrating World Book Night in London and Yorkshire
- New Moleskine range inspired by our Alice in Wonderland manuscript
- #ShareMyThesis winners announced
- Self-service photography extended
- Judging the Folio Prize
- Magnifying the impact of Magna Carta
- Launching Living Knowledge
- The idea of the Library
2014
- Self-service photography in our Reading Rooms
- The making of a best-seller
- Welcome to the Knowledge Quarter
- Revealing Gulf history online
- From Magna Carta to West Africa – cultural highlights for 2015
- Networking across the nation
- Welcome to Living Knowledge!
Maps and views
2024
2023
2022
- Norden and Van den Keere: Two seventeenth century atlases digitised and online
- The new Roy Military Survey Gazetteer
- Remigius Hogenberg's view of Münster
- Georeferencing maps from George III’s atlases and albums
- PhD placement opportunity - Japanese maps
- Radical mapping
2021
- Released online: The 1878 India Office map collection catalogue
- George III's maps and views: 32,000 images released on Flickr Commons
- Adding 1,277 East African maps to Georeferencer
- One-Fifth of the World's Surface
- New Digital Maps available on Reading Room Terminal
- Maps and the Canals
- Maps on the British Library's Online Gallery: update
- Crowdsourcing in schools: The Land Utilisation Survey of Britain
- A roadmap of understanding the term 'roadmap'
- Münster’s Cosmographia
- New volcanic islands: where science and politics meet
- A medical man maps Kent
2020
- Adding sparkle to the New Year
- Where’s Father Christmas? A look at the Atlas de Finlande, the first national atlas
- Pandemic maps: science, size and simplicity
- International Mountain Day
- Bushfire maps of Australia
- King's Topographical Collection: curator's pick
- The King’s Topographical Collection wonders
- Greenham Women Against Cruise Map
- Maps of Jamaica in the K.Top. Collection
- Cataloguing the King’s Topographical Collection
- 10 things you may not know about the King's Topographical Collection
- The K.Top: 18,000 digitised maps and views released
- British Library map books published in October
- Admiralty Charts: good design in the analogue age
- Fan-tastic way to keep cool
- J.B. Harley Research Fellowships in the History of Cartography
- The Great Fire of London in maps
- Human maps
- Goad Maps on Layers of London
- Mapping as poetry: looking at ‘Spatial Poem No.2, a fluxatlas’
- The Subterranean World
- World Map World Cup: what happened and five things we've learnt
- Maps and photography: a brief history, part 3
- World Map World Cup: Group 4
- World Map World Cup: Group 3
- World Map World Cup: Group 2
- World Map World Cup: Group 1
- Help us choose the British Library's favourite world map
- An Atlas of the Himalayas by a 19th Century Tibetan Lama: A Journey of Discovery
- Potosí, the celebrated city
- Flickr Maps on the Georeferencer Finished!
- Maps and photography: a brief history, part 2
- British Library map leads to a Gibraltar archaeological discovery
- Runnymede - a history in maps
- Great Barrier Reef ‘discovery’
- Maps and photography: a brief history, part 1
- The history of cartography: shining a light
- Survey of the River Euphrates
- Automated text extraction from colonial-era maps of eastern Africa
- Thomas Tuttell: a most unfortunate mapmaker
- Columbus - Mapping the New World
- T.E. Lawrence’s maps of the Hejaz
- Florence Nightingale the Angel of the Crimea
- Antarctica: A brief history in maps, part 2
- Crystal Palace Marvel
- Antarctica: A brief history in maps, part 1
- Another big list of where to find British Library maps online
- A list of where to find free-to-access digitised British Library maps
- A View of the Open Road
- Charting the Victorian Internet
- Old maps on TV: Charles I, Alec Guinness and Christopher Saxton
- London’s Royal Parks
- Georeferencing through Self-isolation
- Hospitals under the microscope
- 3D historic globes - quiz answers!
- Test your knowledge with our historic globe quiz
- Go for a spin! 3D interactive historic globes now live
- Layers of London: the latest
- Upgrading the Georeferencer
2019
- Diverse cartography of the Levant
- Back to front
- Two recent flight-related additions to the Map Collection
- British Empire maps of Africa added online
2018
- Accuracy? Do me a favour!
- Published today, Atlas: a world of maps from the British Library
- Insights from a mapmaker
- The Virtual Mappa Project and DM: Online Editions of Medieval Maps and More
- Shipwrecks and Piracy: John Rocque’s 1750 Map of Rome, part two
- A Malawian mystery tour
- Georg Wilhelm Schimper in Abyssinia: a new online resource
- International Women's Day: Helen Wallis OBE (1924-1995)
- The Ultimate Tourist Souvenir: John Rocque’s 1750 Map of Rome
2017
- Captain Wellby and his 1,000-mile march
- Shoreditch according to Goldfinger
- Maps in GCSE resource cupboards
- A plan for a new Westminster Bridge (1736): report from the conservation studio
- Hollar in Hull
- Saxton's cost-cutting exercise
- Picturing Places launched!
- Canada Through the Lens: mapping a collection
- 20th Century Maps: Everything Changes, Nothing Changes
- Maps and women
- Soviet Military Mapping of the Cold War Era
- How Maps Got Into the Movies
- Lilian Lancaster's hand-drawn maps on display
- Cover story
- Shattered Maps
- 'Lhasa Englishman First'
- Old Europe
2016
- Festive Fairyland
- Maps & scrap metal
- MacDonald Gill: original drawing goes on show today
- Map: friend or foe?
- 20th Century Panoramaniac
- Pushing the Boundaries
- Colouring maps for adults
- Step onto the map: the British Library's exhibition is open
- Map exhibition build photographs
- Map Reading in the 20th Century
- 100 Aker Wood
- 20th century maps: the globe
- Maps and Macbeth
- A Journey to Bookland
- The long search for HMS 'Terror'
- Map exhibition - the countdown begins
- Hooked on Georeferencing
- Magnificent Manuscripts Online: Pelagios
- War Office Archive goes live in Nairobi
- Murder and Madness in the Castle: Macbeth’s Inverness
- Less of a Random Mapper: a new feature for Georeferencer
- 'Whither the Fates Carry Us': Bermuda goes Off the Map
- Money for old charts: printing maps in the nineteenth century
2015
- The Curious Map Book
- Digitisation of the Klencke Atlas
- The British Library Publishes War Office Archive Maps Online
- A Glance – from a Safe Distance – at the Human Monsters on Pierre Desceliers’ World Map of 1550
- Putting yourself on the (old) map
- Magnificent Maps of New York
- British Town Maps
- Revelatory Rivers in Germany – Part 2
- Drawing Lines across Africa - from the War Office Archive
- A Rare View of the Siege of Boston (1775-1776)
- 20th century maps: internship opportunity
- Revelatory Rivers in Germany – Part 3
- The Kangxi atlas in the King’s Topographical Collection
- A Bohemian rhapsody*?
- A British Reverse in East Africa - from the War Office Archive
- Maps lie in a new online course
- Lines in the Ice: top five highlights
- Help! British Library needs 50,000+ maps georeferenced
- A rum Lot of Maps
- London through the artist's eye
- Robert Adam and the King’s Topographical Collection
- Support King George III’s London collection
- Intelligence mapping of British East Africa - digitisation begins
- Found: more maps than we’d reckoned
- Enigmas and Errors: 19th-century cataloguing of the King’s Topographical Collection – Part 3. Windsor Castle and Hampton Court: a palatial mix-up.
- Off the Map: Alice and the Gleaming Spires
- So now you know!
- Enigmas and Errors: 19th-century cataloguing of the King’s Topographical Collection Part 2
- Fruits of Espionage in the K.Top
- George, Jacobites, Scotland and the K.Top – A Brief Summary
2014
- George III architectural plans
- England and the North-East Passage
- Maps in the 20th century: Disney World UK
- The Draw of the Arctic
- These maps were made for walking
- Lines in the Ice: maps and the history of exploration
- Maps Tag-a-thon: it’s online
- Lines in the Sea: underwater oil in the 20th century
- Off the Map Gothic: the finalists!
- Maps relating to the Middle East now available online
- 1971: A Football Heritage Map
- A History of the 20th Century in 100 Maps
- New Acquisition: The Bowes Playing cards of 1590
- Maps Tag-a-thon Event
- Franklin's ship: whodunnit?
- Success - maps 100% georeferenced
- Tricky maps
- Maps in 19th-century books - what has been georeferenced
- New lot of maps for georeferencing - release TODAY
- Tour de British Library: the finish line
- Tour de British Library: day 2, penultimate stage!
- Tour de British Library: day 2, stage 2
- Tour de British Library: day 2, stage 1 live!
- Tour de British Library: day 2 begins!
- Tour de British Library: stage 6
- Tour de British Library: stage 5 and it is getting serious
- Tour de British Library: stage 4 live (sort of)!
- Tour de British Library: stage 3 as it happened!
- Tour de British Library: stage 2 as it happened!
- Tour de British Library: stage 1
- Tour de British Library: begin!
- Tour de British Library - a historic journey
- From the largest to the smallest
- Off the Map Gothic
- Messing about with mappaemundi: The Virtual Mappa Project tools (2)
- Messing about with mappaemundi: The Virtual Mappa Project tools (1)
- The art and history of globes
- Made with the British Library's map collection: The Isle of Eels
- Good news for fans of medieval maps!
- Historic maps in the public domain
- Enigmas and errors: 19th-century cataloguing of the King’s Topographical Collection part 1
- For the defence of Plymouth: a map and a report
- Celebrating George III: the map king
- Early Netherlandish T-O Trickery
- Done! 2,700 maps georeferenced by volunteers
2013
- What are these bits of maps?
- Don't put a foot wrong in Georgian Bath
- 2,700 new maps online for georeferencing
- Maps of Paradise
- A map discovery hidden in a 17th century portrait
- Mapping a Lost City
- Somewhere, somewhere in a field in Herefordshire...
- Whimsical sea monsters
- Have trolley, will travel
- On the River
- Recent acquisitions
- Inspired by ..... MAPS!
- Ordnance Surveyors’ Drawings opened for reuse
- Off the Map: getting to grips with the city
- BL Georeferencer - maps go like hotcakes
- Stargazing with maps. In the dark?
2012
- The Nativity in maps
- Falmouth gets the octopus treatment
- Links with OS past
- Annoucing BL Georeferencer champions
- Difficult maps
- Chance to georeference maps online!
- Happy Birthday
- Success in "placing" historic maps
- Georeferencing maps online - will it work?
2011
- Maps and beverages: tea
- Ye Olde Royal Sat Nav
- British Library and British Museum: Who's who?
- A bit about map collections
- An inaccurate map
- ...as we were saying
2010
- Thanks for watching, watch this space
- Final Week!
- Magnificent maps that didn't make the exhibition #9
- Magnificent maps that didn't make the exhibition #8
- Magnificent maps that didn't make the exhibition #7
- Magnificent maps that didn't make the exhibition #6
- Crime Scene
- A peculiar scenario
- Parish Maps
- Magnificent maps that didn't make the exhibition #5
- Magnificent maps that didn't make the exhibition #4
- Frustratingly Elusive Magnificent Map Trophy #1
- David Starkey and Peter Barber
- The Maps in Context Symposium
- Magnificent maps that didn't make the exhibition #3
- Magnificent Maps that didn't make the exhibition #2
- Magnificent maps that didn't make the exhibition #1
- Choosing the most magnificent
- Elbow room and map fashion
- Yet more press
- Magnificent Map of King’s Cross
- A week of map events
- Exhibition opens!
- Last 24 hours of the exhibition build
- The beginning is nigh!
- More from the exhibition build
- Exhibition build update
- The Beauty of Maps #4
- The Beauty of Maps #3
- Press coverage round-up
- The Beauty of Maps on iPlayer
- The Beauty of Maps #2
- The Beauty of Maps #1
- Magnificent Maps in the media
- Comment in Monday's Guardian
- So you love maps do you?
Medieval manuscripts
2025
- Ferocious fish
- Thomas Wolsey and the invasion of France
- The Passion in pictures
- Cataloguing the Campbell charters
- Five outstanding manuscripts acquired for the nation
- The Moutier Grandval Bible loaned to Jura
- Unfolding Time: The Medieval Pocket Calendar
- Design and rule
- Medieval Women manuscripts now online
- I, Estellina: Jewish women and early printing
- By your valentine, Margery Brews
- The first sultana of Egypt and Syria
- Black Agnes and the siege of Dunbar
- The mortuary roll of Lucy of Hedingham
- Permission to practise medicine
- Tales of Medieval Women
- Medieval Women quiz 2
- Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts
2024
- The Nativity according to St Birgitta
- Choose wisely
- An unknown leaf from the Poor Clares of Cologne
- The arrest of Eleanor Rykener
- From countess to convent
- Don't try this at home
- The Eleanor Crosses
- Not for the British Library
- Medieval Women at the British Library shop
- Nunning amok
- Educating Ippolita
- Women at work
- Joan of Arc at the British Library
- Requesting a raise: the petition of Joan Astley
- Birgitta's marvellous marginalia
- Medieval Women quiz 1
- Medieval witches
- Keeping a cat and other rules for anchoresses
- Medieval Women events
- Medieval Women well and truly open
- Medieval Women: the items on display
- Countdown to Medieval Women
- Maidens or monsters?
- Medieval Women exhibition book available now!
- Our first 1000 digitised manuscripts return
- Medieval Women: 1 Month to Go!
- Dan Jones on Henry V
- Taking the shilling
- Fine along the dotted line
- Tickets go on sale for Medieval Women exhibition
- New acquisition: an illuminated charter of Edward III
- Drake’s progress
- A knight's tale
- Annual manuscripts weigh-in
- Henry VIII’s pastry tent
- Curator of Ancient and Medieval Manuscripts
- Medieval Women exhibition
- Chaucer at the Bodleian
2023
- Interim information sources for British Library manuscripts
- Garendon cartulary acquired by the British Library
- Chaucer’s works go online
- Cataloguing the Cotton charters
- The largest Greek manuscript?
- PhD Studentship opportunity: Medieval Women's Religious Communities
- Showing Elizabeth I in a new light
- The last day of Constantinople
- Death of the Wolf
- Medieval and Renaissance Women: remember their names
- Caption this May 2023
- Medieval and Renaissance Women: full list of the charters and rolls
- The Coronation Banquet of Henry VI
- Lost and found: in praise of Cardinal Wolsey
- Inventing a royal past
- Shakespeare before Shakespeare
- Lady Lumley’s literary endeavours
- Managing a medieval household
- Coronations
- Picturing the Crucifixion
- Inside a Tudor woman's home
- A Tudor autograph book
- Showcasing the latest research on Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks and drawings
- The bride's journey
- Medieval and Renaissance Women: full list of the manuscripts
- Mary had a little lamb
- Claim of thrones
- A deathbed confession
- Where there's a will
- Bringing the Cotton fragments to life
- Venusse was her name
- Alexander, Porrus and the peacock
- Alexander, a medieval super-hero
- Knock, knock, knocking on heaven’s door
- Alexander the Great: a life in pictures
- Magic fountains and peacocks
- Mermaids, sirens and Alexander the Great
- Time runs out for Alexander the Great
- A newly-acquired manuscript of the Knights Hospitaller
- Alexander the Great, scientist?
- Magnificent margins in the Alexander Romance
- And did those feet: did Alexander the Great visit Britain?
- Alexander the Great versus the elephants
- Digital Alexander
- Locating the earthly paradise
- Three Alexander the Great manuscripts newly digitised
- PhD placement on Medieval Women
- Re-imagining the Ebstorf map
- Wheel of approval
- Alexander the Great: an ancient horse whisperer
- Prince Henry Frederick: a second Alexander
- Jane Segar, an artist at the Elizabethan court
- Alexander the Great: events at the British Library
2022
- Chi-rho pages for Christmas
- The Lindisfarne Gospels back at the British Library
- From Julian of Norwich to Eleanor Cobham: more magnificent manuscripts online
- The emperor and the Sun King
- The Lady of Las Huelgas
- Reunited! A Russian manuscript of the Alexander Romance
- Florimont, flower of the world
- The expenses of Queen Eleanor of Castile
- Mary, Queen of Scots: two new acquisitions
- A pharaoh in disguise
- A medieval best-seller: the Alexander Romance
- How King Henry VIII read the Psalter
- Alexander the Great: The Making of a Myth is now open
- A Pardoner’s Tale
- Panizzi Lectures – Drawing Conclusions: Diagrams in Medieval Art and Thought
- ‘Do you like gold? Use it!’: A golden binding by Pierre Legrain
- Lindisfarne Gospels exhibition opens in Newcastle
- Alexander the Great exhibition at the British Library
- Help us decipher this inscription
- Hildegard-go!
- Massacre on the streets of Paris
- The man with the golden bulla
- Gold galore in the Harley Golden Gospels
- Breaking the news of the fall of Richard II
- A tour of the Tower
- Masters of gold tooling
- The golden splendour of the Queen Mary Psalter
- African kings on medieval and Renaissance maps
- Virtual private view of Gold on the British Library Player
- Golden Books
- MP3
- The Law Code of Alfonso X
- Fact-checking ‘Anne Boleyn’s’ girdle book
- Golden scenes from the Life of Christ
- The Tudors in Liverpool
- A marvel in gold and ivory: Queen Melisende’s Psalter
- Medieval and Renaissance Women: PhD placement
- Highlights from our Gold exhibition
- Collaborative doctoral studentship: The origins and development of the Cotton collection
- We’re going on a bear hunt
- Medieval Manuscripts Cataloguer and Researcher
- A 2000-year-old postcard
- Discovering Boccaccio manuscripts online
- Medieval manuscripts and the Art That Made Us
- Deciphering an English exorcism manual
- The secret of a silver clasp
- Medieval and Renaissance Women — thank you
- Irish voyage tales for the holiday of a lifetime
- Tall tales of the medieval ‘holster book’
- GOLD tickets go on sale
- Meaning in the margins of the Theodore Psalter
- Mapping Scotland
- The making of the tombs
- A man on a commission
- ‘The Doubt of Future Foes’
- Mr Beale and the death warrant
- Medieval and Renaissance Women
- The ‘tragedy’ of Lord Darnley
- Murder most foul: how Mary, Queen of Scots, almost avoided the chop
- The Gallows Letter
- How to be an effective ruler: the Basilikon Doron of King James VI and I
- ‘As goodly a child as I have seen’
- Portraits of Elizabeth I
- Reach for the stars
- Dürer's Journeys: Travels of a Renaissance Artist
- Our digitised collection keeps on growing
- Celebrating the New Year Elizabethan style
2021
- On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
- Christmas gift ideas from medieval manuscripts
- A gift fit for a king
- Collating Cicero in Cologne
- Princess Elizabeth and her governess
- Proclaiming Mary’s conviction in London
- Merlin the magician: from devil’s son to King Arthur’s trusted advisor
- Robert Dudley's bindings: ‘A bear muzzled and chained’
- The archive of Zenon
- 'Strangers' in Tudor England and Stewart Scotland
- The Floreffe Bible on exhibition
- Investigating the origins of the Cotton collection: call for academic partners
- 'Not lawful nor tolerable'
- Afterlives and otherworlds: three ghost stories from medieval Ireland
- Into the inferno
- More Harley manuscripts online
- Treasures on Tour in Cornwall
- Antoine de Lonhy and the Saluces Hours
- Elizabeth and Mary, Royal Cousins, Rival Queens: Curators’ Picks
- The travelling Bibles
- A figured poem
- The Green Knight: the movie and the manuscript
- Dragons, heroes, myths and magic
- 700th anniversary of the death of Dante
- Dante in the British Library online event
- Defying the emperor: the ‘Acts of Appian’ in London and New Haven
- Elizabeth and Mary: Royal Cousins, Rival Queens
- Follow up: Important information for email subscribers
- Richard III: fact and fiction
- Giant ants, golden apples and a killer cat
- Important information for email subscribers
- Caption competition August 2021
- A mariner's handbook from the library of Sir Walter Raleigh
- Chroniclers of History at St Albans Museum
- A letter of recommendation split between two continents
- Miniature books
- Dürer in the Low Countries
- A library under lockdown
- The lost miracles of Wulfsige of Evesham
- Euro 2020: the medieval manuscript version
- Murder most foul in the Cotswolds
- Prefacing the Psalms
- A medieval midsummer
- Caption competition June 2021
- Medieval killer rabbits: when bunnies strike back
- Who should we trust?
- Lewis of Caerleon’s eclipse tables in the spotlight
- Caption competition time
- Gold and Glory at Hampton Court
- Thomas Becket: manuscripts showing the making of a saint
- The Master of Edward IV
- Hot off the press
- Food scribes, food lives online event
- Caption this
- ‘Frenssh’ as it was ‘spak’ in medieval England
- A newly discovered manuscript from Byland Abbey
- Decorating the Decretum
- Easter Sunday in the Sherborne Missal
- Alas, poor Hamlet
- Great medieval bake off: Lent edition
- The colour purple
- Fascinating beasts (and where to find them)
- The curious AB-script
- Rhygyfarch: poetry and protest in medieval Wales
- Illuminated Canon Tables
- Lady Jane Grey’s letters from the Tower of London
- Digesting History
- Charles d'Orléans, earliest known Valentine?
- Love spells in the Greek Magical Papyri
- Loan of the Lindisfarne Gospels to the North East of England
- Bede, The Dig and Sutton Hoo
- Merovingian illumination in a manuscript of Gregory's Moralia
- Over 4,500 manuscripts now online
- A virtual get-away, medieval style
2020
- The ox and ass at the Nativity
- Great medieval bake off: Christmas edition
- The medieval Christmas weather forecast
- An ancient ‘happy family’
- New Prophecies of the Ancient Sibyls
- Ancient steam engines
- Sherborne Missal on the radio
- 900 years since the White Ship disaster
- The Polonsky project's two year anniversary
- Camden's Annals PhD studentship
- Announcing the Acquisition of the Lucas Psalter
- Parchment in prison: imprisoned medieval writers
- PhD placement on Irish manuscripts
- Ottonian imperial style in Echternach Gospel-books
- Lewis of Caerleon manuscript saved for the nation
- The show must go on! Putting on a play in the 16th century
- Byland Abbey ghost stories: a guide to medieval ghosts
- Angels in Manuscripts
- Early medieval interlace – a distinctive or ubiquitous feature?
- The Bamberg Book of Relics
- Great medieval bake off
- All about ancient camels
- Heritage Made Digital: Tudor and Stuart manuscripts go online
- Before photo IDs were invented
- The Holy Kinship
- Elizabeth Elstob, Old English scholar, and the Harleian Library
- Digitisation of the Sherborne Missal
- Online resources for medieval manuscripts
- How did the Cotton library grow?
- “Collect the fragments – they should not perish!”
- Jewels make the Virgin Queen
- Ludicrous figures in the margin
- Treasures on Tour: an Armagh gospel-book on display in Belfast
- The maps of Matthew Paris
- Picturing the Old Testament in the Rochester Bible
- Defender of the Faith
- Spreading the word: a tribute to ancient teachers
- Shakespeare's only surviving playscript now online
- The 800th anniversary of the translation of Thomas Becket
- Our latest list of digitised manuscripts
- Chyryse: a midsummer night's recipe
- A load of rubbish
- Magna Carta quiz
- Layers of meaning in the Floreffe Bible
- Did Henry VIII believe in unicorns?
- Remembering the Field of Cloth of Gold
- Late manuscripts, bad manuscripts?
- The monumental art of the Stavelot Bible
- The St Albans Benefactors' Book: precious gifts and colourful characters
- It's tournament season!
- Remembering Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War
- Fabulous Mr Fox and other wise tales
- How to be a hermit
- Papyrus horoscopes: stars, planets and fortunes
- In search of the books of Richard Amadas
- The legend of Alexander in late Antique and medieval literary culture: PhD studentship at the British Library
- An atlas fit for a Tudor queen
- A history of the book in seven objects
- Designing the Arnstein Bible
- St George and the Garter
- The Holy Helpers
- Henry VIII: the possessions of a Tudor monarch
- Medieval rabbits: the good, the bad and the bizarre
- Exultet rolls: celebrating the return of the light
- Illuminating the Worms Bible
- Guess the manuscript returns
- The Pageants of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick
- Don’t waste time writing
- The caption competition is back!
- Humfrey Wanley, Library-Keeper of the Harleian Library
- Surveying Lord Burghley’s Atlas
- Your plain friend without flattery
- Pilgrimage by proxy
- Puppets and papyri
- Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
- 10 years of the Medieval Manuscripts Blog
- Clever cats and other swashbuckling tales
- In Praise of the Psalms
- Middle English manuscripts galore
- Medical recipes from Gilbertine nuns
- Van Eyck: An Optical Revolution
- The Trees of the Sun and the Moon
- Animals on coats of arms
- New year, new manuscripts
2019
- Knight v griffin
- Christmas at Sainte-Chapelle
- Two Peters of Notre-Dame
- Renard the Fox, rebel and mischief-maker
- Troy story 2
- Troy story
- Medieval bookbindings: from precious gems to sealskin
- Happy anniversary to the Polonsky Project
- Classics lost and found
- ‘Coppie the words but burne this paper’
- How to survive Halloween
- The Lindisfarne Gospels: Turning over a new leaf
- John Bagford, bibliophile or biblioclast?
- Drawing a blank: an attempt to save the life of Charles I?
- The Nine Worthy Women
- Medieval saints as protectors of animals
- Off to a good start: exploring decorated initials
- Middle English manuscripts online
- Discovering Sacred Texts launch
- Leonardo da Vinci: from manuscript to print
- Mapping medieval Scotland: between politics and imagination
- Medieval sacred texts on display
- Gardeners' Question Time
- A starry night, the Trojan horse and a spinning top
- The art of the alphabet poem
- Wine-making, medieval-style
- King Arthur: fable, fact and fiction
- 5 million page-views and counting
- Tweet, tweet
- The Joyful Ballad of the Taverners
- What's happening here?
- Ancient recycling: writing on potsherds
- Win tickets to see Dan Jones: Crusaders
- A medieval guide to predicting your future
- What is a bestiary?
- In August, in a high season: the wondrous Pearl
- The longest papyrus
- Note-worthy connections: antique shorthand in Carolingian books
- Summer caption competition
- Holiday reading matter
- The birds and the bees
- One Library, two exhibitions
- New Anglo-Saxon acquisition on display
- Writing Wyatt
- Marvellous monsters
- Reading the runes in Beowulf (so seaxy)
- The first man on the Moon
- Art and science in Renaissance Italy
- Magical seals in an English Book of Hours
- Underwater adventures
- Jerome and the lion
- Medieval cures for lung disease, gout and vertigo
- What inspires you?
- Insular Manuscripts: Networks of Knowledge
- Noah's Ark and the Anglo-Saxons
- Unexpected encounters of the fragmentary kind
- History Today Trustees' Award 2019
- Toads and ermine (and other coats of arms)
- Join us at Leeds
- Even more digitised manuscripts
- Explore Leonardo's notebooks
- The Ruin of Britain
- Leonardo da Vinci: A Mind in Motion
- The curse of the spiritual sword
- What does a wheelbarrow have to do with Aristotle?
- Crocodiles rock (never smile at a manuscript)
- Let's get quizzical
- How to name a mummy
- Book of Beasts at the Getty
- Mehmed the Conqueror, scourge of the world
- Ink in the clink
- Cataloguing the Harley manuscripts
- Homer in London
- How many alphabets?
- Keep taking the (wax) tablets
- Whale of a time
- Guess the manuscript: the dastardly edition
- Writing the story of writing: a new exhibition
- Fortune-telling the ancient way
- Cesare Franchi, Renaissance art in miniature
- Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots exhibition project curator
- Reunited at last: the Percy Hours and Percy Psalter
- The languages of history in the Middle Ages
- An important Anglo-Saxon manuscript acquired for the nation
- Jews, Money, Myth at the Jewish Museum
- Did Leonardo da Vinci invent the egg timer?
- Saints, kings and a bonnacon at Longthorpe Tower
- Initial impressions: the Noyon Sacramentary
- What's the language?
- Let sleeping cranes lie
- Why we love the Harley Irish Gospels
- A useful companion for a scholar: cats in the Middle Ages
- Celebrating the spiritual life
- Tales of ancient women
- The Renaissance Nude
- Guess the manuscript 127
- Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: a huge thank you
- Inside information
- Through the looking glass
- Reconstructing the Otho-Corpus Gospels
- Explore our Anglo-Saxons webspace
- When love comes knockin’ at your door
- New records of slavery from Anglo-Saxon Cornwall
- My ‘right well-beloved Valentine’
- Picture this: portraits of Anglo-Saxon rulers
- Easy as ABC?
- Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms and the BnF
- Medieval myths and legends
- Sutton Hoo and Anglo-Saxon East Anglia
- The Ascension in Anglo-Saxon England
- Queen Emma: wife of two kings, mother of two more
- Charteriffic
- Cambridge loans in Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms
- Cataloguing Greek papyri at the British Library: new PhD placement position
- From Oxford to London
- The Southwark Hours: a new acquisition
- Gorgeous manuscripts galore
- Audio description tour of Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms
- Heathens, pagans, Danes …. Vikings?
- Round up of our Manuscripts in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms conference
- The Anglo-Saxon origins of the English counties
- Alfred ordered me to be made
2018
- Party like it's AD 999
- Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: the exhibition quiz
- Cats, get off the page!
- All I want for Christmas is ... Domesday Book
- A Christmas gift for Charlemagne
- A medieval Nativity
- Discovered in a stable: the Anderson Pontifical
- A whiskered beast
- A literary giant
- Name that rune!
- A useless letter?
- Women and books in Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms
- From the Tower the day before my death
- Spong Man and friends
- A calendar page for December 2018
- A spoonful of sugar
- Name that place
- ‘Arise, O Lord, and may your enemies be torn apart’: the Staffordshire Hoard in Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms
- Manuscripts à la mode: Nabil Nayal's new collection
- Launch of The Polonsky Foundation Pre-1200 Project
- Fantastic books and where to see them
- Medieval hipsters
- Lichfield: the third archbishopric
- The cloak of St Martin of Tours
- What you won't see in Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms
- Through many hands: the Vespasian Psalter
- Coins, swords and urns: British Museum loans in Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms
- The real Lake of Grendel
- A calendar page for November 2018
- Pumpkins and pagans
- Medieval nudes
- Who was the greatest?
- The Utrecht Psalter on loan to Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms
- Fire in the library
- Golden oldies
- Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: a once-in-a-generation exhibition
- Manuscripts from the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms online
- A missal not to be missed
- The last Anglo-Saxon kings
- Harry Potter: A History of Magic at the New York Historical Society
- Jim Carter meets Bede
- A female doctor
- The Harley Bible moralisée on display in New York
- A calendar page for October 2018
- Memory of the World award ceremony
- Breaking news ...
- Cataloguer and Researcher, Early modern English manuscripts
- The Book of Durrow to be displayed at the British Library
- Two new charters from Ramsey Abbey
- Wynflaed and the price of fashion
- Births, births and (more) births
- One-day tickets for ‘Manuscripts in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms’ symposium
- A letter of a Scottish rebel
- A calendar page for September 2018
- Magical manuscripts in the Spellbound exhibition
- Old English elephants
- Throwing a medieval feast
- A bumper crop of manuscripts (part 2)
- Caption competition August 2018
- A bumper crop of manuscripts (part 1)
- New papyrus position at the British Library
- A costume fit for a centaur
- More ways to learn about Harry Potter: A History of Magic
- Silos manuscripts in our Treasures Gallery
- ‘I, King Alfred …’
- Anglo-Saxon manuscripts postgraduate internship
- A calendar page for August 2018
- Pilgrimages: medieval summer holidays?
- The Arnstein Bible: a grand monastic Bible
- Reunion and Reunification: The Fourth Annual Meeting of Papyrus Curators and Conservators
- Medieval Love Island
- Leeds in July: The Polonsky Foundation Pre-1200 Project
- Digitised Manuscripts hyperlinks July 2018
- It's coming home
- Anglo-Saxon charters online
- The Winchester Psalter: an illustrated bilingual Psalter
- Three lions
- Dance moves from medieval manuscripts
- A calendar page for July 2018
- Things you may have missed
- Networks of Knowledge: Insular manuscripts and digital potential
- Live like an eleventh-century prince
- The European conquest of the Canary Islands
- A midsummer milestone
- The Gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander
- Cotton manuscripts quiz
- The Serres Gospels goes online
- Sir Robert Cotton's manuscripts added to Memory of the World register
- Registration now open for our ‘Manuscripts in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms’ conference
- A medieval rainbow
- Two in one: a newly-identified bilingual papyrus
- The first voyage of Codex Amiatinus
- A calendar page for June 2018
- London in medieval manuscripts
- Will the real Venerable Bede please stand up?
- ‘The Earth is, in fact, round’
- Everyone loves a royal wedding
- The legends of King Arthur
- The female pope
- What's in a name?
- The spectacular Moutier-Grandval Bible
- Troy ahoy
- A calendar page for May 2018
- Medieval manuscripts internship
- The oldest English writing in the British Library?
- Lover, sorceress, demon: Circe's transformations
- Annual Walton Lecture in Athens
- A Bible fit for a king
- Naming a royal baby
- Italian splendour now on display in Treasures
- Juggling with fire: the poetry of the Gawain-manuscript
- Mansion's manuscripts in Bruges
- Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots PhD studentship
- Reynard the Fox and other curiosities
- A calendar page for April 2018
- New regulations for consulting manuscripts
- Bathtime for monks
- If you’ve got it, flaw-nt it
- Cracking a medieval code
- Call the medieval midwife
- Medieval lucky charms
- Augustine’s De Trinitate in London and Paris
- The voices of ancient women
- Epic women
- Polonsky Pre-1200 Project: we're halfway there
- Domesday Book is coming to the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms exhibition
- A calendar page for March 2018
- Rising from the ashes: bringing a medieval manuscript to life
- Harry Potter meets the Middle Ages
- Old English masterclass at the British Library
- How to make yourself invisible
- The Medieval Origins of Valentine's Day
- Gnome alone
- It's a kind of magic
- The Lindisfarne Gospels carpet pages
- Independent woman: Æthelflaed, Lady of the Mercians
- A calendar page for February 2018
- Discovering our medieval literature
- Glossed Bibles, hypertexts and hyperlinks
- A mammoth list of Digitised Manuscripts hyperlinks
- The British Museum and Harry Potter: A History of Magic
- Doctoral Students Open Day – Pre-1600 Collections
- Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts at the British Library
- Leonardo da Vinci on the Moon
- Lady Jane Grey on the BBC iPlayer
- The Carolingian quest for the correct text of the Bible
- Lady Jane Grey, England's forgotten Queen
- Glimpses of early Christian splendour in Constantinople
- A calendar page for January 2018
2017
- Digging for inscriptions in medieval manuscripts
- Thomas Becket's martyrdom
- A poem for literally all seasons
- You cannot be Sirius
- Illuminating the medieval Nativity
- It must be witchcraft
- A medieval recipe for gingerbread
- Internship on The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project
- British Library manuscripts in Glass exhibition at the Musée de Cluny
- The destruction of Sappho's works
- How to harvest a mandrake
- Chronicles and cartularies – fact and fiction
- Renaissance illumination at the Louvre
- Germaine Greer on Sappho
- A calendar page for December 2017
- Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms exhibition to open in 2018
- Harry Potter events at the British Library
- Gifts for manuscripts lovers
- The original Hermione
- Happy birthday, Statute of Marlborough!
- Boccaccio’s Venus in Cyprus
- Call for papers: the Fourth Papyrus Curatorial and Conservation Meeting
- Canon tables in the Lindisfarne Gospels now on display
- Simply the bestiary
- Science Museum loans in Harry Potter: A History of Magic
- Harry Potter exhibition books on sale now
- Illumination study day at the British Library
- How many horns does a unicorn have?
- A calendar page for November 2017
- An excellent day for an exorcism
- The Art of the Bible lecture at Dulwich Picture Gallery
- Harry Potter: A History of Magic on BBC2
- Collaborative doctoral research at the British Library: Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots
- The gladiator saint
- Purple pages at the Ashmolean
- Prepare to be spellbound
- Highway to Hell
- Another day, another caption competition
- Job vacancy to work with digital images
- A spiritual guide for a female recluse
- A borrower and a lender be
- Illumination study day at the British Library
- Reuniting a Middle Dutch prayerbook
- A calendar page for October 2017
- Feats in well-fashioned lines: Heaneywulf
- Fifty shades of grisaille
- Drop dead gorgeous
- Inside the Tudor court
- Where's Walter?
- Richard the Lionheart in Speyer
- Fragmentarium and the burnt Anglo-Saxon fragments
- The Mostyn Psalter-Hours: a new acquisition
- Guess the Song 4
- A rough guide to making a manuscript
- Ping pong merrily on high
- A calendar page for September 2017
- The medieval cartulary behind a ghost story
- Colin Tite: a tribute
- Total eclipse of the Sun
- Guess the song 3
- The Art of the Bible at Edinburgh
- Discovering Literature: Beowulf to Chaucer
- Snakes or scrolls? 11th-century wall paintings in Norfolk
- Call for papers: Manuscripts in Anglo-Saxon England
- Guess the song 2
- Pouncing beasts
- Illuminated manuscripts for polyglots
- Guess the song competition!
- The beautiful Bosworth Psalter
- A Calendar Page for August 2017
- Summer illuminations at the British Library
- King David: life and soul of the Psalter
- Job opportunities with the England and France 700-1200 Project
- Matthew Paris and his Abbreviated Chronicle of England
- The future is in the Moon
- The Heliand
- The Lindisfarne Gospels in the Treasures Gallery
- It's Caption Competition Time!
- The Mystery of Sappho
- A recipe for disaster? Medieval fireworks
- A calendar page for July 2017
- Making a good impression
- Curator, Early Modern Collections
- The language of love (and poetry and history)
- Stay cool
- Old Occitan at the British Library
- Written in the stars
- Battles and Dynasties at Lincoln
- In an artistic league of its own
- Methods of making Insular manuscripts
- A calendar page for June 2017
- Alchemy: The Great Art
- Guess whose handwriting
- Slave, scholar, stoic
- Frying pans, forks and fever: Medieval book curses
- King Arthur: not just a man of the sword?
- Digging for the past at Norton Priory
- A doughnut by any other name?
- An ideal woman
- Save a prayer for Ælfwine
- Ready are you? More medieval 'Yodas'
- A Calendar Page for May 2017
- The end of the world as we know it
- Blooming lovely
- How our ancient trees connect us to the past
- Digitised Manuscripts hyperlinks Spring 2017
- Another day, another caption competition
- A hunt for medieval Easter eggs
- Chaucer hitteth the Web
- Scandal, espionage, treason: discover Renaissance writers
- The Wonders of Rome
- Hairy Mary
- An illustrated Old English Herbal
- A Calendar Page for April 2017
- The Chipping Sodbury Bestiary
- Internship in Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts
- Medieval depictions of the Crusades
- The medieval origins of Mothering Sunday
- Digitising our manuscripts from Anglo-Saxon England
- Omne Bonum (All Good Things)
- A Tale as Old as Time
- St Patrick's Confessio: A Medieval Autobiography
- Our First 100 Polonsky Pre-1200 Manuscripts Are Now Online
- Insular Manuscripts AD 650-850: Networks of Knowledge
- Magic in the British Library's Papyri
- England and France 700-1200: Franco-Saxon Manuscripts in the Ninth Century
- Female Scribes in Early Manuscripts
- A Heavenly Recipe
- A Calendar Page for March 2017
- Pancake Tuesday
- The Art and History of Calligraphy
- Old English 'Spell' Books
- Medieval Shelfies
- The Seven Sages of Rome: Stories of the Wicked Ways of Women
- Love Me Do: Medieval Love Spells
- It's Caption Competition Time
- The Flower of Nature
- Dying to Archive: John Lakenheath at Bury St Edmunds Abbey
- A New Opening for the Lindisfarne Gospels
- A Medieval Wikipedia: Bartholomew the Englishman’s On the Properties of Things
- A Calendar Page for February 2017
- The Book with a Fur Cover
- Address to a Medieval Haggis
- Stars in Their Eyes: Art and Medieval Astronomy
- The Psychomachia: An Early Medieval Comic Book
- Magna Carta at the ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival
- New PhD Placements: Greek Papyri in the British Library
- Medieval Spin-Offs of the Roman de la Rose
- Another Year, Another Caption Competition
- A Lasting Impression
- A Calendar for January 2017
2016
- Christmas Quiz: The Answers
- Christmas Quiz 2016
- Christmas Coronations
- The Medieval Origins of the Christmas Carol
- A Reindeer Farmer at King Alfred's Court
- New Developments in Manuscript Viewers
- Researcher and Writer: Old and Middle English
- Explore our Greek Manuscripts Online
- Ocean Explorers at the Institut du Monde Arabe
- Forme of Cury: A Medieval English Cookbook
- Polonsky Digitisation Project: Last Call for Nominations
- Fantastic Beasts at the British Library
- A Calendar Page for December 2016
- Turning the Tide
- Silence is a Virtue: Anglo-Saxon Monastic Sign Language
- The Caption Competition Returns
- It's a bird, it's a plane, it's supermonk
- Alison Balsom Meets the Middle Ages
- Magna Carta Room Reopens
- ‘Kett’s Demands Being in Rebellion’
- Automata for the People: Greek Scientific Manuscripts Online
- A Feast for the Senses
- Picturing the Sacred: Byzantine Manuscript Illumination
- Showing Off Sailing Ships: The Anthony Roll
- Collaborative Doctoral Research at the British Library: Pre-1200 Manuscript Culture
- A Calendar Page for November 2016
- The Devil You Know
- Lindisfarne Gospels: Back on Display in the Sir John Ritblat Treasures Gallery
- An African Abbot in Anglo-Saxon England
- Wonders of Thread: The V&A’s Opus Anglicanum Exhibition
- Fire, Fire! The Tragic Burning of the Cotton Library
- Note to Self: Readers Writing in Greek Manuscripts
- Remembering Assandun
- And Always After That It Grew Much Worse
- England and France, 700-1200: Manuscripts from the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the British Library
- Changing the Script
- New Content on Our Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts
- Die Another Day? The Vita Haroldi at Waltham Abbey
- Reading and Writing Greek in Britain
- A Calendar Page for October 2016
- Valerius Maximus: A Handbook for the Roman Arriviste?
- The Book Banner Who Inspired Banned Books
- Every People Under Heaven
- The Ceolfrith leaves are 1300 years old
- British Libraries: The Panizzi Lectures 2016
- A Field Guide to Wodewoses
- The British Library's Greek Manuscripts Project
- Snakes, Mandrakes and Centaurs: Medieval Herbal Now Online
- Palimpsests: The Art of Medieval Recycling
- Caption Competition 8
- Representations of Disabilities and Illnesses in Medieval Manuscripts
- Greek Manuscripts Conference
- Guess the Manuscript Returns
- A Calendar Page for September 2016
- The Wisdom of the Greeks
- Monster Monday
- Improving Access to Our Digitised Manuscripts
- The Great Medieval Bake Off
- Which Star Sign Are You?
- The Grandisson Psalter
- Explore our Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts
- Research Curator, Renaissance Literature
- Caption Competition 7
- Pokémon Go! The Medieval Edition
- Leontion, 'Little Prostitute' or 'Great Philosopher'
- True Colours
- Medieval Selfies
- The Olympic Games at the British Library
- A Calendar Page for August 2016
- Caption Competition 6
- Metaphors, Misogyny and Courtly Love
- Star Item: An Early Medieval Sketch of the Planets
- Updated List of Digitised Manuscript Hyperlinks
- Off With His Head
- Alexander Neckam’s Collections of Prometheus
- Beowulf is Back!
- Manuscript the Tube
- Robert of Cricklade: Why I Write
- Caption Competition No. 5
- The Translation of Thomas Becket
- The Execution of Sir Thomas More
- Masons and Manuscripts
- A Calendar Page for July 2016
- Greek Manuscripts in the British Library: Conference and Public Lecture in September
- Tips for a Manuscripts Road Trip
- From the Louvre's Library to the Treasures Gallery
- Maps, Monsters and Marvels
- Internship in Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts
- Manuscript and Print in Renaissance Venice
- ‘I Am an Antichrist’: Demons, Vices and Punks
- Name this creature!
- A Calendar Page for June 2016
- Utopia 500
- Bede: The Greatest Hits
- Size Matters
- An Anglo-Saxon ‘Renaissance Man’: St Dunstan
- St Pancras: From Roman Martyr to London Station
- Florimont, Flower of the World, Grandfather of Alexander the Great
- God as Mother and Julian of Norwich
- The Scottish Play and the Real Macbeth
- A Calendar Page for May 2016
- Fit for a King’s Sister
- 1000th Anniversary of the Death of Æthelred the Unready
- A Firsthand Experience: Great Writers' Handwriting
- The Tripping Saint?
- Everything’s Coming Up (Roman de la) Roses
- Isidore of Seville's Etymologies: Who's Your Daddy?
- A Calendar Page for April 2016
- Fool’s Paradise
- Updated List of Digitised Manuscripts’ Hyperlinks
- Kassia: A Bold and Beautiful Byzantine Poet
- Lives of Cuthbert Now Online
- The Letter Book of Archbishop Wulfstan
- Justifying Women Writers: A Medieval Poet Speaks Out
- The Coronation Gospels on Display in Edinburgh
- British Library Volunteer Programme, Department of Western Heritage, 2016
- New Digitisation Project and Positions in the Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Section
- Cnut Manuscripts Now in the Treasures Gallery
- A Calendar Page for March 2016
- The Leaping Saint: 29th February in the Middle Ages
- Caption Competition Number 4
- Shakespeare: British Library Manuscripts in Washington D.C.
- Fashion Goes Medieval
- Joanna the Mad & Jheronimus Bosch
- The Illustrated Guide to Medieval Love, Part II
- The Earliest English Poet
- Medieval Library Rules
- Anglo-Saxon Chronicles Now Online
- Exploding Eyes, Beer from Bath-Water and Butter from Nettles: the Extraordinary Life of Brigid of Kildare
- A Calendar Post for February 2016
- Tales of Half-Friends, Bedcovers and Sheep crossing streams: A parental lecture of the 13th century
- New Arrivals for the New Year on Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts
- Elves and Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts
- A Belated Holiday Gift from Us: a Giant List of Digitised Manuscript Hyperlinks!
- Aelred of Rievaulx
- Until We Meet Again
- The Case of the Disappearing Ships
- Bald's Leechbook Now Online
- A Calendar Page for January 2016
2015
- Party Like It's AD 999 (or 980)
- Abraham and the Angels: The Cotton Genesis at the British Museum
- Christmas Eve Shepherds' Party
- Bins, Books and Bodian (Preaching): Ælfric and Christmas
- Medieval Festive Survival Guide
- Medieval Star Wars
- Help Us Choose our 2016 Calendar
- Almanacs Online!
- Important Notice: Temporary removal of Lindisfarne Gospels from display in the Treasures Gallery
- New Images of the Book of the Queen
- Postgraduate Open Day on our Pre-1600 Collections
- A Calendar Page for December 2015
- Beware the Sybil's Prophecy!
- New to the Treasures Gallery
- Anglo-Saxon Digitisation Project Now Underway
- Piecing Together the Puzzle of the Hungerford Hours
- Visions of Paradise
- Caption Competition 4
- A V.I.P.O.W. (Very Important Prisoner of War)
- Worcester Rental Acquired by the British Library
- A Calendar Page for November 2015
- Things That Go Bump in the Night
- Codex Sinaiticus: Both British Library Volumes On Display in London
- Pierre Sala’s Return to Lyons
- Hybrids and Shape-Shifters
- A Kestrel for a Knave
- Internship in the Medieval Manuscripts Team
- Curator of Ancient and Medieval Manuscripts
- The Unicorn Lives On
- Medieval Animal Tales
- Collaborative Doctoral Studentships at the British Library
- A Calendar Page for October 2015
- Erasmus Manuscript Saved for the Nation
- How to Make the Most of Digitised Manuscripts
- The Destruction of Jerusalem
- Caption Competition 3
- Martyrdom in Action
- Did Someone Say a New List of Manuscript Hyperlinks?
- A Romance from Ward’s Catalogue: Apollonius of Tyre
- Tales of Lincolnshire from Five British Library Manuscripts
- A Calendar Page for September 2015
- Magna Carta Virtual Tour
- British Museum Loans in Magna Carta: Law, Liberty, Legacy
- Shameful and Demeaning: The Annulment of Magna Carta
- Little Ado About Something Rather Significant: William Shakespeare and Magna Carta
- Anglo-Saxon Charters Internship
- When Tristan met Lancelot
- The Constitution of the Athenians and the History of Athenian Democracy
- Handlist of Greek Manuscripts in the British Library
- Medieval Music Mash-Up
- Two Weeks to See Magna Carta: Law, Liberty, Legacy
- Magna Carta, The British Library and The National Archives
- The Histoire ancienne jusqu’à César: A Flemish Chronicle Gone Viral
- Magna Carta Catalogue On Special Offer
- Greek and Latin papyri acquired since 1956
- The Peasants Are Revolting: The Coronation Charter of Henry I
- 'The French Language Runs Throughout The World’
- Help us decipher this inscription
- A Calendar Page for August 2015
- Happy Uncommon Musical Instrument Appreciation Day!
- What's Your Favourite Magna Carta Item?
- Equality, Huh? Who Would Have Thought It?
- Codex Sinaiticus: New Perspectives on the Ancient Biblical Manuscript
- Another Apocalypse Manuscript Digitised
- Caption Competition 2
- Influential Illumination: British Library Loans to Lens
- Papal Overlordship of England: The Making of an Escape Clause for Magna Carta
- New uploads to the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts
- Happy Birthday, Declaration of Independence!
- A Calendar Page for July 2015
- Art in the margins: the Theodore Psalter
- Getting Under the Covers of the St Cuthbert Gospel
- Livy Among the Humanists
- Ex(odus)-Men: Adventures in a Medieval Bible Picture Book
- Project Curator, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts
- Exit, Pursued by a Bear
- Magna Carta Celebrates Its 800th Birthday!
- How The Forest Charter Was Saved From Destruction
- The Magnificent Magna Carta Project
- The Beginnings of the Codex
- Words on Sheepskin
- Magna Carta: My Digital Rights
- Space: The Final Frontier
- Charles Burney and his Manuscript Collection
- The Trial of Sir Thomas More
- A Calendar Page for June 2015
- The Document That (Almost) Changed the Course of History
- When the French Invaded England
- Something for Everyone
- Magna Carta, Super Charter!
- The Harley Trilingual Psalter
- Magna Carta (An Embroidery)
- The First Edition and Translation of Magna Carta
- Magna Carta: Guess the Manuscript
- Magna Carta and the King's Forests
- Register for the Magna Carta Conference
- An Even More Giant List of Manuscript Hyperlinks: Spring Update
- A Calendar Page for May 2015
- The 1934 Runnymede Pageant
- An 'Additional' Round Table Celebration
- The Paston Letters Go Live
- King John's Last Will and Testament
- John Wilkes and Magna Carta
- Ointments and Potions
- The Devil is in the Detail: A Thirteenth-Century Bible Moralisée
- Murder in the Cathedral
- Ten Things To Know About Medieval Monsters
- Guess the Manuscript With A Difference
- Pictures At An Exhibition
- The Trial of Queen Caroline
- A Giant from Our Collections: The Stavelot Bible
- The Divine Comedy Now Online
- Magna Carta: The Reviews Are In!
- A Calendar Page for April 2015
- Nothing But The Trooth
- The Anglo-Saxon Origins of Medieval Justice
- The Greek Manuscripts of Robert Curzon, Part II
- Greek Manuscripts Digitisation Project: The final seventy-five manuscripts go online
- Magna Carta Website is Now Live
- True Nobility and Plagiarism
- Photography in the Manuscripts Reading Room
- Magna Carta: A Curators' Eye-View
- Irish Manuscripts in the British Library
- Magna Carta Exhibition Well and Truly Open
- The Greek Manuscripts of Robert Curzon, Part I
- Spot the Difference!
- Collaboration and Customisation: The Evolution of a Royal Book
- Canterbury Cathedral and Magna Carta
- A Calendar Page for March 2015
- Magna Carta: The Worcester Connection
- Magna Carta Unification Update
- Written on the Edge
- Re-use of images on the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts
- One Month To Go
- Magna Carta Under The Proverbial Microscope
- The Legend of Troy in Medieval Manuscripts
- The Magna Carta Unification
- A Calendar Page for February 2015
- Greek Manuscripts Digitisation Project: Another 30 Manuscripts Go Online!
- Hereford Writ to be displayed at the British Library
- Das Ende der Welt: An Overlooked German Apocalypse
- Surviving the Winter: Medieval-Style
- Guess the Manuscript XIX
- Annotated, Misbound, Mutilated: John Ruskin’s Gospel Lectionary
- RIP Æthelwulf, King of the West Saxons
- The Canterbury Magna Carta: A New Discovery
- Point The Finger
- A New Year, A New Giant List of Manuscript Hyperlinks
- Melvyn Bragg and The Road to Magna Carta
- Cicero's Map to the Stars
- A Calendar Page for January 2015
2014
- The Top Ten Blog Posts of 2014
- Been Around the World: Exhibition Loans in 2014
- Saved for the Nation: New Acquisitions in 2014
- Merry Christmas Everyone!
- Between Manuscript and Print: Greek Manuscripts from the Circle of Aldus Manutius
- Guess the Manuscript XVIII - Christmas Special
- Handle With Care: The Conservation and Digitisation of the Phillipps Lectionary
- Tudor Scribe and Spy at No. 2 in the Official Classical Charts
- Important notice: Temporary removal of Lindisfarne Gospels from display in the Treasures Gallery
- Magna Carta at the British Library in 2015
- An Early Holiday Present: Forty-six new Greek manuscripts online
- Holiday Gift Ideas from the British Library
- Report on the Fourteenth-Century Illuminated Manuscripts Conference
- New Images on the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts
- A Calendar Page for December 2014
- Guess the Manuscript XVII
- Worn Around the Edges: More on the Phillipps Lectionary
- The Phillipps Lectionary: a window into 11th-century Byzantine illumination
- Nine-month Internship in the Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Section
- Collaborative Doctoral Partnerships at the British Library
- Magna Carta Ballot: a huge thank-you
- A Royal Beast and the Menagerie in the Tower
- Fire and Brimstone: Another Apocalypse Manuscript Goes Live
- The Codex Crippsianus: A Byzantine Manuscript of the Attic Orators
- The Harley Psalter: Devils in the Details
- Greek Digitisation Project update: 40 manuscripts newly uploaded
- “Snip It!” at The Jewish Museum, Berlin
- A Calendar Page for November 2014
- Guess the Manuscript XVI
- Magna Carta Ballot closes 31 October
- Lindisfarne Gospels in our Treasures Gallery
- How To Be A Hedgehog
- Illuminated Manuscripts Conference - more places available
- The Death of King John
- Dedicated to You
- Another Greek update: Forty-six more manuscripts online!
- Heraldic herrings, hedgehogs and hosiery
- The Latest, Greatest, Up-To-Datest Giant List of Digitised Manuscripts Hyperlinks
- Magna Carta: be part of history
- Waiting List: AMARC Conference on English Fourteenth-Century Illuminated Manuscripts at the British Library
- Magna Carta Tickets On Sale
- Apocalypse Then: Further Medieval Visions from Revelation
- A Calendar Page for October 2014
- The life and death of Pompey the Great
- Guess the Manuscript XV
- Virgil's Countryside
- Languages in Medieval Britain
- Visualising Stonehenge
- Apes Pulling Shapes
- Royal Manuscripts Conference Papers Now Online
- The 2014 Panizzi Lectures - The Giant Bibles of Twelfth-Century England
- Forty-four More Greek Manuscripts Online
- Visions of the Apocalypse: A Heavenly Choir or a Lake of Fire?
- Dictionaries: More Than Mere Words
- A Calendar Page for September 2014
- Don’t Lose Your Head: It’s Just St. John the Baptist’s Day!
- A Temporary Farewell
- Bugs in Books
- St Bartholomew and Bookbindings: Happy St Bartholomew's Day!
- Three More Books of Hours
- The Lacock Abbey Cartularies
- The Wardington Hours
- The Journey of a Greek Manuscript
- Happy St Lawrence's Day!
- Parallel Lines
- Twenty-four More Greek Manuscripts Online
- Getting a bit fruity
- A Calendar Page for August 2014
- Guess the Manuscript XIV
- Choosing a Husband: Brains or Brawn, Money or Looks?
- Conservation in the 17th Century
- Enter the Dragon: Happy St Margaret's Day!
- The Colourful Career of Sir Theodore de Mayerne
- This Year's Summer Blockbuster: A Giant List of Digitised Manuscript Hyperlinks!
- Set in Stone
- Benedict Rules
- Thirty-three Greek Biblical manuscripts added to Digitised Manuscripts
- Up Close and Personal with the Holy Grail
- Famous US Documents In Our Magna Carta Exhibition
- A Calendar Page for July 2014
- Art and Alchemy
- A Well-Travelled Medieval Map
- A Greek New Testament Reunited
- English Fourteenth-Century Illuminated Manuscripts in the British Library: a Conference
- Greek Manuscripts Digitisation Phase Three
- Weird and Wonderful Creatures of the Bestiary
- Magna Carta Webpage Goes Live
- Tales of Brave Ulysses
- The Poetry of Fragments
- Beyond the Bling
- Guess the Manuscript XIII
- Medieval Comics Continued (Not for the Squeamish!)
- The Burden of Writing: Scribes in Medieval Manuscripts
- A Calendar Page for June 2014
- Scraped Away Songs
- A World of Words
- Just Like Heaven: Dante's Paradiso
- A Sense of Detachment
- Anyone for Hawking?
- Comic Mania
- Our Favourite Map
- Superheroes, True Romance, Blood and Gore
- A Medieval Word Search - Secret Revealed!
- A Medieval Word Search
- A Calendar Page for May 2014
- UK Arts and Culture Blog of the Year 2014
- Medieval Manuscripts at the UK Blog Awards
- The Anatomy of a Dragon
- Magna Carta in England's Hall of Fame
- Lorsch Manuscripts in the British Library
- Internship in the Medieval and Earlier Manuscripts Section
- The Next Giant List of Digitised Manuscript Hyperlinks
- On a Roll
- My Kingdom for a Horse
- Fore! The British Library's Golf Book
- Royal Manuscripts Follow-on Project - Completed!
- Stuck in Limbo: Dante's Purgatorio
- A Calendar Page for April 2014
- The Enemy of All Marriage
- Say Your Prayers
- Codex Sinaiticus Added to Digitised Manuscripts
- Blogtastic!
- Update to the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts
- Two Magnificent Manuscripts Saved for the Nation
- The Legacy of St Patrick
- The Life of a Mystic
- The Vikings and the British Library
- Magical Mystery Play
- The Books of Remarkable Women
- Medieval Drama Acquired by the British Library
- Guess the Manuscript XII
- A Calendar Page for March 2014
- Slavery and Sainthood in Cornwall
- No Rest for the Wicked: Dante's Inferno
- Gawain Revealed
- Prepare to Meet Your Doom
- The Lovers Who Changed History
- Hidden Away
- An Illustrated Guide to Medieval Love
- A Papyrus Puzzle and Some Purple Parchment
- Happy St Apollonia's Day!
- Saints' Lives... and Deaths
- 'More Unique Than Most': the Benedictional of St Æthelwold
- A Calendar Page for February 2014
- A Medieval Comic Strip
- The Height of Fashion
- 'She cares not a turd': Notes on a 16th century Squabble
- Sex and Death in the Roman de la Rose
- Vote For Us (Please)
- A Map at the End of the World
- The Three Living and the Three Dead
- Yet Another Giant List of Digitised Manuscript Hyperlinks
- Guess the Manuscript XI
- An Even Older View of the New World
- Welcome to the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts
- I Can't Stand the Rain
- A Calendar Page for January 2014
2013
- One Million Hits and Counting!
- Papyrus Unbound
- Your Favourite Manuscript: The Results
- Happy Christmas from the Medieval Manuscripts Team
- Medieval Top Ten
- Important Notice: Temporary Closure of the Sir John Ritblat Treasures Gallery
- Put It In Your Pocket
- An Old World View of the New
- Guess the Manuscript X
- The Constitution of Athens
- What's Your Favourite Manuscript?
- Happy Hanukkah!
- The Romance of Mont Saint-Michel
- Magna Carta Internship 2014
- A Calendar Page for December 2013
- Happy St Andrew's Day
- Medieval Movember
- Marginali-yeah: Take 2! The Incomparable Luttrell Psalter
- Happy St Catherine's Day!
- The True History of Richard II
- Guess the Manuscript IX
- A New Life for Royal Manuscripts
- An Imperial Psalter
- How Does Beowulf Begin?
- Blackburn's 'Worthy Citizen': A Colloquium on the R. E. Hart Collection
- A Calendar Page for November 2013
- Dress Up for Halloween, Medieval Style
- Precious Papyri
- The Etheridge Encomium
- Lindisfarne Gospels Back in Treasures
- Guess the Manuscript VIII
- Anglo-Saxon Medicine
- British Library Ivories in the Gothic Ivories Project
- Fancy Another Giant List of Digitised Manuscript Hyperlinks?
- It's a Busy Life in Camelot
- A Calendar Page for October 2013
- Guess the Manuscript VII
- Knight v Snail
- Internship in the Medieval and Earlier Manuscripts Section
- The Luscious Luttrell Psalter
- Marvellous Manuscripts from the Levant
- Dogs: Medieval Man's Best Friend
- The Worms Bible on Display in Mannheim
- The Quimperlé Detective
- Seamus Heaney: An Appreciation
- A Medieval Menagerie
- The Bounty of Byzantium
- A Calendar Page for September 2013
- Guess the Manuscript VI
- Anglo-Saxon Invasion
- Mary, Queen of Scots Manuscripts On Loan
- King Athelstan's Books
- St John the Evangelist in the Lindisfarne Gospels
- Get Ready to 'Save-As': New Uploads to the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts
- Credo: British Library Manuscripts in Paderborn
- The Lady of the Mercians
- Twelfth-Century Girl Power
- The Eyes Have It
- Michael Wood and King Alfred
- Hooray for Homer!
- King Alfred and the Anglo-Saxons on BBC Four
- A Calendar Page for August 2013
- The Last Will and Testament of Alfred the Great
- Guess the Manuscript V
- A Carolingian Masterpiece: the Moutier-Grandval Bible
- Royal Babies and Celebrated Infants
- Follow the British Library
- Magna Cartas to be Unified for First Time
- Wandering in the Desert of Religion
- Medieval Maps of the Holy Land
- A Remarkable Tale of Manuscript Sleuthing: the Ely Farming Memoranda
- Call for Papers: A Conference on Blackburn Manuscript and Incunable Collections
- Fancy a Giant List of Digitised Manuscript Hyperlinks?
- A Calendar Page for July 2013
- The Lindisfarne Gospels in Durham
- Guess the Manuscript IV
- Christine de Pizan and the Book of the Queen
- Royal Manuscripts Launch the AHRC Image Gallery
- A Digital Reunion: The Sforza Hours
- New Acquisitions in Manuscript and Print
- Lindisfarne Gospels Rewind
- 15 June 1215: A Significant Date in History
- Lindisfarne Gospels on BBC Radio 3
- Princes, Be Good!
- Guess the Manuscript III
- What Did Medieval Kings Really Look Like?
- Robert the Bruce letter found at British Library
- A Calendar Page for June 2013
- Film Screening of the Gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander
- Rejoice Now!
- Of Captions, Clerics, and Queens: Tweeting the Medieval Illuminated Manuscript
- A Good Walk Spoiled
- Look on these Works and Frown?
- Guess the Manuscript II
- Have You Used DigiPal Yet?
- Why Do We Blog?
- King Offa and the Ceolfrith Bible
- The Elephant at the Tower
- You Say Beowulf, I Say Biowulf
- Marginali-yeah! The Fantastical Creatures of the Rutland Psalter
- A Calendar Page for May 2013
- How the Camel Got the Hump
- Popular History for an English Audience: The English Prose Brut Chronicle
- Happy St George's Day
- Guess the Manuscript!
- What's in the Beowulf Manuscript?
- French Prose Brut Chronicles in the British Library (And How to Find Them)
- Not Always Bad News Birds: The Caladrius
- What Can We Learn from a Scribal Colophon?
- Calling All Manuscript Sleuths: The Macclesfield Alphabet Book
- A Calendar Page for April 2013
- Loch Ness Monster Found at British Library
- Medieval Anchoresses and the Ancrene Riwle
- What's in Our Treasures Gallery?
- The Mystery of the Hours of Joanna the Mad
- "Written in Troublous Times": The Wessex Gospels
- British Library Manuscripts Featured in Toronto Exhibition
- The Durham Book of Life Online
- A Pauper's Bible Fit for a Prince
- Hooray for Public Domain Images!
- British Library Curator of Classical and Byzantine Studies
- To Hell and Back: Dante and the Divine Comedy
- Monsters and Marvels in the Beowulf Manuscript
- British Library Contributes to New Manuscripts Online Site
- A Calendar Page for March 2013
- Crisp as a Poppadom
- Images in the Public Domain
- Merlin: International Man of Mystery
- The Tale of the Errant Archbishop
- Be My Valentine
- Naked Came the Werewolf
- Hwæt! Beowulf Online
- Treasures Wonderful To Behold
- Gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander on YouTube
- Extra! Extra!: Richard III Lyth Buryd at Lecitor
- Nothin' but a Hound Dog
- A Calendar Page for February 2013
- A Menagerie of Miracles: The Illustrated Life of St Cuthbert
- Celebrating an Anniversary in High Style: the Biblioteca Nacional de España and the British Library
- Puss in Books
- The Worth of a Butterfly
- Lolcats of the Middle Ages
- Digitising Manuscripts: The Condition Assessment
- Monkeying Around with the Maastricht Hours
- Alfred the Great: Not a Domestic God, but No Slouch, Either!
- Discover Digitised Manuscripts
- British Library Magna Carta Internship
- What is Beowulf?
- Temporary Unavailability of Select Manuscripts: Reminder
- A Calendar Page for January 2013
2012
- The Conservation of Codex Alexandrinus
- Happy Christmas!
- Here Comes Santa Claus
- Christmas Presents for Manuscript Lovers
- A Royal Gift for Christmas
- Can Deer Fly? Rudolph Goes Medieval
- New Testament from Oldest Complete Bible Available Online
- Camelot: The Prequel
- The Four Seasons
- A New Window on the Harley Collection
- The Distinguished Pedigree of Mrs Tiggy-Winkle
- Lions, Monkeys and Bears - Oh, My! The Bohun Psalter and Hours
- You Give Love a Bad Name
- A Calendar Page for December 2012
- Shot through the Heart and You're to Blame
- Social Media and Medieval Manuscripts
- Exploring Our Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts
- Pop Goes the Weasel
- New Additions to Digitised Manuscripts
- British Library Manuscripts Featured in New Getty Exhibition
- Rediscovering Malory: Digitising The Morte Darthur
- Found in a Bricked-Up Chamber: The Reading Abbey Library Catalogue
- Beavers On The Run
- Beautiful Contraband: The Queen Mary Psalter
- A Calendar Page for November 2012
- Happy Halloween!
- Off With Her Head! Pictures from the Prose Tristan
- What's on Digitised Manuscripts? The Top 10
- Bad News Birds
- Paging through Troilus and Criseyde
- British Library Journal Now Online
- Elephants on Parade
- Magna Carta Researcher
- More Gorleston Psalter 'Virility': Profane Images in a Sacred Space
- 'Virile, if Somewhat Irresponsible' Design: The Marginalia of the Gorleston Psalter
- Describing Medieval Manuscripts
- Digitising Royal: New Perspectives on the Royal Manuscript Collection: A Workshop at the British Library
- Lindisfarne Gospels Back on Display
- A Calendar Page for October 2012
- What Does Magna Carta Mean to You?
- The Miroir Historial: A History of the World in a (Large) Nutshell
- Temporary Unavailability of Select Manuscripts: Important Notice
- Ranulf Higden and Noah's Ark
- Not Just a Pretty Picture: Illustrating a Royal Romuléon
- The Gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander
- Final Opportunity to See Gawain
- Image and Text Meet in a Royal Regiment
- Cornish for Beginners
- A Calendar Page for September 2012
- The Art of Chivalry: The Texts of the Talbot Shrewsbury Book
- It's Caption Time!
- Chronicles, Lancelot and a Journey to Jerusalem: Royal Manuscripts Now Online
- Magna Carta Research Post at the British Library
- Gospels, Psalms, and Prayer Rolls: More Royal Devotional Manuscripts Online
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Online
- Royal Banner Used at the Purbeck Art Weeks Festival
- Finishing the Smithfield Decretals
- Books of Beasts, Adventure, and Two from New Minster: New Royal Manuscripts Online
- Psalters, Bibles, and the End of Days: Devotional Texts from the Royal Collection Go Online
- The Pleasure of Discovery: Call for Papers for Leeds IMC 2013
- A Calendar Page for August 2012
- Once More Beneath the Surface - Call for Papers for Kalamazoo 2013
- An Ancient List of Olympic Victors
- Final Harley Science Manuscripts Published
- The Talbot Shrewsbury Book Goes Online
- Jan van Naaldwijk’s Chronicles of Holland
- How Did We Choose Our Harley Science Manuscripts?
- Sport on the Sea (and River)
- 250,000 Page Views: Tell Us Your Favourite Post
- St Cuthbert Gospel Binding On Display
- A Calendar Page for July 2012
- Listen to Our Podcasts: The St Cuthbert Gospel and Magna Carta
- Books of History, War and Mystery: More Royal Manuscripts Go Online
- Sumer Is Icumen In
- Chaste, Obedient and Humble: Hidden Inscriptions in Arundel 155
- Crowns, Romances, and Chronicles Aplenty: New Royal Manuscripts Online
- Magna Carta's 797th Birthday!
- Royal Workshop Judged "A Royal Success"
- Lancelot and the Quest for the Holy Grail
- Brush Up on Your Aristotle
- 'Documentary' of a Royal Coronation
- God Save the Queen: Jubilees and Coronations
- A Calendar Page for June 2012
- Royal Workshop: A Call for Your Feedback
- Magna Carta's 800th Anniversary
- From Boethius to John Dee: More Scientific Manuscripts Published
- Marvels of the West
- A Physician's Folding Almanac
- Wrestling Mania
- Sir Gawain Back in London
- Thomas Hobbes on Optics Online
- The Chosen Royals
- Illuminated Manuscripts and Their Users: Workshop at Durham
- Beneath the Surface
- The St Cuthbert Gospel: The Story of a Book
- Visiting the British Library
- A Calendar Page for May 2012
- Monkeys in the Margins
- Medieval News and Views
- The Tribal Hidage Online
- St Cuthbert Gospel -- Thank You!
- St Cuthbert Gospel Saved for the Nation
- Bows and Arrows
- The Taymouth Hours
- First Science Manuscripts Published
- Hag Pesach Sameach! (Happy Passover!)
- The Psalter of Henry VI Now Online
- A Calendar Page for April 2012
- Unicorn Cookbook Found at the British Library
- What's Unique About the British Library?
- Science Manuscripts Online Soon
- London Games and 'Sicilian Games'
- Using Our Catalogues
- The Theodore Psalter
- Happy St Cuthbert's Day
- The Peasants are Revolting
- The Private Lives of Medieval Kings
- Royal Exhibition Ends Today
- One That Got Away
- Beautiful Bindings
- Royal Closes on 13 March
- Volunteering Opportunity for American Doctoral Students
- Keep Your Royal Suggestions Coming!
- A Calendar Page for March 2012
- Things to do tonight
- Illuminations on BBC HD
- Help Us Save the St Cuthbert Gospel for the Nation
- The Wheel of Fortune
- Which Royal Manuscripts Should We Digitise?
- Magna Carta in 500 Words
- A Book of Two Princes
- Turn the Pages of Our Royal Manuscripts
- Happy Valentine's Day!
- Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts Online
- Fancy a Trip to Paris?
- The King of Beasts
- Sir Gawain and The Romance of the Middle Ages
- Love Letters at the British Library
- Musical Illuminations: Medieval Music with The Sixteen
- A Calendar Page for February 2012
- 100,000 Page Views and Counting!
- Cat and Mouse, and Hairy Elephants
- Genealogy of a Royal Bastard
- Illuminations: Watch Clips Here
- Libraries Gave Us Power
- Henry VIII as King David
- Athelstan Psalter online
- What a King Should Know
- British Library eBook Treasures
- Royal Manuscripts: The Making of an Exhibition
- Illuminations with Janina Ramirez
- Illuminations: The Private Lives of Medieval Kings
- The Written World
- Simon Armitage at The British Library
- A Calendar Page for January 2012
2011
- Melvyn Bragg's The Written World
- The First View of London
- Video review of Royal Manuscripts
- Happy Christmas to all our readers
- An early Christmas present
- Help Us Date and Localise This Manuscript
- Last minute Christmas ideas
- The Royal Conference: A Retrospective
- Rival Queens, Precious Books
- Gaston Fébus at the Musée de Cluny
- Apocalypse Now
- More Royal events
- Seal of Approval: A Medieval Mystery
- A Calendar Page for December
- Praying to the King
- Digitised Manuscripts 500 landmark
- Harley Science Project
- Conserving the Harley manuscripts
- Medieval Booze Cruise
- The Royal Opening
- Three days and counting
- Perugino at the Alte Pinakothek
- Countdown to the Royal Opening
- A Calendar Page for November
- Digitised Manuscripts update
- Alexander versus the World
- Royal App special offer
- The Luttrell Psalter on film
- A Prayerbook Fit for a Queen?
- The English captivity of Mary, Queen of Scots
- Beauty in the eye of the beholder
- The Royal Exhibition on Facebook
- More Greek manuscripts go online
- The Spy's Choirbook
- Register now for the Royal Conference
- A Calendar Page for October
- Royal events at the British Library
- Beowulf in Hungarian ... and French ... and Telugu ...
- John Lydgate's Lives of Saints
- Monarchs, Lions and 'Nostra-dumbass': The Royal Exhibition in the Press
- Dialogue de la duchesse de Bourgogne
- Erasing Becket
- A Stunning Tudor Binding: Henry VII's Quadripartite Indenture
- A Calendar Page for September
- The New Testament in Codex Sinaiticus
- Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination
- White Gloves or Not White Gloves
- The Beaufort / Beauchamp Hours
- Bible Historiale, Royal MS 19 D III
- The Hours of Elizabeth the Queen
- A Calendar Page for August
- The Great Bible
- Arthurian Manuscripts in the British Library: the French Tradition
- Bible Historiale, Royal MS 17 E VII
- The St Cuthbert Gospel
- The Alphonso Psalter
- Pearl on BBC Radio 4
- The Westminster Psalter
- A Calendar Page for July
- The New Minster Liber Vitae
- The Cnut Gospels
- The New Minster Charter
- Greek Manuscripts Update
- A Calendar Page for June
- More Greek Manuscripts Digitised by the British Library
- The coronation of Charles I: a salutary tale
- Student Bursaries for Royal Conference
- Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts Go Digital
- A Calendar Page for May
- Royal Weddings from Royal Manuscripts
- Changes in the Treasures Gallery
- Using our medieval manuscripts
- A Calendar Page for April
- Taking images of medieval seals
- Medieval Cartularies of Great Britain and Ireland
- Not Just Pretty Faces
- Royal Conference Call for Papers
- A Calendar Page for March
- Henry VIII Prayer Roll
- The Oldest Valentine?
- Medieval Masterpieces
- The Beauty of Books
- A Calendar Page for February
- Codex Sinaiticus Facsimile Published
- Anglo-Saxon Treasures Online
- A Calendar Page for January
2010
- Happy Holidays
- Royal: Manuscripts of the Kings and Queens of England
- Welcome
- Update on the Digitised Manuscripts website
- Digitised Manuscripts website launched
- Flavio Marzo's manuscript highlight: Add. MS 11835 – Psalms, with Hymns
- Team work and collaboration - guest blogging
- Vatican Library to digitise 80,000 manuscripts
- Which manuscripts should we digitise?
- Codex Nitriensis
- Greek New Testament Manuscripts
- Beyond boutique digitisation: scaling manuscripts digitisation projects
- The British Library's Greek Manuscript Digitisation Project
- Welcome to the Digitised Manuscripts Blog
Music
2025
- Samuel Coleridge-Taylor at 150: Overview of British Library collections
- 100 years of Mikis Theodorakis
- Postcards from Salzburg: IAML Congress 2025
- Frédéric Kastner’s singing flames
- ‘News wonderful, weather hot’: a selection of programmes from the wartime National Gallery Concerts
- Reassessing Children's Music with BBC Radio for Schools
- The Paul Hirsch Music Collection
- Elgar’s musical sketches reunited at the British Library
- Cataloguing the Paul Hirsch Papers: initial observations and highlights
2024
- Elizabeth Poston’s Christmas Music
- Highlights from the Royal Philharmonic Society Archive
- A Personal Peal at St. Paul’s
- Two Holst events at the British Library
- Digitised music manuscripts made available online
- Royal Musical Association Papers, 1874-1971
- Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and the practicalities of performance
- Min’yō: a cultural heritage of sweat, toil, and joy
- Jane Manning & Anthony Payne: a celebration
- Harriet Cohen and Astra Desmond: introducing two newly catalogued archives
- Celebrating Women Musicians, past and present
- Restoring access to the British Library’s Music Collections (January 2024)
2023
- Samuel Wesley’s Fugue for Mendelssohn
- New Tippett acquisitions
- Music for British Coronations
- Remembering Tim Neighbour
- Preserving Bach's manuscripts
2022
- Nino Rota’s I due timidi - an opera for radio transmission
- Happy Birthday Vaughan Williams
- Beethoven's legacy
- Beethoven and Zweig
- Beethoven and the cellists behind his cello sonatas
- New Music E-resources
- Beethoven exhibition update: some new arrivals from Berlin
- Conserving creativity – the case of Beethoven’s ‘Kafka’ sketch miscellany
2021
- Beethoven at the British Library – a list of online resources
- Exploring the Provenance of Italian Manuscript Editions in the Royal Music Library (2)
- Beethoven: Idealist. Innovator. Icon exhibition
- Exploring the Provenance of Italian Manuscript Editions in the Royal Music Library
- Lithography and the satirical song sheet
- Digitised music manuscripts update
- Important information for email subscribers
- Digitised Manuscripts from the Royal Music Library
- Introducing the Internet of Musical Events: a project to capture the history of live performance
- Publishing Patriotism: the Napoleonic wars in musical print
- Update on Music E-resources
- Finding Beethoven: recent work in the catalogue
2020
- Celebrating Beethoven: a new online exhibition on Discovering Music
- Music for a while… for more than 325 years! (a joint RISM-British Library blog post about sources for Purcell's music)
- PhD placement opportunity – The Royal Music Library: understanding provenance and collecting practices
- Announcing the new RISM UK Catalogue!
- Ralph Vaughan Williams in the Boosey & Hawkes Archive
- Digitising Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius at the Birmingham Oratory
- Digitised Music Manuscripts
- Sir Henry Wood and the Concert Programme Exchange Scheme
- From Music to Meme (2): Postage Stamps Commemorating Japanese Music Education, 1979-1981
- Michael Tippett: love in the age of extremes
- Innovations in music notation in late medieval Syria: British Library manuscript Or. 13019
- Lockdown piano 2: a Robert Schumann manuscript online
- Lockdown piano: the pedagogical works of Muzio Clementi
- Ernst Roth and the ‘Business of Music’
- Welsh hymn festivals – ‘singing from the heart’
- Digitised music collections online
- Accessing our online Music Collections
- Honour and understatement: a portrait of Leslie Boosey
- Two Characters in the Boosey & Hawkes Archive
2019
- Celebrating the music of Prince Albert
- A ‘fittingly impressive work’: Prince Albert the composer
- Paper trails of Orphic tales: Harrison Birtwistle manuscripts at the British Library
- Boosey & Hawkes: first series of business archive now available
- Upcoming Elgar events at the British Library
- Additional Discovering Music content published!
- From Music to Meme (1): Musical Expressions of National and Regional Identity on Postage Stamps
- Talking about research collaboration: the first British Library Digital Musicology day
- The Susan Bradshaw Papers: Archive of an Insightful Communicator
- Scratch Music
- Music notetaking and composers' thematic catalogues in the 18th century
- ‘For Jean on her Birthday’: Vaughan Williams’s String Quartet in A minor
2018
- Elisabeth Lutyens: notebooks, letters, and papers
- Music from beyond: the Rosemary Brown Collection
- Music Doctoral Open Day - 4 December 2018
- William Byrd, catholic composer
- Welcome to Discovering Music
- New Digitised Music Manuscripts
- 2 Cats 1 Piano
- More music materials on our manuscripts website
- Tracing Mozart's London influences at the British Library
- Chopin First Editions available online
- More Digitised Music Manuscripts available online
- Musgrave at 90
- Over There, All Over Again: American Sheet Music, World War 1 and Nostalgic Musicals
- The Mozarts in London
- Latest Music Manuscripts available on our website
- Carry On to the Finland Station: The Russian Revolution in Music Hall Comedy
- Latest Music Manuscripts available online
- International Women's Day 2018
- A few steps (and mis-steps) in the early years of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto.
- PhD research placement opportunity! - Exploring music archives of 20th-century British composers
- A 'new' Tippett symphony
2017
- J. S. Bach’s 'Wo soll ich fliehen hin' in the BL Martin Luther Exhibition.
- Shostakovich at the V&A
- Music Open Day 8 December 2017
- Verdi at the V&A
- Digitised Music Manuscripts Summer 2017
- Sir Malcolm Sargent: A Life in Music
- Cardew in Kassel
- Swayne at 71
- Music treasure lost and found
- Musgrave at 89
- Digitised Music Manuscripts Spring 2017
- Bringing a forgotten opera to life
- The dog and the cakes
- Monteverdi 450
- New light on Humphrey Searle
- Nicola LeFanu at 70
- Leoncavallo meets the queen
- The man who found the straight banana
- New folk-dance arrangements discovered
- Beethoven's tuning fork
- An Amsterdam edition of Lully’s Persée
- British Library Music Collections welcomes King's music students
- MGG Online
- Music and poetry from the Zweig Collection (20 March, 7pm)
- Torvill and Dean meet British Library Music Collections
- Rossini in London
- Introducing British Library Music Collections
- British Library Music Cataloguing Vacancy
- A special BL event for all doctoral music students
- From the British Library Schubert archive: some collectors of Schubert's music
- Many hands make light music: a pianistic peculiarity from St Pancras
- Music Collections acquires Boosey & Hawkes archive
- Lew Stone and his Thirties Sound
2016
- It's pantomime time!
- Benjamin Britten's A Boy was Born
- Music Collections acquires Vincent Novello album
- A leaf from Mozart's grave: curiosities from British Library Music Collections
- Gustav Mahler’s 'Urlicht' manuscript at the British Library
- Youth's Delight on the Flagelet: Samuel Pepys and his lessons with Thomas Greeting
- Treasures of the BL: Handel's Birthday Ode for Queen Anne
- The pianist who transformed the Cold War
- Dragons and greyhounds: a day in the life of a digital music curator
- Remember, remember, the fifth of November
- Musical chess
- Dances of death
- Son of an African Prince
- Beethoven's Pastoral Sketchbook
- Bob Dylan at the British Library
- "Symphonic boa-constrictors"?
- Discovering Music
- Digitisation: Delving Deeper
- Arthur Sullivan and the English Opera Companies
- London's Burning!
- Setting Shakespeare to Music
- Calling all language enthusiasts!
- Passionate music from a hot country: a musical visit to Iraq-Kurdistan
- Nicola Matteis and his Ayrs for the Violin
- Music printing in England, 1650-1700, and The British Library
- Wash on Monday? Beethoven's laundry list
- Batons galore!
- ‘Negligence’ or obeying compositional norms?
- Can you handle our Handel?
- Rethinking Delius
- Recycling Madrigals in Counter-Reformation Italy
- Peter Kennedy Archive
- Out of the Archive - Peter Gellhorn, Composer
- Meet Bert the Turtle
- Sonatas with feline accompaniment
- Handel's Messiah
- Once upon a time in Bengal....
- PhD placement in music at the British Library
2015
- Curatorial vacancy in the Music Collections
- West Africa: Word, Symbol, Song
- Thea Musgrave - a new performance and a PhD opportunity
- Two film screenings and Conference on Audio-Visual Archives at the British Library, 17-19 July 2015
- The British Library at WOMAD
- Musical Journeys to Oman, Qatar and Kuwait
- Directory of UK Music Sound Collections
- Hans Gerle's "Tablatur auff die Laudten"
- Mozart in London talks at the British Library
2014
- 'Earliest' polyphonic music discovered in British Library
- Calling all PhD students with a music-related topic!
- Film Screening: The Silk Road of Pop
- A Donizetti Discovery
- Archiving WOMAD 2014
- Syriac Liturgical Music - From the Mountains of the Servants of God
- War, Women and Song: British Library, 30 August 2014
- Pax Aeterna (1917): silent film screening at the British Library, 29 August 2014
- Recordings from the Skamba Skamba Kankliai music festival, Lithuania
- Gertrude Stein the librettist: free event at the British Library
- Hugh Davies Experimental Music
- It Was Fifty Years Ago Today...
- Songs of the Dinka of South Sudan
- Music behind barbed wire in World War One
- Iso Elinson (1907-1964) - 50th anniversary of Russian-British pianist
- Trouvère songs online
- Nigerian music and dance records at the British Library
- Three free Sound Case events during June
- Saharawi music in the refugee camps in SW Algeria
- The virtual life of George Butterworth
- 112-year-old recording of William Paull donated to the British Library
- Preserving the legacy of Muriel Herbert
- British Music at the British Library: two free events on 10 May
- Mozart Manuscripts Online
- The music of Holy Week in Seville
- A Big Data History of Music
- Keeping Tracks - a one day symposium on music and archives in the digital age
- Plainsong and Medieval Music Study Day at the British Library
- The Decca Record Company: PhD studentship
- Female pipings in Eden: Ethel Smyth's fight for women's rights
- Music, Print and Culture in the 16th and 17th Centuries
- Devonshire minuets
- A song in praise of music: Schubert’s ‘An die Musik’
2013
- The Countess of Yarmouth’s Fancy
- Parthenia: an anniversary celebration
- "Go Stedman!" A bellringing anniversary
- Thea Musgrave, Christopher Raeburn, and 16th-Century Music Printing: New Collaborative Doctoral Partnerships at the British Library
- Edison Fellow Raymond Yiu is short listed for 2013 British Composer Awards
- Royal Philharmonic Society: 200 Years of Grand Projects
- English folksong at the British Library
- A ‘potpourri’ of contradanses
- Folk song in England study day
- Britten's Serenade
- Kevin Volans' collection of music from Southern Africa
- Trevor Wiggins Ghanaian Collection
- The Music of War: 1914–1918
- Music and Monarchy
- Lamellophones on Europeana
- Oral History of Glyndebourne opera
- War and peace in Britten
- Library acquires George Lloyd's music manuscripts
- Poetry in Sound exhibition: Britten and Auden in the spotlight
- Dramatised reading of Wagner's Ring cycle, Sunday 9 June
- Benjamin Britten exhibition launched at the British Library
- Wagner goes online at 200
- Wagner weekend at the British Library, 8-9 June
- The Banks of Green Willow
- Steve Martland
- May Day at BL World & Traditional Music
- Investigating Zulu instruments - the strange tale of the isicelekeshe
- Interviews with Ethnomusicologists now online!
- Cataloguing and Processing the Ethnographic Wax Cylinder Collection – Part 2
- Reuniting music manuscript collections
- Update on the Malcolm Sargent Collection
- Kalahari San [Bushmen] music online
- British and Irish traditional music online
2012
- History of the Christmas carol - Part 2
- A brief history of the Christmas carol
- Cataloguing and Processing the Ethnographic Wax Cylinder Collection
- Some of the earliest recordings of Chamber Music added to BL Sounds website
- Cataloguing the Malcolm Sargent Collection
- International Folk Music Film Festival in Nepal
- World and Traditional Music collections on YouTube
- Mozart's Marriage Contract
- Boxing day
- The Stephen Oliver Archive at the British Library
- Brazilian music lecture podcast
- BBC Opera Librettos
- Music research archives in India
- Independent Labels
- Fernando Valero (1854-1914) Rare recording previously thought lost
- British Library Journal: 38 music articles now available online
- Delius Weekend at the British Library
- Music lending collection re-opens
- SHO-ZYG at Goldsmiths
- Milton, Dancing and the ‘Passion of Love’
- British Library at WOMAD
- The Meanings of Music in Brazilian Culture
- Martin Moir Donation
- Closing ceremony - where to start?
- Wandering Minstrels - the story of a forgotten Victorian orchestra
- Derek Collier Collection
- Delius in 2012: an international celebration
- A New Olympic Hymn?
- Unlocking historical musical resources
- Maltese Music Collection
- Rare Tanzanian music recordings preserved
- Endangered dongjing archives
- Happy 4th of July!
- Original Purcell manuscripts digitised
- Messiah goes online
- Purcell and his manuscripts
- Young Person's Guide acquired
Science
2025
- Wild British Library: From Box to Bees: The story of a wildflower meadow springing up in St Pancras
- How a British AI pioneer helped to make the 1983 sci-fi classic "WarGames"
- The average chess players of Bletchley Park and AI research in Britain
2023
- 50 years on: Information Retrieval and the British Library
- Wild British Library: Experiences of nature: goldfinch, pigeon and magpie
- Wild British Library: The woodpigeon: from woods to trees
- Wild British Library: Snails, Sponges and Oysters – finding fossils at the British Library
- Wild British Library: The ant and the three-cornered garlic
- Wild British Library: A feather
- Introducing the Wild British Library
- Announcing our first Environmentalist in Residence
2022
- Gold - why is it so valuable?
- Healthy Cities - How do we make London happier and healthier after Covid-19?
2021
- Climate change resources at the British Library
- Bloodletting and leeches, not so ancient.
- A time for action, not words
- Changing Climate, Changing Landscapes
- From Turning the Pages to Virtual Books
- Keeping in touch with this blog
- “Strange Swarms of Insects”
- Wiley Digital Archive on history of science now available at the British Library
- Donald Michie: Interviewing Trofim Lysenko
- Three men, a tobacco plant disease, and a virus.
- zbMATH Open - mathematical database now free online
2020
- Data Debates: What does data really tell us about the generational divide?
- Data Debates: Bots in the Polling Booth
- In our Hebrew Manuscripts exhibition, "Tsurat ha-arets" by Abraham bar Hiyya
- Gilbert White's influence on science
- Citizen Science and COVID-19
- New report on postgraduate education in the UK
- Diarists and diaries
- The Future of Research Outputs
- Publishers offering coronavirus articles free.
- Clouds: How Luke Howard linked Weather Lore and Natural Philosophy
- Caroline Herschel born 270 years ago today.
- London Fashion Week & Technology: future of catwalks
- Donald Michie (1923-2007): ‘Duckmouse’, a modern-day polymath
- INTRODUCING: STREET SCIENTISTS – 11 February 2020
- INTRODUCING: THE TRUTH INSIDE – 11 February 2020
- INTRODUCING: BIO SELFIES – 11 February 2020
- INTRODUCING: Women In Their Element – 11 February 2020
- INTRODUCING: BACK TO THE FUTURE – 11 February 2020
- INTRODUCING: HELEN ARNEY – 11 February 2020
- INTRODUCING: THE SCIENCE OF TASTE – 11 February 2020
- Happy birthday, Francis Bacon
- INTRODUCING: SUNETRA GUPTA – 11 February 2020
- CILIP Health Libraries Group annual conference, July 2020
- INTRODUCING THE WISE FESTIVAL (WOMEN IN SCIENCE EVENTS) – 11 February 2020
2019
- Oil, storms and knowing part 2: Pliny, Franklin and the IPCC Special Report on Oceans
- Oil, storms and knowing part 1: Seafarers Calm Waves with Oil
- Local Heroes - Trevithick's steam locomotive demonstration of 1808, "Catch Me Who Can"
- New Scientist Live 2019
- The sixtieth anniversary of the first human created object to land on the Moon, Luna 2
- Renaissance science works in Treasures of the British Library
- Influencing Environments: Material, Socio-political, and Ethical Environments in Anne McLaren’s Work
- Perfecting the Writing Machine: Blind and Visible Writing Typewriters
- From Cauliflowers to Chimaeras: A New Window onto Development
- The Flight of the Hoverfly
- How Embryologists See: Anne McLaren’s Mouse Models
- A visit to the Joint Library of Ophthalmology at Moorfields Eye Hospital
- Lab notebooks - handwriting at the core of science
2018
- Arabic science manuscripts from the British Library
- Cats in science
- Psychology Resources and Research Methods Workshop for Scholars
- Light in the Dark Ages: Anglo-Saxon Medicine
- The centenary of the 1918 flu pandemic
- New psychology and nature databases on trial at the BL
- Stephen Hawking - the last publications
- Andreas Vesalius - The most famous Belgian you have never heard of
- New Scientist Live
- The 150th anniversary of the first observation of helium
- The sixtieth birthday of obstetric ultrasound
- World Baking Day - two British advances in baking technology
- Augmented reality - it isn't just for catching mons.
- Did Man Get Here by Evolution or by Creation?
2017
- James Greathead and the tunnelling shield
- Digital preservation and the Anne McLaren Papers
- Using science to build international relations: a short introduction to science diplomacy
- 121 Discovery Sessions in Science
- The realization of Star Trek Technologies
- Local Heroes: Alphonse Normandy. Pure water and impure food
- Staff Visit to the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) Library
- Edgar Burr and the grooved golf club head
- I4OC: The British Library and open data
- James Blyth and the world's first wind-powered generator
- Charles Parsons and the steam turbine
- Geology of and in the British Library
- William Perkin and mauveine
- A Treasure Ship in the Patent Office Library
- A tribute to Anne McLaren
- GREATforInspiration kicks off
- British Library Digital Resources Discovery Sessions: Web of Science (WOS)
- Untangling academic publishing
- Local heroes: Sir Henry Bessemer - Islington and St Pancras inventor
- The first British-made satellite was launched fifty years ago today
- Wolters Kluwer Digital Resources Discovery Day at the British Library
- Old issues in new guises: Dame Anne McLaren and the embryo research debate
- Local Heroes: John Maynard Smith: (1920-2004): A good "puzzle-solver" with an "accidental career"
- Elsevier Postgraduate Science Workshop for Staff and Readers
- Francis Crick - our new neighbour
- The 100 most reported and shared science articles of 2016
- EBSCO Database Training Sessions at the British Library on Wednesday 15 February 2017
- HPC & Big Data
- Making hydrogen from wax
2016
- The first paper on carbon dioxide and global warming
- 9 famous scientists and their PhD theses
- Using our science collections
- Stephen Hales: Reverend, Researcher, Reformer
- Replace, Reduce, Refine: Animals in Research.
- Britain's first nose job
- Happy Ada Lovelace Day!
- Social Media Data: What’s the use?
- “Like light shining in a dark place”: Florence Nightingale and William Farr
- Local heroes: “Without the least sense of pain or the movement of a muscle”
- Food for Thought: Food Technology resources at the British Library
- Illegal substances or aiding physical excellence? A few historical perspectives
- Shakespeare on the couch: The bard and psychology
- Shakespeare: a King of Infinite Space?
- The Thinking Machine: W Ross Ashby and the Homeostat
- Science and Art in the rehearsal room
- Tunny and Colossus: Donald Michie and Bletchley Park
- The secret lives of scientists
- Health Data: Better Care or Privacy Nightmare?
- PhD placement in Science in Society at the British Library
- Alice's Adventures in Numberland - answers
- Alice's Adventures in Numberland
2015
- 12 Days Of Christmas - a festive science quiz
- GM Crops: what are the risks?
- Memory Matters: The Art and Science of the Brain
- Science in Schools: What are the options?
- Science education: A short guide to resources at the British Library
- ‘Your Puzzle-Mate’: Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage
- The Ugly Truth
- New opportunities for collaborative PhD research exploring the British Library’s science collections
- From fiction to fact: the science of Animal Tales
- Overpowered! The Science and Showbiz of Hypnosis
- A novel use of PhD data: Investigating the state of the Dementia Workforce
- ‘Impossibly bold and Utopian’: H.G. Wells on education
- Seals, Science and Nations
- Policy into practice
- Over the Ice: Polar Exploration from the Air
- King John’s teeth
- Come and work with us!
- Inspiring Careers - Part 2
- Inspiring Careers - Part 1
- What's the catch?
- Fishing from the Earliest Times: A very brief history
- The Ocean: A sustainable future or the end of the line?
- To survive we must explore
- The Importance of Understanding Number Entry
- A Medieval Medical Marvel
- Access to Understanding 2015: In Summary
- Access to Understanding 2015: Who Won What?
- Shell shocked
- Future Flemings
- Resistance is Futile
- Vote now for the Access to Understanding People’s Choice Award
- To boldly go…
- Strange Bedfellows
- DataCite Case Study: ForestPlots.net at the Unviersity of Leeds
- #ShareMyThesis competition - now open
2014
- Making waves with the Qatar Digital Library
- Wishing you a Merry Crystal-mas from DataCite UK
- How to write a plain English summary
- Science writing competition - now open for entries!
- Access to Understanding
- From bombers into airliners…
- Summer of Science Policy
- Beyond Nature vs Nurture
- Our next TalkScience event - an issue to get your teeth into
- Seeing Is Believing: Picturing the Nation's Health
- Isaac Newton is calling you…
- Counting Sheep: The Science of Sleep
- TalkScience @BL – Biotech on the Farm: Food for Thought?
- Beautiful Science & FOSN: Warning, Contains Scenes of a Graphical Nature
- Beautiful Science 2014: Picturing Data, Inspiring Insight
- Fossil hunting at the British Library
- British Library connecting with the flooding community
- My Internship with the British Library Science Team
- Crick retreat moves forward
- UK DataCite on the road
- The World we live in
- Communicating Extreme Weather: Beyond Science
- Beautiful Science coming to Cheltenham
- Extreme Weather: Climate Change in Action?
- How do you use PhD theses?
- Beautiful Weather
- The Evolution of Evolution: Picturing the Tree of Life
- Patently Obvious?
- Access to Understanding Awards 2014: Everyone’s a Winner
- Plotting for a Healthy Society
- I Chart the British Library - Who Ate All the Pie Charts?
- Sciencetastic!
- Access to Understanding's first ever People's Choice Award!
- From telegrams to holograms
- Beautiful Science-- Now Open!
- Scientists in Love
- Is Necessity The Mother of Invention?
- Visualising Research – let the competition begin
- Beautiful Science Preview
- Gathering dust? Opening up access to PhD research
2013
- Science Countdown to Christmas
- Hidden Gems
- Visualising Research
- From base pairs to bedside...
- Decision making in the twilight of uncertainty
- Explaining Focal Osteoporosis to My Gran
- Science-writing competition
- Why not cite data?
- So You Want to be a Scientist?
- How open is it?
- Testing times
- What’s in a name?
- Collecting new data
- Seek, but shall ye find?
- Don't Quote Me on That
- Measure for Measure
- Selecting, not perfecting?
- Access to everyone
- An open and shut case
- Divining the Deluge
- Inspiring Science 2013
- Show me more data
- Show me the data
- Particle Physics: A Century of Spin
- BBSRC intern and potential ‘poster-boy’ buzzes-off…
- A bee-friendly British Library on the horizon…
- Introducing our new Science blog...
Social science
2025
- VE Day: voices from history
- Unlocking Hidden Collections: one year of cataloguing trade literature
- Holocaust Memorial Day 2025: books presenting personal testimonies
2024
- Unlocking Hidden Collections: unveiling the past through trade literature
- Researching the welfare state
- Paul Stephenson: history maker, in Bristol and beyond
- Hakim Adi: three decades (and counting) of reclaiming the historical narrative
- Pride beyond June: readings in LGBT+ history, culture and theory
- D-Day: from memory to commemoration
- Researching social work in the Social Sciences Reading Room.
- Consulting Official Publications collections after the cyber attack.
- Finding Women's Studies on the shelves: an international turn
- 'Women are up to something': selected readings for Women's History Month 2024
2023
- Historical census publications of Africa, the West Indies, and Pacific Islands: 'Unlocking our Hidden Collections'
- Animals and social justice: readings on animals in literature
- Animals and the law: readings on animal rights law
- Animals and feminism: readings on the intersection of oppression
- Animals and the climate emergency: readings on the global impact of industrial animal agriculture
2022
- 7 Days, Culture and the Arts
- 7 Days - Back then and now: a personal recollection by John Mathews
- Designing 7 Days
2021
- ‘You Cannae Eat Ships’: 7 Days and industrial news.
- Reflecting on activism and protest around the Disability Discrimination Act
- Six months that launched the Seventies
- Football fanzines from print to the digital age: call for academic partners
- What can we learn from legal deposit data? A PhD placement at the British Library
- Introducing '7 Days': a revolutionary weekly newspaper in the Anthony Barnett archive
- Seven of the best Open Access titles to read for Black History Month
- Important information for email subscribers
- ‘Like tripe on a slab’: women’s accounts of reproductive healthcare provision in Spare Rib magazine are now available through the Library’s digital map.
- Hundreds of definitions for a big word: The Refugee Dictionary comes to the British Library
- Unfinished Business: finally giving black feminist history and contribution its due
- Documenting the Olympics and the Paralympics, 6- 7 July
- "Just Leave Me Alone": responses to Unfinished Business
- History in the Making: 40 years on from the Black People’s Day of Action
2020
- Digitised Spare Rib resource
- New Spare Rib map resource: putting women's activism on the map
- Food Community in the Context of Covid
- British Library 2020 Food Season: plans to continue the conversation
- Finding Emmeline Pankhurst
- Learning from the Past: A guide for the curious researcher
- Propaganda and Ideology in Everyday Life
2019
- Spare Rib archive - possible suspension of access UPDATE
- The past is now: Examples of Britain’s anti-immigrant policies from independent Black and Asian community publications
- The 2019 Annual Equality Lecture: Jack Halberstam
- Finding zines on climate change
- What is a Manifesto ... ?
- A social scientist’s experience of navigating the British Library’s collections
- Meet the new British Sociological Association Fellow at the British Library
- Two new PhD opportunities for Web Comics
- Spare Rib Archive - possible suspension of access
- Archiving Activism: The Animal Guide
2018
- BL Sports Word of the Year 2018
- Professor Kalwant Bhopal on social justice, exclusion and white privilege in universities
- More digital comics!
- Learning from the Past: our new course for curious researchers starts today
- ‘The people we are writing for are the people we are fighting for’: Sivanandan as radical pamphleteer.
- Socio-Legal Sources and Methods in Social Welfare and Family Law
- Archiving Activism Website
- Legal Deposit in 12 panels
- The Persistence of Gender Inequality
2017
- John Pilger: Why the documentary must not be allowed to die
- The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council: a short introduction, sources for research and appeal case metadata.
- BL Sports Word of the Year 2017
- 21st Century British Comics
- The Power of Documentary: John Pilger at the British Library 9- 10 December
- The Annual Equality Lecture: The Persistence of Gender Inequality
- Bringing Voices Together: the importance of independent Black publishing
- Writers of Colour in independent publishing - Bringing voices together: a guest post from Dr. Kavita Bhanot
- Bringing Voices Together: Inclusivity in Independent Publishing in Contemporary Britain, 7th September
- Propaganda and Ideology in Everyday Life
- What can the Archived Web tell us about politics and society in the 21st century?
- Report on Rebels
- Women’s Marches Echo Suffragette Struggles: Campaigns, Cats and Collections
- Archive of Joan Bakewell joins the British Library’s Contemporary Archives Collections
- 2017 / 2018 British Library PhD Placements
2016
- Rebels in the Archives: Stories of Sexism, Sisterhood and Struggle
- Sports Word of the Year 2016
- The Women's Football Association archive
- The Annual Equality Lecture with Professor Andrew Sayer
- Propaganda course nominated for Learning on Screen Award
- Propaganda and Ideology in Everyday Life
- Update on the digital Spare Rib: important information for researchers and contributors
- PhD students: apply now for the British Library’s PhD placement programme!
2015
- Sports Word of the Year 2015
- Spare Rib Magazine Update
- Sources and Methods in Criminology and Criminal Justice
- Enduring Ideas 3: The Problem of Prejudice
- BBC/BL Listening Project Workshop
- Animals Inspired Events at the British Library
- PhD placements available!
- Call for Papers
- GOOD VIBRATIONS
- Spare Rib Magazine enters the digital age
- Spring/Summer Events
- Shopping in Suburbia
- Propaganda and Ideology in Everyday Life
- 2014 in review: Management Book of the Year, the problem with democracy, epigenetics and beyond.
- Activist Archives: Making Marks
2014
- SWOTY 2014
- ODIN - Linking datasets and their creators
- Feminism in London Conference
- Socio-Economic Developments since 1820
- Collecting the Referendum
- Saturday 15th November: Too much information? Join the debate
- Autumn/Winter Events
- Exploring British Online Archives
- Exploring Play – a free, open, online course
- Regeneration?
- "Beyond the Boundary of Sleep": Mega-Events and Memory
- Play the Game!
- Challenging assumptions. Law Gender and Sexuality: sources and methods in socio-legal research (part 2)
- Challenging assumptions. Law Gender and Sexuality: sources and methods in socio-legal research (part 1)
- Age is in the eye of the beholder
- Escorting Stoller's Depart
- Pedal Power
- Lost in pronunciation
- Football Heroes
- Languages and the First World War: Trench Journals
- Culture and football in harmony
- Languages and the First World War
- Happy Birthday Channel Tunnel
- Law, Gender and Sexuality
- The Redress of the Past
- Introducing: Chatham House Online Archive
- The Annual Equality Lecture
- Beyond Nature versus Nurture
- Spring 2014 events
- My notes from a conference
- Sport in the archive – remembering London 2012
- World War One: old controversies and new interpretations
- Harper Collection of Private Bills
- The pioneers of British Catering
2013
- Propaganda, Sisterhood, Social Welfare and more: a year in social sciences
- Stories from the Empire: Privy Council Cases 1917-1920 (cont’d)
- Stories from the Empire: Privy Council Cases 1917-1920
- The personal and political: memories and commemoration of Nelson Mandela on the web
- Historic Heston at the British Library
- A final note on the iPod generation
- Calling all Spare Rib Contributors!
- Roads of Remembrance
- BSA: Big Data Challenge at the British Library
- Challenging myths and understanding society
- Visual Urbanism: Perceptions of the Material Landscape
- In Conversation with the Women’s Liberation Movement
- Doctoral open days in social sciences
- Part 3 of the 'iPod generation': all doom and gloom?
- Listen up!
- The realities behind the social ‘myths’
- Reminder - Call for Papers: Languages and the First World War
- London Calling
- Longitude? It's Patently Obvious
- Propaganda, the geography of not-knowing and the history of ignorance
- Thank Goodness for Propaganda!
- Speakers Corner at the British Library
- Made at the British Library
- The most unpopular government department
- The Internet, Social Media and Propaganda: The Final Frontier?
- Football Association 1863 Minute Book
- Propaganda: Speakers' Corner at the British Library 2- 5 September 2013
- When did we ever have it so good? Part 2 of the iPod generation
- On Patriotism: Propaganda in the Library’s Canadian Photographic Collection
- Gert and Daisy on The Kitchen Front: Celebrity, humour and public opinion in the Second World War
- ODIN Project 1st Year Event @ CERN - October 2013
- Write, Camera, Action!
- Resources for women's and gender studies at the British Library
- How does our history inspire you?
- Memory Place
- When did we ever have it so good? Part 1 of the iPod generation
- Exploring social themes in literature
- Kannada Jeevaswaraa – a music video created for Karnataka (a State in South India)
- Call for Papers: Languages and the First World War
- The role of UK Business Schools in driving innovation
- Propaganda you may have missed
- Napoleon riding backwards on a donkey
- Your very good health
- “Everything is propaganda”
- Film, art, advertising and propaganda
- Celebrating the Coronation and views of ‘English Magic’
- Interested in Business History?
- Every time you cross the road ...
- Showcase your research by entering the CMI Management Articles of the Year
- A young woman’s response to the ‘Sisterhood and After’ website
- Propaganda and Politics in the Modern Age
- Picturing Propaganda
- New ORCID Integrated Citation Tool from the ODIN Project
- Rosie in the Reading Room
- Propaganda – coming soon
- New BL Labs Competition launched
- All change, all change!
- Researching the exhibition
- What is the future of the voluntary sector? TSRC National Conference
- The Idea of Work
- The 1980s Archived
- Legal Biography: A national socio-legal training day - 15th May 2013
- What's Wrong with Bankers?
- New University of Sheffield/British Library funded PhD scholarship announced
- '…the irreducible things that happened': sociology in the archives
- Food and fear
- ‘Addictive Personality’: Myth or Reality?
- And a salad batch for the trip back to London, sir?
- Propaganda and obedience: Noam Chomsky in conversation at the British Library 19 March 2013
- Evidence in Social Welfare Policy and Practice Conference, 7 Dec 2012
- Sisterhood & After: the Women’s Liberation Oral History Project
- 'Generation Y not?' A view from a 'Y' member
- CMI Management Articles of the Year competition launched
- The British Library VoiceBank: An Introduction
- Encounters Between Art and science
- Moving Image and Broadcast News
- Being a collaborative doctoral student at the British Library
- Sport and Society
- A Treasury of 1950s Housecraft
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- From Myths and Realities to Equality and Egalitarianism (and more besides…)
2012
- Happy Winter Solstice From BL Social Sciences
- Commoditising risk in a global age: spread betting and digital gambling
- Sport? That's so gay!
- In Service of Their Country: The Pigeon Manual
- Tales from the Archive: How do food researchers from different disciplines use archives
- Social Welfare at the British Library
- What counts as 'valid' knowledge? A day exploring knowledge, power and learning
- Debating the right to die and other challenging topics
- Researching ethnicity, identity and 'mixed-race'
- What can Public Open Data and Academia Learn From Each Other
- U.S.A. Government Material the British Library
- Oral history interviews: possibilities for re-use by social scientists
- Did the Olympics do the trick?
- Visual Urbanisms: Perspectives on Contemporary Research
- High Street Gambling - A Spatial Analysis
- ‘Identifiers’: Creating a network of researchers and research objects
- Marmalade United
- Social Science at The British Library
- What Do Practitioners Need to Know About Research?
- Welcome
- More thoughts about the future
- What comes next?
- Broadcasting the Olympics: A Peep Behind the Cameras
- It’s a competition!
- Watching the Paralympics
- Sport and the Social Sciences: ISSA, World Congress of Sociology of Sport, Glasgow 16th - 18th July.
- Confessions of a Dove Biker
- Coming over all emotional
- Runners, Divers, and Bakhtin: The London Olympics are Finally Here
- Voices from the past
- Faster
- Women, Men, and Sports
- About this blog
- Who gets what?
- Less gravitas
- Conference season
- Olympics, protest and dissent
- Summer arrives - Official
- Get them to play: physical activity for/and book lovers
- It’s all about controversy
- The frontiers of speed
- Feeding the Olympics
- Just keep going!
- On researching sports and the Olympics: a curator's perspective
- More about torches
- Money, money, money
- A City of (at least) Two Tales
- Flaming
- Sourcing sport
- The Power of Attraction
- Swimming to work
- To take it or leave it?
- True Believers
- Sport, sport, sport
- A new headache for the IOC.
2011
- Art & Sport
- More On Money
- More glitz
- Athletes and free will
- Strength, sport and ego
- Battle stations
- Olympic Flame
- The view from on high
- Team GB
- Sport and peace
- Winning
- Images of 2012
- The symbolic value of physical pursuits
- Rules
- Olympic Designs
- Tom Longboat
- Waving the flag
- Unsung heroes and new legacies
- St Augustine in the Olympic Park.
- Traffic jams, transport, tourists etc
- Owning the Olympics
- The Power of Myth
- Being there
- The clock's ticking
- Momentum
- Changing London
- Torches ... and bells
- Safety in numbers
- Sporting royals
- Synchronised swimming; part 2
- In the deep end
- Olympic lives
- Riches revealed
- Touring the park
- The long road from Berlin 1936 to London 2012
- Getting there
- Velodromes
- Selling the Olympics
- Paralympic Discourse
- A welcome return
- Words
- What happens after?
- Changing controversies
- New year; new section
2010
- Programmes
- What is Sport History?
- The flight of the imagination
- Sporting English
- Competition
- The Special Olympics
- Olympic stamps
- Long distances
- Citizen media
- That Paralympic Show
- British Women Olympians
- The fascination of the quotidian
- The Olympics in bloom
- Whither the cultural Olympiad?
- Teaching the Paralympics
- Celebrate the all-rounder!
- Swim coaching
- Recognition at last!
- Making the Paralympics visible
- Volunteering
- Sport & Peace
- Tied up in knots: brand protection and ambush marketing
- The good old days
- What's in the catalogue?
- Wenlock and Mandeville
- What's next for Olympic sports?
- To purge or not to purge
- The legacy of participation
- Elites and 'grassroots'
- Capturing the Olympics
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Sound and vision
2025
- Happy 90th birthday Paul Thompson!
- Witnessing the nuclear age
- ‘Herstory: 50 Years of Rape Crisis’. A new oral ‘herstory’ archive and podcast
- Oral history at Groundswell 2025
- Clod Magazine editors in the British Library studio
- Interactive Listening: Engaging children with testimonies part 2
- Remembering Artists' Lives interviewee Rory Young
2024
- Silent Night
- The voice of W. J. Holloway
- In memoriam: Patrick Sellar 1929-2024
- Happy Birthday to the National Lottery
- Sound archive acquires new technology for digitising wax cylinders
- ‘Carry Me Home’- Reattaching to the self: Melodic arrangement in African American spirituals and early 20th century classical compositions
- Interactive listening: Engaging children with testimonies of Caribbean migration
- SIVORI IS DEAD! VIVA SIVORI! The haunting recorded legacy of Paganini’s only pupil, Part 3
- The Life Story in Oral History Practice - Freely accessible issue of 'Oral History' Journal out now!
- Beyond the Bassline: Coleridge Goode's diary
- Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: ‘I want to be nothing in the world except what I am - a musician.’
- SIVORI IS DEAD! VIVA SIVORI! The haunting recorded legacy of Paganini’s only pupil, Part 2
- Join us for the Oral History Festival on Saturday 6 July 2024 in the British Library Knowledge Centre
- Beyond the Bassline events at the British Library, June
- SIVORI IS DEAD! VIVA SIVORI! The haunting recorded legacy of Paganini’s only pupil
- Beyond the Bassline events at the British Library, May
- Beyond the Bassline: Two-tone
- Beyond the Bassline: Roots reggae
- Beyond the Bassline: Lovers’ rock
- Beyond the Bassline: 500 Years of Black British Music
- Sound Heritage Today: British and Irish Sound Archives event in Glasgow on 9-10 May
- Sound and Vision update
2023
- Recording of the week: Things that go howl in the night
- Listening to Clara Schumann through her pupils: A pianistic orchestration of tones and rhythms
- On Pioneering Social Research
- Akyaaba Addai-Sebo on founding UK Black History Month
- Recording of the week: A conversation right up our alley
- Recording of the week: South Asian history and medical practices in Britain
- Recording of the week: Vintage voice notes from a remote island
- Listening Desk by Emily Peasgood at the British Library
- Recording of the week: Harold Wilson’s 1963 pledge to harness the white heat of a scientific revolution
- Ripples of history: Sıbızğı recordings from northern Xinjiang
- Recording of the week: Recalling the 1981 Hunger Strike at Maze Prison
- Emmanuelle Olivier’s ‘Damara-Nama’ recordings and their return to Sesfontein, Namibia
- Unlocking Our Hidden Collections: Sue Steward and Edmundo Ros
- Recording of the week: Chanting
- Recording of the week: Memories of school
- Recording of the week: Architect Kate Macintosh discusses Dawson's Heights in East Dulwich
- Recording of the week: A poem by Jack Carey (1923-2001)
- Parkinson in the archive
- 'Breathe in, Breathe out' - a soundscape
- Recording of the week: 40 Days and 40 Nights
- Recording of the week: Cycling
- Recording of the Week: Flamenco runs in the blood
- Recording of the week: ‘Who goes down Euston Road?’ 50 years of British Library memories
- Recording of the week: Don McCullin on war photography
- Recording of the week: Death's-head hawk-moth (Acherontia Atropos)
- Recording of the week: Windrush Voices
- Recording of the week: False Lamkin
- Recording of the week: Seabirds in a plastic world
- Animals: Art, Science and Sound
- Recording of the week: Listening to Sun Ra in the year 4000
- Recording of the week: Lenny Bruce (1925-1966)
- Recording of the week: You havin’ a bubble, mate?
- Recording of the week: Herbert Beerbohm Tree as Falstaff
- Recording of the week: The sound designer: the theatre as an experimental stage
- Wings aren’t just for flying
- Recording of the week: Peter Rickenback on being a fugitive in Europe
- Two Rachmaninoff Discoveries - Two Knights in 1937
- Recording of the week: Hanns Alexander on being a Nazi hunter after World War Two
- From vocal to visual, with family scraps
- Recording of the week: Muzak whilst you work for increased efficiency
- Recording of the week: August Wilhelmj performing Paganini's Concerto No. 1, Op. 6
- Recording of the week: Leonie Barnett on her brother, Joe Orton
- Jelly d’Arányi - The recorded legacy and career of a virtuoso violinist in the roaring twenties
- Recording of the week: A warbler singing in the predawn
- Working with teachers to develop sessions on teaching Partition
- Recording of the week: Setting up the Athena Project
- Recording of the week: Voices of Partition
- Recording of the week: The role of the creator in improvised dance
- In the words of survivors: what was 'ordinary' about the Holocaust?
- Recording of the week: Bob Cobbing (1920-2002)
- Why do hammer-headed fruit bats honk?
- Recording of the week: ‘Reggae Fi May Ayim’ by Linton Kwesi Johnson
- Recording of the week: ‘Wayn tkhallīnī’ by Iraq’s Rashīd al-Qundarjī
2022
- 'Jiune Rahara' / Desire to live
- Recording of the week: ‘Rooms above pubs: a nexus of free improvisation’
- BL Sports Word of the Year 2022
- Recording of the week: ‘Acts of protest: Women and the Indian independence movement’
- 'Exercise for all': Challenging barriers to access for disabled people
- Recording of the week: ‘Raising her father’s grave: An interview with Titanic survivor Eva Hart’
- Recording of the week: ‘Is fiction truth or is it fantasy?’ By Anita Desai
- Exploring disability during the Covid-19 pandemic through oral history
- Recording of the week: An RAF airman
- Recording of the week: The window seat
- Recording of the week: The Vicinus Music Hall Interviews
- Recording of the week: A new life, all over again
- Black History Month – The Cullen Maiden collection
- Recording of the week: Vaughan Williams Symphony No. 6 - the premiere
- Recording of the week: Laughing hyaenas
- Classical Podcast No. 6 Philip Fowke
- Recording of the week: Never you mind!
- Brahms, Vienna and early Hungarian national bands
- Recording of the week: have you ever heard a Billy Hooter?
- Recording of the week: Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
- Recording of the week: The Rite of Spring
- Recording of the week: Childhood memories of D. H. Lawrence
- Recording of the week: Oskar Nedbal (1874-1930)
- Recording of the week: Learning garden birdsong with Charles and Heather Myers
- Recording of the week: Sarojini Naidu (1879-1949)
- Recording of the week: Wind in yacht rigging
- Recording of the week: Stockholm 1972: Fifty years on
- Recording of the week: Women’s work on the record
- Recording of the week: What does the UK sound like?
- Recording of the week: ‘Living open-handedly’
- Postcard from Dumre
- Recording of the week: Trailblazers in women’s sports
- Starting from here: ‘Interview with Michael Saville’
- Recording of the week: The NHS turns 74
- Putting 'AIDS: The Unheard Tapes' in context
- Recording of the week: Sharing Somali sounds and stories
- Recording of the week: Footsteps on gravel
- Recording of the week: More than a headteacher
- Chance patrons: Sir Nikolaus Pevsner and the pioneering age of British architectural history
- Recording of the week: One stormy night
- Covid-19 Testimony Project Database launch
- Recording of the week: Oak Apple Day
- Recording of the week: an intriguing description of a legendary media figure
- Recording of the week: On climbing mountains - a woman's view
- Recording of the week: From potato market to sound archive
- Recording of the week: Have you heard a hedgehog huff?
- Recording of the week: Everybody has something to offer
- Juliet Pannett
- Recording of the week: Easter egg secrets revealed
- Between the Orange Tree and the Lime
- Recording of the week: Parsnip wine and an electric organ
- Recording of the week: Elvis on our minds for half a century
- Recording of the week: Virginia Woolf's voice
- Recording of the week: George V in 1933
- Recording of the week: A time for nursery rhymes
- Recording of the Week: Filling in the gaps of the feminist movement in the 1980s – Southall Black Sisters
- Recording of the week: A personal jazz mystery solved
- Recording of the week: Dialect in children's play
- Public libraries in the words of people who use, work in and run them
- Recording of the week: Neville Chamberlain and King George VI's broadcasts regarding Britain declaring war on Germany in 1939
- Recording of the week: When in the trees the rooks build high
- Recording of the week: On the meditative practice of drawing
- Recording of the week: The memory of liberation in Holocaust survivor testimonies
- Rosemary Goad
- Recording of the week: Norman Ackroyd on Henry Moore
- Voices of British theatre design: Explore the world of theatre behind the scenes
- Recording of the week: A new year song from Vanuatu
2021
- Recording of the week: 'Kuli milimo', there is work in the house of the Lord
- Ian Rawes and the London Sound Survey
- BL Sports Word of theYear 2021
- A Mengelberg discovery – Mengelberg in London
- Recording of the week: Recollections from a political activist
- Classical Podcast No. 5 Clifford Curzon
- Geoff Webb on polio
- Documenting Bengali music in Britain
- Nelson Freire – a great pianist remembered
- Recording of the Week: The musical pillars of a medieval Indian temple
- Gerry and Paula discuss Paula’s severe social anxiety
- Introducing the Collections in Dialogue commission with Leeds Art Gallery and the British Library
- Recording of the week: Graham Stuart Thomas on bringing historic flowers back to life
- Recording of the week: James Baldwin at the Cambridge Union
- Ken Essex - A long life with music
- Recording of the week: Preserving the Peruvian jarija
- Black History Month – Carlisle and Wellmon
- The Pinnacle Club: 100 years of women climbing and mountaineering
- The wanderings of Blackbud: Preserving Blackbud’s Glastonbury demo
- True Echoes: Eric Raff 1924 Efate, New Hebrides cylinder collection (C83)
- Recording of the week: Family mealtimes
- Recording of the week: Dog team or engine power? Sleds and other subjects in 1940s Alaska
- Postcards from China
- Recording of the week: I nearly went bozz-eyed when I saw this!
- Important information for email subscribers
- Recording of the week: Mrs Meurig Morris in a trance address
- Discovery of a rare Bettini cylinder recording
- Recording of the week: Memories of a theatregoer
- Persian choral album surfaces after four decades in limbo
- Recording of the week: Louis Moholo-Moholo’s first encounters with jazz
- ‘Violence, shock, life’: the sounds of Pierre Boulez’s formative years
- Recording of the week: A hibernating dormouse
- The NHS at 73
- True Echoes: Cambridge Expedition to the Torres Strait Islands, 1898
- Windrush Day: Bristol’s Princess Campbell
- Recording of the week: Carol Ann Duffy reads ‘Mrs Midas’
- Walk in their footsteps: Windrush Voices, a new digital education programme at the British Library
- Recording of the week: A Yanomami ceremonial dialogue
- Recording of the week: Efe honey gathering in the Ituri Forest
- Recording of the week: On architecture and identity
- Recording of the week: The first recording of a complete piano concerto
- Eid Mubarak: Celebrations marking the end of Ramadan and the beginning of a new month
- Recording of the Week: ‘We showed them that we could do it as good as them’
- Games in the Woods: getting creative during the Urban Tree Festival
- 'The most important thing is to hear the voice of the Earth': revisiting a Buddhist temple in Fukushima
- Recording of the week: Anthony Daniels talks about C3PO and Star Wars
- Recording of the Week: The world’s rarest traditional musical instrument?
- Clearing the noise surrounding copyright
- Recording of the week: 'It is a great thing nettle beer'
- Recording of the week: how to avoid being puked on by a fulmar
- Recording of the week: An interview with Ravi Shankar
- Guy Brett: Ideas in Motion
- True Echoes: Daniels Ethnographical Expedition to New Guinea, 1904
- Recording of the week: Women’s lives in pre-war Leeds
- Recording of the week: A different kind of national anthem
- A Covid-19 radio archive
- Recording of the week: Mohamed Choukri at the ICA
- Alan Bowness and Artists’ Lives
- Recording of the week: Friction drum song from Botswana
- 250,000 sounds preserved by Unlocking Our Sound Heritage
- Recording of the week: Breathe in
- Remote oral history interviewing at the British Library during the Covid-19 pandemic
- On teaching languages
- Recording of the week: the swimming songbird
- Experiences of women in STEM: working in the scientific civil service
- Recording of the week: From feminist utopias to contemporary sound
- 'Tell the world what was happening': Uprising at Auschwitz
- Recording of the week: Amping up Uyghur music with the electric guitar
- Recording of the week: Dawn in a Gondwana Rainforest
- Grace Robertson, a pioneer of women’s documentary photography
- Building a National Radio Archive - in Hastings
- Recording of the week: The voice of Robert Browning (1812-1889)
- Albert Roux (1935-2021)
- Recording of the week: Happy New Year!
2020
- Recording of the week: Sámi Yoik; evoking reindeer, the wind and 'wind nose'
- Recording of the week: Sheffield’s pub carols, a secular tradition
- Caulking the ethnographic gap – A Trobriander perspective on the songs, dances, stories and performers of the Malinowski Cylinder Collection (C46)
- True Echoes: Malinowski’s 1915 – 1918 Trobriand recordings
- Public libraries in a pandemic year
- Oral History of Jazz in Britain: Max Jones interviews Adelaide Hall
- True Echoes launches new research website
- British Library Sports Word of the Year 2020
- Robert Cox and The Golden Fleece
- True Echoes project: collaboration – communication – continuation
- Recording of the week: Gut feelings in weather forecasting
- The untold story of the birth of World Wide Web: putting the record straight
- Recording of the week: Screaming Lord Sutch talks Cyprus, Tony Blair and an open top dome
- Piloting a national radio archive
- Recording of the week: Baffies on St Andrew’s Day
- Recording of the Week: A chance encounter
- Nazis on trial: Nuremberg 75 years ago
- Recording of the week: Music and singing for the Tihar Festival in Nepal
- Recording of the week: If I were a blackbird
- An interview with Major James Howe
- Recording of the week: The horrors of the long drop
- Going batty for Halloween
- Eddie South – Dark Angel of the Violin
- Recording of the week: Go on then, tell me about the duppies
- Recording of the week: Electricity in the kitchen
- Making of: The Unearthed Odyssey
- Recording of the week: Radio’s Holy Grail
- What if your home had ears?
- Recording of the week: We’re gonna be parents!
- Banned in South Africa: Dr Martin Luther King Jr.
- ‘Using your eyes as a pen’ – Black British Poets in Performance
- Recording of the week: Discovering Sibelius
- The sounds of Autumn
- Young for Eternity: Unlocking Our Sound Heritage preserves the Subways’ Glastonbury demo
- Nuclear history: Triangulating sources and government secrecy.
- Recording of the week: My family and other tapes
- Glastonbury New Bands Competition Collection: Unlocking the dreams of unsigned bands
- Recording of the week: Another side of Laurence Binyon
- The Political Lives of Postwar British MPs: An Oral History of Parliament
- Recording of the week: The V-Girls’ Academia in the Alps
- Recording of the week: Kathy Stobart interviewed by Jen Wilson
- Recording of the week: Lubaina Himid and Griselda Pollock in conversation (ICA, 1988)
- Walking in the archive
- Recording of the week: Ganapati, mythology and Koh-i-Noors: a poetry reading by Debjani Chatterjee
- Recording of the week: Do you know what a paternoster is?
- In celebration of owls
- Recording of the week: Evening by Lake Siemianówka
- Recording of the week: The secret song of the skylark
- Oral History of British Science and transnational history
- Unlocking Our Sound Heritage preserves 200,000 endangered sounds
- Recording of the week: Barnacle geese at Mersehead Reserve
- Recording of the week: Women’s workwear in the 1960s
- Linton Kwesi Johnson awarded PEN Pinter Prize 2020
- Recording of the week: Barbara Kruger in conversation
- The Santals, Scandinavian missionaries, and salvage ethnomusicology: an encounter of three worlds
- Recording of the week: A charm to ward off evil
- From Dick-dick-the-devil to Pan-pan-boolala: onomatopoeic identities of the Crested Bellbird
- Working from home
- Recording of the week: Underwater sounds from Cromer Pier
- Arabic music record sleeves and what they can tell us
- Recording of the week: The Kankurang or how to enforce a lockdown
- Recording of the week: Michiko Hirayama singing Scelsi
- Sea sounds
- Recording of the week: Herrings' heads
- In search of the ramkie in the Karoo and the Olifants River Valley
- Recording of the week: Account from a Norfolk lifeboatman
- Exploring the sounds and stories of Britain's shores
- Recording of the week: Don't try this at home!
- Recording of the week: Birth then and now
- Recording of the week: Recording the birds of Japan
- Recording of the week: Women in the wine trade
- Recording of the week: Makame Faki, legendary singer from Zanzibar
- Sounds of your world
- Recording of the week: Frank Bowling on learning to draw
- Recording of the week: 'I didn’t come into the jungle to look at trees and lianas!'
- Recording of the week: Dusting books
- Recording of the week: Richard Attenborough on Michael Powell
- Recording of the week: 'I didn't catch any of that!'
- Recording of the week: The dominion of the salmon
- Recording of the week: Sir George Henschel
- Recording of the week: Elgar's Introduction and Allegro
- National Life Stories Goodison Fellowship 2020-2021: Suzanne Joinson
- Recording of the week: Where there's a whip there's a will
- Recording of the week: Ntozake Shange
- Recording of the week: 'If Not, Not'
- Waves and resonances: Catherine Smith's adventures in the sound archive
- Recording of the week: Trude Levi and Holocaust liberation
- Recording of the week: Night in a várzea forest by boat
- A Life Lived and Seen: a tribute to Anna Teasdale
- Recording of the week: Pinglish code-switching
- Recording of the week: Why you should listen to the common eider duck
2019
- Recording of the week: Wax cylinder recordings of Nigerian music
- Recording of the week: Painting Winston Churchill
- British Library Sports Word Of The Year 2019
- AWATE: Finding Gems and Sharing Them
- Recording of the week: PTOOFF!
- Unlocking Our Sound Heritage hubs digitise 10,000 recordings
- Recording of the week: Sheep gathering in Wales
- Recording of the week: Kagura - dancing for the Gods
- A tribute to Stephen Cleobury by Jessica Duchen
- Recording of the week: 'Power' by Adrienne Rich
- Hollywood Fights Back
- Recording of the week: the pampapiano of Rafael Achomccaray Quispe
- Recording of the week: English spoken here
- Recording of the week: the lesbians aren't into dustbins
- Recording of the week: Champion Jack Dupree interviewed by James Hogg
- Private Montford's army record
- A privilege to be alive on Fair Isle
- Recording of the week: turning down Vincent van Gogh’s sunflowers
- Black History Month: King Menelik and Queen Taytu's phonograph message to Queen Victoria
- AWATE's Journey into the Past
- Recording of the week: Dr John interviewed by Charlie Gillett
- Recording of the week: No prisoners
- Cable Street and after: memories of antifascism
- Classical Podcast No. 4 Feodor Chaliapin with Simon Callow
- Recording of the week: in Hertford, Hereford and Hampshire …
- Sounds from Bohemia: exploring the Bohemian Quartet’s recordings of Dvorak and Smetana
- Recording of the week: The Beautiful Garden
- Ernö Goldfinger at Open House 2019
- Beginnings: Arabic music in the 'Ezra Hakkāk and Emile Cohen Collection
- Recording of the week: Whooper Swans take flight
- Recording of the week: representing Britain at the Venice Biennale
- Ernest Shackleton and the Farthest South
- Sir Isaac Pitman – phonography and the phonograph
- Recording of the week: rain over the Iron Range
- Recording of the week: Winnie-the-Pooh
- Recording of the week: securing the right to read
- Napoléon Bonaparte
- Recording of the week: women conscientious objectors of WW2
- The nightingale sings again - the life, career, and recordings of Beatrice Harrison
- Celebrating 100,000 digitised recordings with Nigerian hammer and anvil music
- Recording of the week: kids say the funniest things
- Recording of the week: Nelson Mandela in the UK
- ‘My Other Piano’ – the classical side of Winifred Atwell
- Memories of the Moon Landing
- Magnetic Tape Alert Project
- Alan Turing on the £50 note
- Recording of the week: Rinding gumbeng from Central Java
- Partition memories and the power of oral testimony
- Recording of the week: discovering Victorian coins in a Leeds butchers shop
- Chernobyl: Perspectives from the British Nuclear Industry
- Innovations in sound and art
- Recording of the week: wonderful Weingartner
- The Stonewall Riots: I wouldn’t have missed it for the world
- Michael Ryle and the development of the House of Commons select committee system
- Recording of the week: Frank Land OBE - from Nazi Germany to the tea shop electronic brain
- Recording of the week: Leonardo da Vinci's watery obsession
- Recording of the week: Loss of a world and a need to capture it
- D-Day has come
- Stuart Franklin remembers photographing Tank Man in Tiananmen Square
- Recording of the week: Lilian Baylis (1874-1937)
- Recording of the week: Gbamu gbamu jigi jigi! Happy times in WordBank
- Bicentenary of Queen Victoria – is this her voice?
- One of the very first MEPs: Joyce Quin, Baroness Quin, remembers the early days of the European Parliament
- Mother Carey's Chickens
- Recording of the week: Gieseking and Bohm
- Hearing the Dead – Florence Nightingale’s voice
- Recording of the week: Peter Kennedy recording of Sheila Gallagher, Donegal 1953
- The Duke of Wellington
- Recording of the week: George Ewart Evans and The Barley Mow
- Merrie England
- Recording of the week: a lesson in bird song duets and trios
- Recording of the week: opening the Tyne Bridge
- Recording of the week: Cello or drum? Meet the ütőgardon
- Recording of the week: well sick
- Airey Neave: working for science in parliament
- Recording of the week: Peter Blake remembers the Royal College of Art
- “The Acorn System One can be used to control a 22nd Century intergalactic spaceship”
- Recording of the week: Will Montgomery - Submarine
- Recording of the week: Sora song
- International Women's Day: Oral History highlights
- Recording of the week: spontaneous mimicry on a yorkshire moor
- Recording of the week: rabbits and chickens by post!
- Creative States of Mind: a new collection of interviews exploring artists and the creative process
- Recording of the week: croggy or backy?
- Andrea Levy
- Recording of the week: the endingidi and the erhu – two types of the spike tube fiddle
- Where our laws are drafted: 150 years of the Office of Parliamentary Counsel
- The tale of the seven whistlers
- Hommage à Michel Legrand
- Recording of the week: life in a rock pool
- Classical Podcast No. 3 Albert Coates
- Recording of the week: Bubu music from Tasso Island
- Recording of the week: it's a bit Derby!
- Recording of the week: starling mimicry
- Recording of the week: sculptor Eduardo Paolozzi on post-war Britain
2018
- A spirit of Christmas
- WordBank Acrostic Challenge: Celebratory Selection Part 2
- WordBank Acrostic Challenge: Celebratory Selection Part 1
- Recording of the week: Norman Beaton recalls Liverpool in the 60s
- The Christmas robin
- Recording of the week: a whole nother
- The unseen work of the oral history summariser
- Concert cylinders and the first recording of the Queen’s Hall Orchestra
- Recording of the week: Island Grief after Hurricane Ivan
- Valuing religion without believing
- Recording of the week: Dungeons and Dragons' curious renaissance
- 'We had to get out': 80 years since the Kindertransport
- Choosing to stand: what makes women run for Parliament?
- In the depths of a wasp nest
- Recording of the week: Sheila Girling describes fellow painter, Helen Frankenthaler
- Sound Seating: Colin St John Wilson’s Library Furniture
- Acrostic Challenge
- Recording of the week: a duet for Ugandan lyres
- When the cows come home - a mooving translation
- Recording of the week: the song of the Montezuma Oropendola
- Ghosts in the collections
- The words we live by
- Recording of the week: a high fidelity direct recording
- Recording of the week: West Africa Lagos Digital Edition
- Religious unbelief in the life of Professor Sir Fred Holliday
- Black History Month - The Gold Coast Police Band
- Recording of the week: Montserrat Volcano Observatory
- Recording of the week: from the days of the demo tape
- Sound, stories and new perspectives: site-specific curated sound tours of the British Library
- Recording of the week: a Tamil lullaby
- What's that? Surely music - The Gerald Cavanagh Collection
- Recording of the week: Toscanini and Beethoven
- Open House 2018 – Alexandra Road Estate, Camden
- Seeing sound: What is a spectrogram?
- Recording of the week: Whistling to the bujɔk - Batek fishing techniques
- Mary Jane Long
- Listening to mammals with the Batek
- Stephen Farthing's memories of 9/11
- Recording of the week: 'English atheist'
- The MiniDisc revival starts here (maybe)
- Behind the Scenes of the Man Booker: a National Life Stories film
- Sir Francis Chichester talks to Lady Chichester from Gipsy Moth IV
- Recording of the week: adrift on an ice floe in the Arctic Ocean
- In amongst the wildebeest
- Recording of the week: the young Leonard Bernstein
- The Bernstein Centenary
- Recording of the week: working 9 while 5
- Recording wildlife in the dark
- Recording of the week: Falmouth International Sea Shanty Festival
- Actors and directors: the Anwar Brett collection
- Recording of the week: Lancashire pride
- Recording of the week: painting people blue in Hull
- The elusive Pathé cylinders of Mary Garden
- Dangerous Oral Histories: Risks, Responsibilities and Rewards
- Recording of the week: Saqi Farooqi (1935-2018)
- Mrs Boulton and the woodland warbler
- Classical Podcast No. 2 - Rob Cowan shares his passion for the artistry of violinist Bronislaw Huberman
- Recording of the week: have you eaten yet?
- Recording of the week: exploding seed pods
- Recording of the week: Nar Sur - a little known music genre from east Baluchistan
- Using wildlife sound recordings in the field
- Fulton at 50: how civil service reform affected government scientists
- Recording of the week: "There was always the smell" - inter-generational memories of the steel industry
- Women, Engineering and British Politics
- Tracking down Tamás
- “And we saw the thing had done a computation” - The modern computer turns 70
- Recording of the week: Dennis Brutus
- International research collaboration on South Asian audiovisual heritage
- Recording of the week: a Mute Swan's heart
- Make yourself at home! The BBC in a multi-cultural world
- London dialect in pop music
- Recording of the week: the orchestral power of embroidery machines
- The voice of Jack Johnson - heavyweight boxing champion of the world
- Recording of the week: Touch Radio 035 - THE FREQ_OUT ORCHESTRA
- GDPR day – changes to data protection law
- Sounds from beyond the Iron Curtain: Soviet classical recordings at the British Library Sound Archive
- Recording of the week: "We regret to inform you" - bad news from the sound archives
- 50 years since the Ronan Point disaster
- Recording of the week: the Moken - seafarers of the Andaman Sea
- Trauma, narrative and theatre
- Lady Speyer - a forgotten violinist
- Recording of the week: Doric dialect
- Visual sound works from imaginary archives (part 2)
- Visual sound works from imaginary archives (part 1)
- The value of mixed media collections
- Oral History and the Library of Ideas
- Recording of the week: Debussy year
- Linguistics at the Library - Episode 8
- The Evolving English collection – what’s in it?
- Recording of the week: a continual symphony of sound
- Linguistics at the Library - Episode 7
- Classical Podcast No. 1 - The first orchestral record made in Britain and the extraordinary story of Norfolk Megone, Nelson and Bonaparte
- Manx English Then and Now
- Recording of the week: a windy delivery
- T.M. Johnstone’s Modern South Arabian recordings: collaborative cataloguing and ‘footprints’ of biocultural change in Southern Arabia
- Was this the first rock picture disc?
- Classical music in Nairobi
- Recording of the week: Steve Reich at the ICA
- Linguistics at the Library – Episode 6
- The Gender Pay Gap – a historical perspective from Women in Publishing
- National Life Stories Podcast Episode 6: Science and Religion
- An Elegant Sufficiency, or the Curious Case of a Victorian Meme
- Recording of the week: anyone for tig/it/tag?
- Recording of the week: the four rooms of creativity
- Linguistics at the Library – Episode 5
- Recording of the week: South African gumboot guitar
- Linguistics at the Library - Episode 4
- Memories of Stephen Hawking in An Oral History of British Science
- Glottal stops and fluency in non-native English speakers
- Recording of the week: A singing rat
- Laurie Anderson at the ICA - #IWD2018
- Recording of the week: being uncouth at drama school
- Farewell to Sir Dan - founder of the Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra
- Driving across Greenland at minus 40
- French picture discs from the 50s: the Saturne label
- Recording of the week: Trusting the Voice
- Linguistics at the Library - Episode 3
- National Life Stories Podcast Episode 5: Theatre
- Percy Grainger's collection of ethnographic wax cylinders
- A first for women in Parliament: Mary Frampton on running the Serjeant at Arms office
- Recording of the week: Mike Leigh
- Recording of the Week: The Listening Project Symphony
- Linguistics at the Library - Episode 2
- Recording of the week: Dongo lamellophone and fireside chatting
- Partition Voices wins Public History Prize
- Mr Tickle in Connected Speech
- Recording of the week: echolocating birds
- 'I Got Away'
- Linguistics at the Library - Episode 1
- Recording of the week: Benno's Emperor
- Mary Lee Berners-Lee: the joy of programming and equal pay
- A Franck connection - the pianist Cécile Boutet de Monvel
- Recording of the week: Anglo-Romani and dialect
- Recording of the week: Trisha Brown in conversation with Richard Alston
- Recording of the week: Ethiopian Michael Jackson?
2017
- Recording of the week: a Christmas story
- National Life Stories Podcast 4: Christmas Podding
- Fabulous Flutes
- Two very small records
- An Oral History of Oral History - where did it all start for you?
- Recording of the week: the Curlew's lament
- Recording of the week: Cyril Blake and his Jigs Club Band
- The first '3-D' picture disc
- Recording of the week: Britain's first supercomputer
- Is there such a thing as an “old” sound recording?
- Recording of the week: pond life
- “And we saw the thing had done a computation” - Geoff Tootill, 1922 – 2017
- Recording of the week: how rare books and manuscripts survived WWII
- National Life Stories Podcast Episode 3: Gay UK
- Recording of the week: whistling Wigeon
- Recording of the week: Ancient Evenings
- The unlikely musical family of Parlophone records: George Martin’s early years
- Recording of the week: watching Britain's nuclear bomb tests
- Made-up about this boss new Liverpool Dickie
- Recording of the week: Rabindranath Tagore's 'Songs of Patriotism'
- Black History Month – Dean Dixon
- Recording of the week: not on period instruments
- Recording of the week: soul midwives
- LISTEN: 140 Years of Recorded Sound
- James Gowan on the Engineering Building at the University of Leicester
- National Life Stories Podcast Episode 2: Electricity
- Recording of the week: computer programming and motherhood in the 1960s
- Ralph Turner 1936 – 2017
- ‘Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells:’ RP, the BBC, and language attitudes in modern Britain
- Zino Francescatti and Paganini
- Recording of the week: Chantal Akerman
- Cooking steaks and why not to reduce the National Grid voltage
- Don't let work kill the housewife, let electricity do it for you!
- Sounds of London
- Recording of the week: a poetry reading by Kayo Chingonyi
- World Rivers Day
- Reflections on the clip bank: oral history interview highlights
- Recording of the week: Oldbury – a tour of a decommissioned nuclear power station
- Open House 2017: Architect Neave Brown on the Alexandra Road estate
- National Life Stories Podcast Episode 1: Oil
- Recording of the week: Allan Horsfall and Gay UK
- Peng Tings on my WhatsApp
- Recording of the week: Epic
- Alternate Nikolai Malko – an EMI Extended Range recording
- Dialect Where You Least Expect It
- Mr Tickle in a Newcastle accent
- Recording of the week: bringing Batwa voices back to life in Uganda
- It's all in the tail
- Made-up words and coded sweet-talk
- Recording of the week: being the prize guinea pig
- San Fairy Ann
- Recording of the week: the seabirds of Bempton Cliffs
- A wigwam for a goose’s bridle
- Frederick Grinke and the sound of English music
- Recording of the week: Gay UK - falling in love with peace
- Tesco: an Oral History
- Recording of the week: keep calm and carry on rehearsing
- HMV experimental recordings 1914 and 1947
- Recording of the week: ‘The BBC are coming on Friday, can we show them a prototype?’
- In among the bruisers: a year of Artists’ Lives
- Recording of the Week: a princess cannot eat stew
- Recording of the week: choosing dreadlocks
- Remembering Piper Alpha
- Artists’ Lives & Chelsea College of Arts: An Audio Exhibition
- Recording of the week: Wioletta Greg reads her poetry
- Dr Sally Horrocks wins Research Impact Award
- Walter Legge and the Hugo Wolf Society’s recordings of the Spanisches Liederbuch
- Food For Thought: Voices of Charity and Social Welfare in Britain
- Recording of the week: Himba women’s songs from Namibia
- Women in the Electricity Supply Industry
- A conversation: celebrating the donation of the Hay Festival archive
- Recording of the week: language and identity
- Recording of the week: an encounter with an orangutan
- Franck's Prelude, Chorale & Fugue revisited
- Recording of the week: surviving an oil rig disaster
- Remembering beliefs
- Finding television at the British Library
- Recording of the week: Rock Island Line
- The first British ‘blues boom’ - and the reception of African American music and dance in 1920s Britain
- An Ode to Early Record Catalogues
- Recording of the week: Amy Johnson and the race to Australia
- The Sound Recordings of Arnold Adriaan Bake at the British Library: A treasure trove of South Asian music
- Recording of the Week: a musical family
- Recording of the week: Parental warning
- Beecham in Hollywood
- Blair's Babes
- Recording of the week: the Woodlark
- Recording of the week: when is a word not a word?
- Cry ‘God for Harry! England! and Saint George!’
- Live Art in the UK: Lois Keidan interview - part 2
- Recording of the week: Akabira for flute ensemble
- Live Art in the UK: Lois Keidan interview - part 1
- By preserving our sound heritage now, in the future we can recreate the past
- Recording of the week: the waves of Freshwater Bay
- Politics, jump jets and the world's first hovercraft
- Recording of the week: Kébendo Jazz
- Plucked from obscurity - reassessing Denis ApIvor
- Recording of the week: Silversmithing - 2D to 3D
- Recording of the week: can you guess what it is yet?
- Recording of the week: a Welsh kibbutz?!
- Speaking of the Kasmin Gallery: how to buy a Hockney for £40
- Michael Tippett: In the composer’s own voice
- Recording of the week: Toscanini conducts Elgar
- Stanley Glasser: South African music recordings
- Moomins music
- Recording of the week: Sparkie Williams the talking budgerigar
- Behind the candy-striped jackets – oral history uncovers the unspoken
- They Walk Alone – A Benjamin Britten discovery
- Recording of the week: Pierre Bourdieu and Terry Eagleton
- Leafscape: an exhibition
- Recording of the week: John Blackwood McEwen
- 2017 UK-India Year of Culture: Praise music of Rāṛh, India
- Recording of the week: Linton Kwesi Johnson on dub poet Michael Smith
- When politics meets science: Tam Dalyell, Labour MP (1932-2017)
- Recording of the week: let it snow!
- Denying Denial - Holocaust Testimonies Online
- PhD Placement Opportunity: Developing Access to the Evolving English VoiceBank
- Recording of the week: Exotic food? Exotic through whose perspective?
- Music for a President
- Listen to and tag thousands of music tracks on Europeana's radio player
- Recording of the week: Mr Seagalman calls his animals in
- Recording of the week: Ad man's dream
2016
- Recording of the week: the first New Year's Eve radio message
- Recording of the week: A Christmas Day in Taiwan
- Christmas and everyday making
- Recording of the week: Bad cough? Try a fried mouse
- Artists’ Lives Exhibition at Tate Britain
- Recording of the week: 'Winter' by Vita Sackville-West
- British Composer Awards 2016
- Messiaen and the songs of wild birds
- Recording of the week: UCL word list
- Yehudi Menuhin Centenary
- International Folk Music on Film
- Beneath the calm exterior: A glimpse into the world of the Crown Court clerk
- The changing landscape of radio
- Recording of the week: The first recording of Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony
- 'Honk, Conk and Squacket'... anyone?
- Recording of the Week: Suffrage for Women
- Environments: Irv Teibel and the psychoacoustic record
- Why do people sound funny in old recordings?
- Black History Month – Cullen Maiden
- Recording of the Week: Temporary Home
- Treasures of the Black Country
- Remembering Aberfan 50 years on
- Sir Neville Marriner – an interview
- Recording of the Week: Please don't call me a koala bear
- The future of radio: no. 4 - Nicky Birch
- The future of radio: no. 3 - Paul Bennun
- Albert Spalding - American violinist
- Dialects not only connect, they sometimes divide
- The future of radio: no. 2 - Matt Deegan
- Anna Pavlova and the Swans of Abbotsbury
- The future of radio: no. 1 - Charlie Phillips
- Recording of the Week returns!
- Europeana Sounds second editathon!
- The Future of Radio - a special British Library podcast
- ‘It’s in the detail of a handrail… it’s in how the building is put together.’
- A Reputation Restored – Mark Hambourg live recording discovered
- Paralympics Memories
- Restoring the first recording of computer music
- Sheffield dialect in pop music
- The Field has Ears
- Olympic memories
- One Hundred Singles
- The Great British Bread-Cake Debate
- Passionate music from a hot country: a musical visit to Iraq-Kurdistan
- From bronze to basalt: Jane McAdam Freud's life in sculpture
- Theatre of Sound. An interview with Aleks Kolkowski
- Murdered But Not Silenced: A unique recording of pianist Marion Roberts (1901-1927)
- Embedded Live
- 'The future looks very good' - the early days of penicillin
- Hidden Traces. A sound walk
- Punk in '76: Camden Town and the making of More On
- Fourth of July punk special
- Galton and Simpson: earliest recordings of BAFTA Fellowship writers discovered
- Recording the past, representing the present: Indians of the Colombian Vaupés
- Peter Kennedy Archive
- Archival Ingredients: cooking up a documentary for Radio 4's The Food Programme
- Punk before punk: 'You're gonna wake up one morning...'
- "It's easy old boy, it just sucks itself along like a vacuum cleaner." 75 years of British jet flight
- Marconi and the Lizard
- The Audio and Audio-Visual Academic Book of the Future - A Symposium
- "Ils sont arrivés!" Francis Chagrin and Allied Propaganda at the BBC French Service 1939-45
- Jamie Vardy: I bet he ain't mardy ... dilly dong dilly dong
- The Poetry Periscope Project
- The Story of the Tiger Hunt
- The 1916 Easter Rising: Sound and Memory
- Shakespeare and the Nightingale
- Contemporary British performance: Natasha Davis interview
- Port Talbot and the British steel industry
- Sea Inside Us All: celebrating the sounds of our shores
- What does 'place poetry' look and sound like in the 21st century?
- Here comes the rain again....
- 'Hear Make Heard': Central Saint Martins students' take on sound
- The World of Paul Slickey: John Osborne's musical flop
- To game, or not to game: that is the question
- War, propaganda and Skye terriers - The Francis Chagrin collection of sound recordings
- Audiovisual archives and the Web
- Cecil Parkinson - Tory Architect of Electricity Privatisation (1931-2016)
2015
- The British space story
- Audio-Visual Resources and The Academic Book of the Future
- Voices of Science wins a second prize: the British Society for the History of Science's Ayrton Prize
- Voices of Science – Winner of the Royal Historical Society’s Public History Prize for Web & Digital
- Celebrating 80 years of talking books
- National Life Stories interviews used in new science teaching resources
- Europeana Sounds Editathon
- West Africa: Word, Symbol, Song
- Africa Writes vox pops: What’s new about West African Literature?
- Is Derbyshire 'the best of all dialects'?
- Radio Festival 2015 at the British Library - with highlights from the radio archive
- British Library captures the largest ever snapshot of the nation’s recorded audio heritage
- Ada Lovelace - first in a long line of female programmers
- Happy birthday H. G. Wells
- Listening Project Workshop
- Waves, Skylarks and Halyards: the favourite seaside sounds of BBC coast presenters
- Surface Tension: a conversation with Rob St John part 2
- Mátyás Seiber collection of recordings goes on line
- Surface Tension: a conversation with Rob St John part 1
- Two oral history fellowship opportunities
- World Athletics Championships
- Sounds of Steaming ‘Doon the Watter’
- Conference Report: Performing the Archive, Galway, 2015
- Vote for the UK's favourite coastal sound!
- Memories Of Hiroshima And After
- Coastal Memories
- The Sounds of Brighton Seafront
- Frank Andrews 1920-2015
- A Year of Sounds at Blakeney Point
- Recording discovered of 1938 world premiere performance of Britten Piano Concerto
- Recording the Sounds of our Shores
- The British Library at WOMAD
- Oh I do like to be beside the seaside!
- Classical Music of the Jazz Age
- Sounds of our Shores
- The presence of 'girls' in labs
- Listening Project booth comes to the British Library
- Sound tracks: acoustic landscapes in the past and present
- It'll not take you long for to learn a lile bit Cumbrian dialect grammar
- The Imitation Archive Part 2: making music from the sounds of the world's first computers
- £9.5m boost from Heritage Lottery Fund for our Save our Sounds campaign
- Finding ways to take Crafts Lives out of the archive
- The Imitation Archive Part 1: recording the sounds of the world's first computers
- Oh, how we laughed! Early performance recordings from the Bishop Sound collection
- Lord of the Rings recording engineer David Gleeson receives British Library Edison Fellowship
- British wildlife recordings on the move
- Probably not on Spotify: Balsam Flex cassettes
- Help us build the Directory of UK Sound Collections
- Dial a dialect for your mam this Mother’s Day: crowdsourcing English dialect, slang and vernacular lingo at the British Library
- Gardens, tunnels and the riverbanks of Oxford: sourcing sounds for Alice's Adventures Off the Map
- Authors' Lives: an oral history
- Chacking to hear some Cornish dialects?
- Creating a Directory of UK Sound Collections: An Update
- Architecture: Design and Drawing
- Inaugural National Life Stories Goodison Fellowship Award focuses on the history of food.
- Jewish Survivors of the Holocaust – an online collection of over 280 in-depth Holocaust survivors’ testimonies
- Documenting the Fringe
- Below the lines in the ice: the sonic world of icebergs
- Help Us Create a Directory of UK Sound Collections
- Save our Sounds: 15 years to save the UK’s sound collections
2014
- Inspired by Flickr: a year in review
- Oral History Curator's Choice
- Inspired by Flickr: Fire
- How to run a power station
- Rare Noël Coward recording rediscovered
- Oral history for Disability History Month
- The eCreative “Sound Connections” pilot nears completion
- Jolly chuffed to spend a very hockey sticks weekend in Dulwich village
- Computer Memories of Alan Turing
- Inspired by Flickr: Water
- The Long, Long Trail
- Film Screening: The Silk Road of Pop
- Off the Map 2014 videogame winners announced
- Qatar Digital Library portal launched
- Inspired by Flickr: Earth
- Inspired by Flickr: Air
- The Barbara Weinberger Police Interviews collection
- It's all in the Howl
- Happy birthday compact disc!
- Listening to the radio
- On the Trail of the Polar Bear
- Archiving WOMAD 2014
- Syriac Liturgical Music - From the Mountains of the Servants of God
- Oral history fellowship opportunity
- RIP to one of the fathers of composite materials
- Recordings from the Skamba Skamba Kankliai music festival, Lithuania
- Recording the Sounds of Nature: a Q&A with Jeremy Hegge
- The shifting sand(-shoes) of linguistic identity in Teesside
- Songs of the Dinka of South Sudan
- An Oral History of Wildlife Sound Recording
- They seek him here, they seek him there: citizen science and the hunt for the New Forest Cicada
- Inspired by Flickr: Jez riley French
- Gothic Adventures in Sound
- Diverse lives in science online
- How about a bit of PR for RP?
- Sonic migrations: natural sounds on the international exhibition scene
- Inspired by Flickr: Mark Lyken
- Radio features of the BBC Transcription Service
- New oral history collection: architecture
- Inspired by Flickr: Daniel Barbiero
- Inspired by Flickr: Chris Lynn
- Inspired by Flickr: Jay-Dea Lopez
- Sound & Vision: What Sounds Will You See?
- Sound & Vision # 6: Wai Hon Chan
- Sound & Vision # 5: Amine Gebrehawariat
- Sound & Vision # 4: Zongkai Wang
- Sound & Vision # 3: Marika Samek
- Sound & Vision # 2: Natasha Smith
- Sound & Vision # 1: Sanaz Movahedi
- Sonic Horizons of the Mesolithic: Sounding out Early Prehistory in the Vale of Pickering
- Bristol L - what a wonderfa ideal
- Europeana Creative: First Open Innovation Challenges Launched!
- Inspired by Flickr
- In Times of War
- Europeana Sounds gets underway!
- London Calling
- Observing dialect shift in Berkshire
- Building a jukebox for Europe
- Beautiful Science: exploring the diversity of life on Earth
- You cor call Black Country Brummy but they both ai half bostin!
2013
- Blue Christmas 1913
- After the Rain
- Rescuing the Rivonia Trial recordings
- The nuclear secrets of a Farnborough Morris dancer
- Exploring the Creative Possibilities of Field Recording: Six questions with David Vélez
- 'angin in Mancs and rhoticity in Lancs
- Europeana Creative: the wildlife recordings of Lawrence Shove
- Heavens to Betsy it's Arkansas, West Sussex!
- World Day for Audiovisual Heritage
- Revealing the Hidden Beauty of Birdsong
- World Newsreels Online
- What does the fox say?
- Recording Quiet Places: six questions with Tony Whitehead
- The Listening Project
- Semantic Media
- British Bird of the Month: Lapwing
- London Calling
- Tracing the Origins of Human Speech
- Tessa Elieff: witness, documentarian, provocateur
- Listening to the Active Sounds of History: field recording and museums
- Recording the Sounds of Nature - six questions with Jay-Dea Lopez
- A Life with Sound
- Recording the Sounds of Nature - six questions with Ian Todd
- Five European Villages
- TOWIE (talking of words in Essex)
- The Sounds of Water
- Field Recording Fanzine
- Acky one two three I see children's dialect on TV
- Capturing Weather
- Sound, Listening and the Art of Field Recording
- Bird Sounds of Kenya - favourites from the A.R. Gregory collection
- Screening the Future 2013
- British Bird of the Month: Skylark
- Wild Scotland
- The Advent of Sound Recording
- British Bird of the Month: Starling
- And a salad batch for the trip back to London, sir?
- Europeana Creative
- An aural history comes alive
- Dave's Wild Life: the winning entry from our short film competition The Sound Edit: Wildlife
- Sounds of the Maasai Mara
- British Bird of the Month: Greenfinch
- Mind the linguistic gap!
- I love emphatic tags, me
- British Bird of the Month: Green Woodpecker
- Call me the nicknamemeister (or N-dog for short)
- 'In the Field' - Field Recording Symposium at the British Library
- British Bird of the Month: Common Eider
- Charles Chilton 1917-2013
- upstairs fains I downstairs bagsy
- Come Rain or Shine
2012
- Kinokophonography at the British Library
- Editing the A.R. Gregory Kenyan bird recordings collection
- there's summat about nowt as gets us goat (and that rhymes by the way)
- eh, those lovable Geordies!
- A.R. Gregory Kenyan bird recordings
- Tuning in on the first days of broadcasting
- Documenting music in Nepal
- Blowin' in the Wind
- A word in your shell-like
- British Library Sounds website shortlisted in prestigious awards
- New broadcast media resources at the British Library
- New moving image service at the British Library
- Recording of the week: Golden Oriole
- Recording of the week: African Paradise Flycatcher
- Recording of the week: Humming Haddock
- Derek Collier Collection
- Recording of the week: Thunder over the Andaman Sea
- Pandaemonium and the Isles of Wonder
- Sound and moving image user survey
- New collection of sport interviews
- Recording of the week: Rainfall at Palenque
- Recording of the week: RP vowels
- On Location: Writers, Sounds and Places event
- Weather
- Recording of the week: Murray Melvin on the Theatre Workshop
- To a Skylark
- Recording of the week: Cry of the Wild
- Recording of the week: Frog in your Throat?
- Recording of the week: Australian Dawn Chorus
- How men love
- The Test Records of Ludwig Koch
- British Library Sounds: Wildlife and Environmental collections
- New interviews with scientists available
- Interactivity and British Library Sounds
- The Listening Project
- Oral History for Family Historians
- Recording of the Week: interview with Skomer Island warden
- The Listening Project: Capturing the nation in conversation
- Words into words
- Recording of the Week: Professor Sir Alan Cottrell (1919-2012)
- The new British Library Sounds website
- Recording of the Week: Montezuma Oropendola
- Recording of the Week: Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4
- Recording of the Week: Mozart Piano Concerto in D minor K. 466
- Recording of the Week: Woodland Stream
2011
- Recording of the Week: Hungarian Thunderstorm
- Japanese Birdsong
- Recording of the Week: Lullabies
- Disability Voices
- British Library’s Historic Ethnographic Recordings receives UNESCO accolade - part 2
- Recording of the Week: The Decline of the Dove
- British Library’s Historic Ethnographic Recordings receives UNESCO accolade - part 1
- Michael Katakis and Kris Hardin recordings
- Recording of the Week: Out to Sea
- Recording of the Week: Oleg Borushko
- Recording of the Week: Marina Abramovic
- Potters of the Bernard Leach Legacy
- Songs of British Birds
- Raiders of the lost archive
- Film, copyright and the internet: a guide for producers
- Sheffield Doc/Fest Meet-up
- Recording of the Week: a prisoner from Oxfordshire
- Animal Language
- Cataloguing the Judith Bumpus Collection
- Recording of the Week: Satyendra Srivastava
- Recording of the Week: Horses hooves
- Christopher Raeburn Memorial Concert
- Recording of the Week: OPIE Huddersfield
- Listening to Britain
- Crafts Lives
- Recording of the week: Wind in the Willows?
- National Life Stories Review 2010/2011
- Recording of the week: David Morley
- Post-war theatre interviews online now
- Increasing access to oral history
- Haemophilia and HIV stories
- Recording of the week: One of the earliest chamber music recordings
- Binaural stereo on the UK Soundmap
- New interviews added to 'Oral history of British science'
- The BFI and the British Library
- Early wildlife recordings
- Between Two Worlds: Poetry and Translation
- The Writing Life: Authors Speak podcasts
- Walls of Sound
- The Writing Life: Authors Speak
- Oral history at the Architectural Association
- Recording of the week: Ravel's string quartet in F major
- Berliner Lautarchiv recordings from 1915-18: the voices of British prisoners of war
- Recording of the week: Professor David Jenkinson FRS
- An Oral History of the Water Industry
- Sound recording beyond the smartphone
- Recording of the Week: Where have all the sparrows gone?
- Holocaust Memorial Day marked today
- George Ewart Evans’s tape recordings
- Recording of the Week: Australia’s top batsman Bradman in full swing - on a piano #cricket #ashes
2010
- Recording of the Week: recollections of Christmas and stewed sparrows
- Social media award win for the UK Soundmap
- Seasons on the UK Soundmap
- New oral history interviews with British scientists
- Recording of the Week: English Conversation: The Theatre
- Acquisition of oral history recordings
- Voices of the UK - Evolving English, first exhibition dedicated to the English language
- Searching video, growing knowledge 2
- An introduction to oral history
- Recording of the Week: Duelling Deer
- Recording of the Week: Jola men's song from Senegal
- CD prizes for the UK SoundMap's 1000th recording
- Searching video, growing knowledge
- The decline of whistling
- New collection of historic chamber music recordings on ASR
- Some early statistics from the UK SoundMap
- Voices of the UK – do you feel trachled or wabbit?
- Recommended reading no. 4 - Halliwell's Film Guide
- Recording of the Week: Can you recognise a speaker from the East Midlands?
- The Lindgren manifesto
- Voices of the UK - I like a Geordie accent
- Women's voices call the shots in recorded announcements
- Voices of the UK - put a couple of effs in it
- Recording of the Week: Chris Burden at the ICA in 1990
- Voices of the UK - A cwtch on the couch
- Sound categories and finding subjects to record
- Voices of the UK - We call it a ‘to bach’
- Sounds wild: Chris Watson & Sir David Attenborough in conversation
- Memory and migration
- Recording of the Week: Stridulating Warbler?
- Voices of the UK - Nuddies vs. Textiles
- Voices of the UK - I'm making a statement but it sounds like a question?
- Recording of the Week: Alfred Cortot rides to the Abyss
- Why collect recordings of everyday sounds?
- How to reduce wind noise on your smartphone recordings
- Voices of the UK - Rhotic accents
- Voices of the UK - Goats and Prices
- Easy does it: adding to the UK SoundMap
- Recording of the Week: James Hamilton-Paterson on Gerontius
- Recording of the Week: Unique 110-year old Wilhelmj violin recordings
- Voices of the UK - They've gone and put it in the Oxford English Dictionary, innit.
- Sheffield mapped by sound
- Voices of the UK - Poppy-show and kiss-teeth
- Recording of the Week: David Gale talking at the ICA in 1988
- Archives and beyond
- Voices of the UK - The British Library’s new searchable online resource for Regional English
- Recording of the Week: Pied Butcherbird of Spirey Creek
- Voices of the UK - Introduction
- Preserving the world's moving image heritage
- Recording of the Week: Etude No. 5, Op. 10 performed by Alfred Cortot
- Recording of the Week: British pianist Edward Isaacs
- Recording of the Week: Lev Oborin plays Beethoven's Emperor Concerto
- The film bookshelf
- Recording of the Week: Marcel Ciampi plays Chopin's Nocturne in C minor
- Recording of the Week: Corn Bunting
- Well, here we are in front of the elephants
- Recording of the Week: Pop Situationism
- Recording of the Week: tropical Gambian ambience
- Adam Curtis: the medium and the message
- Recording of the week: Ugandan legendary lamellaphone player praised
- Recommended reading no. 3 - Kafka Goes to the Movies
- Leadbelly sings for his freedom
- BFI and UK Film Council to merge
- The Yanomamo play tricks on us
- Media History Digital Library
- C-SPAN video archive online
- Recommended reading no. 2 - Filming Literature
- Dual Blu-Ray/DVD editions from BFI
- Editing out the Fascists
- Recording of the Week: edible frogs
- YouTube goes Olympic
- A glimpse of India
- Opening up the BBC
- Wendy Toye
- Recording of the Week: Ever heard a broad Norfolk accent?
- Home movie treasures
- Recommended reading no. 1 - Picture Palace
- Our moving image plans
- Recording of the Week: Gerry Anderson on Thunderbirds
- Curiouser and curiouser
- Knowing and protecting
- Recording of the Week: Ugandan legendary harp player Temutewo Mukasa
- Ian and Johnny
- Seeing SeeSaw
- The British Library's moving image collection
- Recording of the Week: Bernard Shaw on Spoken English & Broken English
- It begins with Muybridge
- Recording of the Week: Under the Sea
- Recording of the Week: a lullaby that works
- Recording of the Week: Ever heard the Bristol ‘l’?
2009
- Happy New Year! Hear 'Auld Lang Syne' sung 111 years ago
- Recording of the Week: Quentin Crisp at the ICA
- Recording of the Week: traditional English Christmas songs
- Recording of the Week: English sounds
- Recording of the Week: Gull in a Gale
- Recording of the Week: Karamojong ox-song
- Recording of the Week: Alan Moore at the ICA
- Recording of the Week: Ever wondered why Somerset is affectionately called Zummerzet?
- Recording of the Week: early risers
- Recording of the Week: Indian wedding songs
- Recording of the Week: Derek Jarman with Ken Campbell recorded in 1984
- Recording of the Week: ever heard the ‘Northumbrian burr’?
- Sound archiving internships 2009-2010
- Recording of the Week: Vanessa Redgrave at the ICA in 1991
- Recording of the Week: the famous EMI record factory
- Recording of the week: Steve Reich at the ICA
- Recording of the Week: repetition, repetition, repetition
- Recording of the week: Traditional love songs from Kiribati
- Recording of the Week: memories of the outbreak of World War II and air raids on Norwich
- 1000s of new tracks and images added to Archival Sound Recordings
- Recording of the Week: ever heard a pulmonic ingressive?
- Recording of the Week: England-Wales border dialect from 1950s
- Recording of the Week: J. R. R. Tolkien at the tobacconist's
- Recording of the Week: Booming Bittern
- Recording of the week: Edith Birkin’s powerful life story
- Recording of the Week: Ugandan xylophone (akadinda) song
- Recording of the Week: Do youngsters use dialects any more?
- Recording of the Week: Nightingale song
- Freeing jazz in the sixties
- Recording of the Week: elusive pulse
- Hundreds of rare tracks added to Archival Sound Recordings
- Recording of the Week: Any idea what a fogger is?
- Living out fiction with Huxley and Beethoven
- Decca West Africa Recordings
- Early Spoken Word Recordings
- Sound in Space
- Traditional music in England
- Sound archiving internships 2009-2010
- Music from India – new online resource at the British Library
- New Classical Music section!
- The British Library publishes audio metadata profile
- I Hear a New World
- Recording of the month
- Voices of Past and Present
- Unlocking Audio 2: Connecting With Listeners
- Jewish Survivors of the Holocaust
- A foxy winner
2008
- Conference call
- Archival Sound Recordings in Action - Reviving the Lost Music of Bunyoro-Kitara
- A new authentication system for Archival Sound Recordings
- Escaping Google: a case study from Joseph Priestley College
- Digital views
- For Your Urgent Attention
- The Longest Day (at 33-1/3 rpm)
- Recording of the Month Competition
- Opening Doors
- Humphrey Lyttelton, in memoriam
- User Community Launch
- Engaging with the User Community: a Case Study at City University
- The Diamond Anniversary of Stereo
- A Wellcome Addition
- Death of Cyprian Ekwensi
- IT Sounds Right
2007
- Engaging People with digital content
- The Secret History of the African Writers' Club
- A Visit From A Playwright
- Archival Sound Recordings in House of Lords exhibition
- The Archival Sound Recordings2 User Panel
- Behind the Scenes: Digitisation
- Sharing content
- Out of Africa
- Fog warning
The Newsroom
2025
- The Radical Act behind your local library: Celebrating 175 years of public libraries
- VE Day in the news
2022
- 200 years of collecting newspapers
- British Library Television News Programme-Level List
- World newspaper data from the British Library
- Creating infographics for historical news
- The woman who gave birth to rabbits
- Caroline, Byron and Wilde: celebrity scandal in the 19th century
- Spotted: A flying serpent and a record-breaking Trump
- Encountering the news
- Breaking the News
- Visualising Victorian News
- Breaking the News on tour
2021
- Breaking news on Breaking the News
- 400 years of British newspapers
- Free to view online newspapers
- Extending the partnership
- The US 2020 election broadcast archive
- Researching short-lived newspapers
- Identifying dancing dogs
2020
- Collaborative Doctoral Partnership
- The news from Leeds
- Mapping Irish women's football
- Three favourite newspaper books - chosen by Steve Tate
- Three favourite newspaper books - chosen by Paul Gooding
- Three favourite newspaper books - chosen by Ed King
- Three favourite newspaper books - chosen by Nick Foggo
- Ten years of Broadcast News
- In search of the sports reporter
- Three favourite newspaper books - chosen by Andrew Hobbs
- Three favourite newspaper books - chosen by Luke McKernan
- Three favourite newspaper books - chosen by Beth Gaskell
- Writing a 'mini-history' of a newspaper
- Accessing News content during the temporary closure
2019
- The open newspaper catalogue
- Picture this
- Visualisation workshop report
- Visualising newspaper data
- Moving from a newspaper collection to a news collection
- Help us make the news
- A political scandal, a fatal duel
- Vaccination and the media - a 19th century debate
- News counts
- The Black Wonder
- The anatomy of news
- African newspapers
- Multi-title newspaper volumes – historic practice vs. modern process
- Heritage Made Digital - the newspapers
2018
2017
- The artist-reporter
- Rediscovering the art of Victorian graphic journalism
- Newspaper data and news identity
- Help us make newspaper heritage digital
- Archiving the general election on TV
- St. Pancras Intelligencer no. 40 - fake news special
- Rand Daily Mail
- Analysing the past
- Trump on TV
2016
- Olympic news
- New nationals
- Brexit - the broadcast archive
- News is beautiful
- St. Pancras Intelligencer no. 39
- Digital archives of British national newspapers
- Using old newspapers
- St. Pancras Intelligencer no. 38
- Nobody knows anything
- "The lowest, most filthy, most unhealthy and most wicked locality"
- From print to digital
- Dennis Griffiths, newspaper historian
2015
- Mining the FT
- Web newspapers workshop
- The news from Waterloo
- UK General Election 2015 - the broadcast archive
- Five years of Broadcast News
- Microfilms at Boston Spa
- Recording the election
- Newspapers remotely
- St Pancras Intelligencer no. 37
- Talking about things local
- St Pancras Intelligencer no. 36
- Into the void
2014
- 2014 - the year's news about news
- They are a-changin'
- Newspaper reading rooms - a subversive history
- Recording Scotland
- St Pancras Intelligencer no. 35
- News from the community
- St Pancras Intelligencer no. 34
- Here come the papers
- St Pancras Intelligencer no. 33
- St Pancras Intelligencer no. 32
- St Pancras Intelligencer no. 31
- St Pancras Intelligencer no. 30
- St Pancras Intelligencer no. 29
- St Pancras Intelligencer no. 28
- St Pancras Intelligencer no. 27
- The reading experience
- St Pancras Intelligencer no. 26
- Newspapers in Europe and the Digital Agenda for Europe
- St Pancras Intelligencer no. 25
- Why is this lying bastard lying to me?
- News reference workshops
- St Pancras Intelligencer no. 24
- St Pancras Intelligencer no. 23
- Broadcast news
- St Pancras Intelligencer no. 22
- Broadcasting D-Day
- St Pancras Intelligencer no. 21
- An introduction to the Newsroom
- St Pancras Intelligencer no. 20
- Enabling access to digitised historic newspapers
- St Pancras Intelligencer no. 19
- The concept of news
- St Pancras Intelligencer no. 18
- Celebrating Local Newspapers
- St Pancras Intelligencer no. 17
- St Pancras Intelligencer no. 16
- Open for business
- A strategy for news
- St Pancras Intelligencer no. 15
- Pathé goes to YouTube
- St Pancras Intelligencer no. 14
- A is for… Advertising
- St Pancras Intelligencer no. 13
- Opening day
- St Pancras Intelligencer no. 12
- Taming the news beast
- St Pancras Intelligencer no. 11
- Checking out the NSB
- St Pancras Intelligencer no. 10
- Reading all about it
- St Pancras Intelligencer no. 9
- Robot reporters and the age of drone journalism
- The Newsroom
- St Pancras Intelligencer no. 8
- St Pancras Intelligencer no. 7
- 10 great online newsreel archives
- St Pancras Intelligencer no. 6
- 10 great online newspaper archives
- St Pancras Intelligencer no. 5
- Periodicals return
- St Pancras Intelligencer no. 4
- Charlie's debut
- St Pancras Intelligencer no. 3
- New ways, old ways
- St Pancras Intelligencer no. 2
- Doctoral open day: Media, Cultural Studies and Journalism
- St Pancras Intelligencer no. 1
- The new new journalism
- The daily war
- News while you wait
2013
Untold lives
2025
- Maude Nathan, bookbinder (1871–1910)
- Engraving the engraver: Sébastien Leclerc I and the Imprimerie Royale
- Maria Harriett Turner – JMW’s Unconventional Cousin
- VJ Day, 15 August 1945
- Papers of Frederick William Thomas, India Office Librarian and Philologist
- The varied careers of James Estcourt Atwood
- A potted history of gardening books
- From East India Company labourer to gentleman - the life of Benjamin Constable
- Assassination on the beach: The death of Shaikh Khalīfah
- Case of C W O’Donoghue - Destitute in London
- Joseph Fowke’s farewell letter
- ‘Marmion’ design by John Leighton FSA (1822-1912)
- Wreck of the American ship 'Squantum'
- Sermon notes of a 17th century woman: Lady Anne Harcourt
- Titwood and Corkerhill Coal Mines
- A village in exchange for recital of a book
- Napoleon’s Travelling Bookcase
- VE Day Celebrations in London, May 1945
- Children in war-time
- Walter Key Haslewood of the Bengal Army
- Sir Richard Corbett, East India Company warehouse labourer
- Captain Leathes Johnston, an 18th-century soldier
- Maggs Bros. Ltd. - the inner workings of an antiquarian bookseller
- An experimental weaving station at Benares
- A sailor’s slush fund
- Mrs Ellen Evershed, embroideress; a Victorian ‘Dragon’
- Stories of Provenance Research: Records and Manuscripts Lost at Sea (Part 2): RMS Titanic
- The purser’s journal for a voyage of the 'Rochester' to China
- The Coldstream Collection in India Office Private Papers
- Stories of Provenance Research: Records and Manuscripts Lost at Sea (Part 1): SS Oceana
- Master Frederick Blomberg and his place within the Georgian Royal Family
- Papers of Charles Roberts, Under-Secretary of State for India 1914-1915
- John Galsworthy – Author, playwright and activist
- Letter by Gandhi written with his left hand
- A Shakespear in the Naga Hills, 1900
2024
- Madam Johnson’s Present - ‘a proper New-Years Gift for every Maid Servant’
- Stolen Christmas dinners
- Miss M. Marshall, the mysterious bookbinder
- A State Bed’s Journey: From East India Company Cargo to Calke Abbey?
- Thereza Dillwyn Llewelyn, one of the earliest female photographers
- Captain Samuel Hough of the East India Company
- Papers of Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, Viceroy of India 1876-1880
- Learning from Early Printed Books for Green Libraries Week 2024
- Attending the V&A Connecting Threads Conference
- Papers of Leo Cayley Robertson
- Valete fratres revisited: 100 years of the Librarians’ Memorial
- Celebrating Ten Years of the Qatar Digital Library: Memorable Highlights – Part 3
- Further digitised India Office Records now online
- Celebrating Ten Years of the Qatar Digital Library: Memorable Highlights – Part 2
- Celebrating Ten Years of the Qatar Digital Library: Memorable Highlights – Part 1
- Captain John Villier Forbes - a ‘Single-Man’?
- Papers of the Clay and Baylis Family
- Discharge papers for soldiers of the Royal East India Volunteers
- Stories of Provenance Research: Henry Beddy, Baptist Missionary
- A white elephant from Mandalay
- John Fenwick political radical and journalist (2)
- John Fenwick political radical and writer (1)
- Buried Treasure in Oudh
- The Immorality of Dancing
- Queer Lives in Literature – A New Exhibition in the Treasures Gallery
- Digitised India Office Records currently available online
- Indian Warrior Women who fought the East India Company
- Cataloguing the Harley Manuscripts ... continued
- The Najd Mission in Paris, 1919
- Sporting prowess of Indian marine cadets
- Theft of a safe and money at Agra
- The Fund For Building a Protestant Church in Alexandria
- Jabez Tepper: The cousin who thwarted JMW Turner’s bequest (Part 2)
- Jabez Tepper: the cousin who thwarted JMW Turner’s bequest (Part 1)
- Sulaiman al-Baruni: life of an Ibadhi scholar and statesman in North Africa and Oman
- The last surviving East India Company Chaplain
- Coroner’s records from late 18th-century Bombay
- Case of Edward Murphy, blind orphan at Southampton Workhouse
- The Victorian Diary of William Fletcher of Bridgnorth
- India Office catalogue records added to Discovery platform
- Across the Great Desert: an unlikely rescue on the coast of Oman
- Bridgnorth: A Town of Unique Distinction – Part 2
- Bridgnorth: A Town of Unique Distinction – Part 1
- Stories of Provenance Research: Charles Masson’s papers in the India Office Records
- A military wife in India - Deborah Marshall's letters
- Unclaimed packages and post in Bombay
- Case of Gholam Hosain
- A settlement in the Pacific Ocean for growing flax
- Re-Evaluating the Status of Prints at the British Library
- Papers of Sir Hugh Keeling and Colonel Thomas Ormsby Underwood
- A letter between female activists
- Rescuing a woman from drowning in the Irrawaddy River
- Applications for Trinity House Pensions
- What about the East India Company Women? Emma Roberts and the spinsterhood of India
- Interim ways of working with the India Office Records and Private Papers
2023
- Clement Mansfield Ingleby of Valentines
- The happiest days of your life?
- Henry Harpur – JMW Turner’s Cousin and Lawyer (Part 2)
- Henry Harpur – JMW Turner’s Cousin and Lawyer (Part 1)
- Gerald Sidney Wilson, Indian Police
- Mapping the Dining Culture at Holland House, 1798–1806
- A case of bigamy
- What about the East India Company Women? Emma Roberts and East India Voyagers
- François Frederic Roget - lecturer, historian, ski mountaineer and Huguenot
- The Battle of Waterloo and ‘the Honourable Company’s business’
- Wonderful Rice
- What about the East India Company women? Mrs Moore and Raja Chandu Lal
- William Henry Wilson of the Bombay Police
- The short life of Beatrice Goodacre
- How to smuggle an elephant
- A Victorian holiday embarrassment
- Sanatorium for European soldiers in Western Australia
- What about the East India Company women?
- The Use of the Term 'Qafila' in the India Office Records
- Seditious Publications
- The Hakluyt Society: Publishing in Wartime
- T.E. Lawrence and the Hashemite dynasty: from the Hejaz in Arabia to Clouds Hill, Dorset
- Lady Georgiana Grey – the oldest resident at Hampton Court Palace
- Henrietta Anne, Duchess of Orléans, and the Secret Treaty of Dover (1670)
- William Henry Quilliam – the Victorian solicitor who established Britain’s first mosque
- Reginald Bult and Operation ZO
- Catherine Shillcock in Agra Fort
- Further research on the Dessa Family: Ann Elizabeth Dessa and Jacob Rogers
- Lord Curzon’s letter from Lausanne
- Women’s football in the 1880s
- A soldiers’ guide to Bangalore
- Deefholts: An Anglo-Indian Family of Public Servants in Calcutta
- Request for help in returning to India
- The Emperor of China’s Sauce
- Charles Daniels – an ex-soldier sent adrift upon the world
- Harvey's pneumatic dusting machine at the India Office Library
- What was so unusual about Charles Marsden?
- The actor, the fascist, and the reincarnated queen
- Charles Tuckett junior - bookbinder, inventor, author, researcher and … bankrupt
- Remembering Stringer Lawrence & forgetting Robert Clive
- Medical equipment required for a military expedition: doolies, dandies and kujawahs
- Notes on the Birds of Barrackpore Menagerie
- Papers of Sir William Hay Macnaghten and Sir Francis Workman Macnaghten
- Sir Stafford Northcote’s voyage down the new Suez Canal
- ‘Bringing up a chicken to peck out their eye’: A niece’s betrayal
- The wreck of the Arniston
- Robert Clive: From Hero to Villain
- 100 years in the service of the East India Company
- The ‘Titanic Omar’ preserved for all time (virtually)?
- The Papers of Ralph and Penelope Tanner
- Gold Stick in Waiting
- Monarchs enthroned: ceremonial iconography and coronations
- Mark Hamill of the East India Company
- Tax dodging and bribery: the practicalities of trade in the 18th-century Indian Ocean
- Tropical Trials – A Handbook for Women in the Tropics
- Mystery of a Destitute Man in London
- Misbehaviour in the Bombay Army
- Eliza Cordelia, the daughter of Chaund Bebee and Charles Rothman
- Paul Ferris - printer and publisher
- Preventing revel-rout - musicians banned from an East India Company voyage
- The disastrous paintings of Richard Greenbury
- Exercises for Ladies
- Women travellers on Indian railways
- Close Encounters of the ‘Sea Duck’ kind
- A scandalous elopement
- Patent Preserved Potato
- The children of Chaund Bebee and John Shore – (3) George Shore
- From Chester to Mesopotamia: Thomas Crawford of the Royal Welch Fusiliers
- The children of Chaund Bebee and John Shore – (2) Francis and Martha Shore
- Address to Queen Victoria from a student in India
- The children of Chaund Bebee and John Shore – (1) John Shore
- Dr David Price – JMW Turner’s Physician
- 'Stay Put' - Second World War Ephemera
- Well-being and living conditions in tropical climates
- An early Union Flag on a Bombay document
- Sir Charles Raymond of Valentines
- Peritas - Alexander the Great’s dog
- The will of Chaund Bebee or Bebee Shore
- George Edward Dessa: Lord Lytton’s Would-be Assassin
- Across the Heart of Arabia (2): H St John Philby, Intelligence Gathering and a Lasting Legacy
- Across the Heart of Arabia (1): St John Philby’s Mission to Najd
- The hidden life of Winifred Arthur, fore-edge painter
- Celebrating the Lunar New Year on the front lines in World War One
- Joseph ‘Sunshine’ Todd: the man who bought Turner’s house
- From India to destitution in Glasgow Part 2
- From India to destitution in Glasgow Part 1
- Walker’s Manly Exercises
- Charles Tuckett Senior and the British Museum Bindery fire of 1865
- Happy New Year!
2022
- Reynolds’s Christmas Fund for Sandwichmen
- Christmas Day petition to the East India Company
- The Physiognomy of Christmas
- Books suitable for Christmas and New Year
- Exploring the Chinese & British Film Reel
- Character, costumes and comedy: Pantomime posters in the Evanion collection
- The oldest cyclist in the UK
- Private trade and pressed men – the voyage of the Houghton to China
- Papers of Sergey and Emilie Prokofieff
- Requests to the India Office for help
- East India Company discharged soldiers
- The Attempted Assassination of Lord Lytton: A Letter’s Story
- Football in the Gulf – some snippets from the early years
- Chinese & British Now Open!
- Star Baker or Avid Taste-Tester? – Exploring Evanion’s 19th-century baking ephemera collection
- Finding employment for surplus Indian Army Officers
- The Collier family of Bethnal Green and the East India Company
- Mr Trick and Mrs Treat
- ‘Dear old Squirrel’ - Cyril Davenport of the British Museum
- Exploring the richness and variety of letters sent to the East India Company
- A lift-the-flap book, 18th century style
- Agreement with Mina Ayah
- ‘True nobility of soul’ - William Blake, the housekeeper of the Ladies Charity School House, Highgate
- Can’t fly to Rio for Carnival? Explore the British Library’s Portuguese Language Collections!
- A 'pest of skolds' and other 'unruly women' (part II)
- A 'pest of skolds' and other 'unruly women': caring for sick and wounded sailors in the Anglo-Dutch wars (part I)
- The HCLF, chatbots and balancing cats
- Sale of jewels and silver by the India Office
- Passport applications in the Kashmir Residency Files
- Henry Trimmer – JMW Turner’s Lifelong Friend
- Granville Archive available
- Introducing Prime Ministers’ Papers from Robert Walpole to H. H. Asquith
- Percy Bysshe Shelley encounters the mountains of West Wales
- Coxwell’s concrete lemon
- Papers of Penelope Chetwode
- Robert Hubert and the Great Fire of London
- Read all about it - Brendan Bracken's letters to Max Aitken
- Sources for Indian Independence and the creation of Pakistan
- Living on a reduced income in 1868
- Sanitary technology at East India House and the India Office
- Soldiers’ gardens in India
- Papers of John Frederick Macnair
- Luncheons at the India Office
- Hadge Biram: A Restoration Renegade
- The sale of East India Company maritime commands
- Life in Khartoum between Hicks and Gordon
- Sanitation at the Fort William Garrison
- Mary Ann Ayah accused of theft
- World War Two Reception Camps for Indian POWs
- Ibrāhīm al-Najjār al-Dayrānī: Doctor of Lebanon
- The new India Office
- Dining with style: the East India Company’s communal table at Mocha
- Dr Sarah Hosmon and the Missionary Hospital in Sharjah
- The Cost of Living Crisis, Part 3: The Price of Whale Oil
- Birds, Landscapes, and Letters: Elizabeth Gwillim and Mary Symonds in Madras
- Mary Day: Pardoning of a Poisoner
- Five Indian indentured labourers picked up at sea
- Sensationalism on steroids: The London Monster
- Letters from the Garrod children to their father
- The Adventures of Helen Gloag in Morocco
- Monsieur Roux, the would-be Consul of Baghdad
- Hidden Letters: When Documents Contain a Surprise
- Hugh Danby – JMW Turner’s Phantom Son
- The Society of the Double Cross
- The Cost of Living Crisis, Part 2: Inflation in 1800
- Grants of money made by the East India Company
- The Ragged School Shoe-Black Society
- Case of a destitute man in London
- The Soldiers’ Daughters’ Home
- The Prayer Book of a Queen: Isabella of Castile and Inquisitorial Culture in Late Medieval Spain
- The Archive of the Hakluyt Society
- The cost of living crisis - part 1: Bread in 1795
- Mary Marshall – JMW Turner’s Mother
- The early life of painter Sarah Biffen
- Rescue at Sea of a Man Overboard
- The Bookbinders’ Provident Asylum
- The travel writer Mary Ann Parker
- Those who Lust and those who Lack: Tyranny and Passivity in Early Modern English writing on the Ottomans
- Sources for Madame Cama, Indian Political Activist
- Revealing prints at the British Library
- Emigration of children from the Madras Orphan Asylums to New South Wales – Part 3
- Emigration of children from the Madras Orphan Asylums to New South Wales – Part 2
- Emigration of children from the Madras Orphan Asylums to New South Wales – Part 1
- Mary Broad's origins in Cornwall
- Looting of golden bells from the Temple of Heaven
- Letters of James Jackson of the Royal Navy – Part 2
- John Sanderson’s horrible housemates
- Letters of James Jackson of the Royal Navy – Part 1
- ‘A mishap to German aviators’ in Mesopotamia: a tale of engine failure and a small Persian dog
- Thomas Richardson Colledge: the missing years
- Leendert Hasenbosch’s diary: the story of a gay soldier marooned on a desert island
- PhD placement opportunity: John Evelyn correspondence
- JMW Turner, Artist and Publican?
- LGBTQ Histories in the Archives
- Benjamin Schultze, Missionary in Madras
- Ira Aldridge in Ottoman Turkey
- The 1914 United Missionary Exhibition 'Other Lands in Leicester': a global and colonial aspiration
- A Vignette of Inter-War Anglo-American Relations in the Middle East
- The man who lost his memory – Part 2
- The man who lost his memory – Part 1
- Madras Military Male Orphan Asylum
- The Spy Who Came in from the Circus: Haji Ali Germani
- Protesting Against the Simon Commission
- Early modern Iran seen through the eyes of G. Hofstede van Essen
2021
- New Year greetings from a Victorian scrapbook
- 18th-century bills of fare for December and January
- Gift ideas from 'Beeton’s Christmas Annual' 1873
- Clever Christmas Jokes: festive illustrations from 1910
- The stork in fable and record
- One theft too many?
- The story the India Office Records preserve about kasids
- Miniature books for children
- Elizabeth Polwhele’s taste in reading
- The body dissected, drawn and displayed - Anatomy in an album of drawings from Hans Sloane’s collection.
- Oysters in the Black-Out
- Report of a crash-landing of a Japanese bomber
- ‘So Long’ from King Naimbanna II - Manuscripts from an 18th Century African King
- Miguel of Mazagon, Mumbai- Part Two
- The danger of supporting German Cathedrals during the Second World War
- Miguel of Mazagon, Mumbai – Part One
- Life on the Home Front
- Invalids in the Nilgiri Hills
- Fireworks in India for Queen Victoria
- Unexpected items found cataloguing Hans Sloane’s natural history drawings
- Hauntings at Hinton Ampner
- A. A. Milne and Belisha the Hippotish
- William Shakespeare’s family in Calcutta
- The bombing of Britain
- Stanley Cinchona Plantation
- Diary of a Lumber Jill
- The Rational Dress Society
- Gunner George Fish of the Bombay Artillery Part 2
- Gunner George Fish of the Bombay Artillery Part 1
- An examination guide for Bombay Army officers
- Bury me at sea inside my piano
- Landscape in law
- Indian soldiers protest about the loss of extra pay
- Breakfast in British India
- Memorabilia of Captain James Cecil Thornton
- ‘An unseemly squabble’ in Aden
- Personal Reflections on the Indian Political Service – Part Three: Travels between Britain and India
- East India Company appointments by the Prince Regent – (2) Peniston Lamb
- East India Company appointments by the Prince Regent – (1) Henry Meredith Parker
- Follow up: Important information for email subscribers
- Hilda Elizabeth Henry - 'a skilled craftswoman of exquisite taste'
- 'A Curious Herbal' inspiring current day creatives
- Soldiers’ References in the East India Company Military Department
- Old Crop-Ear – JMW Turner’s horse
- Important information for email subscribers
- Household accounts for Charles and Charlotte Canning
- The King, the Queen, his mistress, and the dead Emperor
- Cricket matches between England and India 1889-1946
- Lady Tricyclists
- Birdwatching in Assam
- A captain goes down with his ship!
- Mrs Carthew’s recipe book
- Servants sailing from India with the East India Company
- Sir William Fraser of the East India Company maritime service
- Peter Paul Zohrab: a ‘Secret and confidential Agent’ for the East India Company
- Italy v England
- JMW Turner’s Daughters - Part 2 Georgiana
- JMW Turner’s Daughters – Part 1 Evelina
- Theft from an East India Company London warehouse
- Outfitting an East India Company employee
- Precedence of British officials and their wives in 19th century India
- Adopting an alias on board an East India Company ship
- Women’s football in the 18th century
- Personal Reflections on the Indian Political Service – Part Two: Life in the Gulf
- Sobriety and decorum - Passengers on East India Company ships
- A Scandalous Annotation Part II: George Francis Grand
- Most flattering prospects to perfect destitution – Samuel Benstead’s emigration to New York
- The Development of Pakistan
- Sadi, servant to the Sulivan family
- A Scandalous Annotation: the story of Madame Grand
- Personal Reflections on the Indian Political Service – Part One: An Overview
- Introducing Elizabeth Blackwell to Hans Sloane
- Racism in the India Office Arab Reports
- Accidental poisoning by arsenic
- The Women’s FA Cup Final at 50: putting the women’s game on the record
- Gout Raptures – a War among the Stars
- Bhicoo Batlivala, Campaigner for Indian Independence
- Roshani Begum, dancer turned rebel from Tipu Sultan’s court
- The Marital Affairs of Heirs: Marriage Negotiations of Prince Charles
- Another scandalous tale from the Down family
- William George Sibley of the East India Company - a worthy good man
- Treating patients with mineral water at Bath Hospital
- Non-essential retail in nineteenth-century London
- Records of People on the Move
- E. G. G. Hunt
- Henri’s April Fool and other recipes
- An Alternative to the Suez Canal?
- Eliza Armstrong’s husband
- The search for Franklin in the Barrow Bequest
- Travel Quarantine in the 1750s
- Sources for Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
- Hannah Danby – JMW Turner’s housekeeper
- Mūzah bint Aḥmad Āl Bū Sa‘īd - The Protector of Muscat
- The Garden of Aden: The Experimental Vegetable Garden at Aden
- Astley’s Amphitheatre presents ‘Storming and Capture of Delhi’
- Sources for Dr B R Ambedkar
- Unwitting accomplice or habitual offender?
- A British Army route march in India
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning: a pioneering writer’s life
- Chinese New Year in Canton 1731
- Sir Robert Preston and the East India Company
- East India Company instructions for keeping records
- A 19th century tale of adultery
- Sources for the 1947 Bengal and Punjab Boundary Commissions
- Daniel Seton – Magistrate of Surat
- Isabella Keiskamma Frend - a challenging life
- Richard Walpole and the East India Company at sea
- Bibee Zuhoorun: Women’s Voices in the Indian Indenture Trade
- The hunt for Syed Mahamad Yusufuddin
- Severe weather hits Britain in January 1763
- Bevin Trainees now in India Office Family History Search
2020
- New Year’s Gift
- Suffrage scrapbooks: forgotten histories of political activism
- A Christmas pantomime
- Soldier’s life saved by Princess Mary's Christmas gift
- Her Majesty’s Steamer Berenice destroyed by fire
- The Lives and Letters of the Black Loyalists – Part 4 Women’s Lives
- Gallant, Clean and Drunk: Charles Old of the Royal Artillery
- Mermanjan’s diary
- The curious case of Jean Robbio
- Wilfred Owen: One Hundred Years of His Poems
- Celebrating St Andrew’s Day in the trenches
- George Poland & Son – furriers to the rich, friends to the poor
- The Lives and Letters of the Black Loyalists – Part 3 Cato Perkins and Nathaniel Snowball
- Eliza Armstrong’s children
- William Adams in Japan– a new digital resource
- Stand and deliver! Cross-dressing highwaywomen in broadside ballads
- A fatal pub brawl and its consequences
- Making gunpowder after the English method
- Tracing the Lives and Letters of the Black Loyalists – Part 2 Thomas Peters
- The Oddfellows friendly society and Barbados
- Wearing a face mask
- Eliza Armstrong – Another Piece of the Puzzle
- The truth behind the myth: the colonial legacy of the Mayflower voyage - No.5 Colonial New England from the 1640s onwards
- Tracing the lives and letters of the Black Loyalists – Part 1 The Journey to Sierra Leone
- The truth behind the myth: the colonial legacy of the Mayflower voyage - No.4 The first 20 years of Plymouth Colony continued
- The Law of Forfeiture: Applying English Traditions in India?
- The truth behind the myth: the colonial legacy of the Mayflower voyage - No.3 The first 20 years of Plymouth Colony
- ‘Can you sign this for me?’ Collecting the autographs of famous 17th century figures
- The truth behind the myth: the colonial legacy of the Mayflower voyage - No.2 Who were the so-called Pilgrims?
- Bringing the children home
- The truth behind the myth: the colonial legacy of the Mayflower voyage - No.1 English colonisation of North America prior to 1620
- Sylvia Pankhurst’s Toilet Papers
- Hunter, Campbell, and the politics of archiving famine
- Four 'Weddings' and a Funeral: A Liverpool Story
- Captain Charles Foulis and Commodore George Anson
- St Helena laws for inhabitants 1672
- Nil Darpan: the Indigo Revolt and the trial of Reverend James Long
- Music hall entertainment for Bank Holiday Monday
- Collections in the UK on Indian Independence and Partition
- The Temples of Mahabalipuram and the early days of Heritage Conservation
- Death on the Cherwell
- Quetta to Sistan: The Development of a Strategic Trade Route
- ‘Black Peggy’ and the Foundling Hospital
- Receipts of the Late Thomas Lakin
- John Dean: Celebrity shipwreck survivor of the 1740s
- Two portrait painters on a passage to India
- Sir Andrew Scott Waugh and the naming of Everest
- The Trial of Prince Najaf ʿAlī Khān Zand
- The lesser-known early years of Sultan Qaboos
- This boy just tried to kill the Queen!
- 300th anniversary of Gilbert White
- Researching Women in Science in the Modern Manuscript Collections Part 2: 1849-1950
- Researching Women in Science in the Modern Manuscript Collections Part 1: 1601-1848
- The forgotten Prince of Burma
- The Jacob orphans – lives linking three continents
- Vickers Jacob – a life in Ireland, India and Australia
- Remembering the Vere Street Coterie: a story of gay community, a police raid and library censorship
- More girls called Seringa!
- Researching Women Social Reformers in the Modern Manuscript Collections
- A fraudulent shipwreck
- Solving a suffragette mystery – who was Miss Wolff van Sandau?
- Fanny Barlow’s letters to Papa
- Get Up, Listen Up! for Windrush Day 2020
- The treasures of King Thibaw of Burma
- The mystery of the Roebuck
- Strange News for Strange Times
- Henry John Tozer – India, Rousseau, and sanitation in St Pancras
- An unexpected letter from Sir William Foster of the India Office
- A rebus puzzle
- The mysterious Captain Gladstone, RN - a bookbinding James Bond?
- The 1911 Census and the Wellesley Training Ship
- Researching Suffragettes in the British Library’s Modern Manuscripts and Archive Collections
- My daughter Seringa
- The most noted girls of the town: A newly discovered edition of Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies
- Lady with the Lamp at 200: Florence Nightingale’s Bicentenary
- 75 years since Victory in Europe
- The East India Company and the Spice Islands
- A (g)lovely gift from Peter the Great to John Evelyn
- Mr Muschamp’s wooden leg
- The Derby Post-Man
- The rocky beginnings of Eddystone Lighthouse
- From our homes to yours - the work of the Modern Archives and Manuscripts team
- The London social season of 1863
- Easter Holidays - Domestic conversations designed for the instruction and amusement of young people
- The Bunny Family of Berkshire
- Colossal characters of the first Spring Holiday
- Easter Furnishing Bargains from the India Office?
- Mrs Sobieski Sullivan, a Welsh Jacobite
- India Office Family History Search
- Expired through eating some unwholesome food
- The 1901 census
- The National Indian Association and its handbook for students in Britain
- Witch Trials in British India
- Lady Day
- General John Jacob ‒ A Man of Strong Opinions
- The East India Company’s stud farm in Essex
- Mr. Coryate’s shoes
- John Maynard Smith: evolutionary biology and the Logic of Animal Conflict
- Within a hair’s breadth of failure: John Houghton and the climate change report
- A Pioneer of Artificial Intelligence: Donald Michie
- Internment during the Second World War – Part Three: imprisonment for insurrection in the Channel Islands
- A ‘Full House’ of Brut English Chronicles
- A Leap Year tragedy
- A Ship-Board Romance: Lucia Green and Captain Luke Dodds
- 17th Century Recipes for Those Feeling Under the Weather
- Baptisms, Barracks, Bazaars: indexing the India Office Records
- Following in your late brother’s footsteps
- Ciphers and sympathetic ink: secret love letters in the Granville papers
- Internment during the Second World War – Part Two: an album created by a Prisoner of War in Italy
- Garrod Family Papers
- La Freya – 'artistic visions and superb poses'
- Heartbroken on St Helena: the naturalist William John Burchell - Part Two
- Sir Francis Drake: the deluded history of an English Hero
- Heartbroken on St Helena: the naturalist William John Burchell - Part One
- George Orwell and the Strange Case of the Three Anarchists Jailed at the Old Bailey
- William Wordsworth: The Poetry of Place
- Tragic ice accident in Regent’s Park
- Painting a Thousand Words: Timur and His Mughal Descendants
- Internment during the Second World War – Part One: the diary of a Jewish refugee confined by Britain
- Sir Ronald Ross and the Transmission of Malaria
- Cache of hidden letters in the Granville Archive
- A New Year card from MI5
2019
- The Ruby Mines Murders
- Christmas storytelling
- A Christmas entertainment
- Christmas appeal from the Shaftesbury Society and Ragged School Union
- Out of the Fire: Lady Charlotte Canning’s diaries
- Emma Ewart Larkins' last letter from Cawnpore
- Sarah Danby – JMW Turner’s lover
- Marine Society boy to master mariner to pauper – Part 2
- Marine Society boy to master mariner to pauper – Part 1
- 100 years of women in Parliament: Nancy Astor MP takes her seat
- The Medical and Surgical Home at Fitzroy Square, London
- Sending sad news from India in 1858
- Hostility to the Census of India in 1880
- Annals of the Middle Eastern Press in the India Office Records (Part II)
- Contravening the Official Secrets Act in World War II – Part 2
- Contravening the Official Secrets Act in World War II – Part 1
- India Office Records sent to the salt mine
- A family archive
- Hallowe’en Feeing Markets
- Sir Thomas Roe’s letters: People, products and politics of the first English embassy to India
- The General Strike 1926
- Indian military widows
- The Portuguese Militia in Bombay
- 400 Years of India and Britain: The Memoirs of Sir Thomas Roe
- Dr Johann Helfer and the curious case of an unexplained footnote
- Crystal chandeliers for the Shah of Persia
- Trials for concealment of birth
- East India Company private trade
- The Theatre Censors Part 4: The Lord Chamberlain’s Office and the Policy of Appeasement
- Baptisms at the Royal Indian Engineering College
- Solving a provenance puzzle: papers of Henry and Robert Dundas, Viscounts Melville
- Bogle-L’Ouverture publishing house
- Pupils from the Asylum for deaf and dumb children
- Asylum for the support and education of deaf and dumb children of the poor
- A librarian’s death on Lake Onega - Roger James Chomeley
- The Great Fire of London and the East India Company
- Annals of the Middle Eastern Press in the India Office Records (part I)
- The Theatre Censors Part 3: George Street
- Are women more faithful than men? An Eighteenth-Century Couple Discuss the Differences between the Sexes
- Practical and Reasonable – A history of the Association of Disabled Professionals
- Peterloo
- Gerasim Lebedev, a Russian pioneer of Bengali Theatre
- Fourth ‘Queen’s Own’ Hussars in India
- Captain Henry Liddell’s recipe for spruce beer
- Indian Police exams August 1919
- The Theatre Censors Part 2: William Bodham Donne
- Choice little dinners for July
- Decorating the East India Company's records
- Finding Mermanjan – the star of the evening Part 4
- How old are you Miss Nightingale?
- Finding Mermanjan – the star of the evening Part 3
- Findings from the Bindings: Nazi Era Spoliation Research at the British Library IV – Lost and Found, The Biccherna Panel
- Finding Mermanjan – Star of the Evening Part 2
- The Theatre Censors Part 1: George Colman
- Finding Mermanjan – the star of the evening Part 1
- Homosexuality, Censorship and the British Stage
- The Revolutions of 1848: an English translation of Russian socialist Alexander Herzen
- A mother’s appeal for an Indian Army cadetship
- Findings from the Bindings: Nazi Era Spoliation Research at the British Library III – The Collection of Lucien Graux
- Hidden Worlds in the Laboratory Notebooks of Anne McLaren
- Writing with quills
- William Morris and the Thames
- Findings from the Bindings: Nazi Era Spoliation Research at the British Library II - the Collection of Jean Furstenberg
- The Geologist and the Tortoise
- The history of the pencil
- Betsi Cadwaladr: The Crimean War nurse Elizabeth Davis
- Findings from the Bindings: Nazi Era Spoliation Research I - The Nazi Destruction and Looting of Libraries
- Celebrating King Edward VIII’s Birthday at the Bahrain Political Agency
- Henry Stubbe: Islam and religious toleration in Restoration England
- King Charles & Mr Perkins - Part Two
- King Charles & Mr Perkins - Part One
- Sloane’s annotations
- Records of homosexuality in 17th century England
- Crusoe embossed
- Map showing Air Force of the USSR, 1939
- A Good Friday gift to the children of Christ’s Hospital
- An Easter vacation for Indian cadets at Sandhurst
- The Well-Travelled Goat
- From bad feet to blasphemy: the life of Charles William Twort
- Cholera on board ship at Singapore
- April Fool’s Day at the zoo
- Colours of the Royal East India Volunteers
- A Melancholy Death on James Cook’s first Pacific expedition – Private William Greenslade
- Telephone Map of India 1934
- Marie Corelli: Superstar Author of the Victorian Era
- Crossing the Line
- Felix Slade and his bindings bequest
- The Making of ‘Dear John: The Kin Selection Controversy’. Part 2: From Idea to Event
- The Making of ‘Dear John: The Kin Selection Controversy’. Part 1: What’s It All About?
- Indian Seamen and the Steamship 'Rauenfels' during World War One
- ‘Smutty stuff’ for ‘debauched readers’: The Merryland books in the Private Case
- Trying to grow Syrian tobacco in Bombay
- Interviews with Indian Soldiers of World War One and World War Two
- The Dawes Bequest of erotica: so sensitive, it had to be smuggled in at dawn
- JMW Turner’s First and Last Loves (Part 2)
- JMW Turner’s First and Last Loves (Part 1)
- Countess Waldegrave and Baron Carlingford, part 2: The Breakfast Club and 'the Irish Question'
- Countess Waldegrave and Baron Carlingford, part 1: political influence and family ties
- A little piece of India
- The Favourite and the Marlborough Papers
- Virginia Woolf: Greatest icon of the 20th century?
- The shooting of the British Consul General at Isfahan and Sowar Chowdri Khan
- ‘Methods of barbarism’: how Emily Hobhouse exposed the humanitarian crisis of the Boer War
- 'Citizens of the World' – the Collow network of merchants, agents and traders
- Isaac Robert Cruikshank – a life retold?
- Cats and games of forfeit
- The first baby born on the Tube
- Blanchard! Where are your trousers? The first crossing of the English Channel in a balloon
- The Great War Fund Fete
- Indian Honours List, New Year 1919
2018
- German student duelling and ‘lager beer exploits’ in a 19th-century travel diary
- Captain Bendy’s not so Happy Christmas
- Beware drinking at Christmas!
- Hey for Lubberland!
- Christmas bound
- Cats at Christmas
- The Red Sea to India non-stop: Amelia Earhart, Southern Arabia, and British Obstructionism
- Deserted families in The Poor Law Unions’ Gazette
- Who repaired the pavements in London?
- From Westmorland to India – William Lambert of the Bombay Army
- Cadet William Lambert writes from Bombay in 1780
- A policeman's lot in Bahrain - not a happy one
- Boy Soldiers
- A case for the Society for the Protection of Women and Children
- From Switzerland to Hackney via India - a patient at Pembroke House Asylum
- The fate of two forgers
- From library to battlefield – Rifleman Frederick Boxall
- Journey to India of Randolph Marriott, East India Company Servant
- Hogarth’s London in the 18th century Latin poetry of Benjamin Loveling
- Souling on All Hallows’ Day
- Three women accused of witchcraft: a unique pamphlet from the height of the witch craze
- The 1918 influenza pandemic in India
- The East India Company and Marine Society boys
- A unique appeal from four Indian schoolgirls
- Propaganda Portraits of Muslim Rulers during WW2
- The royals are here!
- An Irish soldier in India
- Hungary Water for Missionaries?
- ‘Lads of true spirit’ – recruiting for the East India Company in Ireland
- Strange fish: A distant cousin of the Beluga whale in the River Thames
- Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants
- William Blake’s Grave
- ‘Fulbrighters’: the US-UK Fulbright Commission Alumni
- ‘Pierce your heart’: Letters from Europe and North Africa by Indian prisoners in the Second World War
- A day in the life of an East India Company Director
- ‘Baghdad in British Occupation’: the Story of Overprinted Stamps
- Murray the Escapologist
- Unsung Souls: William Skeyte and the English Reformation
- Hints for the general management of children in India
- Hazards when crossing the Atlantic in the early 19th Century
- Emergency Rations in the India Office during the Second World War
- World Mosquito Day 2018
- Photographs of Dhofar Province
- Recommendations for Life Pensions in Colaba, India
- James Cook for Children: Juvenile literature of the 18th and 19th centuries
- Loss of the ’Empire Windrush’
- James Cook and Adam Smith
- Strong Foundations: Building the British Library – Structural Engineer Anthony Stevens
- A soldier’s wife in the Crimea
- Myths about James Cook
- The Adventures and Vicissitudes of Captain Cook
- The mysterious death of Captain Archibald Anderson
- Tyau mate oee – My friends, I am dying
- Spence Broughton: A Ghostly Highwayman
- New black Britain and Asian Britain web pages launched
- James Cook and Benjamin Franklin
- Open spaces for children – the Foundling Site Appeal
- Sarah Sophia Banks’s Ballooning Scrapbook and the Science of Popular Spectacle
- British-US rivalry in the race to discover oil in Iraq
- The letters of Jonathan Swift and Henrietta Howard
- Seeking Wartime Employment: Bertram Thomas and Frank Smythe
- Captain Cook and the ‘Friendly Islands’?
- A football match in 18th century Ireland
- Sauerkraut, sugar, and salt pork – the diet on board Cook’s 'Resolution'
- Destitute Indian Women in 1930s Damascus
- Letters from the Begum of Bhopal
- Senator J. William Fulbright: International Scholar and Statesman
- Cheap and safe burial ground in London
- Soup of the Day
- ‘The reason why the sword must not be packed without the scabbard’
- ‘A Trustworthy Indian in Stockholm’: A. Yusuf Ali’s Mission to Scandinavia, 1918
- Royal weddings at Windsor Castle
- The Anti-German Union and the India Office
- #Happy Birthday, Robert Proctor :)
- Captain Cook's house – a space in memory
- Nature and War: Where Poppies Blow
- Senior Statesman of British Biology: John Maynard Smith
- ‘Who on Earth is Anthony Meyer?’
- May Day in the Olden Time
- ‘Most distinguished Darwinian since Darwin’: William D. Hamilton
- Charlotte Canning’s burning tent
- A Danish sailor befriended and buried in Norfolk
- Calculating Kindness: George Price
- The Plans, Maps and Views of Lieutenant-General William Skinner, Chief Engineer of Great Britain
- Papers of Major Geoffrey Herbert Blake, Royal Indian Army Service Corps
- The Library of Ideas: Undercurrent at the British Library
- When the driver crosses his fingers – motoring superstitions
- Alexander Charles Stewart, classicist and army cyclist
- ‘With our backs to the wall …’ - Sir Douglas Haig’s Special Order 1918
- Bahrain is not in Ruritania: Colonel Prior and the ‘Royal’ Sheikh
- Ode to Income Tax
- 400 years of Chatham Dockyard
- An April Fool hoax at London Zoo
- Love and tragedy in the British Library: The story of Eleanor Marx and Edward Aveling Part 2
- Love and tragedy in the British Library: The story of Eleanor Marx and Edward Aveling Part 1
- Humphry Repton, Landscape Gardener
- With the Hampshire Pioneers in the Kaiserschlacht
- The creative genius of Edmund Dulac: Artist, illustrator and stamp designer extraordinaire
- Insurgency in the archives
- Preventing disorder at the East India Company factories
- Getting a fair price: a handy pocket-book for merchants (and smugglers?)
- Colonel Jacob’s ill-fated mission and imprisonment
- Like father, unlike son: James and Frank Bourdillon
- Papers of Edward Philips Charlewood, Officer on the Euphrates Expedition
- Papers of Charles and Charlotte Canning
- Mr Robertson and the Great Stupa at Amaravati
- ‘Conceal yourself, your foes look for you’: revealing a secret message in a piece of music
- Fashion fit for a suffragette procession
- A much married man
- Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose: The man who became famous for his research on plants
- Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose: The man who (almost) invented the radio
- It has to be Perfect!
- 'A Prospect of Fort St.George and Plan of the city of Madras'
- Getting into a pickle with translation
- Keeping fit in 1900
- The good, the bad, and the cross-hatched
- When it’s Not Rude to Point: Manicules in Sir Hans Sloane’s Catalogue
- Indian Army Peace Contingent’s visit to Britain 1919
- The fascinating life of Stella Alexander
- Charles Kingsley’s grandfather in the East India Company Army
- Trigamy - a man with three wives
- Forfeiting a Victoria Cross
2017
- Untold Lives looks back at 2017
- A Tommy’s Christmas Day letter 1917
- East India Company Christmas gifts
- A case of cruel treatment and hidden identity
- Sixty Thousand Signatures against the Bengal Partition: Bengali Resistance in 1905
- Journals of Albert Hastings Markham
- Hostess with the mostest… and so much more: introducing the Ishbel MacDonald Archive
- The Rani of Jhansi
- The journal and drawings of Mary Emma Walter
- Sir Hans Sloane: Physician, Collector and Armchair Traveller
- Dr Elsie Inglis and her father John's teenage misdemeanours
- Arabic or English: the Education of a Future Sultan of Muscat and Oman
- Scandalous and formidable Lady Holland
- A paper maker makes the papers: the shocking death of William Moinier Leschallas
- Testimony from the Trenches: personal journeys of WW1
- The Shaikh who lost his Shaikhdom, Khaz’al al-Ka‘bī of Mohammerah
- Pyrotechnia: A ‘how-to’ guide for firework-makers
- The last will and testament of an Indian wife
- The Ghost of William Terriss
- Paper bag reveals forgotten history
- Gardening in the 18th century: a seed shop in North-East England
- Grimaldi family correspondence
- The life and loves of a ‘tremendous literary rebel’, Michael Madhusudan Dutt
- JOLIE bookbinders
- The City of Polish Children
- Advice for ladies in India
- English Nabob amasses a fortune from salt in Bengal
- The quest for El Dorado
- Angus Wilson - ‘the most unconventional librarian’
- Spies or Pandits? Colin Mackenzie’s Indian Assistants, 1788 to 1821
- ‘Inflammable material’ in the British Library
- Bevin Indian Trainees during the Second World War
- 'I have made resolutions to be good': letters of Princess Charlotte to her tutor
- Political and criminal convictions in Birmingham
- A Dust-up in the Desert: Hostilities on the 1931 Citroën Expedition across Asia
- David Scott, India merchant, and British Supercargoes at Macao
- East India Company trade with the East Indies
- Lord Derby's letters and the two general elections of 1910
- Philip Allwood and the Cuban Slave Trade
- The Devil’s Case - A Bank Holiday Interlude
- Daydreaming in the service of the East India Company
- Sir Hans Sloane as a collector of “strange news”
- Illuminations in celebration of the peace
- “Old Dad” – Turner and Son in Twickenham
- Ranjitsinhji, our glorious hero bold
- First World War Indian soldiers' letters in 'Connecting Stories' exhibition
- Duncan Campbell: the Private Contractor and the Prison Hulk
- Travelling through Europe: the journals of Mary Cecilia Blencowe
- Battles on the Serpentine
- Frank Derrett: With the 'Cook's Tourists' in Salonika
- Flouting Laws for his Cause: John Flavell’s FAQs
- A Soldier’s Life – the memoir of William Young 76th Regiment of Foot
- Miss Jenny the cheetah visits England
- A Court Martial in India
- You were born when? The French Revolutionary Calendar
- Connecting Stories: Our British Asian Heritage
- A turnpike tour of London
- Dame Anne McLaren: a noted career
- The roaring Dutch lion breaks the English chains
- Paul Fourdrinier: The Architects’ Engraver in 18th century Britain
- One green bottle… Jan Sobota’s book binding
- A botanical excursion in Wales
- The King’s Architect and the ‘Architect King’
- Judith Weston and her search for a husband
- The loss of the East Indiaman ‘Ganges’
- Cow Protection in India
- Thomas Bowrey’s cloth samples
- Three men and a boy (and a coal mine…)
- Whit Monday fete
- A Passage to India: Shipboard Life
- Ian Alistair Kendall Burnett, bibliographer and company commander
- Illuminations at East India House
- The Art of Children’s Games
- Milking Oil - the start of the Kuwait Oil Industry
- Constable’s English Landscape
- Loveable Oak Trees
- Henry Nicholetts’ voyage to Calcutta
- A Carnival on the Water: the Frost Fair of 1683
- Exploits of the Queen’s Own Light Dragoons
- The Turings of India
- India Office Records on the Russian Revolution
- Picturing Places - Taking a wider view?
- William Close - “one deserving of remembrance”
- Gerald Wellesley’s secret family
- Captain Ross muses on the ice
- Professor John Buer - the oldest living clown
- The Hodeidah Incident: Britain’s ‘indiscriminate’ military action in Yemen
- English settlements on Madagascar – a tale of disaster
- Caught out at Customs
- 'Vogue' and virtuous virgins: a reflection on the history of the fashion magazine
- Toshakhana - an untold word?
- The East India Company’s Black Book of Misdemeanours
- Mary Dorothea Shore – a life brought out of the shadows
- Aristotle’s Masterpiece: What to expect when you’re expecting, seventeenth-century style
- John Syms, Puritan naval chaplain (and librarian)
- Did Jane Austen develop cataracts from arsenic poisoning?
- Remembering the Suffragette movement on International Women’s Day
- Flying over the Himalayas: RAF Flight to Gilgit in November 1934
- The personal possessions of Thomas and Dorothy Shore
- Indian Independence: a source
- The ‘Kashmir of Europe’ and other exoticisms: Indian soldiers’ tales of travel in the Second World War
- Enclosed Herewith: Specimens of Ore from the Kuria Muria Islands
- Thim Days Is Gone – a colonial memoir
- Broken Valentine Promise
- Not So Strange – the East India Company Chairman in 1814
- Value in unexpected places: The sole surviving copy of 'The Grounds of Learning', a seventeenth-century schoolbook
- East India Company saltpetre warehouses at Ratcliff
- Stamps and Gender Studies: Female royalty on Hawaiian definitive Postage Stamps, 1864-1893
- The East India Company and Nootka Sound
- ‘We become crazy as lunatics’: Responding to the Bengal famine in Indian letters from the Second World War
- From Stats Man to Ad Man: Jesse Scott
- Major new digital resource for the India Office Records
- The Beach Pyjama Incident
- Persia I will eat last
- The mysterious Mr John Fillinham: an apprentice made good?
- Annie De Montford – her mind governed the world
2016
- Sanger’s Circus in Sheffield
- Library closures at Christmas
- Charades – a Christmas game to make a long evening short
- Exploring emotional worlds: Indian soldiers’ letters from the Second World War
- Christmas in Bahrain
- The Power of Faith: Maurice Wilson’s Flight to the Top of the World
- Anglo-Italian Competition: The sale of military aircraft to Kabul
- Pageantry, Parade and Presents in Persia
- Victorian Vaudeville – Tripping the Light Fantastic
- A music examiner’s tour of India
- Journals of Midshipmen during the Second World War
- The business archive of Alan Gradon Thomas
- A novel way to secure a pension
- A little embarrassing: Britain fails to prevent Barclay Raunkiær from exploring Arabia
- The British Legion’s Fundraising in the Age of Empire
- Archives seeking refuge
- Pay and living conditions of Indian seamen
- The case of Margaret Duchell, who “died a confessed witch”
- Fleeing from Burma
- The Dumb-Cake
- Evanion the Royal conjuror plays with fire
- An abandoned ayah
- Tagore Meets an Old Friend in Iran
- Dame Anne McLaren: a noted career
- Pageantry and Parade in Persia
- A Cornish smuggler
- A case of mistaken identity
- Edith Cavell – 101 years on
- An Icelander in India
- Throwing off the workhouse
- Poldark, put your shirt on! An 18th Century description of a Cornish mine.
- Persian carpets for European consumers
- Report on Boiler Explosions in Britain, 1880
- Foreign Names and Flatulence: Dodging Censorship in the Book Trade
- Employing children in dangerous trades
- Letters from Indian Soldiers on the Western Front, September 1916
- Recruiting an Iraqi Judge in Bahrain’s Shia Court
- Life at the fringes of empire: Edward Eastwick in Sind
- Dinners, mortars, and cinema trips: the Afghan Military Mission to India
- Female Felons in the 18th Century
- ‘A most fearefull and dreadfull fire’
- A British First World War hero with roots in India
- ‘One heap of stones as good as another’ – Bahrain’s disappearing burial mounds
- Gone for a soldier
- Rescue of an Indian Seaman
- Mud, Blood, and Vegetables
- Robert Clive – ‘Rio Janeiro was my choice’
- Scrapbooking Waterloo: Thomas Pickstock’s travel journal
- The surgeon’s porcupine
- A forgotten story from the Second World War
- A Drunken Russian Pilot and the Bombing of Mecca 1925
- Words will eat themselves
- ‘Girls bowled, batted, ran and catched’
- Harry Michie - With the Roughriders in the Mediterranean
- Walter Thom’s 'Pedestrianism'
- The high cost of life in India
- Desert Encounter - Knud Holmboe
- “Pre-packed airports” for the Persian Gulf?
- Death by food and drink
- A Museum Clerk at the Battle of the Somme
- "We go into action in a day or two and I'm leaving this in case I don't come back". On the eve of the Somme.
- Chronograms: dangerous dogs and escaping elephants
- National Insect Week
- ‘A Violent Pauper’
- A dinosaur dinner and relics from 'one of the greatest humbugs, frauds and absurdities ever known'.
- Failings of English Forestry Students
- Burma’s beautiful game
- Theodore and Mabel Bent in Southern Arabia
- Making stale and nauseous water sweet!
- ‘My present dreadful situation’: The perils of fame as an 18th century actress
- Robert Clive arrives in India
- Wanted: 100 Hogshead of Sugar
- Shakespeare in India
- Bringing Colin Mackenzie Home
- William Adams – from Gillingham to Japan
- Edward Lear: politicians, poems and runcible hats.
- The Khaksar movement in the Persian Gulf
- Hedgehog Awareness
- Calculating Kindness Revisited
- Accommodation for 5000? Indian Expeditionary Force D at Bahrain 1914
- The Anglo-Burmese Handbook
- The officer and the Anzac
- Selling the silver screen: poster stamps and lost films
- Pioneering cybernetics: an introduction to W Ross Ashby
- Mrs Ann Wood – an exceptional woman
- Kirby’s Coca Wine
- Edward William Charles Noel – political officer and spy
- The Queen's visit to Karachi in 1961- the unofficial view
- The Queen's visit to Karachi in 1961- the official view
- Poverty and destitution in Victorian London
- ‘A Man of very surprising Genius’: John Bagford, Bookseller and Collector
- Encountering the archive
- The curious tale of the pigeons in the workhouse
- Professor Frederick Browne - Help of the hairless & Victorian blogger
- Let a Pineapple Speak For You
- Daddy’s Easter egg – fatal if eaten before a meal
- Claudius Rich and Samuel Manesty
- Eliza Armstrong – still elusive!
- Art meets Science: Newton, Blake and the British Library
- Falling from the skies in style: Early references to the parachuting in the British Library
- Dame Anne McLaren: a noted career
- Picking locks and foreign plots: ciphers in British Library manuscripts
- Did he intend to blow the [insert film quotation here] doors off? An eighteenth-century powder mill in Germany.
- Global Voices in the Archive
- Design for the Muslim Burial Ground, Woking
- Award of the Victoria Cross to Indian Army Officers and Men
- Barut, Slave Governor of Kalba
- Calculating Kindness: Meeting George Price
- Leap Year Proposals
- Official lines and John Pine: Stamp Office Engravers Part 1
- Wren's a good time to talk about architecture?
- Pepys, pans and pretenders
- Let the people speak: history with voices
- Expired from eating too many pineapples
- Mangling the Baby
- The wedding of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
- Concerts, sports days and vegetable shows
- Happy Chinese New Year!
- Dhofar, Doha and a ‘Road Trip’ to Riyadh: Bertram Thomas’ sojourns in Arabia
- The illicit history of booze in Britain
- 'Pretty, witty Nell', the 'Protestant whore': Nell Gwyn remembered
- Tracing Hans Sloane’s Books: A PhD Placement Opportunity
- A tradition of trade: the opening of the London Docks
- Edward Lear Breaks My Heart
- London’s Sailortown (2) - Servicing the Merchant Navy
- London’s Sailortown (1) - Servicing the Royal Navy
- Queen Victoria’s handwriting
- Passenger aviation across the Gulf during the 1930s - Bahrain
- Opportunity to discover Untold Lives in India Office Private Papers!
- East India Company trade in West Africa
- Sources for Asian biography
- Antarctic Anniversaries: Captains James Cook and Robert Scott
- Tipu Sultan’s favourite son
- Mud Hovels, Mean Houses and Natural Philosophy
- Plough Monday
- ‘The People Teaching Themselves’ – Marylebone Free Library
- Spell-Binding!
- A fowl quiz for #NationalBirdDay
- Happy New Year!
2015
- Wassailing on New Year’s Eve
- The wet, wild forest: Rudyard Kipling’s 'Just So Stories' in manuscript and print
- ‘Four Cheeses in Lead and a Harpsechord’
- If Christmas Day on a Friday be
- Christmas 1857 in Calcutta
- Christmas Stock-Taking
- The Singing Bookbinder: Roger de Coverly
- ‘So I am to Become a Nonentity?’ – The Death of J.M.W. Turner
- The Ancient Mosque of Manama
- 'Seeing without being seen' – Bentham and the Panopticon prison
- Fear of a premature burial
- Remembering Gallipoli
- Preparation Pays Off: Bertram Thomas and the Crossing of the Empty Quarter
- Happy Birthday to John Milton!
- A break-in at East India House
- Fanciful fortifications?
- A Hidden Perspective of St Paul's: Mary Johnson's Bible
- The Sheikh’s stamps
- William Blake and London
- 'Even to Live is an Act of Courage'
- Further Adventures of the Intrepid East India Company Women
- The’ unprecedented’ case of John Calcott Gaskin
- A cartographic life unknown and untold
- Flying over the liners: Passenger aviation across the Gulf during the 1930s
- The moustache which fell off
- Indian seamen: a roll of honour for the Second World War
- A tribute to forgotten heroes of the seven seas
- 'What language can impart the mournful feelings of a throbbing heart?': drawings and poetry by Paul and Thomas Sandby.
- One Year of Qatar Digital Library
- Smugging a Guy
- The lonely death of a British Vice-Consul in Persia
- Nut-Crack Night
- Nine Lives – Cats in Literature
- Captain Cook – Endeavour and Resolution
- An anthology of decorated papers
- St Crispin’s Day
- Early women travellers and the East India Company
- Trafalgar and the death of Nelson
- Happy Birthday Sir Christopher Wren!
- The London Beer Flood 1814
- Kafka’s Tanks: an early US attempt to enter the Gulf arms market
- Theatreland Raid by the ‘Baby-Killers’
- The Coronation of George II and Queen Caroline
- Caverns Measureless to Man. Happy #NationalPoetryDay!
- Sturdy Scots and pale-faced Londoners
- The elephant’s revenge
- All Lies
- Metropolitan Police take to the streets
- Crack-Nut Sunday
- Letters from Indian Soldiers, 26 September 1915
- Librarians dying at the Battle of Loos
- A Caracal for the King
- St Matthew’s Day
- Samuel Johnson’s MA diploma
- From revolutionary to librarian: Sir Anthony Panizzi
- ‘A Severe Master’ - the murder of William Cordeux
- Chocolate soldiers
- Foretold lives?
- Reading, writing, arithmetic – and leapfrog
- The Peter Rabbit Hotel
- Scaremonger or Patriot? Lionel Horton Smith and War with Germany
- Robins: representations of benevolence or xenophobia?
- Smuggling in sugar
- World Mosquito Day
- Miss May Oung at the Burma Round Table Conference 1931
- You can’t keep a good man down!
- Arm-to-arm smallpox vaccination
- The amiable Princess Amelia
- Blythe Spirit
- John Lovejoy, bookbinding tyrant
- Richard Burton - Masterchef?
- Blessing cars and eating oysters
- Punch Drunk
- Letters from the Siege of Lucknow
- The Chinese Labour Corps in Basra
- Bastille Day in Delhi
- Anyone for Tennis? Relaxation and Social Mingling in the Gulf
- A bread and butter battle
- Herabai and Mithibai Tata: British support for Indian suffragists
- Break of service
- ABBA’s Waterloo at the Prince Regent’s Stables
- The Return of the Emperor
- George Canning and Waterloo: international politics and personal loss
- The celebration of Waterloo in 1817
- Wellington’s Friend
- The Waterloo veteran
- The Battle of Waterloo in 16 objects
- A tragic tale from Mysore
- Death of armed robbers in India
- Selling archives by the pound
- The Journals of Thomas Machell
- The unauthorised mission of Samuel Manesty
- The unfortunate Matthewman; how a bookbinder failed against all the odds
- Vengeful barbers and crime-fighting magicians
- Waterloo and its legacy
- The People’s Charter
- Famous friends
- The pill devourer
- Misplaced Suspicions: Counter-espionage in the Persian Gulf
- Must I break my promise or lose my bread?
- Henry Treece – history in the making
- Anne Blunt - ‘Noble Lady of the Horses’
- Indian soldier's letter to a friend, 1 May 1915
- Librarians who died at Gallipoli
- India and St George!
- Memories of Reading needs you!
- 'Fifth rate accommodation' in Sharjah
- ‘A smack at the Chikor’
- Social life in Simla
- Gandhi’s Salt March, Part 3: 27 March to 6 April 1930
- Hot Cross Buns!
- Jolly japes for All Fools’ Day!
- The Defiance of Zaki Khan
- Gandhi’s Salt March, Part 2: 20-26 March 1930
- Thin dogs, neglected children and rising crime
- Gandhi’s Salt March, Part 1: 12-19 March 1930
- Everyone is badminton mad here!
- Friday the 13th
- ‘My beautiful reformatress’: The Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine and corporal punishment
- ‘To be tightly laced is a most superb sensation’: the Corset Controversy
- St Piran’s Day
- Beards, Barley and Bear-baiting: Revenue Collection in Shiraz
- Saint David’s Day
- Powders, leeches, and castor oil
- Serving the East India Company in Persia
- Sage advice regarding snakes
- Edward Lloyd and the ‘Penny Bloods’
- St Valentine's Day customs
- The plunderers’ cunning plan
- An English Convert to Islam in Kuwait
- How an Indian performance troupe found itself destitute in Victorian London
- Mary English, adventurer and businesswoman in Colombia
- Opening the coffin of King Charles I
- Colonial Knowledge: Lorimer’s Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Oman and Central Arabia
- Personal gifts from Mr Churchill
- The Death of a Political Agent: Captain Shakespear
- How to ship your elephant
- Victorian office moves
- In great distress
- Letter from an Indian soldier to his father
- Pining for domestic bliss
- The eccentric postmaster of Lismore
- Twelfth Day
- Honest and industrious – petitions to the East India Company
2014
- The Psycho Bicycle
- Happy Christmas from MI5!
- A wartime Christmas party
- Season’s greetings at Gombroon
- The Poisoned Mince Pie
- Santa Claus’s coming to Britain
- The talented Mr Fox Talbot Part 5 – Photoglyphic engraving
- Victorian children - lost and found
- The Dubai Incident
- The Sinking of Old Sarum
- Medical Topography in the India Office Records
- From Burnley to Cairo
- Circumnavigating Warbah and Rollicking Riproars, or how to cure the boredom of Empire
- A most depressing read
- The Slave Trade at Aden, Part 2
- The Slave Trade at Aden, Part 1
- Terror and Wonder Indian-style
- Allan Leonard Lewis VC: Wales’s forgotten war hero
- The Moustache Murder
- Fireworks tragedy sparks succession crisis
- Summoned by the Shah
- Award of Victoria Cross to Khudadad Khan
- The Waste-Paper Basket of Verse
- Newspaper notices- a window into the past
- Hue and Cry
- Launch of Qatar Digital Library
- Missionaries caught up in World War One
- Never a dull moment – the life of a diplomat’s wife
- Princess Victoria’s cycling adventure
- Looking a gift horse in the mouth
- A bottle of water and half a biscuit
- Sausages and bunting comfort troops in Paris
- The Euphrates Expedition of 1836: Ingenuity and Tragedy in Mesopotamia
- An insubordinate cricketer
- Engineering a career in India, part 2
- The Endangered Archives Programme - your chance to apply!
- Bringing Archive Catalogues to Life – the SNAC Project
- Arsenic, Cyanide and Strychnine - the Golden Age of Victorian Poisoners
- King Silence - the lives of Victorian deaf children
- Introducing the India Office Medical Archives Project
- Finding Indian soldiers who served in World War One
- Melancholy suicide at North Mimms
- Wealth and Want
- A Polymath in Muscat
- Buffoons, ear-pickers and sherbet-sellers
- Raising the Dead: Tales of Untold Lives
- Mabel Dearmer in Serbia
- The Rainsford Papers: Soldiers, sailors, ship-owners and mystical goings-on
- Women make comics: from Marie Duval to Janine
- The King’s Indian Orderly Officers
- 'The World’s War' on BBC2: Forgotten Soldiers of Empire
- Queen Anne is dead!
- Death in Paradise
- Pottinger’s property lost in Afghanistan
- George Bernard Shaw discards his birthday
- The Difference caus'd by mighty Love! - romance and the Benthams
- Can an Englishman become truly Indian?
- Let’s vary piracy, with a little burglary!
- Sidekicks and arch enemies in the archives
- Batman in India
- Indian Army officer deaths in World War One
- Franz Ferdinand - shooting and shopping in England
- The talented Mr Fox Talbot Part 4 – Assyriology
- Obscenity and men’s erotica – 1970s comics
- Grit and humour? How did people cope in the First World War?
- Indigo plantation murder trials
- Father’s Day in 1953
- World Cup 1950 – ‘England’s worst-ever display’
- Skulduggery in Bengal – a case of fraud
- D-Day - NAAFI was there!
- A comic take on life in the 1880s
- Rolling out the red carpet
- Housing Shortages in Bombay in the 1860s
- Major Morrison: Loyal British Servant or Political Mercenary?
- Engineering a career in India
- The Talented Mr Fox Talbot Part 3 - Astronomy
- The Runaway Princess
- Cesspools, coal chutes and Carisbrooke Castle: The East India Company on the Isle of Wight
- The rise and fall of the East India Company
- Dipping into the archives with Dan Snow
- Pushing the boundaries
- May Louise and the Marylebone midwife
- The Birth of Empire: the East India Company
- Comics Unmasked - Countdown to opening
- Street Fighting Men
- India Office First World War Memorial
- Making a little money on the side
- Zanzibar brawl
- RAF Tragedy in Oman
- Cityread London 2014 and the Experiences of Soldiers of Colour in World War One
- The Talented Mr Fox Talbot Part 2 - Botany
- ‘The Jewish State of Eastern Arabia’
- The deliberately dangerous beard
- Somewhere between freedom and slavery: runaway slaves in Britain’s Indian Navy
- A truly original Richard III
- Meet the Benthams: an extraordinary Georgian family
- A little wine for thy stomach's sake?
- Pilgrim traffic during the First World War
- Richard Meinertzhagen - hero or scoundrel?
- The talented Mr Fox Talbot
- Thomas Jewell Bennett: an early supporter of Indian Home Rule
- Francis Hamilton’s fish from the Ganges
- Men behaving badly - British allies in the Persian Gulf
- ‘Our hero is a sportsman’: British domestic interiors in 19th century India
- Mary March of Newfoundland
- Treating the Kaiser’s Withered Arm
- The Beauties of the Male Leg
- The age of the train - British Railways ephemera
- Where there’s a will, there’s a way
- Very strange if true
- Fanny Murray, Fair and Reigning Toast
- The British Tars’ Valentine
- Piracy and Plunder off the Oman Coast
- Disputed Succession - Edinburgh’s Dancing Masters
- ‘Persian Gulf tragedy’ – the death of John Gordon Lorimer
- Who wants to be a millionaire? Angela Burdett-Coutts and the man who wouldn’t go away
- ‘For the Sake of Freedom’: British World War II Propaganda Posters in Arabic
- Printing on Ice
- Untold Deaths
- Hatched, matched, and dispatched
- An Englishman in Rome
- East London stereotypes challenged
- George Orwell’s loft
- Scandal and bigamy in Georgian London
- The very definition of a ‘Hostile Takeover’
- Life in a Criminal Gang in India
- George IV in Highland Dress
- George III and Architectural Drawing
- King in Masquerade
- George I and the French and Italian comedians
- Drawing the Line – the partition of India and Pakistan
- New Year gifts to the poor from Queen Victoria
2013
- Alcohol’s Alphabet
- Pasteur benefits Indian livestock
- Christmas at Ladysmith 1899
- Dickens, Esther and Smallpox: A Bleak Prognosis
- The Highland Clans: letters from unknown gentlemen
- Henry Bunbury - Hogarthian Satirist
- Women of the Empire: a Privy Council case
- The Tower of Silence, a Zoroastrian detective story
- Midshipman Marriott and the Indian Navy spirit allowance
- 'Cornelia Calling' - A Voyage of Discovery in the British Library
- Cultivator or inventor?
- Dressing like a Queen
- The nuclear secrets of a Farnborough morris dancer
- The Singing Sailor - Salim Rashid Suri
- Finding Charles Clark: ‘a bibliographic farmer’
- Lay of the Red Moustache
- The cat and the diplomat
- “Is this my best side?” – George VI on Indian Banknotes
- Katie MacIntyre’s exotic taste
- Black Georgians? An ‘Affrican’ in Georgian London
- Queen Victoria, Guy Fawkes, and Shredded Wheat
- Queen’s Hallowe’en
- Armed and Dangerous – Victorian Prosthetics (Part 2)
- Alan Gradon Thomas, antiquarian bookseller
- Admiral Peter Rainier – Defender of British India
- Black History at the British Library
- The Elusive Dancing Master
- Picturing 400 Years of Asian Britain
- Aw! how I ded long for a tatie pasty!
- Italian Prisoners of War and Internees in India
- Without a Leg to Stand On – Victorian Prosthetics
- Diamonds at the Court of the Shah
- Endangered Archives Programme reveals Untold Lives
- Pistol, teapot, soap, and satin doublet: an East India Company merchant’s possessions
- Famous Frenchman found at Falmouth
- ‘An adventurer of a doubtful reputation’
- Indian soldiers’ views of England during World War I
- Plague, Snakes and Fishes
- Lip salve and worms in the face
- La Martiniere Schools: the legacy of Claude Martin
- The Lost City
- Bournville – A Confection of Industrial Relations
- A Hairy Subject – Secrecy, Shame and Victorian Wigs
- Fear no more the heat of the sun
- Babes in Arms
- Settling Scores: Property Confiscation after the Indian Mutiny
- Cooking with worm-eaten mushrooms
- Ghastly Kitchens
- Smiling with dead men’s teeth
- Punishing children in Victorian England
- History of Office Life reveals Charles Lamb's interest
- Joseph Faithful – an Anglo-Indian internee
- What happens when you let a Rajah escape?
- Scandal and ruin in 18th century Madras
- German Propaganda in Sharjah
- Bear’s grease, bonnets, bellows, biscuits and Bibles
- The Davisons of Northumberland and Bengal
- Dorothy Little – slave owner
- Sir Lewis Pelly, supporter of women’s suffrage
- Eleanor Rathbone and women's rights in India
- Waterloo mare for sale
- Christmas crackers and women’s suffrage
- The Women’s Co-operative Guild
- Archives and gunpowder
- Emily Wilding Davison: Perpetuating The Memory
- Lord Curzon's Anti-Suffrage Appeal
- Gardening as therapy
- ‘Domestic differences and little broils’
- Children in the corridors of power
- Nutrition in India
- Political Propaganda and the Quit India Movement
- Shameful tales from the Raj
- James Cunningham - the unluckiest botanist in Asia
- Agricultural Exhibitions in India
- The ‘laughable attitudes’ of Billy Noon
- The First of May – Chimney Sweeps’ Day
- History and science meet
- Let me tell you a story…
- How to stay healthy with homemade remedies
- Jungle trees and their uses
- Knitting a shower-proof golf coat
- Meteorites and other extraordinary phenomena in northern India
- Science and Great Yarmouth
- April Fool?
- Hand Grenade Throwing as a College Sport
- Policing the crowds in Aberystwyth
- Indian Doctors and the first Asiatic Cholera Pandemic
- Pilgrimage and public health
- Cholera on the emigrant ship 'Sheila'
- ‘Cholera mostly attacks at midnight’
- John Snow saves Soho bookbinders
- The Great Escape – Part 3
- Five weddings and a funeral
- Sisterhood and After: The Women’s Liberation Oral History Project
- Muslins, kincobs and choli cloths
- Researching Untold Lives
- Was 'water rat' the new black in 1697?
- ‘King’ Robbie James (1957-1998)
- Jimmy Speirs – Inspirational captain, brave soldier
- Elephant beauty parade
- Convicts and ploughs
- Marry in haste? Not us!
- The first western entrepreneurs in Afghanistan
- Japan400
- Heave Ho, Me Hearties!
- Catastrophe at the Foreign Office
- The ‘Apostle of Mesmerism in India’
- Forbes & Company - one of the oldest businesses in the world
- Worse than McGonagall? The poems of William Nathan Stedman
- The Royal Indian Asylum and the building of the railway at Ealing
- French journalists and ‘the greatest of all sedition-mongers’
- New Year’s Day in the Workhouse
2012
- Chinese Refugees in Georgian Britain
- Having a ball - Christmas in Calcutta
- John Mackinlay - “a dirty old brute”
- Destruction of Venomous Snakes in India
- Forest conservation and edible birds’ nests
- Floreat Aitchison!
- TMS – Two Masterly Sportsmen
- The Indian Sepoy in the trenches
- A Portrait of the Librarian as a Young Man
- Chicken surprise
- A Phantom Burglar and the Hulk
- Destruction of Wild Animals in Vizagapatam
- An eighteenth-century rake’s progress
- ‘Old Nimmo’- the Del Boy of the 1780s
- Roxburgh discovers the Bread-Fruit tree in India
- Black labourers in London
- Paupa Braminy – an overlooked Indian historian
- Adventures in Petticoats
- A Case of Kidnapping in India
- Mrs Hunter, Cree Translator
- India and the Olympic Games Part 2
- Exercise to ease a troubled mind
- Dennis Higton - An untold story of testing Britain's first jet plane
- Reading Music Festival
- What was Lawrence of Arabia doing in Afghanistan?
- A bookbinder’s revenge
- Dr Griffith’s Report on Caoutchouc (Rubber Tree) - transcript
- Dr Griffith’s Report on Caoutchouc (Rubber Tree)
- India and the Olympic Games
- Victorian Pedestrianism (2) – 1,000 Miles in 1,000 Hours
- Victorian Pedestrianism (1) – Robert Makepeace aka ‘The American Stag’
- Hume’s Stray Feathers
- Botany in British India
- Queens of the Silver Screen
- Rescue of an Indian boy from slavery in Muscat
- What shall we do with the drunken sailor?
- Queen Charlotte’s Arcot Diamonds
- Victor Sassoon and Shanghai
- Attempted Assassination of the Duke of Edinburgh
- Prisoners released for Diamond Jubilee
- Australian Aborigines and Makassan trepangers
- Engelbert Humperdinck, Eurovision, and the India Office Records!
- The Great Escape - Part 2
- The Great Escape - Part 1
- The Indian Comforts Fund (1939-45) – Humanitarian relief work for Indian soldiers in Europe
- Serena Livingstone-Stanley: unsung heroine of imperial exploration
- Friedrich Spassvogel – an unlived life!
- Botanical discoveries and beastly bungalows
- Whatever happened to Eliza Armstrong?
- Half cat, half rabbit: a zoo in Bloomsbury
- Yvonne FitzRoy and Victor Sassoon
- Duke of Cambridge supports campaign against London vice
- Bengal Army officers - names, nationalities, fatalities and a phantom
- “Shrapnel Biddulph” – telegraph engineer, soldier, romantic and artist
- Benevolence from Bengal: Amir Chand’s bequest
- Sir Josiah’s Disobedient Child
- Family budgets in 1920s India
- The search for Black Rock Part II
- The search for Black Rock Part I
- Not the Daily Express, 1905
- Dickens grows a beard
- A very unhappy birthday for Charles Dickens
- Suicide pact of bookbinder’s family
- Milk and two sugars: why Australians switched from Chinese to Indian tea
- A Name Carved in Stone: Henry Beaucourt Skyrme
- The East India Company slaving voyage of Nicholas Skottowe
- Blood writing in Buddhist scrolls
2011
- George Chinnery - an artist in Asia
- Boxing Day Murder in East London
- She whirls around! She bounds! She springs!
- The Spy who Came in from the Heat
- A Keynesian solution
- Tales from the other Shakespears
- Jean de Wavrin, writer of one of the great medieval chronicles of England
- Indian princess in suffragette march
- Valete fratres - Librarians and the First World War
- An Indian soldier in France during World War I
- 'Unfortunate' women
- Missionaries and madams
- Slavery, Shipwreck, and Suicide
- Napoleon - du pain, du vin …
- A radical intellectual for Black History Month
- From Death Row to Sir Hans Sloane
- Credit Crunch leads to Murder
- East India Company London workers
UK Web Archive
2025
- Collecting for the Women’s World Cup 2025 at the National Library of Wales
- Collecting Thistles: archiving Scotland at the Rugby Women’s World Cup 2025
- Nominations are open for the Women’s Rugby World Cup 2025 collection
- What to nominate for Women’s Rugby World Cup 2025
- UK Web Archive Report on Digital Methodologies for the Study of Religion Symposium
- RESAW 2025: Report from UK Web Archive Colleagues
- IIPC Web Archiving Conference 2025: Report from UK Web Archive Colleagues
- Marking 80 Years: Documenting VE and VJ Day Commemoration in the UK Web Archive
- Digital Memory and the Militarised Past: Commemorating Britain’s World Wars in the 21st Century
- Just launched - The Routledge Companion to Transnational Web Archive Studies
- Web Archives Collections as Data at the Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries (DHNB) Workshop Report
2024
- Datasheets for Web Archives Toolkit is now live
- Archiving Social Media with Browsertrix
- Creating and Sharing Collection Datasets from the UK Web Archive
- If websites could talk (part 6)
- IIPC Web Archiving Spring/Summer School and Conference 2024: Report from UK Web Archive Colleagues
- Reflections on the IIPC Early Scholars Spring School on Web Archives 2024
- Exploring Alternative Access: Making the Most of Web Archives During UK Web Archive Downtime
2023
- UK Web Archive Technical Update - Autumn 2023
- What can you discover and access in the UK Web Archive collection?
- How YouTube is helping to drive UK Web Archive nominations
- UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association Launch Event Report from the British Library
- UK Web Archive Technical Update - Summer 2023
- RESAW 2023 Conference Report from the UK Web Archive
- IIPC Web Archiving Conference 2023 Report from the UK Web Archive
- LGBTQ+ Connections and Community
- Reflections on the IIPC Web Archiving Conference 2023
- Regal Reflections: Exploring a New UK Web Archive Collection on King Charles III
- UK Web Archive Technical Update - Spring 2023
- Celebrating ten years of collecting the UK Web Space
- UK Web Archive Technical Update - Winter 2022
- Changes in Nature’s Calendar – Early Bloomers
2022
- Examining sports history through digitised & born digital resources
- Pride and Visibility in the LGBTQ+ Lives Online Collection
- History on the move: Curating a collection on the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee
- If Websites Could talk - Part 5
- Calling All Digital Preservers!
- UK Web Archive Technical Update - Autumn 2022
- The UEFA Women’s EURO 2022 Arts and Heritage Programme
- WARCnet Special Report: Skills, Tools and Knowledge Ecologies in Web Archive Research, 2022
- iPres 2022 Conference Report from the UK Web Archive
- iPres report: a simple workshop exercise using Robust Links
- Celebrating Sporting Heritage Day 2022
- GLAM Workbench update
- Cats on the web and in the web archive
- Web archiving the UEFA Women’s Euros in Wigan
- Web archiving the UEFA Women’s Euros in Sheffield
- Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Web Archiving the UEFA Women’s Euro England 2022 tournament in Northern Ireland
- Web Archiving the UEFA Women’s Euros in Scotland and Wales
- UK Web Archive Technical Update - Summer 2022
- What to expect on the UK Web Archive blog during UEFA Women’s Euro England 2022
- What content should I nominate on the UEFA Women’s Euro to the UK Web Archive?
- Breaking the News - News collections in the Web Archive
- Can you help the UK Web Archive preserve football history?
- What UKWA did at the IIPC Web Archive Conference 2022
- Building Event Collections from Web Archives
- UK Web Archive Technical Update - Spring 2022
- The Queen's Platinum Jubilee in the UK Web Archive
- International Women’s Day 2022 - save your event ad now!
- The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee in the UK Web Archive
- Explore Women’s Football in the UK Web Archive
- UKWA 2021 Technical update
2021
- How a web designed for the visually impaired is a better web for everyone
- Welsh language websites within the UK Web Archive
- Clouds and blackberries: how web archives can help us to track the changing meaning of words
- UK Web Archive Climate Change Collection
- UK Communities online - Enthusiasts and Hobbyists
- Web Archive Summer of Sport Roundup
- Important information for our email subscribers
- London 2012 Paralympics in the UK Web Archive
- If Websites Could Talk - Part 4
- London’s Olympic Legacy: Local, National and International Aspirations
- Alternative Sports in the UK Web Archive - Part 2
- Scottish Sport in the UK Web Archive
- Football Associations in the UK Web Archive
- Alternative Sports in the UK Web Archive - Part 1
- Curating the UKWA LGBTQ+ Lives Online collection
- International Museums Day 2021
- Shakespeare in the UK Web
- University of Edinburgh’s Collecting Covid-19 Initiative: Collaborative Collection Building with the UKWA
- British Science Week and the UK Web Archive
- Rabbie Burns and the UK Web Archive
2020
- Creating a Web Collection for the exhibition - Unfinished Business: The Fight for Women’s Rights
- LGBTQ+ Lives Online Web Archive Collection
- Web Archive Team wins 2020 Digital Preservation Award
- 2020 Domain Crawl Update
- How Remembrance Day has Changed
- A tale of two web archives: challenges of engaging web archival infrastructures for research
- The UK Web Archive website over time - 15 Years of UKWA
- On World Digital Preservation Day, the UK Web Archive and the ‘Children of Lockdown’ capture the moment for future generations
- Curating culturally themed collections online: The Russia in the UK Collection, UK Web Archive
- LGBTQ+ Lives Online: Introducing the Lead Curators
- Digital archaeology in the web of links: reconstructing a late-90s web sphere
- The UK Web Archive creeps and crawls into the domain of Halloween with byte sized steps
- PRONI Web Archive: A Collaborative Approach
- The 1916 Easter Rising Web Archive
- The UK Web Archive and Wimbledon; A Winning Combination
- Exploring media events with Shine
- Engaging with Web Archives - Conference Report
- Safeguarding the Digital Legacy: the UK Web Archive is a finalist for the 2020 Digital Preservation Awards
- Request for Information: Metadata Management Tool for the UK Web Archive
- National Sporting Heritage Day 2020
- The World of Food and the UK Web Archive
- Arnhem75 - a special collection of websites added to the UK Web Archive
- Launching the UK Web Archive 2020 Annual Domain Crawl
- UKWA available in reading rooms again
- 15 Years of UKWA - Introducing Legal Deposit to Web Archiving in 2013
- Cats vs Dogs on the Archived Web
- Going for gold: exploring Olympic & Paralympic resources
- Twit twoo: International Owl Awareness Day 2020
- LGBTQ+ Lives Online
- 15 Years of UKWA - Looking back at our first collections
- Our new Science web archive collection
- WARCnet and the UK Web Archive
- Documenting the Olympics & Paralympics
- Using Webrecorder to archive UK political party leaders' social media after the UK General Election 2019
- Web Archiving the UK General Election 2019
- The Brexit Collection in the UK Web Archive
- Harnessing the Crowd: Coronavirus Topical Collection at the UK Web Archive
- Adding Poetry Websites to the UK Web Archive
- UKWA: What's available when the reading rooms are closed?
- Boris Johnson, fertility and the royal baby: how far does the concept of Olympic Legacy go?
- Theseus' Data Store
- A Readers Journey: an introduction to using the Reading Rooms at the British Library
- 15 Years of the UK Web Archive - The Early Years
- Spotlight on Hedley Sutton, Asian & African Studies Reference Team Leader at The British Library
- If Websites Could Talk - Part 3 (this time it's personal)
2019
- What is left behind? Exploring the Olympic Games legacies through the UK Web Archive
- Militarism and its role in the commemoration of British war dead
- UKWA Website Crawl - One hour in One minute
- The Magic of Wimbledon in the UK Web Archive
- Summer Placement with the UK Web Archive
- Trains, Tea, Depression and Cats – what do UK Interactive Fiction writers write about?
- FIFA Women’s World Cup and the UK Web Archive
- Collecting Interactive Fiction
- Save UK Published Google + Accounts Now!
- Extracting Place Names from Web Archives at Archives Unleashed Vancouver
2018
- The UK Web Archive gets a fresh look
- World Digital Preservation Day 2018
- Sports Collections in the UK Web Archive
- Web Archives: A Tool for Geographical Research?
- How is the UK Web Archive documenting the ‘bodily autonomy’ debate online?
- Building collections on Gender Equality at the UK Web Archive
- Work Experience at the UK Web Archive
- Online Hours: Supporting Open Source
- Star Wars in the Web Archive
- A New Playback Tool for the UK Web Archive
- Archiving the UK Copyright Literacy blog
2017
- What can you find in the (Beta) UK Web Archive?
- A New (Beta) Interface for the UK Web Archive
- Driving Crawls With Web Annotations
- Guy Fawkes, Bonfire or Fireworks Night?
- Web Archiving Tools for Legal Deposit
- Collecting Webcomics in the UK Web Archive
- If Websites Could Talk (again)
- The Proper Serious Work of Preserving Digital Comics
- The 2016 EU Referendum Debate
- Revitalising the UK Web Archive
- What websites do we collect during UK General Elections?
- The Challenges of Web Archiving Social Media
2016
- If Websites Could Talk
- Explore Your Archives Week at the UK Web Archive
- Web Archiving Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games
- Commemorating the Battle of the Somme in the UK Web Archive
- Surveying the Domain: Three Days with the Web Archiving Team
- Poetry Goes Online: Preserving poetry journals and zines for the Web archive
- Tender to Redevelop the UK Web Archive Website
- Capturing and Preserving the EU Referendum Debate (Brexit)
- Saving BBC Recipes Website
- Easter Rising 1916 Centenary in Print and Digital
- Introducing SHINE 2.0 - A Historical Search Engine
2015
- The Provenance of Web Archives
- Who is best - Cats or Dogs?
- Playing at Web Archiving
- British Stand-Up Comedy Archive Special Collection
- Ten years of the UK web archive: what have we saved?
- 2015 UK Domain Crawl has started
- 10 Years of the Web Archive - What have we saved - video
- Characterisations of Climate Change
- Beginner’s Guide to Web Archives Part 3
- Viral Content in the UK Domain
- Geo-location in the 2014 UK Domain Crawl
- Curating the Election - Archiving the most complex General Election yet…
- UK Web Archives Forum @ BBC Broadcasting House
- Big UK Domain Data for the Arts and Humanities: working with the archive of UK web space, 1996–2013
- What is a Web Archive? (in less than 3 mins)
- Ten years of archiving the web - A reflective blog post by Nicola Bingham, Web Archivist
- RESAW Conference – showcasing research of the historical web
- Beginner’s Guide to Web Archives Part 2
- Towards a Macroscope for UK Web History
- Beginners Guide to Web Archives Part 1
- Web archiving as a challenging business
- Political parties in the UK Web Archive
- France - UK: complementary views on web archiving
- 2015 UK General Election Web Archive Special Collections
- Happy Birthday Magna Carta! All the best from the Web Archive xxx
- Building a 'Historical Search Engine' is no easy thing
- Collecting Data To Improve Tools
- Spam as a very ephemeral (and annoying) genre…
2014
- Collecting First World War Websites – November 2014 update
- Powering the UK Web Archive search with Solr
- What is still on the web after 10 years of archiving?
- Thoughts on website selecting for the UK Web Archive
- Dot Scot: A new domain identity
- User driven digital preservation with Interject
- Archiving ‘screenshots’
- Web Archiving in the JavaScript Age
- Web Archiving Collection Development Policies Roundup
- Special Collection – Tour de France comes to Yorkshire
- First World War Centenary – an online legacy in partnership with the HLF
- A right to be remembered
- UK Web Domain Crawl 2014 – One month update
- Researcher in focus: Saskia Huc-Hepher – French in London
- How much of the UK's HTML is valid?
- Your Web Archive Needs You!
- Researcher in focus: Paul Thomas - UK and Canadian Parliamentary Archives
- How big is the UK web?
- ‘Vague, but exciting’ - #web25
- Jorge Luis Borges and Twitter
- New research project: Big UK Domain Data for the Arts and Humanities
- RESAW: Research infrastructure for the Study of Archived Web materials
2013
- Political party web archives
- The three truths of Margaret Thatcher
- Watching the UK domain crawl with Monitrix
- Crawling the UK web domain
- Scaling up to archive the UK web
- Propaganda, political communication and action on the web
- Using open data to visualise the early web
- Innovation in geographical context: the Cambridge Network collection
- Scholars and web archives: a report on the IIPC General Assembly, Slovenia April 2013
- History is arbitrary (if we let it)
- The new NHS: a reform you could see from space?
- Dispatches from the domain crawl #1
- Just what is the UK web domain anyway ?
- Health and Social Care Act 2012: collection now available
- Non-Print Legal Deposit: it's here !
- Librarianship in the 21st century: a new collection
- APIs, data services, and being generous
- NHS Reform: capturing the change
- Governing the Police: a special collection
- Nineteenth century English literature: a new special collection
- What’s in a name ? Domain names and website longevity
- Archiving social media: a workshop report
- Surfing the web in time: Mementos
- Web archiving: how to fit it in ? A workshop report
- What could you do with an archive of the UK web, 1996-2010 ?
- Religion, politics and the law: a new special collection
- Oral history in the UK: a new special collection
- Slavery and Abolition in the Caribbean: a new special collection
2012
- Digital Humanities and the Study of the Web and Web Archives
- Capturing the police authorities
- Monarchy and New Media: bookings open
- Upgrading the Wayback Machine
- Non-Print Legal Deposit Regulations 2013: what will they say ?
- Web archiving at LIKE39: what, why and how
- How good is good enough? – Quality Assurance of harvested web resources
- Ambassador, with these websites, you're really spoiling us
- Religion, the state and the law in contemporary Britain
- BlogForever: a new approach to blog harvesting and preservation ?
- Exploring the lost web
- Digital Research 2012, Oxford
- Valuing Video Games Heritage: an update on our new video games collection
- Web Archives and Chinese Literature
- How to Make Websites More Archivable?
- Analysing File Formats in Web Archives
- Visualising the UK Web Domain
- Diamond Jubilee Collection live
- Archiving the history of the British slave trade, from the web
- UK Web Archive in the eyes of scholars
- Religious Websites and the Diamond Jubilee
- Crowdsourcing and Web Archiving
- Associations and Citizenship: Researching the ‘Big Society’ on the Web
- Scholarly value of the UK Web Archive? (correction)
- Scholarly value of the UK Web Archive?
- Improved search functionality
- Notice: Planned outage
- Public Consultation on non-print legal deposit
- A Note on Nominations
- London Calling! Announcing the London 2012 Special Collection
- Blog archiving: a contributor's perspective
- New Collection: Video Games, Gaming Culture and the Impact of games on Society
- New project: Analytical Access to the Domain Dark Archive
- The Diamond Jubilee collection: nominations open!
- Techtalk: Wayback & HDFS
2011
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- Archiving websites with the Web Curator Tool
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- Twittervane: Crowdsourcing selection
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- The UK Web Archive Advent Calendar
- UK Web Archive #FastFacts: A Starter for 10.
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