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- 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
- '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...
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- 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
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- ‘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
- 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
- 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
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- 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
- 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
- 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
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- Sir Thomas Reade: Knight, ‘Nincumpoop’ and Collector of Antiquities
- A rare map from Mindanao
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- 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
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- 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
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- A Malay document from the Aru Islands
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- 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
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- A prodigal Balinese manuscript leaf is reunited with its family
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- 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
- 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
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- 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
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- 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?
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Collection care
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- A Book Conservator Without Any Books: Part 1
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- The Mahārnava, Conservation of a 19th Century Birch Bark Manuscript
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- The mannequin must be unpacked!
- From Integrated Pest Management to Preserving Historic Photos - Spring and Summer 2020 One Day Courses at British Library
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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- 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
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- Library Carpentry: software skills workshops for librarians
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- BL Labs Symposium (2016), Mon 7 Nov: book your place now!
- Digital Conversations @BL: Multimedia PhD Research and Non-text Theses
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- Multimedia PhD Research and Non-text Theses
- British Library Labs Staff Awards 2016: Looking for entries now!
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- BL Labs Symposium (2016): book your place for Mon 7th Nov 2016
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- BL Labs Awards (2016): enter before midnight 5th September!
- Black Abolitionist Performances and their Presence in Britain
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- Announcing the BL Labs Competition finalists for 2016
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- The Georgian Pingbacks Project
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- 'Why Londoners need not stand in fear of Drought': Depictions of Late Nineteenth Century London in the Pall Mall Gazette
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- 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)
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- BL Digital Scholarship goes Latin
- BL Labs Entrepreneurial Award (2015): runner up project ‘The British Library “Library Wall”’
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- BL Labs Awards (2015): Entrepreneurial category Award winning project
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- BL Labs Awards (2015): Creative/Artistic category Award winning project
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- From Data to Art: the Internet of Cultural Things
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- 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
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- Electronic Beowulf 4.0
- 'Following the Chartists around London' event (BL Labs Competition winning project)
- British Library Labs Symposium (2015)
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- #CitizenHums and #MakingBigDataHuman
- What is a Game Jam? By Adam Crymble
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- My Digital Rights: Where next for our Magna Carta for the digital age?
- British Library Labs Competition 2015 - Winners Announced!
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- Digital Conversations @ BL: Digital Music Analysis
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- British Library Labs Symposium 2014 – The Winners
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- The British Library at Digital Humanities 2014
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- British Library Labs Competition 2014 - Winners Announced!
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- 50th Anniversary!
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- #bldigital British Library Collaborative PhD studentship
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- 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
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- Digital Scholarship training in and outside of the British Library
- The Mechanical Curator
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- AHRC Big Data Research call
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- First World War Workshop – 29 June 2013
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- We meet again, Mr Bentham, and you're being transcribed.
- Phylogenetic Tree Visualisation and Annotation
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- Digital Conversations series: Debating the Cloud
- “….some say word clouds are the mullets of the internet”
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- IIIF: Enhancing Digital Scholarship
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Endangered archives
- 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
- Round 20: call for applications, important deadlines & more webinars
- Webinars for Applicants — Round 20
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- Digitising The Histories of Islamic West Africa
- 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
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- EAP Cataloguer Vacancy
- New online - September 2022
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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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!
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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- Re-reading Ted Hughes' Lupercal
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- 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
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- 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
- ‘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
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- 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
- 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
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- 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
- 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)
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- 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
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- 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
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- ‘For it was the middle of June’: Dalloway Day
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- Angela Carter: A Celebration
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- To Sir With Love, a new appreciation for an old favourite
- Collecting Literature on the Web: a Q&A
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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- 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'
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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: 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
- 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
- ‘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
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- The Growth of the Beard
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- Beauty in word and image
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- On the eve... Germans in Britain in 1913
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- Have yourself a scripturally correct Christmas
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- Talking about translation
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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Moving Lines: Climate Change, Maps and Boundaries
- British Antarctic Survey data available on digital maps viewer
- In Memoriam: Maurice Nicholson
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Diverse cartography of the Levant
- Back to front
- Two recent flight-related additions to the Map Collection
- British Empire maps of Africa added online
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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?
- 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?
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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- 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
- 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
- '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’
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Gold - why is it so valuable?
- Healthy Cities - How do we make London happier and healthier after Covid-19?
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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?
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- VE Day: voices from history
- Unlocking Hidden Collections: one year of cataloguing trade literature
- Holocaust Memorial Day 2025: books presenting personal testimonies
- 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
- 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
- 7 Days, Culture and the Arts
- 7 Days - Back then and now: a personal recollection by John Mathews
- Designing 7 Days
- ‘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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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!
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Management and Business Studies at the British Library
- Census Statistics and Resources
- Call me the nicknamemeister (or N-dog for short)
- Behind the scenes in social sciences
- Digital Methods as Mainstream Methodology
- Research participation and auto/biography
- upstairs fains I downstairs bagsy
- From Myths and Realities to Equality and Egalitarianism (and more besides…)
- 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
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- 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?
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- 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!
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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- Mary Ann Ayah accused of theft
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- The new India Office
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- The story the India Office Records preserve about kasids
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- Life on the Home Front
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- Hauntings at Hinton Ampner
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- Diary of a Lumber Jill
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- 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
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- East India Company appointments by the Prince Regent – (2) Peniston Lamb
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- Hilda Elizabeth Henry - 'a skilled craftswoman of exquisite taste'
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- 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)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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…
- 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
- 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
- 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
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- TechTalk: UKWA web archiving tools on GitHub
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- Archiving websites with the Web Curator Tool
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- Twittervane: Crowdsourcing selection
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