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January 2026

  1. Blogs in this series

September 2025

  1. Round 21: call for applications, webinars and our new portal
  2. Maude Nathan, bookbinder (1871–1910)

August 2025

  1. Example blog
  2. The British Library as a Global Archive
  3. Caring for the Dead: a unique Mon funeral book
  4. The Provenance of the Colebrooke Collection (5): Commemorating a Collector
  5. The Scrapbooks of the Imprimerie Royale
  6. Tulips: Dutch, Turkish, or Flemish?
  7. Not lost in translation
  8. Transporting the Library into a steampunk universe
  9. Beyond the Bassline: making an impact in libraries across the UK
  10. Ferocious fish
  11. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor at 150: Overview of British Library collections
  12. Happy 90th birthday Paul Thompson!
  13. Witnessing the nuclear age
  14. The Radical Act behind your local library: Celebrating 175 years of public libraries
  15. Engraving the engraver: Sébastien Leclerc I and the Imprimerie Royale
  16. Maria Harriett Turner – JMW’s Unconventional Cousin
  17. VJ Day, 15 August 1945
  18. Papers of Frederick William Thomas, India Office Librarian and Philologist
  19. Collecting for the Women’s World Cup 2025 at the National Library of Wales
  20. Collecting Thistles: archiving Scotland at the Rugby Women’s World Cup 2025

July 2025

  1. A veterinary text between Mongols, Mamluks and Armenians
  2. The Provenance of the Colebrooke Collection (4): Accusations of Corruption
  3. A showcase for the British Library from Göttingen: The Bohairic–Arabic Holy Week lectionary Add MS 5997 dated 1273 CE
  4. Automatic Text Recognition in Cultural Heritage Institutions survey: a brief analysis and a published dataset
  5. A Geographer’s Initiation Into Digital Humanities: Part 1
  6. Bringing the heritage of the Bonpos to the world
  7. A Newly Discovered Lease by John Milton in the Portland Papers
  8. Printed cultural heritage of Slovenian émigré communities in Europe, Americas and Australia
  9. Celebrating Stanisław Wyspiański at the British Library
  10. Planting seeds of possibility
  11. Sharing our Annual Report highlights for 2024–25
  12. Discovering unexpected ancestors in the online newspaper collection
  13. Women’s voices in football fandom
  14. Thomas Wolsey and the invasion of France
  15. The Passion in pictures
  16. Cataloguing the Campbell charters
  17. 100 years of Mikis Theodorakis
  18. Postcards from Salzburg: IAML Congress 2025
  19. Wild British Library: From Box to Bees: The story of a wildflower meadow springing up in St Pancras
  20. How a British AI pioneer helped to make the 1983 sci-fi classic "WarGames"
  21. ‘Herstory: 50 Years of Rape Crisis’. A new oral ‘herstory’ archive and podcast
  22. Oral history at Groundswell 2025
  23. The varied careers of James Estcourt Atwood
  24. A potted history of gardening books
  25. From East India Company labourer to gentleman - the life of Benjamin Constable
  26. Assassination on the beach: The death of Shaikh Khalīfah
  27. Case of C W O’Donoghue - Destitute in London
  28. Nominations are open for the Women’s Rugby World Cup 2025 collection
  29. What to nominate for Women’s Rugby World Cup 2025

June 2025

  1. Summer Scholars Lunchtime Talks 2025!
  2. The Perfection of Wisdom in 8000 Lines: a Mahayana Buddhist text
  3. An Egyptian stela for the highly-born woman Imaw: one of the oldest items in the British Library
  4. Early Arabi-Malayalam printed books in the British Library
  5. The Provenance of the Colebrooke Collection (3): Colebrooke and the Pandits
  6. The Digital Research team at DH2025
  7. Reflections from the IIIF Annual Conference 2025
  8. New Italian Literature: Premio Strega 2025
  9. Works of Svetlana Aleksievich: editions, translations, interpretations
  10. Gnomes and Gardens
  11. Deciphering a 20,000-year-old mystery: An interview with Bennett Bacon
  12. Five outstanding manuscripts acquired for the nation
  13. Frédéric Kastner’s singing flames
  14. The average chess players of Bletchley Park and AI research in Britain
  15. Clod Magazine editors in the British Library studio
  16. Joseph Fowke’s farewell letter
  17. ‘Marmion’ design by John Leighton FSA (1822-1912)
  18. Wreck of the American ship 'Squantum'
  19. Sermon notes of a 17th century woman: Lady Anne Harcourt
  20. UK Web Archive Report on Digital Methodologies for the Study of Religion Symposium
  21. RESAW 2025: Report from UK Web Archive Colleagues

May 2025

  1. New display of manuscript textiles from Southeast Asia
  2. The Provenance of the Colebrooke Collection (2): Colebrooke’s manuscripts on Hindu law
  3. The Provenance of the Colebrooke Collection (1): The Colebrooke Family and the East India Company
  4. Heritage under Occupation: The Japanese Commercial Postcards of a Unified Korea
  5. Discover Digital Sustainability
  6. Italian Connections Unearthed
  7. Seminar on Textual Bibliography for Modern Foreign Languages
  8. Terror, triumph and resistance: Women in the Yugoslav Partisans, 1941-1945
  9. Remembering Sacrifice, Celebrating Freedom
  10. TikTok, activism and archives: the latest from Young Creators Lab
  11. ‘News wonderful, weather hot’: a selection of programmes from the wartime National Gallery Concerts
  12. VE Day: voices from history
  13. VE Day in the news
  14. Titwood and Corkerhill Coal Mines
  15. A village in exchange for recital of a book
  16. Napoleon’s Travelling Bookcase
  17. VE Day Celebrations in London, May 1945
  18. IIPC Web Archiving Conference 2025: Report from UK Web Archive Colleagues
  19. Marking 80 Years: Documenting VE and VJ Day Commemoration in the UK Web Archive
  20. Digital Memory and the Militarised Past: Commemorating Britain’s World Wars in the 21st Century

April 2025

  1. Two New Eccles Fellowships for Creative Practitioners!
  2. Eccles Institute Visiting Fellows, 2025-26
  3. Photobooks and the Creative Journey: An Interview with James Clifford Kent
  4. Not Fowl: Feathered friends in Coptic and Armenian Manuscripts
  5. A Priest and an Artist: Tracking Down Who Sold Baybars' Qur'an
  6. Conservation for Digitisation: Arakanese Buddhist Manuscripts from the Murray Collection by Ana C. García Pérez
  7. DHNB 2025 - Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Conference Report
  8. Wikisource 2025 Conference: Collaboration, Innovation, and the Future of Digital Texts
  9. P.G. Wodehouse: the Man, the Musicals, the Manuscripts
  10. ████ is ████. Navigating the Minefield of (Self-)censorship in Putin's Russia
  11. Knowledge without borders
  12. Investigating forebears in the records of the past: An interview with Ken Foster
  13. Culinary manuscripts at the British Library
  14. Electronic Legal Deposit – April 2025 update
  15. Reassessing Children's Music with BBC Radio for Schools
  16. Unlocking Hidden Collections: one year of cataloguing trade literature
  17. Interactive Listening: Engaging children with testimonies part 2
  18. Children in war-time
  19. Walter Key Haslewood of the Bengal Army
  20. Sir Richard Corbett, East India Company warehouse labourer
  21. Captain Leathes Johnston, an 18th-century soldier
  22. Maggs Bros. Ltd. - the inner workings of an antiquarian bookseller
  23. Just launched - The Routledge Companion to Transnational Web Archive Studies
  24. Web Archives Collections as Data at the Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries (DHNB) Workshop Report

March 2025

  1. The deadly women of crime fiction
  2. ‘America Now!’ continues: True Crime in the USA
  3. Call For Papers: Twentieth-Century Black Periodicals and Space
  4. Exploring Thai art: Frederick S. Harrop (1887–1969)
  5. Funded Conservation Internship 2024/25 by Ana C. García Pérez
  6. Help us explore Automatic Text Recognition in cultural heritage institutions!
  7. Fantastic Futures 2025 (FF2025) Call for Proposals
  8. Projects that went online in 2024-25
  9. Historic maps of the Slovene lands
  10. Small and rare: a Spanish love story
  11. Learning - and Shouting out for - German over the Centuries
  12. Lidwina van Schiedam: Patron Saint of Ice Skaters and Chronic Illness
  13. Latest Pay Gaps Report published
  14. Finding out about service updates – March 2025
  15. Celebrating World Book Day® with schools and families
  16. The Moutier Grandval Bible loaned to Jura
  17. Unfolding Time: The Medieval Pocket Calendar
  18. The Paul Hirsch Music Collection
  19. Remembering Artists' Lives interviewee Rory Young
  20. An experimental weaving station at Benares
  21. A sailor’s slush fund
  22. Mrs Ellen Evershed, embroideress; a Victorian ‘Dragon’
  23. Stories of Provenance Research: Records and Manuscripts Lost at Sea (Part 2): RMS Titanic

February 2025

  1. PhD placement scheme in North and Latin American sections at the British Library - applications open until 21 February 2025
  2. Remembering Velma Pollard
  3. A Missing Mirror: The British Library's Mir'atü'l-hubûş and Ottoman Ethiopian Studies
  4. Doctoral fellowship opportunity in African collections at the British Library
  5. Colonel Jayakar's Omani Treasures
  6. Collaborative Solutions for Digitising Oversized Foldouts: Conservation and Imaging Challenges in the British Library and Qatar Foundation Partnership by Batoul Asgara
  7. PhD placement opportunity: Curating the manuscripts in the Lady Eccles Oscar Wilde Collection
  8. From the Track to the Page: the Legacy of Zdeněk Koubek and Lída Merlínová.
  9. Kharkiv
  10. Queen Tamar – the ‘King of Kings’

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