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December 2012

  1. Evidence in Social Welfare Policy and Practice Conference, 7 Dec 2012
  2. Season's Greetings from Team Americas
  3. Cold Comfort: Royalty and Polar sovereignty
  4. Thomas Nast and the birth of Santa Claus
  5. Valhalla of Famous Army Pigeons
  6. Exploring the Yucatán and Mayan Culture
  7. Caribbean Gothic: colonial and postcolonial views
  8. The Aura of the Object: Jack Kerouac's manuscript scroll
  9. Ernest vs Martha vs War
  10. Earliest surviving Mughal document?
  11. Blockheads and coxcombs: a belated bicentenary mention for Edmond Malone
  12. Privates on Parade- Theatre of War
  13. Some gratuitous Christmas illustrations
  14. The Nativity in maps
  15. Falmouth gets the octopus treatment
  16. The Conservation of Codex Alexandrinus
  17. Happy Christmas!
  18. Here Comes Santa Claus
  19. Christmas Presents for Manuscript Lovers
  20. A Royal Gift for Christmas
  21. Can Deer Fly? Rudolph Goes Medieval
  22. New Testament from Oldest Complete Bible Available Online
  23. Camelot: The Prequel
  24. The Four Seasons
  25. A New Window on the Harley Collection
  26. The Distinguished Pedigree of Mrs Tiggy-Winkle
  27. Lions, Monkeys and Bears - Oh, My! The Bohun Psalter and Hours
  28. You Give Love a Bad Name
  29. A Calendar Page for December 2012
  30. History of the Christmas carol - Part 2
  31. A brief history of the Christmas carol
  32. Cataloguing and Processing the Ethnographic Wax Cylinder Collection
  33. Some of the earliest recordings of Chamber Music added to BL Sounds website
  34. Happy Winter Solstice From BL Social Sciences
  35. Commoditising risk in a global age: spread betting and digital gambling
  36. Sport? That's so gay!
  37. In Service of Their Country: The Pigeon Manual
  38. Tales from the Archive: How do food researchers from different disciplines use archives
  39. Social Welfare at the British Library
  40. What counts as 'valid' knowledge? A day exploring knowledge, power and learning
  41. Kinokophonography at the British Library
  42. Editing the A.R. Gregory Kenyan bird recordings collection
  43. Chinese Refugees in Georgian Britain
  44. Having a ball - Christmas in Calcutta
  45. John Mackinlay - “a dirty old brute”
  46. Destruction of Venomous Snakes in India
  47. Digital Humanities and the Study of the Web and Web Archives
  48. Capturing the police authorities

November 2012

  1. A Disputed Boundary: mapping the Gadsden Purchase Treaty
  2. Mapping risk: Goad's Fire Insurance Plan of Québec
  3. From the Collections: Captain Cook and the Nuu-Chah-Nulth
  4. Exploring Cuba - from St Pancras
  5. Tecumseh's warriors: First Nations and the War of 1812
  6. US Presidential Election: Bill Clinton at Penn
  7. Down to the wire: the U.S. election
  8. A History photographed: Canada in World War 1
  9. 'Just a name on a list'? Archives: traces of the past, guarantor of the future
  10. Links with OS past
  11. Annoucing BL Georeferencer champions
  12. Shot through the Heart and You're to Blame
  13. Social Media and Medieval Manuscripts
  14. Exploring Our Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts
  15. Pop Goes the Weasel
  16. New Additions to Digitised Manuscripts
  17. British Library Manuscripts Featured in New Getty Exhibition
  18. Rediscovering Malory: Digitising The Morte Darthur
  19. Found in a Bricked-Up Chamber: The Reading Abbey Library Catalogue
  20. Beavers On The Run
  21. Beautiful Contraband: The Queen Mary Psalter
  22. A Calendar Page for November 2012
  23. Cataloguing the Malcolm Sargent Collection
  24. International Folk Music Film Festival in Nepal
  25. World and Traditional Music collections on YouTube
  26. Mozart's Marriage Contract
  27. Boxing day
  28. The Stephen Oliver Archive at the British Library
  29. Brazilian music lecture podcast
  30. Debating the right to die and other challenging topics
  31. Researching ethnicity, identity and 'mixed-race'
  32. What can Public Open Data and Academia Learn From Each Other
  33. U.S.A. Government Material the British Library
  34. Oral history interviews: possibilities for re-use by social scientists
  35. Did the Olympics do the trick?
  36. there's summat about nowt as gets us goat (and that rhymes by the way)
  37. eh, those lovable Geordies!
  38. A.R. Gregory Kenyan bird recordings
  39. Tuning in on the first days of broadcasting
  40. Documenting music in Nepal
  41. Blowin' in the Wind
  42. Forest conservation and edible birds’ nests
  43. Floreat Aitchison!
  44. TMS – Two Masterly Sportsmen
  45. The Indian Sepoy in the trenches
  46. A Portrait of the Librarian as a Young Man
  47. Chicken surprise
  48. Monarchy and New Media: bookings open
  49. Upgrading the Wayback Machine
  50. Non-Print Legal Deposit Regulations 2013: what will they say ?
  51. Web archiving at LIKE39: what, why and how

October 2012

  1. Post the Post-Tropical Storm
  2. A Philadelphia Tempest: Hurricane Sandy
  3. Lions and Pink Slips
  4. Typing - and Retyping On the Road
  5. A History of Conflict: Québec City and War
  6. The Sense of Hemingway's Endings
  7. Film and On the Road
  8. Three weeks, fuelled by coffee: Jack Kerouac's On the Road scroll
  9. On the Road: scroll versus book
  10. James Evans and the Cree Syllabary
  11. David Amram, Then and Now
  12. Sheila Rowbotham: Helen Tufts Bailie and the Daughters of the American Revolution
  13. Two recent acquisitions
  14. "As I write this letter...Treasure these few words 'til we're together": John Lennon's Letters
  15. British Library has acquired the James Berry archive
  16. The Power of Caribbean Poetry – Word and Sound
  17. Difficult maps
  18. Chance to georeference maps online!
  19. Happy Halloween!
  20. Off With Her Head! Pictures from the Prose Tristan
  21. What's on Digitised Manuscripts? The Top 10
  22. Bad News Birds
  23. Paging through Troilus and Criseyde
  24. British Library Journal Now Online
  25. Elephants on Parade
  26. Magna Carta Researcher
  27. More Gorleston Psalter 'Virility': Profane Images in a Sacred Space
  28. 'Virile, if Somewhat Irresponsible' Design: The Marginalia of the Gorleston Psalter
  29. Describing Medieval Manuscripts
  30. Digitising Royal: New Perspectives on the Royal Manuscript Collection: A Workshop at the British Library
  31. Lindisfarne Gospels Back on Display
  32. A Calendar Page for October 2012
  33. BBC Opera Librettos
  34. Music research archives in India
  35. Independent Labels
  36. Fernando Valero (1854-1914) Rare recording previously thought lost
  37. Visual Urbanisms: Perspectives on Contemporary Research
  38. High Street Gambling - A Spatial Analysis
  39. ‘Identifiers’: Creating a network of researchers and research objects
  40. Marmalade United
  41. Social Science at The British Library
  42. What Do Practitioners Need to Know About Research?
  43. Welcome
  44. More thoughts about the future
  45. A word in your shell-like
  46. British Library Sounds website shortlisted in prestigious awards
  47. New broadcast media resources at the British Library
  48. New moving image service at the British Library
  49. A Phantom Burglar and the Hulk
  50. Destruction of Wild Animals in Vizagapatam
  51. An eighteenth-century rake’s progress
  52. ‘Old Nimmo’- the Del Boy of the 1780s
  53. Roxburgh discovers the Bread-Fruit tree in India
  54. Black labourers in London
  55. Paupa Braminy – an overlooked Indian historian
  56. How good is good enough? – Quality Assurance of harvested web resources
  57. Ambassador, with these websites, you're really spoiling us
  58. Religion, the state and the law in contemporary Britain
  59. BlogForever: a new approach to blog harvesting and preservation ?
  60. Exploring the lost web

September 2012

  1. Pet-Names and Pillow-Talk: Ernest Hemingway’s Softer Side
  2. Waiting for the scroll: On the Road is coming
  3. The Empire of Haiti: digitising some of the Nineteenth Century
  4. Not Just Anne of Green Gables: Canadian Literature and the Library
  5. Pa'O religious and literary manuscripts now online
  6. August Accessions
  7. Written Britain
  8. A country life - a poem, the pastoral and the pretender
  9. Islington: "remote and faintly suspect"?
  10. Who Does He Think He Was?
  11. Coleridge, Wordsworth and digital mapping
  12. What Does Magna Carta Mean to You?
  13. The Miroir Historial: A History of the World in a (Large) Nutshell
  14. Temporary Unavailability of Select Manuscripts: Important Notice
  15. Ranulf Higden and Noah's Ark
  16. Not Just a Pretty Picture: Illustrating a Royal Romuléon
  17. The Gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander
  18. Final Opportunity to See Gawain
  19. Image and Text Meet in a Royal Regiment
  20. Cornish for Beginners
  21. A Calendar Page for September 2012
  22. British Library Journal: 38 music articles now available online
  23. Delius Weekend at the British Library
  24. Music lending collection re-opens
  25. SHO-ZYG at Goldsmiths
  26. Milton, Dancing and the ‘Passion of Love’
  27. What comes next?
  28. Broadcasting the Olympics: A Peep Behind the Cameras
  29. It’s a competition!
  30. Recording of the week: Golden Oriole
  31. Recording of the week: African Paradise Flycatcher
  32. Adventures in Petticoats
  33. A Case of Kidnapping in India
  34. Mrs Hunter, Cree Translator
  35. India and the Olympic Games Part 2
  36. Exercise to ease a troubled mind
  37. Digital Research 2012, Oxford
  38. Valuing Video Games Heritage: an update on our new video games collection
  39. Web Archives and Chinese Literature
  40. How to Make Websites More Archivable?

August 2012

  1. The radical life of Moncure Daniel Conway
  2. A Bond formed with conviction: linking Australia and Canada
  3. The Battle of Bladensburg: some War of 1812 project notes
  4. Breadfruit, Rum and Mutinies: the career of William Bligh
  5. Mrs Hemingway, Mr Hemingway and Miss Pfeiffer
  6. Team Americas looks forward to a great Fall events programme
  7. Go USA!
  8. The Good, the Bad and the Dentons
  9. Images of indigenous lives in Southern Siberia
  10. Brighton Rock
  11. The Art of Wandering (and competition)
  12. Happy Yorkshire Day
  13. The Art of Chivalry: The Texts of the Talbot Shrewsbury Book
  14. It's Caption Time!
  15. Chronicles, Lancelot and a Journey to Jerusalem: Royal Manuscripts Now Online
  16. Magna Carta Research Post at the British Library
  17. Gospels, Psalms, and Prayer Rolls: More Royal Devotional Manuscripts Online
  18. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Online
  19. Royal Banner Used at the Purbeck Art Weeks Festival
  20. Finishing the Smithfield Decretals
  21. Books of Beasts, Adventure, and Two from New Minster: New Royal Manuscripts Online
  22. Psalters, Bibles, and the End of Days: Devotional Texts from the Royal Collection Go Online
  23. The Pleasure of Discovery: Call for Papers for Leeds IMC 2013
  24. A Calendar Page for August 2012
  25. British Library at WOMAD
  26. The Meanings of Music in Brazilian Culture
  27. Martin Moir Donation
  28. Closing ceremony - where to start?
  29. Wandering Minstrels - the story of a forgotten Victorian orchestra
  30. Derek Collier Collection
  31. Delius in 2012: an international celebration
  32. A New Olympic Hymn?
  33. Watching the Paralympics
  34. Sport and the Social Sciences: ISSA, World Congress of Sociology of Sport, Glasgow 16th - 18th July.
  35. Confessions of a Dove Biker
  36. Coming over all emotional
  37. Recording of the week: Humming Haddock
  38. Derek Collier Collection
  39. Dennis Higton - An untold story of testing Britain's first jet plane
  40. Reading Music Festival
  41. What was Lawrence of Arabia doing in Afghanistan?
  42. A bookbinder’s revenge
  43. Dr Griffith’s Report on Caoutchouc (Rubber Tree) - transcript
  44. Dr Griffith’s Report on Caoutchouc (Rubber Tree)
  45. India and the Olympic Games
  46. Analysing File Formats in Web Archives
  47. Visualising the UK Web Domain
  48. Diamond Jubilee Collection live

July 2012

  1. The Long and Winding Road to the Olympics
  2. The Siege of Atlanta
  3. Olympians in the collections: Tom Longboat
  4. Colonel Wiggins
  5. Know Your (Union) Generals
  6. Only Connect: the secret lives of Hemingway's wives
  7. US Civil War Project: What time is this place?
  8. Civil War Project: Abraham Lincoln in Black and White
  9. Forging Indendence
  10. Sheila Rowbotham, Eccles Writer in Residence: The Case of William Whittemore Tufts
  11. June Accessions
  12. Gypsy/Roma archives in Bulgaria
  13. The endangered archives of the Haynes Publishing Company, Argentina
  14. Dongjing musical scores feature on Music in the British Library
  15. June Accessions
  16. Highlighting Pre-colonial Documents from Northern Nigeria
  17. The Man Booker Prize in Writing Britain (part one)
  18. A monstrous creature of the beetle tribe...
  19. Sound-making as place-making: Mark Peter Wright’s sound installations for Writing Britain
  20. James Berry's 'Windrush Songs'
  21. Once More Beneath the Surface - Call for Papers for Kalamazoo 2013
  22. An Ancient List of Olympic Victors
  23. Final Harley Science Manuscripts Published
  24. The Talbot Shrewsbury Book Goes Online
  25. Jan van Naaldwijk’s Chronicles of Holland
  26. How Did We Choose Our Harley Science Manuscripts?
  27. Sport on the Sea (and River)
  28. 250,000 Page Views: Tell Us Your Favourite Post
  29. St Cuthbert Gospel Binding On Display
  30. A Calendar Page for July 2012
  31. Unlocking historical musical resources
  32. Maltese Music Collection
  33. Rare Tanzanian music recordings preserved
  34. Endangered dongjing archives
  35. Happy 4th of July!
  36. Runners, Divers, and Bakhtin: The London Olympics are Finally Here
  37. Voices from the past
  38. Faster
  39. Recording of the week: Thunder over the Andaman Sea
  40. Pandaemonium and the Isles of Wonder
  41. Sound and moving image user survey
  42. New collection of sport interviews
  43. Recording of the week: Rainfall at Palenque
  44. Recording of the week: RP vowels
  45. On Location: Writers, Sounds and Places event
  46. Weather
  47. Victorian Pedestrianism (2) – 1,000 Miles in 1,000 Hours
  48. Victorian Pedestrianism (1) – Robert Makepeace aka ‘The American Stag’
  49. Hume’s Stray Feathers
  50. Botany in British India
  51. Queens of the Silver Screen
  52. Rescue of an Indian boy from slavery in Muscat
  53. Archiving the history of the British slave trade, from the web
  54. UK Web Archive in the eyes of scholars
  55. Religious Websites and the Diamond Jubilee

June 2012

  1. Notes on the Beginning of a Rivalry: England vs Australia
  2. Politics, Plantations and Camels: early publishing about Barbados
  3. Martha Gellhorn, pursued and in pursuit
  4. Cree in the Library
  5. The World of Jorge Amado
  6. From the Collections: Seneca Snakeroot
  7. Travel, Landscapes and Kodaks: Picturing Jamaica
  8. Framing Canada: the work of William Notman
  9. Sheila Rowbotham, Eccles Centre Writer in Residence: Meeting Mrs Satan in a hedged garden maze
  10. Survey Reports online
  11. International Archives Day, 2012
  12. Peasant poets in Writing Britain
  13. "Only a small story ...." Laurie Lee and Cider with Rosie
  14. Roughened water
  15. 'A Grim Sort of Beauty'
  16. The Water Poet, pageants and the Thames
  17. "Why is there so much Dorset in this exhibition?"
  18. Listen to Our Podcasts: The St Cuthbert Gospel and Magna Carta
  19. Books of History, War and Mystery: More Royal Manuscripts Go Online
  20. Sumer Is Icumen In
  21. Chaste, Obedient and Humble: Hidden Inscriptions in Arundel 155
  22. Crowns, Romances, and Chronicles Aplenty: New Royal Manuscripts Online
  23. Magna Carta's 797th Birthday!
  24. Royal Workshop Judged "A Royal Success"
  25. Lancelot and the Quest for the Holy Grail
  26. Brush Up on Your Aristotle
  27. 'Documentary' of a Royal Coronation
  28. God Save the Queen: Jubilees and Coronations
  29. A Calendar Page for June 2012
  30. Original Purcell manuscripts digitised
  31. Messiah goes online
  32. Purcell and his manuscripts
  33. Young Person's Guide acquired
  34. Women, Men, and Sports
  35. Who gets what?
  36. Less gravitas
  37. Recording of the week: Murray Melvin on the Theatre Workshop
  38. To a Skylark
  39. Recording of the week: Cry of the Wild
  40. What shall we do with the drunken sailor?
  41. Queen Charlotte’s Arcot Diamonds
  42. Victor Sassoon and Shanghai
  43. Attempted Assassination of the Duke of Edinburgh
  44. Prisoners released for Diamond Jubilee
  45. Crowdsourcing and Web Archiving

May 2012

  1. Exploring Nouvelle-France: the voyages of Samuel de Champlain
  2. My dear Harold: discovering Carlos Fuentes in our archives
  3. Taking a stroll on Sandymount Strand
  4. The Hull is a Boundary: on cricket, ships and empire
  5. Writing Britain: An Entertainment
  6. Read, Ride & Be Happy: Collection Development with the Bike Snob NYC
  7. Sheila Rowbotham: Joseph Ishill, Free Vistas
  8. The Best Jackets this Side of The Flying Burrito Brothers
  9. The World of Jorge Amado
  10. More content online: manuscripts and colonial records from Kano, Enugu and Calabar regional archives, Nigeria
  11. April Accessions part 2
  12. More EAP119 content online, and updated guidelines
  13. April Accessions part one
  14. Sweeney Todd - a heart warming tale?
  15. "I went to a marvellous party..."
  16. Artist in Residence Christopher Green invites you to meet the mesmerists from ages past
  17. Grands projets…petits souvenirs
  18. Buddha of Suburbia and other loans
  19. Some advice for Boris
  20. Our Mutual Friend: Dickens, Staplehurst and the Thames
  21. Sneak Preview - Keith Waterhouse in Writing Britain
  22. Royal Workshop: A Call for Your Feedback
  23. Magna Carta's 800th Anniversary
  24. From Boethius to John Dee: More Scientific Manuscripts Published
  25. Marvels of the West
  26. A Physician's Folding Almanac
  27. Wrestling Mania
  28. Sir Gawain Back in London
  29. Thomas Hobbes on Optics Online
  30. The Chosen Royals
  31. Illuminated Manuscripts and Their Users: Workshop at Durham
  32. Beneath the Surface
  33. The St Cuthbert Gospel: The Story of a Book
  34. Visiting the British Library
  35. A Calendar Page for May 2012
  36. Conference season
  37. Olympics, protest and dissent
  38. Summer arrives - Official
  39. Get them to play: physical activity for/and book lovers
  40. It’s all about controversy
  41. Recording of the week: Frog in your Throat?
  42. Recording of the week: Australian Dawn Chorus
  43. How men love
  44. The Test Records of Ludwig Koch
  45. Australian Aborigines and Makassan trepangers
  46. Engelbert Humperdinck, Eurovision, and the India Office Records!
  47. The Great Escape - Part 2
  48. The Great Escape - Part 1
  49. The Indian Comforts Fund (1939-45) – Humanitarian relief work for Indian soldiers in Europe
  50. Associations and Citizenship: Researching the ‘Big Society’ on the Web
  51. Scholarly value of the UK Web Archive? (correction)

April 2012

  1. They were happy, these Americans, to be in Paris
  2. Sports Day at the British Library
  3. Malaria in Ontario: a World Malaria Day post
  4. Sheila Rowbotham, Writer in Residence: From Whitman to The Wire
  5. The Sinking of the RMS Titanic
  6. There will never be anything more interesting than that American civil war
  7. From the collections: twelve (very similar) views of Jamaica
  8. March Accessions
  9. A chlorine hit, a monorail, and 12 First Folios
  10. A Detective not of an Age but for All Time
  11. Mister Shakespeare, Mister Doyle, and me
  12. Send in the Writers
  13. I became in secret the slave of certain appetites
  14. Writing about Writing Britain
  15. Hello from English and Drama
  16. Monkeys in the Margins
  17. Medieval News and Views
  18. The Tribal Hidage Online
  19. St Cuthbert Gospel -- Thank You!
  20. St Cuthbert Gospel Saved for the Nation
  21. Bows and Arrows
  22. The Taymouth Hours
  23. First Science Manuscripts Published
  24. Hag Pesach Sameach! (Happy Passover!)
  25. The Psalter of Henry VI Now Online
  26. A Calendar Page for April 2012
  27. Unicorn Cookbook Found at the British Library
  28. The frontiers of speed
  29. Feeding the Olympics
  30. Just keep going!
  31. British Library Sounds: Wildlife and Environmental collections
  32. New interviews with scientists available
  33. Interactivity and British Library Sounds
  34. The Listening Project
  35. Serena Livingstone-Stanley: unsung heroine of imperial exploration
  36. Friedrich Spassvogel – an unlived life!
  37. Botanical discoveries and beastly bungalows
  38. Whatever happened to Eliza Armstrong?
  39. Half cat, half rabbit: a zoo in Bloomsbury
  40. Yvonne FitzRoy and Victor Sassoon
  41. Scholarly value of the UK Web Archive?
  42. Improved search functionality

March 2012

  1. Go Team Americas, Go Go Go!
  2. ¡Que Viva La Constitución de Cádiz!
  3. Published in Paris
  4. Naomi Wood, Writer in Residence: Martha Gellhorn & The Great Depression
  5. The Voyage of HMS Beagle: zoological views
  6. The Arctic Regions: William Bradford's ambitious book
  7. 3 March 1931: O! Say Can You See. The Star Spangled Banner
  8. More content available online
  9. February Accessions
  10. Happy Birthday
  11. What's Unique About the British Library?
  12. Science Manuscripts Online Soon
  13. London Games and 'Sicilian Games'
  14. Using Our Catalogues
  15. The Theodore Psalter
  16. Happy St Cuthbert's Day
  17. The Peasants are Revolting
  18. The Private Lives of Medieval Kings
  19. Royal Exhibition Ends Today
  20. One That Got Away
  21. Beautiful Bindings
  22. Royal Closes on 13 March
  23. Volunteering Opportunity for American Doctoral Students
  24. Keep Your Royal Suggestions Coming!
  25. A Calendar Page for March 2012
  26. On researching sports and the Olympics: a curator's perspective
  27. More about torches
  28. Money, money, money
  29. A City of (at least) Two Tales
  30. Oral History for Family Historians
  31. Recording of the Week: interview with Skomer Island warden
  32. The Listening Project: Capturing the nation in conversation
  33. Words into words
  34. Duke of Cambridge supports campaign against London vice
  35. Bengal Army officers - names, nationalities, fatalities and a phantom
  36. “Shrapnel Biddulph” – telegraph engineer, soldier, romantic and artist
  37. Benevolence from Bengal: Amir Chand’s bequest
  38. Sir Josiah’s Disobedient Child
  39. Notice: Planned outage
  40. Public Consultation on non-print legal deposit
  41. A Note on Nominations

February 2012

  1. Civil War Manuscripts: Foliation Slip
  2. Civil War Project: Maps - Birds Eye View of the Seat of War (Prang, 1861)
  3. Civil War Project: The Great Seal of the Republic Redux
  4. Facebook
  5. Guest Post: a side of Australasian studies
  6. St. Valentine’s Roses and Massacres
  7. At the BAFTAs
  8. Mapping 1812
  9. Highlighting Church Records from Tanzania
  10. EAP132 Catalogue Online
  11. Success in "placing" historic maps
  12. Georeferencing maps online - will it work?
  13. Things to do tonight
  14. Illuminations on BBC HD
  15. Help Us Save the St Cuthbert Gospel for the Nation
  16. The Wheel of Fortune
  17. Which Royal Manuscripts Should We Digitise?
  18. Magna Carta in 500 Words
  19. A Book of Two Princes
  20. Turn the Pages of Our Royal Manuscripts
  21. Happy Valentine's Day!
  22. Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts Online
  23. Fancy a Trip to Paris?
  24. The King of Beasts
  25. Sir Gawain and The Romance of the Middle Ages
  26. Love Letters at the British Library
  27. Musical Illuminations: Medieval Music with The Sixteen
  28. A Calendar Page for February 2012
  29. Flaming
  30. Sourcing sport
  31. The Power of Attraction
  32. Swimming to work
  33. Recording of the Week: Professor Sir Alan Cottrell (1919-2012)
  34. The new British Library Sounds website
  35. Recording of the Week: Montezuma Oropendola
  36. Recording of the Week: Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4
  37. Family budgets in 1920s India
  38. The search for Black Rock Part II
  39. The search for Black Rock Part I
  40. Not the Daily Express, 1905
  41. Dickens grows a beard
  42. A very unhappy birthday for Charles Dickens
  43. London Calling! Announcing the London 2012 Special Collection
  44. Blog archiving: a contributor's perspective
  45. New Collection: Video Games, Gaming Culture and the Impact of games on Society

January 2012

  1. Picturing the Great Alone: photography and the Antarctic
  2. Kodak: framing the last 120 years
  3. War, Struggle and Equality: the Tuskegee Airmen
  4. #Occupy
  5. December Accessions
  6. 100,000 Page Views and Counting!
  7. Cat and Mouse, and Hairy Elephants
  8. Genealogy of a Royal Bastard
  9. Illuminations: Watch Clips Here
  10. Libraries Gave Us Power
  11. Henry VIII as King David
  12. Athelstan Psalter online
  13. What a King Should Know
  14. British Library eBook Treasures
  15. Royal Manuscripts: The Making of an Exhibition
  16. Illuminations with Janina Ramirez
  17. Illuminations: The Private Lives of Medieval Kings
  18. The Written World
  19. Simon Armitage at The British Library
  20. A Calendar Page for January 2012
  21. To take it or leave it?
  22. True Believers
  23. Sport, sport, sport
  24. A new headache for the IOC.
  25. Recording of the Week: Mozart Piano Concerto in D minor K. 466
  26. Recording of the Week: Woodland Stream
  27. Suicide pact of bookbinder’s family
  28. Milk and two sugars: why Australians switched from Chinese to Indian tea
  29. A Name Carved in Stone: Henry Beaucourt Skyrme
  30. The East India Company slaving voyage of Nicholas Skottowe
  31. Blood writing in Buddhist scrolls
  32. New project: Analytical Access to the Domain Dark Archive
  33. The Diamond Jubilee collection: nominations open!
  34. Techtalk: Wayback & HDFS

2011 330

December 2011

  1. A Hankering to Travel: Charles Dickens and North America
  2. Canada walks away from Kyoto: another Official Publications post
  3. The National Archives' 'Today's Document Series'
  4. Highlighting Indonesian Manuscripts
  5. November Accessions
  6. Maps and beverages: tea
  7. Melvyn Bragg's The Written World
  8. The First View of London
  9. Video review of Royal Manuscripts
  10. Happy Christmas to all our readers
  11. An early Christmas present
  12. Help Us Date and Localise This Manuscript
  13. Last minute Christmas ideas
  14. The Royal Conference: A Retrospective
  15. Rival Queens, Precious Books
  16. Gaston Fébus at the Musée de Cluny
  17. Apocalypse Now
  18. More Royal events
  19. Seal of Approval: A Medieval Mystery
  20. A Calendar Page for December
  21. Art & Sport
  22. More On Money
  23. More glitz
  24. Athletes and free will
  25. Recording of the Week: Hungarian Thunderstorm
  26. George Chinnery - an artist in Asia
  27. Boxing Day Murder in East London
  28. She whirls around! She bounds! She springs!
  29. The Spy who Came in from the Heat
  30. A Keynesian solution
  31. Advent Calendar: December 24th
  32. Advent Calendar: December 23rd
  33. Advent Calendar: December 22nd
  34. Advent Calendar: December 21st
  35. Advent Calendar: December 20th
  36. Advent Calendar: December 19th
  37. Advent Calendar: December 18th
  38. Advent Calendar: December 17th
  39. Advent Calendar: December 16th
  40. TechTalk: UKWA web archiving tools on GitHub
  41. Advent Calendar: December 15th
  42. Advent Calendar: December 14th
  43. Advent Calendar: December 13th
  44. Advent Calendar: December 12th
  45. Advent Calendar: December 11th
  46. Advent Calendar: December 10th
  47. Archiving websites with the Web Curator Tool
  48. Advent Calendar: December 9th
  49. Advent Calendar: December 8th
  50. Advent Calendar: December 7th
  51. Advent Calendar: December 6th
  52. Advent Calendar: December 5th
  53. Advent Calendar: December 4th
  54. Advent Calendar: December 3rd
  55. Twittervane: Crowdsourcing selection
  56. Advent Calendar: December 2nd
  57. Advent Calendar: December 1st
  58. The UK Web Archive Advent Calendar

November 2011

  1. Narrating Slavery and Freedom in Canada
  2. 'the most elegant Thing I ever saw': royal libraries and republicans
  3. Printing Money
  4. The Group of Seven comes to Dulwich
  5. Making dongjing records available
  6. October Accessions
  7. Ye Olde Royal Sat Nav
  8. Praying to the King
  9. Digitised Manuscripts 500 landmark
  10. Harley Science Project
  11. Conserving the Harley manuscripts
  12. Medieval Booze Cruise
  13. The Royal Opening
  14. Three days and counting
  15. Perugino at the Alte Pinakothek
  16. Countdown to the Royal Opening
  17. A Calendar Page for November
  18. Strength, sport and ego
  19. Battle stations
  20. Olympic Flame
  21. The view from on high
  22. Japanese Birdsong
  23. Recording of the Week: Lullabies
  24. Disability Voices
  25. British Library’s Historic Ethnographic Recordings receives UNESCO accolade - part 2
  26. Recording of the Week: The Decline of the Dove
  27. British Library’s Historic Ethnographic Recordings receives UNESCO accolade - part 1
  28. Tales from the other Shakespears
  29. Jean de Wavrin, writer of one of the great medieval chronicles of England
  30. Indian princess in suffragette march
  31. Valete fratres - Librarians and the First World War
  32. An Indian soldier in France during World War I
  33. 'Unfortunate' women
  34. UK Web Archive #FastFacts: A Starter for 10.

October 2011

  1. Team Americas in Space
  2. Oslo, 2011?
  3. Robert Zimmerman goes to Oslo?
  4. HIGHRISE at the British Library
  5. September Accessions
  6. British Library and British Museum: Who's who?
  7. A bit about map collections
  8. An inaccurate map
  9. Digitised Manuscripts update
  10. Alexander versus the World
  11. Royal App special offer
  12. The Luttrell Psalter on film
  13. A Prayerbook Fit for a Queen?
  14. The English captivity of Mary, Queen of Scots
  15. Beauty in the eye of the beholder
  16. The Royal Exhibition on Facebook
  17. More Greek manuscripts go online
  18. The Spy's Choirbook
  19. Register now for the Royal Conference
  20. A Calendar Page for October
  21. Team GB
  22. Sport and peace
  23. Winning
  24. Michael Katakis and Kris Hardin recordings
  25. Recording of the Week: Out to Sea
  26. Recording of the Week: Oleg Borushko
  27. Missionaries and madams
  28. Slavery, Shipwreck, and Suicide
  29. Napoleon - du pain, du vin …
  30. A radical intellectual for Black History Month
  31. From Death Row to Sir Hans Sloane
  32. Credit Crunch leads to Murder
  33. East India Company London workers

September 2011

  1. Literatura de Cordel
  2. American Studies Resource Portal (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
  3. Tweet Tweet: John James Audubon's Birds of America
  4. From Margate to Manhattan...
  5. Jackie O
  6. USA: Olympic Rugby Champions
  7. Remembering 9/11 again (or What you won't be reading on your Kindle, part 3)
  8. Negative feedback
  9. Research Grants 2011
  10. August Accessions
  11. EAP and Digitised Manuscripts
  12. ...as we were saying
  13. Royal events at the British Library
  14. Beowulf in Hungarian ... and French ... and Telugu ...
  15. John Lydgate's Lives of Saints
  16. Monarchs, Lions and 'Nostra-dumbass': The Royal Exhibition in the Press
  17. Dialogue de la duchesse de Bourgogne
  18. Erasing Becket
  19. A Stunning Tudor Binding: Henry VII's Quadripartite Indenture
  20. A Calendar Page for September
  21. Images of 2012
  22. The symbolic value of physical pursuits
  23. Rules
  24. Recording of the Week: Marina Abramovic

August 2011

  1. "That symbol - the Great Seal of the infant Confederacy - sent to it by its nurse, England", or Civil War Digitisation Project Update (II)
  2. The American Civil War in the Round (Digitisation Project Update I)
  3. A Research Guide to Secondary Sources on the American Fifties
  4. Please Allow Us to Introduce Ourselves: (I) Dr Philip Hatfield, Curator, Canadian and Caribbean Studies
  5. Moby Dick on Horseback
  6. Work on making EAP Collections available
  7. The New Testament in Codex Sinaiticus
  8. Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination
  9. White Gloves or Not White Gloves
  10. The Beaufort / Beauchamp Hours
  11. Bible Historiale, Royal MS 19 D III
  12. The Hours of Elizabeth the Queen
  13. A Calendar Page for August
  14. Olympic Designs
  15. Tom Longboat
  16. Waving the flag
  17. Unsung heroes and new legacies
  18. St Augustine in the Olympic Park.
  19. Potters of the Bernard Leach Legacy
  20. Songs of British Birds
  21. Raiders of the lost archive
  22. Film, copyright and the internet: a guide for producers
  23. Sheffield Doc/Fest Meet-up
  24. Recording of the Week: a prisoner from Oxfordshire
  25. Animal Language

July 2011

  1. Another guest post on Out of this World
  2. In Memory of the Patriots who Fell: Manassas and the Bull Run
  3. Guest posts on Out of this World
  4. 'There is no there, there': William Gibson
  5. INDEPENDENCE/ JULY IV/ MDCCLXXVI
  6. Mounties, Music, Hockey: Canada Day in Trafalgar Square
  7. IMPACT project demo day
  8. June Accessions
  9. The Great Bible
  10. Arthurian Manuscripts in the British Library: the French Tradition
  11. Bible Historiale, Royal MS 17 E VII
  12. The St Cuthbert Gospel
  13. The Alphonso Psalter
  14. Pearl on BBC Radio 4
  15. The Westminster Psalter
  16. A Calendar Page for July
  17. Traffic jams, transport, tourists etc
  18. Owning the Olympics
  19. The Power of Myth
  20. Being there
  21. Cataloguing the Judith Bumpus Collection
  22. Recording of the Week: Satyendra Srivastava
  23. Recording of the Week: Horses hooves

June 2011

  1. Guest Post: First Impressions of the Library
  2. Aeluyd f'Ewythr Robert, or Uncle Robert's Hearth: Uncle Tom in Translation
  3. Ring Any Bells? Paul Revere and printmaking
  4. How do you measure a Sequoioideae?
  5. ... and the Pacific (II)
  6. May Accessions Part Two
  7. International Archives Day, 9 June
  8. May Accessions part one
  9. The New Minster Liber Vitae
  10. The Cnut Gospels
  11. The New Minster Charter
  12. Greek Manuscripts Update
  13. A Calendar Page for June
  14. The clock's ticking
  15. Momentum
  16. Changing London
  17. Christopher Raeburn Memorial Concert
  18. Recording of the Week: OPIE Huddersfield
  19. Listening to Britain
  20. Crafts Lives
  21. Recording of the week: Wind in the Willows?
  22. National Life Stories Review 2010/2011

May 2011

  1. President O'Bama and the Pacific (I)
  2. Out of this World Rapture
  3. High Water Marks (and League Tables)
  4. Readex Digital Resources Pilot
  5. Mulberry Row
  6. 'I remember the day when I first came here'
  7. April Accessions
  8. More Greek Manuscripts Digitised by the British Library
  9. The coronation of Charles I: a salutary tale
  10. Student Bursaries for Royal Conference
  11. Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts Go Digital
  12. A Calendar Page for May
  13. Torches ... and bells
  14. Safety in numbers
  15. Sporting royals
  16. Recording of the week: David Morley
  17. Post-war theatre interviews online now
  18. Increasing access to oral history
  19. Haemophilia and HIV stories
  20. Recording of the week: One of the earliest chamber music recordings
  21. Binaural stereo on the UK Soundmap

April 2011

  1. "A monument to the faith and energy which have created the Empire": Canada and the Royal Family
  2. On the Road: BAAS II
  3. On the Road: British Association for American Studies, Preston, 2011
  4. All the Presidents' Musings
  5. Major Robert Anderson, Hero of Fort Sumter
  6. Bang
  7. Guest Post: Finn's work experience reflections
  8. Team Americas on the Road 2011: news from Birmingham
  9. The Easter Story
  10. March Accessions Part Two
  11. March Accessions Part One
  12. Royal Weddings from Royal Manuscripts
  13. Changes in the Treasures Gallery
  14. Using our medieval manuscripts
  15. A Calendar Page for April
  16. Synchronised swimming; part 2
  17. In the deep end
  18. Olympic lives
  19. Riches revealed
  20. New interviews added to 'Oral history of British science'
  21. The BFI and the British Library
  22. Early wildlife recordings
  23. Between Two Worlds: Poetry and Translation
  24. The Writing Life: Authors Speak podcasts

March 2011

  1. "It is quite the fashion now to decry all just sentiment regarding the late war"
  2. Last week of Evolving English
  3. Friday
  4. Thursday
  5. Borders: Canada, the U. S. and a very important line
  6. Miles O'Reilly and Irish Americans in the Civil War
  7. Commonwealth Listening: aka, the Queen Mother’s record collection
  8. Dusting off the DeLorean: Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian
  9. California doodling: Figueroa, Zamorano and the Manifesto
  10. EAP261 Digital Archive of Early Bengali Drama
  11. February Accessions
  12. Taking images of medieval seals
  13. Medieval Cartularies of Great Britain and Ireland
  14. Not Just Pretty Faces
  15. Royal Conference Call for Papers
  16. A Calendar Page for March
  17. Touring the park
  18. The long road from Berlin 1936 to London 2012
  19. Getting there
  20. Walls of Sound
  21. The Writing Life: Authors Speak
  22. Oral history at the Architectural Association
  23. Recording of the week: Ravel's string quartet in F major
  24. Berliner Lautarchiv recordings from 1915-18: the voices of British prisoners of war

February 2011

  1. High Society at the Wellcome Collection
  2. From Punched Cards to the Census
  3. A Presidents' Day Present
  4. Norman Rockwell and Benjamin Franklin
  5. Brighton Rock & Entertainment
  6. Canadian First World War Internment Recognition Fund
  7. The U.S. Civil War on the Web: a guide [updated 2.8.11]
  8. Commemorating the Civil War: "The War We Want to Forget"?
  9. What's Next: Patterns and Practices in History in Print and Online, Part 1 (AHA)
  10. Sir Morton Peto and the Funk Well
  11. International Mother Language Day
  12. January Accessions part two
  13. January Accessions part one
  14. Henry VIII Prayer Roll
  15. The Oldest Valentine?
  16. Medieval Masterpieces
  17. The Beauty of Books
  18. A Calendar Page for February
  19. Velodromes
  20. Selling the Olympics
  21. Paralympic Discourse
  22. A welcome return
  23. Recording of the week: Professor David Jenkinson FRS
  24. An Oral History of the Water Industry
  25. Sound recording beyond the smartphone

January 2011

  1. Civil War Project, Charlottesville and Stonewall Jackson's Birthday
  2. Spotted while at the AHA
  3. Seeing Double: Impressions of America (1899)
  4. Cliopatria Blog Awards: and the winner goes to... [updated]
  5. EAP132: Digital Archive of North Indian Classical Music
  6. December Accessions
  7. Codex Sinaiticus Facsimile Published
  8. Anglo-Saxon Treasures Online
  9. A Calendar Page for January
  10. Words
  11. What happens after?
  12. Changing controversies
  13. New year; new section
  14. Recording of the Week: Where have all the sparrows gone?
  15. Holocaust Memorial Day marked today
  16. George Ewart Evans’s tape recordings
  17. Recording of the Week: Australia’s top batsman Bradman in full swing - on a piano #cricket #ashes

2010 275

December 2010

  1. What the #?~!?
  2. Woodpecker Pie
  3. Memory and Identity, Truth and Reconciliation
  4. November Accessions
  5. Happy Holidays
  6. Royal: Manuscripts of the Kings and Queens of England
  7. Welcome
  8. Programmes
  9. What is Sport History?
  10. Recording of the Week: recollections of Christmas and stewed sparrows
  11. Social media award win for the UK Soundmap
  12. Seasons on the UK Soundmap
  13. New oral history interviews with British scientists

November 2010

  1. Happy Thanksgiving
  2. Our German studies colleagues have been posting about Christmas markets and Germanic USA
  3. Evolving English Exhibition
  4. Early Records of the Natural History of the Malay World
  5. More faces and places in Iran
  6. October Accessions
  7. Catalogue Announcement: EAP205 Endangered Manuscripts of Western Sumatra
  8. More faces and places in Iran
  9. The flight of the imagination
  10. Sporting English
  11. Competition
  12. Recording of the Week: English Conversation: The Theatre
  13. Acquisition of oral history recordings
  14. Voices of the UK - Evolving English, first exhibition dedicated to the English language

October 2010

  1. Yes We Can!... But...
  2. Interconnected worlds: thinking across the Library's collections
  3. Mining the collections
  4. Polar resources: 400 years of exploring the final frontiers
  5. UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage
  6. EAP001 Faces and places: Iranian photography
  7. August and September Accessions 2010
  8. Rescuing Dongjing Archives in Yunnan, China
  9. The Special Olympics
  10. Olympic stamps
  11. Long distances
  12. Citizen media
  13. Searching video, growing knowledge 2
  14. An introduction to oral history
  15. Recording of the Week: Duelling Deer
  16. Recording of the Week: Jola men's song from Senegal
  17. CD prizes for the UK SoundMap's 1000th recording
  18. Searching video, growing knowledge
  19. The decline of whistling
  20. New collection of historic chamber music recordings on ASR

September 2010

  1. Guest Post: In Search of Meaning
  2. Americans in Britain: Mather Brown
  3. Talking plants
  4. Remembering 9/11
  5. No-one wears white after Labor Day... a post-summer treat
  6. Drilling deeper: resources on oil in the Canadian collections
  7. EAP127 Catalogue announcement
  8. 2010 Call for Applications
  9. Thanks for watching, watch this space
  10. Final Week!
  11. Magnificent maps that didn't make the exhibition #9
  12. Magnificent maps that didn't make the exhibition #8
  13. Update on the Digitised Manuscripts website
  14. Digitised Manuscripts website launched
  15. That Paralympic Show
  16. British Women Olympians
  17. The fascination of the quotidian
  18. The Olympics in bloom
  19. Whither the cultural Olympiad?
  20. Some early statistics from the UK SoundMap
  21. Voices of the UK – do you feel trachled or wabbit?
  22. Recommended reading no. 4 - Halliwell's Film Guide
  23. Recording of the Week: Can you recognise a speaker from the East Midlands?

August 2010

  1. Interstate 5 Time Lapse Video
  2. The Right to Dry
  3. Hidden Histories in the North West Passage: finding H.M.S. Investigator
  4. "His Excellence in the Art of Swimming"
  5. University of East London Archive Discussion
  6. EAP at the pictures: Ganashatru (Public Enemy)
  7. July Accessions 2010
  8. Magnificent maps that didn't make the exhibition #7
  9. Magnificent maps that didn't make the exhibition #6
  10. Crime Scene
  11. Teaching the Paralympics
  12. Celebrate the all-rounder!
  13. Swim coaching
  14. The Lindgren manifesto
  15. Voices of the UK - I like a Geordie accent
  16. Women's voices call the shots in recorded announcements
  17. Voices of the UK - put a couple of effs in it
  18. Recording of the Week: Chris Burden at the ICA in 1990
  19. Voices of the UK - A cwtch on the couch
  20. Sound categories and finding subjects to record
  21. Voices of the UK - We call it a ‘to bach’
  22. Sounds wild: Chris Watson & Sir David Attenborough in conversation
  23. Memory and migration
  24. Recording of the Week: Stridulating Warbler?

July 2010

  1. What you won't be reading on your Kindle, part 2
  2. Monticello and the Great Pumpkin
  3. War Logs Again
  4. Mark Twain's Autobiography
  5. Cricket in the Collections
  6. Argentinian Endangered Archives Accessions
  7. Happy Birthday Canada
  8. EAP at the pictures: Sagina Mahato
  9. EAP at the Pictures: Goopy and Bagha
  10. June Accessions 2010
  11. A peculiar scenario
  12. Facebook
  13. Parish Maps
  14. Magnificent maps that didn't make the exhibition #5
  15. Magnificent maps that didn't make the exhibition #4
  16. Frustratingly Elusive Magnificent Map Trophy #1
  17. Recognition at last!
  18. Making the Paralympics visible
  19. Volunteering
  20. Sport & Peace
  21. Voices of the UK - Nuddies vs. Textiles
  22. Voices of the UK - I'm making a statement but it sounds like a question?
  23. Recording of the Week: Alfred Cortot rides to the Abyss
  24. Why collect recordings of everyday sounds?
  25. How to reduce wind noise on your smartphone recordings
  26. Voices of the UK - Rhotic accents
  27. Voices of the UK - Goats and Prices
  28. Easy does it: adding to the UK SoundMap
  29. Recording of the Week: James Hamilton-Paterson on Gerontius
  30. Recording of the Week: Unique 110-year old Wilhelmj violin recordings

June 2010

  1. Building the Collections: Donations and Acquisitions
  2. Entente Cordiale: Joseph Hodges Choate
  3. Deficits and the Star Chamber: why look to Canada?
  4. Oil Spills and Tag Clouds
  5. The Arctic perspective (or Future of the Polar Regions, part 2)
  6. Introducing the Rudrajit Mookherjee Collection
  7. International Archives Day 2010
  8. May Accessions 2010
  9. David Starkey and Peter Barber
  10. The Maps in Context Symposium
  11. Magnificent maps that didn't make the exhibition #3
  12. Magnificent Maps that didn't make the exhibition #2
  13. Tied up in knots: brand protection and ambush marketing
  14. The good old days
  15. What's in the catalogue?
  16. Wenlock and Mandeville
  17. Voices of the UK - They've gone and put it in the Oxford English Dictionary, innit.
  18. Sheffield mapped by sound
  19. Voices of the UK - Poppy-show and kiss-teeth
  20. Recording of the Week: David Gale talking at the ICA in 1988
  21. Archives and beyond
  22. Voices of the UK - The British Library’s new searchable online resource for Regional English
  23. Recording of the Week: Pied Butcherbird of Spirey Creek
  24. Voices of the UK - Introduction
  25. Preserving the world's moving image heritage
  26. Recording of the Week: Etude No. 5, Op. 10 performed by Alfred Cortot

May 2010

  1. Colonial dress and a creative compass
  2. The Future of the Polar regions
  3. Robin Hood
  4. Politics and Bookstore diversions
  5. Introducing the Devajit Bandyopadhyay Collection
  6. Popular language primers
  7. April Accessions 2010
  8. Magnificent maps that didn't make the exhibition #1
  9. Choosing the most magnificent
  10. Elbow room and map fashion
  11. Yet more press
  12. Magnificent Map of King’s Cross
  13. A week of map events
  14. Exhibition opens!
  15. Flavio Marzo's manuscript highlight: Add. MS 11835 – Psalms, with Hymns
  16. Team work and collaboration - guest blogging
  17. What's next for Olympic sports?
  18. To purge or not to purge
  19. The legacy of participation
  20. Recording of the Week: British pianist Edward Isaacs
  21. Recording of the Week: Lev Oborin plays Beethoven's Emperor Concerto
  22. The film bookshelf
  23. Recording of the Week: Marcel Ciampi plays Chopin's Nocturne in C minor

April 2010

  1. Little Red Book
  2. Celebrities
  3. Volcanic Ash and "Cruise Control"
  4. Mexican Poets on tour
  5. Thomas Jefferson's Birthday [updated]
  6. American Studies in Norwich (II)
  7. American Studies in Norwich
  8. Team America on the road
  9. Meeting of International Advisory Panel
  10. EAP119 Catalogue Announcement - al-Aqsa Mosque Library Periodical Collection
  11. March Accessions 2010
  12. Last 24 hours of the exhibition build
  13. The beginning is nigh!
  14. More from the exhibition build
  15. Exhibition build update
  16. The Beauty of Maps #4
  17. The Beauty of Maps #3
  18. Press coverage round-up
  19. The Beauty of Maps on iPlayer
  20. The Beauty of Maps #2
  21. The Beauty of Maps #1
  22. Magnificent Maps in the media
  23. Comment in Monday's Guardian
  24. So you love maps do you?
  25. Elites and 'grassroots'
  26. Recording of the Week: Corn Bunting
  27. Well, here we are in front of the elephants
  28. Recording of the Week: Pop Situationism
  29. Recording of the Week: tropical Gambian ambience
  30. Adam Curtis: the medium and the message

March 2010

  1. Posted history: Canadian postcards
  2. Beats and friends: part deux
  3. Healthcare Reform
  4. The Beats and friends
  5. American Studies Blogs [Updated]
  6. A bitter sweet history
  7. Photo-shoots
  8. Hidden Herstories: or, finding Amy Ashwood Garvey
  9. Salmon fishing in Canada: a lengthy preoccupation
  10. Mothers' Day
  11. February Accessions 2010 and Endangered Languages Week
  12. Vatican Library to digitise 80,000 manuscripts
  13. Which manuscripts should we digitise?
  14. Codex Nitriensis
  15. Recording of the week: Ugandan legendary lamellaphone player praised
  16. Recommended reading no. 3 - Kafka Goes to the Movies
  17. Leadbelly sings for his freedom
  18. BFI and UK Film Council to merge
  19. The Yanomamo play tricks on us
  20. Media History Digital Library
  21. C-SPAN video archive online
  22. Recommended reading no. 2 - Filming Literature
  23. Dual Blu-Ray/DVD editions from BFI
  24. Editing out the Fascists
  25. Recording of the Week: edible frogs
  26. YouTube goes Olympic
  27. A glimpse of India
  28. Opening up the BBC

February 2010

  1. ¡Viva La Libertad!
  2. Through the stereoscope: the past in three dimensions
  3. Revolt against the English
  4. Declassified Documents
  5. Happy Washington's Birthday (or is that Presidents Day?)
  6. Celebrating snow: Canada in the winter
  7. Am Lit 101
  8. Gopal Bhar
  9. January Accessions 2010
  10. Greek New Testament Manuscripts
  11. Beyond boutique digitisation: scaling manuscripts digitisation projects
  12. The British Library's Greek Manuscript Digitisation Project
  13. Welcome to the Digitised Manuscripts Blog
  14. Capturing the Olympics
  15. Wendy Toye
  16. Recording of the Week: Ever heard a broad Norfolk accent?
  17. Home movie treasures
  18. Recommended reading no. 1 - Picture Palace
  19. Our moving image plans
  20. Recording of the Week: Gerry Anderson on Thunderbirds
  21. Curiouser and curiouser
  22. Knowing and protecting
  23. Recording of the Week: Ugandan legendary harp player Temutewo Mukasa
  24. Ian and Johnny
  25. Seeing SeeSaw
  26. The British Library's moving image collection
  27. Recording of the Week: Bernard Shaw on Spoken English & Broken English
  28. It begins with Muybridge

January 2010

  1. In Search of J. D. Salinger
  2. Hearing 'island' voices
  3. In search of the first Mrs Garvey
  4. There was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me...
  5. Dusting off the DeLorean for International Women's Day: More from the New Yorker
  6. Haiti on my mind
  7. Panoramas and New Chapters
  8. Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian
  9. Goodbye to the Nadas
  10. Popular market books from Bengali
  11. Suppression of the Arabic press during the British Mandate
  12. December Accessions 2009
  13. About this blog
  14. Recording of the Week: Under the Sea
  15. Recording of the Week: a lullaby that works
  16. Recording of the Week: Ever heard the Bristol ‘l’?

2009 95

December 2009

  1. Nixon and Bob Hope
  2. Unfortunately, Aquiles cannot be with us tonight... the Medal Jose Mindlin for Cultural Achievement
  3. The Shark's Behind You!
  4. Letters to Santa
  5. Speakin' O' Christmas
  6. Extensive Still Despite Fangled Chance
  7. Good Morning To All
  8. Milk and Honey Route
  9. Advertising in Jerusalem, 1935
  10. November Accessions 2009
  11. Happy New Year! Hear 'Auld Lang Syne' sung 111 years ago
  12. Recording of the Week: Quentin Crisp at the ICA
  13. Recording of the Week: traditional English Christmas songs
  14. Recording of the Week: English sounds
  15. Recording of the Week: Gull in a Gale

November 2009

  1. Declaration of Independence
  2. Still remembering the dead
  3. Communication Tools, and A Little Bit of Fry and Twitter
  4. Nixon, China and the Foreign Broadcast Information Service
  5. The Twelve Stars of Our Republic
  6. Canada at War, Officially
  7. Remember, Remember, 5th November
  8. Remembering the dead
  9. Too Close to Call? US Elections and New Jersey
  10. New EAP Cataloguer
  11. October Accessions
  12. The Collections - Political Records
  13. Recording of the Week: Karamojong ox-song
  14. Recording of the Week: Alan Moore at the ICA
  15. Recording of the Week: Ever wondered why Somerset is affectionately called Zummerzet?
  16. Recording of the Week: early risers
  17. Recording of the Week: Indian wedding songs

October 2009

  1. There never will be anything more interesting than that American Civil War
  2. Canaan and the New England Courant
  3. British Caribbean accents
  4. Harmony and Armonicas
  5. What you won't be reading on your Kindle
  6. 550 Years after Gutenberg
  7. I think I'll....maybe, no, wait a minute
  8. The North West Passage and the Serial Set
  9. Mexico Heads to London
  10. The New World
  11. Visits
  12. Endangered Archives and Climate Change
  13. September accessions
  14. Recording of the Week: Derek Jarman with Ken Campbell recorded in 1984
  15. Recording of the Week: ever heard the ‘Northumbrian burr’?
  16. Sound archiving internships 2009-2010
  17. Recording of the Week: Vanessa Redgrave at the ICA in 1991
  18. Recording of the Week: the famous EMI record factory

September 2009

  1. Flowers of Persian song and poetry
  2. Back at the Library
  3. Recording of the week: Steve Reich at the ICA
  4. Recording of the Week: repetition, repetition, repetition
  5. Recording of the week: Traditional love songs from Kiribati
  6. Recording of the Week: memories of the outbreak of World War II and air raids on Norwich
  7. 1000s of new tracks and images added to Archival Sound Recordings

August 2009

  1. Society of Archivists Conference
  2. New accessions
  3. Recording of the Week: ever heard a pulmonic ingressive?
  4. Recording of the Week: England-Wales border dialect from 1950s
  5. Recording of the Week: J. R. R. Tolkien at the tobacconist's
  6. Recording of the Week: Booming Bittern
  7. Recording of the week: Edith Birkin’s powerful life story

July 2009

  1. Records from Jamaica
  2. Recording of the Week: Ugandan xylophone (akadinda) song
  3. Recording of the Week: Do youngsters use dialects any more?
  4. Recording of the Week: Nightingale song
  5. Freeing jazz in the sixties
  6. Recording of the Week: elusive pulse
  7. Hundreds of rare tracks added to Archival Sound Recordings

June 2009

  1. Records of the African diaspora in Matanzas, Cuba
  2. Recording of the Week: Any idea what a fogger is?

May 2009

  1. Testing new cataloguing system
  2. The story of the Yi archives
  3. The importance of story
  4. Mongolia and the free press
  5. Living out fiction with Huxley and Beethoven
  6. Decca West Africa Recordings
  7. Early Spoken Word Recordings
  8. Sound in Space
  9. Traditional music in England

April 2009

  1. Shared histories
  2. Sound archiving internships 2009-2010

March 2009

  1. Saving the endangered records of Tuvalu
  2. Collapse of Cologne City Archives
  3. Music from India – new online resource at the British Library
  4. New Classical Music section!
  5. The British Library publishes audio metadata profile
  6. I Hear a New World

February 2009

  1. Recording of the month
  2. Voices of Past and Present
  3. Unlocking Audio 2: Connecting With Listeners

January 2009

  1. Jewish Survivors of the Holocaust
  2. A foxy winner

2008 16

November 2008

  1. Conference call

October 2008

  1. Archival Sound Recordings in Action - Reviving the Lost Music of Bunyoro-Kitara

September 2008

  1. A new authentication system for Archival Sound Recordings
  2. Escaping Google: a case study from Joseph Priestley College

July 2008

  1. Digital views
  2. For Your Urgent Attention

June 2008

  1. The Longest Day (at 33-1/3 rpm)
  2. Recording of the Month Competition

May 2008

  1. Opening Doors
  2. Humphrey Lyttelton, in memoriam

April 2008

  1. User Community Launch

March 2008

  1. Engaging with the User Community: a Case Study at City University

February 2008

  1. The Diamond Anniversary of Stereo
  2. A Wellcome Addition
  3. Death of Cyprian Ekwensi

January 2008

  1. IT Sounds Right

2007 9

December 2007

  1. Engaging People with digital content
  2. The Secret History of the African Writers' Club

November 2007

  1. A Visit From A Playwright
  2. Archival Sound Recordings in House of Lords exhibition
  3. The Archival Sound Recordings2 User Panel
  4. Behind the Scenes: Digitisation

October 2007

  1. Sharing content
  2. Out of Africa

September 2007

  1. Fog warning

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