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December 2013

  1. Happy Holidays from Team Americas!
  2. A million first steps: some early Team Americas favourites
  3. The Canadian $4 bill: not so awkward after all
  4. An overlooked 17th century illustrated Shahnamah
  5. How many people does it take to digitise a Malay manuscript?
  6. Mantiq al-tayr ('the Speech of Birds'), part 2
  7. Malay manuscripts digitisation project completes first year
  8. Lakshman cuts off the nose of Shurpanakha
  9. Reading Malay manuscripts with children
  10. Disentangling the Robert Smiths
  11. Malay manuscripts from Borneo
  12. Zoroastrian visions of heaven and hell
  13. The Javanese story of the Prophet Joseph
  14. New Year’s Resolution: 300 ppi?
  15. New hyperspectral imaging capabilities at the British Library
  16. Supporting the UK digital preservation community through SPRUCE
  17. Digitisation as a preservation tool; some considerations
  18. Read All About It #1 - What’s in the Papers?
  19. A million first steps
  20. open, Open and ‘Open’: conflations of openness is public discourse
  21. New online collections – December 2013
  22. Andrew Motion, Owen Sheers and P J Harvey read war poetry at the British Library
  23. A good murder for Christmas?
  24. Anatomy of two anatomists
  25. C'est ma chanson
  26. BBC Ukrainian Book of the Year 2013
  27. Deventer does Dickens - and much more: literary heritage in a Dutch city
  28. “This country called Belarus”: our latest Belarusian acquisition
  29. Christmas Music and Popular Songs: Free Concert at the British Library
  30. From the Parnassus of the Peoples
  31. Straight man, funny man
  32. Coming to England with Alfred Kerr
  33. Not only for Christmas: St Nicholas in East and West
  34. A library of Macedonian literature in the British Library
  35. Spot the difference: a title page too far
  36. Learning is Progess: welcome to the world of Lean Startup
  37. Helping to make a success story - Children's Qur'anic Pop-up Book
  38. Neoshop – Boutique de L’innovation France: Collaborating, Connecting and Showcasing
  39. What are these bits of maps?
  40. Don't put a foot wrong in Georgian Bath
  41. One Million Hits and Counting!
  42. Papyrus Unbound
  43. Your Favourite Manuscript: The Results
  44. Happy Christmas from the Medieval Manuscripts Team
  45. Medieval Top Ten
  46. Important Notice: Temporary Closure of the Sir John Ritblat Treasures Gallery
  47. Put It In Your Pocket
  48. An Old World View of the New
  49. Guess the Manuscript X
  50. The Constitution of Athens
  51. What's Your Favourite Manuscript?
  52. Happy Hanukkah!
  53. The Romance of Mont Saint-Michel
  54. Magna Carta Internship 2014
  55. A Calendar Page for December 2013
  56. The Countess of Yarmouth’s Fancy
  57. Science Countdown to Christmas
  58. Hidden Gems
  59. Visualising Research
  60. Propaganda, Sisterhood, Social Welfare and more: a year in social sciences
  61. Stories from the Empire: Privy Council Cases 1917-1920 (cont’d)
  62. Stories from the Empire: Privy Council Cases 1917-1920
  63. The personal and political: memories and commemoration of Nelson Mandela on the web
  64. Blue Christmas 1913
  65. After the Rain
  66. Rescuing the Rivonia Trial recordings
  67. The nuclear secrets of a Farnborough Morris dancer
  68. Recording Mandela
  69. Changing places, changing news
  70. Alcohol’s Alphabet
  71. Pasteur benefits Indian livestock
  72. Christmas at Ladysmith 1899
  73. Dickens, Esther and Smallpox: A Bleak Prognosis
  74. The Highland Clans: letters from unknown gentlemen
  75. Henry Bunbury - Hogarthian Satirist
  76. Women of the Empire: a Privy Council case
  77. The Tower of Silence, a Zoroastrian detective story
  78. Midshipman Marriott and the Indian Navy spirit allowance
  79. 'Cornelia Calling' - A Voyage of Discovery in the British Library
  80. Cultivator or inventor?
  81. Dressing like a Queen
  82. Political party web archives

November 2013

  1. “A French Connection” : Concert by the British Library & British Museum Singers 21 November 2013
  2. The Canadian $4 Bill: Awkward Notes
  3. The Transition
  4. Team Americas celebrates Movember
  5. Mirza Abu’l Hasan Khan, the ‘Envoy Extraordinary’ from Persia
  6. Two Malay manuscripts from Wales: Sejarah Melayu and Hikayat Hang Tuah
  7. ‘The Speech of the Birds’: an illustrated Persian manuscript
  8. The Mughals: Life, Art and Culture in New Delhi
  9. The Malay Story of the Pig King
  10. Henri Mouhot’s (almost forgotten) epigraphic notes
  11. Symposium: From Floor to Ceiling, South Asian floor drawings and murals
  12. Semarang: Javanese city of Malay scribes
  13. The Search for Alexander Hadarli
  14. Conference on Digital Islamic Humanities
  15. Malay manuscripts in the Sloane collection
  16. Conservation gets mobile
  17. Fail to prepare for digitisation, prepare to fail at digitising!
  18. Goldfinisher: He’s the man, the man with the Midas touch
  19. Read All About It! Preserving the National Newspaper Collection
  20. Interactive Narratives @ British Library
  21. Mixing the Library: Information Interaction & the DJ - Origins
  22. The georeferencer is back!
  23. Digital Research in the wild
  24. The Sample Generator - Part 1: Origins
  25. New online collections – November 2013
  26. Fifty Glorious Years! Doctor Who and the Invasion of Dusty Victorians
  27. Professor Heger's Daughter
  28. The Shakespeare sculpture at the British Library
  29. The Radfords
  30. Most of What Follows is a Complete Waste of Time
  31. Olympe de Gouges and 'Les Trois Urnes'
  32. Valse Mélancolique with Olha Kobylianska
  33. A Saint and a Sinner
  34. Remembering Holodomor
  35. Between Sacred and Profane, Word and Image: Marcello Macedonio’s Le nove muse
  36. Under the spell of the Tatras
  37. Gilt and gingerbread - celebrating a rare binding sample
  38. Day of Montenegrin Culture: a celebration of the 200th anniversary of Njegoš’s birth
  39. How the Georgian language first appeared in print
  40. D'Annunzio - Defiant Archangel and Pike
  41. Rights, rats and revolution: Albert Camus turns 100
  42. Classroom curiosities
  43. Innovating for Growth success story - Socially Bright
  44. University innovation: using the wisdom of the crowd
  45. Aartizen – a healthy fruit and veg success story
  46. Local area business information in the Business & IP Centre
  47. Inspiring Entrepreneurs: In the Den with the Dragons
  48. Duke of Edinburgh visits Business & IP Centre
  49. The Internet has revolutionised marketing
  50. Setting Profitable Prices by Marlene Jensen
  51. 2,700 new maps online for georeferencing
  52. Happy St Andrew's Day
  53. Medieval Movember
  54. Marginali-yeah: Take 2! The Incomparable Luttrell Psalter
  55. Happy St Catherine's Day!
  56. The True History of Richard II
  57. Guess the Manuscript IX
  58. A New Life for Royal Manuscripts
  59. An Imperial Psalter
  60. How Does Beowulf Begin?
  61. Blackburn's 'Worthy Citizen': A Colloquium on the R. E. Hart Collection
  62. A Calendar Page for November 2013
  63. Parthenia: an anniversary celebration
  64. "Go Stedman!" A bellringing anniversary
  65. Thea Musgrave, Christopher Raeburn, and 16th-Century Music Printing: New Collaborative Doctoral Partnerships at the British Library
  66. Edison Fellow Raymond Yiu is short listed for 2013 British Composer Awards
  67. From base pairs to bedside...
  68. Decision making in the twilight of uncertainty
  69. Explaining Focal Osteoporosis to My Gran
  70. Science-writing competition
  71. Why not cite data?
  72. So You Want to be a Scientist?
  73. Historic Heston at the British Library
  74. A final note on the iPod generation
  75. Calling all Spare Rib Contributors!
  76. Roads of Remembrance
  77. BSA: Big Data Challenge at the British Library
  78. Challenging myths and understanding society
  79. Exploring the Creative Possibilities of Field Recording: Six questions with David Vélez
  80. 'angin in Mancs and rhoticity in Lancs
  81. Europeana Creative: the wildlife recordings of Lawrence Shove
  82. Heavens to Betsy it's Arkansas, West Sussex!
  83. The nuclear secrets of a Farnborough morris dancer
  84. The Singing Sailor - Salim Rashid Suri
  85. Finding Charles Clark: ‘a bibliographic farmer’
  86. Lay of the Red Moustache
  87. The cat and the diplomat
  88. “Is this my best side?” – George VI on Indian Banknotes
  89. Katie MacIntyre’s exotic taste
  90. Black Georgians? An ‘Affrican’ in Georgian London
  91. Queen Victoria, Guy Fawkes, and Shredded Wheat

October 2013

  1. The Earliest Surviving Printed Book from the Americas
  2. Team Americas on the move
  3. Civil War Transformations
  4. "All these books are published in Heaven"
  5. John Burnside: In Good Company
  6. Opening up the Hebrew manuscript collection
  7. War cartoons and propaganda from North Vietnam
  8. Ramayana Re-Imagined
  9. Hikayat Raja Pasai: the oldest Malay history
  10. Review of the 9th Annual Conference of the Islamic Manuscript Association
  11. Early studies of the Malay language
  12. New exhibition opens on Zoroastrianism
  13. Another Malay ‘Mirror for Princes’
  14. Islam, Trade and Politics across the Indian Ocean
  15. Persian Ambassadors gather at the Rietberg Museum, Zurich
  16. Conservation Revealed! The conservation work behind our latest exhibition, Georgians Revealed
  17. Collection Care Conference 2013: Evolution or Revolution: the Changing Face of Collection Care
  18. What the CMYK? Colour spaces and printing
  19. Victorian trade bindings
  20. Collection Care is now on Twitter!
  21. Guess the journal!
  22. Off The Map Winners Announced
  23. Visualising Joyce....yes I will Yes!
  24. Digital Conversations Event on Interactive Narratives
  25. Peeking behind the curtain of the Mechanical Curator
  26. Digital Scholarship training in and outside of the British Library
  27. Mongolia at a glance
  28. New online collections - October 2013
  29. Keith Sagar and Ted Hughes
  30. Rediscovered: the earliest recording of Ted Hughes?
  31. The Angel of Charleston - keeping house for the Bloomsbury Group
  32. The Noonday Witch
  33. In search of the lost palace in Białowieża National Park
  34. A country made out of 'bits and bobs’
  35. Geometry has two sides
  36. Picturing Heidi
  37. Unicorn versus Rhinoceros
  38. Georg Büchner - German literature's great "what if...?"
  39. Verdi and Wagner: two composers, two bicentenaries, four portraits
  40. To Kolomea with love
  41. The British Library & British Museum Singers celebrate Verdi’s Birthday
  42. Alain-Fournier and Proust film adaptations. Part I
  43. Dancing with the Devil
  44. Theatre life in Soviet Kharkiv, Joseph Schillinger and Persimfans
  45. Management Book of the Year 2013 shortlist announced
  46. Successful businesses know their numbers, understand them and act upon them
  47. Naturally Chinese Restaurant – an Innovating for Growth success story
  48. Global Entrepreneurship Week at the Business & IP Centre
  49. Maps of Paradise
  50. Dress Up for Halloween, Medieval Style
  51. Precious Papyri
  52. The Etheridge Encomium
  53. Lindisfarne Gospels Back in Treasures
  54. Guess the Manuscript VIII
  55. Anglo-Saxon Medicine
  56. British Library Ivories in the Gothic Ivories Project
  57. Fancy Another Giant List of Digitised Manuscript Hyperlinks?
  58. It's a Busy Life in Camelot
  59. A Calendar Page for October 2013
  60. Royal Philharmonic Society: 200 Years of Grand Projects
  61. English folksong at the British Library
  62. A ‘potpourri’ of contradanses
  63. How open is it?
  64. Testing times
  65. What’s in a name?
  66. Collecting new data
  67. Visual Urbanism: Perceptions of the Material Landscape
  68. In Conversation with the Women’s Liberation Movement
  69. Doctoral open days in social sciences
  70. Part 3 of the 'iPod generation': all doom and gloom?
  71. Listen up!
  72. The realities behind the social ‘myths’
  73. World Day for Audiovisual Heritage
  74. Revealing the Hidden Beauty of Birdsong
  75. World Newsreels Online
  76. What does the fox say?
  77. Recording Quiet Places: six questions with Tony Whitehead
  78. The Listening Project
  79. Semantic Media
  80. Queen’s Hallowe’en
  81. Armed and Dangerous – Victorian Prosthetics (Part 2)
  82. Alan Gradon Thomas, antiquarian bookseller
  83. Admiral Peter Rainier – Defender of British India
  84. Black History at the British Library
  85. The Elusive Dancing Master
  86. Picturing 400 Years of Asian Britain
  87. Aw! how I ded long for a tatie pasty!
  88. Italian Prisoners of War and Internees in India
  89. Without a Leg to Stand On – Victorian Prosthetics
  90. The three truths of Margaret Thatcher

September 2013

  1. Propaganda: Speakers' Corner at the British Library 2- 5 September 2013
  2. Before the Avatar, the Mugshot
  3. In remembrance of Carolyn Cassady 1923-2013
  4. Want therefore shall not I: The Whole Book of Psalmes
  5. Rebuilding after 9/11
  6. An Incident in the Retreat at the Battle of Manassas (21 July 1861)
  7. A Thai book of merit: Phra Malai’s journeys to heaven and hell
  8. International Dunhuang Project: 20th Anniversary
  9. Hang Tuah: the Malay Rollo or Rustam
  10. Some Syriac Manichean Treasures in the British Library
  11. Marianne North's Visions of India
  12. Sejarah Melayu: a Malay masterpiece
  13. The Shah of Iran's Copy of ʻA Gift to Kingsʼ
  14. The Crown of Kings: a deluxe Malay manuscript from Penang
  15. Commoners in traditional Vietnamese society as portrayed in early 20th century drawings
  16. Here’s looking at you kid: Under the microscope with leather
  17. A Guide to British Library Book Stamps
  18. Is not parchment made of sheepskins? Ay, my lord, and of calfskins too...
  19. A-a-a-chooo! Collection Care’s Dust Busters
  20. The Twelve Principles of Digital Preservation (and a cartridge in a repository…)
  21. The Mechanical Curator
  22. Digital Conversations Event on The Scholarly Use of Web Archives
  23. Data exploration through visualisation
  24. New online collections – September 2013
  25. Scientists Behaving Badly
  26. Jokes for David Frost
  27. Evelyn Waugh manuscripts at the British Library
  28. Six lyrics and Kalashnikov
  29. The three great K’s: Kaffee, Kuchen and Kultur
  30. Marcel Reich-Ranicki (1920-2013)
  31. Elisabeth of Austria - the Hapsburg Princess Diana?
  32. Alain-Fournier’s Le Grand Meaulnes
  33. A Lisbon earthquake pamphlet of 1757: but not the Lisbon earthquake; and the last gasp of heliocentrism
  34. St. Ludmila, patroness of Bohemia
  35. One Conference - Two Views
  36. A very brief encounter: Jesuits in Japan
  37. Spanish film and the British Library
  38. Macchiaioli: the Italian Impressionists?
  39. Henrik Ibsen and London - then and now
  40. Boccaccio at 700
  41. The coolest brands
  42. Fashion has nowhere to go but in circles
  43. Top tips from our Marketing Maestros
  44. My favourite brand is complete rubbish
  45. A map discovery hidden in a 17th century portrait
  46. Mapping a Lost City
  47. Guess the Manuscript VII
  48. Knight v Snail
  49. Internship in the Medieval and Earlier Manuscripts Section
  50. The Luscious Luttrell Psalter
  51. Marvellous Manuscripts from the Levant
  52. Dogs: Medieval Man's Best Friend
  53. The Worms Bible on Display in Mannheim
  54. The Quimperlé Detective
  55. Seamus Heaney: An Appreciation
  56. A Medieval Menagerie
  57. The Bounty of Byzantium
  58. A Calendar Page for September 2013
  59. Folk song in England study day
  60. Seek, but shall ye find?
  61. Don't Quote Me on That
  62. Measure for Measure
  63. Selecting, not perfecting?
  64. Reminder - Call for Papers: Languages and the First World War
  65. London Calling
  66. Longitude? It's Patently Obvious
  67. Propaganda, the geography of not-knowing and the history of ignorance
  68. Thank Goodness for Propaganda!
  69. Speakers Corner at the British Library
  70. Made at the British Library
  71. The most unpopular government department
  72. British Bird of the Month: Lapwing
  73. London Calling
  74. Tracing the Origins of Human Speech
  75. Tessa Elieff: witness, documentarian, provocateur
  76. Diamonds at the Court of the Shah
  77. Endangered Archives Programme reveals Untold Lives
  78. Pistol, teapot, soap, and satin doublet: an East India Company merchant’s possessions
  79. Famous Frenchman found at Falmouth
  80. ‘An adventurer of a doubtful reputation’
  81. Indian soldiers’ views of England during World War I
  82. Plague, Snakes and Fishes
  83. Lip salve and worms in the face
  84. Watching the UK domain crawl with Monitrix
  85. Crawling the UK web domain
  86. Scaling up to archive the UK web

August 2013

  1. The Art of Occupy
  2. The Fierce Urgency of Now: Dr King's 'I Have a Dream' revisited
  3. Celebrating: World Dog Day
  4. Andrea Wulf: Out of Archives and Libraries
  5. Literally, a blog post
  6. The Cats of Canada
  7. Ovum Zoroastræum: ‘Zoroaster’s egg’
  8. A 'Golden letter' in Malay to Napoleon III
  9. British Library's Malay manuscripts to be digitised
  10. Austere portraits of Aurangzeb
  11. Elephants in all shapes and sizes
  12. Aurangzeb Ponders the Afterlife
  13. Natural History Drawings from South Asia
  14. Japan400 – Hirado and the British in Japan
  15. The Everlasting Flame: Zoroastrianism in History and Imagination
  16. The Bookie Monster: attack of the creepy crawlies!
  17. Iron gall ink and wasps
  18. Conserving a mould-damaged iron gall ink manuscript
  19. Under the microscope with the Lindisfarne Gospels: name that folio – the answer
  20. Collection Care fired up for BBC Four appearance
  21. @HumaBirdProject + #inspiringwomen
  22. A perspective on Digital Scholarship at the British Library
  23. New online collections – August 2013
  24. The first audiobook
  25. Theo Marzials: a bad poet, but possibly the British Library’s darling
  26. The Charleston Bulletin Supplements
  27. Everything you wanted to know about Russia, but were afraid to "ask a librarian"
  28. Church - Parliament - Monument
  29. Banter reborn
  30. Fond memories of a tin snail
  31. The Georgian anarchist prince and his gift
  32. Second World War Soviet Propaganda
  33. German propaganda in Esperanto
  34. Two Italian seventeenth-century female engravers : a recent discovery
  35. Britain and Russia in the First World War and the Revolution of 1917: some interesting sources in the British Library collections
  36. Some 2013 anniversaries
  37. Propaganda of Success
  38. A Dingy Corner of British Hispanism: Samuel Pepys and Spanish
  39. Lady on banknotes
  40. Trendspotting in a Nutshell for Innovators to Laggards
  41. China’s top 20 western brands
  42. Innovating for Growth Branding Workshop - Maximising Your Brand
  43. Cosmo Careers Masterclass
  44. Business success stories
  45. Somewhere, somewhere in a field in Herefordshire...
  46. Whimsical sea monsters
  47. Guess the Manuscript VI
  48. Anglo-Saxon Invasion
  49. Mary, Queen of Scots Manuscripts On Loan
  50. King Athelstan's Books
  51. St John the Evangelist in the Lindisfarne Gospels
  52. Get Ready to 'Save-As': New Uploads to the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts
  53. Credo: British Library Manuscripts in Paderborn
  54. The Lady of the Mercians
  55. Twelfth-Century Girl Power
  56. The Eyes Have It
  57. Michael Wood and King Alfred
  58. Hooray for Homer!
  59. King Alfred and the Anglo-Saxons on BBC Four
  60. A Calendar Page for August 2013
  61. Britten's Serenade
  62. Kevin Volans' collection of music from Southern Africa
  63. Trevor Wiggins Ghanaian Collection
  64. The Music of War: 1914–1918
  65. Access to everyone
  66. An open and shut case
  67. Divining the Deluge
  68. Inspiring Science 2013
  69. Show me more data
  70. The Internet, Social Media and Propaganda: The Final Frontier?
  71. Football Association 1863 Minute Book
  72. When did we ever have it so good? Part 2 of the iPod generation
  73. On Patriotism: Propaganda in the Library’s Canadian Photographic Collection
  74. Gert and Daisy on The Kitchen Front: Celebrity, humour and public opinion in the Second World War
  75. ODIN Project 1st Year Event @ CERN - October 2013
  76. Write, Camera, Action!
  77. Resources for women's and gender studies at the British Library
  78. How does our history inspire you?
  79. Listening to the Active Sounds of History: field recording and museums
  80. Recording the Sounds of Nature - six questions with Jay-Dea Lopez
  81. A Life with Sound
  82. Recording the Sounds of Nature - six questions with Ian Todd
  83. La Martiniere Schools: the legacy of Claude Martin
  84. The Lost City
  85. Bournville – A Confection of Industrial Relations
  86. A Hairy Subject – Secrecy, Shame and Victorian Wigs
  87. Fear no more the heat of the sun
  88. Babes in Arms
  89. Settling Scores: Property Confiscation after the Indian Mutiny
  90. Cooking with worm-eaten mushrooms
  91. Ghastly Kitchens

July 2013

  1. South Asia Archive and Library Group Conference, 5-6 July 2013
  2. John Burnside: Lost Brother
  3. A Special Relationship? Winston Churchill and Anglo-America Revisited
  4. The New York Cosmos
  5. Prince George - British Columbia
  6. The Royal Baby and Photos for Every Occasion
  7. Ay, if I know the letters and the language: The Elements of Style
  8. Digitised Collections: more Arctic journeys
  9. William Gibson
  10. From Ben Franklin to Brian Cox
  11. From the collection: Arctic journeys
  12. Eisenhower and European Integration
  13. Eccles Centre Writer in Residence: Andrea Wulf
  14. Happy Independence Day!
  15. Happy Canada Day!
  16. An illustrated 14th century Khamsah by Khvaju Kirmani
  17. An Ottoman Turkish Mosque Library Register
  18. The Treasures of the Asian & African Studies Reading Room
  19. West Africa’s little-known manuscripts
  20. Book of Affairs of Love
  21. Some paintings by the 17th century Safavid artist Muhammad Zaman
  22. A rare example of Chinese calligraphy by Sir Ernest Satow
  23. Spectacular firework displays
  24. A rare, smoked Ahom manuscript from Assam
  25. Under the microscope with the Lindisfarne Gospels
  26. Evolution or revolution! The changing face of collection care
  27. Going Digital: Making manuscripts more accessible
  28. The conservation work behind our latest major exhibition, Propaganda: Power and Persuasion
  29. Revealing hidden information using multispectral imaging
  30. AHRC Big Data Research call
  31. British Library Labs Competition 2013 - Winners Announced!
  32. New online collections – July 2013
  33. What's the longest play in the world anyway (anyone)?
  34. Robert Louis Stevenson and the Strange Case of the Spanish Vampire
  35. Ken Campbell is alive and you are dead
  36. Registering the registrars
  37. La Unua Libro
  38. Multiculturalism in 18th-century Portuguese India?
  39. The Glory of Slovenia
  40. Propaganda from the skies
  41. Mikoláš Aleš
  42. Chiaroscuro of a Croatian master
  43. German Studies Library Group
  44. Innovating for Growth success story - The Hairforce
  45. The power of brand
  46. The role of UK University Business Schools in driving innovation
  47. The Apprentice 2013
  48. Congratulations to our FSB London Business award winners!
  49. Starting a food business
  50. Business & IP Centre customers showcase products at Boxpark
  51. Have trolley, will travel
  52. The Last Will and Testament of Alfred the Great
  53. Guess the Manuscript V
  54. A Carolingian Masterpiece: the Moutier-Grandval Bible
  55. Royal Babies and Celebrated Infants
  56. Follow the British Library
  57. Magna Cartas to be Unified for First Time
  58. Wandering in the Desert of Religion
  59. Medieval Maps of the Holy Land
  60. A Remarkable Tale of Manuscript Sleuthing: the Ely Farming Memoranda
  61. Call for Papers: A Conference on Blackburn Manuscript and Incunable Collections
  62. Fancy a Giant List of Digitised Manuscript Hyperlinks?
  63. A Calendar Page for July 2013
  64. Music and Monarchy
  65. Lamellophones on Europeana
  66. Oral History of Glyndebourne opera
  67. War and peace in Britten
  68. Show me the data
  69. Particle Physics: A Century of Spin
  70. BBSRC intern and potential ‘poster-boy’ buzzes-off…
  71. A bee-friendly British Library on the horizon…
  72. Introducing our new Science blog...
  73. Memory Place
  74. When did we ever have it so good? Part 1 of the iPod generation
  75. Exploring social themes in literature
  76. Kannada Jeevaswaraa – a music video created for Karnataka (a State in South India)
  77. Call for Papers: Languages and the First World War
  78. The role of UK Business Schools in driving innovation
  79. Propaganda you may have missed
  80. Napoleon riding backwards on a donkey
  81. Five European Villages
  82. TOWIE (talking of words in Essex)
  83. The Sounds of Water
  84. Field Recording Fanzine
  85. Smiling with dead men’s teeth
  86. Punishing children in Victorian England
  87. History of Office Life reveals Charles Lamb's interest
  88. Joseph Faithful – an Anglo-Indian internee
  89. What happens when you let a Rajah escape?
  90. Scandal and ruin in 18th century Madras
  91. German Propaganda in Sharjah
  92. Bear’s grease, bonnets, bellows, biscuits and Bibles
  93. The Davisons of Northumberland and Bengal
  94. Propaganda, political communication and action on the web
  95. Using open data to visualise the early web

June 2013

  1. First World War Workshop – 29 June 2013
  2. 15 June 1215: A Significant Date in History
  3. Bert the Turtle: or, how they learned to stop worrying and love the bomb
  4. From the Collections: Native Americans visit London
  5. Tossed Salad and Scrambled Eggs: The Constitution 225 Years Later
  6. Naomi Wood
  7. Civil War Project update – A journey through the Southern (and Northern) States
  8. John Burnside: Finding Jennifer
  9. J. Montgomery Flagg and Uncle Sam
  10. The Secretary: a journey with Hillary Clinton
  11. Recent acquisition - Rao Arjun Singh worshipping Sri Brijnathji
  12. Sir Elijah Impey, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in Calcutta
  13. Jahangir’s Hafiz and the Madrasa Jurist
  14. Burmese Horoscopes (Myanmar Zata)
  15. Frances Wood, Curator of Chinese Collections
  16. Stitched up with Silk: Naqd ʻAli Beg’s journey to London in 1626
  17. Over 26,000 Japanese records added to Explore The British Library
  18. A Judeo-Arabic serial issued in Bombay
  19. A Buddhist sutra and illustrated cover
  20. Why we are big on (big)data
  21. Seeking trends in article titles
  22. A page, but not as we know it
  23. Syliphone - an early recording label from Guinea
  24. New online collections – June 2013
  25. Newly acquired W.H. Auden Journal
  26. The 'Sacred' seasons of live art at the Chelsea Theatre
  27. Six golden rules for writers
  28. The Keepsake Kiss
  29. Brest Fortress: History, Defence, Memorial
  30. Pirates of the Mediterranean
  31. Marketing tools
  32. Make your own anti-soviet propaganda!
  33. Propaganda in the schoolroom
  34. Follow the footballers and protect your brand
  35. Checking your trade mark abroad
  36. Review of Start-Up Saturday
  37. Recipe for Success: the secret ingredients for business growth
  38. Cooking up Success for Food in London
  39. Soul Trader the workshop with Rasheed Ogunlaru
  40. Welcome to our new Innovation and Enterprise blog
  41. On the River
  42. Recent acquisitions
  43. The Lindisfarne Gospels in Durham
  44. Guess the Manuscript IV
  45. Christine de Pizan and the Book of the Queen
  46. Royal Manuscripts Launch the AHRC Image Gallery
  47. A Digital Reunion: The Sforza Hours
  48. New Acquisitions in Manuscript and Print
  49. Lindisfarne Gospels Rewind
  50. Lindisfarne Gospels on BBC Radio 3
  51. Princes, Be Good!
  52. Guess the Manuscript III
  53. What Did Medieval Kings Really Look Like?
  54. Robert the Bruce letter found at British Library
  55. A Calendar Page for June 2013
  56. Library acquires George Lloyd's music manuscripts
  57. Poetry in Sound exhibition: Britten and Auden in the spotlight
  58. Dramatised reading of Wagner's Ring cycle, Sunday 9 June
  59. Benjamin Britten exhibition launched at the British Library
  60. Your very good health
  61. “Everything is propaganda”
  62. Film, art, advertising and propaganda
  63. Celebrating the Coronation and views of ‘English Magic’
  64. Interested in Business History?
  65. Acky one two three I see children's dialect on TV
  66. Capturing Weather
  67. Sound, Listening and the Art of Field Recording
  68. Dorothy Little – slave owner
  69. Sir Lewis Pelly, supporter of women’s suffrage
  70. Eleanor Rathbone and women's rights in India
  71. Waterloo mare for sale
  72. Christmas crackers and women’s suffrage
  73. The Women’s Co-operative Guild
  74. Archives and gunpowder
  75. Emily Wilding Davison: Perpetuating The Memory
  76. Lord Curzon's Anti-Suffrage Appeal
  77. Innovation in geographical context: the Cambridge Network collection
  78. Scholars and web archives: a report on the IIPC General Assembly, Slovenia April 2013

May 2013

  1. Legal Biography: A national socio-legal training day - 15th May 2013
  2. Connected histories: the East India Company and the Caribbean
  3. Lyse Doucet at the British Library
  4. Norman Rockwell and the Four Freedoms
  5. The early US Navy in the Gulf
  6. Justin Webb, James Montgomery Flagg and Uncle Sam
  7. Noam Chomsky and Propaganda
  8. On Acadie: thoughts from the 18th Bryant Lecture
  9. Changing Scenes: Canadian landscape views
  10. Pynchon Day 2013
  11. Commodore Perry goes to Japan
  12. Getting our skates on: Team Americas gets playoff fever
  13. The Shahnameh as propaganda for World War II
  14. Book containing 1000 beautiful paintings from the Song Dynasty period is donated to the British Library by Zhejiang University
  15. A recently digitised Korean royal manuscript
  16. A Mughal Flower Show
  17. Bombay and Calcutta in Sydney
  18. 'The Mughals: Art, Culture and Empire' in Kabul
  19. Thai massage in the early 19th century
  20. Mughal painting by Faizallah recently acquired by the British Library
  21. Persian manuscripts digitisation project
  22. A 16th century Ottoman polymath: Matrakçı Nasuh
  23. Does crowdsourcing capture the crowd at its wisest? An interview with Nick Hiley
  24. Round-Up: Upcoming UK Digital Scholarship Training Opportunities
  25. On metadata and cartoons
  26. Remembering the Great War - the Harold Ward Letters
  27. Improved access to newspapers: The Europeana Newspapers Project
  28. A novel, a writing machine and a leafy square in London
  29. Labs Competition - Win £3000!
  30. Wikipedian in Residence: conclusions
  31. British Library Labs Launch Event Report
  32. Digitised Ahom manuscripts arrive at the British Library
  33. New online collections – May 2013
  34. Out with the old and in with the new
  35. New Beatles acquisition at the British Library
  36. LOL! Tragic Queen Christina of Sweden liked a funny book
  37. Opera crimes
  38. A Catalan classic rediscovered
  39. Mácha and Máj
  40. Inspired by ..... MAPS!
  41. Ordnance Surveyors’ Drawings opened for reuse
  42. Film Screening of the Gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander
  43. Rejoice Now!
  44. Of Captions, Clerics, and Queens: Tweeting the Medieval Illuminated Manuscript
  45. A Good Walk Spoiled
  46. Look on these Works and Frown?
  47. Guess the Manuscript II
  48. Have You Used DigiPal Yet?
  49. Why Do We Blog?
  50. King Offa and the Ceolfrith Bible
  51. The Elephant at the Tower
  52. You Say Beowulf, I Say Biowulf
  53. Marginali-yeah! The Fantastical Creatures of the Rutland Psalter
  54. A Calendar Page for May 2013
  55. Wagner goes online at 200
  56. Wagner weekend at the British Library, 8-9 June
  57. The Banks of Green Willow
  58. Steve Martland
  59. May Day at BL World & Traditional Music
  60. Every time you cross the road ...
  61. Showcase your research by entering the CMI Management Articles of the Year
  62. A young woman’s response to the ‘Sisterhood and After’ website
  63. Propaganda and Politics in the Modern Age
  64. Picturing Propaganda
  65. New ORCID Integrated Citation Tool from the ODIN Project
  66. Rosie in the Reading Room
  67. Propaganda – coming soon
  68. New BL Labs Competition launched
  69. All change, all change!
  70. Bird Sounds of Kenya - favourites from the A.R. Gregory collection
  71. Screening the Future 2013
  72. British Bird of the Month: Skylark
  73. Wild Scotland
  74. The Advent of Sound Recording
  75. Gardening as therapy
  76. ‘Domestic differences and little broils’
  77. Children in the corridors of power
  78. Nutrition in India
  79. Political Propaganda and the Quit India Movement
  80. Shameful tales from the Raj
  81. James Cunningham - the unluckiest botanist in Asia
  82. Agricultural Exhibitions in India
  83. The ‘laughable attitudes’ of Billy Noon
  84. History is arbitrary (if we let it)
  85. The new NHS: a reform you could see from space?

April 2013

  1. A Cuban directory
  2. Picturing Canada: going live (gradually)
  3. Team Americas On the Road: a busy spring
  4. Looking Forward: Congress to Campus, Party politics, and election prospects
  5. A farewell to the Mughals
  6. What were the Mughals' favourite books?
  7. A rare commentary on the Divan of Hafiz
  8. Two 15th century Timurid masterpieces to be digitised
  9. Jai Singh’s Observatories
  10. Jai Singh and European Astronomy
  11. Rare portrait of Ikhlas Khan, the African Prime Minister of Bijapur, acquired by the British Library
  12. Biohumanities Symposium at University of Maryland
  13. This is not a post about MOOCs this is a post about learning
  14. The day after the #DayofDH
  15. Archive Fever at British Library
  16. New EAP Cataloguer, new collections now online!
  17. In Praise of the Unloved
  18. James Joyce on record
  19. Royal Court Theatre recordings at the British Library
  20. Neil Bartlett's Desert Island Discs
  21. From Queen to King in the Netherlands
  22. Off the Map: getting to grips with the city
  23. How the Camel Got the Hump
  24. Popular History for an English Audience: The English Prose Brut Chronicle
  25. Happy St George's Day
  26. Guess the Manuscript!
  27. What's in the Beowulf Manuscript?
  28. French Prose Brut Chronicles in the British Library (And How to Find Them)
  29. Not Always Bad News Birds: The Caladrius
  30. What Can We Learn from a Scribal Colophon?
  31. Calling All Manuscript Sleuths: The Macclesfield Alphabet Book
  32. A Calendar Page for April 2013
  33. Investigating Zulu instruments - the strange tale of the isicelekeshe
  34. Interviews with Ethnomusicologists now online!
  35. Cataloguing and Processing the Ethnographic Wax Cylinder Collection – Part 2
  36. Researching the exhibition
  37. What is the future of the voluntary sector? TSRC National Conference
  38. The Idea of Work
  39. The 1980s Archived
  40. What's Wrong with Bankers?
  41. New University of Sheffield/British Library funded PhD scholarship announced
  42. '…the irreducible things that happened': sociology in the archives
  43. Food and fear
  44. British Bird of the Month: Starling
  45. The First of May – Chimney Sweeps’ Day
  46. History and science meet
  47. Let me tell you a story…
  48. How to stay healthy with homemade remedies
  49. Jungle trees and their uses
  50. Knitting a shower-proof golf coat
  51. Meteorites and other extraordinary phenomena in northern India
  52. Science and Great Yarmouth
  53. April Fool?
  54. Dispatches from the domain crawl #1
  55. Just what is the UK web domain anyway ?
  56. Health and Social Care Act 2012: collection now available
  57. Non-Print Legal Deposit: it's here !
  58. Librarianship in the 21st century: a new collection

March 2013

  1. Propaganda and obedience: Noam Chomsky in conversation at the British Library 19 March 2013
  2. New Resources: online Latin American Newspapers
  3. New acquisitions: 2 early Mexican imprints
  4. Picturing Canada: mapping a collection
  5. John Muir is going 'Sequoical' in the Yosemite
  6. Easter Celebrations at the Mughal Court
  7. Imperial legal compendia: from the Mughals to the British
  8. A nobleman celebrating the festival of Holi
  9. Jahangir celebrates the New Year
  10. A lavishly decorated Indian Qurʼan
  11. The highjacking of the Ganj-i Sawaʼi
  12. Milo C. Beach explores 'The Gulshan Album'
  13. 18th century route map from Delhi to Kandahar
  14. Digital Scholarship, Resources and Research Workshop
  15. Europeana Collections 1914-1918 Digitisation Project
  16. BL Labs Launch Event
  17. THATcamp and GLAM-Wiki at the British Library
  18. TreeCurator, and 3D Visualisation of Computer Directories
  19. The demise of Google Reader: On the path to driverless information retrieval
  20. HUMlab at the British Library
  21. New Media – Making or Breaking Connections?
  22. Common Place Books, Total Fiction and Twitter
  23. We meet again, Mr Bentham, and you're being transcribed.
  24. Phylogenetic Tree Visualisation and Annotation
  25. Preserving the endangered manuscripts of the Cham people in Vietnam
  26. 'Encounters between Art and Science' an exhibition at the British Library
  27. Goodbye to the Singing Hypnotist
  28. The other Knightley Chetwode
  29. Loch Ness Monster Found at British Library
  30. Medieval Anchoresses and the Ancrene Riwle
  31. What's in Our Treasures Gallery?
  32. The Mystery of the Hours of Joanna the Mad
  33. "Written in Troublous Times": The Wessex Gospels
  34. British Library Manuscripts Featured in Toronto Exhibition
  35. The Durham Book of Life Online
  36. A Pauper's Bible Fit for a Prince
  37. Hooray for Public Domain Images!
  38. British Library Curator of Classical and Byzantine Studies
  39. To Hell and Back: Dante and the Divine Comedy
  40. Monsters and Marvels in the Beowulf Manuscript
  41. British Library Contributes to New Manuscripts Online Site
  42. A Calendar Page for March 2013
  43. Reuniting music manuscript collections
  44. Update on the Malcolm Sargent Collection
  45. ‘Addictive Personality’: Myth or Reality?
  46. And a salad batch for the trip back to London, sir?
  47. Sisterhood & After: the Women’s Liberation Oral History Project
  48. 'Generation Y not?' A view from a 'Y' member
  49. CMI Management Articles of the Year competition launched
  50. The British Library VoiceBank: An Introduction
  51. And a salad batch for the trip back to London, sir?
  52. Europeana Creative
  53. An aural history comes alive
  54. Dave's Wild Life: the winning entry from our short film competition The Sound Edit: Wildlife
  55. Sounds of the Maasai Mara
  56. British Bird of the Month: Greenfinch
  57. Mind the linguistic gap!
  58. Hand Grenade Throwing as a College Sport
  59. Policing the crowds in Aberystwyth
  60. Indian Doctors and the first Asiatic Cholera Pandemic
  61. Pilgrimage and public health
  62. Cholera on the emigrant ship 'Sheila'
  63. ‘Cholera mostly attacks at midnight’
  64. John Snow saves Soho bookbinders
  65. The Great Escape – Part 3
  66. Five weddings and a funeral
  67. Sisterhood and After: The Women’s Liberation Oral History Project
  68. Muslins, kincobs and choli cloths
  69. Researching Untold Lives
  70. Was 'water rat' the new black in 1697?
  71. APIs, data services, and being generous
  72. NHS Reform: capturing the change

February 2013

  1. Obama's Inauguration
  2. Guest Post: Miss Frank E. Buttolph – menu collector extraordinaire
  3. Editing Canada: help Team Americas and Wikimedia with a new digital collection
  4. Democratic Brazil at the British Library
  5. Posada’s ‘Biblioteca del Niño Mexicano’
  6. Lincoln, Alexander Gardner and the Silent Indian
  7. A 19th century album of imperial calligraphy
  8. Pigeon keeping: a popular Mughal pastime
  9. A Jewel in the Crown
  10. East-West knowledge transfer in Mughal India
  11. Mughal India: A Study Day
  12. From Mongols to Mughals
  13. Princess Jahanara’s biography of a Sufi saint
  14. Anyone for a spot of TEI?
  15. Recognising speech
  16. "Off The Map" Competition: Student Visit from De Montfort University Leicester
  17. Wikipedia and the British Library
  18. Mashups, Linked Data, APIs, Oh My!
  19. Digital Conversations series: Debating the Cloud
  20. Mongolian New Year
  21. Timbuktu and book culture in Africa
  22. Postcards from the Ukrainian Steppe
  23. 'Murder in the Library': the soundtrack
  24. BL Georeferencer - maps go like hotcakes
  25. Crisp as a Poppadom
  26. Images in the Public Domain
  27. Merlin: International Man of Mystery
  28. The Tale of the Errant Archbishop
  29. Be My Valentine
  30. Naked Came the Werewolf
  31. Hwæt! Beowulf Online
  32. Treasures Wonderful To Behold
  33. Gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander on YouTube
  34. Extra! Extra!: Richard III Lyth Buryd at Lecitor
  35. Nothin' but a Hound Dog
  36. A Calendar Page for February 2013
  37. Kalahari San [Bushmen] music online
  38. Encounters Between Art and science
  39. Moving Image and Broadcast News
  40. Being a collaborative doctoral student at the British Library
  41. Sport and Society
  42. A Treasury of 1950s Housecraft
  43. Management and Business Studies at the British Library
  44. I love emphatic tags, me
  45. British Bird of the Month: Green Woodpecker
  46. ‘King’ Robbie James (1957-1998)
  47. Jimmy Speirs – Inspirational captain, brave soldier
  48. Elephant beauty parade
  49. Convicts and ploughs
  50. Marry in haste? Not us!
  51. The first western entrepreneurs in Afghanistan
  52. Japan400
  53. Heave Ho, Me Hearties!
  54. Governing the Police: a special collection
  55. Nineteenth century English literature: a new special collection
  56. What’s in a name ? Domain names and website longevity
  57. Archiving social media: a workshop report

January 2013

  1. Oil, Ambergris and the Grand Ball of the Whales
  2. Let's Emigrate! To Canada
  3. George Catlin's 'Indian Ball'
  4. The Serendipity of Research: the case of Coren, Thoreau and the missing sentence
  5. From the collections: Mary Seacole
  6. The Great Comet of 1861 and the Civil War
  7. Slavery and Abolition in the Caribbean: a new UK Web Archive Special Collection
  8. Our Great Iceberg Melting Away
  9. British Library Magna Carta Internship
  10. Map of Nevis and St. Christopher: an evolving object
  11. Time, ever pressing on
  12. Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation
  13. William Baffin’s 1619 map of the Mughal Empire
  14. Fayżī’s Mawārid al-kalim, a literary tour de force
  15. Akbar's most influential adviser
  16. Art of Painting
  17. A Hindu scholar's contribution to Persian literary studies
  18. A Mughal Princess's autobiography
  19. Mughal India exhibition
  20. Who were the Mughals' ancestors?
  21. “….some say word clouds are the mullets of the internet”
  22. Videogaming meets cartography: Students are challenged to go "Off the Map" in a new competition
  23. IIIF: Enhancing Digital Scholarship
  24. BL Labs
  25. Welcome to the British Library Digital Scholarship Blog
  26. A visit to the British Library
  27. The New Year brings a new EAP Curator
  28. From Agatha (Christie) to the Zodiac Murders - an A-Z of crime fiction
  29. New Year, New Acquisition
  30. 'Putting a bomb under Scottish literature'
  31. Stargazing with maps. In the dark?
  32. A Menagerie of Miracles: The Illustrated Life of St Cuthbert
  33. Celebrating an Anniversary in High Style: the Biblioteca Nacional de España and the British Library
  34. Puss in Books
  35. The Worth of a Butterfly
  36. Lolcats of the Middle Ages
  37. Digitising Manuscripts: The Condition Assessment
  38. Monkeying Around with the Maastricht Hours
  39. Alfred the Great: Not a Domestic God, but No Slouch, Either!
  40. Discover Digitised Manuscripts
  41. British Library Magna Carta Internship
  42. What is Beowulf?
  43. Temporary Unavailability of Select Manuscripts: Reminder
  44. A Calendar Page for January 2013
  45. British and Irish traditional music online
  46. Census Statistics and Resources
  47. Call me the nicknamemeister (or N-dog for short)
  48. Behind the scenes in social sciences
  49. Digital Methods as Mainstream Methodology
  50. Research participation and auto/biography
  51. upstairs fains I downstairs bagsy
  52. From Myths and Realities to Equality and Egalitarianism (and more besides…)
  53. Call me the nicknamemeister (or N-dog for short)
  54. 'In the Field' - Field Recording Symposium at the British Library
  55. British Bird of the Month: Common Eider
  56. Charles Chilton 1917-2013
  57. upstairs fains I downstairs bagsy
  58. Come Rain or Shine
  59. Catastrophe at the Foreign Office
  60. The ‘Apostle of Mesmerism in India’
  61. Forbes & Company - one of the oldest businesses in the world
  62. Worse than McGonagall? The poems of William Nathan Stedman
  63. The Royal Indian Asylum and the building of the railway at Ealing
  64. French journalists and ‘the greatest of all sedition-mongers’
  65. New Year’s Day in the Workhouse
  66. Surfing the web in time: Mementos
  67. Web archiving: how to fit it in ? A workshop report
  68. What could you do with an archive of the UK web, 1996-2010 ?
  69. Religion, politics and the law: a new special collection
  70. Oral history in the UK: a new special collection
  71. Slavery and Abolition in the Caribbean: a new special collection

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