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December 2014

  1. Christmas, locked in the ice
  2. Access World News/ NewsBank
  3. American news dailies and weeklies: current acquisitions
  4. Curzon’s Durbars and the Alqabnamah: The Persian Gulf as part of the Indian Empire
  5. Artistic visions of the Delhi Zenana
  6. Christmas and New Year in the Persian Gulf: Protocol and Ceremony
  7. The London Qazwini Goes Live
  8. The British Library and Shandong University sign a Memorandum of Understanding
  9. Early Chinese rhyme dictionary now on display at the British Museum
  10. William Beckford's albums on Hindu mythology
  11. George Percy Churchill’s Biographical Notices of Persian Statesmen and Notables
  12. Javanese manuscript art: Serat Selarasa
  13. Book now for preservation and collection care courses 2015
  14. British Library Labs Symposium 2014 – The Winners
  15. British Library Labs Symposium 2014 – Keynote
  16. Curious Roads to Cross - 21st Century Curatorship Talk by David Normal
  17. Two 'Off the Map' games available as free downloads
  18. Software Sustainability Institute Fellowship
  19. KNOW YOUR CULTURE! OR ELSE…
  20. New online collections – December 2014
  21. What's in a name, or How Gothic is Goth?
  22. Jane Austen and the ‘very horrid’ Northanger Abbey
  23. ‘The Story is the Thing’: Graham Swift on reading his stories out loud
  24. On the eve... Germans in Britain in 1913
  25. Tango with Cows – Mystical Images of War - Russian First World War posters: celebrating their centenary.
  26. Have yourself a scripturally correct Christmas
  27. ‘Russian glory’ of Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley
  28. Punishment as a Crime?
  29. A dish fit for the gods: 150 years of Offenbach’s ‘La belle Hélène’
  30. "I raised a fire in my heart": remembering Eroshenko
  31. From Sanatoria to Skis: Winter Holidays in Switzerland
  32. Velimir Khlebnikov – pioneer of trans-sense language
  33. ‘Say “Dracula” and you smile. Say “Nosferatu” and you’ve eaten a lemon’
  34. Spanish insiders and outsiders
  35. Nikolai Berdyaev and Lenin’s ‘Philosophy Steamer’
  36. The Two Sieges of Paris: more caricatures from the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune
  37. Giving young people a taste for business with Citrus Saturday
  38. Self-service photography in our Reading Rooms
  39. The making of a best-seller
  40. Welcome to the Knowledge Quarter
  41. Revealing Gulf history online
  42. George III architectural plans
  43. England and the North-East Passage
  44. Maps in the 20th century: Disney World UK
  45. The Draw of the Arctic
  46. The Top Ten Blog Posts of 2014
  47. Been Around the World: Exhibition Loans in 2014
  48. Saved for the Nation: New Acquisitions in 2014
  49. Merry Christmas Everyone!
  50. Between Manuscript and Print: Greek Manuscripts from the Circle of Aldus Manutius
  51. Guess the Manuscript XVIII - Christmas Special
  52. Handle With Care: The Conservation and Digitisation of the Phillipps Lectionary
  53. Tudor Scribe and Spy at No. 2 in the Official Classical Charts
  54. Important notice: Temporary removal of Lindisfarne Gospels from display in the Treasures Gallery
  55. Magna Carta at the British Library in 2015
  56. An Early Holiday Present: Forty-six new Greek manuscripts online
  57. Holiday Gift Ideas from the British Library
  58. Report on the Fourteenth-Century Illuminated Manuscripts Conference
  59. New Images on the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts
  60. A Calendar Page for December 2014
  61. 'Earliest' polyphonic music discovered in British Library
  62. Making waves with the Qatar Digital Library
  63. Wishing you a Merry Crystal-mas from DataCite UK
  64. SWOTY 2014
  65. ODIN - Linking datasets and their creators
  66. Feminism in London Conference
  67. Inspired by Flickr: a year in review
  68. Oral History Curator's Choice
  69. Inspired by Flickr: Fire
  70. How to run a power station
  71. 2014 - the year's news about news
  72. The Psycho Bicycle
  73. Happy Christmas from MI5!
  74. A wartime Christmas party
  75. Season’s greetings at Gombroon
  76. The Poisoned Mince Pie
  77. Santa Claus’s coming to Britain
  78. The talented Mr Fox Talbot Part 5 – Photoglyphic engraving
  79. Victorian children - lost and found
  80. The Dubai Incident
  81. The Sinking of Old Sarum
  82. Medical Topography in the India Office Records

November 2014

  1. Bringing the Arctic to Leicester Square
  2. Mark Twain and the SS Batavia
  3. Burmese scenes from the Life of the Buddha
  4. The beauty of palm leaf manuscripts (1): Central Thailand
  5. Digital Hebrew treasures from the British Library collections
  6. An early Malay letter from Brunei
  7. A popular Chinese game: the Qi Qiao Tu, or Tangram
  8. The Brutal End of Persia’s Zand Dynasty
  9. Arabic scientific manuscripts go live in Qatar Digital Library
  10. ‘The Salmon Book’: Conservation in Reverse
  11. The conservation of two late medieval Hebrew manuscripts
  12. Celebrating Historic Newspapers
  13. Doctoral Students' Open Day: Digital Scholarship
  14. International Games Day at Your Library
  15. BL Digital Scholarship survey: how are users engaging with our digital content?
  16. New online collections – November 2014 Part 2
  17. New online collections – November 2014 Part 1
  18. A Chief and his Wheelbarrow: Digitisation and history in India’s Northeast
  19. The Face in the Glass: Mary Elizabeth Braddon and the Victorian Gothic Tale
  20. History at Stake! The Story Behind Vampire Slaying Kits
  21. Happy Birthday Bram Stoker!
  22. Mouse-skin eyebrows.
  23. ‘All Horrid’ – but not all German
  24. Are you afraid of the fairies? You should be.
  25. When Cavafy met Marinetti
  26. The Death of a Countess and the Draw of Local History
  27. A postmodern ‘War and Peace’
  28. Mysterious Manuscripts, lost and found
  29. Silesia: a borderland in Central Europe
  30. “Cursed orthography”: Revolution, Language and Identity
  31. NISE – Providing an instrument for the comparative transnational study of national movements
  32. Is your governess really a spy?
  33. Hero of Montevideo: Ivo Lapenna in memoriam
  34. Concert to celebrate the Silver Jubilee of the Friends of the British Library - Brahms’ Requiem
  35. An umbrella with style and strength - the Senz° XL storm-proof
  36. Book Review - Salvation in a start-up? The origins and nature of the self-employment boom
  37. Loom Bands - the toy sensation of 2014
  38. What’s new on… Datamonitor Consumer
  39. Innovating for Growth: The AnnaLoucah story
  40. Book review - Noon, with a View by Stephen Fear
  41. From Magna Carta to West Africa – cultural highlights for 2015
  42. Networking across the nation
  43. Welcome to Living Knowledge!
  44. These maps were made for walking
  45. Lines in the Ice: maps and the history of exploration
  46. Maps Tag-a-thon: it’s online
  47. Lines in the Sea: underwater oil in the 20th century
  48. Guess the Manuscript XVII
  49. Worn Around the Edges: More on the Phillipps Lectionary
  50. The Phillipps Lectionary: a window into 11th-century Byzantine illumination
  51. Nine-month Internship in the Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Section
  52. Collaborative Doctoral Partnerships at the British Library
  53. Magna Carta Ballot: a huge thank-you
  54. A Royal Beast and the Menagerie in the Tower
  55. Fire and Brimstone: Another Apocalypse Manuscript Goes Live
  56. The Codex Crippsianus: A Byzantine Manuscript of the Attic Orators
  57. The Harley Psalter: Devils in the Details
  58. Greek Digitisation Project update: 40 manuscripts newly uploaded
  59. “Snip It!” at The Jewish Museum, Berlin
  60. A Calendar Page for November 2014
  61. Calling all PhD students with a music-related topic!
  62. Film Screening: The Silk Road of Pop
  63. How to write a plain English summary
  64. Science writing competition - now open for entries!
  65. Access to Understanding
  66. Socio-Economic Developments since 1820
  67. Collecting the Referendum
  68. Saturday 15th November: Too much information? Join the debate
  69. Rare Noël Coward recording rediscovered
  70. Oral history for Disability History Month
  71. The eCreative “Sound Connections” pilot nears completion
  72. Jolly chuffed to spend a very hockey sticks weekend in Dulwich village
  73. Computer Memories of Alan Turing
  74. Inspired by Flickr: Water
  75. The Long, Long Trail
  76. Film Screening: The Silk Road of Pop
  77. Off the Map 2014 videogame winners announced
  78. They are a-changin'
  79. From Burnley to Cairo
  80. Circumnavigating Warbah and Rollicking Riproars, or how to cure the boredom of Empire
  81. A most depressing read
  82. The Slave Trade at Aden, Part 2
  83. The Slave Trade at Aden, Part 1
  84. Terror and Wonder Indian-style
  85. Allan Leonard Lewis VC: Wales’s forgotten war hero
  86. The Moustache Murder
  87. Fireworks tragedy sparks succession crisis
  88. Summoned by the Shah
  89. Collecting First World War Websites – November 2014 update
  90. Powering the UK Web Archive search with Solr

October 2014

  1. Baseball in the Library
  2. Olaudah Equiano and the draw of the Arctic
  3. Ghoulish images from East Asia
  4. Twenty more Persian manuscript treasures now online
  5. A royal Malay letter from Ternate
  6. Indian Music in the Persian Collections: the Javahir al-Musiqat-i Muhammadi (Or.12857). Part 2
  7. Three volumes of the Yongle Dadian now on display at the British Museum
  8. Indian Music in the Persian Collections: the Javahir al-Musiqat-i Muhammadi (Or.12857). Part 1
  9. Heirloom manuscripts from Jambi
  10. Bookbinder Bernard Middleton celebrates 90th birthday
  11. Paper cuts: small but mighty!
  12. Burnt Cotton Collection survey enables digitisation prioritisation
  13. 800 year old Magna Carta manuscript reveals its secrets
  14. 2014 Off the Map Competition Winners Announced at GameCity9 Festival
  15. British Library Digital Scholarship Training Programme: a round-up of resources you can use
  16. Victorian Meme Machine - Extracting and Converting Jokes
  17. Curious Roads to Cross: British Library, Burning Man and the art of David Normal
  18. Introducing Paper Machines
  19. British Library Labs Symposium 2014
  20. The Art of Data
  21. September online collections 2014
  22. George Orwell’s Burmese Days
  23. Carry on Screaming
  24. 'Think only this': war poets witnessing a century of war at the British Library
  25. London - A Literary Anthology. A new publication from the British Library.
  26. A Variety of Vampires
  27. Language and the making of nations
  28. Félicien Rops, Baudelaire and skeleton passions
  29. Person from a portrait: Ira Frederick Aldridge, the first black Othello
  30. Two Languages, One Nation?
  31. Ukrainian printing in the Russian empire
  32. One book, many faces: the Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano
  33. Lermontov – 200 years since the birth of the great Russian writer
  34. A German lesson for Europe: Siegfried Lenz (1926-2014)
  35. Legendary Goths (of Spain)
  36. The Art of War: Lepanto 1571
  37. Ploughing, scattering and translating, or, You know more German hymns than you think.
  38. The Warsaw Uprising of 1944: Epilogue
  39. Off the Map Gothic: the finalists!
  40. Maps relating to the Middle East now available online
  41. 1971: A Football Heritage Map
  42. A History of the 20th Century in 100 Maps
  43. New Acquisition: The Bowes Playing cards of 1590
  44. Guess the Manuscript XVI
  45. Magna Carta Ballot closes 31 October
  46. Lindisfarne Gospels in our Treasures Gallery
  47. How To Be A Hedgehog
  48. Illuminated Manuscripts Conference - more places available
  49. The Death of King John
  50. Dedicated to You
  51. Another Greek update: Forty-six more manuscripts online!
  52. Heraldic herrings, hedgehogs and hosiery
  53. The Latest, Greatest, Up-To-Datest Giant List of Digitised Manuscripts Hyperlinks
  54. Magna Carta: be part of history
  55. Waiting List: AMARC Conference on English Fourteenth-Century Illuminated Manuscripts at the British Library
  56. Magna Carta Tickets On Sale
  57. Apocalypse Then: Further Medieval Visions from Revelation
  58. A Calendar Page for October 2014
  59. From bombers into airliners…
  60. Summer of Science Policy
  61. Autumn/Winter Events
  62. Exploring British Online Archives
  63. Qatar Digital Library portal launched
  64. Inspired by Flickr: Earth
  65. Inspired by Flickr: Air
  66. The Barbara Weinberger Police Interviews collection
  67. It's all in the Howl
  68. Happy birthday compact disc!
  69. Newspaper reading rooms - a subversive history
  70. Recording Scotland
  71. Award of Victoria Cross to Khudadad Khan
  72. The Waste-Paper Basket of Verse
  73. Newspaper notices- a window into the past
  74. Hue and Cry
  75. Launch of Qatar Digital Library
  76. Missionaries caught up in World War One
  77. Never a dull moment – the life of a diplomat’s wife
  78. Princess Victoria’s cycling adventure
  79. Looking a gift horse in the mouth
  80. A bottle of water and half a biscuit
  81. Sausages and bunting comfort troops in Paris
  82. The Euphrates Expedition of 1836: Ingenuity and Tragedy in Mesopotamia
  83. What is still on the web after 10 years of archiving?
  84. Thoughts on website selecting for the UK Web Archive

September 2014

  1. Wheel Outings in Canada
  2. The Unbuilt Room
  3. Finding Franklin
  4. Farthest North Cricket (and other Arctic sports)
  5. Ernest Cromwell Peake in China
  6. Two Persian ‘Ming’ manuscripts on view at the British Museum
  7. The Magic of Birds
  8. One-day Symposium: British Library Persian Manuscripts: Collections and Research
  9. Fifty more Malay manuscripts to be digitised
  10. The original Japanese Moon Princess
  11. Charles D'Oyly's voyage to Patna
  12. A new catalogue of Malay and Indonesian manuscripts in British collections
  13. Conservation and preservation training to continue with West Dean College
  14. Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination
  15. Meet Adopt a Book Conservator Rick Brown
  16. Applying Forensics to Preserving the Past: Current Activities and Future Possibilities
  17. Finding Jokes - The Victorian Meme Machine
  18. Wikimania and UK Wikimedian of the Year 2014 Awards
  19. Faces and Places in Iran: Iranian photography at the turn of the 20th century
  20. New online collections – September 2014 – three million images online!
  21. Tim Etchells on the Forced Entertainment collection
  22. The International Workshop Festival Collection (1988 - 2001)
  23. The Secret Life of Books (at the British Library)
  24. A Glider Pilot amongst the Mosquitoes
  25. Kazimir Malevich - pioneer of Russian abstract art
  26. Silence is golden
  27. Dark blue world, little blue book: English for Czech servicemen
  28. ‘Sack of Louvain – Awful holocaust’ (Daily Mail headline, Monday 31 August 1914)
  29. The Colour of Hope – Irina Ratushinskaya in the ‘Small Zone’
  30. A Teuton take on tartan: Sco(t)tland and the Germans
  31. A nurse, a poet and a girl – women’s diaries of the Great War
  32. Before the ‘Miracle of the Marne’ – what if the Germans had reached Paris in September 1914
  33. Andorra spans the Channel
  34. Highlights of the Polonica collection
  35. Matisse and Tériade
  36. Is Bazarov human after all?
  37. Inspiring Entrepreneurs: Movers and Shakers
  38. What’s new on… eMarketer
  39. Book review - Lean Analytics by Alistair Croll and Benjamin Yoskovitz
  40. Healthcare Industry Market Research in the Business & IP Centre
  41. New database in the Business & IP Centre: Local Data Online
  42. Using Netmums to find local business listings
  43. Your Brand and Your Promise
  44. Trade marks during the Great War
  45. Maps Tag-a-thon Event
  46. Franklin's ship: whodunnit?
  47. The life and death of Pompey the Great
  48. Guess the Manuscript XV
  49. Virgil's Countryside
  50. Languages in Medieval Britain
  51. Visualising Stonehenge
  52. Apes Pulling Shapes
  53. Royal Manuscripts Conference Papers Now Online
  54. The 2014 Panizzi Lectures - The Giant Bibles of Twelfth-Century England
  55. Forty-four More Greek Manuscripts Online
  56. Visions of the Apocalypse: A Heavenly Choir or a Lake of Fire?
  57. Dictionaries: More Than Mere Words
  58. A Calendar Page for September 2014
  59. A Donizetti Discovery
  60. Archiving WOMAD 2014
  61. Syriac Liturgical Music - From the Mountains of the Servants of God
  62. Beyond Nature vs Nurture
  63. Our next TalkScience event - an issue to get your teeth into
  64. Exploring Play – a free, open, online course
  65. Regeneration?
  66. Listening to the radio
  67. On the Trail of the Polar Bear
  68. Archiving WOMAD 2014
  69. Syriac Liturgical Music - From the Mountains of the Servants of God
  70. St Pancras Intelligencer no. 35
  71. News from the community
  72. St Pancras Intelligencer no. 34
  73. Here come the papers
  74. An insubordinate cricketer
  75. Engineering a career in India, part 2
  76. The Endangered Archives Programme - your chance to apply!
  77. Bringing Archive Catalogues to Life – the SNAC Project
  78. Arsenic, Cyanide and Strychnine - the Golden Age of Victorian Poisoners
  79. King Silence - the lives of Victorian deaf children
  80. Introducing the India Office Medical Archives Project
  81. Finding Indian soldiers who served in World War One
  82. Melancholy suicide at North Mimms
  83. Wealth and Want
  84. Dot Scot: A new domain identity

August 2014

  1. War, Women and Song: British Library, 30 August 2014
  2. Pax Aeterna (1917): silent film screening at the British Library, 29 August 2014
  3. ‘Tanabata (七夕) Star Festival’ - is it 7 July or 2 August 2014? (1)
  4. ‘Tanabata (七夕) Star Festival’ - is it 7 July or 2 August 2014? (2)
  5. Taking the Train to America: The Royal Scot and 'A Century of Progress'
  6. "Na-no, Na-no!"
  7. Sampaio: public works, protest and the Brazilian nation
  8. 50,000 Moths and Butterflies Died in the Making of this Post
  9. Coming up: Lines in the Ice
  10. 'A very ingenious person': The Maratha artist Gangaram Cintaman Tambat
  11. A rare Vietnamese map of China
  12. Persian letters from the Nawabs of the Carnatic 1777-1816
  13. A Javanese manuscript artist at work
  14. The accident that befell Sir Donald Friell McLeod
  15. The British capture of Java, 1811
  16. James Skinner's Tazkirat al-Umara now digitised
  17. A Malay letter from Madura
  18. Eighteenth-century Country-house Guidebooks: Tools for Interpretation and Souvenirs
  19. The British Library Meets Burning Man
  20. Interactive Fiction Writer-in-Residence for the Lines in the Ice Exhibition
  21. The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Production
  22. Digital Music Lab: Analysing Big Music Data
  23. New online collections – August 2014
  24. Living the Victorian Nightmare: The Damnation of Theron Ware
  25. We Will Remember Them
  26. Greek Orthodox Paper Icons in the British Library – their purpose, style and iconography
  27. Remembering the Isonzo Front
  28. Are exams getting easier?
  29. Postcards and Photographs from the Eastern Front
  30. The Drama of Marinetti by Mikhail Karasik
  31. St Helen – imperial archaeologist
  32. 'Pfui, der Struwwelpeter!' British Adventures of a German nursery classic
  33. Turbulent priest and polemical playwright: the life and death of Kaj Munk
  34. Albinia Lucy Wherry and Russian “knights” on war-time postcards
  35. Moomins and more…
  36. A very Dutch fire
  37. Cats, courtesans and Claudine: the colourful career of Colette
  38. The unvanquished city: Warsaw Uprising 1944
  39. Back to business with Rasheed Ogunlaru
  40. Top tips from Blink Brow founder Vanita Parti
  41. Transformers: Age of Extinction - Intellectual Property in disguise
  42. Success - maps 100% georeferenced
  43. Don’t Lose Your Head: It’s Just St. John the Baptist’s Day!
  44. A Temporary Farewell
  45. Bugs in Books
  46. St Bartholomew and Bookbindings: Happy St Bartholomew's Day!
  47. Three More Books of Hours
  48. The Lacock Abbey Cartularies
  49. The Wardington Hours
  50. The Journey of a Greek Manuscript
  51. Happy St Lawrence's Day!
  52. Parallel Lines
  53. Twenty-four More Greek Manuscripts Online
  54. Getting a bit fruity
  55. A Calendar Page for August 2014
  56. Seeing Is Believing: Picturing the Nation's Health
  57. Isaac Newton is calling you…
  58. Counting Sheep: The Science of Sleep
  59. TalkScience @BL – Biotech on the Farm: Food for Thought?
  60. Beautiful Science & FOSN: Warning, Contains Scenes of a Graphical Nature
  61. Beautiful Science 2014: Picturing Data, Inspiring Insight
  62. "Beyond the Boundary of Sleep": Mega-Events and Memory
  63. Play the Game!
  64. Oral history fellowship opportunity
  65. RIP to one of the fathers of composite materials
  66. St Pancras Intelligencer no. 33
  67. St Pancras Intelligencer no. 32
  68. St Pancras Intelligencer no. 31
  69. St Pancras Intelligencer no. 30
  70. St Pancras Intelligencer no. 29
  71. A Polymath in Muscat
  72. Buffoons, ear-pickers and sherbet-sellers
  73. Raising the Dead: Tales of Untold Lives
  74. Mabel Dearmer in Serbia
  75. The Rainsford Papers: Soldiers, sailors, ship-owners and mystical goings-on
  76. Women make comics: from Marie Duval to Janine
  77. The King’s Indian Orderly Officers
  78. 'The World’s War' on BBC2: Forgotten Soldiers of Empire
  79. Queen Anne is dead!
  80. User driven digital preservation with Interject
  81. Archiving ‘screenshots’
  82. Web Archiving in the JavaScript Age
  83. Web Archiving Collection Development Policies Roundup

July 2014

  1. Remembering Babe Ruth
  2. Remembering American success in the 1986 Tour de France
  3. Tour de Lead Graffiti: 23 posters in 23 days
  4. Amistad Revolt
  5. Lakeland Meetings: the Crafts and Harriet Martineau
  6. Malay thoughts on the afterlife
  7. Malay letters from Bengkulu
  8. Malay manuscripts on Javanese paper
  9. A newly digitised unpublished catalogue of Persian manuscripts: postscript
  10. A Khamsah with illustrations ascribed to the painter Bihzad (Add. 25900)
  11. A Malay account of Calcutta
  12. A newly digitised unpublished catalogue of Persian manuscripts
  13. Some more unpublished Deccani paintings
  14. Indian paintings in the Sir John Ritblat Gallery from July 2014
  15. Collection Care Top Ten
  16. Fleas, mould and plant cells: under a 17th century microscope with Robert Hooke
  17. Secret underdrawings & cover-ups in the Mewar Ramayana
  18. Selfie as methodology: researching sedilia in English parish churches
  19. A visit to Doha and an exciting new reality
  20. Books depicted in art
  21. The Emergence of the Digital Humanities
  22. Conference alert: Succeed in Digitisation, spreading excellence.
  23. The British Library at Digital Humanities 2014
  24. The British Library Big Data Experiment project update
  25. Tangut Manuscripts from St Petersburg
  26. New online collections – July 2014 – EAP now has over two million images!
  27. Homage to a Monk-Archivist
  28. 'Goodbye to All That': Lavinia Greenlaw guest blog...
  29. Aleister Crowley on record
  30. Arthur Graeme West’s 'Diary of a Dead Officer' remembered.
  31. FIETS (n): Origins Unknown
  32. Chess is good, dice are bad: but what about backgammon?
  33. Through the world a mighty voice is ringing…
  34. Tauchnitz and Marinack: the famous and the unknown bringing English literature to the Germans
  35. Jan Karski (1914–2000), a man of exceptional courage, high moral values and humanism
  36. The best days of their lives: going to school in Spain in 1761.
  37. Vive [la] France! 'Les Dieux ont soif' and the French Revolution
  38. You’ve got to shoot, or you can’t score.
  39. The [literary] godfather: Jan Neruda (1834-1891)
  40. Not just cycling: the other Tours de France
  41. Back in tachanka days…
  42. The Triumph of Mannerism – Pontormo and Rosso Fiorentino in Florence
  43. Book review - The Directory of Grant Making Trusts
  44. Review - Luxury Briefing - the quarterly bulletin for the luxury industry
  45. Book review - The Name of The Beast by Neil Taylor
  46. Enterprise Enfield: An Enterprising Libraries case study
  47. Book review - Understanding your business finances by Johnny Martin
  48. What’s new on... Keynote
  49. How to avoid business failure
  50. Make a Date with Business
  51. Book review - The New Business Road test by John Mullins
  52. Confusion costs cash!
  53. Three business funding alternatives
  54. Tricky maps
  55. Maps in 19th-century books - what has been georeferenced
  56. New lot of maps for georeferencing - release TODAY
  57. Tour de British Library: the finish line
  58. Tour de British Library: day 2, penultimate stage!
  59. Tour de British Library: day 2, stage 2
  60. Tour de British Library: day 2, stage 1 live!
  61. Tour de British Library: day 2 begins!
  62. Tour de British Library: stage 6
  63. Tour de British Library: stage 5 and it is getting serious
  64. Tour de British Library: stage 4 live (sort of)!
  65. Tour de British Library: stage 3 as it happened!
  66. Tour de British Library: stage 2 as it happened!
  67. Tour de British Library: stage 1
  68. Tour de British Library: begin!
  69. Tour de British Library - a historic journey
  70. Guess the Manuscript XIV
  71. Choosing a Husband: Brains or Brawn, Money or Looks?
  72. Conservation in the 17th Century
  73. Enter the Dragon: Happy St Margaret's Day!
  74. The Colourful Career of Sir Theodore de Mayerne
  75. This Year's Summer Blockbuster: A Giant List of Digitised Manuscript Hyperlinks!
  76. Set in Stone
  77. Benedict Rules
  78. Thirty-three Greek Biblical manuscripts added to Digitised Manuscripts
  79. Up Close and Personal with the Holy Grail
  80. Famous US Documents In Our Magna Carta Exhibition
  81. A Calendar Page for July 2014
  82. Recordings from the Skamba Skamba Kankliai music festival, Lithuania
  83. Gertrude Stein the librettist: free event at the British Library
  84. Hugh Davies Experimental Music
  85. It Was Fifty Years Ago Today...
  86. Songs of the Dinka of South Sudan
  87. Fossil hunting at the British Library
  88. British Library connecting with the flooding community
  89. My Internship with the British Library Science Team
  90. Crick retreat moves forward
  91. Challenging assumptions. Law Gender and Sexuality: sources and methods in socio-legal research (part 2)
  92. Challenging assumptions. Law Gender and Sexuality: sources and methods in socio-legal research (part 1)
  93. Age is in the eye of the beholder
  94. Escorting Stoller's Depart
  95. Pedal Power
  96. Recordings from the Skamba Skamba Kankliai music festival, Lithuania
  97. Recording the Sounds of Nature: a Q&A with Jeremy Hegge
  98. The shifting sand(-shoes) of linguistic identity in Teesside
  99. Songs of the Dinka of South Sudan
  100. St Pancras Intelligencer no. 28
  101. St Pancras Intelligencer no. 27
  102. The reading experience
  103. St Pancras Intelligencer no. 26
  104. Newspapers in Europe and the Digital Agenda for Europe
  105. St Pancras Intelligencer no. 25
  106. Why is this lying bastard lying to me?
  107. Death in Paradise
  108. Pottinger’s property lost in Afghanistan
  109. George Bernard Shaw discards his birthday
  110. The Difference caus'd by mighty Love! - romance and the Benthams
  111. Can an Englishman become truly Indian?
  112. Let’s vary piracy, with a little burglary!
  113. Sidekicks and arch enemies in the archives
  114. Batman in India
  115. Indian Army officer deaths in World War One
  116. Special Collection – Tour de France comes to Yorkshire
  117. First World War Centenary – an online legacy in partnership with the HLF
  118. A right to be remembered
  119. UK Web Domain Crawl 2014 – One month update
  120. Researcher in focus: Saskia Huc-Hepher – French in London
  121. How much of the UK's HTML is valid?

June 2014

  1. Italian Studies Library Group Annual Lecture, 30 June 2014
  2. Call for papers: Seminar on Textual Bibliography for Modern Foreign Languages, 2 June 2014
  3. Tour de France: Stoller's Depart
  4. Anti-Slavery News: Frederick Douglass’s The North Star
  5. World War One: Inter-Allied Games
  6. New exhibition: Enduring War
  7. Africa's Sons Under Arms: the British West India Regiments
  8. The Couling-Chalfant collection of oracle bones in the British Library
  9. Two letters in Maguindanao
  10. ‘The Kuwait Cat’s Meat Crisis’ & British Imperial Control
  11. Royal Malay letters from Mindanao
  12. Sir Thomas Reade: Knight, ‘Nincumpoop’ and Collector of Antiquities
  13. A rare map from Mindanao
  14. Some portraits of the Zand rulers of Iran (1751-1794)
  15. An Album of Maratha and Deccani Paintings - Add.21475, part 2
  16. Alexander Dalrymple’s Treaties with Sulu in Malay and Tausug
  17. The beginnings of Thai book production: rare Thai books at the British Library
  18. A book binder for Mr Taylor
  19. ‘Enduring War: Grief, Grit and Humour’ - World War One Exhibition
  20. Know Your Yellow!
  21. Materials Testing: The Oddy Test
  22. Data Driven?
  23. Open Source Digital Forensics Adapted for Archival and Memory Institutions
  24. Images Online: a selection
  25. Text to Image Linking Tool (TILT)
  26. Victorian Meme Machine
  27. British Library Labs Competition 2014 - Winners Announced!
  28. The British Library Big Data Experiment
  29. Book heritage of Ural Old Believers
  30. New online collections - June 2014
  31. Performance Archives: SIBMAS TLA 2014 - New York City
  32. ‘The most beautiful lyrical prose of the 20th century’: Happy birthday Laurie Lee
  33. Discover more about Jane Austen at the British Library
  34. Portraits Behaving Badly: Decadence, Degeneration and The Picture of Dorian Gray
  35. Reading Shelley’s Ashes and Byron’s Hair
  36. Early Photography in Spain
  37. How Jane Austen saved August von Kotzebue
  38. Through a glass darkly: the poetry of Francisco de Quevedo
  39. Napoleon III meets his nemesis: caricatures from the Franco-Prussian War
  40. Švejk in the First World War – and beyond
  41. Baroque death or the Death of the baroque?
  42. St Anthony of Padua, alias Fernando of Lisbon
  43. Charles Bairnes, accused: a German on trial in 18th-century London
  44. Feasting, not fasting: Marie-Antoine Carême and the pleasures of the palate
  45. Malevolent magical realism: the enigmatic world of Franz Kafka
  46. Marko Marulić and the Croatian Latin Heritage
  47. One for the gentlemen?
  48. Loopwheels: how an idea for reinventing the wheel turned into our business
  49. Book review - Start Your Own Business: You can do it!
  50. Inspiring Entrepreneurs: Going Global
  51. Race to the finish - building a business in the sports industry
  52. Pop-up Businesses – here, there and everywhere!
  53. What’s new on… COBRA for business start-ups
  54. For the female entrepreneur who wants it all: Mistakes to avoid when building your business
  55. From the largest to the smallest
  56. Off the Map Gothic
  57. Art and Alchemy
  58. A Well-Travelled Medieval Map
  59. A Greek New Testament Reunited
  60. English Fourteenth-Century Illuminated Manuscripts in the British Library: a Conference
  61. Greek Manuscripts Digitisation Phase Three
  62. Weird and Wonderful Creatures of the Bestiary
  63. Magna Carta Webpage Goes Live
  64. Tales of Brave Ulysses
  65. The Poetry of Fragments
  66. Beyond the Bling
  67. Guess the Manuscript XIII
  68. Medieval Comics Continued (Not for the Squeamish!)
  69. The Burden of Writing: Scribes in Medieval Manuscripts
  70. A Calendar Page for June 2014
  71. Music behind barbed wire in World War One
  72. Iso Elinson (1907-1964) - 50th anniversary of Russian-British pianist
  73. UK DataCite on the road
  74. The World we live in
  75. Communicating Extreme Weather: Beyond Science
  76. Lost in pronunciation
  77. Football Heroes
  78. Languages and the First World War: Trench Journals
  79. An Oral History of Wildlife Sound Recording
  80. They seek him here, they seek him there: citizen science and the hunt for the New Forest Cicada
  81. Inspired by Flickr: Jez riley French
  82. Gothic Adventures in Sound
  83. News reference workshops
  84. St Pancras Intelligencer no. 24
  85. St Pancras Intelligencer no. 23
  86. Broadcast news
  87. St Pancras Intelligencer no. 22
  88. Broadcasting D-Day
  89. St Pancras Intelligencer no. 21
  90. An introduction to the Newsroom
  91. Franz Ferdinand - shooting and shopping in England
  92. The talented Mr Fox Talbot Part 4 – Assyriology
  93. Obscenity and men’s erotica – 1970s comics
  94. Grit and humour? How did people cope in the First World War?
  95. Indigo plantation murder trials
  96. Father’s Day in 1953
  97. World Cup 1950 – ‘England’s worst-ever display’
  98. Skulduggery in Bengal – a case of fraud
  99. D-Day - NAAFI was there!
  100. A comic take on life in the 1880s
  101. Your Web Archive Needs You!
  102. Researcher in focus: Paul Thomas - UK and Canadian Parliamentary Archives
  103. How big is the UK web?

May 2014

  1. Robert Frost in England
  2. Erica Wagner: Credit for Cleopatra's Needle
  3. Olivia Laing: Leee Black Childers
  4. British Library releases over 200 Japanese and Chinese prints into Public Domain
  5. John Crawfurd and Malay studies
  6. The Death of Queen Victoria: the Politics of Mourning and Memorialisation in the British Persian Gulf
  7. Some recent Japanese acquisitions
  8. The Khamsah of Nizami: A Timurid Masterpiece
  9. The Ramayana in Southeast Asia: (4) Indonesia and Malaysia
  10. The New Age (Ruzgar-i naw): World War II cultural propaganda in Persian
  11. Manga, comics and an alternative view of the British Library
  12. The Ramayana in Southeast Asia: (3) Burma
  13. Discovery of a watermark on the St Cuthbert Gospel
  14. Meet Our Adopt a Book Conservators
  15. Microscopy of the Lindisfarne Gospels, folio 3r
  16. Recreating the Medieval Palette
  17. Digitisation Days in Madrid
  18. Crowdsourcing Comic Art
  19. New online collections - May 2014
  20. 'That is an amazing horrid book, is it not?'
  21. Something to smile about: Charles Dickens on Discovering Literature
  22. Discovering Literature - British Library literary treasures go digital
  23. Laurie Lee's lost diary on display
  24. The Spirit Voice of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  25. A collection of Primož Trubar Slovenian and Croatian Protestant books in the British Library
  26. "Tremendous in sublimity" or "Plunging into whirlpools": Coleridge's German books
  27. Alexander and the Elephant
  28. Seminar on Textual Bibliography for Modern Foreign Languages
  29. You plowed my blooming orchards, you did!
  30. Christian Doctrine for Slavonic People: an early Bosnian and Herzegovinian printed book
  31. “May its birthday always be celebrated…”
  32. Polish reportage - reality versus fiction
  33. Maria Geisweiler, translator
  34. Talking about translation
  35. Hell hath no fury… : More wrongdoing and further foul deeds in Spain
  36. A Translator in New York, and other adventures in language and identity
  37. Ivan the Terrible, primers, ballet and the joys of curatorship
  38. Book review - How to get your product to market by Louise Guinda
  39. Celebrating a year of boosting the North East Economy at Business & IP Centre Newcastle
  40. Book Review - Copywriting: Successful writing for design, advertising and marketing
  41. Book review - Cook Wrap Sell: A guide to starting and running a successful food business from your kitchen
  42. Act Local, Think Global
  43. Business book reviews from Dr Stephen Fear
  44. Messing about with mappaemundi: The Virtual Mappa Project tools (2)
  45. Messing about with mappaemundi: The Virtual Mappa Project tools (1)
  46. Scraped Away Songs
  47. A World of Words
  48. Just Like Heaven: Dante's Paradiso
  49. A Sense of Detachment
  50. Anyone for Hawking?
  51. Comic Mania
  52. Our Favourite Map
  53. Superheroes, True Romance, Blood and Gore
  54. A Medieval Word Search - Secret Revealed!
  55. A Medieval Word Search
  56. A Calendar Page for May 2014
  57. Trouvère songs online
  58. Nigerian music and dance records at the British Library
  59. Three free Sound Case events during June
  60. Saharawi music in the refugee camps in SW Algeria
  61. The virtual life of George Butterworth
  62. 112-year-old recording of William Paull donated to the British Library
  63. Preserving the legacy of Muriel Herbert
  64. British Music at the British Library: two free events on 10 May
  65. Beautiful Science coming to Cheltenham
  66. Extreme Weather: Climate Change in Action?
  67. How do you use PhD theses?
  68. Beautiful Weather
  69. Culture and football in harmony
  70. Languages and the First World War
  71. Happy Birthday Channel Tunnel
  72. Diverse lives in science online
  73. How about a bit of PR for RP?
  74. Sonic migrations: natural sounds on the international exhibition scene
  75. Inspired by Flickr: Mark Lyken
  76. Radio features of the BBC Transcription Service
  77. St Pancras Intelligencer no. 20
  78. Enabling access to digitised historic newspapers
  79. St Pancras Intelligencer no. 19
  80. The concept of news
  81. St Pancras Intelligencer no. 18
  82. Celebrating Local Newspapers
  83. St Pancras Intelligencer no. 17
  84. St Pancras Intelligencer no. 16
  85. Rolling out the red carpet
  86. Housing Shortages in Bombay in the 1860s
  87. Major Morrison: Loyal British Servant or Political Mercenary?
  88. Engineering a career in India
  89. The Talented Mr Fox Talbot Part 3 - Astronomy
  90. The Runaway Princess
  91. Cesspools, coal chutes and Carisbrooke Castle: The East India Company on the Isle of Wight
  92. The rise and fall of the East India Company
  93. Dipping into the archives with Dan Snow
  94. Pushing the boundaries
  95. May Louise and the Marylebone midwife

April 2014

  1. Erica Wagner: A Trojan post
  2. Why We Blog
  3. Marking ANZAC Day: 'Fighting Australasia'
  4. Newsiest and Best: Team Americas Browse the News
  5. Old bits of Trees by Andrea Wulf
  6. Tall Stories
  7. ‘White Mughal’ Richard Johnson and Mir Qamar al-Din Minnat
  8. The Ramayana in Southeast Asia: (2) Thailand and Laos
  9. Romeo and Juliet in Thai
  10. The Ramayana in Southeast Asia: (1) Cambodia
  11. An Album of Maratha and Deccani Paintings - part 1
  12. Sermons in the Malay world
  13. 45 Hebrew manuscripts go digital
  14. A conduit of shared values: CSMVS-BL collaboration
  15. Shaikh Ahmad goes to England: The Politics of Official State Visits
  16. Islamic seal matrices in the British Library Philatelic Collections
  17. Curator's perspective: accessing the Mewar Ramayana
  18. As white as a...colour calibration target
  19. Time-lapse video of Kitaj Tapestry rehanging
  20. Boom! Pow! Wham! Conservation Unmasked
  21. Handle with Care: Using Collections
  22. Digital history and the death of quant
  23. Unconferencing; or a digital scholarship training experiment
  24. New online collections - April 2014 - Part 2
  25. New online collections - April 2014 - Part 1
  26. A Long Forgotten Poem by the Admirable Crichton
  27. More Shakespeare
  28. Laurie Lee's lost diary discovered
  29. ‘Don’t rip up old stories’: repeating oneself in Beckett’s Echo’s Bones
  30. Looking for Solace in a Busy World: The Best Gardens in Literature
  31. Happy International Children's Book day!
  32. On translations and laughter
  33. Vuk Stefanović Karadžić and Serbian National Poetry: a Bicentenary
  34. On tour with a translation
  35. Whose Shakespeare?
  36. ‘Church, not Chocolate’: Easter eggs in Eastern Europe
  37. What price freedom? An author’s thoughts
  38. Crime Scene Investigation: Dateline Seville 1776
  39. ELN and the red shoes
  40. ‘Schirmer’s Children’: a German theatre troop
  41. Who or what were ‘the Vikings’?
  42. Hats off to Laurain! A tale of three translators
  43. From Vietnam to Vichy and beyond: Marguerite Duras
  44. European Literature Night 2014
  45. The Creative Sector in Britain is one of the largest in the world!
  46. From Rock Stars to Orchestras – making music in the Business & IP Centre
  47. Portobello Business Centre Ask the Expert session at Imperial College
  48. The art and history of globes
  49. UK Arts and Culture Blog of the Year 2014
  50. Medieval Manuscripts at the UK Blog Awards
  51. The Anatomy of a Dragon
  52. Magna Carta in England's Hall of Fame
  53. Lorsch Manuscripts in the British Library
  54. Internship in the Medieval and Earlier Manuscripts Section
  55. The Next Giant List of Digitised Manuscript Hyperlinks
  56. On a Roll
  57. My Kingdom for a Horse
  58. Fore! The British Library's Golf Book
  59. Royal Manuscripts Follow-on Project - Completed!
  60. Stuck in Limbo: Dante's Purgatorio
  61. A Calendar Page for April 2014
  62. Mozart Manuscripts Online
  63. The music of Holy Week in Seville
  64. A Big Data History of Music
  65. Keeping Tracks - a one day symposium on music and archives in the digital age
  66. The Evolution of Evolution: Picturing the Tree of Life
  67. Law, Gender and Sexuality
  68. The Redress of the Past
  69. New oral history collection: architecture
  70. Inspired by Flickr: Daniel Barbiero
  71. Inspired by Flickr: Chris Lynn
  72. Inspired by Flickr: Jay-Dea Lopez
  73. Sound & Vision: What Sounds Will You See?
  74. Sound & Vision # 6: Wai Hon Chan
  75. Sound & Vision # 5: Amine Gebrehawariat
  76. Sound & Vision # 4: Zongkai Wang
  77. Sound & Vision # 3: Marika Samek
  78. Sound & Vision # 2: Natasha Smith
  79. Sound & Vision # 1: Sanaz Movahedi
  80. Sonic Horizons of the Mesolithic: Sounding out Early Prehistory in the Vale of Pickering
  81. Open for business
  82. A strategy for news
  83. St Pancras Intelligencer no. 15
  84. Pathé goes to YouTube
  85. St Pancras Intelligencer no. 14
  86. A is for… Advertising
  87. St Pancras Intelligencer no. 13
  88. Opening day
  89. St Pancras Intelligencer no. 12
  90. Taming the news beast
  91. The Birth of Empire: the East India Company
  92. Comics Unmasked - Countdown to opening
  93. Street Fighting Men
  94. India Office First World War Memorial
  95. Making a little money on the side
  96. Zanzibar brawl
  97. RAF Tragedy in Oman
  98. Cityread London 2014 and the Experiences of Soldiers of Colour in World War One
  99. The Talented Mr Fox Talbot Part 2 - Botany
  100. ‘The Jewish State of Eastern Arabia’
  101. The deliberately dangerous beard

March 2014

  1. 10 Reasons Why Your Content Isn’t Getting Read
  2. Early American science
  3. Comics Unmasked vs Capt. America
  4. The Miscellany of Iskandar Sultan (Add.27261)
  5. Performing Authority: the ‘Islamic’ Seals of British Colonial Officers
  6. An Illuminated Qur’an manuscript from Aceh
  7. Mewar Ramayana Digitally Reunited
  8. BL Event: Korean Literature: Past and Present
  9. The road to Mandalay
  10. Mughal flower studies and their European inspiration
  11. A Malay document from the Aru Islands
  12. Distinctive leg-of-mutton legs and fine jewels: a new display of Indian paintings in the Treasures of the British Library
  13. The tales of Darab: a medieval Persian prose romance
  14. Cleaning and rehanging the Kitaj tapestry
  15. Father Kögel and the ultra-violet examination of manuscripts
  16. The Colour Green
  17. CSI at Festival of the Spoken Nerd: I Chart the BL
  18. “Islamic/Western” features in three India Office Records manuscripts
  19. The Brickish Library
  20. Tracking Public Domain Re-use in the Wild
  21. 50th Anniversary!
  22. Flowers of Persian Song and Music
  23. New online collections - March 2014
  24. The Good Woman named Bonfils
  25. Friends of Genius in Distress?
  26. Happy Birthday Ibsen!
  27. Two more Crime Classics found in the Library
  28. Wilfred Owen: 'The Poetry is in the pity'
  29. English literary treasures back on display - for free
  30. 8-9 March, A Date with The Folio Fiction Prize Literary Festival
  31. English proverbs that don’t exist
  32. Suffering from boredom? Get a raccoon – or read Hrabal!
  33. Theodora Grahn, language teacher
  34. Mistral blows in: Provence’s own Nobel laureate
  35. Aesop’s fables are not kids’ stuff
  36. ’Orrible crimes and ghastly murders
  37. Parishes, Printing and Pietism – the Pietist Mission and German Publishing in London
  38. A Marvel in the British Library Bulgarian Collections
  39. ‘The Tin Book’
  40. Politics, polemics and prostitutes: Josef Svatopluk Machar, 1864-1942.
  41. Testament for "beloved Ukraine"
  42. 'Paul et Virginie' - et Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
  43. Charles Meyer, Bookbinder to Queen Charlotte and the Princesses
  44. Review of How to generate PR for your Business by Jessica Huie
  45. The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Project Management - book review
  46. Supporting women in business
  47. Make PR a priority for your business!
  48. How to use social media for your business
  49. Legal Issues of Web 2.0 and Social Media by Stephen Kunciewicz
  50. Your online content must be more like terrible journalism
  51. The A List: A guide to who's who in media, marketing and advertising 2014
  52. Inspiring Entrepreneurs: Internet Icons: Tuesday 25 February
  53. Made with the British Library's map collection: The Isle of Eels
  54. Good news for fans of medieval maps!
  55. The Enemy of All Marriage
  56. Say Your Prayers
  57. Codex Sinaiticus Added to Digitised Manuscripts
  58. Blogtastic!
  59. Update to the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts
  60. Two Magnificent Manuscripts Saved for the Nation
  61. The Legacy of St Patrick
  62. The Life of a Mystic
  63. The Vikings and the British Library
  64. Magical Mystery Play
  65. The Books of Remarkable Women
  66. Medieval Drama Acquired by the British Library
  67. Guess the Manuscript XII
  68. A Calendar Page for March 2014
  69. Plainsong and Medieval Music Study Day at the British Library
  70. The Decca Record Company: PhD studentship
  71. Female pipings in Eden: Ethel Smyth's fight for women's rights
  72. Patently Obvious?
  73. Access to Understanding Awards 2014: Everyone’s a Winner
  74. Plotting for a Healthy Society
  75. I Chart the British Library - Who Ate All the Pie Charts?
  76. Sciencetastic!
  77. Access to Understanding's first ever People's Choice Award!
  78. Introducing: Chatham House Online Archive
  79. The Annual Equality Lecture
  80. Beyond Nature versus Nurture
  81. Spring 2014 events
  82. Bristol L - what a wonderfa ideal
  83. Europeana Creative: First Open Innovation Challenges Launched!
  84. Inspired by Flickr
  85. In Times of War
  86. St Pancras Intelligencer no. 11
  87. Checking out the NSB
  88. St Pancras Intelligencer no. 10
  89. Reading all about it
  90. St Pancras Intelligencer no. 9
  91. Robot reporters and the age of drone journalism
  92. The Newsroom
  93. St Pancras Intelligencer no. 8
  94. Somewhere between freedom and slavery: runaway slaves in Britain’s Indian Navy
  95. A truly original Richard III
  96. Meet the Benthams: an extraordinary Georgian family
  97. A little wine for thy stomach's sake?
  98. Pilgrim traffic during the First World War
  99. Richard Meinertzhagen - hero or scoundrel?
  100. The talented Mr Fox Talbot
  101. Thomas Jewell Bennett: an early supporter of Indian Home Rule
  102. Francis Hamilton’s fish from the Ganges
  103. Men behaving badly - British allies in the Persian Gulf
  104. ‘Our hero is a sportsman’: British domestic interiors in 19th century India
  105. Mary March of Newfoundland
  106. ‘Vague, but exciting’ - #web25

February 2014

  1. 10 great online newsreel archives
  2. 10 great online newspaper archives
  3. ‘This is the U.S.A’ – American Propaganda in Post-WWII Bahrain
  4. Early American Women Writers
  5. Armistead Maupin Tells Tales
  6. Reflections on the 2012 Elections
  7. Brazil: treasures from a fascinating New World
  8. Federal Writers' Project publications
  9. The Adviser (المستشار): Charles Belgrave and Modern Bahrain
  10. Indonesian and Malay manuscripts in the Endangered Archives Programme
  11. Malay manuscripts on Chinese paper
  12. A Malay ballad from Kedah: the naval battle for Phuket
  13. Fashion in 14th century Mosul: a new exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery
  14. New display of Southeast Asian manuscripts
  15. Morbid meditations in Thai manuscript art
  16. Mantiq al-tayr ('The Speech of Birds'), part 4
  17. Important Judeo-Persian bibles in the British Library
  18. ‘No pigments were harmed in the making of this post’
  19. Sea Snails and Purple Parchment
  20. The Colour Red
  21. I’ve got tone, halftone: under the microscope with a printing block
  22. The Strawberry Thief and Off the Map 2014
  23. Lessons from science: Digital Humanities, History of Science and Technology, and juking the stats
  24. #bldigital British Library Collaborative PhD studentship
  25. The Metadata Quest
  26. Valentine’s Day the 19th Century Way!
  27. New online collections - February 2014
  28. Required Blogging: The Philip Larkin Collection in the British Library.
  29. Trevor Eaton: The Chaucer Man
  30. A Day to Celebrate Finnish Culture
  31. The not-so-wise ‘owl’: Antonín Sova and the ‘covetous dotard’
  32. The Battle of the Floods
  33. Handel – Händel – Hendel: Anglo-German composer
  34. Light links : Lithuania to Königsberg & Kyiv to Rembrandt
  35. 50 years of exhibitions: a celebration
  36. ‘Tonight put on perfection…’: the Valentine’s Day wedding which gave us the Georgians.
  37. The First ‘Kobzar’
  38. The history of Spain in 40,000 lives
  39. Children’s author wins LGBT award
  40. A King's grammar fit for a Prince? Immigration concerns and an early Georgian marketing ploy
  41. Alsace-Lorraine and Anglophilia: the obsessions of Paul Déroulède
  42. Review of How to Start a Creative Business by Doug Richard
  43. The secret to survive and thrive
  44. Are you the next Internet Icon?
  45. Historic maps in the public domain
  46. Enigmas and errors: 19th-century cataloguing of the King’s Topographical Collection part 1
  47. For the defence of Plymouth: a map and a report
  48. Slavery and Sainthood in Cornwall
  49. No Rest for the Wicked: Dante's Inferno
  50. Gawain Revealed
  51. Prepare to Meet Your Doom
  52. The Lovers Who Changed History
  53. Hidden Away
  54. An Illustrated Guide to Medieval Love
  55. A Papyrus Puzzle and Some Purple Parchment
  56. Happy St Apollonia's Day!
  57. Saints' Lives... and Deaths
  58. 'More Unique Than Most': the Benedictional of St Æthelwold
  59. A Calendar Page for February 2014
  60. Music, Print and Culture in the 16th and 17th Centuries
  61. Devonshire minuets
  62. From telegrams to holograms
  63. Beautiful Science-- Now Open!
  64. Scientists in Love
  65. Is Necessity The Mother of Invention?
  66. Visualising Research – let the competition begin
  67. My notes from a conference
  68. Sport in the archive – remembering London 2012
  69. World War One: old controversies and new interpretations
  70. Europeana Sounds gets underway!
  71. London Calling
  72. Observing dialect shift in Berkshire
  73. Building a jukebox for Europe
  74. St Pancras Intelligencer no. 7
  75. St Pancras Intelligencer no. 6
  76. St Pancras Intelligencer no. 5
  77. Periodicals return
  78. St Pancras Intelligencer no. 4
  79. Charlie's debut
  80. Treating the Kaiser’s Withered Arm
  81. The Beauties of the Male Leg
  82. The age of the train - British Railways ephemera
  83. Where there’s a will, there’s a way
  84. Very strange if true
  85. Fanny Murray, Fair and Reigning Toast
  86. The British Tars’ Valentine
  87. Piracy and Plunder off the Oman Coast
  88. Disputed Succession - Edinburgh’s Dancing Masters
  89. ‘Persian Gulf tragedy’ – the death of John Gordon Lorimer
  90. Who wants to be a millionaire? Angela Burdett-Coutts and the man who wouldn’t go away
  91. ‘For the Sake of Freedom’: British World War II Propaganda Posters in Arabic
  92. Printing on Ice
  93. Jorge Luis Borges and Twitter
  94. New research project: Big UK Domain Data for the Arts and Humanities

January 2014

  1. Slavery in America: anti-slavery pamphlets, newspapers and magazines
  2. Slavery in America: newspapers and travellers' reports
  3. Slavery in America: slave narratives
  4. A British Visit by an Acquaintance of Solomon Northup
  5. US Civil War Maps
  6. Twelve Years a Slave, the Narrative of Solomon Northup
  7. Metadata
  8. Happy New Year 新年快樂
  9. Rare Malay newspaper in the Wellcome Library
  10. 15,000 images of Persian manuscripts online
  11. Vietnam War Art
  12. Pahari Paintings at the British Library
  13. A prodigal Balinese manuscript leaf is reunited with its family
  14. North Korea in the news
  15. Mantiq al-tayr ('the Speech of Birds'), part 3
  16. A new portrait miniature by Jivan Ram acquired
  17. Malay 'eye candy': illuminated literary manuscripts
  18. When an angel meets a demon: Advice on love and relationships in a Thai divination manual
  19. A year of blogging on Asian and African Studies
  20. Digital Preservation Training Programme: snuggling up with OAIS
  21. From a caterpillar to a butterfly: the story of a rolled Thai painting
  22. Read All About It #2 - Building a Future
  23. Scalable Preservation Environments: the nuts and bolts of digital preservation software tools
  24. Prototyping task for digital research novices
  25. Forthcoming EThOS webinar
  26. British Library Digital Research Doctoral Open Day
  27. Year of the Horse
  28. New online collections - January 2014
  29. In Berlin...
  30. Hanif Kureishi on why he deposited his archive at the British Library
  31. Recording the Future of Theatre
  32. Do you know the real Anne Brontë?
  33. Arthur Conan Doyle and The Adventure of the Executed Knight
  34. ‘The most influential radio programme ever’? Charles Chilton, P J Harvey, and soldiers' songs
  35. Libraries can change your life: the peregrinations of Ludvig Holberg
  36. A hedgehog writes
  37. One Family’s Story in Bobruisk during the Second World War
  38. The life and travels of a Tsar - and of a manuscript
  39. German Parish Life in London and an East End Church Library
  40. Portuguese revolutionaries in Plymouth: politics and the classics
  41. A Hundred Items of Joy
  42. Anglo-German centuries: a 'History in Objects' for 2014
  43. The ‘Prize Papers’: letters as loot
  44. Vasyl Stus in Memoriam
  45. Celebrating Kaliady
  46. The Panizzi Lectures - Censors at Work: Bourbon France, Imperialist India, and Communist Germany.
  47. Building your business in 2014
  48. Empatika: fitted furniture with a difference
  49. Recycling Business Resolutions
  50. Celebrating George III: the map king
  51. Early Netherlandish T-O Trickery
  52. Done! 2,700 maps georeferenced by volunteers
  53. A Medieval Comic Strip
  54. The Height of Fashion
  55. 'She cares not a turd': Notes on a 16th century Squabble
  56. Sex and Death in the Roman de la Rose
  57. Vote For Us (Please)
  58. A Map at the End of the World
  59. The Three Living and the Three Dead
  60. Yet Another Giant List of Digitised Manuscript Hyperlinks
  61. Guess the Manuscript XI
  62. An Even Older View of the New World
  63. Welcome to the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts
  64. I Can't Stand the Rain
  65. A Calendar Page for January 2014
  66. A song in praise of music: Schubert’s ‘An die Musik’
  67. Beautiful Science Preview
  68. Gathering dust? Opening up access to PhD research
  69. Harper Collection of Private Bills
  70. The pioneers of British Catering
  71. Beautiful Science: exploring the diversity of life on Earth
  72. You cor call Black Country Brummy but they both ai half bostin!
  73. St Pancras Intelligencer no. 3
  74. New ways, old ways
  75. St Pancras Intelligencer no. 2
  76. Doctoral open day: Media, Cultural Studies and Journalism
  77. St Pancras Intelligencer no. 1
  78. The new new journalism
  79. The daily war
  80. News while you wait
  81. Untold Deaths
  82. Hatched, matched, and dispatched
  83. An Englishman in Rome
  84. East London stereotypes challenged
  85. George Orwell’s loft
  86. Scandal and bigamy in Georgian London
  87. The very definition of a ‘Hostile Takeover’
  88. Life in a Criminal Gang in India
  89. George IV in Highland Dress
  90. George III and Architectural Drawing
  91. King in Masquerade
  92. George I and the French and Italian comedians
  93. Drawing the Line – the partition of India and Pakistan
  94. New Year gifts to the poor from Queen Victoria
  95. RESAW: Research infrastructure for the Study of Archived Web materials

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