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December 2015

  1. 12 Days Of Christmas - a festive science quiz
  2. Tun Tun: a Venezuelan Christmas carol
  3. Mark Twain's Scrapbook & Earworm
  4. Scrapbook
  5. Isaiah Thomas and A Narrative of the excursion and ravages of the King's troops
  6. America Answers Lindbergh!
  7. The Kingdom of Flying Men
  8. Guadalupe: from Tepeyac to the British Library
  9. New Deal Teaching Session
  10. Revolutionary nian hua in the British Library
  11. Tuồng/Hát Bồi in Vietnamese Theatre
  12. Scenes from the Life of the Buddha
  13. A Malay manuscript artist unveiled: Datuk Muda Muhammad of Perlis
  14. 4,000 Arabic manuscripts by the River Niger
  15. Henry Salt and the Highlands of Ethiopia (Abyssinia)
  16. The Chinese collections and the Library’s growing links with Chinese partners
  17. The Twenty Attributes of God in Malay: Sifat Dua Puluh
  18. Oracle Bones – a conservation collaboration with the National Library of China
  19. Magna Carta (an embroidery) - now on display at the Bodleian Library
  20. BL Labs Awards (2015): Entrepreneurial category Award winning project
  21. BL Labs Creative/Artistic Award (2015): runner up project ‘Nix’
  22. BL Labs Awards (2015): Creative/Artistic category Award winning project
  23. BL Labs Research Award (2015): runner up project ‘Palimpsest’
  24. From Data to Art: the Internet of Cultural Things
  25. Using Open Refine to create XML Records for Wikimedia Batch Upload Tool
  26. New member of the Digital Scholarship team
  27. Games, Literature, Libraries and Learning
  28. Using face recognition to find an EAP Christmas Card
  29. Archive of Malian Photography
  30. English and Drama End of Year Round-Up 2015
  31. How we created Alice in Wonderland
  32. An Unrequited Love? Charlotte Brontë’s letters to Constantin Heger
  33. The British Library acquires Kenneth Williams’s personal papers
  34. ‘On the hay in horses’ stable’: a Kalevala nativity
  35. The Big Dictation: the Excitement of Spelling.
  36. The Stories of ‘Silent Night’
  37. Vodka - a panacea for all illnesses?
  38. World proverbs in speech, text and image
  39. “In true heroic mould”: witnessing the retreat of Serbia, 1915
  40. The Man who Hoped: Celebrating Esperanto Book Day
  41. The Russian Refugee Crisis of the 1920s
  42. Spanish books in the library of Mary Queen of Scots
  43. The Emperor’s Big Nose: Frederic Justen and Napoleon III
  44. Two bad boys, seven pranks and one children’s classic
  45. Top tips for boosting your business’s web presence
  46. Top tips for running a photography business
  47. How to focus your entrepreneurial skills
  48. Library of Surprises Part II – Personal Archives
  49. A dazzling diversity of primary sources
  50. From Shakespeare to 20th century maps – our cultural highlights for 2016
  51. The Curious Map Book
  52. Digitisation of the Klencke Atlas
  53. The British Library Publishes War Office Archive Maps Online
  54. Party Like It's AD 999 (or 980)
  55. Abraham and the Angels: The Cotton Genesis at the British Museum
  56. Christmas Eve Shepherds' Party
  57. Bins, Books and Bodian (Preaching): Ælfric and Christmas
  58. Medieval Festive Survival Guide
  59. Medieval Star Wars
  60. Help Us Choose our 2016 Calendar
  61. Almanacs Online!
  62. Important Notice: Temporary removal of Lindisfarne Gospels from display in the Treasures Gallery
  63. New Images of the Book of the Queen
  64. Postgraduate Open Day on our Pre-1600 Collections
  65. A Calendar Page for December 2015
  66. GM Crops: what are the risks?
  67. Sports Word of the Year 2015
  68. Spare Rib Magazine Update
  69. The British space story
  70. Audio-Visual Resources and The Academic Book of the Future
  71. Voices of Science wins a second prize: the British Society for the History of Science's Ayrton Prize
  72. Wassailing on New Year’s Eve
  73. The wet, wild forest: Rudyard Kipling’s 'Just So Stories' in manuscript and print
  74. ‘Four Cheeses in Lead and a Harpsechord’
  75. If Christmas Day on a Friday be
  76. Christmas 1857 in Calcutta
  77. Christmas Stock-Taking
  78. The Singing Bookbinder: Roger de Coverly
  79. ‘So I am to Become a Nonentity?’ – The Death of J.M.W. Turner
  80. The Ancient Mosque of Manama
  81. 'Seeing without being seen' – Bentham and the Panopticon prison
  82. Fear of a premature burial
  83. Remembering Gallipoli
  84. Preparation Pays Off: Bertram Thomas and the Crossing of the Empty Quarter
  85. Happy Birthday to John Milton!
  86. A break-in at East India House
  87. Fanciful fortifications?
  88. A Hidden Perspective of St Paul's: Mary Johnson's Bible

November 2015

  1. A Thanksgiving Proclamation
  2. Theatre in Video
  3. Georeferencer (do not post)
  4. Laos and the Vietnam War
  5. When Good Literary Taste Was Part of a Bureaucrat’s Job Description
  6. Royal Malay letters and seals from Pontianak
  7. Japanese Nara ehon manuscripts digitised
  8. Further Deccani and Mughal drawings of Christian Subjects
  9. BICC Cultural Engagement Partnership: Maoist posters at the British Library
  10. A Scottish poet’s favourite Malay poem? Syair Jaran Tamasa
  11. Exploring Thai art: Karl Siegfried Döhring
  12. New evidence for the style of the "Fraser artist" in Delhi: Portraits of Afghans 1808-10
  13. Farewell to all that
  14. How do you decide what to conserve?
  15. Gyre and Gimble, plus Gambling Lambs!
  16. BL Labs Awards (2015): Research category Award winning project
  17. British Library Labs Awards (2015) – The winners and runners up announced at the 2015 BL Labs Symposium
  18. The third annual British Library Labs Symposium (2015)
  19. Digital Conversations @BL: Games, Literature, Libraries and Learning
  20. Introducing our newest Digital Curator
  21. International Games Day at Your Library 2015
  22. EAP755: Annemarie Heinrich Photograph Collection
  23. Gaskiya ta fi Kwabo, World War II and the Romanisation of Hausa
  24. Congratulations to the winners of the 2015 Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets
  25. Alice in Wonderland exhibition opens today at the British Library!
  26. Countdown to the announcement of the Michael Marks Award winners
  27. Nell Gwyn the collector's favourite
  28. The various incarnations of Ronald Harwood’s The Dresser
  29. Nick Mann’s ‘A Short Fanzine about Rocking’ takes its rightful place in the British Library
  30. A tale of two Françoises: Madame de Maintenon (1635-1719)
  31. Wojtek, the soldier bear from the Polish Army
  32. 1267 Shots Later
  33. From Poetry to Songs: Hare, Rabbit and Sirens in Apollinaire’s Bestiary
  34. From Shakespeare and Stendhal to Stalin and Sarkozy: André Glucksmann (1937-2015)
  35. Germany's first female doctor: Dorothea Erxleben, 1715-1762
  36. Mechanics not Magic
  37. Politics and the Pepper-mill: Erika Mann (1905-1969)
  38. Despite the chocolate and the leather boots, one feels this country to be torture: Switzerland in 1915
  39. Nikolai Misheev, an art critic of ‘The Chimes’
  40. Top business tips from our panel with Deborah Meaden
  41. 5 top skills to make you a good salesperson
  42. Review of Etsy Four Corners of Craft Exhibition
  43. Top tips for social entrepreneurs from OHYO’s MD Guy Jeremiah
  44. Question time with Oliver Bonas founder Oliver Tress
  45. 5 things to ask yourself before starting a business
  46. Library of surprises Part I – Digital Ghost Towns
  47. If books were bricks...
  48. Alice’s Adventures in Philadelphia
  49. Opening up the Library through international fellowships
  50. A Glance – from a Safe Distance – at the Human Monsters on Pierre Desceliers’ World Map of 1550
  51. Putting yourself on the (old) map
  52. Magnificent Maps of New York
  53. Beware the Sybil's Prophecy!
  54. New to the Treasures Gallery
  55. Anglo-Saxon Digitisation Project Now Underway
  56. Piecing Together the Puzzle of the Hungerford Hours
  57. Visions of Paradise
  58. Caption Competition 4
  59. A V.I.P.O.W. (Very Important Prisoner of War)
  60. Worcester Rental Acquired by the British Library
  61. A Calendar Page for November 2015
  62. Memory Matters: The Art and Science of the Brain
  63. Science in Schools: What are the options?
  64. Voices of Science – Winner of the Royal Historical Society’s Public History Prize for Web & Digital
  65. Celebrating 80 years of talking books
  66. National Life Stories interviews used in new science teaching resources
  67. The Sheikh’s stamps
  68. William Blake and London
  69. 'Even to Live is an Act of Courage'
  70. Further Adventures of the Intrepid East India Company Women
  71. The’ unprecedented’ case of John Calcott Gaskin
  72. A cartographic life unknown and untold
  73. Flying over the liners: Passenger aviation across the Gulf during the 1930s
  74. The moustache which fell off
  75. Indian seamen: a roll of honour for the Second World War
  76. A tribute to forgotten heroes of the seven seas
  77. 'What language can impart the mournful feelings of a throbbing heart?': drawings and poetry by Paul and Thomas Sandby.
  78. One Year of Qatar Digital Library
  79. Smugging a Guy
  80. The lonely death of a British Vice-Consul in Persia
  81. The Provenance of Web Archives

October 2015

  1. Sea Birds, Castaways, and Phantom Islands off Newfoundland
  2. Illustrating Moby-Dick
  3. Arthur Miller
  4. Curator, North American Published Collections
  5. More Animal Tales: Ozzie the Eagle
  6. Tarrant's Seltzer Aperient
  7. Till death us do part – or not?
  8. Oracle bones: genuine and fake
  9. Marking the Aftermath of the Massacre at Karbala: New manuscripts of the Mukhtarnamah
  10. The Cat and the Rat: a popular Persian fable
  11. West Africa: Word, Symbol, Song
  12. Problems in Deccani and Mughal drawings: a marbled ox fight and the Virgin of the Apocalypse
  13. Chinese collections opened up by Libcrowds
  14. Women and the Vietnam War
  15. The ‘Blood Moon’ in a Thai manuscript
  16. Magna Carta Conservation Team at the ICON Awards
  17. Parchment Internship at the British Library
  18. Making connections – a speed meeting with The National Archives
  19. 2015 Off the Map Competition Winners Announced at GameCity10 Festival
  20. Electronic Beowulf 4.0
  21. 'Following the Chartists around London' event (BL Labs Competition winning project)
  22. British Library Labs Symposium (2015)
  23. New images online - October 2015
  24. Safeguarding poetry by Usman dan Fodio and his contemporaries
  25. The Name's Bond, James Bond
  26. Artist Portraits: John Berger's latest book launch at the British Library
  27. The British Library acquires the D’Oyly Carte archive
  28. Animal Tales by S.F. Said, author of Varjak Paw
  29. International Translation Day 2015 at the British Library
  30. Shining a light on poetry pamphlets for National Poetry Day
  31. The ‘Esbatement moral des animaux’ : a 16th century French adaptation of Aesopian fables and their illustration
  32. The Panizzi Lectures - The invention of rare books
  33. A life for a language: Ľudovít Štúr (1815-54) and the Slovak nation
  34. The Tale of Mélusine
  35. History Written by the Victors, Poetry by the Losers? Charles d’Orléans, the Prisoner-Poet of Agincourt
  36. Hungary 1956: revolution, refugees, reprisal
  37. Some birthday thoughts on friendship, love and ‘luxury’ editions
  38. The Goats that Got Away
  39. The Truth about Waterloo?
  40. Solitary voices from the people’s chorus: the painfully human art of Svetlana Aleksievich
  41. Author’s fees for banned books, or a story of one donation: Lenin in the British Library 3
  42. Presents as propaganda: Lenin at the British Library 2
  43. Distinction or Discrimination: Honouring the female special agents of the Second World War
  44. I beg to apply for a ticket: Lenin at the British Library
  45. Michiel Adrianenszoon de Ruyter (1607-1676) Navigates the British Library
  46. Dare to dream: How to be a startup success
  47. How to take your business from a start-up to growth stage
  48. Designer Yinka Ilori on West Africa: Word, Symbol, Song
  49. Spotlight on…Designer Akosua Afriyie-Kumi
  50. Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities
  51. British Library Chief Librarian confirmed as CILIP Trustee
  52. Millions more legal deposit items now available at Boston Spa
  53. British Town Maps
  54. Revelatory Rivers in Germany – Part 2
  55. Drawing Lines across Africa - from the War Office Archive
  56. Things That Go Bump in the Night
  57. Codex Sinaiticus: Both British Library Volumes On Display in London
  58. Pierre Sala’s Return to Lyons
  59. Hybrids and Shape-Shifters
  60. A Kestrel for a Knave
  61. Internship in the Medieval Manuscripts Team
  62. Curator of Ancient and Medieval Manuscripts
  63. The Unicorn Lives On
  64. Medieval Animal Tales
  65. Collaborative Doctoral Studentships at the British Library
  66. A Calendar Page for October 2015
  67. Curatorial vacancy in the Music Collections
  68. West Africa: Word, Symbol, Song
  69. Science education: A short guide to resources at the British Library
  70. ‘Your Puzzle-Mate’: Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage
  71. The Ugly Truth
  72. New opportunities for collaborative PhD research exploring the British Library’s science collections
  73. From fiction to fact: the science of Animal Tales
  74. Sources and Methods in Criminology and Criminal Justice
  75. Enduring Ideas 3: The Problem of Prejudice
  76. BBC/BL Listening Project Workshop
  77. Animals Inspired Events at the British Library
  78. Europeana Sounds Editathon
  79. West Africa: Word, Symbol, Song
  80. Africa Writes vox pops: What’s new about West African Literature?
  81. Is Derbyshire 'the best of all dialects'?
  82. Radio Festival 2015 at the British Library - with highlights from the radio archive
  83. British Library captures the largest ever snapshot of the nation’s recorded audio heritage
  84. Ada Lovelace - first in a long line of female programmers
  85. Nut-Crack Night
  86. Nine Lives – Cats in Literature
  87. Captain Cook – Endeavour and Resolution
  88. An anthology of decorated papers
  89. St Crispin’s Day
  90. Early women travellers and the East India Company
  91. Trafalgar and the death of Nelson
  92. Happy Birthday Sir Christopher Wren!
  93. The London Beer Flood 1814
  94. Kafka’s Tanks: an early US attempt to enter the Gulf arms market
  95. Theatreland Raid by the ‘Baby-Killers’
  96. The Coronation of George II and Queen Caroline
  97. Caverns Measureless to Man. Happy #NationalPoetryDay!
  98. Sturdy Scots and pale-faced Londoners
  99. The elephant’s revenge
  100. All Lies
  101. Who is best - Cats or Dogs?
  102. Playing at Web Archiving

September 2015

  1. Ted Hughes and Leonard Baskin
  2. Reagan's Critic: Daniel Patrick Moynihan
  3. An Artist’s Journey: Inspired by Persian Manuscripts
  4. The Chakrabongse collection of Thai royal letters (Or.15749)
  5. Persian and Turkish manuscripts on view in the Treasures Gallery
  6. The Mahabharata in Malay manuscripts
  7. Battle of Panipat 1761
  8. Yongle Dadian on display in our Treasures Gallery
  9. Oracle bones on display in our Treasures Gallery
  10. The Marriage of East and West: Conservation of a Photographic Album from Burma
  11. New opportunities for digital humanities PhD research at the BL
  12. Working with news data
  13. #CitizenHums and #MakingBigDataHuman
  14. What is a Game Jam? By Adam Crymble
  15. What makes the Crowdsourcing Arcade Machine tick?
  16. 5 million images online
  17. Call for Applications 2015
  18. Celebrating Translation at the British Library
  19. Sir Roger L’Estrange, translator from the Spanish
  20. Old Newspapers and a League of murderers in Stockholm
  21. A Friendship with Freud: Stefan Zweig and the Father of Psychoanalysis.
  22. Joannes Stradanus and his Hunting Scenes
  23. ‘Fables of another type’: some Animal Tales from Russia
  24. Bruto, a clever dog from the 1490s
  25. Champfleury and his Cats
  26. Joost Zwagerman (1963-2015)
  27. A Series of Illustrated Books on Russia before the First World War
  28. The Lion, the Wolf and the Wardrobe: Smil Flaška’s council of Bohemian birds and beasts
  29. The Poor Palatines: an 18th-century refugee crisis
  30. Happy 60th Birthday Miffy!!
  31. How to spot a gap in the market
  32. Book review: Start a business for £99 by Emma Jones
  33. How should you choose a product design agency?
  34. Five Preparation Tips for Entrepreneurs
  35. Tips for getting back to business
  36. A Rare View of the Siege of Boston (1775-1776)
  37. Erasmus Manuscript Saved for the Nation
  38. How to Make the Most of Digitised Manuscripts
  39. The Destruction of Jerusalem
  40. Caption Competition 3
  41. Martyrdom in Action
  42. Did Someone Say a New List of Manuscript Hyperlinks?
  43. A Romance from Ward’s Catalogue: Apollonius of Tyre
  44. Tales of Lincolnshire from Five British Library Manuscripts
  45. A Calendar Page for September 2015
  46. Overpowered! The Science and Showbiz of Hypnosis
  47. A novel use of PhD data: Investigating the state of the Dementia Workforce
  48. ‘Impossibly bold and Utopian’: H.G. Wells on education
  49. Happy birthday H. G. Wells
  50. Listening Project Workshop
  51. Waves, Skylarks and Halyards: the favourite seaside sounds of BBC coast presenters
  52. Surface Tension: a conversation with Rob St John part 2
  53. Mining the FT
  54. Metropolitan Police take to the streets
  55. Crack-Nut Sunday
  56. Letters from Indian Soldiers, 26 September 1915
  57. Librarians dying at the Battle of Loos
  58. A Caracal for the King
  59. St Matthew’s Day
  60. Samuel Johnson’s MA diploma
  61. From revolutionary to librarian: Sir Anthony Panizzi
  62. ‘A Severe Master’ - the murder of William Cordeux
  63. Chocolate soldiers
  64. Foretold lives?
  65. Reading, writing, arithmetic – and leapfrog
  66. The Peter Rabbit Hotel
  67. Scaremonger or Patriot? Lionel Horton Smith and War with Germany
  68. British Stand-Up Comedy Archive Special Collection
  69. Ten years of the UK web archive: what have we saved?
  70. 2015 UK Domain Crawl has started

August 2015

  1. 10 Years of the Web Archive - What have we saved - video
  2. HC SVUNT DRACONES
  3. Team Americas meets Reverend Jesse Jackson
  4. Animal Tales exhibition list
  5. Over the Ice: Polar Exploration from the Air
  6. Voting Rights Act Fifty Years On
  7. Call of the Wild: Animal Tales
  8. Homes Illustrated
  9. Early Malay trading permits from Borneo
  10. Forty more Arabic scientific manuscripts go live in Qatar Digital Library
  11. The travels of a manuscript: Rashid al-Din's Compendium of Chronicles (Add.7628)
  12. Paintings of birds from the collection of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles
  13. LibCrowds: How your contributions can help improve access to the collections of the British Library
  14. Cats in Persian manuscripts
  15. Festivals in Burma (Myanmar)
  16. Digitising Hebraic Scrolls
  17. Fin; or reflections on thirty months of Digital Research
  18. Crowdsourcing as Interesting Decisions: Update from BL Labs 2015 Competition Winner
  19. New online collections - August 2015
  20. The Michael Marks Awards 2015: now open for entries
  21. Lee Harwood: Sailing Westward
  22. Solidarity Collection
  23. Poet in a landscape: the drawings of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  24. Mystic musings and Thomas Cook: Esper Ukhtomskii in the Orient
  25. “No longer a borderland”
  26. A lion at my feet
  27. Kafka’s Menagerie
  28. Was Stalin "The Monster Cockroach"?
  29. A Scotsman abroad: Walter Leslie in the Habsburg lands
  30. Monkeys ahoy!
  31. Daguerrean Excursions
  32. Arming for the Armada? A 16th-century German view of Drake
  33. Spotlight on … The Decorators
  34. 3 common mistakes made by small business founders and how to avoid them
  35. 6 Tips for Pitching to Investors
  36. How to research your local area
  37. How we did it: unifying the four original Magna Carta manuscripts
  38. 20th century maps: internship opportunity
  39. Revelatory Rivers in Germany – Part 3
  40. Magna Carta Virtual Tour
  41. British Museum Loans in Magna Carta: Law, Liberty, Legacy
  42. Shameful and Demeaning: The Annulment of Magna Carta
  43. Little Ado About Something Rather Significant: William Shakespeare and Magna Carta
  44. Anglo-Saxon Charters Internship
  45. When Tristan met Lancelot
  46. The Constitution of the Athenians and the History of Athenian Democracy
  47. Handlist of Greek Manuscripts in the British Library
  48. Medieval Music Mash-Up
  49. Two Weeks to See Magna Carta: Law, Liberty, Legacy
  50. Magna Carta, The British Library and The National Archives
  51. The Histoire ancienne jusqu’à César: A Flemish Chronicle Gone Viral
  52. Magna Carta Catalogue On Special Offer
  53. Greek and Latin papyri acquired since 1956
  54. The Peasants Are Revolting: The Coronation Charter of Henry I
  55. 'The French Language Runs Throughout The World’
  56. Help us decipher this inscription
  57. A Calendar Page for August 2015
  58. Seals, Science and Nations
  59. Policy into practice
  60. Mátyás Seiber collection of recordings goes on line
  61. Surface Tension: a conversation with Rob St John part 1
  62. Two oral history fellowship opportunities
  63. World Athletics Championships
  64. Sounds of Steaming ‘Doon the Watter’
  65. Conference Report: Performing the Archive, Galway, 2015
  66. Vote for the UK's favourite coastal sound!
  67. Memories Of Hiroshima And After
  68. Web newspapers workshop
  69. Robins: representations of benevolence or xenophobia?
  70. Smuggling in sugar
  71. World Mosquito Day
  72. Miss May Oung at the Burma Round Table Conference 1931
  73. You can’t keep a good man down!
  74. Arm-to-arm smallpox vaccination
  75. The amiable Princess Amelia
  76. Blythe Spirit
  77. Characterisations of Climate Change
  78. Beginner’s Guide to Web Archives Part 3
  79. Viral Content in the UK Domain

July 2015

  1. Two film screenings and Conference on Audio-Visual Archives at the British Library, 17-19 July 2015
  2. Three American Libraries from Homes of American Authors (1853)
  3. Loyalist Lawyers: Exiles from the American Revolution
  4. Our ‘Young Gentleman’ Thomas Russell and the emerging ‘Problem’ of the Caribbean Language
  5. The Future of the Written Word... and the Arctic
  6. Canada in the UK: waiting and training in WW1
  7. Celebrating Independence Day
  8. Happy Canada Day
  9. On the road: some user guides to libraries and archives
  10. Ten Birth Tales of the Buddha (IO Pali 207)
  11. Out of the margins: Arabic literature in English
  12. Indonesia calling! Crowdsourcing catalogue records for the British Library’s Indonesian collection
  13. Shubbak Literature Festival at the British Library
  14. The story of Sinbad or the seven sages
  15. Haile Selassie and the United States of America
  16. The Life of the Buddha in Thai manuscript art
  17. West Africa: Word, Symbol, Song
  18. Under the Microscope with Magna Carta
  19. Update on Political Meetings Mapper - BL Labs Competition Winner 2015
  20. British Library Labs Project Awards (2015): Call for entries!
  21. Women in Food Wikithon with the Oxford Food Symposium at the British Library
  22. Welcome to Sarah Cole the British Library’s New Creative Entrepreneur-in-Residence
  23. Turning research questions into computational queries: outputs from the 'Enabling Complex Analysis of Large Scale Digital Collections' project
  24. Spiked fiddles from Mongolia
  25. New images online - July 2015
  26. Remembering the 4th of July...
  27. The Following Story as a Matter of Life and Death
  28. Rationing and the Red Guard: a very British perspective
  29. Letter from Donbass miners
  30. What European Studies owe to J. M. Cohen (1903-1989)
  31. A stitch in time: embroidery as a force for social change
  32. From Boulogne-Sur-Mer to Lille
  33. The Lost Fame of Heinrich Böll?
  34. Pleasure and Death in Revolutionary Paris
  35. Basque and Georgian – are they related?
  36. Before & During
  37. Theophilos and Tériade
  38. The senses emblematised
  39. Social Media for Small Businesses: Finding Your Feet
  40. Top tips on online accounting for small business
  41. How to Get Press Coverage for Your Small Business
  42. Spotlight on … Packshot and Stills
  43. 5 essential summer tips for entrepreneurs
  44. Top 5 Intellectual Property Mistakes Made by Small Businesses
  45. How to turn you design business into an iconic brand
  46. Book Review: ‘The Luxury Strategy’ and ‘Kapferer on Luxury’
  47. Comprehensive, open and clear: explaining our Annual Report and Accounts
  48. The British Library in Yorkshire – a treasure trove for researchers
  49. One million Twitter followers
  50. British Library Imaging Studio – opening up our collections
  51. The Kangxi atlas in the King’s Topographical Collection
  52. Happy Uncommon Musical Instrument Appreciation Day!
  53. What's Your Favourite Magna Carta Item?
  54. Equality, Huh? Who Would Have Thought It?
  55. Codex Sinaiticus: New Perspectives on the Ancient Biblical Manuscript
  56. Another Apocalypse Manuscript Digitised
  57. Caption Competition 2
  58. Influential Illumination: British Library Loans to Lens
  59. Papal Overlordship of England: The Making of an Escape Clause for Magna Carta
  60. New uploads to the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts
  61. Happy Birthday, Declaration of Independence!
  62. A Calendar Page for July 2015
  63. Thea Musgrave - a new performance and a PhD opportunity
  64. The British Library at WOMAD
  65. Over the Ice: Polar Exploration from the Air
  66. King John’s teeth
  67. Come and work with us!
  68. Inspiring Careers - Part 2
  69. Inspiring Careers - Part 1
  70. PhD placements available!
  71. Call for Papers
  72. Coastal Memories
  73. The Sounds of Brighton Seafront
  74. Frank Andrews 1920-2015
  75. A Year of Sounds at Blakeney Point
  76. Recording discovered of 1938 world premiere performance of Britten Piano Concerto
  77. Recording the Sounds of our Shores
  78. The British Library at WOMAD
  79. John Lovejoy, bookbinding tyrant
  80. Richard Burton - Masterchef?
  81. Blessing cars and eating oysters
  82. Punch Drunk
  83. Letters from the Siege of Lucknow
  84. The Chinese Labour Corps in Basra
  85. Bastille Day in Delhi
  86. Anyone for Tennis? Relaxation and Social Mingling in the Gulf
  87. A bread and butter battle
  88. Herabai and Mithibai Tata: British support for Indian suffragists
  89. Geo-location in the 2014 UK Domain Crawl
  90. Curating the Election - Archiving the most complex General Election yet…
  91. UK Web Archives Forum @ BBC Broadcasting House
  92. Big UK Domain Data for the Arts and Humanities: working with the archive of UK web space, 1996–2013
  93. What is a Web Archive? (in less than 3 mins)

June 2015

  1. 28 Buddhas
  2. 20 millionth item ordered into the Reading Rooms
  3. Reading the #Charlestonsyllabus
  4. An Oil Creek Valley Diary: a guest post by Janet Floyd
  5. Searching for Saul Bellow
  6. Festival thoughts: Antipodean literary beginnings
  7. Panji stories in Malay
  8. Captain Linnaeus Tripe: Photographer of India and Burma
  9. The archaeology of a manuscript: the Khamsah of Khvaju Kirmani
  10. Tipu Sultan’s dream book (IO Islamic 3563)
  11. Introducing LibCrowds: a crowdsourcing platform aimed at enhancing access to British Library collections
  12. British Library loans to Sultans of Deccan exhibition in New York
  13. Japan Times Archives Online – free trial
  14. A CT Scan of the St Cuthbert Gospel
  15. My Digital Rights: Where next for our Magna Carta for the digital age?
  16. British Library Labs Competition 2015 - Winners Announced!
  17. Crossroads of Curiosity - 6 Days to Go!
  18. My Digital Rights: Where are we now?
  19. New images online – June 2015
  20. 'Voices from pre-partition India' - The Nur-i-Afshan Periodical from the Punjab
  21. The British Library acquires the archive of the playwright and screenwriter, Julian Mitchell
  22. Never use your employer’s printing office for your own writings
  23. The people’s Book Fair: a personal view
  24. Back to Belsen: Using the British Library’s Newspaper Collections
  25. John Wardell, a British Engineer in the Russian Revolution
  26. Lisbon, 20 June 1647: assassination of king of Portugal foiled by miracle
  27. Waterloo’s Prussian Hero: Blücher and the British
  28. Pasolini and St Paul
  29. The guinea-pigs of a new era: Ludvík Vaculík (1926-2015) and the Czech dissidents
  30. A reluctantly modern voice from the 17th-century Russian storm: Archpriest Avvakum and the Life written by himself
  31. The Passion of Christ considered as an uphill bicycle race… and what should women wear?
  32. Cats and Quixote
  33. Child of the Revolution: the tragic story of Nelly Ptashkina
  34. Basque Books in the British Library
  35. Winning a NatWest everywoman Award changed my life
  36. Enterprising Libraries: A blueprint for delivering economic growth in UK cities
  37. Book review: How to Get Rich by Felix Dennis
  38. Celebrating the small business scene: The Guardian Small Business Showcase Award 2015
  39. Six tips for running a flagship store
  40. How to take your business online
  41. The importance of trade marks for your small business
  42. How to be effective at trade shows
  43. CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals awarded at the Library
  44. Improving collection security – an international challenge
  45. Picture This: British Library exhibition comes to Newcastle
  46. PLR: benefiting authors, illustrators – and even narrators!
  47. A Bohemian rhapsody*?
  48. Art in the margins: the Theodore Psalter
  49. Getting Under the Covers of the St Cuthbert Gospel
  50. Livy Among the Humanists
  51. Ex(odus)-Men: Adventures in a Medieval Bible Picture Book
  52. Project Curator, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts
  53. Exit, Pursued by a Bear
  54. Magna Carta Celebrates Its 800th Birthday!
  55. How The Forest Charter Was Saved From Destruction
  56. The Magnificent Magna Carta Project
  57. The Beginnings of the Codex
  58. Words on Sheepskin
  59. Magna Carta: My Digital Rights
  60. Space: The Final Frontier
  61. Charles Burney and his Manuscript Collection
  62. The Trial of Sir Thomas More
  63. A Calendar Page for June 2015
  64. What's the catch?
  65. Fishing from the Earliest Times: A very brief history
  66. The Ocean: A sustainable future or the end of the line?
  67. GOOD VIBRATIONS
  68. Oh I do like to be beside the seaside!
  69. Classical Music of the Jazz Age
  70. Sounds of our Shores
  71. The presence of 'girls' in labs
  72. Listening Project booth comes to the British Library
  73. Sound tracks: acoustic landscapes in the past and present
  74. The news from Waterloo
  75. UK General Election 2015 - the broadcast archive
  76. Break of service
  77. ABBA’s Waterloo at the Prince Regent’s Stables
  78. The Return of the Emperor
  79. George Canning and Waterloo: international politics and personal loss
  80. The celebration of Waterloo in 1817
  81. Wellington’s Friend
  82. The Waterloo veteran
  83. The Battle of Waterloo in 16 objects
  84. A tragic tale from Mysore
  85. Death of armed robbers in India
  86. Selling archives by the pound
  87. The Journals of Thomas Machell
  88. The unauthorised mission of Samuel Manesty
  89. Ten years of archiving the web - A reflective blog post by Nicola Bingham, Web Archivist
  90. RESAW Conference – showcasing research of the historical web
  91. Beginner’s Guide to Web Archives Part 2
  92. Towards a Macroscope for UK Web History

May 2015

  1. Conference: Visual Urbanisms
  2. Off the Wall Fridays
  3. Stories Weaved in Cloth
  4. Off The Wall Fridays
  5. The Many Uses of Whiskey: a Bryant Lecture roundup
  6. Off the Wall Fridays
  7. Inventing The Great Gatsby
  8. Off the Wall Fridays
  9. Weird and wild monsters in the ocean’s dark depths: revelations from the Thai Mahajanaka Jataka
  10. The 1937 massacre in Addis Ababa
  11. 40th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War
  12. A Jawi sourcebook for the study of Malay palaeography and orthography
  13. The Henry Ginsburg photo collection: an insight into a curator’s life and work
  14. Malay manuscripts on Javanese history
  15. Propaganda and ideology in everyday life: Chinese comic books
  16. Public event - Magna Carta: Under the Microscope
  17. Digital Conversations @ BL: Digital Music Analysis
  18. New online collections - May 2015
  19. Podcast of 'A Celebration of Anthony Trollope' at the British Library
  20. How the spy John Peyton put Poland on the map (to keep King James on the throne)
  21. Looking back at European Literature Night
  22. The War Poet who wasn’t: Simon Gregorčič and the Soča Front
  23. Sequins, songs and sociopolitical change - 60 years of Eurovision
  24. The Basque Language
  25. Seminar on Textual Bibliography for Modern Foreign Languages
  26. Grimms’ tales in Translation (and in the British Library)
  27. Yasmina Khadra: A Writer of the World
  28. ‘World Literature’ and ‘World Languages’
  29. Woman in Green
  30. Constitution 3 May 1791
  31. European Literature Night: a vote for Europe?
  32. The Guardian Small Business Showcase
  33. Welcome to Paul Lindley - our new Ambassador
  34. Inventing Chocolate with Amelia Rope
  35. The future is looking Fab (Lab)
  36. 5 Tips for working with Illustrators by ChattyFeet
  37. Unlocking the Growth Mindset for SMEs
  38. Digitising Spare Rib magazine: The inside story
  39. British Library web strategy: start anywhere, go anywhere
  40. Redesigning Alice: Etsy and British Library competition winners
  41. Reference Services: assisting with your enquiries
  42. A British Reverse in East Africa - from the War Office Archive
  43. The Document That (Almost) Changed the Course of History
  44. When the French Invaded England
  45. Something for Everyone
  46. Magna Carta, Super Charter!
  47. The Harley Trilingual Psalter
  48. Magna Carta (An Embroidery)
  49. The First Edition and Translation of Magna Carta
  50. Magna Carta: Guess the Manuscript
  51. Magna Carta and the King's Forests
  52. Register for the Magna Carta Conference
  53. An Even More Giant List of Manuscript Hyperlinks: Spring Update
  54. A Calendar Page for May 2015
  55. To survive we must explore
  56. Spare Rib Magazine enters the digital age
  57. It'll not take you long for to learn a lile bit Cumbrian dialect grammar
  58. The Imitation Archive Part 2: making music from the sounds of the world's first computers
  59. £9.5m boost from Heritage Lottery Fund for our Save our Sounds campaign
  60. Finding ways to take Crafts Lives out of the archive
  61. The Imitation Archive Part 1: recording the sounds of the world's first computers
  62. Oh, how we laughed! Early performance recordings from the Bishop Sound collection
  63. Lord of the Rings recording engineer David Gleeson receives British Library Edison Fellowship
  64. Five years of Broadcast News
  65. Microfilms at Boston Spa
  66. The unfortunate Matthewman; how a bookbinder failed against all the odds
  67. Vengeful barbers and crime-fighting magicians
  68. Waterloo and its legacy
  69. The People’s Charter
  70. Famous friends
  71. The pill devourer
  72. Misplaced Suspicions: Counter-espionage in the Persian Gulf
  73. Must I break my promise or lose my bread?
  74. Henry Treece – history in the making
  75. Anne Blunt - ‘Noble Lady of the Horses’
  76. Indian soldier's letter to a friend, 1 May 1915
  77. Beginners Guide to Web Archives Part 1

April 2015

  1. From the Collections: US Historical Newspapers
  2. Magna Carta's Americas Adventure
  3. Lincoln's Funeral Cortege
  4. Commemorating Conflict: Australia, New Zealand and Canada
  5. Discovering the Northwest Passage
  6. The Man Who Ate His Boots
  7. Nixon and Hoover
  8. Team Americas bookshelf: How much did Carl Jung learn from his trip to India? (pt II)
  9. Team Americas, redux
  10. Qur’an manuscripts from Java
  11. ‘White Mughal’ William Fullerton of Rosemount
  12. Foreign travellers to 19th-century Siam
  13. Malay manuscripts from south Sumatra
  14. Happy New Year – with a splash of cool water!
  15. Royal genealogies from Indonesia and the Malay world
  16. Propaganda and ideology in everyday life: Chinese collection posters
  17. Early vocabularies of Malay
  18. Making Islamic-style paper
  19. The House Of Lords, Commoners, And Everybody Else
  20. Rusty Rusalka
  21. The British Library Machine Learning Experiment
  22. Looking back on Digital Conversations: A Web of Rights
  23. Library Carpentry: call for volunteers, call for participants
  24. Rob Sherman's End of Residency Seminar
  25. New online collections - April 2015
  26. Rupert Brooke and Phyllis Gardner
  27. No literature please, we’re British?
  28. From governing a prison….to the Griffin Prize
  29. “As though everyone were alive…”
  30. The feckless fabulist who took on the Sun King: Jean de La Fontaine
  31. Educating Italians in 19th-century London
  32. Sonia Delaunay and Tristan Tzara
  33. Günter Grass (1927-2015)
  34. “I want to go on living even after my death!” Anne Frank and her Diary
  35. The Eyes Have It
  36. Speaking truth to power
  37. Hope, humanity and humour: Strindberg’s Easter message for a new century
  38. Every Day is Fools’ Day
  39. A day in the life at the Business & IP Centre
  40. Copying – right or wrong?
  41. Redesigning Alice: Etsy and British Library competition
  42. Fight Intellectual Property Fraud
  43. Celebrating World Book Night in London and Yorkshire
  44. New Moleskine range inspired by our Alice in Wonderland manuscript
  45. Maps lie in a new online course
  46. Lines in the Ice: top five highlights
  47. The 1934 Runnymede Pageant
  48. An 'Additional' Round Table Celebration
  49. The Paston Letters Go Live
  50. King John's Last Will and Testament
  51. John Wilkes and Magna Carta
  52. Ointments and Potions
  53. The Devil is in the Detail: A Thirteenth-Century Bible Moralisée
  54. Murder in the Cathedral
  55. Ten Things To Know About Medieval Monsters
  56. Guess the Manuscript With A Difference
  57. Pictures At An Exhibition
  58. The Trial of Queen Caroline
  59. A Giant from Our Collections: The Stavelot Bible
  60. The Divine Comedy Now Online
  61. Magna Carta: The Reviews Are In!
  62. A Calendar Page for April 2015
  63. The Importance of Understanding Number Entry
  64. A Medieval Medical Marvel
  65. British wildlife recordings on the move
  66. Probably not on Spotify: Balsam Flex cassettes
  67. Help us build the Directory of UK Sound Collections
  68. Recording the election
  69. Newspapers remotely
  70. Librarians who died at Gallipoli
  71. India and St George!
  72. Memories of Reading needs you!
  73. 'Fifth rate accommodation' in Sharjah
  74. ‘A smack at the Chikor’
  75. Social life in Simla
  76. Gandhi’s Salt March, Part 3: 27 March to 6 April 1930
  77. Hot Cross Buns!
  78. Jolly japes for All Fools’ Day!
  79. Web archiving as a challenging business

March 2015

  1. Symposium: Alaska, the Arctic and the US Imagination
  2. Team Americas bookshelf: How much did Carl Jung learn from his trip to India?
  3. More Polar Bears
  4. Pais de maravillas: Cuba on the mind…
  5. What to give the English king who has everything?
  6. Britain’s ‘Interest’ in Bahrain
  7. From Anatolia to Aceh: Ottomans, Turks and Southeast Asia
  8. A new manuscript of 'Inayatallah's Bahar-i Danish
  9. An alternative Cinderella: The girl with a kneading bowl (not a pearl earring)
  10. The Jatakas: Birth Stories of the Bodhisatta
  11. Soother of sorrows or seducer of morals? The Malay Hikayat Inderaputera
  12. Japan’s first 'curry rice' recipe?
  13. The Malay Tale of the Wise Parrot
  14. Digital Music Events at the British Library
  15. Enabling Complex Analysis of Large Scale Digital Collections
  16. Texcavator in Residence
  17. BL Labs Competition and Awards Roadshow 2015
  18. Jisc Digital Festival 2015
  19. New online collections - March 2015
  20. Marking the Centenary of Virginia Woolf’s first novel: The Voyage Out.
  21. On novels and the art of writing them: the rules according to Anthony Trollope
  22. The Goddess of Air at The Stray Dog Café
  23. The Growth of the Beard
  24. Collection of hopes and despair: 30 years ago Mikhail Gorbachev started Perestroika
  25. The Serbian Typhus Epidemic - 100 years on
  26. Visions in the sky: a 17th-century eclipse
  27. The Cervantes Corpus
  28. Bohemian Leeds: the Fulneck Moravian Settlement
  29. Who loved Three Oranges?
  30. Writing for Equality: Early 20th-century Russian women’s journals
  31. Notes from an Old Profession
  32. Shevchenko: a voice for unsung heroines
  33. Some flights of Poe’s Raven – Mallarmé and Manet, Doré, and Rossetti
  34. ‘To the men and women of the British Empire … a Russian voice is speaking to you’: Once I Had a Home by ‘Nadejda’, an eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution?
  35. Allegories with labels
  36. Self-service photography comes to the Business & IP Centre
  37. Five tips for understanding intellectual property
  38. A business boost for libraries
  39. Supporting female entrepreneurs
  40. Hiring – The Hardest Choice
  41. Take part in our survey and help shape our future!
  42. Inspiring Entrepreneurs: Growing Pains and Gains
  43. #ShareMyThesis winners announced
  44. Self-service photography extended
  45. Help! British Library needs 50,000+ maps georeferenced
  46. A rum Lot of Maps
  47. London through the artist's eye
  48. Robert Adam and the King’s Topographical Collection
  49. Support King George III’s London collection
  50. Nothing But The Trooth
  51. The Anglo-Saxon Origins of Medieval Justice
  52. The Greek Manuscripts of Robert Curzon, Part II
  53. Greek Manuscripts Digitisation Project: The final seventy-five manuscripts go online
  54. Magna Carta Website is Now Live
  55. True Nobility and Plagiarism
  56. Photography in the Manuscripts Reading Room
  57. Magna Carta: A Curators' Eye-View
  58. Irish Manuscripts in the British Library
  59. Magna Carta Exhibition Well and Truly Open
  60. The Greek Manuscripts of Robert Curzon, Part I
  61. Spot the Difference!
  62. Collaboration and Customisation: The Evolution of a Royal Book
  63. Canterbury Cathedral and Magna Carta
  64. A Calendar Page for March 2015
  65. Musical Journeys to Oman, Qatar and Kuwait
  66. Access to Understanding 2015: In Summary
  67. Access to Understanding 2015: Who Won What?
  68. Shell shocked
  69. Future Flemings
  70. Resistance is Futile
  71. Vote now for the Access to Understanding People’s Choice Award
  72. To boldly go…
  73. Spring/Summer Events
  74. Shopping in Suburbia
  75. Dial a dialect for your mam this Mother’s Day: crowdsourcing English dialect, slang and vernacular lingo at the British Library
  76. Gardens, tunnels and the riverbanks of Oxford: sourcing sounds for Alice's Adventures Off the Map
  77. Authors' Lives: an oral history
  78. Chacking to hear some Cornish dialects?
  79. The Defiance of Zaki Khan
  80. Gandhi’s Salt March, Part 2: 20-26 March 1930
  81. Thin dogs, neglected children and rising crime
  82. Gandhi’s Salt March, Part 1: 12-19 March 1930
  83. Everyone is badminton mad here!
  84. Friday the 13th
  85. ‘My beautiful reformatress’: The Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine and corporal punishment
  86. ‘To be tightly laced is a most superb sensation’: the Corset Controversy
  87. St Piran’s Day
  88. Beards, Barley and Bear-baiting: Revenue Collection in Shiraz
  89. Saint David’s Day
  90. Political parties in the UK Web Archive
  91. France - UK: complementary views on web archiving
  92. 2015 UK General Election Web Archive Special Collections
  93. Happy Birthday Magna Carta! All the best from the Web Archive xxx

February 2015

  1. 10 tips to help you start a successful business blog
  2. Perspectives on the Passage: encountering the explorers
  3. Forgotten histories of the Passage: the whalers
  4. The truth about the Japanese doll festival
  5. Lao collection at the British Library now fully catalogued
  6. Malay legal texts
  7. Happy Chinese New Year! The Year of the Goat
  8. Southeast Asian manuscripts digitised through the Ginsburg Legacy
  9. The wily Malay mousedeer
  10. The beauty of palm leaf manuscripts (3): storage and preservation
  11. A Mamluk Manuscript on Horsemanship
  12. Preserving our digital heritage: how are we really doing?
  13. Discovering textiles at the British Library
  14. Photographed by the Hand of a Sinner
  15. Magna Carta: My Digital Rights Project
  16. What would Library Carpentry look like?
  17. THATCamp British Library Labs
  18. Alice's Adventures Off the Map
  19. New online collections – February 2015 – Part 2
  20. Stories they tell: clues from endangered archives
  21. New online collections – February 2015 – Part 1
  22. Florio’s Montaigne – and Shakespeare’s?
  23. Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaia: London Adventures and An Unlikely Friendship
  24. The Champion of Slavonic Peoples: the Andrija Kačić Miošić collection in the British Library
  25. Overwintering: the Dutch search for the Northwest Passage
  26. Barcelona and the Avant Garde
  27. ‘Of all fairy-tales, the most beautiful…’ Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué’s Undine
  28. Spaniards in Victorian London, 1841 and 1856
  29. The Grand Budapest Hotel: The Vanished World (of Autograph Manuscripts)
  30. Love it or hate it!
  31. “A master craftsman in the European tradition”
  32. Textual Bibliography Seminar: Call for Papers
  33. In Conversation with Kell Ryan: The Ryanair Story
  34. Spotlight on... Caroline Brealey, Matchmaker
  35. From Google to Poet in the City: London’s Knowledge Quarter to lead the UK's knowledge economy
  36. Supporting start-ups for National Libraries Day
  37. Judging the Folio Prize
  38. Magnifying the impact of Magna Carta
  39. Intelligence mapping of British East Africa - digitisation begins
  40. Found: more maps than we’d reckoned
  41. Enigmas and Errors: 19th-century cataloguing of the King’s Topographical Collection – Part 3. Windsor Castle and Hampton Court: a palatial mix-up.
  42. Off the Map: Alice and the Gleaming Spires
  43. Magna Carta: The Worcester Connection
  44. Magna Carta Unification Update
  45. Written on the Edge
  46. Re-use of images on the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts
  47. One Month To Go
  48. Magna Carta Under The Proverbial Microscope
  49. The Legend of Troy in Medieval Manuscripts
  50. The Magna Carta Unification
  51. A Calendar Page for February 2015
  52. Directory of UK Music Sound Collections
  53. Hans Gerle's "Tablatur auff die Laudten"
  54. Strange Bedfellows
  55. DataCite Case Study: ForestPlots.net at the Unviersity of Leeds
  56. Propaganda and Ideology in Everyday Life
  57. 2014 in review: Management Book of the Year, the problem with democracy, epigenetics and beyond.
  58. Creating a Directory of UK Sound Collections: An Update
  59. Architecture: Design and Drawing
  60. St Pancras Intelligencer no. 37
  61. Talking about things local
  62. St Pancras Intelligencer no. 36
  63. Powders, leeches, and castor oil
  64. Serving the East India Company in Persia
  65. Sage advice regarding snakes
  66. Edward Lloyd and the ‘Penny Bloods’
  67. St Valentine's Day customs
  68. The plunderers’ cunning plan
  69. An English Convert to Islam in Kuwait
  70. How an Indian performance troupe found itself destitute in Victorian London
  71. Mary English, adventurer and businesswoman in Colombia
  72. Building a 'Historical Search Engine' is no easy thing

January 2015

  1. New Brazilian Acquisitions
  2. Polar publishing (Locked in the Ice pt II)
  3. Akbar's horoscopes: how to become a Leo if you are not
  4. A Malay spur to valour: the Hikayat Muhammad Hanafiah
  5. The beauty of palm leaf manuscripts (2): Northern Thai, Lao and Shan traditions
  6. Ibrahim: portrait of a Malay scribe
  7. Portrait of Major William Palmer and his family now on display
  8. Inscriptions in the Iskandar Sultan Miscellany (Add.27261)
  9. Early dictionaries of Southeast Asian languages
  10. Malay manuscripts on Bugis history
  11. Sources for the study of Muhammad Vajid 'Ali Shah
  12. The Bugis diary of the Sultan of Boné
  13. What you should know about self-service photography
  14. 135th Anniversary of Printer Joel Munsell's Death
  15. Picaguess: a prototype crowdsourcing app from the British Library Big Data Experiment
  16. Meet Rob Sherman in the Lines in the Ice gallery tomorrow
  17. Help #bldigital to help you do better digital research
  18. New online collections – January 2015 – 4 million images now online!
  19. "Terror ... and the Supernatural": Stanley Kubrick's Gothic Adaptation of The Shining
  20. Mind your Head! Constantijn Huygens’ response to Charles I’s execution.
  21. Beauty in word and image
  22. Haggis and houšky: Robert Burns in many guises
  23. Avant-garde Russian theatre in the 1920s
  24. Memories of a Nation: British Library loans at the British Museum
  25. Afterthoughts on the Spanish Gothic
  26. Weird science: Reagan, Rudolf and Philip the Prudent
  27. A Lost (and Found) Dutch Hymn Book from 1566
  28. Collecting the Renaissance: Aldus Manutius and his legacy
  29. European rivals in South Asia
  30. Epiphanies from Imants Ziedonis
  31. Learning English: Barcelona 1846
  32. CMI Management Book of the Year
  33. Intellectual Property Matters
  34. Top tips: Pinterest as a visual bookmark for your business
  35. The Power of Partnerships in PR
  36. And the award for Celebrating and Promoting Your Business goes to…
  37. Avoid catching a “Cash” Cold in 2015
  38. Business & IP Centre webinars - learning wherever you are
  39. Top tips for 2015: Build your business dreams
  40. Launching Living Knowledge
  41. The idea of the Library
  42. So now you know!
  43. Enigmas and Errors: 19th-century cataloguing of the King’s Topographical Collection Part 2
  44. Fruits of Espionage in the K.Top
  45. George, Jacobites, Scotland and the K.Top – A Brief Summary
  46. Greek Manuscripts Digitisation Project: Another 30 Manuscripts Go Online!
  47. Hereford Writ to be displayed at the British Library
  48. Das Ende der Welt: An Overlooked German Apocalypse
  49. Surviving the Winter: Medieval-Style
  50. Guess the Manuscript XIX
  51. Annotated, Misbound, Mutilated: John Ruskin’s Gospel Lectionary
  52. RIP Æthelwulf, King of the West Saxons
  53. The Canterbury Magna Carta: A New Discovery
  54. Point The Finger
  55. A New Year, A New Giant List of Manuscript Hyperlinks
  56. Melvyn Bragg and The Road to Magna Carta
  57. Cicero's Map to the Stars
  58. A Calendar Page for January 2015
  59. Mozart in London talks at the British Library
  60. #ShareMyThesis competition - now open
  61. Activist Archives: Making Marks
  62. Inaugural National Life Stories Goodison Fellowship Award focuses on the history of food.
  63. Jewish Survivors of the Holocaust – an online collection of over 280 in-depth Holocaust survivors’ testimonies
  64. Documenting the Fringe
  65. Below the lines in the ice: the sonic world of icebergs
  66. Help Us Create a Directory of UK Sound Collections
  67. Save our Sounds: 15 years to save the UK’s sound collections
  68. Into the void
  69. Opening the coffin of King Charles I
  70. Colonial Knowledge: Lorimer’s Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Oman and Central Arabia
  71. Personal gifts from Mr Churchill
  72. The Death of a Political Agent: Captain Shakespear
  73. How to ship your elephant
  74. Victorian office moves
  75. In great distress
  76. Letter from an Indian soldier to his father
  77. Pining for domestic bliss
  78. The eccentric postmaster of Lismore
  79. Twelfth Day
  80. Honest and industrious – petitions to the East India Company
  81. Collecting Data To Improve Tools
  82. Spam as a very ephemeral (and annoying) genre…

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