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December 2016

  1. A Rose by Any Other Name: Turkish in its Various Apparitions
  2. The Christmas Story: Images from Ethiopic Manuscripts
  3. Old Javanese copper charters in the British Library
  4. O graceful fawn, o gentle doe: Deer in Thai manuscript art
  5. A Malay work on Islamic law from Aceh: Mirat al-tullab
  6. Mobius programme – on the beach of learning
  7. Re-imagining a catalogue of illuminated manuscripts - from search to browse
  8. There's a new viewer for digitised items in the British Library's collections
  9. Will Self’s archive acquired by the British Library
  10. P.G. Wodehouse Archive at the British Library
  11. Countdown to the 2016 Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets
  12. Cathy Courtney talks about Ken Campbell at the British Library
  13. The Universe in ‘the Galosh of Happiness’: Halia Mazurenko
  14. Christmas in the Trenches 1916: a Mystery Play.
  15. The Lettered Bridge: Aleksandr Kazem-Bek
  16. Stones, Coffins and Violin Cases: Andrey Platonov
  17. The dangerous language
  18. 'An absolutely essential handyman and busybody in Russian literature’…Nikolai Karamzin (1766-1826)
  19. Vincent Cabot, a 16th-century Jurist from Toulouse
  20. Commemorating the Russian Revolution
  21. The Brothers Jovanović National Library
  22. Ukrainians Mark 70 Years of AUGB
  23. Why entering awards are good for you and your small business
  24. Festive Fairyland
  25. Maps & scrap metal
  26. MacDonald Gill: original drawing goes on show today
  27. Map: friend or foe?
  28. Christmas Quiz: The Answers
  29. Christmas Quiz 2016
  30. Christmas Coronations
  31. The Medieval Origins of the Christmas Carol
  32. A Reindeer Farmer at King Alfred's Court
  33. New Developments in Manuscript Viewers
  34. Researcher and Writer: Old and Middle English
  35. Explore our Greek Manuscripts Online
  36. Ocean Explorers at the Institut du Monde Arabe
  37. Forme of Cury: A Medieval English Cookbook
  38. Polonsky Digitisation Project: Last Call for Nominations
  39. Fantastic Beasts at the British Library
  40. A Calendar Page for December 2016
  41. It's pantomime time!
  42. Benjamin Britten's A Boy was Born
  43. Music Collections acquires Vincent Novello album
  44. A leaf from Mozart's grave: curiosities from British Library Music Collections
  45. The first paper on carbon dioxide and global warming
  46. 9 famous scientists and their PhD theses
  47. Using our science collections
  48. Rebels in the Archives: Stories of Sexism, Sisterhood and Struggle
  49. Sports Word of the Year 2016
  50. The Women's Football Association archive
  51. Recording of the week: the first New Year's Eve radio message
  52. Recording of the week: A Christmas Day in Taiwan
  53. Christmas and everyday making
  54. Recording of the week: Bad cough? Try a fried mouse
  55. Artists’ Lives Exhibition at Tate Britain
  56. Recording of the week: 'Winter' by Vita Sackville-West
  57. British Composer Awards 2016
  58. Messiaen and the songs of wild birds
  59. Recording of the week: UCL word list
  60. Yehudi Menuhin Centenary
  61. Sanger’s Circus in Sheffield
  62. Library closures at Christmas
  63. Charades – a Christmas game to make a long evening short
  64. Exploring emotional worlds: Indian soldiers’ letters from the Second World War
  65. Christmas in Bahrain
  66. The Power of Faith: Maurice Wilson’s Flight to the Top of the World
  67. Anglo-Italian Competition: The sale of military aircraft to Kabul
  68. Pageantry, Parade and Presents in Persia
  69. Victorian Vaudeville – Tripping the Light Fantastic
  70. If Websites Could Talk

November 2016

  1. Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts: conference at the British Library, 21 November 2016
  2. BL Labs Symposium (2016): book your place for Mon 7th Nov 2016
  3. American Studies Training Day in Boston Spa
  4. Batak manuscripts in the British Library
  5. Nasir Shah's Book of Delights
  6. The Ottoman Turkish Zenanname (ʻBook of Womenʼ)
  7. Daikoku and Ebisu: two Japanese deities of good fortune
  8. The Anvar-i Suhayli or 'Lights of Canopus'
  9. Jerusalem 1000-1400: Four Gospels in Arabic
  10. Applications of Image Processing Software to Archival Material
  11. The Conservation and Spectroscopic Analysis of a Burmese Concertina Binding
  12. The British Museum Bindery heroes
  13. Mounting and Framing: Preparing the Maps and the 20th Century Exhibition at the British Library
  14. International Games Day: Steampunk, Murder Mystery and Game-Poetry
  15. WordPlay Festival for International Games Day
  16. British Library Labs Symposium 2016 - Competition and Award runners up
  17. British Library Labs Symposium 2016 - Competition and Award Winners
  18. SherlockNet update - 10s of millions more tags and thousands of captions added to the BL Flickr Images!
  19. Black Abolitionist Performances and their Presence in Britain - An update!
  20. Quarterly Lists: Digitally Researching Catalogues of Indian Books
  21. An Overview of 6 Second History Animated British Library Photographs & Illustrations
  22. Foundations of a Movement
  23. Treasures of the British Library: Zephaniah meets Shelley
  24. Stefan Zweig and the ‘Magic of Manuscripts’
  25. ‘Our only epic poet…’: Emile Verhaeren (1855-1916)
  26. The philologist and the silkworm
  27. ‘In Catherine’s reign, whom glory still adores…’ : Catherine the Great in the British Library’s collections
  28. The Year of Henryk Sienkiewicz
  29. Afire for peace: Henri Barbusse’s Le Feu (1916)
  30. Knud Leem and the Sami People of Finnmark
  31. Samuel Boguslaus Chylinski’s Lithuanian Bible
  32. A Global Entrepreneurship Week thank-you. You made our week!
  33. Co-working spaces - the ideal place to do business
  34. Introducing the European exchange programme for new entrepreneurs
  35. First Aid for Life – growing a business, and taking it to the next level with Innovating for Growth
  36. Growing a love of chocolate into a successful business
  37. Enjoying Fireworks Safely with First Aid for Life
  38. The Elastic System: What Can You Do with a Library?
  39. Support the British Library by becoming a Member
  40. 20th Century Panoramaniac
  41. Pushing the Boundaries
  42. Colouring maps for adults
  43. Step onto the map: the British Library's exhibition is open
  44. Map exhibition build photographs
  45. Turning the Tide
  46. Silence is a Virtue: Anglo-Saxon Monastic Sign Language
  47. The Caption Competition Returns
  48. It's a bird, it's a plane, it's supermonk
  49. Alison Balsom Meets the Middle Ages
  50. Magna Carta Room Reopens
  51. ‘Kett’s Demands Being in Rebellion’
  52. Automata for the People: Greek Scientific Manuscripts Online
  53. A Feast for the Senses
  54. Picturing the Sacred: Byzantine Manuscript Illumination
  55. Showing Off Sailing Ships: The Anthony Roll
  56. Collaborative Doctoral Research at the British Library: Pre-1200 Manuscript Culture
  57. A Calendar Page for November 2016
  58. Gustav Mahler’s 'Urlicht' manuscript at the British Library
  59. Youth's Delight on the Flagelet: Samuel Pepys and his lessons with Thomas Greeting
  60. Treasures of the BL: Handel's Birthday Ode for Queen Anne
  61. The pianist who transformed the Cold War
  62. Dragons and greyhounds: a day in the life of a digital music curator
  63. Remember, remember, the fifth of November
  64. Musical chess
  65. Stephen Hales: Reverend, Researcher, Reformer
  66. International Folk Music on Film
  67. Beneath the calm exterior: A glimpse into the world of the Crown Court clerk
  68. The changing landscape of radio
  69. Recording of the week: The first recording of Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony
  70. 'Honk, Conk and Squacket'... anyone?
  71. Recording of the Week: Suffrage for Women
  72. Environments: Irv Teibel and the psychoacoustic record
  73. A music examiner’s tour of India
  74. Journals of Midshipmen during the Second World War
  75. The business archive of Alan Gradon Thomas
  76. A novel way to secure a pension
  77. A little embarrassing: Britain fails to prevent Barclay Raunkiær from exploring Arabia
  78. The British Legion’s Fundraising in the Age of Empire
  79. Archives seeking refuge
  80. Pay and living conditions of Indian seamen
  81. The case of Margaret Duchell, who “died a confessed witch”
  82. Fleeing from Burma
  83. Explore Your Archives Week at the UK Web Archive

October 2016

  1. 10 Essential Reasons to Get Networking
  2. American Pamphlets 1920-1945: Call for academic partners
  3. The private life of the Canadian beaver
  4. Canada and slavery in literature
  5. Shakespeare, Montaigne and Rio de Janeiro.
  6. Dorothy Livesay: Canada, the Spanish Civil War and the 1930s
  7. Goodbye, and stay tuned for the Cold War symposium!
  8. Launch of ‘South Asia Series’ talks
  9. 1500 titles of Thai printed books added to the British Library’s electronic catalogue
  10. The Archive of Yogyakarta digitised
  11. What do you think about our digitised Hebrew manuscripts?
  12. Talk: Fabric of the Library: discovering textile conservation
  13. Research Strategy Summit - National Heritage Science Forum
  14. From West to East: Conservation of the Chinese novel ‘Dream of the Red Chamber’
  15. Conservation code cracking: finding meaning in hidden symbols
  16. Datamining for verse in eighteenth-century newspapers - British Library Labs Project
  17. 2016 Shakespeare Off the Map Competition Winners Announced at GameCity11 Festival
  18. Imaginary Cities - British Library Labs Project
  19. Maurice Nicholson - British Library Flickr Commons Map Tagger and Top Georeferencer
  20. BL Labs Symposium (2016), Mon 7 Nov: book your place now!
  21. Digital Conversations @BL: Multimedia PhD Research and Non-text Theses
  22. Poetic Places on National Poetry Day
  23. Comics and Play In The Sunshine State
  24. Fragments of Sikkim
  25. New collections online - September 2016
  26. Impressions from Myanmar
  27. Dan Leno: the original Pantomime Dame
  28. Angela Carter and the Visual Imagination
  29. 'Rhys-cycled’
  30. Capturing poetry across formats: from print to digital to electronic literature.
  31. Zines Workshop
  32. "The Lord Chamberlain regrets..."
  33. Shifting the Compass: Literature from the Dutch Antilles and Suriname
  34. To Naples with Nietzsche and beyond: Malwida von Meysenbug (1816-1903).
  35. Studying migration and diaspora through Russian language publishing
  36. Trotsky, Sri Lanka and an ‘Olympian goddess’
  37. In the service of the children of Serbia 1915-1947
  38. The Seagull has landed: 120 years of Chekhov’s ‘comedy’
  39. Frederick Cosens, Shakespeare and the Spanish drama of the Golden Age.
  40. Andreas Gryphius, monarchs and mechanicals
  41. Mistress, Mädchen and Minzmeat Pasteten: Kitchen English with Elsa Olga Hollis
  42. Pavlo Kovzhun or ‘adopt his enthusiasm...’
  43. Cereal Killer Cafe: how a killer business idea became a hit
  44. Writer in Residence update: Books mean business
  45. Tracking down old toy railway patents in the Business & IP Centre
  46. Get out of your own way - why you need confidence to raise your profile
  47. Exploring Treasures of the British Library on TV
  48. Map Reading in the 20th Century
  49. 100 Aker Wood
  50. 20th century maps: the globe
  51. The Devil You Know
  52. Lindisfarne Gospels: Back on Display in the Sir John Ritblat Treasures Gallery
  53. An African Abbot in Anglo-Saxon England
  54. Wonders of Thread: The V&A’s Opus Anglicanum Exhibition
  55. Fire, Fire! The Tragic Burning of the Cotton Library
  56. Note to Self: Readers Writing in Greek Manuscripts
  57. Remembering Assandun
  58. And Always After That It Grew Much Worse
  59. England and France, 700-1200: Manuscripts from the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the British Library
  60. Changing the Script
  61. New Content on Our Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts
  62. Die Another Day? The Vita Haroldi at Waltham Abbey
  63. Reading and Writing Greek in Britain
  64. A Calendar Page for October 2016
  65. Dances of death
  66. Son of an African Prince
  67. Beethoven's Pastoral Sketchbook
  68. Bob Dylan at the British Library
  69. "Symphonic boa-constrictors"?
  70. Replace, Reduce, Refine: Animals in Research.
  71. Britain's first nose job
  72. Happy Ada Lovelace Day!
  73. Why do people sound funny in old recordings?
  74. Black History Month – Cullen Maiden
  75. Recording of the Week: Temporary Home
  76. Treasures of the Black Country
  77. Remembering Aberfan 50 years on
  78. Sir Neville Marriner – an interview
  79. Recording of the Week: Please don't call me a koala bear
  80. The future of radio: no. 4 - Nicky Birch
  81. The future of radio: no. 3 - Paul Bennun
  82. The Dumb-Cake
  83. Evanion the Royal conjuror plays with fire
  84. An abandoned ayah
  85. Tagore Meets an Old Friend in Iran
  86. Dame Anne McLaren: a noted career
  87. Pageantry and Parade in Persia
  88. A Cornish smuggler
  89. A case of mistaken identity
  90. Edith Cavell – 101 years on
  91. An Icelander in India
  92. Throwing off the workhouse
  93. Poldark, put your shirt on! An 18th Century description of a Cornish mine.

September 2016

  1. Cricket, Marching Bands, and Empire
  2. Cabin Fever: Deconstructing the Log-Cabin Myth of Appalachia
  3. Stranger Things at the British Library
  4. Where’s Arjuna? Renaming the Monoliths of Mahabalipuram
  5. Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project Phase 1 completed
  6. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned: the legend of the bell of Dōjō-ji
  7. The formation of the British Library’s Vietnamese collection. Part 2: South Vietnam
  8. Fingerprints & their potential impact in relation to handling library collections
  9. Job Opportunity - Digitisation Conservator (Hebraic Digitisation Project)
  10. Job Opportunity - Digital Conservator
  11. Job Opportunity - Preventive Conservator
  12. Growing a thick skin
  13. Multimedia PhD Research and Non-text Theses Case Studies
  14. Multimedia PhD Research and Non-text Theses
  15. British Library Labs Staff Awards 2016: Looking for entries now!
  16. Black Abolitionists: Performance and Discussion for Black History Month by Hannah-Rose Murray
  17. Digital Scholarship in Brazil: an expanding field
  18. BL Labs Awards (2016): deadline extended to Monday 12 September!
  19. Fashion Utopias and the British Library’s Flickr collection
  20. Digital Conversation @ British Library: EThOS & Multimedia PhD Theses
  21. Why do you access EAP material?
  22. Banned from the classroom: Censorship and The Catcher in the Rye
  23. The Monk, the Bible and obscenity
  24. Melvin Burgess: Censorship and the Author
  25. Swimmers: pamphlets and events
  26. Philosophies of punk
  27. ‘The only censor is honesty’: Press Freedom and its Limits in Revolutionary Vienna
  28. Giorgio Bassani 1916-2000
  29. Il Decamerone – “Corrected” by Rome
  30. ‘The greatest German storyteller’? Johann Peter Hebel
  31. Ira Aldridge's Polish Journey: Developing the Shakespearean Canon and Influencing Local Politics
  32. I was there when Jäki licked Iggy Pop’s leg: Punk in Germany
  33. More Virgil than Cervantes
  34. Tolstoy’s translator: a brief life of Aylmer Maude
  35. From China to Peru
  36. Verdi and Shakespeare
  37. How British lifestyle label Toast went from strength to strength
  38. How Grub Club became a successful business in the pop-up market
  39. How Patrick Drake gave up the rat race and co-founded HelloFresh
  40. Find out how one man turned his “light bulb moment” into reality
  41. How one woman turned her passion for swimming into a successful business
  42. Tips guaranteed to cut your bills
  43. Launching the Living Knowledge Network
  44. Maps and Macbeth
  45. A Journey to Bookland
  46. The long search for HMS 'Terror'
  47. Map exhibition - the countdown begins
  48. Valerius Maximus: A Handbook for the Roman Arriviste?
  49. The Book Banner Who Inspired Banned Books
  50. Every People Under Heaven
  51. The Ceolfrith leaves are 1300 years old
  52. British Libraries: The Panizzi Lectures 2016
  53. A Field Guide to Wodewoses
  54. The British Library's Greek Manuscripts Project
  55. Snakes, Mandrakes and Centaurs: Medieval Herbal Now Online
  56. Palimpsests: The Art of Medieval Recycling
  57. Caption Competition 8
  58. Representations of Disabilities and Illnesses in Medieval Manuscripts
  59. Greek Manuscripts Conference
  60. Guess the Manuscript Returns
  61. A Calendar Page for September 2016
  62. Discovering Music
  63. Digitisation: Delving Deeper
  64. Arthur Sullivan and the English Opera Companies
  65. London's Burning!
  66. Setting Shakespeare to Music
  67. Calling all language enthusiasts!
  68. Social Media Data: What’s the use?
  69. The Annual Equality Lecture with Professor Andrew Sayer
  70. Albert Spalding - American violinist
  71. Dialects not only connect, they sometimes divide
  72. The future of radio: no. 2 - Matt Deegan
  73. Anna Pavlova and the Swans of Abbotsbury
  74. The future of radio: no. 1 - Charlie Phillips
  75. Recording of the Week returns!
  76. Europeana Sounds second editathon!
  77. The Future of Radio - a special British Library podcast
  78. ‘It’s in the detail of a handrail… it’s in how the building is put together.’
  79. A Reputation Restored – Mark Hambourg live recording discovered
  80. Paralympics Memories
  81. Restoring the first recording of computer music
  82. Sheffield dialect in pop music
  83. The Field has Ears
  84. Olympic memories
  85. One Hundred Singles
  86. Persian carpets for European consumers
  87. Report on Boiler Explosions in Britain, 1880
  88. Foreign Names and Flatulence: Dodging Censorship in the Book Trade
  89. Employing children in dangerous trades
  90. Letters from Indian Soldiers on the Western Front, September 1916
  91. Recruiting an Iraqi Judge in Bahrain’s Shia Court
  92. Life at the fringes of empire: Edward Eastwick in Sind
  93. Dinners, mortars, and cinema trips: the Afghan Military Mission to India
  94. Female Felons in the 18th Century
  95. ‘A most fearefull and dreadfull fire’
  96. Web Archiving Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games
  97. Commemorating the Battle of the Somme in the UK Web Archive
  98. Surveying the Domain: Three Days with the Web Archiving Team

August 2016

  1. New Gods and Old
  2. Dialogue with a Dead Poet: Jack Spicer's After Lorca
  3. Merdeka: Malaysian independence day
  4. The formation of the British Library’s Vietnamese collection. Part 1: North Vietnam
  5. The Indonesian Proclamation of Independence
  6. Ascetics and Yogis in Indian painting
  7. Rivals past and present: Global powers converge on the Gulf of Aden
  8. New display of Dara Shikoh Album in Treasures Gallery
  9. An in-depth look at the British Library’s collection of Arabic manuscripts from West Africa
  10. Hidden horoscopes and puzzling predictions in Papyrus 98
  11. SherlockNet: tagging and captioning the British Library’s Flickr images
  12. BL Labs Awards (2016): enter before midnight 5th September!
  13. Black Abolitionist Performances and their Presence in Britain
  14. Call for Applications
  15. Come and work for EAP
  16. Visual Verses: Thomas Watson’s Hekatompathia, or Passionate Century of Love, 1582.
  17. From Shakespeare to rock music: the history of the word ‘punk’
  18. Last chance to see Shakespeare in Ten Acts
  19. William Shakespeare and The Learned Pig
  20. Celebrating poetry pamphlets: new readings online
  21. "All that glitters is not gold" - Curator's Choice
  22. What Are You Reading? #NationalBookLoversDay
  23. Nahum Tate’s King Lear: A Happy Tale?
  24. Kemp’s Nine Days Wonder: Curator’s Choice
  25. Shakespeare’s role in the development of Esperanto
  26. Russian Hamlet(s)
  27. Staging Shakespeare in Soviet Azerbaijan
  28. The 1919-1921 Ukrainian Diplomatic Mission in London
  29. The First World War, Ukraine, and the Birth of Independence?
  30. Olympictures
  31. Umberto Boccioni 1882-1916
  32. The Spiritual Jewel of Kyiv
  33. Delacroix, Chassériau and Shakespeare
  34. ‘Happiness for ten crowns’: Milena Jesenská (1886-1944).
  35. Helena Modrzejewska, a Polish Shakespearean actress
  36. 80 Years Ago: the Berlin Olympics in Words and Pictures
  37. 'A Lifelong Touchstone': Delacroix and Shakespeare
  38. To the British Museum Library with the Author’s compliments: Dragoș Protopopescu’s Shakespeare translations
  39. Tips on taking photographs for your business
  40. Waste not, want not. The business of turning discarded food into delicious chutney
  41. How we amped-up our business strategy and our trading firm took off
  42. How I took my business from a small start-up to a super success
  43. Our Shakespeare: a collaboration between the British Library and the Library of Birmingham
  44. On the trail of the Essex Serpent
  45. Nudity, trees and biscuits: how we made Shakespeare in Ten Acts
  46. Work experience at the Library – more than meets the eye
  47. Hooked on Georeferencing
  48. Magnificent Manuscripts Online: Pelagios
  49. The Wisdom of the Greeks
  50. Monster Monday
  51. Improving Access to Our Digitised Manuscripts
  52. The Great Medieval Bake Off
  53. Which Star Sign Are You?
  54. The Grandisson Psalter
  55. Explore our Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts
  56. Research Curator, Renaissance Literature
  57. Caption Competition 7
  58. Pokémon Go! The Medieval Edition
  59. Leontion, 'Little Prostitute' or 'Great Philosopher'
  60. True Colours
  61. Medieval Selfies
  62. The Olympic Games at the British Library
  63. A Calendar Page for August 2016
  64. Passionate music from a hot country: a musical visit to Iraq-Kurdistan
  65. Nicola Matteis and his Ayrs for the Violin
  66. Music printing in England, 1650-1700, and The British Library
  67. Wash on Monday? Beethoven's laundry list
  68. Batons galore!
  69. “Like light shining in a dark place”: Florence Nightingale and William Farr
  70. Local heroes: “Without the least sense of pain or the movement of a muscle”
  71. The Great British Bread-Cake Debate
  72. Passionate music from a hot country: a musical visit to Iraq-Kurdistan
  73. From bronze to basalt: Jane McAdam Freud's life in sculpture
  74. Theatre of Sound. An interview with Aleks Kolkowski
  75. Olympic news
  76. New nationals
  77. A British First World War hero with roots in India
  78. ‘One heap of stones as good as another’ – Bahrain’s disappearing burial mounds
  79. Gone for a soldier
  80. Rescue of an Indian Seaman
  81. Mud, Blood, and Vegetables
  82. Robert Clive – ‘Rio Janeiro was my choice’
  83. Scrapbooking Waterloo: Thomas Pickstock’s travel journal
  84. The surgeon’s porcupine
  85. A forgotten story from the Second World War
  86. A Drunken Russian Pilot and the Bombing of Mecca 1925
  87. Poetry Goes Online: Preserving poetry journals and zines for the Web archive
  88. Tender to Redevelop the UK Web Archive Website

July 2016

  1. Operation Crossroads: 70 Years on from the Bombs at Bikini
  2. Kay Boyle, American in Paris
  3. Join us for the Eccles Centre Summer Scholars series
  4. Jainism in the early 19th Century: Drawings from the Mackenzie Collection
  5. The Wise Collection: Acquiring Knowledge on Tibet in the late 1850s
  6. Female figures in Thai illustrations of Buddha’s Birth Tales (Jātaka)
  7. Intelligence mapping of British East Africa: a new online resource from the British Library
  8. The Sixteen Sacred Lands of Buddhism
  9. Dealing with Optical Character Recognition errors in Victorian newspapers
  10. Ruby Dixon Work Experience
  11. Finding digitised books and images about Finland in a collection of 65,000 books
  12. A temporal & spatial investigation of disease in 19th century British newspapers
  13. Two Centuries of Indian Print: Enhancing Scholarly Research
  14. Zines resurgent
  15. Richard Burbage and The Dead Man's Fortune
  16. Zine but not heard: printed ephemera and research
  17. The Mystery in the Mystery Novel: Does William Henry Fox Talbot appear in Wilkie Collin’s The Woman in White?
  18. Shakespeare: Gentleman or Player?
  19. Petrus Cuniculus, Noisy-Noisette and Frau Tigge-Winkel: Peter Rabbit’s foreign friends
  20. Facsimile editions of works by Taras Shevchenko with artistic designs of Volodymyr Yurchyshyn
  21. Esperanto and Fair Communication
  22. Delacroix, Shakespeare and the London Stage in 1825
  23. ‘The best of these was Derzhavin…’: Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin (1743-1816)
  24. Three symbols of Franco’s Spain
  25. Born on a Fourteenth of July: Joseph Arthur, Comte de Gobineau
  26. Balkan Day II in Drawings by Ian Long
  27. The English and football – then and now
  28. Grey Power
  29. From Darwinian epic to Christian martyrology: the mystical art of Odilon Redon (1840-1916)
  30. Continental Utopias
  31. A finger on the pulse of sustainable food business
  32. Is your best content above the fold?
  33. Celebrating British IP Day – get IP savvy
  34. Never mind the British Library, here’s Punk
  35. Work experience in the British Library Press Office
  36. Help shape the future of our digital research spaces
  37. Caption Competition 6
  38. Metaphors, Misogyny and Courtly Love
  39. Star Item: An Early Medieval Sketch of the Planets
  40. Updated List of Digitised Manuscript Hyperlinks
  41. Off With His Head
  42. Alexander Neckam’s Collections of Prometheus
  43. Beowulf is Back!
  44. Manuscript the Tube
  45. Robert of Cricklade: Why I Write
  46. Caption Competition No. 5
  47. The Translation of Thomas Becket
  48. The Execution of Sir Thomas More
  49. Masons and Manuscripts
  50. A Calendar Page for July 2016
  51. ‘Negligence’ or obeying compositional norms?
  52. Can you handle our Handel?
  53. Rethinking Delius
  54. Food for Thought: Food Technology resources at the British Library
  55. Murdered But Not Silenced: A unique recording of pianist Marion Roberts (1901-1927)
  56. Embedded Live
  57. 'The future looks very good' - the early days of penicillin
  58. Hidden Traces. A sound walk
  59. Brexit - the broadcast archive
  60. Words will eat themselves
  61. ‘Girls bowled, batted, ran and catched’
  62. Harry Michie - With the Roughriders in the Mediterranean
  63. Walter Thom’s 'Pedestrianism'
  64. The high cost of life in India
  65. Desert Encounter - Knud Holmboe
  66. “Pre-packed airports” for the Persian Gulf?
  67. Death by food and drink
  68. A Museum Clerk at the Battle of the Somme

June 2016

  1. Graham Nattrass Lecture, 17 June 2016
  2. Revisiting the provenance of the Sindbadnamah (IO Islamic 3214)
  3. A Mughal Shahnamah
  4. The Great Palace at Madurai
  5. Ofuda: in with the good, out with the bad (Part 2)
  6. Imperial Vietnamese scrolls in the British Library
  7. Exploring Thai art: Doris Duke
  8. Announcing the BL Labs Competition finalists for 2016
  9. Digital Humanities in the Chinese Context: Project Kick Off
  10. New collections online - May 2016
  11. In Defence of Shakespeare: Tolstoy and Orwell
  12. Delving into the Laurence Olivier Archive: fan letters and Macbeth
  13. P is for Printess: New Acquisition
  14. Peter Brook and A Midsummer Night’s Dream
  15. Touching History
  16. ‘As a novel there is nothing like it ever again…’: Benjamin Constant’s Adolphe (1816)
  17. All the World’s a Stage: Shakespeare in Europe and the Americas
  18. Literary Translation: Whose Voice is it Anyway?
  19. An Unparalleled Authority on the History of Belarusian Literature
  20. An Introduction to Bulgarian Literature
  21. From Deluge to the Digital: Fifty Years of Research and Conservation in Florence since the 1966 Flood.
  22. What’s in a Name? Looking forward to Balkan Day 2
  23. Sheepskins and Shakespeare: Aleksandr Nikolaevich Ostrovsky (1823-1886)
  24. A Full Circle around Shakespeare
  25. ‘The rhythm of free speech’: Boris Pasternak translates Shakespeare
  26. ‘The whole gain of my life is to lament her loss’: Christiane von Goethe
  27. Cats and Dogs
  28. Spotlight on … Ed Salt, MD of Delamere Dairy
  29. How much is William Shakespeare worth today?
  30. Spotlight on … Paul Sulyok, CEO & Founder of Green Man Gaming
  31. CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Children's Book Awards at the British Library
  32. Our Alice in Wonderland exhibition travels north to Newcastle
  33. Our plans for St Pancras – new caterer appointed
  34. War Office Archive goes live in Nairobi
  35. Greek Manuscripts in the British Library: Conference and Public Lecture in September
  36. Tips for a Manuscripts Road Trip
  37. From the Louvre's Library to the Treasures Gallery
  38. Maps, Monsters and Marvels
  39. Internship in Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts
  40. Manuscript and Print in Renaissance Venice
  41. ‘I Am an Antichrist’: Demons, Vices and Punks
  42. Name this creature!
  43. A Calendar Page for June 2016
  44. Recycling Madrigals in Counter-Reformation Italy
  45. Peter Kennedy Archive
  46. Out of the Archive - Peter Gellhorn, Composer
  47. Illegal substances or aiding physical excellence? A few historical perspectives
  48. Punk in '76: Camden Town and the making of More On
  49. Fourth of July punk special
  50. Galton and Simpson: earliest recordings of BAFTA Fellowship writers discovered
  51. Recording the past, representing the present: Indians of the Colombian Vaupés
  52. Peter Kennedy Archive
  53. Archival Ingredients: cooking up a documentary for Radio 4's The Food Programme
  54. News is beautiful
  55. St. Pancras Intelligencer no. 39
  56. "We go into action in a day or two and I'm leaving this in case I don't come back". On the eve of the Somme.
  57. Chronograms: dangerous dogs and escaping elephants
  58. National Insect Week
  59. ‘A Violent Pauper’
  60. A dinosaur dinner and relics from 'one of the greatest humbugs, frauds and absurdities ever known'.
  61. Failings of English Forestry Students
  62. Burma’s beautiful game
  63. Theodore and Mabel Bent in Southern Arabia
  64. Making stale and nauseous water sweet!
  65. ‘My present dreadful situation’: The perils of fame as an 18th century actress
  66. Capturing and Preserving the EU Referendum Debate (Brexit)

May 2016

  1. The principle of the process of creation: Adolfo Best Maugard
  2. An 18th Century North African Travelling Physician's Handbook
  3. Ofuda: in with the good, out with the bad (Part 1)
  4. Tang Xianzu, the great Ming dynasty playwright
  5. Can’t judge a book by its cover? Perhaps you can!
  6. Online Historical Resources for the Study of the Modern History of Bahrain and the Persian Gulf
  7. The Perak Times: a rare Japanese-occupation newspaper from Malaya
  8. Lights, Camera, Action! Filming for the Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
  9. Malaysia and Football
  10. Washing badly degraded silk flags from the India Office collections
  11. Fragments in bindings
  12. BL Labs Awards (2016): looking for entries now!
  13. Success story: the @BL_Labs Roadshow (2016)
  14. New collections online - April 2016
  15. Discovering Literature: 20th Century is launched!
  16. Punk fanzine ‘Oh Cardiff... Up Yours!’ donated to the Library
  17. International Dylan Thomas Day: New Acquisition
  18. Who was the first Shakespearean actress?
  19. From Slapstick to Schlegel: Hamlet goes to Germany
  20. And yet the time will come: Ivan Franko in Memoriam
  21. All the World’s a Stage: Shakespeare in Europe and the Americas
  22. ‘All happy families are alike…’? The memoirs of Ilya Tolstoy (1866-1933)
  23. Seminar on Textual Bibliography for Modern Foreign Languages, Monday 6 June
  24. Personal is Political: Eurovision 2016 and the Crimean Tatars
  25. One that got away. Daniel Urrabieta Vierge’s illustrations of Don Quixote (1906)
  26. The Spanish Books of Sir Thomas Browne
  27. Curiosity Helps a Lot
  28. My Way of Looking/Breathing
  29. I Prefer Imagination
  30. Stamina! Stamina!
  31. Our May Acronym Heaven: EU, EL, EUPL, ELIT, ELF, ELN, ACE & BL
  32. The Bard, the Bear and Bohemia: Shakespeare and the Czechs
  33. The 'Shakespearomania' of Karl Marx
  34. The challenge of translating Cervantes’s Don Quixote
  35. Be business savvy like Shakespeare
  36. Writer in Residence Update: No Copyright? Wonderful!
  37. Kikka Digga - Business & IP Centre Success Story
  38. Scaling up with Innovating for Growth
  39. Murder and Madness in the Castle: Macbeth’s Inverness
  40. Utopia 500
  41. Bede: The Greatest Hits
  42. Size Matters
  43. An Anglo-Saxon ‘Renaissance Man’: St Dunstan
  44. St Pancras: From Roman Martyr to London Station
  45. Florimont, Flower of the World, Grandfather of Alexander the Great
  46. God as Mother and Julian of Norwich
  47. The Scottish Play and the Real Macbeth
  48. A Calendar Page for May 2016
  49. Meet Bert the Turtle
  50. Shakespeare on the couch: The bard and psychology
  51. Shakespeare: a King of Infinite Space?
  52. Punk before punk: 'You're gonna wake up one morning...'
  53. "It's easy old boy, it just sucks itself along like a vacuum cleaner." 75 years of British jet flight
  54. Marconi and the Lizard
  55. The Audio and Audio-Visual Academic Book of the Future - A Symposium
  56. "Ils sont arrivés!" Francis Chagrin and Allied Propaganda at the BBC French Service 1939-45
  57. Jamie Vardy: I bet he ain't mardy ... dilly dong dilly dong
  58. Digital archives of British national newspapers
  59. Robert Clive arrives in India
  60. Wanted: 100 Hogshead of Sugar
  61. Shakespeare in India
  62. Bringing Colin Mackenzie Home
  63. William Adams – from Gillingham to Japan
  64. Edward Lear: politicians, poems and runcible hats.
  65. The Khaksar movement in the Persian Gulf
  66. Hedgehog Awareness
  67. Calculating Kindness Revisited
  68. Accommodation for 5000? Indian Expeditionary Force D at Bahrain 1914
  69. Saving BBC Recipes Website

April 2016

  1. An A-Z of Arabic Propaganda
  2. Razmnamah: the Persian Mahabharata
  3. Mythical creatures in Vietnamese culture
  4. The Polonsky Foundation and the Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project at the British Library
  5. A gold letter from Bali
  6. Further Delhi paintings on ivory
  7. The British Library’s oldest Qur’an manuscript now online
  8. Eighth and ninth century versions of the Rustam cycle
  9. Much Ado About…Possibly Something
  10. Opportunity: Digitisation Conservator
  11. UPDATE – we have added three more courses to the 2016 programme
  12. Play your part in preserving our heritage
  13. Diamonds are forever. What about research data?
  14. The Georgian Pingbacks Project
  15. Disappearing book heritage of Siberian Buddhists
  16. New collections online - March 2016
  17. From poets to punk: Who is Barry Miles?
  18. “the apparel oft proclaims the man”
  19. Seamus Heaney: From “Ex-poet” to Nobel Laureate
  20. Investigating the Price of Kindness
  21. The Trebnyk (1646) of the Metropolitan Petro Mohyla and its artistic design
  22. The Post-Chernobyl Library
  23. Vera Rich In Memoriam (1936-2009)
  24. Here, there and every Eyre: Charlotte Brontë goes global
  25. Shakespeare in Paris in the 1820s
  26. From Africa to Acmeism: Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev (1886-1921)
  27. Tolstoy and music
  28. Portuguese Anagrammatic Nun Novelist
  29. Dervish or spy? A Hungarian in Central Asia
  30. Till Eulenspiegel, a Fool for all Seasons
  31. The Sacred Bundle: a magical way to express your core business values
  32. 5 ways to double your online sales with minimum investment
  33. Writer in Residence update: tips from the first workshops
  34. Present with confidence: 5 traits of a great presenter
  35. Spotlight on … Tangle Teezer
  36. How do you create an Alice in Wonderland Pop-up Shop?
  37. Less of a Random Mapper: a new feature for Georeferencer
  38. Fit for a King’s Sister
  39. 1000th Anniversary of the Death of Æthelred the Unready
  40. A Firsthand Experience: Great Writers' Handwriting
  41. The Tripping Saint?
  42. Everything’s Coming Up (Roman de la) Roses
  43. Isidore of Seville's Etymologies: Who's Your Daddy?
  44. A Calendar Page for April 2016
  45. Sonatas with feline accompaniment
  46. The Thinking Machine: W Ross Ashby and the Homeostat
  47. Propaganda course nominated for Learning on Screen Award
  48. Propaganda and Ideology in Everyday Life
  49. Update on the digital Spare Rib: important information for researchers and contributors
  50. The Poetry Periscope Project
  51. The Story of the Tiger Hunt
  52. The 1916 Easter Rising: Sound and Memory
  53. Shakespeare and the Nightingale
  54. Contemporary British performance: Natasha Davis interview
  55. Using old newspapers
  56. St. Pancras Intelligencer no. 38
  57. The Anglo-Burmese Handbook
  58. The officer and the Anzac
  59. Selling the silver screen: poster stamps and lost films
  60. Pioneering cybernetics: an introduction to W Ross Ashby
  61. Mrs Ann Wood – an exceptional woman
  62. Kirby’s Coca Wine
  63. Edward William Charles Noel – political officer and spy
  64. The Queen's visit to Karachi in 1961- the unofficial view
  65. The Queen's visit to Karachi in 1961- the official view
  66. Poverty and destitution in Victorian London
  67. ‘A Man of very surprising Genius’: John Bagford, Bookseller and Collector
  68. Encountering the archive
  69. The curious tale of the pigeons in the workhouse
  70. Easter Rising 1916 Centenary in Print and Digital

March 2016

  1. Langston Hughes translates Nicolás Guillén
  2. The British Library’s West African manuscripts collection
  3. “A bar of pure gold”: Shan Buddhist manuscripts
  4. Celebrating Noruz in Delhi with new 'Everlasting Flame'
  5. Buddhist rebirth in different planes of existence
  6. More than a Book: a new display of Southeast Asian manuscripts
  7. Jain manuscripts in the British Library
  8. A Digital Revolution - hundreds of Hebrew manuscripts go on-line
  9. The seals of Sultan Ahmad al-Salih of Bone
  10. Video: The removal of linen backed paper from a silk scroll cover
  11. Exploring Poetic Places: Launching the App
  12. ‘Is this a forgery I see before me?’
  13. Recent Acquisition: Shirley Jones’ ‘The Quest’
  14. How deep is the ocean, how high is the sky?
  15. J. G. Ballard: Streets in the Sky and the Secret Logic of the High-Rise
  16. The early illustrated editions of Don Quixote: the Low Countries tradition
  17. Passion and compassion: Nikos Kazantzakis’s Christ Recrucified
  18. A picture is worth a thousand words?
  19. Painting Russia’s past: Vasilii Surikov (1848-1916)
  20. I would rather till the soil with my bare hands: a letter from Balzac
  21. French with Tears – of laughter
  22. Global Voices in the Archive: British Library PhD Research Symposium
  23. Migration in Ukrainian literature
  24. A British Woman Soldier in First World War Serbia: Flora Sandes
  25. Champion of the smallest Slavonic nation: Jan Arnošt Smoler and the Sorbs of Lusatia
  26. Portraits of Ariosto, or not?
  27. Innovating for Growth - a success story for the Business & IP Centre London
  28. How to make your business an internet sensation
  29. British Library Shakespeare playbills…on tour!
  30. The British Library and India – an exciting new chapter
  31. The British Library’s research collections – slide shows from our Doctoral Open Days
  32. Building the future – our plans for St Pancras
  33. Fool’s Paradise
  34. Updated List of Digitised Manuscripts’ Hyperlinks
  35. Kassia: A Bold and Beautiful Byzantine Poet
  36. Lives of Cuthbert Now Online
  37. The Letter Book of Archbishop Wulfstan
  38. Justifying Women Writers: A Medieval Poet Speaks Out
  39. The Coronation Gospels on Display in Edinburgh
  40. British Library Volunteer Programme, Department of Western Heritage, 2016
  41. New Digitisation Project and Positions in the Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Section
  42. Cnut Manuscripts Now in the Treasures Gallery
  43. A Calendar Page for March 2016
  44. Handel's Messiah
  45. Once upon a time in Bengal....
  46. Science and Art in the rehearsal room
  47. Tunny and Colossus: Donald Michie and Bletchley Park
  48. The secret lives of scientists
  49. Port Talbot and the British steel industry
  50. Sea Inside Us All: celebrating the sounds of our shores
  51. What does 'place poetry' look and sound like in the 21st century?
  52. Here comes the rain again....
  53. Nobody knows anything
  54. "The lowest, most filthy, most unhealthy and most wicked locality"
  55. Professor Frederick Browne - Help of the hairless & Victorian blogger
  56. Let a Pineapple Speak For You
  57. Daddy’s Easter egg – fatal if eaten before a meal
  58. Claudius Rich and Samuel Manesty
  59. Eliza Armstrong – still elusive!
  60. Art meets Science: Newton, Blake and the British Library
  61. Falling from the skies in style: Early references to the parachuting in the British Library
  62. Dame Anne McLaren: a noted career
  63. Picking locks and foreign plots: ciphers in British Library manuscripts
  64. Did he intend to blow the [insert film quotation here] doors off? An eighteenth-century powder mill in Germany.
  65. Global Voices in the Archive
  66. Design for the Muslim Burial Ground, Woking
  67. Award of the Victoria Cross to Indian Army Officers and Men
  68. Barut, Slave Governor of Kalba
  69. Calculating Kindness: Meeting George Price

February 2016

  1. On the outskirts of the world: Movimiento Hora Zero
  2. The Brooklyn Dodgers
  3. Lebanese LGBTQ publications: essays, magazines, memoirs and narratives
  4. Academic thought in the South
  5. The Vietnam War: Children at War
  6. Kaempfer’s cat
  7. Nine myths about West Africa
  8. A Group of Sikh Miniatures on Ivory
  9. Exploring Thai art: James Low
  10. Call for Sound Heritage Conservation Consultant
  11. 'Why Londoners need not stand in fear of Drought': Depictions of Late Nineteenth Century London in the Pall Mall Gazette
  12. Poetic Places App Launch Event
  13. Cambridge @BL_Labs Roadshow Mon 15 Feb (9.30am - 12.30pm) and (1.30pm - 4.30pm)
  14. PhD placements in Digital Scholarship
  15. New collections online - February 2016
  16. Bringing a Liverpool Heart to Moliére
  17. The fairy tale queen: Angela Carter
  18. Seven things that you might not know about Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
  19. Prometheus in Petersburg: Vyacheslav Ivanov (1866-1949)
  20. Strike!! Strike!! Strike!!
  21. To the Moon and back: Svatopluk Čech (1846-1908)
  22. Mysteries in Black and White
  23. Billiards is a noble game! Vignaux is the greatest player before God.
  24. Serbia celebrates British heroines of the First World War
  25. Don Quixote as Napoleon: propaganda in Spain’s war of independence, II: the print.
  26. Don Quixote as Napoleon: propaganda in Spain’s war of independence, I.
  27. Why can’t a tree be called Pluplusch?
  28. Sceptical medicine
  29. Spotlight on ... Kalory Photo and Video Studio
  30. Spotlight on … Mumsnet founder, Justine Roberts
  31. Spotlight on … Original Dating
  32. How to have a successful business partnership
  33. Growing up: business success stories
  34. Spotlight on … Renaud Visage, Eventbrite Co-Founder
  35. The Knowledge Quarter: One Year On
  36. National Libraries Day - the great legacy of our public libraries
  37. PLR figures reveal the nation's most borrowed books
  38. 'Whither the Fates Carry Us': Bermuda goes Off the Map
  39. Money for old charts: printing maps in the nineteenth century
  40. The Leaping Saint: 29th February in the Middle Ages
  41. Caption Competition Number 4
  42. Shakespeare: British Library Manuscripts in Washington D.C.
  43. Fashion Goes Medieval
  44. Joanna the Mad & Jheronimus Bosch
  45. The Illustrated Guide to Medieval Love, Part II
  46. The Earliest English Poet
  47. Medieval Library Rules
  48. Anglo-Saxon Chronicles Now Online
  49. Exploding Eyes, Beer from Bath-Water and Butter from Nettles: the Extraordinary Life of Brigid of Kildare
  50. A Calendar Post for February 2016
  51. Health Data: Better Care or Privacy Nightmare?
  52. PhD placement in Science in Society at the British Library
  53. Alice's Adventures in Numberland - answers
  54. Alice's Adventures in Numberland
  55. 'Hear Make Heard': Central Saint Martins students' take on sound
  56. The World of Paul Slickey: John Osborne's musical flop
  57. To game, or not to game: that is the question
  58. War, propaganda and Skye terriers - The Francis Chagrin collection of sound recordings
  59. From print to digital
  60. Leap Year Proposals
  61. Official lines and John Pine: Stamp Office Engravers Part 1
  62. Wren's a good time to talk about architecture?
  63. Pepys, pans and pretenders
  64. Let the people speak: history with voices
  65. Expired from eating too many pineapples
  66. Mangling the Baby
  67. The wedding of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
  68. Concerts, sports days and vegetable shows
  69. Happy Chinese New Year!
  70. Dhofar, Doha and a ‘Road Trip’ to Riyadh: Bertram Thomas’ sojourns in Arabia
  71. The illicit history of booze in Britain
  72. 'Pretty, witty Nell', the 'Protestant whore': Nell Gwyn remembered
  73. Tracing Hans Sloane’s Books: A PhD Placement Opportunity
  74. Introducing SHINE 2.0 - A Historical Search Engine

January 2016

  1. What's Next?
  2. An Irish Account of the First Days of the American Civil War
  3. Cartonera: a hand-made literary phenomenon
  4. ‘Spying’ on 100 Black Men of London: A Ceremony of Learning
  5. The British Library’s Collection of Chinese Propaganda Posters: An Overview
  6. Chief Nike Davies-Okundaye visits the British Library’s West Africa exhibition
  7. Scenes from Burmese popular dramas
  8. A Dictionary Packed with Stories from Eighteenth-Century Delhi
  9. Last Chance to See: Records of a lunar eclipse from over 3,000 years ago
  10. From Samarkand to Batavia: a popular Islamic catechism in Malay
  11. The rediscovery of an unknown Indian artist: Sita Ram's work for the Marquess of Hastings
  12. Torah Mantle Conservation
  13. Hidden figure in Leonardo da Vinci notebook revealed
  14. British Library/West Dean College Partnership Courses 2016
  15. Book Now! Nottingham @BL_Labs Roadshow event - Wed 3 Feb (12.30pm-4pm)
  16. Come to our first @BL_Labs Roadshow event at #citylis London Mon 1 Feb (5pm-7.30pm)
  17. The @BL_Labs Roadshow (2016)
  18. BL Labs Competition and Awards for 2016
  19. BL Digital Scholarship goes Latin
  20. BL Labs Entrepreneurial Award (2015): runner up project ‘The British Library “Library Wall”’
  21. Finding a Platform for Poetic Places
  22. Syliphone record label archive from Guinea
  23. Deciphering Wolof Ajami Texts
  24. A Living Archive - Emmanuel M. Mbwaye, Bokwango (Cameroon)
  25. Freetown and the transatlantic slave trade
  26. National Archives Kaduna Collection
  27. Cataloguing begins on the Joan Littlewood Archive
  28. Olwyn Marguerite Hughes (1928-2016)
  29. Playwright, peacemaker, polymath: Romain Rolland (1866-1944)
  30. Crossing European Borders with Diego Marani’s ‘The Interpreter’
  31. Art and Politics: the work of Igor Cherchenko
  32. Imagining Don Quixote
  33. Tolstoy’s Anglophone Admirers: British, Irish and American visitors to Yasnaia Poliana
  34. West African Literature and Thought in French
  35. East is East
  36. Indefatigable Pioneer, Zealous Propagandist, Organizer, Financier, Leader
  37. Definitely Not Lenin and Trotsky: Donald C. Thompson’s Photographs of 1917
  38. Top 5 tips for pitching with confidence
  39. Speed mentoring tips
  40. Storytelling for businesses and business for storytellers
  41. Etsy Resolution: Top tips to sell online in 2016
  42. Library of Surprises – Part III: Is the British Library the original LinkedIn?
  43. Happy Public Lending Right statement day!
  44. Exploring the British Library’s research collections – Doctoral Open Days
  45. Tales of Half-Friends, Bedcovers and Sheep crossing streams: A parental lecture of the 13th century
  46. New Arrivals for the New Year on Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts
  47. Elves and Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts
  48. A Belated Holiday Gift from Us: a Giant List of Digitised Manuscript Hyperlinks!
  49. Aelred of Rievaulx
  50. Until We Meet Again
  51. The Case of the Disappearing Ships
  52. Bald's Leechbook Now Online
  53. A Calendar Page for January 2016
  54. PhD placement in music at the British Library
  55. PhD students: apply now for the British Library’s PhD placement programme!
  56. Audiovisual archives and the Web
  57. Cecil Parkinson - Tory Architect of Electricity Privatisation (1931-2016)
  58. Dennis Griffiths, newspaper historian
  59. A tradition of trade: the opening of the London Docks
  60. Edward Lear Breaks My Heart
  61. London’s Sailortown (2) - Servicing the Merchant Navy
  62. London’s Sailortown (1) - Servicing the Royal Navy
  63. Queen Victoria’s handwriting
  64. Passenger aviation across the Gulf during the 1930s - Bahrain
  65. Opportunity to discover Untold Lives in India Office Private Papers!
  66. East India Company trade in West Africa
  67. Sources for Asian biography
  68. Antarctic Anniversaries: Captains James Cook and Robert Scott
  69. Tipu Sultan’s favourite son
  70. Mud Hovels, Mean Houses and Natural Philosophy
  71. Plough Monday
  72. ‘The People Teaching Themselves’ – Marylebone Free Library
  73. Spell-Binding!
  74. A fowl quiz for #NationalBirdDay
  75. Happy New Year!

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