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December 2017

  1. Music Open Day 8 December 2017
  2. Andrew Salkey’s Christmas Mento….Sixty-four years later
  3. Early American Science: Benjamin Rush
  4. The 1867 British North America Act
  5. The 'Flower Garden' (Phulban), an illustrated Dakhni romance
  6. Thai funeral rites and ceremonies
  7. A handbook of Ethiopian magic incantations and talisman art
  8. An Introduction to the Peking Gazette at the British Library
  9. Illuminating India: Photography 1857-2017
  10. The Flitch of Bacon: An Unexpected Journey Through the Collections of the British Library
  11. All I want for Christmas is... playbills!
  12. Cleaning and Visualising Privy Council Appeals Data
  13. Workshop report: Identifiers for UK theses
  14. Bulgarian Christmas and kissing of the ritual bread
  15. A project from Bhutan
  16. Marking the centenary year of the death of the poet Edward Thomas.
  17. Get Ready for Quiz Night! A QI Elf's Recommended Reads
  18. Holy Days and Holidays: Angela Carter’s Ghost Ships: A Christmas Story
  19. 2017: a Year in the Life of the European Studies Blog
  20. Like a Shadow. Heorhiy Yakutovych as Illustrator
  21. ‘Mild measures are of no use’: The Danish Church Order (1537), Doctor Pomeranus, and Henry VIII
  22. Yevgenіy Bolkhovitinov - Metropolitan of Kyiv
  23. Treasures of all nations in Esperanto
  24. Christmas with the Luthers
  25. Magic in the inventories
  26. Martin Luther, family man
  27. A little bit of Christmas cheese: an interview with the owner of Chalton Street cheesemongers and café, Cheezelo
  28. Smartify: an image recognition app that's changing the art world
  29. The Five Step Facebook Marketing Strategy
  30. A year of reading the Russian Revolution
  31. Digging for inscriptions in medieval manuscripts
  32. Thomas Becket's martyrdom
  33. A poem for literally all seasons
  34. You cannot be Sirius
  35. Illuminating the medieval Nativity
  36. It must be witchcraft
  37. A medieval recipe for gingerbread
  38. Internship on The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project
  39. British Library manuscripts in Glass exhibition at the Musée de Cluny
  40. The destruction of Sappho's works
  41. How to harvest a mandrake
  42. Chronicles and cartularies – fact and fiction
  43. Renaissance illumination at the Louvre
  44. Germaine Greer on Sappho
  45. A calendar page for December 2017
  46. J. S. Bach’s 'Wo soll ich fliehen hin' in the BL Martin Luther Exhibition.
  47. James Greathead and the tunnelling shield
  48. John Pilger: Why the documentary must not be allowed to die
  49. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council: a short introduction, sources for research and appeal case metadata.
  50. BL Sports Word of the Year 2017
  51. 21st Century British Comics
  52. Recording of the week: a Christmas story
  53. National Life Stories Podcast 4: Christmas Podding
  54. Fabulous Flutes
  55. Two very small records
  56. An Oral History of Oral History - where did it all start for you?
  57. Recording of the week: the Curlew's lament
  58. Recording of the week: Cyril Blake and his Jigs Club Band
  59. The first '3-D' picture disc
  60. Recording of the week: Britain's first supercomputer
  61. Untold Lives looks back at 2017
  62. A Tommy’s Christmas Day letter 1917
  63. East India Company Christmas gifts
  64. A case of cruel treatment and hidden identity
  65. Sixty Thousand Signatures against the Bengal Partition: Bengali Resistance in 1905
  66. Journals of Albert Hastings Markham
  67. Hostess with the mostest… and so much more: introducing the Ishbel MacDonald Archive
  68. The Rani of Jhansi
  69. What can you find in the (Beta) UK Web Archive?
  70. A New (Beta) Interface for the UK Web Archive

November 2017

  1. Winston Whyte’s Barber Shop Trial
  2. Martha Gellhorn: The Reporter as a Young Poet
  3. Fifty shades of Kiều
  4. The latest from the British Library’s Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project: Introducing Phase 2
  5. Il Kaulata Maltia – The only extant copy of the first journal in Maltese
  6. Adat Aceh: royal Malay statecraft in the 17th century
  7. Unpicking the parcel! What we did on Friday 13 October in the British Library Centre for Conservation
  8. Crowdsourcing using IIIF and Web Annotations
  9. Heritage and Data: Challenges and Opportunities for the Heritage Sector
  10. You're invited to come and play - In the Spotlight
  11. International Games Week 2017
  12. An Abundance of Bulgarian Bagpipes
  13. Artist and Poet collaboration: Carolyn Trant and James Simpson
  14. Workshops, Websites and Belly-worms: Work Experience at the British Library
  15. Robert Aickman: Strange Stories in the Archive
  16. ‘The Gospels are as good in Danish or German as in Latin…’: the earliest Nordic vernacular Bibles
  17. The Scythians of the North Pontic Area
  18. New Sources for Book History Conference.
  19. Exhibiting Martin Luther – then and now
  20. Orwell in Translation
  21. A woman for all seasons: Halldis Moren Vesaas
  22. Magic swords just aren’t cricket
  23. Alberto Savinio. The social utility of Surrealism
  24. Heroes and victims of the Revolution
  25. Domesticating the Goddess ‘Liberty’ during the First World War
  26. Keeping your business safe from the cyber criminals
  27. Why in-person marketing trumps content and digital
  28. Polly McMaster - Dressed for Success
  29. Innovating for Growth: We Built This City
  30. How JustPark found a space in the market
  31. All to play for: games, libraries and sharing skills
  32. Captain Wellby and his 1,000-mile march
  33. Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms exhibition to open in 2018
  34. Harry Potter events at the British Library
  35. Gifts for manuscripts lovers
  36. The original Hermione
  37. Happy birthday, Statute of Marlborough!
  38. Boccaccio’s Venus in Cyprus
  39. Call for papers: the Fourth Papyrus Curatorial and Conservation Meeting
  40. Canon tables in the Lindisfarne Gospels now on display
  41. Simply the bestiary
  42. Science Museum loans in Harry Potter: A History of Magic
  43. Harry Potter exhibition books on sale now
  44. Illumination study day at the British Library
  45. How many horns does a unicorn have?
  46. A calendar page for November 2017
  47. Shostakovich at the V&A
  48. Digital preservation and the Anne McLaren Papers
  49. Using science to build international relations: a short introduction to science diplomacy
  50. 121 Discovery Sessions in Science
  51. The Power of Documentary: John Pilger at the British Library 9- 10 December
  52. Is there such a thing as an “old” sound recording?
  53. Recording of the week: pond life
  54. “And we saw the thing had done a computation” - Geoff Tootill, 1922 – 2017
  55. Recording of the week: how rare books and manuscripts survived WWII
  56. National Life Stories Podcast Episode 3: Gay UK
  57. Recording of the week: whistling Wigeon
  58. Recording of the week: Ancient Evenings
  59. The unlikely musical family of Parlophone records: George Martin’s early years
  60. Recording of the week: watching Britain's nuclear bomb tests
  61. The artist-reporter
  62. The journal and drawings of Mary Emma Walter
  63. Sir Hans Sloane: Physician, Collector and Armchair Traveller
  64. Dr Elsie Inglis and her father John's teenage misdemeanours
  65. Arabic or English: the Education of a Future Sultan of Muscat and Oman
  66. Scandalous and formidable Lady Holland
  67. A paper maker makes the papers: the shocking death of William Moinier Leschallas
  68. Testimony from the Trenches: personal journeys of WW1
  69. The Shaikh who lost his Shaikhdom, Khaz’al al-Ka‘bī of Mohammerah
  70. Pyrotechnia: A ‘how-to’ guide for firework-makers
  71. The last will and testament of an Indian wife
  72. Driving Crawls With Web Annotations
  73. Guy Fawkes, Bonfire or Fireworks Night?

October 2017

  1. Early American Science: Benjamin Franklin
  2. Mastering the art of a strong background: examples from Thai manuscripts
  3. Bestiary of Fears – an artist’s inspiration from illustrated Hebrew manuscripts
  4. The Establishment of BBC Arabic & Egyptian 'Nahwy'
  5. Magic in Conservation – using leaf-casting on paper and palm leaves
  6. Talk: Iron Gall Ink - Conservation challenges and research
  7. Imaginary Cities - Summary video of project
  8. Databeers Descends on Digital Scholarship!
  9. EAP Call for Applications - The Clock is Ticking
  10. Training at Jaffna Protestant Archives
  11. Rescuing Records on the Remotest Island in the World
  12. Discovering Literature: 20th century drama
  13. A guest blog by Henry Woolf
  14. 500 Years of Reformation
  15. Storm in October: Theodor Storm at 200
  16. Tolstoy’s Kreutzer Sonata
  17. Righteous Gentile and honorary Irishman: Zdeněk Urbánek
  18. Text into image: Quevedo and the Table of Cebes
  19. Montalbano’s Rice Balls
  20. Le rose et le noir: Jean Anouilh
  21. Luther the translator
  22. Monday Motivation: what can mentoring do for your business?
  23. National Mentoring Day – Ken J Davey speaks about his experience on mentoring
  24. A social media trend to help your business grow
  25. Innovating for Growth: London tours with a tasty twist
  26. Business & IP Centre Norfolk opens its doors to the county’s SMEs
  27. Growing your business without burning yourself out
  28. Shoreditch according to Goldfinger
  29. An excellent day for an exorcism
  30. The Art of the Bible lecture at Dulwich Picture Gallery
  31. Harry Potter: A History of Magic on BBC2
  32. Collaborative doctoral research at the British Library: Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots
  33. The gladiator saint
  34. Purple pages at the Ashmolean
  35. Prepare to be spellbound
  36. Highway to Hell
  37. Another day, another caption competition
  38. Job vacancy to work with digital images
  39. A spiritual guide for a female recluse
  40. A borrower and a lender be
  41. Illumination study day at the British Library
  42. Reuniting a Middle Dutch prayerbook
  43. A calendar page for October 2017
  44. Verdi at the V&A
  45. The realization of Star Trek Technologies
  46. Local Heroes: Alphonse Normandy. Pure water and impure food
  47. The Annual Equality Lecture: The Persistence of Gender Inequality
  48. Made-up about this boss new Liverpool Dickie
  49. Recording of the week: Rabindranath Tagore's 'Songs of Patriotism'
  50. Black History Month – Dean Dixon
  51. Recording of the week: not on period instruments
  52. Recording of the week: soul midwives
  53. LISTEN: 140 Years of Recorded Sound
  54. James Gowan on the Engineering Building at the University of Leicester
  55. National Life Stories Podcast Episode 2: Electricity
  56. Recording of the week: computer programming and motherhood in the 1960s
  57. Ralph Turner 1936 – 2017
  58. ‘Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells:’ RP, the BBC, and language attitudes in modern Britain
  59. Zino Francescatti and Paganini
  60. Recording of the week: Chantal Akerman
  61. Rediscovering the art of Victorian graphic journalism
  62. Newspaper data and news identity
  63. The Ghost of William Terriss
  64. Paper bag reveals forgotten history
  65. Gardening in the 18th century: a seed shop in North-East England
  66. Grimaldi family correspondence
  67. The life and loves of a ‘tremendous literary rebel’, Michael Madhusudan Dutt
  68. JOLIE bookbinders
  69. The City of Polish Children
  70. Advice for ladies in India
  71. English Nabob amasses a fortune from salt in Bengal
  72. The quest for El Dorado
  73. Angus Wilson - ‘the most unconventional librarian’
  74. Web Archiving Tools for Legal Deposit
  75. English Nabob amasses a fortune from salt in Bengal

September 2017

  1. 10 things we learned from Start-up Day 2017
  2. George Pilkington and abolitionism in Brazil
  3. Following Sarah Royce
  4. ‘Stealing Signs’: Baseball, Past and Present
  5. LGBT activism and creativity in the Bay Area
  6. Coronela Zapatista
  7. Resources for engaging with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander contemporary culture and politics.
  8. A Judeo-Persian epic, the Fath Nama (Book of Conquest)
  9. The oldest example of Thai script printed in Europe
  10. Vietnamese traditional markets
  11. In the Spotlight: Application design
  12. BL Labs Symposium (2017), Mon 30 Oct: book your place now!
  13. Introducing... Playbills In the Spotlight
  14. 2018 Call for Preliminary Applications for EAP grants
  15. Document to Digital: How does Digitisation Aid African Research?
  16. Banned Books Week in prison
  17. Standing With Salman: Banned Books Week looks back at The Satanic Verses
  18. No Longer in the Garage: The Archive of Galloping Dog Press, Poetry Information and Not Poetry
  19. Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets: Call for Submissions
  20. 'Poema a fumetti' by Dino Buzzati
  21. A Salamanca scholar defies the Inquisition
  22. Alexander Krasnitskii – a Labourer of Literature
  23. Candide or Candidus? A Swedish translation of the English translation of the French ‘translation from the German’
  24. Bertillons and others: some language textbooks of the past
  25. 150 Years of Capital
  26. International Collaboration: a Dutch Polymath and a Czech Printer in 17th-Century Rome
  27. ‘The father of evolutionism’: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
  28. No mean achievement: the first Basque New Testament
  29. ‘Le chef de l’école du laid’: Gustave Courbet in 19th-century caricatures.
  30. The top questions asked on Start-Up Day 2017
  31. Start-up Day 2017 live webcast: find out what you can tune in to
  32. The three tech steps every start-up business should know
  33. Profit with Purpose – Can you make money whilst also making a difference?
  34. A peek into the life of… our Translator in Residence
  35. The mysterious pleasures of Golden Age detective fiction
  36. Maps in GCSE resource cupboards
  37. Feats in well-fashioned lines: Heaneywulf
  38. Fifty shades of grisaille
  39. Drop dead gorgeous
  40. Inside the Tudor court
  41. Where's Walter?
  42. Richard the Lionheart in Speyer
  43. Fragmentarium and the burnt Anglo-Saxon fragments
  44. The Mostyn Psalter-Hours: a new acquisition
  45. Guess the Song 4
  46. A rough guide to making a manuscript
  47. Ping pong merrily on high
  48. Staff Visit to the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) Library
  49. Bringing Voices Together: the importance of independent Black publishing
  50. Cooking steaks and why not to reduce the National Grid voltage
  51. Don't let work kill the housewife, let electricity do it for you!
  52. Sounds of London
  53. Recording of the week: a poetry reading by Kayo Chingonyi
  54. World Rivers Day
  55. Reflections on the clip bank: oral history interview highlights
  56. Recording of the week: Oldbury – a tour of a decommissioned nuclear power station
  57. Open House 2017: Architect Neave Brown on the Alexandra Road estate
  58. National Life Stories Podcast Episode 1: Oil
  59. Recording of the week: Allan Horsfall and Gay UK
  60. Peng Tings on my WhatsApp
  61. Recording of the week: Epic
  62. Alternate Nikolai Malko – an EMI Extended Range recording
  63. Dialect Where You Least Expect It
  64. Spies or Pandits? Colin Mackenzie’s Indian Assistants, 1788 to 1821
  65. ‘Inflammable material’ in the British Library
  66. Bevin Indian Trainees during the Second World War
  67. 'I have made resolutions to be good': letters of Princess Charlotte to her tutor
  68. Political and criminal convictions in Birmingham
  69. A Dust-up in the Desert: Hostilities on the 1931 Citroën Expedition across Asia
  70. David Scott, India merchant, and British Supercargoes at Macao
  71. East India Company trade with the East Indies
  72. Collecting Webcomics in the UK Web Archive

August 2017

  1. Miniature books: a Lilliputian world - Part two
  2. Soldaderas y Revolucionarias
  3. Black Power: Reading, Roots, and Rhythm in the British Library
  4. Miniature books: a Lilliputian world - Part one
  5. A Hindu munshi’s ‘Chain of Yogis’: a Persian manuscript in the Mackenzie Collection
  6. New Online Resources on the History of Kuwait
  7. Colin Mackenzie: Collector Extraordinaire
  8. Illumination and decoration in Chinese Qur'ans
  9. Shubbak Literature Festival 2017: Catch-up Audio
  10. The Mutiny Scroll, Add Ms 37153
  11. Malay manuscripts from Patani
  12. Everything you need to know about birch bark book conservation
  13. Announcing the new British Library Research Data Strategy
  14. Last Chance to Book for Game Library Camp Tomorrow
  15. BL Labs Awards (2017): enter before midnight Wednesday 11th October!
  16. ‘Candle in the Wind’ and the Cultural Legacy of Princess Diana’s Death
  17. The Puns of Punjab: Edward Lear’s India Letters
  18. Hope, Tragedy, Myths - and Curation.
  19. The Aeneid of Bazylevych – celebrating Kotlyarevsky's masterpiece
  20. A Tale of Two Countries
  21. Devil, Rascal, Love Machine? The Afterlives of Rasputin
  22. Miracle on the Vistula
  23. Bread as a weapon in two Spanish wars
  24. ‘A Czechoslovakian epic’: the Czechoslovak Legion in the Russian Revolution
  25. Belarus Celebrates 500 Years of Printing
  26. Triumph and Tragedy: Esperanto and the Russian Revolution
  27. Reforming Switzerland
  28. Are you a business virgin? We’ve partnered with Virgin StartUp to support new business ideas around the UK
  29. Le Bun: Not your average burger van business
  30. From barrier to business opportunity: a spotlight on 121 Captions
  31. The Business & IP Centre’s Start-up Day is back!
  32. Three golden principles to master the art of public speaking and presenting
  33. A plan for a new Westminster Bridge (1736): report from the conservation studio
  34. A calendar page for September 2017
  35. The medieval cartulary behind a ghost story
  36. Colin Tite: a tribute
  37. Total eclipse of the Sun
  38. Guess the song 3
  39. The Art of the Bible at Edinburgh
  40. Discovering Literature: Beowulf to Chaucer
  41. Snakes or scrolls? 11th-century wall paintings in Norfolk
  42. Call for papers: Manuscripts in Anglo-Saxon England
  43. Guess the song 2
  44. Pouncing beasts
  45. Illuminated manuscripts for polyglots
  46. Guess the song competition!
  47. The beautiful Bosworth Psalter
  48. Edgar Burr and the grooved golf club head
  49. I4OC: The British Library and open data
  50. James Blyth and the world's first wind-powered generator
  51. Charles Parsons and the steam turbine
  52. Writers of Colour in independent publishing - Bringing voices together: a guest post from Dr. Kavita Bhanot
  53. Bringing Voices Together: Inclusivity in Independent Publishing in Contemporary Britain, 7th September
  54. Mr Tickle in a Newcastle accent
  55. Recording of the week: bringing Batwa voices back to life in Uganda
  56. It's all in the tail
  57. Made-up words and coded sweet-talk
  58. Recording of the week: being the prize guinea pig
  59. San Fairy Ann
  60. Recording of the week: the seabirds of Bempton Cliffs
  61. A wigwam for a goose’s bridle
  62. Frederick Grinke and the sound of English music
  63. Recording of the week: Gay UK - falling in love with peace
  64. Tesco: an Oral History
  65. Help us make newspaper heritage digital
  66. Lord Derby's letters and the two general elections of 1910
  67. Philip Allwood and the Cuban Slave Trade
  68. The Devil’s Case - A Bank Holiday Interlude
  69. Daydreaming in the service of the East India Company
  70. Sir Hans Sloane as a collector of “strange news”
  71. Illuminations in celebration of the peace
  72. “Old Dad” – Turner and Son in Twickenham
  73. Ranjitsinhji, our glorious hero bold
  74. First World War Indian soldiers' letters in 'Connecting Stories' exhibition
  75. Duncan Campbell: the Private Contractor and the Prison Hulk
  76. Travelling through Europe: the journals of Mary Cecilia Blencowe
  77. Battles on the Serpentine
  78. If Websites Could Talk (again)
  79. The Proper Serious Work of Preserving Digital Comics
  80. The 2016 EU Referendum Debate

July 2017

  1. Indian into Scotsman
  2. Russia, Brazil and Concrete?
  3. Australasia in the Americas blog
  4. Franklin and Jefferson – An Understanding that Crossed the Generations
  5. A unique Judaeo-Urdu manuscript, Or.13287
  6. Children of Sir John Spencer Login in Lucknow in 1846
  7. Animals in Southeast Asian manuscripts
  8. Chinese shuttlecock: a game for all
  9. Some bindings from Tipu Sultan's court
  10. Shubbak 2017: contemporary Arab culture at the British Library
  11. Photographic Portraits of Tribal Leaders of the Trucial Coast c. 1939
  12. Do more together than we can ourselves: The unique partnership between curator and conservator
  13. Vacancy: Collection Care North Manager
  14. A workshop on Optical Character Recognition for Bangla
  15. Russian Language Books Research Project by Nadya Miryanova
  16. Through the British Library Looking Glass - A Continuation of Nadya Miryanova's Work Experience
  17. A Wonderland of Knowledge - Behind the Scenes of the British Library (Nadya Miryanova work experience)
  18. It Must Have Been Dark By Then
  19. Game Library Camp
  20. New collections online - June 2017
  21. Drawing, Not Drowning: The ‘bio auto graphic’ series.
  22. Gay UK: Love, Law, Liberty and Literature?
  23. First Steps into Interactive Fiction
  24. Robotic and Quixotic
  25. A rediscovered incunable
  26. Esperanto as an Asian language
  27. A French Revolution Primer for Bastille Day!
  28. Victims and Pretenders: the Murder of the Romanovs
  29. Coppet, Constant and Corinne: the colourful life of Madame de Staël
  30. The Trans-Siberian Railway
  31. The British Library’s Romanian collections.
  32. To the Finland Station in a not-so-sealed Train
  33. Peoples and Languages of the Austrian Empire in 19th-Century Ethnographic Maps
  34. Joseph Bovshover: Yiddish Poetry, British Anarchism, and the Russian Revolution
  35. Great partnerships and life-changing experiences
  36. Top business advice from the British Library Scale-up Summit
  37. London is the place to scale up your business
  38. How Intellectual Property helped Julie Deane start a £10 million business from her kitchen table
  39. Reach your business peak at our Scale-up Summit
  40. Going global – the British Library Annual Report 2016-17
  41. Bricks and knowledge: my week of work experience at the British Library
  42. The Library is open! Celebrating London Pride
  43. A Calendar Page for August 2017
  44. Summer illuminations at the British Library
  45. King David: life and soul of the Psalter
  46. Job opportunities with the England and France 700-1200 Project
  47. Matthew Paris and his Abbreviated Chronicle of England
  48. The future is in the Moon
  49. The Heliand
  50. The Lindisfarne Gospels in the Treasures Gallery
  51. It's Caption Competition Time!
  52. The Mystery of Sappho
  53. A recipe for disaster? Medieval fireworks
  54. Digitised Music Manuscripts Summer 2017
  55. Sir Malcolm Sargent: A Life in Music
  56. Cardew in Kassel
  57. Geology of and in the British Library
  58. William Perkin and mauveine
  59. A Treasure Ship in the Patent Office Library
  60. A tribute to Anne McLaren
  61. Recording of the week: keep calm and carry on rehearsing
  62. HMV experimental recordings 1914 and 1947
  63. Recording of the week: ‘The BBC are coming on Friday, can we show them a prototype?’
  64. In among the bruisers: a year of Artists’ Lives
  65. Recording of the Week: a princess cannot eat stew
  66. Recording of the week: choosing dreadlocks
  67. Remembering Piper Alpha
  68. Artists’ Lives & Chelsea College of Arts: An Audio Exhibition
  69. Recording of the week: Wioletta Greg reads her poetry
  70. Frank Derrett: With the 'Cook's Tourists' in Salonika
  71. Flouting Laws for his Cause: John Flavell’s FAQs
  72. A Soldier’s Life – the memoir of William Young 76th Regiment of Foot
  73. Miss Jenny the cheetah visits England
  74. A Court Martial in India
  75. You were born when? The French Revolutionary Calendar
  76. Connecting Stories: Our British Asian Heritage
  77. A turnpike tour of London
  78. Dame Anne McLaren: a noted career
  79. The roaring Dutch lion breaks the English chains
  80. Paul Fourdrinier: The Architects’ Engraver in 18th century Britain

June 2017

  1. Stamp for Independence: A brief philatelic tour of the Declaration of Independence
  2. George Washington’s Legacy of Liberty
  3. 'South Asia Series' talks from August to December 2017
  4. A Rainbow in Stormy Skies: LGBT Writing in the northern Middle East
  5. The Flotilla Tour of 1933: a Demonstration of British Naval Power in the Gulf
  6. Malay and Indonesian manuscripts exhibited in 1960
  7. Portraits of Dara Shikoh in the Treasures Gallery
  8. Pem nem: a 16th-century Urdu romance goes on-line
  9. Exploring Thai art: Reginald Le May
  10. Time-lapse Video Showing Conservation of Tangut Documents
  11. Ambient Literature
  12. Odyssey Jam Games
  13. Digital Conversations @BL - Web Archives: truth, lies and politics
  14. Undercurrent: British Library Associate Theatre Company
  15. New Acquisition: Three Works by Natalie d’Arbeloff
  16. The writing of J. G. Ballard’s Crash: a look under the bonnet
  17. Dispersed Polish collections abroad
  18. Patterns for 16th-century Stitchers
  19. Sounds Of The Revolution
  20. Crying wolf: the Bête du Gévaudan
  21. Kamenets Tower
  22. Revolutionaries, spies and royals
  23. ‘A Man of Throbbing Vitality’: Leon Trotsky and the ‘Leatherites’
  24. One World, One Script, Many Lects: Early Soviet Turkic Language Reform
  25. The Death of Lenin
  26. How the British Library can help you turbocharge your business
  27. How to get a granted patent
  28. Five email marketing tips to increase sales
  29. The proper way to build a brilliant brand
  30. Mentoring and the Living Knowledge Network
  31. Sellout success: Jaipur Literary Festival lights up the Library
  32. Hollar in Hull
  33. A calendar page for July 2017
  34. Making a good impression
  35. Curator, Early Modern Collections
  36. The language of love (and poetry and history)
  37. Stay cool
  38. Old Occitan at the British Library
  39. Written in the stars
  40. Battles and Dynasties at Lincoln
  41. In an artistic league of its own
  42. Methods of making Insular manuscripts
  43. Swayne at 71
  44. GREATforInspiration kicks off
  45. British Library Digital Resources Discovery Sessions: Web of Science (WOS)
  46. Untangling academic publishing
  47. Propaganda and Ideology in Everyday Life
  48. What can the Archived Web tell us about politics and society in the 21st century?
  49. Dr Sally Horrocks wins Research Impact Award
  50. Walter Legge and the Hugo Wolf Society’s recordings of the Spanisches Liederbuch
  51. Food For Thought: Voices of Charity and Social Welfare in Britain
  52. Recording of the week: Himba women’s songs from Namibia
  53. Women in the Electricity Supply Industry
  54. A conversation: celebrating the donation of the Hay Festival archive
  55. Recording of the week: language and identity
  56. Recording of the week: an encounter with an orangutan
  57. Franck's Prelude, Chorale & Fugue revisited
  58. Recording of the week: surviving an oil rig disaster
  59. Archiving the general election on TV
  60. One green bottle… Jan Sobota’s book binding
  61. A botanical excursion in Wales
  62. The King’s Architect and the ‘Architect King’
  63. Judith Weston and her search for a husband
  64. The loss of the East Indiaman ‘Ganges’
  65. Cow Protection in India
  66. Thomas Bowrey’s cloth samples
  67. Three men and a boy (and a coal mine…)
  68. Whit Monday fete
  69. A Passage to India: Shipboard Life
  70. Revitalising the UK Web Archive

May 2017

  1. Women in the California Gold Rush
  2. Japanese puppet play revived
  3. 33 Burmese manuscripts now digitised
  4. The Jaipur Literary Festival comes to the British Library
  5. Elephants, kingship and warfare in Southeast Asia
  6. Okinawan manuscripts digitised
  7. Pushing the envelope: Siam’s stunning stamps
  8. Craft Week - Conservation at the British Library
  9. Beauty is only Skin Deep – Installation of the 101st Soviet Rifle Regiment Banner for the Russian Revolution Exhibition
  10. Workshop on Understanding Asian Papers and their Applications in Paper Conservation
  11. Series of public Data Debates delivered in collaboration with the Alan Turing Institute
  12. Michael Takeo Magruder @ Gazelli Art House
  13. How can a turtle and the BBC connect learners with literature?
  14. A new chapter in the story of Timbuktu’s manuscripts: Sample digitisation of materials from the Infa Yattara Family Library
  15. Representing Self and Family: Preserving Tamil Studio Photography
  16. Collecting Kenilworth: leaves of a Romance reunited
  17. Discovering Literature: Shakespeare and Renaissance Writers
  18. Prize Papers Online
  19. Commemorating Russia’s last coronation
  20. The problem with Berlin Alexanderplatz
  21. Dmitrii Moor interrogates: Have *You* Bought Your Ticket?
  22. Short words strike home
  23. Not Lenin and Trotsky - a Mystery Solved?
  24. A feisty Finnish feminist: Minna Canth
  25. A New Path, A New Dawn: Women’s Magazines in 1920s Soviet Uzbekistan
  26. Seminar on Textual Bibliography for Modern Foreign Languages 2017
  27. Reformation 1517-2017 at the British Library
  28. Petro Lyzanets and his love for linguistics
  29. ‘Workers of all lands, unite!’: The Communist Manifesto
  30. A snappy rebrand for business growth
  31. Seven tips for standing out at a trade show
  32. Lavolio: The sweet taste of success
  33. Taking British Library literary treasures to China
  34. Celebrating Bengali New Year at the British Library
  35. Saxton's cost-cutting exercise
  36. Picturing Places launched!
  37. A calendar page for June 2017
  38. Alchemy: The Great Art
  39. Guess whose handwriting
  40. Slave, scholar, stoic
  41. Frying pans, forks and fever: Medieval book curses
  42. King Arthur: not just a man of the sword?
  43. Digging for the past at Norton Priory
  44. A doughnut by any other name?
  45. An ideal woman
  46. Save a prayer for Ælfwine
  47. Ready are you? More medieval 'Yodas'
  48. Music treasure lost and found
  49. Musgrave at 89
  50. Digitised Music Manuscripts Spring 2017
  51. Bringing a forgotten opera to life
  52. The dog and the cakes
  53. Monteverdi 450
  54. New light on Humphrey Searle
  55. Local heroes: Sir Henry Bessemer - Islington and St Pancras inventor
  56. The first British-made satellite was launched fifty years ago today
  57. Remembering beliefs
  58. Finding television at the British Library
  59. Recording of the week: Rock Island Line
  60. The first British ‘blues boom’ - and the reception of African American music and dance in 1920s Britain
  61. An Ode to Early Record Catalogues
  62. Recording of the week: Amy Johnson and the race to Australia
  63. The Sound Recordings of Arnold Adriaan Bake at the British Library: A treasure trove of South Asian music
  64. Recording of the Week: a musical family
  65. Recording of the week: Parental warning
  66. Beecham in Hollywood
  67. Blair's Babes
  68. Recording of the week: the Woodlark
  69. Ian Alistair Kendall Burnett, bibliographer and company commander
  70. Illuminations at East India House
  71. The Art of Children’s Games
  72. Milking Oil - the start of the Kuwait Oil Industry
  73. Constable’s English Landscape
  74. Loveable Oak Trees
  75. Henry Nicholetts’ voyage to Calcutta
  76. A Carnival on the Water: the Frost Fair of 1683
  77. Exploits of the Queen’s Own Light Dragoons
  78. The Turings of India
  79. India Office Records on the Russian Revolution

April 2017

  1. Resources for Film Studies and Movie Merchandising in the British Library
  2. The buck starts here: Early paper money from British Colonial America in the British Library
  3. PhD Opportunities in the Americas Collections
  4. A 17th century copy of Saʻdi’s collected works (IO Islamic 843)
  5. Raising Kurdish Armenia: Kurdish Children’s Books from Soviet Armenia
  6. Calcutta to Bihar: an artist's journey
  7. Campaign medals from the India Office collections
  8. Take a feather and a candle: why thorough spring cleaning is so important
  9. On display in the Treasures Gallery: Humayun’s meeting with Shah Tahmasp
  10. Conservation demonstration at London Craft Week
  11. New technologies challenging author and reader roles
  12. Off the Page; Playing and Reading in the City
  13. Off the Page: Literature and Games
  14. Free Public Lecture and Workshop: Exploring Scissors-and-Paste Journalism in The British Library’s Newspaper Collections
  15. Photographs for International Labour Day
  16. New collections online - April 2017
  17. John Milton's publishing contract for Paradise Lost
  18. TRANSLATORS TAKE CENTRE STAGE AT THE BRITISH LIBRARY THIS SPRING
  19. Russian Revolution: Hope, Tragedy, Myths
  20. Bianca Bellová wins the EU Prize for Literature
  21. French Medieval Tales in the 19th Century
  22. Lenin's Birthday
  23. Four legs good? A Bohemian Wild Man
  24. Happy Easter from Imperial Russia
  25. La Majstro mortis!
  26. Translator in Residence
  27. Nature and naturalism: the short life of J. P. Jacobsen
  28. The Dutch Are Coming!
  29. Thinking little to achieve big
  30. How do you choose the right domain extension for your business?
  31. How to research digital trends with eMarketer
  32. A Calendar Page for May 2017
  33. The end of the world as we know it
  34. Blooming lovely
  35. How our ancient trees connect us to the past
  36. Digitised Manuscripts hyperlinks Spring 2017
  37. Another day, another caption competition
  38. A hunt for medieval Easter eggs
  39. Chaucer hitteth the Web
  40. Scandal, espionage, treason: discover Renaissance writers
  41. The Wonders of Rome
  42. Hairy Mary
  43. An illustrated Old English Herbal
  44. A Calendar Page for April 2017
  45. Nicola LeFanu at 70
  46. Leoncavallo meets the queen
  47. The man who found the straight banana
  48. New folk-dance arrangements discovered
  49. Wolters Kluwer Digital Resources Discovery Day at the British Library
  50. Recording of the week: when is a word not a word?
  51. Cry ‘God for Harry! England! and Saint George!’
  52. Live Art in the UK: Lois Keidan interview - part 2
  53. Recording of the week: Akabira for flute ensemble
  54. Live Art in the UK: Lois Keidan interview - part 1
  55. By preserving our sound heritage now, in the future we can recreate the past
  56. Recording of the week: the waves of Freshwater Bay
  57. Politics, jump jets and the world's first hovercraft
  58. Recording of the week: Kébendo Jazz
  59. Picturing Places - Taking a wider view?
  60. William Close - “one deserving of remembrance”
  61. Gerald Wellesley’s secret family
  62. Captain Ross muses on the ice
  63. Professor John Buer - the oldest living clown
  64. The Hodeidah Incident: Britain’s ‘indiscriminate’ military action in Yemen
  65. English settlements on Madagascar – a tale of disaster
  66. Caught out at Customs
  67. What websites do we collect during UK General Elections?
  68. The Challenges of Web Archiving Social Media

March 2017

  1. Did you know about the Museum of French Art in New York?
  2. In various light: a farewell to Derek Walcott
  3. Pocahontas and After in the Library's Catalogues
  4. Marking International Women’s Day: The Lowell Offering
  5. 'South Asia Series' talks from April to June 2017
  6. First Impressions: The Beginnings of Ottoman Turkish Publishing
  7. British ‘Islamic’ style seals from the Malay world
  8. The Book of Esther and the Jewish Festival Purim
  9. Vietnam and Dragons
  10. Mobile devices meet author, text, and reader
  11. British Library Launches OCR Competition for Rare Indian Books
  12. Poetic Places and World Poetry Day 2017
  13. Archaeologies of reading: guest post from Matthew Symonds, Centre for Editing Lives and Letters
  14. Yangon Photo Festival 2017
  15. In Search of Zoroastrian Manuscripts in Iran
  16. Celebrating International Women's Day Through Photography
  17. Rescuing precious recordings of Nepal’s folk music heritage
  18. ‘Post-it’ notes in the Will Self archive
  19. Visual Verses: John Vicars’s God in the Mount, or Jehova-jireh, 1641.
  20. Wagenseil, Wagner and the Mastersingers of Nuremberg
  21. Celebrating the Stefan Zweig Collection
  22. Hommage to the French Resistance: two recently donated books
  23. From Cubism to concentration camp: the life and death of Josef Čapek
  24. Actaeon was not a voyeur
  25. Poet of a pitiable time: Takis Sinopoulos
  26. Pskov, Pskov, 35.015: Railway and Revolution
  27. Polish Noir on the Rise
  28. The First Anthology of Belarusian Poetry in English: Sponsors and Censors
  29. Music of the Revolution: the Hymn of Free Russia
  30. French entertainment in the Evanion collection: from Robert-Houdin to La Foire du Trône
  31. A Silver Watch
  32. Tech to boost your growing business
  33. Dry Patch - A BIPC success story with a great sense of humour
  34. Specialist advice for your growing business
  35. Getting your business ready to compete in a digital age
  36. Living Knowledge Network skills sharing day
  37. Canada Through the Lens: mapping a collection
  38. The Chipping Sodbury Bestiary
  39. Internship in Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts
  40. Medieval depictions of the Crusades
  41. The medieval origins of Mothering Sunday
  42. Digitising our manuscripts from Anglo-Saxon England
  43. Omne Bonum (All Good Things)
  44. A Tale as Old as Time
  45. St Patrick's Confessio: A Medieval Autobiography
  46. Our First 100 Polonsky Pre-1200 Manuscripts Are Now Online
  47. Insular Manuscripts AD 650-850: Networks of Knowledge
  48. Magic in the British Library's Papyri
  49. England and France 700-1200: Franco-Saxon Manuscripts in the Ninth Century
  50. Female Scribes in Early Manuscripts
  51. A Heavenly Recipe
  52. A Calendar Page for March 2017
  53. Beethoven's tuning fork
  54. An Amsterdam edition of Lully’s Persée
  55. British Library Music Collections welcomes King's music students
  56. MGG Online
  57. Music and poetry from the Zweig Collection (20 March, 7pm)
  58. Torvill and Dean meet British Library Music Collections
  59. Old issues in new guises: Dame Anne McLaren and the embryo research debate
  60. Local Heroes: John Maynard Smith: (1920-2004): A good "puzzle-solver" with an "accidental career"
  61. Elsevier Postgraduate Science Workshop for Staff and Readers
  62. Francis Crick - our new neighbour
  63. The 100 most reported and shared science articles of 2016
  64. Report on Rebels
  65. Women’s Marches Echo Suffragette Struggles: Campaigns, Cats and Collections
  66. Plucked from obscurity - reassessing Denis ApIvor
  67. Recording of the week: Silversmithing - 2D to 3D
  68. Recording of the week: can you guess what it is yet?
  69. Recording of the week: a Welsh kibbutz?!
  70. Speaking of the Kasmin Gallery: how to buy a Hockney for £40
  71. Michael Tippett: In the composer’s own voice
  72. Recording of the week: Toscanini conducts Elgar
  73. St. Pancras Intelligencer no. 40 - fake news special
  74. Rand Daily Mail
  75. 'Vogue' and virtuous virgins: a reflection on the history of the fashion magazine
  76. Toshakhana - an untold word?
  77. The East India Company’s Black Book of Misdemeanours
  78. Mary Dorothea Shore – a life brought out of the shadows
  79. Aristotle’s Masterpiece: What to expect when you’re expecting, seventeenth-century style
  80. John Syms, Puritan naval chaplain (and librarian)
  81. Did Jane Austen develop cataracts from arsenic poisoning?
  82. Remembering the Suffragette movement on International Women’s Day
  83. Flying over the Himalayas: RAF Flight to Gilgit in November 1934
  84. The personal possessions of Thomas and Dorothy Shore

February 2017

  1. EBSCO Database Training Sessions at the British Library on Wednesday 15 February 2017
  2. First Ladies, Fashion, Funerals
  3. The Tale of Josefa
  4. The Flint Sit-down Strike, 1936-37
  5. Have you tried the Electroburger? A 1962 menu for the North Shore Line’s Electroliner dining car
  6. Armenian Diaspora Publications at the British Library
  7. Arabic manuscripts of al-Ghazālī
  8. Knowledge Exchange visit to the National Library of China
  9. Kammavaca: Burmese Buddhist ordination manuscripts
  10. Romancing the Tome: Love in Illustrated Persian Manuscripts
  11. Some British ‘Islamic’ style seals in Persian manuscripts from India
  12. Abdul Samad of Palembang, Malay guide to the writings of al-Ghazālī
  13. ‘South Asia Series’ talks continue
  14. The beauty within: conservation of manuscript Delhi Arabic 1928
  15. Understanding leather - from tannery to collection
  16. Job opportunity: Conservator – Adam Matthew Digitisation Project
  17. British Library resources on digital scholarship for PhD students
  18. Library Carpentry: software skills workshops for librarians
  19. Map Games and Odyssey Jam
  20. The Textual Heritage of the Ural Old Believers
  21. What does one gift to the Dalai Lama?
  22. New collections online - February 2017
  23. Tracking the past – the preservation of the railway archives of Sierra Leone
  24. New collections online - January 2017
  25. First report from the Will Self archive: family matters
  26. Ken Campbell: 4 poems
  27. Jane Austen Among Family and Friends
  28. Busting the Myths of Music Hall
  29. An irony-free zone: early French translations of Jane Austen
  30. Stefan Zweig’s Literary and Musical Treasures
  31. BeLgoLab 2017: Belgian Translations
  32. Short waves and new waves: Dobroslav Chrobák
  33. There, on the Other Shore of the Amur: Stories from Russian Life in China
  34. Mutilated history: Russian Revolution and Beyond
  35. “Ex musaeo” on a Latin title page = “from the library of” or “edited by”?
  36. The art of wrecking a friendship 2: Henrik Pontoppidan, L. A. Ring and Nattevagt
  37. Internet Icons: Creating big business online
  38. The serious business of saving lives
  39. SNO – The ski travel company with big ambitions
  40. Networking with confidence
  41. Get your bid in now for the Momentum Music Fund
  42. A Journey to Essex
  43. 20th Century Maps: Everything Changes, Nothing Changes
  44. Maps and women
  45. Soviet Military Mapping of the Cold War Era
  46. How Maps Got Into the Movies
  47. Pancake Tuesday
  48. The Art and History of Calligraphy
  49. Old English 'Spell' Books
  50. Medieval Shelfies
  51. The Seven Sages of Rome: Stories of the Wicked Ways of Women
  52. Love Me Do: Medieval Love Spells
  53. It's Caption Competition Time
  54. The Flower of Nature
  55. Dying to Archive: John Lakenheath at Bury St Edmunds Abbey
  56. A New Opening for the Lindisfarne Gospels
  57. A Medieval Wikipedia: Bartholomew the Englishman’s On the Properties of Things
  58. A Calendar Page for February 2017
  59. Rossini in London
  60. Introducing British Library Music Collections
  61. British Library Music Cataloguing Vacancy
  62. A special BL event for all doctoral music students
  63. HPC & Big Data
  64. Stanley Glasser: South African music recordings
  65. Moomins music
  66. Recording of the week: Sparkie Williams the talking budgerigar
  67. Behind the candy-striped jackets – oral history uncovers the unspoken
  68. They Walk Alone – A Benjamin Britten discovery
  69. Recording of the week: Pierre Bourdieu and Terry Eagleton
  70. Leafscape: an exhibition
  71. Recording of the week: John Blackwood McEwen
  72. 2017 UK-India Year of Culture: Praise music of Rāṛh, India
  73. Recording of the week: Linton Kwesi Johnson on dub poet Michael Smith
  74. Indian Independence: a source
  75. The ‘Kashmir of Europe’ and other exoticisms: Indian soldiers’ tales of travel in the Second World War
  76. Enclosed Herewith: Specimens of Ore from the Kuria Muria Islands
  77. Thim Days Is Gone – a colonial memoir
  78. Broken Valentine Promise
  79. Not So Strange – the East India Company Chairman in 1814
  80. Value in unexpected places: The sole surviving copy of 'The Grounds of Learning', a seventeenth-century schoolbook
  81. East India Company saltpetre warehouses at Ratcliff

January 2017

  1. Founding Mothers (I): Postage Stamps depicting women’s contributions towards the formation of the United States of America
  2. Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917
  3. The Year of the Rooster, from a Thai perspective
  4. East India Company headquarters on Leadenhall Street
  5. The Seal of Prophethood: Malay prayers for protection
  6. Şəhidlər: Azerbaijan's Black January
  7. The curious tale of Solomon and the Phoenix
  8. Malay literary manuscripts in the John Leyden collection
  9. PhD placement opportunity: Textiles in the British Library
  10. Publication of Quarterly Lists: Catalogues of Indian Books
  11. Kaleidoscopic stories: first impressions from our new Grants Portfolio Manager
  12. Good Fortune for the Year of the Rooster
  13. New Horizons of Digitisation in Serbia
  14. A Royal Proposal of Marriage
  15. Mastering the manuscripts from Michoacán, Mexico
  16. New Year Greetings from EAP
  17. A few ways through the window: welcoming Ken Campbell’s work to the British Library
  18. A New Acquisition: Celebrating 50 years of the Graphic Studio Dublin
  19. Lessons in Vampires and the Gothic
  20. PhD placement opportunity on ‘Karl Marx and the British Library’
  21. Lidia Zamenhof, a cosmopolitan woman and victim of the Holocaust
  22. Unsuccessful Persuasion: Jane Austen in 19th-century Germany
  23. Scratching the Surface: the Runic Imaginary
  24. The art of ruining a friendship: Zola, Cézanne and L’Œuvre
  25. Science, Art and Insects: Maria Sibylla Merian
  26. Father Manuel Alvares, the Portuguese Jesuit who taught the British Latin
  27. European Literature Network Salon: Three Wise Women
  28. Gysbert Japicx: founder of Frisian literature
  29. Making Good - a Cultural Restitution Story
  30. Vicki Psarias on how blogging gave her the confidence to be a successful mum and entrepreneur.
  31. Local Data Company shows coffee shops on a high
  32. Deliciously Ella: How to create a business empire with a blog
  33. SpareRoom: The flat-share company receiving over two million hits a month
  34. Unruly: The online video sharing company helping brands reach an audience of 1.44 billion people
  35. Bloom & Wild: How this company became the UK’s top rated flower delivery service
  36. John Berger (1926-2017): The Company of the Past
  37. Lilian Lancaster's hand-drawn maps on display
  38. Cover story
  39. Shattered Maps
  40. 'Lhasa Englishman First'
  41. Old Europe
  42. The Book with a Fur Cover
  43. Address to a Medieval Haggis
  44. Stars in Their Eyes: Art and Medieval Astronomy
  45. The Psychomachia: An Early Medieval Comic Book
  46. Magna Carta at the ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival
  47. New PhD Placements: Greek Papyri in the British Library
  48. Medieval Spin-Offs of the Roman de la Rose
  49. Another Year, Another Caption Competition
  50. A Lasting Impression
  51. A Calendar for January 2017
  52. From the British Library Schubert archive: some collectors of Schubert's music
  53. Many hands make light music: a pianistic peculiarity from St Pancras
  54. Music Collections acquires Boosey & Hawkes archive
  55. Lew Stone and his Thirties Sound
  56. Making hydrogen from wax
  57. Archive of Joan Bakewell joins the British Library’s Contemporary Archives Collections
  58. 2017 / 2018 British Library PhD Placements
  59. When politics meets science: Tam Dalyell, Labour MP (1932-2017)
  60. Recording of the week: let it snow!
  61. Denying Denial - Holocaust Testimonies Online
  62. PhD Placement Opportunity: Developing Access to the Evolving English VoiceBank
  63. Recording of the week: Exotic food? Exotic through whose perspective?
  64. Music for a President
  65. Listen to and tag thousands of music tracks on Europeana's radio player
  66. Recording of the week: Mr Seagalman calls his animals in
  67. Recording of the week: Ad man's dream
  68. Analysing the past
  69. Trump on TV
  70. Stamps and Gender Studies: Female royalty on Hawaiian definitive Postage Stamps, 1864-1893
  71. The East India Company and Nootka Sound
  72. ‘We become crazy as lunatics’: Responding to the Bengal famine in Indian letters from the Second World War
  73. From Stats Man to Ad Man: Jesse Scott
  74. Major new digital resource for the India Office Records
  75. The Beach Pyjama Incident
  76. Persia I will eat last
  77. The mysterious Mr John Fillinham: an apprentice made good?
  78. Annie De Montford – her mind governed the world

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