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December 2018

  1. Music Doctoral Open Day - 4 December 2018
  2. Hallie Flanagan and the House Committee on Un-American Activities
  3. American Cooking for English Kitchens
  4. Download Hebrew Manuscripts for free, in partnership with BL Labs
  5. Christmas at Lahore, 1597
  6. The Arrival of the Black Ships
  7. Bombay satire: Rudolf von Leyden's political cartoons in India in the 1930s and 40s
  8. Tales of cats and dogs
  9. Introducing an experimental format for learning about content mining for digital scholarship
  10. Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets Announce 2018 Winners
  11. ‘Some little language of their own’: English and Scottish dialects, and the desire for a private language
  12. A Look Back
  13. Two Distinguished Women and a Seasonal Greetings Card Mystery
  14. A Bioluminescent Christmas
  15. The ‘Artist Maks’: The Ukrainian Disciple of Aubrey Beardsley
  16. Russian cats 3: Muri in Search of his Kingdom
  17. Hundertwasser’s 90th and 35 Days In Sweden
  18. A Mysterious Linguistic Enclave in Southern Poland
  19. Russian Cats 2: The Hermitage Cats
  20. (Not?) Petrarch’s Cat
  21. What a year it's been at the Business & IP Centre
  22. Contemporary twists on traditional festive gifts
  23. Open Access Discovery Workshop at the British Library
  24. Accuracy? Do me a favour!
  25. Party like it's AD 999
  26. Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: the exhibition quiz
  27. Cats, get off the page!
  28. All I want for Christmas is ... Domesday Book
  29. A Christmas gift for Charlemagne
  30. A medieval Nativity
  31. Discovered in a stable: the Anderson Pontifical
  32. A whiskered beast
  33. A literary giant
  34. Name that rune!
  35. A useless letter?
  36. Women and books in Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms
  37. From the Tower the day before my death
  38. Spong Man and friends
  39. A calendar page for December 2018
  40. Arabic science manuscripts from the British Library
  41. BL Sports Word of the Year 2018
  42. A spirit of Christmas
  43. WordBank Acrostic Challenge: Celebratory Selection Part 2
  44. WordBank Acrostic Challenge: Celebratory Selection Part 1
  45. Recording of the week: Norman Beaton recalls Liverpool in the 60s
  46. The Christmas robin
  47. Recording of the week: a whole nother
  48. The unseen work of the oral history summariser
  49. Concert cylinders and the first recording of the Queen’s Hall Orchestra
  50. Recording of the week: Island Grief after Hurricane Ivan
  51. Collecting news
  52. German student duelling and ‘lager beer exploits’ in a 19th-century travel diary
  53. Captain Bendy’s not so Happy Christmas
  54. Beware drinking at Christmas!
  55. Hey for Lubberland!
  56. Christmas bound
  57. Cats at Christmas
  58. The Red Sea to India non-stop: Amelia Earhart, Southern Arabia, and British Obstructionism
  59. Deserted families in The Poor Law Unions’ Gazette
  60. Who repaired the pavements in London?
  61. From Westmorland to India – William Lambert of the Bombay Army
  62. The UK Web Archive gets a fresh look

November 2018

  1. Refashioning the Dilkusha Palace, Lucknow
  2. Beautiful Burmese Barges and Boats
  3. Pawukon, Javanese calendrical manuscripts
  4. Buddhism Illuminated through Southeast Asian Manuscript Art (2)
  5. The Judeo-Persian manuscript collection in the British Library
  6. The Javanese 'Chronicle of the Kingdoms': Babad Kraton
  7. Dealing with computer viruses in digital collections
  8. Conservation Cats: An Exhibition
  9. What’s in a box?
  10. The British Library / Qatar Foundation Partnership Imaging Hack Day
  11. Digital Conversation: History and Games
  12. Mandinka Ajami and Arabic Manuscripts of Casamance, Senegal
  13. EAP's first webinar - Completing a Successful Preliminary Application
  14. Judges Announce Shortlist for 10th Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets: Library Celebrates Awards’ Anniversary
  15. C M Taylor on ‘keystroke logging project’ with British Library
  16. Celebrating Poetry Pamphlets
  17. Introducing the Artists of Artists Books Now
  18. From Culinary Staple to Prophetic Symbol: More on the Herring
  19. Some Russian Cats
  20. Hold the entire Bible in your head!
  21. The case of the two Simon Kaufmanns
  22. The Netherlands’ ‘Red Week’ in November 1918 – Troelstra’s Mistake
  23. Lady Paget and Serbia
  24. Signed by the artist: the free and honest life of Oscar Rabin
  25. The gentle giant of Russian literature: Ivan Turgenev
  26. ‘Umbra Vitae’: Expressionism in Word and Image
  27. Academy and Society in the Balkans
  28. IP Corner: Registered designs and knitting
  29. Anne-Marie Imafidon is changing the future by engaging young girls with technology
  30. Q&A with the Queen of Shops, Mary Portas
  31. Celebrating Global Entrepreneurship Week at the Business & IP Centre
  32. How much money is Shakespeare worth?
  33. Open and Engaged: Open Access Week at the British Library
  34. Introducing our new Chevening Fellows
  35. A spoonful of sugar
  36. Name that place
  37. ‘Arise, O Lord, and may your enemies be torn apart’: the Staffordshire Hoard in Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms
  38. Manuscripts à la mode: Nabil Nayal's new collection
  39. Launch of The Polonsky Foundation Pre-1200 Project
  40. Fantastic books and where to see them
  41. Medieval hipsters
  42. Lichfield: the third archbishopric
  43. The cloak of St Martin of Tours
  44. What you won't see in Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms
  45. Through many hands: the Vespasian Psalter
  46. Coins, swords and urns: British Museum loans in Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms
  47. The real Lake of Grendel
  48. A calendar page for November 2018
  49. Elisabeth Lutyens: notebooks, letters, and papers
  50. Cats in science
  51. Psychology Resources and Research Methods Workshop for Scholars
  52. Light in the Dark Ages: Anglo-Saxon Medicine
  53. The centenary of the 1918 flu pandemic
  54. New psychology and nature databases on trial at the BL
  55. Professor Kalwant Bhopal on social justice, exclusion and white privilege in universities
  56. Valuing religion without believing
  57. Recording of the week: Dungeons and Dragons' curious renaissance
  58. 'We had to get out': 80 years since the Kindertransport
  59. Choosing to stand: what makes women run for Parliament?
  60. In the depths of a wasp nest
  61. Recording of the week: Sheila Girling describes fellow painter, Helen Frankenthaler
  62. Sound Seating: Colin St John Wilson’s Library Furniture
  63. Acrostic Challenge
  64. Recording of the week: a duet for Ugandan lyres
  65. When the cows come home - a mooving translation
  66. Recording of the week: the song of the Montezuma Oropendola
  67. Cadet William Lambert writes from Bombay in 1780
  68. A policeman's lot in Bahrain - not a happy one
  69. Boy Soldiers
  70. A case for the Society for the Protection of Women and Children
  71. From Switzerland to Hackney via India - a patient at Pembroke House Asylum
  72. The fate of two forgers
  73. From library to battlefield – Rifleman Frederick Boxall
  74. Journey to India of Randolph Marriott, East India Company Servant
  75. Hogarth’s London in the 18th century Latin poetry of Benjamin Loveling
  76. Souling on All Hallows’ Day
  77. World Digital Preservation Day 2018

October 2018

  1. 10 SEO Tips Your Website Can’t Live Without
  2. Putting to Ruins the Absence: Jason Moran, James Reese Europe, and Orlando Patterson
  3. Wilson Bueno, Portuñol/Portunhol, and Interlanguages
  4. ‘A Triple Threat Woman’: The Letters of Sylvia Plath
  5. Closing thoughts on the “North American Migrant Narratives” PhD Placement Scheme
  6. My Ántonia – 100 year on
  7. A Photographic Tour of the Persian Gulf and Iraq, 1906
  8. A Vietnamese Lord’s letter to the East India Company
  9. The submission deadline for BL Labs Awards 2018 is next week!
  10. The British Library: the Place where Vastness and Warmth Meet
  11. A survey of archival material in small Jewish communities in rural areas of Argentina
  12. The Cambridge Love Letters from Ted Hughes to Liz Hicklin
  13. About Artists Books Now
  14. Shiva Naipaul: An Unfinished Journey
  15. Artists’ Books Now: 'Place'
  16. Poetic Afterlives: Change through Artistic Reimagining
  17. Writing in a Time of Crisis: Serhiy Zhadan
  18. ‘Where are your Olympic Games?’ Panagiotis Soutsos (1806-1868)
  19. A pessimist on Parnassus: Leconte de Lisle
  20. Saving a city wiiiiiith a (red) herring!
  21. Václav Hübschmann’s satirical illustrations in the magazine Kopřivy.
  22. A long-lived Spanish book and a short-lived English king
  23. Centenary of the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine
  24. ‘The Mafia doesn’t exist’
  25. ‘This art, at once so beautiful and so ungrateful…’ Celebrating World Ballet Day
  26. Start-up Day 2018 in London and around the country
  27. IP Corner: Happy 20th Anniversary Espacenet
  28. Inspiring Entrepreneurs: Black Britain and the Creative Industries book recommendations
  29. The Single Digital Presence for public libraries: our research so far
  30. Collections in Verse – bringing exhibitions to life through poetry
  31. Published today, Atlas: a world of maps from the British Library
  32. Pumpkins and pagans
  33. Medieval nudes
  34. Who was the greatest?
  35. The Utrecht Psalter on loan to Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms
  36. Fire in the library
  37. Golden oldies
  38. Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: a once-in-a-generation exhibition
  39. Manuscripts from the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms online
  40. A missal not to be missed
  41. The last Anglo-Saxon kings
  42. Harry Potter: A History of Magic at the New York Historical Society
  43. Jim Carter meets Bede
  44. A female doctor
  45. The Harley Bible moralisée on display in New York
  46. A calendar page for October 2018
  47. Music from beyond: the Rosemary Brown Collection
  48. William Byrd, catholic composer
  49. Welcome to Discovering Music
  50. Stephen Hawking - the last publications
  51. Andreas Vesalius - The most famous Belgian you have never heard of
  52. More digital comics!
  53. Ghosts in the collections
  54. The words we live by
  55. Recording of the week: a high fidelity direct recording
  56. Recording of the week: West Africa Lagos Digital Edition
  57. Religious unbelief in the life of Professor Sir Fred Holliday
  58. Black History Month - The Gold Coast Police Band
  59. Recording of the week: Montserrat Volcano Observatory
  60. Recording of the week: from the days of the demo tape
  61. Sound, stories and new perspectives: site-specific curated sound tours of the British Library
  62. Recording of the week: a Tamil lullaby
  63. Three women accused of witchcraft: a unique pamphlet from the height of the witch craze
  64. The 1918 influenza pandemic in India
  65. The East India Company and Marine Society boys
  66. A unique appeal from four Indian schoolgirls
  67. Propaganda Portraits of Muslim Rulers during WW2
  68. The royals are here!
  69. An Irish soldier in India
  70. Hungary Water for Missionaries?
  71. ‘Lads of true spirit’ – recruiting for the East India Company in Ireland
  72. Strange fish: A distant cousin of the Beluga whale in the River Thames

September 2018

  1. ‘Beautiful’, ‘impeccable’, ‘fantastic’, ‘wonderful’, ‘complex’, ‘superb’, ‘energetic’; a bookbinding by Sol Rébora
  2. Instapoetry & Twiction: social media, short form migrant writing & collection practices
  3. Menak Amir Hamza, the Javanese version of the Hamzanama
  4. The Queen’s poetry book: Hamidah Banu’s Divan-i Hijri
  5. Panji in Javanese manuscripts
  6. ‘South Asia Series’, Autumn/Winter 2018
  7. 15,000 images of Javanese Manuscripts from Yogyakarta now online
  8. A new display of Southeast Asian manuscripts from the Sloane collection
  9. Malay writing culture
  10. Wonders 'Gone Viral' in the Sixteenth-Century Deccan
  11. Textiles come in all shapes and sizes at the British Library
  12. Rehousing two 12th century charters
  13. Building Library Labs around the world - the event and complete our survey!
  14. Visualising the Endangered Archives Programme project data on Africa, Part 3. Finishing up
  15. Call for applications now open
  16. Banned Books Week 2018 has landed: 50 years of creative freedom on the British stage
  17. Making Magic: conjuring and ventriloquism in In the Spotlight’s regional theatre volumes
  18. Windrush Sounds
  19. 'I into history, now': Andrew Salkey's Jamaican epic
  20. 1918: A New Europe on Film
  21. Languages of Reckoning: The Gagauz Number System
  22. War-Painting: the End of Futurism
  23. Russian research resources – digital and free. Open access, digitisation and beyond.
  24. Translating Cultures: French Caribbean History, Literature and Migration
  25. ‘In constant movement without an end’: the warp and weft of fashion research
  26. The Portuguese Hobson-Jobson
  27. Protestant Propaganda from the Thirty Years’ War
  28. Byron’s ‘Breton cousin’: François-René de Chateaubriand
  29. Libraries Week: Celebrating our National Network
  30. Top tips from Start-up Day 2018
  31. Start-up Day: Meet the Speakers
  32. Memory of the World award ceremony
  33. Breaking news ...
  34. Cataloguer and Researcher, Early modern English manuscripts
  35. The Book of Durrow to be displayed at the British Library
  36. Two new charters from Ramsey Abbey
  37. Wynflaed and the price of fashion
  38. Births, births and (more) births
  39. One-day tickets for ‘Manuscripts in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms’ symposium
  40. A letter of a Scottish rebel
  41. New Digitised Music Manuscripts
  42. New Scientist Live
  43. Learning from the Past: our new course for curious researchers starts today
  44. What's that? Surely music - The Gerald Cavanagh Collection
  45. Recording of the week: Toscanini and Beethoven
  46. Open House 2018 – Alexandra Road Estate, Camden
  47. Seeing sound: What is a spectrogram?
  48. Recording of the week: Whistling to the bujɔk - Batek fishing techniques
  49. Mary Jane Long
  50. Listening to mammals with the Batek
  51. Stephen Farthing's memories of 9/11
  52. Recording of the week: 'English atheist'
  53. The MiniDisc revival starts here (maybe)
  54. Behind the Scenes of the Man Booker: a National Life Stories film
  55. Sir Francis Chichester talks to Lady Chichester from Gipsy Moth IV
  56. Recording of the week: adrift on an ice floe in the Arctic Ocean
  57. Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants
  58. William Blake’s Grave
  59. ‘Fulbrighters’: the US-UK Fulbright Commission Alumni
  60. ‘Pierce your heart’: Letters from Europe and North Africa by Indian prisoners in the Second World War
  61. A day in the life of an East India Company Director
  62. ‘Baghdad in British Occupation’: the Story of Overprinted Stamps
  63. Murray the Escapologist
  64. Unsung Souls: William Skeyte and the English Reformation
  65. Sports Collections in the UK Web Archive
  66. Web Archives: A Tool for Geographical Research?

August 2018

  1. Eric Fisher Wood: An American in Paris
  2. CFP: Revisiting the Black Parisian Moment, 1918 - 1919
  3. Americas Digital Newspaper Resources
  4. Help in finding Americas Newspapers & Magazines at the British Library
  5. US & Canadian Newspapers and Magazines at the British Library
  6. Canada and Its Literature: A Tale of More Than Two Cultures 2/2
  7. Canada and Its Literature: A Tale of More Than Two Cultures 1/2
  8. The Star Lovers
  9. Testimonial presented to Sir Henry Lawrence
  10. Handle Books with Care
  11. Student project report: Scribal Handwriting: An automated manuscript analysis tool
  12. BL Labs Symposium (2018): Book your place for Mon 12-Nov-2018
  13. Seeking researchers to work on an ambitious data science and digital humanities project at the British Library and Alan Turing Institute (London)
  14. The Parts of a Playbill
  15. Visualising the Endangered Archives Programme project data on Africa, Part 2. Data visualisation tools
  16. Reminder about the 2018 BL Labs Awards: enter before midnight Thursday 11th October!
  17. Visualising the Endangered Archives Programme project data on Africa, Part 1. The project
  18. Football in the Endangered Archives
  19. Digitisation of The Barbados Mercury Gazette
  20. Mary Shelley in Italy: ‘…tragedy with a scene both affecting and sublime’
  21. Remembering Bill Griffiths
  22. Michael Palin: Writer, Actor and Comedian
  23. The Daybook of Mrs. Pettigrew
  24. From the strange to the enchanting: the hidden surprises of poetry pamphlets
  25. A diary as a form of art: Jiří Kolář
  26. “Buried at his feet”: Fanny Susan Copeland, Triglav and Slovenia
  27. Pavlo Skoropadskyi – Hetman of the Ukrainian State 1918
  28. The two Belgians who were the first Europeans to reach Cape Horn
  29. A Bohemian bicentenary: Václav Bolemír Nebeský and the Národní Muzeum
  30. Failing Colonizers or Failing Memory: Sweden in the Americas
  31. Signs of different times: French First World War posters
  32. East European newspapers in the British Library collection
  33. Devout diplomat and dramatist: Paul Claudel (1868-1955)
  34. ‘We’re all excited about Brussels!’ – The Atomium at 60
  35. If the Shoe Fits… Finding your Business Niche
  36. IP Corner: Patent databases, which one is right for you?
  37. Meet our apprentices in Boston Spa
  38. Meet our apprentices
  39. The Library is open – celebrating a summer of Pride at the British Library
  40. A calendar page for September 2018
  41. Magical manuscripts in the Spellbound exhibition
  42. Old English elephants
  43. Throwing a medieval feast
  44. A bumper crop of manuscripts (part 2)
  45. Caption competition August 2018
  46. A bumper crop of manuscripts (part 1)
  47. New papyrus position at the British Library
  48. A costume fit for a centaur
  49. More ways to learn about Harry Potter: A History of Magic
  50. Silos manuscripts in our Treasures Gallery
  51. ‘I, King Alfred …’
  52. Anglo-Saxon manuscripts postgraduate internship
  53. A calendar page for August 2018
  54. 2 Cats 1 Piano
  55. The 150th anniversary of the first observation of helium
  56. In amongst the wildebeest
  57. Recording of the week: the young Leonard Bernstein
  58. The Bernstein Centenary
  59. Recording of the week: working 9 while 5
  60. Recording wildlife in the dark
  61. Recording of the week: Falmouth International Sea Shanty Festival
  62. Actors and directors: the Anwar Brett collection
  63. Recording of the week: Lancashire pride
  64. Wanted - a curator for newspaper data
  65. Hints for the general management of children in India
  66. Hazards when crossing the Atlantic in the early 19th Century
  67. Emergency Rations in the India Office during the Second World War
  68. World Mosquito Day 2018
  69. Photographs of Dhofar Province
  70. Recommendations for Life Pensions in Colaba, India
  71. James Cook for Children: Juvenile literature of the 18th and 19th centuries
  72. Loss of the ’Empire Windrush’
  73. James Cook and Adam Smith
  74. How is the UK Web Archive documenting the ‘bodily autonomy’ debate online?
  75. Building collections on Gender Equality at the UK Web Archive
  76. Work Experience at the UK Web Archive

July 2018

  1. Reporting from the reading rooms: Brazilian writers and translation
  2. From Neptune to Trident: How the Colonial Deputed Seal for Barbados evolved into a national symbol
  3. Seeing Blindness: The Danish West Indies
  4. Summer reading: Canada in the Frame
  5. Call for Applicants: Eccles British Library Writer’s Award
  6. The Forgotten Voyages: beyond Windrush
  7. Beyond the Spectacle: Native North American Presence in Britain
  8. Traditional games in Burma
  9. ‘An inexperienced and incompetent chauffeur’: the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran
  10. Bugis manuscript art
  11. Explore the British Library’s collections for Black British and Asian British Studies
  12. Deaf Tours at the British Library Centre for Conservation
  13. Summer workshop: Twined end-bands in the bookbinding traditions of the Eastern Mediterranean
  14. Unravelling an archaeological silk bundle
  15. British Library Labs Staff Awards 2018: Looking for entries now!
  16. New features on In the Spotlight
  17. Workshop for South Asian Archivists and Librarians
  18. Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval
  19. Crowdsourcing comedy: date and genre results from In the Spotlight
  20. Get Involved in the Gothic Novel Jam
  21. Fine lines between fiction and reality: Emily Brontë’s Gondal poems
  22. Cataloguing James Berry
  23. Keitai shousetsu: the first mobile phone fictions
  24. Wuthering around the world: Emily Brontë in translation
  25. Choose your poison: tobacco, coffee, tea or chocolate?
  26. ‘A work of art must be as logical as a machine’
  27. A Right Royal Gift Book: ‘The Wedding at Windsor’
  28. Antoine Vérard’s early printed books in the British Library
  29. Announcing the British Library’s new Translator in Residence
  30. Funding Victory: French posters from the end of the First World War
  31. ‘Youngest of the seven brothers’: Eino Leino (1878-1926)
  32. A Spanish cricket aficionado in late 19th-century Surrey
  33. Meet Martha Silcott, breaking taboos, one period at a time
  34. Liz Earle MBE: live up to your brand principles which stand the test of time
  35. From Under Dog to Top Dog in the Male Skincare Industry
  36. An explorer on what James Cook: The Voyages means to her
  37. British Library joins the Open Library of Humanities
  38. British Library partners with Impactstory for open access discovery
  39. Insights from a mapmaker
  40. Pilgrimages: medieval summer holidays?
  41. The Arnstein Bible: a grand monastic Bible
  42. Reunion and Reunification: The Fourth Annual Meeting of Papyrus Curators and Conservators
  43. Medieval Love Island
  44. Leeds in July: The Polonsky Foundation Pre-1200 Project
  45. Digitised Manuscripts hyperlinks July 2018
  46. It's coming home
  47. Anglo-Saxon charters online
  48. The Winchester Psalter: an illustrated bilingual Psalter
  49. Three lions
  50. Dance moves from medieval manuscripts
  51. More music materials on our manuscripts website
  52. Tracing Mozart's London influences at the British Library
  53. Chopin First Editions available online
  54. Recording of the week: painting people blue in Hull
  55. The elusive Pathé cylinders of Mary Garden
  56. Dangerous Oral Histories: Risks, Responsibilities and Rewards
  57. Recording of the week: Saqi Farooqi (1935-2018)
  58. Mrs Boulton and the woodland warbler
  59. Classical Podcast No. 2 - Rob Cowan shares his passion for the artistry of violinist Bronislaw Huberman
  60. Recording of the week: have you eaten yet?
  61. Recording of the week: exploding seed pods
  62. Recording of the week: Nar Sur - a little known music genre from east Baluchistan
  63. Strong Foundations: Building the British Library – Structural Engineer Anthony Stevens
  64. A soldier’s wife in the Crimea
  65. Myths about James Cook
  66. The Adventures and Vicissitudes of Captain Cook
  67. The mysterious death of Captain Archibald Anderson
  68. Tyau mate oee – My friends, I am dying
  69. Spence Broughton: A Ghostly Highwayman
  70. New black Britain and Asian Britain web pages launched
  71. James Cook and Benjamin Franklin
  72. Open spaces for children – the Foundling Site Appeal

June 2018

  1. Founding Greatness: Migration on United States Postages Stamps, 1869-1987
  2. Call for Applicants: Fulbright-British Library Eccles Centre Scholar Award
  3. On Funeral Trains
  4. Sophia Plowden, Khanum Jan, and Hindustani airs
  5. The Bugis diary of the Maqdanrang of Bone
  6. Sir Hans Sloane’s Old Javanese manuscript, Sloane 3480
  7. Javanese manuscripts in the Sloane collection
  8. Two Makasar manuscripts now digitised
  9. Thirty-leaved Qur’ans from India
  10. Charles Wallace India Trust Fellowship at the British Library
  11. Buddhism Illuminated through Southeast Asian Manuscript Art (1)
  12. Another Chinese paper stamp in a Malay manuscript
  13. Preventive Conservation Work Placement
  14. Team @BL_DigiSchol join @thecarpentries at #CarpentryCon2018 in Dublin
  15. Interactive Fiction Summer School and Settle Stories
  16. A Football Team from Lesotho
  17. EAP and International Archives Day
  18. Introducing the Women of Windrush
  19. Virginia Woolf's Haunted Walk
  20. Gӧrz, Gorizia, Gorica: digital scholarship brings a city’s history to life again
  21. Georg Forster: from ‘Resolution’ to Revolution
  22. Proto-internet trolls’: Johann Friedrich Struensee and freedom of expression in 18th century Denmark
  23. Put on your sky-blue hat for a day at the races with Adèle Hugo
  24. Flag Day celebrates the new ‘Maatjes’.
  25. From Sokol to Symbolism: the short life of Karel Hlaváček
  26. The Reign of Terror ends
  27. The Zagreb magazine ‘Nova Evropa’
  28. Ernst Friedrich and his War against War
  29. Silver Darlings, Icelandic Gold: Herring in the Northern Imagination
  30. Exploring the archives… and finding commercial treasures
  31. Celebrating the British Library at St Pancras
  32. Parting words from our Chief Librarian
  33. What we talk about when we talk about a single digital presence
  34. The Virtual Mappa Project and DM: Online Editions of Medieval Maps and More
  35. A calendar page for July 2018
  36. Things you may have missed
  37. Networks of Knowledge: Insular manuscripts and digital potential
  38. Live like an eleventh-century prince
  39. The European conquest of the Canary Islands
  40. A midsummer milestone
  41. The Gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander
  42. Cotton manuscripts quiz
  43. The Serres Gospels goes online
  44. Sir Robert Cotton's manuscripts added to Memory of the World register
  45. Registration now open for our ‘Manuscripts in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms’ conference
  46. A medieval rainbow
  47. Two in one: a newly-identified bilingual papyrus
  48. The first voyage of Codex Amiatinus
  49. A calendar page for June 2018
  50. More Digitised Music Manuscripts available online
  51. The sixtieth birthday of obstetric ultrasound
  52. ‘The people we are writing for are the people we are fighting for’: Sivanandan as radical pamphleteer.
  53. Using wildlife sound recordings in the field
  54. Fulton at 50: how civil service reform affected government scientists
  55. Recording of the week: "There was always the smell" - inter-generational memories of the steel industry
  56. Women, Engineering and British Politics
  57. Tracking down Tamás
  58. “And we saw the thing had done a computation” - The modern computer turns 70
  59. Recording of the week: Dennis Brutus
  60. International research collaboration on South Asian audiovisual heritage
  61. Recording of the week: a Mute Swan's heart
  62. Make yourself at home! The BBC in a multi-cultural world
  63. London dialect in pop music
  64. Recording of the week: the orchestral power of embroidery machines
  65. The voice of Jack Johnson - heavyweight boxing champion of the world
  66. Sarah Sophia Banks’s Ballooning Scrapbook and the Science of Popular Spectacle
  67. British-US rivalry in the race to discover oil in Iraq
  68. The letters of Jonathan Swift and Henrietta Howard
  69. Seeking Wartime Employment: Bertram Thomas and Frank Smythe
  70. Captain Cook and the ‘Friendly Islands’?
  71. A football match in 18th century Ireland
  72. Sauerkraut, sugar, and salt pork – the diet on board Cook’s 'Resolution'
  73. Destitute Indian Women in 1930s Damascus
  74. Letters from the Begum of Bhopal
  75. Senator J. William Fulbright: International Scholar and Statesman

May 2018

  1. Indigenous Australian Comic Characters in the British Library
  2. Over There, All Over Again: American Sheet Music, World War 1 and Nostalgic Musicals
  3. Spring news from the Eccles Centre
  4. L is for Labor
  5. 'South Asia Series' talks, Summer 2018
  6. Classes and costumes in traditional Vietnamese society
  7. From the Page Up: The Peking Gazette and the Histories of Everyday Print in East Asia (2)
  8. From the Page Up: The Peking Gazette and the Histories of Everyday Print in East Asia (1)
  9. Over 2,000 pages in gold: Sultan Baybars’ Qur’an now online
  10. ‘Soo Dhawoow’: Somali community welcomed to the British Library
  11. Seeing British Library collections through a digital lens
  12. Digital Conversations @BL: Empowering Technologies
  13. The Italian Academies database – now available in XML
  14. What do deep learning, community archives, Livy and the politics of artefacts have in common?
  15. New Digital Curator in the Digital Scholarship Team
  16. Endangered Urdu Periodicals
  17. Past Visions of the Near Future: The Afterlife of J.G Ballard’s High-Rise on London History Day
  18. Artists’ Books Now: Here and Now
  19. Janusz Korczak – the champion of children
  20. More Mountains with Wild Men
  21. Do not lean out of the window – especially in Prague
  22. European Literature Night at the British Library: identity and translation
  23. Southern French printing during the Revolution: Le Journal de Marseille and La prise de Toulon
  24. An Eyewitness Account of Life in the Early 19th-Century Habsburg Empire
  25. ‘And so I came among the Germans’… Costantinos Chatzopoulos (1868-1920)
  26. “A rogue and a madman”: August Strindberg's Antibarbarus
  27. Karl Marx’s 200th Birthday
  28. Transparency and Too Much Information!!
  29. Royal Wedding designer inspiration: quirky and creative merchandise you may actually want to buy (and keep)
  30. Unleash Your Imagination With A Creative WordPress Blog
  31. UK Research and Innovation launched at the British Library
  32. Snozzcumbers in Norwich: Quentin Blake’s Roald Dahl portraits on tour
  33. London in medieval manuscripts
  34. Will the real Venerable Bede please stand up?
  35. ‘The Earth is, in fact, round’
  36. Everyone loves a royal wedding
  37. The legends of King Arthur
  38. The female pope
  39. What's in a name?
  40. The spectacular Moutier-Grandval Bible
  41. Troy ahoy
  42. Musgrave at 90
  43. Over There, All Over Again: American Sheet Music, World War 1 and Nostalgic Musicals
  44. The Mozarts in London
  45. World Baking Day - two British advances in baking technology
  46. Socio-Legal Sources and Methods in Social Welfare and Family Law
  47. Archiving Activism Website
  48. Recording of the week: Touch Radio 035 - THE FREQ_OUT ORCHESTRA
  49. GDPR day – changes to data protection law
  50. Sounds from beyond the Iron Curtain: Soviet classical recordings at the British Library Sound Archive
  51. Recording of the week: "We regret to inform you" - bad news from the sound archives
  52. 50 years since the Ronan Point disaster
  53. Recording of the week: the Moken - seafarers of the Andaman Sea
  54. Trauma, narrative and theatre
  55. Lady Speyer - a forgotten violinist
  56. Recording of the week: Doric dialect
  57. Visual sound works from imaginary archives (part 2)
  58. Visual sound works from imaginary archives (part 1)
  59. The value of mixed media collections
  60. Oral History and the Library of Ideas
  61. Cheap and safe burial ground in London
  62. Soup of the Day
  63. ‘The reason why the sword must not be packed without the scabbard’
  64. ‘A Trustworthy Indian in Stockholm’: A. Yusuf Ali’s Mission to Scandinavia, 1918
  65. Royal weddings at Windsor Castle
  66. The Anti-German Union and the India Office
  67. #Happy Birthday, Robert Proctor :)
  68. Captain Cook's house – a space in memory
  69. Nature and War: Where Poppies Blow
  70. Senior Statesman of British Biology: John Maynard Smith
  71. ‘Who on Earth is Anthony Meyer?’
  72. May Day in the Olden Time
  73. Online Hours: Supporting Open Source
  74. Star Wars in the Web Archive

April 2018

  1. Tracking down the earliest copy of Khvaju Kirmani's collected works: British Library Or. 11519
  2. Sketchfab 3-D modelling of trooper Ami Chand of Skinner's Horse
  3. The Burmese New Year
  4. Adam Munni Ratna, a Buddhist monk in England in 1818
  5. Burmese marionette theatre
  6. Making his mark: the seals of Tipu Sultan
  7. Two Christian manuscripts in Malay
  8. A Taste of Training
  9. Textile Discovery in the Rare Books Reading Room
  10. Some challenges and opportunities for digital scholarship in 2018
  11. On the Road (Again)
  12. Gaming the Gothic on Friday the 13th
  13. British Library Labs application for Digital Research support
  14. The 2018 BL Labs Awards: enter before midnight Thursday 11th October!
  15. Ambient Literature Festival
  16. Digital Conversations @BL: Digital Comics
  17. Remote Capture: Digitising Documentary Heritage in Challenging Locations
  18. Harold Pinter and ‘The Birthday Party’: Don’t let them tell you what to do…
  19. T S Eliot in Margate: Writing ‘The Waste Land’
  20. Why did Joseph Banks go to Iceland in 1772?
  21. Seminar on Textual Bibliography for Modern Foreign Languages
  22. La Diada de Sant Jordi: a History of Saint George’s Day Celebrations in Catalonia
  23. ‘Now my text will be destroyed by gingerbread men’: the collaboration between Arthur Sjögren and August Strindberg
  24. Montenegro in 19th-century Maps and History Books
  25. Esperanto – not what you thought?
  26. The British Library’s Russia in the UK Web Archive
  27. French 18th-Century Books with Colour-Printed Illustrations in the British Library
  28. Singing in the rain with Vítězslav Nezval
  29. Literature of the Baltic countries in English translation
  30. Public Passions: the Oberammergau Passion Play
  31. IP Corner: Happy World Intellectual Property Day!
  32. IP Corner: Celebrating 400 years of the first British patent
  33. Shipwrecks and Piracy: John Rocque’s 1750 Map of Rome, part two
  34. A calendar page for May 2018
  35. Medieval manuscripts internship
  36. The oldest English writing in the British Library?
  37. Lover, sorceress, demon: Circe's transformations
  38. Annual Walton Lecture in Athens
  39. A Bible fit for a king
  40. Naming a royal baby
  41. Italian splendour now on display in Treasures
  42. Juggling with fire: the poetry of the Gawain-manuscript
  43. Mansion's manuscripts in Bruges
  44. Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots PhD studentship
  45. Reynard the Fox and other curiosities
  46. A calendar page for April 2018
  47. Augmented reality - it isn't just for catching mons.
  48. Recording of the week: Debussy year
  49. Linguistics at the Library - Episode 8
  50. The Evolving English collection – what’s in it?
  51. Recording of the week: a continual symphony of sound
  52. Linguistics at the Library - Episode 7
  53. Classical Podcast No. 1 - The first orchestral record made in Britain and the extraordinary story of Norfolk Megone, Nelson and Bonaparte
  54. Manx English Then and Now
  55. Recording of the week: a windy delivery
  56. T.M. Johnstone’s Modern South Arabian recordings: collaborative cataloguing and ‘footprints’ of biocultural change in Southern Arabia
  57. Was this the first rock picture disc?
  58. Classical music in Nairobi
  59. Recording of the week: Steve Reich at the ICA
  60. Linguistics at the Library – Episode 6
  61. The Gender Pay Gap – a historical perspective from Women in Publishing
  62. National Life Stories Podcast Episode 6: Science and Religion
  63. An Elegant Sufficiency, or the Curious Case of a Victorian Meme
  64. Recording of the week: anyone for tig/it/tag?
  65. ‘Most distinguished Darwinian since Darwin’: William D. Hamilton
  66. Charlotte Canning’s burning tent
  67. A Danish sailor befriended and buried in Norfolk
  68. Calculating Kindness: George Price
  69. The Plans, Maps and Views of Lieutenant-General William Skinner, Chief Engineer of Great Britain
  70. Papers of Major Geoffrey Herbert Blake, Royal Indian Army Service Corps
  71. The Library of Ideas: Undercurrent at the British Library
  72. When the driver crosses his fingers – motoring superstitions
  73. Alexander Charles Stewart, classicist and army cyclist
  74. ‘With our backs to the wall …’ - Sir Douglas Haig’s Special Order 1918
  75. Bahrain is not in Ruritania: Colonel Prior and the ‘Royal’ Sheikh
  76. Ode to Income Tax
  77. 400 years of Chatham Dockyard
  78. An April Fool hoax at London Zoo

March 2018

  1. Canonical Hindustani music treatises of Aurangzeb ‘Alamgir’s reign
  2. Javanese Manuscripts from Yogyakarta Digitisation Project launched by Sri Sultan Hamengku Buwono X
  3. A Mughal copy of Nizami’s Layla Majnun (IO Islamic 384)
  4. Introducing the Lotus Sutra Project
  5. 'South Asia Series' talks from April to May 2018
  6. Shine a light on past entertainments with In the Spotlight
  7. BL Labs 2017 Symposium: Vittoria's World of Stories, Learning & Teaching Award Winner
  8. Working with BL Labs in search of Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose
  9. The Ground Truth: Transcribing historical Arabic Scientific Manuscripts for OCR research
  10. Breathe, A Digital Ghost Story
  11. The Manuscripts of Mali
  12. [sic] Thus it was Written: Rachel Hand’s Ash
  13. The “rich pageant” of historical playbills
  14. The Lives of Typewriters and Large Data-sets: The Will Self Archive
  15. Obe Postma and Emily Dickinson’s bees
  16. Le Journal de Marseille: a new periodical in the British Library’s French Revolutionary collections
  17. The Centenary of the Belarusian Democratic Republic
  18. Why Oudewater was so attractive to ‘witches’
  19. Hygge, noir or both? The Films of Carl Theodor Dreyer
  20. The Russian Love Affair with the Arabian Horse
  21. Konstantin Somov and Hugh Walpole in Russia
  22. Mr Inkblot’s Academy – A Polish Children’s Classic
  23. Amid a thousand and one stars: the Crimean Tatar language
  24. Travels to Montenegro in the 19th century: a collection of digitised books
  25. The Battle of Valle Giulia 50 Years After - 1 March 1968
  26. Jack Dorsey talks Square, cryptocurrencies and the future of the economy
  27. Building a Soulful Business with Motherhood Reconstructed
  28. Pall Mall Barbers: where a century-old tradition meets modernity
  29. A fashionable way to start your business
  30. Jane Eyre in Shanghai – part one
  31. Building up a new Shop range
  32. Women of the British Library
  33. A Malawian mystery tour
  34. Georg Wilhelm Schimper in Abyssinia: a new online resource
  35. International Women's Day: Helen Wallis OBE (1924-1995)
  36. New regulations for consulting manuscripts
  37. Bathtime for monks
  38. If you’ve got it, flaw-nt it
  39. Cracking a medieval code
  40. Call the medieval midwife
  41. Medieval lucky charms
  42. Augustine’s De Trinitate in London and Paris
  43. The voices of ancient women
  44. Epic women
  45. Polonsky Pre-1200 Project: we're halfway there
  46. Domesday Book is coming to the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms exhibition
  47. A calendar page for March 2018
  48. Latest Music Manuscripts available on our website
  49. Carry On to the Finland Station: The Russian Revolution in Music Hall Comedy
  50. Latest Music Manuscripts available online
  51. International Women's Day 2018
  52. A few steps (and mis-steps) in the early years of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto.
  53. Did Man Get Here by Evolution or by Creation?
  54. Recording of the week: the four rooms of creativity
  55. Linguistics at the Library – Episode 5
  56. Recording of the week: South African gumboot guitar
  57. Linguistics at the Library - Episode 4
  58. Memories of Stephen Hawking in An Oral History of British Science
  59. Glottal stops and fluency in non-native English speakers
  60. Recording of the week: A singing rat
  61. Laurie Anderson at the ICA - #IWD2018
  62. Recording of the week: being uncouth at drama school
  63. Farewell to Sir Dan - founder of the Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra
  64. Driving across Greenland at minus 40
  65. Love and tragedy in the British Library: The story of Eleanor Marx and Edward Aveling Part 2
  66. Love and tragedy in the British Library: The story of Eleanor Marx and Edward Aveling Part 1
  67. Humphry Repton, Landscape Gardener
  68. With the Hampshire Pioneers in the Kaiserschlacht
  69. The creative genius of Edmund Dulac: Artist, illustrator and stamp designer extraordinaire
  70. Insurgency in the archives
  71. Preventing disorder at the East India Company factories
  72. Getting a fair price: a handy pocket-book for merchants (and smugglers?)
  73. Colonel Jacob’s ill-fated mission and imprisonment
  74. Like father, unlike son: James and Frank Bourdillon
  75. Papers of Edward Philips Charlewood, Officer on the Euphrates Expedition

February 2018

  1. Researching American political pamphlets
  2. Diplomacy and bibliophily: a gift from Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Grenville?
  3. “Why can’t we study ourselves?”: The case for Caribbean history in the West Indian Gazette
  4. Endangered heritage: cultural sites at risk from conflict on postage stamps
  5. Happy Chinese New Year: Year of the Dog!
  6. Shifting Landscapes: mapping the intellectual writing traditions of Islamic Southeast Asia
  7. Introducing Doctoral Students to the Asian and African Collections at the British Library
  8. African Scribes: Manuscript Culture of Ethiopia
  9. Digitising books as objects: The invisible made visible
  10. Conservation Internship in Digitisation (British Library, The National Archives, Bodleian Libraries)
  11. Announcing the BL Labs roadshows locations and dates for 2018!
  12. The Cartographer's Confession
  13. BL Labs 2017 Symposium: Picturing Canada and Interactive Map (Staff Award Runner Up)
  14. BL Labs 2017 Symposium: Opening up the British Library’s Early Indian Printed Books Collection (Staff Award Winner)
  15. BL Labs 2017 Symposium: Git Lit, Learning & Teaching Award Runner Up
  16. BL Labs 2017 Symposium: Movable Type, Commercial Award Winner
  17. BL Labs 2017 Symposium: Samtla, Research Award Runner Up
  18. 8th Century Arabic science meets today's computer science
  19. Building a Handwritten Arabic Manuscript Ground Truth Dataset يد واحدة لا تصفـّق
  20. Fashion Design Competition Winner Announced
  21. Converting Privy Council Appeals Metadata to Linked Data
  22. BL Labs 2017 Symposium: A large-scale comparison of world music corpora with computational tools, Research Award Winner
  23. World Radio Day: Recordings from the Endangered Archives Programme
  24. ‘A little giggle’: Cataloguing Michael Palin
  25. Limehouse Lights and the Lunar New Year: London's Two Chinatowns and Literature
  26. Women on brooms and more such raging.
  27. Deluxe printing: Antoine Vérard’s 1498 illuminated Merlin
  28. The first grammar of modern Ukrainian: 200 years ago
  29. Chekhov, Sakhalin and the Russian Famine of 1891–92
  30. Silent Witnesses: Two Manuals of the Sart Language
  31. Rainbow sickness: Beauty and despair in Carlo Levi’s ‘Christ stopped at Eboli’
  32. 1918 and the Eclipse of Populist Marxism
  33. Maria Prymachenko’s fantastic world of flowers and animals
  34. Exporting the Animals’ Revolt: Kostamorov - Reymont - Orwell
  35. 10,315 x 2: the days of and after the Berlin Wall
  36. Arians in the age of the Polish Reformation
  37. The 6 steps that took Business Woman of the Year, Fleur Sexton, to the top
  38. Top 3 business resolutions for 2018
  39. The top 10 tips for starting up an online business from the experts
  40. Why would I need a book for my business?
  41. Meet the entrepreneurs who made their mark online
  42. Valentine's Day in numbers: a heart-stopping spending splurge in 2018
  43. 5 questions with... Karen Hanton, a dotcom veteran and serial entrepreneur
  44. 2018 at the British Library – a peek into our plans (part II)
  45. Rising from the ashes: bringing a medieval manuscript to life
  46. Harry Potter meets the Middle Ages
  47. Old English masterclass at the British Library
  48. How to make yourself invisible
  49. The Medieval Origins of Valentine's Day
  50. Gnome alone
  51. It's a kind of magic
  52. The Lindisfarne Gospels carpet pages
  53. Independent woman: Æthelflaed, Lady of the Mercians
  54. A calendar page for February 2018
  55. PhD research placement opportunity! - Exploring music archives of 20th-century British composers
  56. A 'new' Tippett symphony
  57. Legal Deposit in 12 panels
  58. French picture discs from the 50s: the Saturne label
  59. Recording of the week: Trusting the Voice
  60. Linguistics at the Library - Episode 3
  61. National Life Stories Podcast Episode 5: Theatre
  62. Percy Grainger's collection of ethnographic wax cylinders
  63. A first for women in Parliament: Mary Frampton on running the Serjeant at Arms office
  64. Recording of the week: Mike Leigh
  65. Recording of the Week: The Listening Project Symphony
  66. Linguistics at the Library - Episode 2
  67. Recording of the week: Dongo lamellophone and fireside chatting
  68. Partition Voices wins Public History Prize
  69. Papers of Charles and Charlotte Canning
  70. Mr Robertson and the Great Stupa at Amaravati
  71. ‘Conceal yourself, your foes look for you’: revealing a secret message in a piece of music
  72. Fashion fit for a suffragette procession
  73. A much married man
  74. Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose: The man who became famous for his research on plants
  75. Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose: The man who (almost) invented the radio
  76. It has to be Perfect!
  77. 'A Prospect of Fort St.George and Plan of the city of Madras'
  78. A New Playback Tool for the UK Web Archive

January 2018

  1. Resources for engaging Māori contemporary culture and politics
  2. The Garden of Good and Evil
  3. The evolution of the Malay title page
  4. The 'Agra Scroll': Agra in the early 19th century
  5. Tales of the Malay World
  6. “The Hero’s Rock”- When the Kurds Rebelled
  7. Of unicorns and other oddities: an 18th century Persian medical manual
  8. The script of the Naxi, their religious literature and early translation attempts
  9. A papyrus puzzle: an unidentified fragment from 4th century Oxyrhynchus
  10. Workshop on Asian Papers and their Applications in Paper Conservation
  11. Job Opportunity: Conservator, Gulf History and Arabic Science
  12. Linking Privy Council Appeals Data
  13. BL Labs 2017 Symposium: Face Swap, Artistic Award Runner Up
  14. Using Transkribus for handwritten text recognition with the India Office Records
  15. BL Labs 2017 Symposium: Data Mining Verse in 18th Century Newspapers by Jennifer Batt
  16. BL Labs 2017 Symposium: Imaginary Cities by Michael Takeo Magruder - Artistic Award Winner
  17. BL Labs 2017 Symposium: Keynote Talk by Josie Fraser
  18. Endangered Penguins in the Endangered Archives
  19. Doctoral Research into the Migration and Settlement of Liberated Africans
  20. Nowadays and Anywhere: Jim Crace on his New Novel
  21. Just Plain Gone: Three Monographs from Etcher, Print-maker and Sculptor D.R. Wakefield
  22. It’s a kinda magick: Aleister Crowley
  23. Diaries: Recording History in Many Voices
  24. Tolkien’s ‘Secret Vice’
  25. PhD placement opportunity at the British Library: First World War French Posters
  26. Another Revolt of the Animals: Nikolai Kostomarov’s ‘Skotskoi Bunt’
  27. The Adventures of ‘The Swiss Family Robinson’
  28. Three Alphabets of the Belarusian Language
  29. Mapping the Christmas Flood of 1717
  30. Władysław Reymont’s Revolt of the Animals
  31. ‘Do the Finnish people have a history?’ Zachris Topelius’s 200th birthday
  32. An Arthurian castle in Slovenia: the history, legends and future of Castle Borl
  33. Two Murders, a Suicide and an Anglo-German Newspaperman
  34. Algerian pirates, a famous Spanish captain and a lesser-known Virgin
  35. Polish mathematicians and cracking the Enigma
  36. How to unlock the power of the internet and social media for your business
  37. Lean writing: 18 ways to get maximum impact from minimum effort
  38. Is starting a business your New Year’s Resolution for 2018?
  39. 2017: A busy year at the Business & IP Centre
  40. Revival Retro: an award-winning London boutique creating timeless styles for every figure
  41. 2018 at the British Library – a peek into our plans (part I)
  42. The Ultimate Tourist Souvenir: John Rocque’s 1750 Map of Rome
  43. Discovering our medieval literature
  44. Glossed Bibles, hypertexts and hyperlinks
  45. A mammoth list of Digitised Manuscripts hyperlinks
  46. The British Museum and Harry Potter: A History of Magic
  47. Doctoral Students Open Day – Pre-1600 Collections
  48. Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts at the British Library
  49. Leonardo da Vinci on the Moon
  50. Lady Jane Grey on the BBC iPlayer
  51. The Carolingian quest for the correct text of the Bible
  52. Lady Jane Grey, England's forgotten Queen
  53. Glimpses of early Christian splendour in Constantinople
  54. A calendar page for January 2018
  55. The Persistence of Gender Inequality
  56. Mr Tickle in Connected Speech
  57. Recording of the week: echolocating birds
  58. 'I Got Away'
  59. Linguistics at the Library - Episode 1
  60. Recording of the week: Benno's Emperor
  61. Mary Lee Berners-Lee: the joy of programming and equal pay
  62. A Franck connection - the pianist Cécile Boutet de Monvel
  63. Recording of the week: Anglo-Romani and dialect
  64. Recording of the week: Trisha Brown in conversation with Richard Alston
  65. Recording of the week: Ethiopian Michael Jackson?
  66. Getting into a pickle with translation
  67. Keeping fit in 1900
  68. The good, the bad, and the cross-hatched
  69. When it’s Not Rude to Point: Manicules in Sir Hans Sloane’s Catalogue
  70. Indian Army Peace Contingent’s visit to Britain 1919
  71. The fascinating life of Stella Alexander
  72. Charles Kingsley’s grandfather in the East India Company Army
  73. Trigamy - a man with three wives
  74. Forfeiting a Victoria Cross
  75. Archiving the UK Copyright Literacy blog

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