2019
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December 2019
- Best American Ghost Story?
- The American and British Authors of Today’s Secular ‘Traditional Christmas’
- African Literature through the Language Lens: The Yorùbá Example
- Christmas from Bethlehem to Bethnahrein
- Chinese Botanical Paintings in the British Library Visual Arts Collection
- The Avar Miscellany, a rare manuscript from the North Caucasus: (1) Historical background
- Three fish with one head (2): from the Buddha’s footprints to Beat poetry
- Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Designers promoting Aids awareness on Asian, African & Middle Eastern postage stamps (2)
- Three fish with one head: (1) Sufi sources from Southeast Asia
- Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic designers promoting Aids awareness on Asian, African & Middle Eastern postage stamps (1)
- Do you want to see my butterfly collection?
- Building Digital Archives: Tools, Techniques & Approaches - a training workshop offered by Jadavpur University, School for Cultural Texts and Records
- Locating and Sampling Arabic and Arabic-Malayalam Manuscripts in Kerala, South India
- Theodor Fontane’s British Wanderings
- One of the very best Danish bookplate artists: two recent Ebba Holm acquisitions
- Is it better to give or to receive?
- Travels with George Eliot: the Moulin/Moinho/Mühle on the Floss
- Beautifully meaningless: Codex Seraphinianus
- De Bezige Bij – 75 years and still buzzing
- From Bach to Jazz in Rotterdam
- Meet our delivery partners: Bob Lindsey
- A week in the life of... Loretta Awuah, Start-ups in London Libraries Greenwich Champion
- The 12 Days of the BIPC
- Knight v griffin
- Christmas at Sainte-Chapelle
- Two Peters of Notre-Dame
- Renard the Fox, rebel and mischief-maker
- Troy story 2
- Troy story
- Medieval bookbindings: from precious gems to sealskin
- Celebrating the music of Prince Albert
- A ‘fittingly impressive work’: Prince Albert the composer
- Oil, storms and knowing part 2: Pliny, Franklin and the IPCC Special Report on Oceans
- Oil, storms and knowing part 1: Seafarers Calm Waves with Oil
- Recording of the week: Wax cylinder recordings of Nigerian music
- Recording of the week: Painting Winston Churchill
- British Library Sports Word Of The Year 2019
- AWATE: Finding Gems and Sharing Them
- Recording of the week: PTOOFF!
- Unlocking Our Sound Heritage hubs digitise 10,000 recordings
- Recording of the week: Sheep gathering in Wales
- Recording of the week: Kagura - dancing for the Gods
- The Ruby Mines Murders
- Christmas storytelling
- A Christmas entertainment
- Christmas appeal from the Shaftesbury Society and Ragged School Union
- Out of the Fire: Lady Charlotte Canning’s diaries
- Emma Ewart Larkins' last letter from Cawnpore
- Sarah Danby – JMW Turner’s lover
- Marine Society boy to master mariner to pauper – Part 2
- Marine Society boy to master mariner to pauper – Part 1
- 100 years of women in Parliament: Nancy Astor MP takes her seat
- What is left behind? Exploring the Olympic Games legacies through the UK Web Archive
November 2019
- Literary lip warmers for Movember
- British Library x Charles Jeffrey Research Competition launched: show & tell top picks from the American Studies team
- Women and Buddhism in the United States
- The Ring of Solomon in Southeast Asia
- Buddha From Kashgar to Istanbul
- A testament to diversity: Kurdish manuscript collections at the British Library
- British Library receives gift of the Pāḷi Tipiṭaka
- Malay Seals from the Islamic World of Southeast Asia
- Introducing Filipe Bento - BL Labs Technical Lead
- The British Library / Qatar Foundation Partnership Project Hack Day - Theme: Collaboration
- Hacking Web Maps-T
- Rare Buddhist Sanskrit Manuscripts from Rural Kathmandu and the Hill Areas of Nepal
- Evelyn Waugh and Vivien Leigh: Telegraphic Messaging
- Happy 200th Birthday George Eliot
- 'Anything But Petering Out' - celebrating Peter Nichols at Trafalgar Studios
- Call for Papers -- Creative Activism Now!: Andrew Salkey and Today’s Diasporic Cultural Networks
- Digital Literature and Emerging Media: 10 Years of the New Media Writing Prize
- Middlemarch on display to celebrate George Eliot’s Bicentenary
- Pippi and others: Astrid Lindgren’s young rebels
- ‘The Man Who Lost His Homeland’*
- British Library x Charles Jeffrey Research Competition launched: show & tell top picks from the European Studies team
- Recreating the Lost Sculptures of Umberto Boccioni
- Ceremonial greetings in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
- The Revolutionary Year of 1989
- The Book as a Project: Giambattista Bodoni
- ‘The Ark of Unique Cultures’: the story of a remarkable handmade book
- Franco Arminio: Poetry and Paesology
- Meet Warda Farah - owner of Language Waves and Start-ups in London Libraries participant
- A Day in the Life of… Rupert Holloway, founder of Conker Spirit
- Meet our delivery partners: Anis Qizilbash
- British Library Shared Research Repository launched in beta
- Happy anniversary to the Polonsky Project
- Classics lost and found
- ‘Coppie the words but burne this paper’
- Paper trails of Orphic tales: Harrison Birtwistle manuscripts at the British Library
- Boosey & Hawkes: first series of business archive now available
- Local Heroes - Trevithick's steam locomotive demonstration of 1808, "Catch Me Who Can"
- A tribute to Stephen Cleobury by Jessica Duchen
- Recording of the week: 'Power' by Adrienne Rich
- Hollywood Fights Back
- Recording of the week: the pampapiano of Rafael Achomccaray Quispe
- Recording of the week: English spoken here
- Recording of the week: the lesbians aren't into dustbins
- The open newspaper catalogue
- Picture this
- The Medical and Surgical Home at Fitzroy Square, London
- Sending sad news from India in 1858
- Hostility to the Census of India in 1880
- Annals of the Middle Eastern Press in the India Office Records (Part II)
- Contravening the Official Secrets Act in World War II – Part 2
- Contravening the Official Secrets Act in World War II – Part 1
- India Office Records sent to the salt mine
- A family archive
- Militarism and its role in the commemoration of British war dead
October 2019
- Poe, pumpkins and parades – it must be Halloween
- Black History Month
- National Poetry Day 2019
- The Star Tablet of the Bab
- BUDDHISM at the British Library
- The Buddhist Kathina Festival
- Arts of the South Asian Sultanates at the British Library
- Vietnamese manuscripts in the British Library
- Conservation and Storage of the Panorama of Lahore
- Digital Conversation: Games, Literature and Learning
- Workshop on “Digitisation Workflows & Digital Research Studies Methodologies”
- BL Labs Symposium (2019): Book your place for Mon 11-Nov-2019
- The 2019 British Library Labs Staff Award - Nominations Open!
- The hour is approaching!
- Andrew Salkey: A Man of Many Hats
- Beyond the Unfortunates
- UNOVIS – the Bauhaus of the East
- Dutch Literature takes Centre Stage at the British Library
- ‘The Shakespeare of the dance’: Jean-Georges Noverre
- “Free Croatia for Croatian people”: the Croatian journal “Hrvatska revija” 1951-2000
- The 2018 and 2019 Nobel Prizes in Literature
- 70 Years of Books From and About East Germany
- Defending a Nazi – a barrister’s path from opponent of Nazism to advocatus diaboli
- Start-up Day 2019 – How to use your networks to build your business
- Start-up Day 2019 wrap up - How to start up on a shoestring
- Start-up Day 2019 wrap up - How to build your business without burning yourself out
- Meet our delivery partners: Alison Lewy, Fashion Angel
- Start-up Day 2019 wrap up - How to combine profit with purpose
- Start-up Day 2019 – How to spot the key UK market trends right now with Mintel
- Generation Z - the new breed of entrepreneur
- What are the key takeaways from Start-up Day 2019?
- Follow JRPass' Director through the Innovating for Growth programme: Strategy 1:1 Part 2
- Follow JRPass' Director through the Innovating for Growth programme: Financial management 1:1 Part 2
- Start-up Day: What’s going on at the British Library
- Start-up Day 2019 - What's going on in the Start-ups in London Libraries boroughs
- Follow JRPass' Director through the Innovating for Growth programme: Product Innovation 1:1 Part 2
- Open and Engaged: Open Access Week at the British Library
- Why we collect digital publications
- A sea of colour and light: the British Library at Leeds Light Night 2019
- Museum as Muck – improving working class representation in museums and galleries
- How to survive Halloween
- The Lindisfarne Gospels: Turning over a new leaf
- John Bagford, bibliophile or biblioclast?
- Drawing a blank: an attempt to save the life of Charles I?
- The Nine Worthy Women
- Medieval saints as protectors of animals
- Off to a good start: exploring decorated initials
- Upcoming Elgar events at the British Library
- Additional Discovering Music content published!
- New Scientist Live 2019
- Spare Rib archive - possible suspension of access UPDATE
- The past is now: Examples of Britain’s anti-immigrant policies from independent Black and Asian community publications
- The 2019 Annual Equality Lecture: Jack Halberstam
- Recording of the week: Champion Jack Dupree interviewed by James Hogg
- Private Montford's army record
- A privilege to be alive on Fair Isle
- Recording of the week: turning down Vincent van Gogh’s sunflowers
- Black History Month: King Menelik and Queen Taytu's phonograph message to Queen Victoria
- AWATE's Journey into the Past
- Recording of the week: Dr John interviewed by Charlie Gillett
- Recording of the week: No prisoners
- Cable Street and after: memories of antifascism
- Classical Podcast No. 4 Feodor Chaliapin with Simon Callow
- Visualisation workshop report
- Hallowe’en Feeing Markets
- Sir Thomas Roe’s letters: People, products and politics of the first English embassy to India
- The General Strike 1926
- Indian military widows
- The Portuguese Militia in Bombay
- 400 Years of India and Britain: The Memoirs of Sir Thomas Roe
- Dr Johann Helfer and the curious case of an unexplained footnote
- Crystal chandeliers for the Shah of Persia
- Trials for concealment of birth
- East India Company private trade
- UKWA Website Crawl - One hour in One minute
September 2019
- Invitation to join ‘Digital Cultural Heritage Innovation Labs Book Sprint’, Doha, Qatar, 23-27 September 2019
- From the Collections: Pacific
- ‘To Robert Frank I now give this message: You got eyes’
- Banned Books Week
- Five reasons why we can’t wait to read The Testaments
- Buddhism in Practice: The Yogacara Food Offering Service
- Marking the bicentenary of the birth of the Bāb
- From Tackling Digitisation to Preserving Historic Photos - Autumn One Day Courses at British Library
- Labbers of the world unite to write a book in 1 week through a Book Sprint
- BL Labs Awards 2019: enter before 2100 on Sunday 29th September! (deadline extended)
- Results of the RASM2019 Competition on Recognition of Historical Arabic Scientific Manuscripts
- Preserving pious print - the Maalim Muhammad Idris Collection, Zanzibar.
- Eight weeks at EAP
- The Banning of a Man and the Making of a Book: The Walter Rodney Affair, 1968
- Publishing in America and the 1917 Espionage Act
- A Journey from St Petersburg to Moscow, or a story of Imperial glory, radical ideas and rare books
- Ik, Jan Cremer – controversial, but not banned
- How the Index Librorum Prohibitorum ended up on an illustrated magazine
- Crusoe’s Adventures in Enlightenment Germany
- How to Catch a Whale? (And Some Herring, Too)
- A European Autumn at the British Library
- A ‘Colonial Anecdote’ in Translation: Jean-Baptiste Picquenard’s Adonis in Swedish
- Digging within digging: ‘Rosso Malpelo’
- Start-up Day: What’s going on around the Network
- Choosing revenue over retirement - starting a business in your 60s
- A week in the life of... Keri Jamieson, founder of KeriKit
- Follow JRPass' Director through the Innovating for Growth programme: Maximising Your Intellectual Property 1:1 Part 2
- Follow JRPass' Director through the Innovating for Growth programme: Marketing
- Inside an ethical fashion business
- Follow JRPass' Director through the Innovating for Growth programme: Branding
- Meet our delivery partners: Alasdair Inglis, Grow
- Follow JRPass' Director through the Innovating for Growth programme: Maximising your intellectual property
- Follow JRPass' Director through the Innovating for Growth programme: Financial Management
- Live event: The Novels that Shaped Our World
- Diverse cartography of the Levant
- Middle English manuscripts online
- Discovering Sacred Texts launch
- Leonardo da Vinci: from manuscript to print
- Mapping medieval Scotland: between politics and imagination
- Medieval sacred texts on display
- Gardeners' Question Time
- A starry night, the Trojan horse and a spinning top
- The art of the alphabet poem
- Wine-making, medieval-style
- King Arthur: fable, fact and fiction
- The sixtieth anniversary of the first human created object to land on the Moon, Luna 2
- Finding zines on climate change
- Recording of the week: in Hertford, Hereford and Hampshire …
- Sounds from Bohemia: exploring the Bohemian Quartet’s recordings of Dvorak and Smetana
- Recording of the week: The Beautiful Garden
- Ernö Goldfinger at Open House 2019
- Beginnings: Arabic music in the 'Ezra Hakkāk and Emile Cohen Collection
- Recording of the week: Whooper Swans take flight
- Recording of the week: representing Britain at the Venice Biennale
- Ernest Shackleton and the Farthest South
- Sir Isaac Pitman – phonography and the phonograph
- Recording of the week: rain over the Iron Range
- Visualising newspaper data
- The Theatre Censors Part 4: The Lord Chamberlain’s Office and the Policy of Appeasement
- Baptisms at the Royal Indian Engineering College
- Solving a provenance puzzle: papers of Henry and Robert Dundas, Viscounts Melville
- Bogle-L’Ouverture publishing house
- Pupils from the Asylum for deaf and dumb children
- Asylum for the support and education of deaf and dumb children of the poor
- A librarian’s death on Lake Onega - Roger James Chomeley
- The Great Fire of London and the East India Company
- The Magic of Wimbledon in the UK Web Archive
August 2019
- Eisenhower to Obama and beyond: new US political material now available to researchers
- Book Lovers Day
- A tribute to Toni Morrison
- A Tour of Indigenous London
- Herman Melville at 200
- Monastic ordination in Theravada Buddhism
- Daghistani Qur’an manuscripts in the British Library
- Emanating light: Illumination in Islamic manuscripts
- Charles Wilkins as a type designer: hand drawn Modi script
- From Caucasia, not from Southeast Asia: Daghistani Qur’ans with spurious colophons
- Using Transkribus for automated text recognition of historical Bengali Books
- Chevening British Library Fellowship working with Chinese historical texts
- Innovation Labs and the digital divide
- Reflections from the First Sub-Saharan African Workshop on Digital Innovation Labs in Cultural Heritage Institutions
- Creating Geo-located Digital Sound Walks
- A New System for the Digital Paleography of Middle Eastern Manuscripts
- “That was our place.” - The Cambridge of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
- Stuff and Nonsense: Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear
- Women in Translation Month: top picks from the European Studies team (Part 2)
- Women in Translation Month: top picks from the European Studies team (Part 1)
- Raymond Roussel’s strange book
- Learning to read Cyrillic from 13th century Novgorod to the USSR
- ‘C’est un détournement’: Mezioud Ouldamer’s copy of Guy Debord and Asger Jorn’s Mémoires
- Max Havelaar: the Novel that Killed Colonialism
- A Letter to Panizzi with Echoes and Sparks
- The three lives of the Georgian alphabet
- Pérák, the only Czech superhero
- Follow JRPass' Director through the Innovating for Growth programme: Product Innovation
- Celebrating International Cat Day with Rose Hill Designs
- Follow JRPass' Director through the Innovating for Growth programme: Creating a Marketing Strategy
- Back to front
- 5 million page-views and counting
- Tweet, tweet
- The Joyful Ballad of the Taverners
- What's happening here?
- Ancient recycling: writing on potsherds
- Win tickets to see Dan Jones: Crusaders
- A medieval guide to predicting your future
- What is a bestiary?
- In August, in a high season: the wondrous Pearl
- The longest papyrus
- Note-worthy connections: antique shorthand in Carolingian books
- Summer caption competition
- Holiday reading matter
- The birds and the bees
- One Library, two exhibitions
- From Music to Meme (1): Musical Expressions of National and Regional Identity on Postage Stamps
- Recording of the week: Winnie-the-Pooh
- Recording of the week: securing the right to read
- Napoléon Bonaparte
- Recording of the week: women conscientious objectors of WW2
- The nightingale sings again - the life, career, and recordings of Beatrice Harrison
- Annals of the Middle Eastern Press in the India Office Records (part I)
- The Theatre Censors Part 3: George Street
- Are women more faithful than men? An Eighteenth-Century Couple Discuss the Differences between the Sexes
- Practical and Reasonable – A history of the Association of Disabled Professionals
- Peterloo
- Gerasim Lebedev, a Russian pioneer of Bengali Theatre
- Fourth ‘Queen’s Own’ Hussars in India
- Captain Henry Liddell’s recipe for spruce beer
- Indian Police exams August 1919
July 2019
- James Knight’s “History of Jamaica”
- Countdown: Biruni-Galileo-Apollo, British Library astronomy manuscripts in new visual forms
- African cosmologies in the British Library’s collections
- The first Iranian newspaper: Mirza Salih Shirazi’s Kaghaz-i akhbar
- Asalha Puja or Dhamma Day: the start of the Buddhist Lent
- Suanplu Chorus from Thailand performs at the British Library
- Rustam: The Hero with Red Hair
- 125 More Arabic Scientific Manuscripts in the Qatar Digital Library
- The Buddha’s long ‘journey’ to Europe and Africa
- Our highlights from Digital Humanities 2019: Nora and Giorgia
- Our highlights from Digital Humanities 2019: Rossitza and Daniel
- Our highlights from Digital Humanities 2019: Mia and Yann
- British Library Digital Scholarship at Digital Humanities 2019
- Introducing EAP in other languages: French, Spanish and Arabic webinars
- EAP Webinar: Completing a Successful Preliminary Application
- Penelope Fitzgerald’s Archive: A Human Connection
- When moderation went out of the window: the First Defenestration of Prague
- Matilde Serao: proud to be imperfect
- Love, Art and Rejection: Mayakovsky’s Pro eto
- Animals, Folk Tales and Tragedy: the family story behind a Ukrainian reading book
- Phrenology and English teaching: Mariano Cubí y Soler
- Finliandets: the magazine of the Imperial Russian Finland Guard Regiment in Exile
- Working the crowd - how to successfully crowdfund
- Follow JRPass’ Director through the Innovating for Growth programme: Branding and research
- PRECIOUS Nights at Manchester Library
- How the Breakthrough Business Model Canvas can help your start-up
- First Aid and the Law – a quick and easy guide for SMEs
- IP Corner: The inventions of Leonardo da Vinci
- Scotland’s first Business & IP Centre launches in Glasgow
- A week in the life of…Emma Richards, Business Outreach Manager at the IPO
- New partnership for female entrepreneurs with Make It Your Business
- Getting musically inspired at the Business & IP Centre
- New Anglo-Saxon acquisition on display
- Writing Wyatt
- Marvellous monsters
- Reading the runes in Beowulf (so seaxy)
- The first man on the Moon
- Art and science in Renaissance Italy
- Magical seals in an English Book of Hours
- Underwater adventures
- Jerome and the lion
- Medieval cures for lung disease, gout and vertigo
- What inspires you?
- Insular Manuscripts: Networks of Knowledge
- Talking about research collaboration: the first British Library Digital Musicology day
- The Susan Bradshaw Papers: Archive of an Insightful Communicator
- Renaissance science works in Treasures of the British Library
- What is a Manifesto ... ?
- A social scientist’s experience of navigating the British Library’s collections
- Celebrating 100,000 digitised recordings with Nigerian hammer and anvil music
- Recording of the week: kids say the funniest things
- Recording of the week: Nelson Mandela in the UK
- ‘My Other Piano’ – the classical side of Winifred Atwell
- Memories of the Moon Landing
- Magnetic Tape Alert Project
- Alan Turing on the £50 note
- Recording of the week: Rinding gumbeng from Central Java
- Partition memories and the power of oral testimony
- Recording of the week: discovering Victorian coins in a Leeds butchers shop
- Chernobyl: Perspectives from the British Nuclear Industry
- Innovations in sound and art
- Recording of the week: wonderful Weingartner
- Moving from a newspaper collection to a news collection
- The Theatre Censors Part 2: William Bodham Donne
- Choice little dinners for July
- Decorating the East India Company's records
- Finding Mermanjan – the star of the evening Part 4
- How old are you Miss Nightingale?
- Finding Mermanjan – the star of the evening Part 3
- Findings from the Bindings: Nazi Era Spoliation Research at the British Library IV – Lost and Found, The Biccherna Panel
- Finding Mermanjan – Star of the Evening Part 2
- The Theatre Censors Part 1: George Colman
- Finding Mermanjan – the star of the evening Part 1
- Summer Placement with the UK Web Archive
June 2019
- Shubbak at the British Library, 30 June 2019
- Zee JLF at the British Library, 14-16th June 2019
- Is ‘America’s National Pastime’ Up for Grabs?
- Naskhi-divani: a little-recognized sultanate script
- Islamic Painted Page: Growing a Database
- Mazal tov ve-siman tov (Good Luck and Good Sign): Jewish marriage contracts in the British Library’s Hebrew collection
- Same-Sex Relations in an 18th century Ottoman Manuscript
- Some new old books on and from the Malay world
- Digital Conversations: Celebrating Ten Years of the New Media Writing Prize
- BL Labs Awards 2019: enter before midday on Monday 9th September!
- Imaginary Cities Exhibition at the British Library
- The Shape of Contemporary British Interactive Fiction
- Palestine Open Maps mapathon: follow up and data usage experiments
- Collaborative Digital Scholarship in Action: A Case Study in Designing Impactful Student Learning Partnerships
- New collections online - June 2019
- Marking Refugee Week with the EAP collections
- United National Independence Party of Zambia Archive Online
- Shame Deferred and Shame Transcended: Literary Reflections at the End of Pride Month
- The Boyfriends of Giarre
- ¡Authentically Spanish!
- Translating Ibsen: monstrous rare of attainment
- ‘The Father of German Calligraphy’: Johann Neudörffer
- Transcending Text in Print: Lothar Schreyer’s Kreuzigung
- Positive ageing: include seniors in the wellness revolution
- Help! How do I change careers when I don't know what I want to do?
- From ‘hippy’ to ‘hip’ – how the wellness sector had a major re-brand
- Food Season at the Business & IP Centre
- IP Corner: Intellectual Property behind the Writing: Making Your Mark exhibition
- European Patent Office’s PATLIB Summit
- A week in the life of... Keira O'Mara, founder of Mama Designs
- What’s going on with the British Library logo?
- Public places and digital spaces
- Noah's Ark and the Anglo-Saxons
- Unexpected encounters of the fragmentary kind
- History Today Trustees' Award 2019
- Toads and ermine (and other coats of arms)
- Join us at Leeds
- Even more digitised manuscripts
- Explore Leonardo's notebooks
- The Ruin of Britain
- Leonardo da Vinci: A Mind in Motion
- The curse of the spiritual sword
- Scratch Music
- Influencing Environments: Material, Socio-political, and Ethical Environments in Anne McLaren’s Work
- The Stonewall Riots: I wouldn’t have missed it for the world
- Michael Ryle and the development of the House of Commons select committee system
- Recording of the week: Frank Land OBE - from Nazi Germany to the tea shop electronic brain
- Recording of the week: Leonardo da Vinci's watery obsession
- Recording of the week: Loss of a world and a need to capture it
- D-Day has come
- Stuart Franklin remembers photographing Tank Man in Tiananmen Square
- Recording of the week: Lilian Baylis (1874-1937)
- Homosexuality, Censorship and the British Stage
- The Revolutions of 1848: an English translation of Russian socialist Alexander Herzen
- A mother’s appeal for an Indian Army cadetship
- Findings from the Bindings: Nazi Era Spoliation Research at the British Library III – The Collection of Lucien Graux
- Hidden Worlds in the Laboratory Notebooks of Anne McLaren
- Writing with quills
- William Morris and the Thames
- Findings from the Bindings: Nazi Era Spoliation Research at the British Library II - the Collection of Jean Furstenberg
- Trains, Tea, Depression and Cats – what do UK Interactive Fiction writers write about?
May 2019
- Artists’ Books Now: Writing evening 13 May 2019
- The Power of Memoir
- 'South Asia Series' talks from June to October 2019
- The Buddhist Vesak Festival or Buddha Day
- Jesuit Mission Press ‘Feiqe monogatari’ now online
- All sewn up: British Library colleagues work together to ensure the survival of 100 embroidered and textile bookbindings
- Palestine Open Maps: using open source tools for historic maps research
- Exploring with Sound Walks
- From Colombo to London: Encounters with the Endangered Archives Programme
- Off the Page, Chapter 2
- Olga in Spain
- Lalla Romano (1906-2001): from painting to writing
- P. G. Wodehouse under Continental Covers
- Script, history and ideology: German fonts and handwriting
- A Spanish pioneer of deaf education and his early English readers
- Up the garden path with the Brothers Čapek and friends
- An introduction to intellectual property (IP)
- How to build a brand?
- Start-ups in London Libraries: Business support on ten London borough high streets
- National Pet Month: Pawfect pet businesses
- What does a wheelbarrow have to do with Aristotle?
- Crocodiles rock (never smile at a manuscript)
- Let's get quizzical
- How to name a mummy
- Book of Beasts at the Getty
- Mehmed the Conqueror, scourge of the world
- Ink in the clink
- Cataloguing the Harley manuscripts
- Homer in London
- How many alphabets?
- Keep taking the (wax) tablets
- Whale of a time
- Music notetaking and composers' thematic catalogues in the 18th century
- Perfecting the Writing Machine: Blind and Visible Writing Typewriters
- Meet the new British Sociological Association Fellow at the British Library
- Recording of the week: Gbamu gbamu jigi jigi! Happy times in WordBank
- Bicentenary of Queen Victoria – is this her voice?
- One of the very first MEPs: Joyce Quin, Baroness Quin, remembers the early days of the European Parliament
- Mother Carey's Chickens
- Recording of the week: Gieseking and Bohm
- Hearing the Dead – Florence Nightingale’s voice
- Recording of the week: Peter Kennedy recording of Sheila Gallagher, Donegal 1953
- The Duke of Wellington
- Help us make the news
- The Geologist and the Tortoise
- The history of the pencil
- Betsi Cadwaladr: The Crimean War nurse Elizabeth Davis
- Findings from the Bindings: Nazi Era Spoliation Research I - The Nazi Destruction and Looting of Libraries
- Celebrating King Edward VIII’s Birthday at the Bahrain Political Agency
- Henry Stubbe: Islam and religious toleration in Restoration England
- King Charles & Mr Perkins - Part Two
- King Charles & Mr Perkins - Part One
- Sloane’s annotations
- FIFA Women’s World Cup and the UK Web Archive
April 2019
- The New York World's Fair, 1939
- América Latina: Artists’ Books at the British Library
- Soviet Labour Unions in Uzbekistan in the 1920s: Views from the Magazine Mihnat
- Vijayanagara Research Project at the British Library
- Pouring wine on Haggadot: a Passover exception
- The 'Gilbert artist': a possible pupil of Sita Ram
- A Jesuit Atlas of Asia in Eighteenth-Century China
- Javanese manuscripts from Yogyakarta digitisation project completed
- Consider the cover: conserving a Chinese book
- The ‘Season of Place’ – learning about all things digital mapping
- Collecting Emerging Formats
- BL Labs 2018 Commercial Award Winner: 'The Library Collection'
- Net Art
- The British Library’s new Collection Metadata Strategy
- The artwork of Lalit Mohan Sen
- The Book of Hours
- ‘What Do I Know About Beckett?’: B.S. Johnson’s Beckett Notebook
- 17th-century English literary manuscripts in the Harley collection: Donne and more
- Seminar on Textual Bibliography for Modern Foreign Languages
- English Recusants in Portugal, 1638
- Ukrainian Pysanka – the Writing on the Egg
- Poets in Power: the 1919 Bavarian Soviet Republic
- In the footsteps of Princess Izabela Czartoryska
- The Russian in Britain: the Most Essential Book for Every Traveller and Tourist
- John Bull, or the English People in their Great Peculiarity
- A Week in the Life of... Hugh Duffie, co-founder of Sandows
- IP Corner: Reach for Gold - Intellectual Property and sports
- National Gardening Week with Natalie from Acacia Facilities
- What happened next? Start-up Day revisited
- How having a mentor can benefit your business
- Happy returns make for happy customers
- A week in the life of... Frankie Fox, co-founder and Head of Innovation for The Foraging Fox
- Two recent flight-related additions to the Map Collection
- British Empire maps of Africa added online
- Guess the manuscript: the dastardly edition
- Writing the story of writing: a new exhibition
- Fortune-telling the ancient way
- Cesare Franchi, Renaissance art in miniature
- Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots exhibition project curator
- Reunited at last: the Percy Hours and Percy Psalter
- The languages of history in the Middle Ages
- An important Anglo-Saxon manuscript acquired for the nation
- Jews, Money, Myth at the Jewish Museum
- Two new PhD opportunities for Web Comics
- Recording of the week: George Ewart Evans and The Barley Mow
- Merrie England
- Recording of the week: a lesson in bird song duets and trios
- Recording of the week: opening the Tyne Bridge
- Recording of the week: Cello or drum? Meet the ütőgardon
- Recording of the week: well sick
- A political scandal, a fatal duel
- Vaccination and the media - a 19th century debate
- Records of homosexuality in 17th century England
- Crusoe embossed
- Map showing Air Force of the USSR, 1939
- A Good Friday gift to the children of Christ’s Hospital
- An Easter vacation for Indian cadets at Sandhurst
- The Well-Travelled Goat
- From bad feet to blasphemy: the life of Charles William Twort
- Cholera on board ship at Singapore
- April Fool’s Day at the zoo
March 2019
- 25 Cats Named Sam
- 10 reasons to love libraries
- North American Indigenous languages
- The Power of History - Honouring Andrea Levy
- Musicians and Dancers in the India Office Records
- Vietnamese collection milestone: retroconversion of card catalogue completed
- The largest Javanese manuscript in the world? Menak Amir Hamza
- Staying Late at the Library ... to Algorave
- Algorave till Late in the Imaginary City
- BL Labs Staff Award Runners Up: 'The Digital Documents Harvester'
- BL Labs 2018 Commercial Award Runner Up: 'The Seder Oneg Shabbos Bentsher'
- The British Library / Qatar National Library Partnership Imaging Hack Day – International Women’s Day
- “The Barbados Mercury”: Thoughts from the digitisation team
- World Poetry Day – listen to new readings from Michael Marks Awards
- My Life is a Book: Escape from Coney Island at the British Library
- Fairytales on trial: the Good and the Beautiful in early Soviet children’s literature
- Documenting Georgian Costume in the 19th Century
- Pirandello’s nose
- “I only wish my works to be known”. Faddei Bellinsgauzen: The Voyages.
- Six reasons why you should be writing a blog for your business
- Business support in London by Deputy Mayor of London for Business, Rajesh Agrawal
- A week in the life of... Angela Steel, founder and CEO of SuperWellness
- Targeting your audience through blogging
- When the personal gets political
- Did Leonardo da Vinci invent the egg timer?
- Saints, kings and a bonnacon at Longthorpe Tower
- Initial impressions: the Noyon Sacramentary
- What's the language?
- Let sleeping cranes lie
- Why we love the Harley Irish Gospels
- A useful companion for a scholar: cats in the Middle Ages
- Celebrating the spiritual life
- Tales of ancient women
- The Renaissance Nude
- Guess the manuscript 127
- Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: a huge thank you
- From Cauliflowers to Chimaeras: A New Window onto Development
- The Flight of the Hoverfly
- How Embryologists See: Anne McLaren’s Mouse Models
- Airey Neave: working for science in parliament
- Recording of the week: Peter Blake remembers the Royal College of Art
- “The Acorn System One can be used to control a 22nd Century intergalactic spaceship”
- Recording of the week: Will Montgomery - Submarine
- Recording of the week: Sora song
- International Women's Day: Oral History highlights
- Recording of the week: spontaneous mimicry on a yorkshire moor
- News counts
- Colours of the Royal East India Volunteers
- A Melancholy Death on James Cook’s first Pacific expedition – Private William Greenslade
- Telephone Map of India 1934
- Marie Corelli: Superstar Author of the Victorian Era
- Crossing the Line
- Felix Slade and his bindings bequest
- The Making of ‘Dear John: The Kin Selection Controversy’. Part 2: From Idea to Event
- The Making of ‘Dear John: The Kin Selection Controversy’. Part 1: What’s It All About?
- Indian Seamen and the Steamship 'Rauenfels' during World War One
- Collecting Interactive Fiction
- Save UK Published Google + Accounts Now!
February 2019
- 12 tips for starting up a fashion business
- Event: Doctoral Open Day 2019
- Witch-hunts and the iconographic power of fear
- A man of his word: Abraham Lincoln and the Proclamation of Emancipation
- The Federal Theatre Project's 'Living Newspapers'
- Primbon, Javanese compendia of religious knowledge
- The Underground Rainbow: A Look at LGBTI Sources from Turkey in the British Library Collections
- Jewish love potions: a user's guide
- Javanese poetics and canto indicators: Jaya Lengkara Wulang (MSS Jav 24)
- Classical Central Asia in the Digital Age: Three Newly-Digitised Navoiy Manuscripts at the British Library
- Happy Chinese New Year! Year of the Pig 2019
- British Sign Language Tours at the British Library Centre for Conservation
- Condition Surveying British Library on Demand
- West Dean College of Arts and Conservation to hold series of courses in collaboration with the British Library
- The World Wide Lab: Building Library Labs - Part II
- Competition to automate text recognition for printed Bangla books
- Automatic Transcription of Historical Arabic Scientific Manuscripts - Round 2
- BL Labs 2018 Teaching & Learning Award Runner Up: 'Pocahontas and After'
- Updated Eighteenth-Century Collections Online
- Sign up for a research workshop on books written for mobile devices!
- BL Labs 2018 Artistic Award Runner Up: 'Nomad'
- BL Labs 2018 Research Award Honourable Mention: 'HerStories: Sites of Suffragette Protest and Sabotage'
- Interactive Fiction in the UK
- BL Labs 2018 Research Award Honourable Mention: 'Doctoral theses as alternative forms of knowledge: Surfacing "Southern" perspectives on student engagement with internationalisation'
- The British Library / Qatar Foundation Partnership Imaging Hack Day – Part 2
- Introducing Sam van Schaik, the new head of the Endangered Archives Programme
- Let's rescue and disseminate the Chilean public education archives
- Remembering Andrea Levy
- P.G. Wodehouse in Translation
- Creating Havana
- The Cats’ Newspaper: or the Cat’s Pyjamas?
- It All Adds Up: a Quick Look at Chronograms
- The Archbishop and the Rogue: William Laud’s copy of ‘Guzmán de Alfarache’
- A Cat may Counsel a King: the Colourful World of Czech Cats
- Against Totalitarianism: the Serbian émigré review ‘Naša reč’, 1948-1990
- Unlocking Access to Ancient Science in Renaissance Italy: the vernacularization of Pliny’s ‘Historia Naturalis’
- Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs at the Business & IP Centre
- Brexit resources available
- A week in the life of... Rachel Walker, co-founder of The Fold Line
- Why have a mentor? Discover more about our Innovating for Growth: Mentoring programme
- A week in the life of... Merilee Karr, founder and CEO of UnderTheDoormat
- Digitising the Private Case
- Collaboration key for advancing open research: repository progress for Jisc and the British Library
- Inside information
- Through the looking glass
- Reconstructing the Otho-Corpus Gospels
- Explore our Anglo-Saxons webspace
- When love comes knockin’ at your door
- New records of slavery from Anglo-Saxon Cornwall
- My ‘right well-beloved Valentine’
- Picture this: portraits of Anglo-Saxon rulers
- Easy as ABC?
- Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms and the BnF
- Medieval myths and legends
- Sutton Hoo and Anglo-Saxon East Anglia
- ‘For Jean on her Birthday’: Vaughan Williams’s String Quartet in A minor
- A visit to the Joint Library of Ophthalmology at Moorfields Eye Hospital
- Spare Rib Archive - possible suspension of access
- Recording of the week: rabbits and chickens by post!
- Creative States of Mind: a new collection of interviews exploring artists and the creative process
- Recording of the week: croggy or backy?
- Andrea Levy
- Recording of the week: the endingidi and the erhu – two types of the spike tube fiddle
- Where our laws are drafted: 150 years of the Office of Parliamentary Counsel
- The tale of the seven whistlers
- Hommage à Michel Legrand
- Recording of the week: life in a rock pool
- The Black Wonder
- ‘Smutty stuff’ for ‘debauched readers’: The Merryland books in the Private Case
- Trying to grow Syrian tobacco in Bombay
- Interviews with Indian Soldiers of World War One and World War Two
- The Dawes Bequest of erotica: so sensitive, it had to be smuggled in at dawn
- JMW Turner’s First and Last Loves (Part 2)
- JMW Turner’s First and Last Loves (Part 1)
- Countess Waldegrave and Baron Carlingford, part 2: The Breakfast Club and 'the Irish Question'
- Countess Waldegrave and Baron Carlingford, part 1: political influence and family ties
- A little piece of India
January 2019
- To Edgar, from Aubrey: bringing Poe’s tales to life
- New Collaborations: Announcing the Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer’s Award
- Cats from the stacks: The Cat in the Hat
- A Belated Happy Junkanoo: the Caribbean Christmas
- Javanese manuscripts in the Mackenzie collection: the publication of Weatherbee’s 'Inventory'
- Researching the Asian and African Collections at the British Library
- The Other March of the Penguins: A Flightless Mascot for Dissent in Turkey
- History from Between: Global Circulations of the Past in East Asia and Europe
- Remembering Legendary Bookbinder Bernard Middleton 1924-2019
- Course on Asian Papers and their Applications in Paper Conservation
- Exploring and Recording Textiles in the British Library Collections
- BL Labs 2018 Staff Award Winner: 'The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project: Manuscripts from the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 700–1200'
- Reading 35,000 Books: The UCD Contagion Project and the British Library Digital Corpus - Workshop & Roundtable
- BL Labs 2018 Teaching & Learning Award Winner: 'Pocket Miscellanies'
- BL Labs 2018 Artistic Award Winner: 'Another Intelligence Sings'
- Innovation Fellow for Interactive Fiction in the Emerging Formats Project
- Can you help us with user experience testing for books designed for mobile devices?
- BL Labs 2018 Research Award Winner: 'The Delius Catalogue of Works'
- The BL Labs Symposium, 2018
- Digital Conversations @BL: Data, Place and Digital Economies
- Early photographic work of the Hamilton Studios, Bombay.
- In Celebration of Djenné
- Graham Greene and the curse of the sausage roll: an image of class and disgust in Brighton Rock
- Harold Pinter: A Line, A Word, An Image
- The Sun-Artist, the Typewriter and Bridge of the Ford
- Kater Murr at 200: ‘the cleverest, best and wittiest creature of his kind ever beheld’
- ‘Tom Puss, conjure up a trick!’
- Agustín Fernández Mallo and the Nocilla Project
- You can’t go out dressed like that! A crack-down on extravagance in 17th-century Lisbon
- Pan Kotsky
- Katharina Luther and a Letter to a Laureate
- Translating Cultures: French Caribbean History, Literature and Migration
- Pascual de Gayangos and the British Museum Library
- A week in the life of... Dr Jan Kattein, founding director of Jan Kattein Architects
- Five tips to drive traffic to your website
- Five elements to consider when choosing a winning domain
- ‘Rub the shin of the person on your left. With your face.’
- The Ascension in Anglo-Saxon England
- Queen Emma: wife of two kings, mother of two more
- Charteriffic
- Cambridge loans in Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms
- Cataloguing Greek papyri at the British Library: new PhD placement position
- From Oxford to London
- The Southwark Hours: a new acquisition
- Gorgeous manuscripts galore
- Audio description tour of Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms
- Heathens, pagans, Danes …. Vikings?
- Round up of our Manuscripts in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms conference
- The Anglo-Saxon origins of the English counties
- Alfred ordered me to be made
- Lab notebooks - handwriting at the core of science
- Archiving Activism: The Animal Guide
- Classical Podcast No. 3 Albert Coates
- Recording of the week: Bubu music from Tasso Island
- Recording of the week: it's a bit Derby!
- Recording of the week: starling mimicry
- Recording of the week: sculptor Eduardo Paolozzi on post-war Britain
- The anatomy of news
- African newspapers
- Multi-title newspaper volumes – historic practice vs. modern process
- Heritage Made Digital - the newspapers
- The Favourite and the Marlborough Papers
- Virginia Woolf: Greatest icon of the 20th century?
- The shooting of the British Consul General at Isfahan and Sowar Chowdri Khan
- ‘Methods of barbarism’: how Emily Hobhouse exposed the humanitarian crisis of the Boer War
- 'Citizens of the World' – the Collow network of merchants, agents and traders
- Isaac Robert Cruikshank – a life retold?
- Cats and games of forfeit
- The first baby born on the Tube
- Blanchard! Where are your trousers? The first crossing of the English Channel in a balloon
- The Great War Fund Fete
- Indian Honours List, New Year 1919
- Extracting Place Names from Web Archives at Archives Unleashed Vancouver