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December 2019

  1. Best American Ghost Story?
  2. The American and British Authors of Today’s Secular ‘Traditional Christmas’
  3. African Literature through the Language Lens: The Yorùbá Example
  4. Christmas from Bethlehem to Bethnahrein
  5. Chinese Botanical Paintings in the British Library Visual Arts Collection
  6. The Avar Miscellany, a rare manuscript from the North Caucasus: (1) Historical background
  7. Three fish with one head (2): from the Buddha’s footprints to Beat poetry
  8. Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Designers promoting Aids awareness on Asian, African & Middle Eastern postage stamps (2)
  9. Three fish with one head: (1) Sufi sources from Southeast Asia
  10. Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic designers promoting Aids awareness on Asian, African & Middle Eastern postage stamps (1)
  11. Do you want to see my butterfly collection?
  12. Building Digital Archives: Tools, Techniques & Approaches - a training workshop offered by Jadavpur University, School for Cultural Texts and Records
  13. Locating and Sampling Arabic and Arabic-Malayalam Manuscripts in Kerala, South India
  14. Theodor Fontane’s British Wanderings
  15. One of the very best Danish bookplate artists: two recent Ebba Holm acquisitions
  16. Is it better to give or to receive?
  17. Travels with George Eliot: the Moulin/Moinho/Mühle on the Floss
  18. Beautifully meaningless: Codex Seraphinianus
  19. De Bezige Bij – 75 years and still buzzing
  20. From Bach to Jazz in Rotterdam
  21. Meet our delivery partners: Bob Lindsey
  22. A week in the life of... Loretta Awuah, Start-ups in London Libraries Greenwich Champion
  23. The 12 Days of the BIPC
  24. Knight v griffin
  25. Christmas at Sainte-Chapelle
  26. Two Peters of Notre-Dame
  27. Renard the Fox, rebel and mischief-maker
  28. Troy story 2
  29. Troy story
  30. Medieval bookbindings: from precious gems to sealskin
  31. Celebrating the music of Prince Albert
  32. A ‘fittingly impressive work’: Prince Albert the composer
  33. Oil, storms and knowing part 2: Pliny, Franklin and the IPCC Special Report on Oceans
  34. Oil, storms and knowing part 1: Seafarers Calm Waves with Oil
  35. Recording of the week: Wax cylinder recordings of Nigerian music
  36. Recording of the week: Painting Winston Churchill
  37. British Library Sports Word Of The Year 2019
  38. AWATE: Finding Gems and Sharing Them
  39. Recording of the week: PTOOFF!
  40. Unlocking Our Sound Heritage hubs digitise 10,000 recordings
  41. Recording of the week: Sheep gathering in Wales
  42. Recording of the week: Kagura - dancing for the Gods
  43. The Ruby Mines Murders
  44. Christmas storytelling
  45. A Christmas entertainment
  46. Christmas appeal from the Shaftesbury Society and Ragged School Union
  47. Out of the Fire: Lady Charlotte Canning’s diaries
  48. Emma Ewart Larkins' last letter from Cawnpore
  49. Sarah Danby – JMW Turner’s lover
  50. Marine Society boy to master mariner to pauper – Part 2
  51. Marine Society boy to master mariner to pauper – Part 1
  52. 100 years of women in Parliament: Nancy Astor MP takes her seat
  53. What is left behind? Exploring the Olympic Games legacies through the UK Web Archive

November 2019

  1. Literary lip warmers for Movember
  2. British Library x Charles Jeffrey Research Competition launched: show & tell top picks from the American Studies team
  3. Women and Buddhism in the United States
  4. The Ring of Solomon in Southeast Asia
  5. Buddha From Kashgar to Istanbul
  6. A testament to diversity: Kurdish manuscript collections at the British Library
  7. British Library receives gift of the Pāḷi Tipiṭaka
  8. Malay Seals from the Islamic World of Southeast Asia
  9. Introducing Filipe Bento - BL Labs Technical Lead
  10. The British Library / Qatar Foundation Partnership Project Hack Day - Theme: Collaboration
  11. Hacking Web Maps-T
  12. Rare Buddhist Sanskrit Manuscripts from Rural Kathmandu and the Hill Areas of Nepal
  13. Evelyn Waugh and Vivien Leigh: Telegraphic Messaging
  14. Happy 200th Birthday George Eliot
  15. 'Anything But Petering Out' - celebrating Peter Nichols at Trafalgar Studios
  16. Call for Papers -- Creative Activism Now!: Andrew Salkey and Today’s Diasporic Cultural Networks
  17. Digital Literature and Emerging Media: 10 Years of the New Media Writing Prize
  18. Middlemarch on display to celebrate George Eliot’s Bicentenary
  19. Pippi and others: Astrid Lindgren’s young rebels
  20. ‘The Man Who Lost His Homeland’*
  21. British Library x Charles Jeffrey Research Competition launched: show & tell top picks from the European Studies team
  22. Recreating the Lost Sculptures of Umberto Boccioni
  23. Ceremonial greetings in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
  24. The Revolutionary Year of 1989
  25. The Book as a Project: Giambattista Bodoni
  26. ‘The Ark of Unique Cultures’: the story of a remarkable handmade book
  27. Franco Arminio: Poetry and Paesology
  28. Meet Warda Farah - owner of Language Waves and Start-ups in London Libraries participant
  29. A Day in the Life of… Rupert Holloway, founder of Conker Spirit
  30. Meet our delivery partners: Anis Qizilbash
  31. British Library Shared Research Repository launched in beta
  32. Happy anniversary to the Polonsky Project
  33. Classics lost and found
  34. ‘Coppie the words but burne this paper’
  35. Paper trails of Orphic tales: Harrison Birtwistle manuscripts at the British Library
  36. Boosey & Hawkes: first series of business archive now available
  37. Local Heroes - Trevithick's steam locomotive demonstration of 1808, "Catch Me Who Can"
  38. A tribute to Stephen Cleobury by Jessica Duchen
  39. Recording of the week: 'Power' by Adrienne Rich
  40. Hollywood Fights Back
  41. Recording of the week: the pampapiano of Rafael Achomccaray Quispe
  42. Recording of the week: English spoken here
  43. Recording of the week: the lesbians aren't into dustbins
  44. The open newspaper catalogue
  45. Picture this
  46. The Medical and Surgical Home at Fitzroy Square, London
  47. Sending sad news from India in 1858
  48. Hostility to the Census of India in 1880
  49. Annals of the Middle Eastern Press in the India Office Records (Part II)
  50. Contravening the Official Secrets Act in World War II – Part 2
  51. Contravening the Official Secrets Act in World War II – Part 1
  52. India Office Records sent to the salt mine
  53. A family archive
  54. Militarism and its role in the commemoration of British war dead

October 2019

  1. Poe, pumpkins and parades – it must be Halloween
  2. Black History Month
  3. National Poetry Day 2019
  4. The Star Tablet of the Bab
  5. BUDDHISM at the British Library
  6. The Buddhist Kathina Festival
  7. Arts of the South Asian Sultanates at the British Library
  8. Vietnamese manuscripts in the British Library
  9. Conservation and Storage of the Panorama of Lahore
  10. Digital Conversation: Games, Literature and Learning
  11. Workshop on “Digitisation Workflows & Digital Research Studies Methodologies”
  12. BL Labs Symposium (2019): Book your place for Mon 11-Nov-2019
  13. The 2019 British Library Labs Staff Award - Nominations Open!
  14. The hour is approaching!
  15. Andrew Salkey: A Man of Many Hats
  16. Beyond the Unfortunates
  17. UNOVIS – the Bauhaus of the East
  18. Dutch Literature takes Centre Stage at the British Library
  19. ‘The Shakespeare of the dance’: Jean-Georges Noverre
  20. “Free Croatia for Croatian people”: the Croatian journal “Hrvatska revija” 1951-2000
  21. The 2018 and 2019 Nobel Prizes in Literature
  22. 70 Years of Books From and About East Germany
  23. Defending a Nazi – a barrister’s path from opponent of Nazism to advocatus diaboli
  24. Start-up Day 2019 – How to use your networks to build your business
  25. Start-up Day 2019 wrap up - How to start up on a shoestring
  26. Start-up Day 2019 wrap up - How to build your business without burning yourself out
  27. Meet our delivery partners: Alison Lewy, Fashion Angel
  28. Start-up Day 2019 wrap up - How to combine profit with purpose
  29. Start-up Day 2019 – How to spot the key UK market trends right now with Mintel
  30. Generation Z - the new breed of entrepreneur
  31. What are the key takeaways from Start-up Day 2019?
  32. Follow JRPass' Director through the Innovating for Growth programme: Strategy 1:1 Part 2
  33. Follow JRPass' Director through the Innovating for Growth programme: Financial management 1:1 Part 2
  34. Start-up Day: What’s going on at the British Library
  35. Start-up Day 2019 - What's going on in the Start-ups in London Libraries boroughs
  36. Follow JRPass' Director through the Innovating for Growth programme: Product Innovation 1:1 Part 2
  37. Open and Engaged: Open Access Week at the British Library
  38. Why we collect digital publications
  39. A sea of colour and light: the British Library at Leeds Light Night 2019
  40. Museum as Muck – improving working class representation in museums and galleries
  41. How to survive Halloween
  42. The Lindisfarne Gospels: Turning over a new leaf
  43. John Bagford, bibliophile or biblioclast?
  44. Drawing a blank: an attempt to save the life of Charles I?
  45. The Nine Worthy Women
  46. Medieval saints as protectors of animals
  47. Off to a good start: exploring decorated initials
  48. Upcoming Elgar events at the British Library
  49. Additional Discovering Music content published!
  50. New Scientist Live 2019
  51. Spare Rib archive - possible suspension of access UPDATE
  52. The past is now: Examples of Britain’s anti-immigrant policies from independent Black and Asian community publications
  53. The 2019 Annual Equality Lecture: Jack Halberstam
  54. Recording of the week: Champion Jack Dupree interviewed by James Hogg
  55. Private Montford's army record
  56. A privilege to be alive on Fair Isle
  57. Recording of the week: turning down Vincent van Gogh’s sunflowers
  58. Black History Month: King Menelik and Queen Taytu's phonograph message to Queen Victoria
  59. AWATE's Journey into the Past
  60. Recording of the week: Dr John interviewed by Charlie Gillett
  61. Recording of the week: No prisoners
  62. Cable Street and after: memories of antifascism
  63. Classical Podcast No. 4 Feodor Chaliapin with Simon Callow
  64. Visualisation workshop report
  65. Hallowe’en Feeing Markets
  66. Sir Thomas Roe’s letters: People, products and politics of the first English embassy to India
  67. The General Strike 1926
  68. Indian military widows
  69. The Portuguese Militia in Bombay
  70. 400 Years of India and Britain: The Memoirs of Sir Thomas Roe
  71. Dr Johann Helfer and the curious case of an unexplained footnote
  72. Crystal chandeliers for the Shah of Persia
  73. Trials for concealment of birth
  74. East India Company private trade
  75. UKWA Website Crawl - One hour in One minute

September 2019

  1. Invitation to join ‘Digital Cultural Heritage Innovation Labs Book Sprint’, Doha, Qatar, 23-27 September 2019
  2. From the Collections: Pacific
  3. ‘To Robert Frank I now give this message: You got eyes’
  4. Banned Books Week
  5. Five reasons why we can’t wait to read The Testaments
  6. Buddhism in Practice: The Yogacara Food Offering Service
  7. Marking the bicentenary of the birth of the Bāb
  8. From Tackling Digitisation to Preserving Historic Photos - Autumn One Day Courses at British Library
  9. Labbers of the world unite to write a book in 1 week through a Book Sprint
  10. BL Labs Awards 2019: enter before 2100 on Sunday 29th September! (deadline extended)
  11. Results of the RASM2019 Competition on Recognition of Historical Arabic Scientific Manuscripts
  12. Preserving pious print - the Maalim Muhammad Idris Collection, Zanzibar.
  13. Eight weeks at EAP
  14. The Banning of a Man and the Making of a Book: The Walter Rodney Affair, 1968
  15. Publishing in America and the 1917 Espionage Act
  16. A Journey from St Petersburg to Moscow, or a story of Imperial glory, radical ideas and rare books
  17. Ik, Jan Cremer – controversial, but not banned
  18. How the Index Librorum Prohibitorum ended up on an illustrated magazine
  19. Crusoe’s Adventures in Enlightenment Germany
  20. How to Catch a Whale? (And Some Herring, Too)
  21. A European Autumn at the British Library
  22. A ‘Colonial Anecdote’ in Translation: Jean-Baptiste Picquenard’s Adonis in Swedish
  23. Digging within digging: ‘Rosso Malpelo’
  24. Start-up Day: What’s going on around the Network
  25. Choosing revenue over retirement - starting a business in your 60s
  26. A week in the life of... Keri Jamieson, founder of KeriKit
  27. Follow JRPass' Director through the Innovating for Growth programme: Maximising Your Intellectual Property 1:1 Part 2
  28. Follow JRPass' Director through the Innovating for Growth programme: Marketing
  29. Inside an ethical fashion business
  30. Follow JRPass' Director through the Innovating for Growth programme: Branding
  31. Meet our delivery partners: Alasdair Inglis, Grow
  32. Follow JRPass' Director through the Innovating for Growth programme: Maximising your intellectual property
  33. Follow JRPass' Director through the Innovating for Growth programme: Financial Management
  34. Live event: The Novels that Shaped Our World
  35. Diverse cartography of the Levant
  36. Middle English manuscripts online
  37. Discovering Sacred Texts launch
  38. Leonardo da Vinci: from manuscript to print
  39. Mapping medieval Scotland: between politics and imagination
  40. Medieval sacred texts on display
  41. Gardeners' Question Time
  42. A starry night, the Trojan horse and a spinning top
  43. The art of the alphabet poem
  44. Wine-making, medieval-style
  45. King Arthur: fable, fact and fiction
  46. The sixtieth anniversary of the first human created object to land on the Moon, Luna 2
  47. Finding zines on climate change
  48. Recording of the week: in Hertford, Hereford and Hampshire …
  49. Sounds from Bohemia: exploring the Bohemian Quartet’s recordings of Dvorak and Smetana
  50. Recording of the week: The Beautiful Garden
  51. Ernö Goldfinger at Open House 2019
  52. Beginnings: Arabic music in the 'Ezra Hakkāk and Emile Cohen Collection
  53. Recording of the week: Whooper Swans take flight
  54. Recording of the week: representing Britain at the Venice Biennale
  55. Ernest Shackleton and the Farthest South
  56. Sir Isaac Pitman – phonography and the phonograph
  57. Recording of the week: rain over the Iron Range
  58. Visualising newspaper data
  59. The Theatre Censors Part 4: The Lord Chamberlain’s Office and the Policy of Appeasement
  60. Baptisms at the Royal Indian Engineering College
  61. Solving a provenance puzzle: papers of Henry and Robert Dundas, Viscounts Melville
  62. Bogle-L’Ouverture publishing house
  63. Pupils from the Asylum for deaf and dumb children
  64. Asylum for the support and education of deaf and dumb children of the poor
  65. A librarian’s death on Lake Onega - Roger James Chomeley
  66. The Great Fire of London and the East India Company
  67. The Magic of Wimbledon in the UK Web Archive

August 2019

  1. Eisenhower to Obama and beyond: new US political material now available to researchers
  2. Book Lovers Day
  3. A tribute to Toni Morrison
  4. A Tour of Indigenous London
  5. Herman Melville at 200
  6. Monastic ordination in Theravada Buddhism
  7. Daghistani Qur’an manuscripts in the British Library
  8. Emanating light: Illumination in Islamic manuscripts
  9. Charles Wilkins as a type designer: hand drawn Modi script
  10. From Caucasia, not from Southeast Asia: Daghistani Qur’ans with spurious colophons
  11. Using Transkribus for automated text recognition of historical Bengali Books
  12. Chevening British Library Fellowship working with Chinese historical texts
  13. Innovation Labs and the digital divide
  14. Reflections from the First Sub-Saharan African Workshop on Digital Innovation Labs in Cultural Heritage Institutions
  15. Creating Geo-located Digital Sound Walks
  16. A New System for the Digital Paleography of Middle Eastern Manuscripts
  17. “That was our place.” - The Cambridge of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
  18. Stuff and Nonsense: Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear
  19. Women in Translation Month: top picks from the European Studies team (Part 2)
  20. Women in Translation Month: top picks from the European Studies team (Part 1)
  21. Raymond Roussel’s strange book
  22. Learning to read Cyrillic from 13th century Novgorod to the USSR
  23. ‘C’est un détournement’: Mezioud Ouldamer’s copy of Guy Debord and Asger Jorn’s Mémoires
  24. Max Havelaar: the Novel that Killed Colonialism
  25. A Letter to Panizzi with Echoes and Sparks
  26. The three lives of the Georgian alphabet
  27. Pérák, the only Czech superhero
  28. Follow JRPass' Director through the Innovating for Growth programme: Product Innovation
  29. Celebrating International Cat Day with Rose Hill Designs
  30. Follow JRPass' Director through the Innovating for Growth programme: Creating a Marketing Strategy
  31. Back to front
  32. 5 million page-views and counting
  33. Tweet, tweet
  34. The Joyful Ballad of the Taverners
  35. What's happening here?
  36. Ancient recycling: writing on potsherds
  37. Win tickets to see Dan Jones: Crusaders
  38. A medieval guide to predicting your future
  39. What is a bestiary?
  40. In August, in a high season: the wondrous Pearl
  41. The longest papyrus
  42. Note-worthy connections: antique shorthand in Carolingian books
  43. Summer caption competition
  44. Holiday reading matter
  45. The birds and the bees
  46. One Library, two exhibitions
  47. From Music to Meme (1): Musical Expressions of National and Regional Identity on Postage Stamps
  48. Recording of the week: Winnie-the-Pooh
  49. Recording of the week: securing the right to read
  50. Napoléon Bonaparte
  51. Recording of the week: women conscientious objectors of WW2
  52. The nightingale sings again - the life, career, and recordings of Beatrice Harrison
  53. Annals of the Middle Eastern Press in the India Office Records (part I)
  54. The Theatre Censors Part 3: George Street
  55. Are women more faithful than men? An Eighteenth-Century Couple Discuss the Differences between the Sexes
  56. Practical and Reasonable – A history of the Association of Disabled Professionals
  57. Peterloo
  58. Gerasim Lebedev, a Russian pioneer of Bengali Theatre
  59. Fourth ‘Queen’s Own’ Hussars in India
  60. Captain Henry Liddell’s recipe for spruce beer
  61. Indian Police exams August 1919

July 2019

  1. James Knight’s “History of Jamaica”
  2. Countdown: Biruni-Galileo-Apollo, British Library astronomy manuscripts in new visual forms
  3. African cosmologies in the British Library’s collections
  4. The first Iranian newspaper: Mirza Salih Shirazi’s Kaghaz-i akhbar
  5. Asalha Puja or Dhamma Day: the start of the Buddhist Lent
  6. Suanplu Chorus from Thailand performs at the British Library
  7. Rustam: The Hero with Red Hair
  8. 125 More Arabic Scientific Manuscripts in the Qatar Digital Library
  9. The Buddha’s long ‘journey’ to Europe and Africa
  10. Our highlights from Digital Humanities 2019: Nora and Giorgia
  11. Our highlights from Digital Humanities 2019: Rossitza and Daniel
  12. Our highlights from Digital Humanities 2019: Mia and Yann
  13. British Library Digital Scholarship at Digital Humanities 2019
  14. Introducing EAP in other languages: French, Spanish and Arabic webinars
  15. EAP Webinar: Completing a Successful Preliminary Application
  16. Penelope Fitzgerald’s Archive: A Human Connection
  17. When moderation went out of the window: the First Defenestration of Prague
  18. Matilde Serao: proud to be imperfect
  19. Love, Art and Rejection: Mayakovsky’s Pro eto
  20. Animals, Folk Tales and Tragedy: the family story behind a Ukrainian reading book
  21. Phrenology and English teaching: Mariano Cubí y Soler
  22. Finliandets: the magazine of the Imperial Russian Finland Guard Regiment in Exile
  23. Working the crowd - how to successfully crowdfund
  24. Follow JRPass’ Director through the Innovating for Growth programme: Branding and research
  25. PRECIOUS Nights at Manchester Library
  26. How the Breakthrough Business Model Canvas can help your start-up
  27. First Aid and the Law – a quick and easy guide for SMEs
  28. IP Corner: The inventions of Leonardo da Vinci
  29. Scotland’s first Business & IP Centre launches in Glasgow
  30. A week in the life of…Emma Richards, Business Outreach Manager at the IPO
  31. New partnership for female entrepreneurs with Make It Your Business
  32. Getting musically inspired at the Business & IP Centre
  33. New Anglo-Saxon acquisition on display
  34. Writing Wyatt
  35. Marvellous monsters
  36. Reading the runes in Beowulf (so seaxy)
  37. The first man on the Moon
  38. Art and science in Renaissance Italy
  39. Magical seals in an English Book of Hours
  40. Underwater adventures
  41. Jerome and the lion
  42. Medieval cures for lung disease, gout and vertigo
  43. What inspires you?
  44. Insular Manuscripts: Networks of Knowledge
  45. Talking about research collaboration: the first British Library Digital Musicology day
  46. The Susan Bradshaw Papers: Archive of an Insightful Communicator
  47. Renaissance science works in Treasures of the British Library
  48. What is a Manifesto ... ?
  49. A social scientist’s experience of navigating the British Library’s collections
  50. Celebrating 100,000 digitised recordings with Nigerian hammer and anvil music
  51. Recording of the week: kids say the funniest things
  52. Recording of the week: Nelson Mandela in the UK
  53. ‘My Other Piano’ – the classical side of Winifred Atwell
  54. Memories of the Moon Landing
  55. Magnetic Tape Alert Project
  56. Alan Turing on the £50 note
  57. Recording of the week: Rinding gumbeng from Central Java
  58. Partition memories and the power of oral testimony
  59. Recording of the week: discovering Victorian coins in a Leeds butchers shop
  60. Chernobyl: Perspectives from the British Nuclear Industry
  61. Innovations in sound and art
  62. Recording of the week: wonderful Weingartner
  63. Moving from a newspaper collection to a news collection
  64. The Theatre Censors Part 2: William Bodham Donne
  65. Choice little dinners for July
  66. Decorating the East India Company's records
  67. Finding Mermanjan – the star of the evening Part 4
  68. How old are you Miss Nightingale?
  69. Finding Mermanjan – the star of the evening Part 3
  70. Findings from the Bindings: Nazi Era Spoliation Research at the British Library IV – Lost and Found, The Biccherna Panel
  71. Finding Mermanjan – Star of the Evening Part 2
  72. The Theatre Censors Part 1: George Colman
  73. Finding Mermanjan – the star of the evening Part 1
  74. Summer Placement with the UK Web Archive

June 2019

  1. Shubbak at the British Library, 30 June 2019
  2. Zee JLF at the British Library, 14-16th June 2019
  3. Is ‘America’s National Pastime’ Up for Grabs?
  4. Naskhi-divani: a little-recognized sultanate script
  5. Islamic Painted Page: Growing a Database
  6. Mazal tov ve-siman tov (Good Luck and Good Sign): Jewish marriage contracts in the British Library’s Hebrew collection
  7. Same-Sex Relations in an 18th century Ottoman Manuscript
  8. Some new old books on and from the Malay world
  9. Digital Conversations: Celebrating Ten Years of the New Media Writing Prize
  10. BL Labs Awards 2019: enter before midday on Monday 9th September!
  11. Imaginary Cities Exhibition at the British Library
  12. The Shape of Contemporary British Interactive Fiction
  13. Palestine Open Maps mapathon: follow up and data usage experiments
  14. Collaborative Digital Scholarship in Action: A Case Study in Designing Impactful Student Learning Partnerships
  15. New collections online - June 2019
  16. Marking Refugee Week with the EAP collections
  17. United National Independence Party of Zambia Archive Online
  18. Shame Deferred and Shame Transcended: Literary Reflections at the End of Pride Month
  19. The Boyfriends of Giarre
  20. ¡Authentically Spanish!
  21. Translating Ibsen: monstrous rare of attainment
  22. ‘The Father of German Calligraphy’: Johann Neudörffer
  23. Transcending Text in Print: Lothar Schreyer’s Kreuzigung
  24. Positive ageing: include seniors in the wellness revolution
  25. Help! How do I change careers when I don't know what I want to do?
  26. From ‘hippy’ to ‘hip’ – how the wellness sector had a major re-brand
  27. Food Season at the Business & IP Centre
  28. IP Corner: Intellectual Property behind the Writing: Making Your Mark exhibition
  29. European Patent Office’s PATLIB Summit
  30. A week in the life of... Keira O'Mara, founder of Mama Designs
  31. What’s going on with the British Library logo?
  32. Public places and digital spaces
  33. Noah's Ark and the Anglo-Saxons
  34. Unexpected encounters of the fragmentary kind
  35. History Today Trustees' Award 2019
  36. Toads and ermine (and other coats of arms)
  37. Join us at Leeds
  38. Even more digitised manuscripts
  39. Explore Leonardo's notebooks
  40. The Ruin of Britain
  41. Leonardo da Vinci: A Mind in Motion
  42. The curse of the spiritual sword
  43. Scratch Music
  44. Influencing Environments: Material, Socio-political, and Ethical Environments in Anne McLaren’s Work
  45. The Stonewall Riots: I wouldn’t have missed it for the world
  46. Michael Ryle and the development of the House of Commons select committee system
  47. Recording of the week: Frank Land OBE - from Nazi Germany to the tea shop electronic brain
  48. Recording of the week: Leonardo da Vinci's watery obsession
  49. Recording of the week: Loss of a world and a need to capture it
  50. D-Day has come
  51. Stuart Franklin remembers photographing Tank Man in Tiananmen Square
  52. Recording of the week: Lilian Baylis (1874-1937)
  53. Homosexuality, Censorship and the British Stage
  54. The Revolutions of 1848: an English translation of Russian socialist Alexander Herzen
  55. A mother’s appeal for an Indian Army cadetship
  56. Findings from the Bindings: Nazi Era Spoliation Research at the British Library III – The Collection of Lucien Graux
  57. Hidden Worlds in the Laboratory Notebooks of Anne McLaren
  58. Writing with quills
  59. William Morris and the Thames
  60. Findings from the Bindings: Nazi Era Spoliation Research at the British Library II - the Collection of Jean Furstenberg
  61. Trains, Tea, Depression and Cats – what do UK Interactive Fiction writers write about?

May 2019

  1. Artists’ Books Now: Writing evening 13 May 2019
  2. The Power of Memoir
  3. 'South Asia Series' talks from June to October 2019
  4. The Buddhist Vesak Festival or Buddha Day
  5. Jesuit Mission Press ‘Feiqe monogatari’ now online
  6. All sewn up: British Library colleagues work together to ensure the survival of 100 embroidered and textile bookbindings
  7. Palestine Open Maps: using open source tools for historic maps research
  8. Exploring with Sound Walks
  9. From Colombo to London: Encounters with the Endangered Archives Programme
  10. Off the Page, Chapter 2
  11. Olga in Spain
  12. Lalla Romano (1906-2001): from painting to writing
  13. P. G. Wodehouse under Continental Covers
  14. Script, history and ideology: German fonts and handwriting
  15. A Spanish pioneer of deaf education and his early English readers
  16. Up the garden path with the Brothers Čapek and friends
  17. An introduction to intellectual property (IP)
  18. How to build a brand?
  19. Start-ups in London Libraries: Business support on ten London borough high streets
  20. National Pet Month: Pawfect pet businesses
  21. What does a wheelbarrow have to do with Aristotle?
  22. Crocodiles rock (never smile at a manuscript)
  23. Let's get quizzical
  24. How to name a mummy
  25. Book of Beasts at the Getty
  26. Mehmed the Conqueror, scourge of the world
  27. Ink in the clink
  28. Cataloguing the Harley manuscripts
  29. Homer in London
  30. How many alphabets?
  31. Keep taking the (wax) tablets
  32. Whale of a time
  33. Music notetaking and composers' thematic catalogues in the 18th century
  34. Perfecting the Writing Machine: Blind and Visible Writing Typewriters
  35. Meet the new British Sociological Association Fellow at the British Library
  36. Recording of the week: Gbamu gbamu jigi jigi! Happy times in WordBank
  37. Bicentenary of Queen Victoria – is this her voice?
  38. One of the very first MEPs: Joyce Quin, Baroness Quin, remembers the early days of the European Parliament
  39. Mother Carey's Chickens
  40. Recording of the week: Gieseking and Bohm
  41. Hearing the Dead – Florence Nightingale’s voice
  42. Recording of the week: Peter Kennedy recording of Sheila Gallagher, Donegal 1953
  43. The Duke of Wellington
  44. Help us make the news
  45. The Geologist and the Tortoise
  46. The history of the pencil
  47. Betsi Cadwaladr: The Crimean War nurse Elizabeth Davis
  48. Findings from the Bindings: Nazi Era Spoliation Research I - The Nazi Destruction and Looting of Libraries
  49. Celebrating King Edward VIII’s Birthday at the Bahrain Political Agency
  50. Henry Stubbe: Islam and religious toleration in Restoration England
  51. King Charles & Mr Perkins - Part Two
  52. King Charles & Mr Perkins - Part One
  53. Sloane’s annotations
  54. FIFA Women’s World Cup and the UK Web Archive

April 2019

  1. The New York World's Fair, 1939
  2. América Latina: Artists’ Books at the British Library
  3. Soviet Labour Unions in Uzbekistan in the 1920s: Views from the Magazine Mihnat
  4. Vijayanagara Research Project at the British Library
  5. Pouring wine on Haggadot: a Passover exception
  6. The 'Gilbert artist': a possible pupil of Sita Ram
  7. A Jesuit Atlas of Asia in Eighteenth-Century China
  8. Javanese manuscripts from Yogyakarta digitisation project completed
  9. Consider the cover: conserving a Chinese book
  10. The ‘Season of Place’ – learning about all things digital mapping
  11. Collecting Emerging Formats
  12. BL Labs 2018 Commercial Award Winner: 'The Library Collection'
  13. Net Art
  14. The British Library’s new Collection Metadata Strategy
  15. The artwork of Lalit Mohan Sen
  16. The Book of Hours
  17. ‘What Do I Know About Beckett?’: B.S. Johnson’s Beckett Notebook
  18. 17th-century English literary manuscripts in the Harley collection: Donne and more
  19. Seminar on Textual Bibliography for Modern Foreign Languages
  20. English Recusants in Portugal, 1638
  21. Ukrainian Pysanka – the Writing on the Egg
  22. Poets in Power: the 1919 Bavarian Soviet Republic
  23. In the footsteps of Princess Izabela Czartoryska
  24. The Russian in Britain: the Most Essential Book for Every Traveller and Tourist
  25. John Bull, or the English People in their Great Peculiarity
  26. A Week in the Life of... Hugh Duffie, co-founder of Sandows
  27. IP Corner: Reach for Gold - Intellectual Property and sports
  28. National Gardening Week with Natalie from Acacia Facilities
  29. What happened next? Start-up Day revisited
  30. How having a mentor can benefit your business
  31. Happy returns make for happy customers
  32. A week in the life of... Frankie Fox, co-founder and Head of Innovation for The Foraging Fox
  33. Two recent flight-related additions to the Map Collection
  34. British Empire maps of Africa added online
  35. Guess the manuscript: the dastardly edition
  36. Writing the story of writing: a new exhibition
  37. Fortune-telling the ancient way
  38. Cesare Franchi, Renaissance art in miniature
  39. Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots exhibition project curator
  40. Reunited at last: the Percy Hours and Percy Psalter
  41. The languages of history in the Middle Ages
  42. An important Anglo-Saxon manuscript acquired for the nation
  43. Jews, Money, Myth at the Jewish Museum
  44. Two new PhD opportunities for Web Comics
  45. Recording of the week: George Ewart Evans and The Barley Mow
  46. Merrie England
  47. Recording of the week: a lesson in bird song duets and trios
  48. Recording of the week: opening the Tyne Bridge
  49. Recording of the week: Cello or drum? Meet the ütőgardon
  50. Recording of the week: well sick
  51. A political scandal, a fatal duel
  52. Vaccination and the media - a 19th century debate
  53. Records of homosexuality in 17th century England
  54. Crusoe embossed
  55. Map showing Air Force of the USSR, 1939
  56. A Good Friday gift to the children of Christ’s Hospital
  57. An Easter vacation for Indian cadets at Sandhurst
  58. The Well-Travelled Goat
  59. From bad feet to blasphemy: the life of Charles William Twort
  60. Cholera on board ship at Singapore
  61. April Fool’s Day at the zoo

March 2019

  1. 25 Cats Named Sam
  2. 10 reasons to love libraries
  3. North American Indigenous languages
  4. The Power of History - Honouring Andrea Levy
  5. Musicians and Dancers in the India Office Records
  6. Vietnamese collection milestone: retroconversion of card catalogue completed
  7. The largest Javanese manuscript in the world? Menak Amir Hamza
  8. Staying Late at the Library ... to Algorave
  9. Algorave till Late in the Imaginary City
  10. BL Labs Staff Award Runners Up: 'The Digital Documents Harvester'
  11. BL Labs 2018 Commercial Award Runner Up: 'The Seder Oneg Shabbos Bentsher'
  12. The British Library / Qatar National Library Partnership Imaging Hack Day – International Women’s Day
  13. “The Barbados Mercury”: Thoughts from the digitisation team
  14. World Poetry Day – listen to new readings from Michael Marks Awards
  15. My Life is a Book: Escape from Coney Island at the British Library
  16. Fairytales on trial: the Good and the Beautiful in early Soviet children’s literature
  17. Documenting Georgian Costume in the 19th Century
  18. Pirandello’s nose
  19. “I only wish my works to be known”. Faddei Bellinsgauzen: The Voyages.
  20. Six reasons why you should be writing a blog for your business
  21. Business support in London by Deputy Mayor of London for Business, Rajesh Agrawal
  22. A week in the life of... Angela Steel, founder and CEO of SuperWellness
  23. Targeting your audience through blogging
  24. When the personal gets political
  25. Did Leonardo da Vinci invent the egg timer?
  26. Saints, kings and a bonnacon at Longthorpe Tower
  27. Initial impressions: the Noyon Sacramentary
  28. What's the language?
  29. Let sleeping cranes lie
  30. Why we love the Harley Irish Gospels
  31. A useful companion for a scholar: cats in the Middle Ages
  32. Celebrating the spiritual life
  33. Tales of ancient women
  34. The Renaissance Nude
  35. Guess the manuscript 127
  36. Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: a huge thank you
  37. From Cauliflowers to Chimaeras: A New Window onto Development
  38. The Flight of the Hoverfly
  39. How Embryologists See: Anne McLaren’s Mouse Models
  40. Airey Neave: working for science in parliament
  41. Recording of the week: Peter Blake remembers the Royal College of Art
  42. “The Acorn System One can be used to control a 22nd Century intergalactic spaceship”
  43. Recording of the week: Will Montgomery - Submarine
  44. Recording of the week: Sora song
  45. International Women's Day: Oral History highlights
  46. Recording of the week: spontaneous mimicry on a yorkshire moor
  47. News counts
  48. Colours of the Royal East India Volunteers
  49. A Melancholy Death on James Cook’s first Pacific expedition – Private William Greenslade
  50. Telephone Map of India 1934
  51. Marie Corelli: Superstar Author of the Victorian Era
  52. Crossing the Line
  53. Felix Slade and his bindings bequest
  54. The Making of ‘Dear John: The Kin Selection Controversy’. Part 2: From Idea to Event
  55. The Making of ‘Dear John: The Kin Selection Controversy’. Part 1: What’s It All About?
  56. Indian Seamen and the Steamship 'Rauenfels' during World War One
  57. Collecting Interactive Fiction
  58. Save UK Published Google + Accounts Now!

February 2019

  1. 12 tips for starting up a fashion business
  2. Event: Doctoral Open Day 2019
  3. Witch-hunts and the iconographic power of fear
  4. A man of his word: Abraham Lincoln and the Proclamation of Emancipation
  5. The Federal Theatre Project's 'Living Newspapers'
  6. Primbon, Javanese compendia of religious knowledge
  7. The Underground Rainbow: A Look at LGBTI Sources from Turkey in the British Library Collections
  8. Jewish love potions: a user's guide
  9. Javanese poetics and canto indicators: Jaya Lengkara Wulang (MSS Jav 24)
  10. Classical Central Asia in the Digital Age: Three Newly-Digitised Navoiy Manuscripts at the British Library
  11. Happy Chinese New Year! Year of the Pig 2019
  12. British Sign Language Tours at the British Library Centre for Conservation
  13. Condition Surveying British Library on Demand
  14. West Dean College of Arts and Conservation to hold series of courses in collaboration with the British Library
  15. The World Wide Lab: Building Library Labs - Part II
  16. Competition to automate text recognition for printed Bangla books
  17. Automatic Transcription of Historical Arabic Scientific Manuscripts - Round 2
  18. BL Labs 2018 Teaching & Learning Award Runner Up: 'Pocahontas and After'
  19. Updated Eighteenth-Century Collections Online
  20. Sign up for a research workshop on books written for mobile devices!
  21. BL Labs 2018 Artistic Award Runner Up: 'Nomad'
  22. BL Labs 2018 Research Award Honourable Mention: 'HerStories: Sites of Suffragette Protest and Sabotage'
  23. Interactive Fiction in the UK
  24. BL Labs 2018 Research Award Honourable Mention: 'Doctoral theses as alternative forms of knowledge: Surfacing "Southern" perspectives on student engagement with internationalisation'
  25. The British Library / Qatar Foundation Partnership Imaging Hack Day – Part 2
  26. Introducing Sam van Schaik, the new head of the Endangered Archives Programme
  27. Let's rescue and disseminate the Chilean public education archives
  28. Remembering Andrea Levy
  29. P.G. Wodehouse in Translation
  30. Creating Havana
  31. The Cats’ Newspaper: or the Cat’s Pyjamas?
  32. It All Adds Up: a Quick Look at Chronograms
  33. The Archbishop and the Rogue: William Laud’s copy of ‘Guzmán de Alfarache’
  34. A Cat may Counsel a King: the Colourful World of Czech Cats
  35. Against Totalitarianism: the Serbian émigré review ‘Naša reč’, 1948-1990
  36. Unlocking Access to Ancient Science in Renaissance Italy: the vernacularization of Pliny’s ‘Historia Naturalis’
  37. Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs at the Business & IP Centre
  38. Brexit resources available
  39. A week in the life of... Rachel Walker, co-founder of The Fold Line
  40. Why have a mentor? Discover more about our Innovating for Growth: Mentoring programme
  41. A week in the life of... Merilee Karr, founder and CEO of UnderTheDoormat
  42. Digitising the Private Case
  43. Collaboration key for advancing open research: repository progress for Jisc and the British Library
  44. Inside information
  45. Through the looking glass
  46. Reconstructing the Otho-Corpus Gospels
  47. Explore our Anglo-Saxons webspace
  48. When love comes knockin’ at your door
  49. New records of slavery from Anglo-Saxon Cornwall
  50. My ‘right well-beloved Valentine’
  51. Picture this: portraits of Anglo-Saxon rulers
  52. Easy as ABC?
  53. Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms and the BnF
  54. Medieval myths and legends
  55. Sutton Hoo and Anglo-Saxon East Anglia
  56. ‘For Jean on her Birthday’: Vaughan Williams’s String Quartet in A minor
  57. A visit to the Joint Library of Ophthalmology at Moorfields Eye Hospital
  58. Spare Rib Archive - possible suspension of access
  59. Recording of the week: rabbits and chickens by post!
  60. Creative States of Mind: a new collection of interviews exploring artists and the creative process
  61. Recording of the week: croggy or backy?
  62. Andrea Levy
  63. Recording of the week: the endingidi and the erhu – two types of the spike tube fiddle
  64. Where our laws are drafted: 150 years of the Office of Parliamentary Counsel
  65. The tale of the seven whistlers
  66. Hommage à Michel Legrand
  67. Recording of the week: life in a rock pool
  68. The Black Wonder
  69. ‘Smutty stuff’ for ‘debauched readers’: The Merryland books in the Private Case
  70. Trying to grow Syrian tobacco in Bombay
  71. Interviews with Indian Soldiers of World War One and World War Two
  72. The Dawes Bequest of erotica: so sensitive, it had to be smuggled in at dawn
  73. JMW Turner’s First and Last Loves (Part 2)
  74. JMW Turner’s First and Last Loves (Part 1)
  75. Countess Waldegrave and Baron Carlingford, part 2: The Breakfast Club and 'the Irish Question'
  76. Countess Waldegrave and Baron Carlingford, part 1: political influence and family ties
  77. A little piece of India

January 2019

  1. To Edgar, from Aubrey: bringing Poe’s tales to life
  2. New Collaborations: Announcing the Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer’s Award
  3. Cats from the stacks: The Cat in the Hat
  4. A Belated Happy Junkanoo: the Caribbean Christmas
  5. Javanese manuscripts in the Mackenzie collection: the publication of Weatherbee’s 'Inventory'
  6. Researching the Asian and African Collections at the British Library
  7. The Other March of the Penguins: A Flightless Mascot for Dissent in Turkey
  8. History from Between: Global Circulations of the Past in East Asia and Europe
  9. Remembering Legendary Bookbinder Bernard Middleton 1924-2019
  10. Course on Asian Papers and their Applications in Paper Conservation
  11. Exploring and Recording Textiles in the British Library Collections
  12. 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'
  13. Reading 35,000 Books: The UCD Contagion Project and the British Library Digital Corpus - Workshop & Roundtable
  14. BL Labs 2018 Teaching & Learning Award Winner: 'Pocket Miscellanies'
  15. BL Labs 2018 Artistic Award Winner: 'Another Intelligence Sings'
  16. Innovation Fellow for Interactive Fiction in the Emerging Formats Project
  17. Can you help us with user experience testing for books designed for mobile devices?
  18. BL Labs 2018 Research Award Winner: 'The Delius Catalogue of Works'
  19. The BL Labs Symposium, 2018
  20. Digital Conversations @BL: Data, Place and Digital Economies
  21. Early photographic work of the Hamilton Studios, Bombay.
  22. In Celebration of Djenné
  23. Graham Greene and the curse of the sausage roll: an image of class and disgust in Brighton Rock
  24. Harold Pinter: A Line, A Word, An Image
  25. The Sun-Artist, the Typewriter and Bridge of the Ford
  26. Kater Murr at 200: ‘the cleverest, best and wittiest creature of his kind ever beheld’
  27. ‘Tom Puss, conjure up a trick!’
  28. Agustín Fernández Mallo and the Nocilla Project
  29. You can’t go out dressed like that! A crack-down on extravagance in 17th-century Lisbon
  30. Pan Kotsky
  31. Katharina Luther and a Letter to a Laureate
  32. Translating Cultures: French Caribbean History, Literature and Migration
  33. Pascual de Gayangos and the British Museum Library
  34. A week in the life of... Dr Jan Kattein, founding director of Jan Kattein Architects
  35. Five tips to drive traffic to your website
  36. Five elements to consider when choosing a winning domain
  37. ‘Rub the shin of the person on your left. With your face.’
  38. The Ascension in Anglo-Saxon England
  39. Queen Emma: wife of two kings, mother of two more
  40. Charteriffic
  41. Cambridge loans in Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms
  42. Cataloguing Greek papyri at the British Library: new PhD placement position
  43. From Oxford to London
  44. The Southwark Hours: a new acquisition
  45. Gorgeous manuscripts galore
  46. Audio description tour of Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms
  47. Heathens, pagans, Danes …. Vikings?
  48. Round up of our Manuscripts in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms conference
  49. The Anglo-Saxon origins of the English counties
  50. Alfred ordered me to be made
  51. Lab notebooks - handwriting at the core of science
  52. Archiving Activism: The Animal Guide
  53. Classical Podcast No. 3 Albert Coates
  54. Recording of the week: Bubu music from Tasso Island
  55. Recording of the week: it's a bit Derby!
  56. Recording of the week: starling mimicry
  57. Recording of the week: sculptor Eduardo Paolozzi on post-war Britain
  58. The anatomy of news
  59. African newspapers
  60. Multi-title newspaper volumes – historic practice vs. modern process
  61. Heritage Made Digital - the newspapers
  62. The Favourite and the Marlborough Papers
  63. Virginia Woolf: Greatest icon of the 20th century?
  64. The shooting of the British Consul General at Isfahan and Sowar Chowdri Khan
  65. ‘Methods of barbarism’: how Emily Hobhouse exposed the humanitarian crisis of the Boer War
  66. 'Citizens of the World' – the Collow network of merchants, agents and traders
  67. Isaac Robert Cruikshank – a life retold?
  68. Cats and games of forfeit
  69. The first baby born on the Tube
  70. Blanchard! Where are your trousers? The first crossing of the English Channel in a balloon
  71. The Great War Fund Fete
  72. Indian Honours List, New Year 1919
  73. Extracting Place Names from Web Archives at Archives Unleashed Vancouver

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