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December 2020

1. 1 DecCooking a Christmas Meal in the Caribbean Collections
2. 1 DecThe American newsroom as seen in cartoons: 1930-1960. By Dr Will Mari
3. 1 DecArt in a pandemic: exploring manifestation of art and design
4. 1 DecThe Burmese Harp: (2) Matters of the Heart
5. 1 Dec‘A cessation of plunder and piracy… for ever’: the General Treaty with the Arab Tribes of the Persian Gulf
6. 1 DecPlugging the holes in history: banned political pamphlets in colonial India
7. 1 DecLotus Sutra Project: Storage Solutions
8. 1 DecHighlights from crowdsourcing projects at the British Library
9. 1 DecBL Labs Awards Symposium 2020, Rewind, Reflections, Box-sets and Seasons Greetings
10. 1 DecDigital Research and the year that was
11. 1 DecFaint Signals
12. 1 DecAURA Research Network Second Workshop
13. 1 DecShortlist and voting for BL Labs People's Choice: Public Awards 2020 announced! Last chance: Book BL Labs Symposium!
14. 1 DecNew PhD Placements Opportunities: Born-digital Legal Deposit and the New Media Writing Prize Collection
15. 1 DecNew Collections Online - November 2020
16. 1 DecWhat’s in a Name? The Archival Legacy of Emilia Francis Strong/Pattison/Dilke
17. 1 DecCelebrating New Poetry Pamphlets: The Michael Marks Awards 2020
18. 1 DecNew Acquisition: John Donne and the Melford Hall Manuscript
19. 1 DecThat was the year that was…
20. 1 DecA musical festive feast from around Europe
21. 1 DecClothes mean more than bodies
22. 1 DecAfter Bodoni: Italian Typography in the 20th Century
23. 1 DecFrom Binding to Printing: Christophe Plantin
24. 1 DecMeet Caron Pollard, founder of Teal and Start-ups in London Libraries participant
25. 1 DecMeet our delivery partner: Pete Schönbeck
26. 1 DecSupport small businesses this Christmas
27. 1 DecA week in the life of… Stéphanie Tumba founder of Sté Tumba Capital and Managing Director of Human Connections London
28. 1 DecSeasons greetings from the British Library
29. 1 DecThe most popular British Library content of 2020
30. 1 DecAdding sparkle to the New Year
31. 1 DecWhere’s Father Christmas? A look at the Atlas de Finlande, the first national atlas
32. 1 DecPandemic maps: science, size and simplicity
33. 1 DecInternational Mountain Day
34. 1 DecBushfire maps of Australia
35. 1 DecThe ox and ass at the Nativity
36. 1 DecGreat medieval bake off: Christmas edition
37. 1 DecThe medieval Christmas weather forecast
38. 1 DecAn ancient ‘happy family’
39. 1 DecNew Prophecies of the Ancient Sibyls
40. 1 DecAncient steam engines
41. 1 DecCelebrating Beethoven: a new online exhibition on Discovering Music
42. 1 DecData Debates: What does data really tell us about the generational divide?
43. 1 DecDigitised Spare Rib resource
44. 1 DecRecording of the week: Sámi Yoik; evoking reindeer, the wind and 'wind nose'
45. 1 DecRecording of the week: Sheffield’s pub carols, a secular tradition
46. 1 DecCaulking the ethnographic gap – A Trobriander perspective on the songs, dances, stories and performers of the Malinowski Cylinder Collection (C46)
47. 1 DecTrue Echoes: Malinowski’s 1915 – 1918 Trobriand recordings
48. 1 DecPublic libraries in a pandemic year
49. 1 DecOral History of Jazz in Britain: Max Jones interviews Adelaide Hall
50. 1 DecTrue Echoes launches new research website
51. 1 DecBritish Library Sports Word of the Year 2020
52. 1 DecRobert Cox and The Golden Fleece
53. 1 DecTrue Echoes project: collaboration – communication – continuation
54. 1 DecRecording of the week: Gut feelings in weather forecasting
55. 1 DecThe untold story of the birth of World Wide Web: putting the record straight
56. 1 DecRecording of the week: Screaming Lord Sutch talks Cyprus, Tony Blair and an open top dome
57. 1 DecPiloting a national radio archive
58. 1 DecNew Year’s Gift
59. 1 DecSuffrage scrapbooks: forgotten histories of political activism
60. 1 DecA Christmas pantomime
61. 1 DecSoldier’s life saved by Princess Mary's Christmas gift
62. 1 DecHer Majesty’s Steamer Berenice destroyed by fire
63. 1 DecThe Lives and Letters of the Black Loyalists – Part 4 Women’s Lives
64. 1 DecGallant, Clean and Drunk: Charles Old of the Royal Artillery
65. 1 DecMermanjan’s diary
66. 1 DecThe curious case of Jean Robbio
67. 1 DecWilfred Owen: One Hundred Years of His Poems
68. 1 DecCreating a Web Collection for the exhibition - Unfinished Business: The Fight for Women’s Rights

November 2020

1. 30 NovBL Labs Public Awards 2020: enter before NOON GMT Monday 30 November 2020! REMINDER
2. 1 NovPhD Placement Opportunity – National Library Curator Conference
3. 1 NovThe 2021 Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer's Award shortlistees: researching the Americas
4. 1 NovA Golden Legacy: Vakfiyeler and Evkâf in the British Library Collections
5. 1 NovChristian Arabic Bible Translations in the British Library Collections
6. 1 NovObject, Story and Wonder: Museum Collections Revealed with the British Library
7. 1 NovThe Burmese Harp: (1) Seduction of the Senses
8. 1 NovMuhammad Najib Khan, a Sufi soldier in 18th century southern India
9. 1 NovLotus Sutra Project: Scroll with Blue Cover
10. 1 NovUsing British Library Cultural Heritage Data for a Digital Humanities Research Course at the Australian National University
11. 1 NovEarly Circus in London: Astley's Amphitheatre by Professor Leith Davis
12. 1 NovReflections during International Games Week and Transgender Awareness Week
13. 1 NovBL Labs Online Symposium 2020 : Book your place for Tuesday 15-Dec-2020
14. 1 NovWorld Digital Preservation Day 2020
15. 1 NovTransforming Legacy Indexes into Catalogue Entries
16. 1 NovWhat’s in a name? The Sovietisation of the Mongolian language and the Challenges of Reversal
17. 1 NovNew Collections Online - October 2020
18. 1 NovWhat Have We Been Reading?
19. 1 NovCarmen Callil, Cats and Feminist Generations
20. 1 NovFriedrich Engels: politics and paradoxes
21. 1 NovCelebrating the centenary of Sovremennye zapiski
22. 1 NovFeminism in Early Modern Venice: Lucrezia Marinella
23. 1 NovPhD Placement Opportunity - Interrogating German Collections
24. 1 NovFrederick Cosens, a forgotten Hispanist
25. 1 NovMeet our delivery partner: Paul Grant, The Funding Game
26. 1 NovA week in the life of… Catherine Farrant, founder of Ossa Organic
27. 1 NovEnabling access for everyone: the British Library’s content strategy 2020-2023
28. 1 NovA timely take on food writing
29. 1 NovDigging up the secrets of Frances Hodgson Burnett
30. 1 NovUnfinished Business: Leeds Weekender
31. 1 NovKing's Topographical Collection: curator's pick
32. 1 NovThe King’s Topographical Collection wonders
33. 1 NovGreenham Women Against Cruise Map
34. 1 NovSherborne Missal on the radio
35. 1 Nov900 years since the White Ship disaster
36. 1 NovThe Polonsky project's two year anniversary
37. 1 NovCamden's Annals PhD studentship
38. 1 NovAnnouncing the Acquisition of the Lucas Psalter
39. 1 NovParchment in prison: imprisoned medieval writers
40. 1 NovPhD placement on Irish manuscripts
41. 1 NovOttonian imperial style in Echternach Gospel-books
42. 1 NovLewis of Caerleon manuscript saved for the nation
43. 1 NovThe show must go on! Putting on a play in the 16th century
44. 1 NovMusic for a while… for more than 325 years! (a joint RISM-British Library blog post about sources for Purcell's music)
45. 1 NovPhD placement opportunity – The Royal Music Library: understanding provenance and collecting practices
46. 1 NovData Debates: Bots in the Polling Booth
47. 1 NovRecording of the week: Baffies on St Andrew’s Day
48. 1 NovRecording of the Week: A chance encounter
49. 1 NovNazis on trial: Nuremberg 75 years ago
50. 1 NovRecording of the week: Music and singing for the Tihar Festival in Nepal
51. 1 NovRecording of the week: If I were a blackbird
52. 1 NovAn interview with Major James Howe
53. 1 NovRecording of the week: The horrors of the long drop
54. 1 NovCollaborative Doctoral Partnership
55. 1 NovCelebrating St Andrew’s Day in the trenches
56. 1 NovGeorge Poland & Son – furriers to the rich, friends to the poor
57. 1 NovThe Lives and Letters of the Black Loyalists – Part 3 Cato Perkins and Nathaniel Snowball
58. 1 NovEliza Armstrong’s children
59. 1 NovWilliam Adams in Japan– a new digital resource
60. 1 NovStand and deliver! Cross-dressing highwaywomen in broadside ballads
61. 1 NovA fatal pub brawl and its consequences
62. 1 NovMaking gunpowder after the English method
63. 1 NovTracing the Lives and Letters of the Black Loyalists – Part 2 Thomas Peters
64. 1 NovLGBTQ+ Lives Online Web Archive Collection
65. 1 NovWeb Archive Team wins 2020 Digital Preservation Award
66. 1 Nov2020 Domain Crawl Update
67. 1 NovHow Remembrance Day has Changed
68. 1 NovA tale of two web archives: challenges of engaging web archival infrastructures for research
69. 1 NovThe UK Web Archive website over time - 15 Years of UKWA
70. 1 NovOn World Digital Preservation Day, the UK Web Archive and the ‘Children of Lockdown’ capture the moment for future generations
71. 1 NovCurating culturally themed collections online: The Russia in the UK Collection, UK Web Archive
72. 1 NovLGBTQ+ Lives Online: Introducing the Lead Curators
73. 1 NovDigital archaeology in the web of links: reconstructing a late-90s web sphere

October 2020

1. 10 Oct10 things you may not know about the King's Topographical Collection
2. 1 OctNew additions to our electronic resources
3. 1 OctLibraries and manuscripts of Laos (1994-2012)
4. 1 OctA Family Affair: The Dukagjinis in the British Library’s Ottoman Turkish Collections
5. 1 OctFor your eyes only: Charles Masson’s observations on the Durrani states
6. 1 OctDefining Dialects: Accounting for Turkic Languages in the British Library Collections
7. 1 OctOn light: conserving material for our exhibition Unfinished Business: The Fight for Women’s Rights
8. 1 OctLearning to Communicate: Before and After Lockdown
9. 1 OctMind Your Paws and Claws
10. 1 OctHappy Eighth Birthday Wikidata!
11. 1 OctBL Labs Public Award Runner Up (Research) 2019 - Automated Labelling of People in Video Archives
12. 1 OctThe Botish Library: developing a poetry printing machine with Python
13. 1 OctThe 2020 British Library Labs Staff Award - Nominations Open!
14. 1 OctFiction Readers Wanted for PhD Research Study
15. 1 Oct2020 New Media Writing Prize is Open
16. 1 OctHarold Pinter’s Drafts of The Proust Screenplay
17. 1 Oct‘A Dittie most Excellent’: Catholic songs and poems from time of King James I
18. 1 OctThe Spanish Friar who “told Europe” about China
19. 1 OctGianni Rodari, the logic of fantasy (part 2)
20. 1 OctSolidarity in satire
21. 1 OctNomen est omen
22. 1 OctGerman Reunification - Before and Beyond 1990
23. 1 OctInnovating for Growth: Scale-ups diary – The Street Food Company – part 2
24. 1 OctMeet Aleksandra Horwood, founder of Happy Stance Yoga and Start-ups in London Libraries participant
25. 1 OctA week in the life of... Laura Rudoe, founder of Good Ventures Ltd
26. 1 OctMeet our delivery partner: The House
27. 1 OctBritish Library at London Fashion Week 2020
28. 1 OctSomething for curious minds, wherever you are
29. 1 OctOur role in renewal: Living Knowledge For Everyone
30. 1 OctOpen and Engaged Conference 2020: Inequities in Scholarly Communications
31. 1 OctMaps of Jamaica in the K.Top. Collection
32. 1 OctCataloguing the King’s Topographical Collection
33. 1 OctThe K.Top: 18,000 digitised maps and views released
34. 1 OctBritish Library map books published in October
35. 1 OctByland Abbey ghost stories: a guide to medieval ghosts
36. 1 OctAngels in Manuscripts
37. 1 OctEarly medieval interlace – a distinctive or ubiquitous feature?
38. 1 OctThe Bamberg Book of Relics
39. 1 OctAnnouncing the new RISM UK Catalogue!
40. 1 OctRalph Vaughan Williams in the Boosey & Hawkes Archive
41. 1 OctDigitising Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius at the Birmingham Oratory
42. 1 OctIn our Hebrew Manuscripts exhibition, "Tsurat ha-arets" by Abraham bar Hiyya
43. 1 OctNew Spare Rib map resource: putting women's activism on the map
44. 1 OctGoing batty for Halloween
45. 1 OctEddie South – Dark Angel of the Violin
46. 1 OctRecording of the week: Go on then, tell me about the duppies
47. 1 OctRecording of the week: Electricity in the kitchen
48. 1 OctMaking of: The Unearthed Odyssey
49. 1 OctRecording of the week: Radio’s Holy Grail
50. 1 OctWhat if your home had ears?
51. 1 OctRecording of the week: We’re gonna be parents!
52. 1 OctBanned in South Africa: Dr Martin Luther King Jr.
53. 1 Oct‘Using your eyes as a pen’ – Black British Poets in Performance
54. 1 OctThe Oddfellows friendly society and Barbados
55. 1 OctWearing a face mask
56. 1 OctEliza Armstrong – Another Piece of the Puzzle
57. 1 OctThe truth behind the myth: the colonial legacy of the Mayflower voyage - No.5 Colonial New England from the 1640s onwards
58. 1 OctTracing the lives and letters of the Black Loyalists – Part 1 The Journey to Sierra Leone
59. 1 OctThe truth behind the myth: the colonial legacy of the Mayflower voyage - No.4 The first 20 years of Plymouth Colony continued
60. 1 OctThe Law of Forfeiture: Applying English Traditions in India?
61. 1 OctThe truth behind the myth: the colonial legacy of the Mayflower voyage - No.3 The first 20 years of Plymouth Colony
62. 1 Oct‘Can you sign this for me?’ Collecting the autographs of famous 17th century figures
63. 1 OctThe UK Web Archive creeps and crawls into the domain of Halloween with byte sized steps
64. 1 OctPRONI Web Archive: A Collaborative Approach
65. 1 OctThe 1916 Easter Rising Web Archive
66. 1 OctThe UK Web Archive and Wimbledon; A Winning Combination
67. 1 OctExploring media events with Shine
68. 1 OctEngaging with Web Archives - Conference Report
69. 1 OctSafeguarding the Digital Legacy: the UK Web Archive is a finalist for the 2020 Digital Preservation Awards
70. 1 OctRequest for Information: Metadata Management Tool for the UK Web Archive

September 2020

1. 1 SepMāori Language Week 2020
2. 1 SepTickling the trees, dancing with clouds: Birds in Thai manuscript illustration (2)
3. 1 SepCurating Curation: Making Sense of the British Library’s Chagatai Collections
4. 1 SepUnsōdō and the evolution of design book publishing in Japan
5. 1 SepeReading Karma in Snakes and Ladders: two South Asian game boards in the British Library collections
6. 1 SepTickling the trees, dancing with clouds: Birds in Thai manuscript illustration (1)
7. 1 SepEarly Yorùbá books at the BL and how to find (some of) them online
8. 1 SepJoining the British Library Salvage Team
9. 1 SepSalvage training during lockdown
10. 1 SepMaking Data Into Sound
11. 1 SepMapping Space, Mapping Time, Mapping Texts
12. 1 SepHiring a new Wikimedian in Residence
13. 1 SepDigital geographical narratives with Knight Lab’s StoryMap
14. 1 SepWhen is a persistent identifier not persistent? Or an identifier?
15. 1 SepBritish Library Joins Share-VDE Linked Data Community
16. 1 SepTaking a Virtual Walk on the Wild Side
17. 1 SepNew Collections Online - September 2020
18. 1 SepApply for one of the 2021/22 Chevening British Library Fellowships and join the EAP team
19. 1 SepIn Memory of Sir Ronald Harwood (1934-2020)
20. 1 SepRuth Prawer Jhabvala: A Lifelong Refugee (1927-2013)
21. 1 Sep“Contested commemoration”: Trieste’s memorials of Fascism, Nazism and World War Two
22. 1 SepShining a light on Wilkie Collins and the Low Countries
23. 1 SepMały konspirator
24. 1 SepEdward Spencer Dodgson, an English eccentric
25. 1 SepChernobyl: two new acquisitions at the British Library
26. 1 SepJadwiga Piątkowska, the forgotten poet of Solidarity
27. 1 SepHow the BIPC can help you Reset. Restart
28. 1 SepInnovating for Growth: Scale-ups diary – The Street Food Company – part 1
29. 1 SepA day in the life of… Hazel Russell, co-founder of The Wood Life Project
30. 1 SepJulie Deane: Living proof that you can start and adapt a business from your kitchen table
31. 1 SepA week in the life of… Peter Hill, founder of Petvictus
32. 1 SepMeet our delivery partner: Melissa Addey
33. 1 SepMeet Patricia Gurman, founder of Sweet Paper Creations and Start-ups in London Libraries participant
34. 1 SepTransforming the British Library
35. 1 SepAdmiralty Charts: good design in the analogue age
36. 1 SepFan-tastic way to keep cool
37. 1 SepJ.B. Harley Research Fellowships in the History of Cartography
38. 1 SepThe Great Fire of London in maps
39. 1 SepGreat medieval bake off
40. 1 SepAll about ancient camels
41. 1 SepHeritage Made Digital: Tudor and Stuart manuscripts go online
42. 1 SepBefore photo IDs were invented
43. 1 SepThe Holy Kinship
44. 1 SepDigitised Music Manuscripts
45. 1 SepRecording of the week: Discovering Sibelius
46. 1 SepThe sounds of Autumn
47. 1 SepYoung for Eternity: Unlocking Our Sound Heritage preserves the Subways’ Glastonbury demo
48. 1 SepNuclear history: Triangulating sources and government secrecy.
49. 1 SepRecording of the week: My family and other tapes
50. 1 SepGlastonbury New Bands Competition Collection: Unlocking the dreams of unsigned bands
51. 1 SepRecording of the week: Another side of Laurence Binyon
52. 1 SepThe Political Lives of Postwar British MPs: An Oral History of Parliament
53. 1 SepRecording of the week: The V-Girls’ Academia in the Alps
54. 1 SepThe news from Leeds
55. 1 SepThe truth behind the myth: the colonial legacy of the Mayflower voyage - No.2 Who were the so-called Pilgrims?
56. 1 SepBringing the children home
57. 1 SepThe truth behind the myth: the colonial legacy of the Mayflower voyage - No.1 English colonisation of North America prior to 1620
58. 1 SepSylvia Pankhurst’s Toilet Papers
59. 1 SepHunter, Campbell, and the politics of archiving famine
60. 1 SepFour 'Weddings' and a Funeral: A Liverpool Story
61. 1 SepCaptain Charles Foulis and Commodore George Anson
62. 1 SepSt Helena laws for inhabitants 1672
63. 1 SepNil Darpan: the Indigo Revolt and the trial of Reverend James Long
64. 1 SepNational Sporting Heritage Day 2020
65. 1 SepThe World of Food and the UK Web Archive
66. 1 SepArnhem75 - a special collection of websites added to the UK Web Archive
67. 1 SepLaunching the UK Web Archive 2020 Annual Domain Crawl
68. 1 SepUKWA available in reading rooms again

August 2020

1. 21 Aug21 Gdańsk Demands: the First Step towards Freedom
2. 15 Aug15 Years of UKWA - Introducing Legal Deposit to Web Archiving in 2013
3. 1 AugParadise in London: the Paraíso School of Samba and the beginnings of urban Brazilian carnival in Rio de Janeiro
4. 1 AugThe Centenary of the Nineteenth Amendment and US women's right to vote
5. 1 AugMrs. America: Still Unfinished Business
6. 1 AugMrs. America: Unfinished Business
7. 1 AugReactions to HIV in the 1980s and COVID-19 stigma
8. 1 AugHebrew Manuscripts: Journeys of the Written Word
9. 1 AugWhen you wish upon a star: The Celestial Weaver Maiden at the Star Festival
10. 1 AugThe Tree of Knowledge: magic spells from a Jewish potion book
11. 1 AugHow Should We Write Yorùbá? Diacritics in Modern Yoruba Writing
12. 1 AugMagic and Divination in Ethiopian Manuscripts
13. 1 AugAt the crossroads of cultures: a Hebrew manuscript of Johannes Sacrobosco’s De sphaera mundi
14. 1 AugDisaster Response Plans during COVID-19
15. 1 AugNot Just for Kids: UK Digital Comics, from creation to consumption
16. 1 AugHaving a Hoot for International Owl Awareness Day
17. 1 AugNew Collections Online - August 2020
18. 1 AugThe Manuscripts of Thomas Chatterton
19. 1 AugWilliam Wordsworth: From This Green Earth
20. 1 AugThe Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets 2020 is Now Open
21. 1 AugTed Hughes: A 90th Birthday Celebration
22. 1 AugImagining Aliens and Looking for the Invisible: Imperialist Legacies in Science Fiction
23. 1 AugDutch Debut Wins International Booker Prize 2020
24. 1 AugGutenberg Anniversaries - not all that they seem?
25. 1 AugThe City of Rijeka: European Capital of Culture
26. 1 AugInheritance Books: Marja Kingma, Curator Germanic Collections
27. 1 AugGianni Rodari, the logic of fantasy (part 1)
28. 1 AugMeet Sol Ramos, co-founder of London Basketball Nation and Start-ups in London Libraries participant
29. 1 AugThe beer lover’s guide to the perfect IP brew
30. 1 AugMeet our delivery partner: Mark Sheahan
31. 1 AugReopening and reinterpretation – our Front Hall busts
32. 1 AugWelcome back to our Treasures Gallery!
33. 1 AugThe History of Parliament Trust Oral History Project: Q&A with Dr Emma Peplow
34. 1 AugSupporting public libraries through a national digital presence
35. 1 AugHuman maps
36. 1 AugGoad Maps on Layers of London
37. 1 AugMapping as poetry: looking at ‘Spatial Poem No.2, a fluxatlas’
38. 1 AugElizabeth Elstob, Old English scholar, and the Harleian Library
39. 1 AugDigitisation of the Sherborne Missal
40. 1 AugOnline resources for medieval manuscripts
41. 1 AugHow did the Cotton library grow?
42. 1 Aug“Collect the fragments – they should not perish!”
43. 1 AugJewels make the Virgin Queen
44. 1 AugLudicrous figures in the margin
45. 1 AugTreasures on Tour: an Armagh gospel-book on display in Belfast
46. 1 AugSir Henry Wood and the Concert Programme Exchange Scheme
47. 1 AugRecording of the week: Kathy Stobart interviewed by Jen Wilson
48. 1 AugRecording of the week: Lubaina Himid and Griselda Pollock in conversation (ICA, 1988)
49. 1 AugWalking in the archive
50. 1 AugRecording of the week: Ganapati, mythology and Koh-i-Noors: a poetry reading by Debjani Chatterjee
51. 1 AugRecording of the week: Do you know what a paternoster is?
52. 1 AugIn celebration of owls
53. 1 AugRecording of the week: Evening by Lake Siemianówka
54. 1 AugMusic hall entertainment for Bank Holiday Monday
55. 1 AugCollections in the UK on Indian Independence and Partition
56. 1 AugThe Temples of Mahabalipuram and the early days of Heritage Conservation
57. 1 AugDeath on the Cherwell
58. 1 AugQuetta to Sistan: The Development of a Strategic Trade Route
59. 1 Aug‘Black Peggy’ and the Foundling Hospital
60. 1 AugReceipts of the Late Thomas Lakin
61. 1 AugJohn Dean: Celebrity shipwreck survivor of the 1740s
62. 1 AugTwo portrait painters on a passage to India
63. 1 AugCats vs Dogs on the Archived Web
64. 1 AugGoing for gold: exploring Olympic & Paralympic resources
65. 1 AugTwit twoo: International Owl Awareness Day 2020

July 2020

1. 15 Jul15 Years of UKWA - Looking back at our first collections
2. 1 JulExploring Robert Lowell's English years in the Sound Archive
3. 1 JulColonial American Theatre
4. 1 JulThe Perils of Diplomatic Protection in the Early 19th Century
5. 1 JulTracing the History of Northern Ontario at the British Library
6. 1 JulAtomic Holiday Snaps? Depictions of ‘normality’ in the official photography of postwar atomic bomb tests
7. 1 JulColonial Training in Canada
8. 1 JulInheritance Books: Lucy Rowland, Curator Oceania Collections
9. 1 JulThe Black and Indigenous presence in the story of how Breadfruit came to the Caribbean
10. 1 JulDancing in the archives...
11. 1 JulA Mughal Musical Miscellany: the journey of Or. 2361
12. 1 JulAnglo-Jewish deeds from medieval England- a treasure trove for historians
13. 1 JulBombay Plague Visitation, 1896-97
14. 1 JulAutograph responsum of Moses Maimonides, pre-eminent Jewish polymath and spiritual leader
15. 1 JulSuthon and Manora: A jewel of Thai literature, art and performance
16. 1 JulToys and ephemera in a fifteenth-century multilingual illustrated dictionary from India
17. 1 JulCount your fingers: calendrical hand diagrams in Hebrew manuscripts
18. 1 JulA Book Conservator Without Any Books: Part 1
19. 1 JulStarting with A Book – A Conservator in the Lockdown
20. 1 JulIra Aldridge In the Spotlight
21. 1 JulWorld of Wikimedia
22. 1 JulLegacies of Catalogue Descriptions and Curatorial Voice: Training Sessions
23. 1 JulReadings at the intersection of digital scholarship and anti-racism
24. 1 JulArchivists, Stop Wasting Your Ref-ing Time!
25. 1 JulNew Collections Online - July 2020
26. 1 JulNew Projects Online - June 2020
27. 1 JulAndrew Salkey and the first Publishing Houses for Black Writing in Britain
28. 1 JulTwo Inches of Ivory: A New(ish) Jane Austen Acquisition
29. 1 JulMervyn Peake’s scariest drawings saved for the nation
30. 1 JulBlazing a trail for Black British writing: Jacaranda's Twenty in 2020
31. 1 JulNew Blog Season: Anti-Racism and Excellence in Our Collections and Beyond, editor's comments
32. 1 JulTranslation and melancholy
33. 1 JulInheritance Books: Susan Reed, Lead Curator Germanic Collections
34. 1 JulInheritance Books: Katya Rogatchevskaia, Lead Curator East European Collections
35. 1 JulThe Gilbert White of Bohemia? Aleš Pařízek
36. 1 JulCoronavirus (Covid-19) ephemera material from Southeast Europe
37. 1 JulInheritance Books: Janet Ashton, West European Languages Cataloguing Team Manager
38. 1 JulA week in the life of... Olivia Thompson, founder of Akila Dolls
39. 1 JulFirst aid and health and safety essential changes due to COVID-19
40. 1 JulHow Innovating for Growth is helping business throughout the crisis
41. 1 JulInnovating for Growth: Scale-ups diary - The Good Slice – part 2
42. 1 JulMeet Ahmad Baracat, founder of Baracat Bros and Start-ups in London Libraries participant
43. 1 JulMeet our delivery partner: Centa
44. 1 JulWe can’t wait to see you again
45. 1 JulThe collecting continues
46. 1 JulThe Subterranean World
47. 1 JulWorld Map World Cup: what happened and five things we've learnt
48. 1 JulMaps and photography: a brief history, part 3
49. 1 JulWorld Map World Cup: Group 4
50. 1 JulWorld Map World Cup: Group 3
51. 1 JulWorld Map World Cup: Group 2
52. 1 JulWorld Map World Cup: Group 1
53. 1 JulHelp us choose the British Library's favourite world map
54. 1 JulAn Atlas of the Himalayas by a 19th Century Tibetan Lama: A Journey of Discovery
55. 1 JulThe maps of Matthew Paris
56. 1 JulPicturing the Old Testament in the Rochester Bible
57. 1 JulDefender of the Faith
58. 1 JulSpreading the word: a tribute to ancient teachers
59. 1 JulShakespeare's only surviving playscript now online
60. 1 JulThe 800th anniversary of the translation of Thomas Becket
61. 1 JulOur latest list of digitised manuscripts
62. 1 JulFrom Music to Meme (2): Postage Stamps Commemorating Japanese Music Education, 1979-1981
63. 1 JulMichael Tippett: love in the age of extremes
64. 1 JulGilbert White's influence on science
65. 1 JulFood Community in the Context of Covid
66. 1 JulRecording of the week: The secret song of the skylark
67. 1 JulOral History of British Science and transnational history
68. 1 JulUnlocking Our Sound Heritage preserves 200,000 endangered sounds
69. 1 JulRecording of the week: Barnacle geese at Mersehead Reserve
70. 1 JulRecording of the week: Women’s workwear in the 1960s
71. 1 JulLinton Kwesi Johnson awarded PEN Pinter Prize 2020
72. 1 JulRecording of the week: Barbara Kruger in conversation
73. 1 JulSir Andrew Scott Waugh and the naming of Everest
74. 1 JulThe Trial of Prince Najaf ʿAlī Khān Zand
75. 1 JulThe lesser-known early years of Sultan Qaboos
76. 1 JulThis boy just tried to kill the Queen!
77. 1 Jul300th anniversary of Gilbert White
78. 1 JulResearching Women in Science in the Modern Manuscript Collections Part 2: 1849-1950
79. 1 JulResearching Women in Science in the Modern Manuscript Collections Part 1: 1601-1848
80. 1 JulThe forgotten Prince of Burma
81. 1 JulThe Jacob orphans – lives linking three continents
82. 1 JulVickers Jacob – a life in Ireland, India and Australia
83. 1 JulLGBTQ+ Lives Online

June 2020

1. 1 JunRemembering Dr King: US Black activism in the UK and beyond
2. 1 JunHell You Talmbout
3. 1 JunTwo Miscellanies in the Manuscript Collection of Sir William Jones
4. 1 JunRadicals and Rebels: The published works of Issachar Jacox Roberts
5. 1 JunAn eighth century Judaeo-Persian letter from Dandan-Uiliq
6. 1 JunThe First Gaster Bible: a fine Hebrew manuscript from a Muslim land
7. 1 JunThe Politics of Prognostication in the Cairo Sultanate
8. 1 JunA Thai royal edition of Pannasa Jataka (ปัญญาสชาดก)
9. 1 JunWritten in your palm, just read it!
10. 1 JunPaper Express! A Hand-Made Tale
11. 1 JunRolls from the King’s Library: An Unexpected Arrival
12. 1 JunMarginal Voices in UK Digital Comics
13. 1 JunMaking Watermarks Visible: A Collaborative Project between Conservation and Imaging
14. 1 JunInternational Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling 2020: Call for Papers, Posters and Interactive Creative Works
15. 1 JunThe Legacy of Slavery: A 19th Century Newspaper and 21st Century Racial Inequity
16. 1 JunTales of Terror and Wonder – A Gothic Legacy
17. 1 Jun“To Mr Pope att Button’s Coffee House”: translating Homer on scraps
18. 1 Jun‘For it was the middle of June’: Dalloway Day
19. 1 JunGypsy, Roma and Traveller History Month (Part 2)
20. 1 JunGypsy, Roma and Traveller History Month (Part 1)
21. 1 JunInheritance Books: Pardaad Chamsaz, Curator Germanic Collections
22. 1 JunRadio Londres
23. 1 JunInheritance Books: Barry Taylor, Curator Romance Collections
24. 1 JunThe Fall of the Berlin Wall from a Child’s Eye View
25. 1 JunInheritance Books: Zuzanna Krzemien, Curator East European Collections
26. 1 JunBooktrade and publishing in Southeast Europe during the pandemic in 2020
27. 1 Jun3-steps to get time back (and grow your business)
28. 1 JunA week in the life of… Rachel Jones, founder of SnapDragon Monitoring
29. 1 JunMeet Salma Attan, founder of Bushwood Bees and Start-ups in London Libraries participant
30. 1 JunMeet our delivery partner: Expert Impact
31. 1 JunLove our library?
32. 1 JunOpen for change: stories, articles and events to get you started
33. 1 JunCelebrating Pride in lockdown
34. 1 JunExplore the British Library from your home
35. 1 JunPotosí, the celebrated city
36. 1 JunFlickr Maps on the Georeferencer Finished!
37. 1 JunMaps and photography: a brief history, part 2
38. 1 JunBritish Library map leads to a Gibraltar archaeological discovery
39. 1 JunRunnymede - a history in maps
40. 1 JunGreat Barrier Reef ‘discovery’
41. 1 JunMaps and photography: a brief history, part 1
42. 1 JunThe history of cartography: shining a light
43. 1 JunSurvey of the River Euphrates
44. 1 JunChyryse: a midsummer night's recipe
45. 1 JunA load of rubbish
46. 1 JunMagna Carta quiz
47. 1 JunLayers of meaning in the Floreffe Bible
48. 1 JunDid Henry VIII believe in unicorns?
49. 1 JunRemembering the Field of Cloth of Gold
50. 1 JunLate manuscripts, bad manuscripts?
51. 1 JunThe monumental art of the Stavelot Bible
52. 1 JunInnovations in music notation in late medieval Syria: British Library manuscript Or. 13019
53. 1 JunLockdown piano 2: a Robert Schumann manuscript online
54. 1 JunCitizen Science and COVID-19
55. 1 JunThe Santals, Scandinavian missionaries, and salvage ethnomusicology: an encounter of three worlds
56. 1 JunRecording of the week: A charm to ward off evil
57. 1 JunFrom Dick-dick-the-devil to Pan-pan-boolala: onomatopoeic identities of the Crested Bellbird
58. 1 JunWorking from home
59. 1 JunRecording of the week: Underwater sounds from Cromer Pier
60. 1 JunArabic music record sleeves and what they can tell us
61. 1 JunRecording of the week: The Kankurang or how to enforce a lockdown
62. 1 JunRecording of the week: Michiko Hirayama singing Scelsi
63. 1 JunSea sounds
64. 1 JunRecording of the week: Herrings' heads
65. 1 JunMapping Irish women's football
66. 1 JunRemembering the Vere Street Coterie: a story of gay community, a police raid and library censorship
67. 1 JunMore girls called Seringa!
68. 1 JunResearching Women Social Reformers in the Modern Manuscript Collections
69. 1 JunA fraudulent shipwreck
70. 1 JunSolving a suffragette mystery – who was Miss Wolff van Sandau?
71. 1 JunFanny Barlow’s letters to Papa
72. 1 JunGet Up, Listen Up! for Windrush Day 2020
73. 1 JunThe treasures of King Thibaw of Burma
74. 1 JunThe mystery of the Roebuck
75. 1 JunStrange News for Strange Times
76. 1 JunHenry John Tozer – India, Rousseau, and sanitation in St Pancras
77. 1 JunAn unexpected letter from Sir William Foster of the India Office
78. 1 JunA rebus puzzle
79. 1 JunOur new Science web archive collection
80. 1 JunWARCnet and the UK Web Archive
81. 1 JunDocumenting the Olympics & Paralympics

May 2020

1. 1 May¡La lotería! palabra mágica¡ ¡palabra encantadora!* The lotería! Magic word! Charming word!
2. 1 MayViews from the shore
3. 1 MayA brief history of nursing in the US
4. 1 MayOn "American Foreign-Born Workers"
5. 1 MayÈṣù at the BL: Journeys Through Literature and Technology
6. 1 MayZuan-cho – Japanese design albums in the late Meiji Period
7. 1 MayThe Kaifeng Torah Scroll: A British Library Treasure
8. 1 MayDigitised East India Company ships’ journals and related records
9. 1 MayPortrait miniatures of the young sons of Wajid Ali Shah of Awadh
10. 1 MayDrawing Ire: Illustrated Ottoman Satirical Magazines
11. 1 MayLotus Sutra Project: Conservation of a Scroll with Pre-11th Century Repairs. How Do We Avoid Disassociation?
12. 1 MayThe Mahārnava, Conservation of a 19th Century Birch Bark Manuscript
13. 1 MayConservation of 19th century ivory miniature portraits of the two young sons of Wajid Ali Shah
14. 1 MayIIIF Week 2020
15. 1 MayThe British Library Simulator
16. 1 MayBringing Metadata & Full-text Together
17. 1 MayTree Collage Challenge
18. 1 MaySearching eTheses for the openVirus project
19. 1 MayHow to make art when we’re working apart
20. 1 MayWhat did you call me?!
21. 1 MayVisibleWikiWomen 2020 Campaign
22. 1 MayNew projects online - May 2020
23. 1 MayNew projects online - April 2020
24. 1 MayThe Gersum Project: A New Resource to Dig Up Viking Treasure amongst English Words
25. 1 MayInvoking the Dunkirk Spirit: Thames to Dunkirk 1940 to 2020
26. 1 May“Without being a burden to anybody”: A letter from Ann Radcliffe to her Mother-in-Law from afar.
27. 1 MayWhat Have We Been Reading?
28. 1 May“List Ye Landsmen all to me” about Nautical Drama on Playbills
29. 1 MayAngela Carter: A Celebration
30. 1 MayDiscovering Literature: a Q&A
31. 1 MayAndrew Salkey and The Multi-Coloured Bear of Moscow Road
32. 1 MayLibraries and librarians from Southeast Europe during the pandemic in 2020
33. 1 May“City of exiles”: Trieste and its authors
34. 1 MayEsperanto and Endangered Languages
35. 1 MayFairytales across borders
36. 1 MayGeneral Władysław Anders – A soldier, politician and patron of culture
37. 1 MayAlfons Mucha and his Art Nouveau books
38. 1 MayA week in the life of… Rowena Howie, founder of Revival Retro
39. 1 MayHeart Street - the survival of a vegan street food business
40. 1 MayHappy Birthday Start-ups in London Libraries!
41. 1 MayInnovating for Growth: Scale-ups diary - The Good Slice
42. 1 MayBook and podcast recommendations from the BIPC team
43. 1 MayBe Bold With Bananas, or rediscovering your personal library
44. 1 MayThe British Library’s Response to the UKRI Open Access Review Consultation
45. 1 MayAutomated text extraction from colonial-era maps of eastern Africa
46. 1 MayThomas Tuttell: a most unfortunate mapmaker
47. 1 MayColumbus - Mapping the New World
48. 1 MayT.E. Lawrence’s maps of the Hejaz
49. 1 MayFlorence Nightingale the Angel of the Crimea
50. 1 MayAntarctica: A brief history in maps, part 2
51. 1 MayCrystal Palace Marvel
52. 1 MayThe St Albans Benefactors' Book: precious gifts and colourful characters
53. 1 MayIt's tournament season!
54. 1 MayRemembering Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War
55. 1 MayFabulous Mr Fox and other wise tales
56. 1 MayHow to be a hermit
57. 1 MayPapyrus horoscopes: stars, planets and fortunes
58. 1 MayIn search of the books of Richard Amadas
59. 1 MayThe legend of Alexander in late Antique and medieval literary culture: PhD studentship at the British Library
60. 1 MayAn atlas fit for a Tudor queen
61. 1 MayLockdown piano: the pedagogical works of Muzio Clementi
62. 1 MayErnst Roth and the ‘Business of Music’
63. 1 MayNew report on postgraduate education in the UK
64. 1 MayDiarists and diaries
65. 1 MayThe Future of Research Outputs
66. 1 MayBritish Library 2020 Food Season: plans to continue the conversation
67. 1 MayIn search of the ramkie in the Karoo and the Olifants River Valley
68. 1 MayRecording of the week: Account from a Norfolk lifeboatman
69. 1 MayExploring the sounds and stories of Britain's shores
70. 1 MayRecording of the week: Don't try this at home!
71. 1 MayRecording of the week: Birth then and now
72. 1 MayRecording of the week: Recording the birds of Japan
73. 1 MayThree favourite newspaper books - chosen by Steve Tate
74. 1 MayThree favourite newspaper books - chosen by Paul Gooding
75. 1 MayThree favourite newspaper books - chosen by Ed King
76. 1 MayThree favourite newspaper books - chosen by Nick Foggo
77. 1 MayTen years of Broadcast News
78. 1 MayThe mysterious Captain Gladstone, RN - a bookbinding James Bond?
79. 1 MayThe 1911 Census and the Wellesley Training Ship
80. 1 MayResearching Suffragettes in the British Library’s Modern Manuscripts and Archive Collections
81. 1 MayMy daughter Seringa
82. 1 MayThe most noted girls of the town: A newly discovered edition of Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies
83. 1 MayLady with the Lamp at 200: Florence Nightingale’s Bicentenary
84. 1 May75 years since Victory in Europe
85. 1 MayThe East India Company and the Spice Islands
86. 1 MayA (g)lovely gift from Peter the Great to John Evelyn
87. 1 MayUsing Webrecorder to archive UK political party leaders' social media after the UK General Election 2019
88. 1 MayWeb Archiving the UK General Election 2019

April 2020

1. 1 AprThe Library Quest: Andrés Bello (1781-1865)
2. 1 AprPoems from the edge of extinction (part 2)
3. 1 AprThe Substance of Libraries
4. 1 AprPoems from the edge of extinction (part 1)
5. 1 AprBernard and Mary Berenson at Villa I Tatti
6. 1 AprAll Cooped Up: Notes from the Arctic
7. 1 AprIn the Temporary Absence of Libraries
8. 1 AprOnline Access to United States Government Printing Office Publications
9. 1 AprThe Buddha and his natural environment in Thai manuscript art
10. 1 AprSir William Jones’ manuscript copy of al-Fatawa al-'Alamgiriyyah
11. 1 AprAnimal days: three Bugis amulets in British collections
12. 1 AprMah Nishtanah? Why is Tonight different from all other nights? In celebration of Passover
13. 1 AprQom mashiho! : Easter in the British Library's Syriac Manuscripts
14. 1 AprSaved from the fire: conserving Charlotte Canning’s burnt diaries
15. 1 AprConservation treatment of late 19th and early 20th century silk theatre playbills from the Western Heritage Collections
16. 1 AprLotus Sutra Project: Conservation of a burnt scroll (Or. 8210/ S.2155)
17. 1 AprBL Labs Learning & Teaching Award Winners - 2019 - The Other Voice - RCA
18. 1 AprClean. Migrate. Validate. Enhance. Processing Archival Metadata with Open Refine
19. 1 AprBL Labs Research Award Winner 2019 - Tim Crawford - F-Tempo
20. 1 AprBL Labs Community Commendation Award 2019 - Lesley Phillips - Theatre History
21. 1 AprRapidly pivoting to online delivery of a Library Carpentry course
22. 1 AprBL Labs Artistic Award Winner 2019 - The Memory Archivist - Lynda Clark
23. 1 AprLegacies of Catalogue Descriptions and Curatorial Voice: a new AHRC project
24. 1 AprPoetry Mobile Apps
25. 1 AprHelp Needed To Describe Photographs Taken in Siberia
26. 1 AprArchival Contingencies and Eclectic Sources: Using Digitised Newspapers and Periodical Literature
27. 1 AprNew projects online - March 2020
28. 1 AprEAP and the Covid-19 crisis
29. 1 AprWriting Tools for Interactive Fiction
30. 1 AprDomesticity after the Housekeepers
31. 1 AprTour of the Literary Modern Archive and Manuscript Digital Collections
32. 1 AprTo Sir With Love, a new appreciation for an old favourite
33. 1 AprCollecting Literature on the Web: a Q&A
34. 1 AprPostcards for our times
35. 1 AprBorn-digital Literary Archives — How We’re Capturing the Future
36. 1 AprEpistolary Novels and Social Distancing
37. 1 AprDigital Literary Collections — Variety, Complexity and Curiosity under Lockdown
38. 1 AprHendrik Nicolaas Werkman – a most unlucky printer
39. 1 AprPhD Studentship Opportunity – The Michael Hamburger Archive: Mediating European Literature
40. 1 AprPoems from the Edge of Extinction II
41. 1 AprPoems from the Edge of Extinction I
42. 1 AprThis grain of sand is nevertheless a whole world: Literature of The Faroes
43. 1 AprSlovenian gay poetry in translation: Tracing the Unspoken by Milan Šelj
44. 1 AprPhD Studentship Opportunity - Caricatures from the Franco-Prussian War and Paris Commune
45. 1 AprBooks that don’t look like books
46. 1 AprBringing the News in Revolutionary Berlin
47. 1 AprInspiring stories from our community of entrepreneurs
48. 1 AprMeet our delivery partner: Johnny Martin aka The Numbers Coach
49. 1 AprWill Intellectual Property provide ‘the cure’ for Covid-19?
50. 1 AprBook and podcast recommendations from our entrepreneurs
51. 1 AprNational Tea Day with HumaniTea
52. 1 AprBusiness support around the UK
53. 1 AprFrom silk wedding dresses to cotton scrubs for the NHS
54. 1 AprGot a research query? Ask a librarian
55. 1 AprA Single Digital Presence for UK libraries: the project and the platform
56. 1 AprExhibition on hold but women’s rights remain Unfinished Business
57. 1 AprResearch, anywhere, anytime
58. 1 AprCoronavirus brings science and engineering under the media spotlight
59. 1 AprAntarctica: A brief history in maps, part 1
60. 1 AprAnother big list of where to find British Library maps online
61. 1 AprA list of where to find free-to-access digitised British Library maps
62. 1 AprA View of the Open Road
63. 1 AprCharting the Victorian Internet
64. 1 AprOld maps on TV: Charles I, Alec Guinness and Christopher Saxton
65. 1 AprLondon’s Royal Parks
66. 1 AprGeoreferencing through Self-isolation
67. 1 AprHospitals under the microscope
68. 1 AprA history of the book in seven objects
69. 1 AprDesigning the Arnstein Bible
70. 1 AprSt George and the Garter
71. 1 AprThe Holy Helpers
72. 1 AprHenry VIII: the possessions of a Tudor monarch
73. 1 AprMedieval rabbits: the good, the bad and the bizarre
74. 1 AprExultet rolls: celebrating the return of the light
75. 1 AprIlluminating the Worms Bible
76. 1 AprGuess the manuscript returns
77. 1 AprThe Pageants of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick
78. 1 AprWelsh hymn festivals – ‘singing from the heart’
79. 1 AprDigitised music collections online
80. 1 AprPublishers offering coronavirus articles free.
81. 1 AprClouds: How Luke Howard linked Weather Lore and Natural Philosophy
82. 1 AprFinding Emmeline Pankhurst
83. 1 AprLearning from the Past: A guide for the curious researcher
84. 1 AprRecording of the week: Women in the wine trade
85. 1 AprRecording of the week: Makame Faki, legendary singer from Zanzibar
86. 1 AprSounds of your world
87. 1 AprRecording of the week: Frank Bowling on learning to draw
88. 1 AprRecording of the week: 'I didn’t come into the jungle to look at trees and lianas!'
89. 1 AprIn search of the sports reporter
90. 1 AprThree favourite newspaper books - chosen by Andrew Hobbs
91. 1 AprThree favourite newspaper books - chosen by Luke McKernan
92. 1 AprThree favourite newspaper books - chosen by Beth Gaskell
93. 1 AprWriting a 'mini-history' of a newspaper
94. 1 AprAccessing News content during the temporary closure
95. 1 AprMr Muschamp’s wooden leg
96. 1 AprThe Derby Post-Man
97. 1 AprThe rocky beginnings of Eddystone Lighthouse
98. 1 AprFrom our homes to yours - the work of the Modern Archives and Manuscripts team
99. 1 AprThe London social season of 1863
100. 1 AprEaster Holidays - Domestic conversations designed for the instruction and amusement of young people
101. 1 AprThe Bunny Family of Berkshire
102. 1 AprColossal characters of the first Spring Holiday
103. 1 AprEaster Furnishing Bargains from the India Office?
104. 1 AprMrs Sobieski Sullivan, a Welsh Jacobite
105. 1 AprIndia Office Family History Search
106. 1 AprExpired through eating some unwholesome food
107. 1 AprThe 1901 census
108. 1 AprThe Brexit Collection in the UK Web Archive
109. 1 AprHarnessing the Crowd: Coronavirus Topical Collection at the UK Web Archive
110. 1 AprAdding Poetry Websites to the UK Web Archive

March 2020

1. 15 Mar15 Years of the UK Web Archive - The Early Years
2. 1 MarHappy birthday, Lawrence Ferlinghetti
3. 1 MarDancing in the archives...
4. 1 MarSân khấu: a Vietnamese magazine on theatre and performing arts
5. 1 MarUlli Beier at the British Library
6. 1 MarHands off! This book is mine! Ownership inscriptions in Hebrew manuscripts
7. 1 MarSerial Feminists or Idealized Beauties? Mehasin, A Women’s Magazine in the Late Ottoman Period
8. 1 MarUntil the donkey ascends the ladder: Hebrew scribal formulae
9. 1 MarThe mannequin must be unpacked!
10. 1 MarJust stand-up and Kanban!
11. 1 MarLearning in Lockdown: Digital Research Team online
12. 1 MarA Season of Place – Journal Article Published!
13. 1 MarThree New British Library Collections Featuring Harold Pinter
14. 1 MarCommunity Printing in North Kensington: The Beryl Foster Archive
15. 1 MarThe Royal Granny Catherine the Great as an author of the first books for children
16. 1 MarStanislaw Lem: mimicretins and other smart machines
17. 1 MarAgainst books that 'look like paper rags'
18. 1 MarFriedrich Hölderlin
19. 1 MarKashubia, where is it?
20. 1 MarJean Cocteau’s ‘Drôle de Ménage’
21. 1 MarChildren’s Tales from Across the Channel (2)
22. 1 MarNordic Comics Today: A Day of Events
23. 1 MarA message from the BIPC
24. 1 MarGetting to grips with IP: Back to basics
25. 1 Mar3D historic globes - quiz answers!
26. 1 MarTest your knowledge with our historic globe quiz
27. 1 MarGo for a spin! 3D interactive historic globes now live
28. 1 MarDon’t waste time writing
29. 1 MarThe caption competition is back!
30. 1 MarHumfrey Wanley, Library-Keeper of the Harleian Library
31. 1 MarSurveying Lord Burghley’s Atlas
32. 1 MarYour plain friend without flattery
33. 1 MarPilgrimage by proxy
34. 1 MarPuppets and papyri
35. 1 MarImitation is the sincerest form of flattery
36. 1 MarAccessing our online Music Collections
37. 1 MarCaroline Herschel born 270 years ago today.
38. 1 MarLondon Fashion Week & Technology: future of catwalks
39. 1 MarDonald Michie (1923-2007): ‘Duckmouse’, a modern-day polymath
40. 1 MarRecording of the week: Dusting books
41. 1 MarRecording of the week: Richard Attenborough on Michael Powell
42. 1 MarRecording of the week: 'I didn't catch any of that!'
43. 1 MarRecording of the week: The dominion of the salmon
44. 1 MarRecording of the week: Sir George Henschel
45. 1 MarThe National Indian Association and its handbook for students in Britain
46. 1 MarWitch Trials in British India
47. 1 MarLady Day
48. 1 MarGeneral John Jacob ‒ A Man of Strong Opinions
49. 1 MarThe East India Company’s stud farm in Essex
50. 1 MarMr. Coryate’s shoes
51. 1 MarJohn Maynard Smith: evolutionary biology and the Logic of Animal Conflict
52. 1 MarWithin a hair’s breadth of failure: John Houghton and the climate change report
53. 1 MarA Pioneer of Artificial Intelligence: Donald Michie
54. 1 MarInternment during the Second World War – Part Three: imprisonment for insurrection in the Channel Islands
55. 1 MarA ‘Full House’ of Brut English Chronicles
56. 1 MarUKWA: What's available when the reading rooms are closed?
57. 1 MarBoris Johnson, fertility and the royal baby: how far does the concept of Olympic Legacy go?
58. 1 MarTheseus' Data Store
59. 1 MarA Readers Journey: an introduction to using the Reading Rooms at the British Library

February 2020

1. 11 FebINTRODUCING THE WISE FESTIVAL (WOMEN IN SCIENCE EVENTS) – 11 February 2020
2. 11 FebINTRODUCING: SUNETRA GUPTA – 11 February 2020
3. 11 FebINTRODUCING: THE SCIENCE OF TASTE – 11 February 2020
4. 11 FebINTRODUCING: HELEN ARNEY – 11 February 2020
5. 11 FebINTRODUCING: BACK TO THE FUTURE – 11 February 2020
6. 11 FebINTRODUCING: Women In Their Element – 11 February 2020
7. 11 FebINTRODUCING: BIO SELFIES – 11 February 2020
8. 11 FebINTRODUCING: THE TRUTH INSIDE – 11 February 2020
9. 11 FebINTRODUCING: STREET SCIENTISTS – 11 February 2020
10. 10 Feb10 years of the Medieval Manuscripts Blog
11. 8 FebUnlocking Buddhist Written Heritage: Conference at the British Library 7-8 February 2020
12. 1 FebFrom the collections: A Streetcar Named Desire
13. 1 FebDear Diary....Mark Twain and a timeless love story
14. 1 FebEdward Kamau Brathwaite (1930-2020) – a mind of many talents
15. 1 FebWalter Rodney's Enduring Legacy Through Archival Collaboration
16. 1 FebWilliam Jones, al-Mutanabbī and Emotional Encounters
17. 1 FebGuanyin: the Bodhisattva of Great Compassion
18. 1 FebExquisite patterns: Japanese Textile Design Books
19. 1 FebBuddhist-themed stamps: Religious didactic tool or postal ephemera?
20. 1 FebBugis flower power: a compendium of floral designs
21. 1 FebMoloch gibbons and sloth bears: the work of the Bengali artist Haludar
22. 1 FebThe Light of Asia: Western encounters with Buddhism
23. 1 FebFrom Integrated Pest Management to Preserving Historic Photos - Spring and Summer 2020 One Day Courses at British Library
24. 1 FebCall for participants: April 2020 book sprint on the state of the art in crowdsourcing in cultural heritage
25. 1 FebNew project! 'From crowdsourcing to digitally-enabled participation: the state of the art in collaboration, access, and inclusion for cultural heritage institutions'
26. 1 Feb2019 Winners of the New Media Writing Prize
27. 1 FebStirrings Still
28. 1 FebThe Launderers
29. 1 FebChildren's Tales from Across the Channel (1)
30. 1 FebTravelling through the British Library’s Dutch-Surinamese Collections via Johan Fretz’s ‘Onder de Paramariboom’
31. 1 FebThe return of Miloš Crnjanski to London
32. 1 FebThe Centenary of the Treaty of Trianon
33. 1 FebThe grandmother of all Czech authors: Božena Němcová
34. 1 FebMeet our delivery partner: Elaine Powell
35. 1 FebLearning new languages through music with Bilingual Beats
36. 1 FebA week in the life of... Heather Lyons, co-founder of Blue Shift Coding
37. 1 FebThe rise of flexitarians and veggie butchers
38. 1 FebThe story behind proofreading
39. 1 FebComing soon – Unfinished Business: The Fight For Women’s Rights
40. 1 FebLayers of London: the latest
41. 1 FebClever cats and other swashbuckling tales
42. 1 FebIn Praise of the Psalms
43. 1 FebMiddle English manuscripts galore
44. 1 FebMedical recipes from Gilbertine nuns
45. 1 FebVan Eyck: An Optical Revolution
46. 1 FebHonour and understatement: a portrait of Leslie Boosey
47. 1 FebPropaganda and Ideology in Everyday Life
48. 1 FebRecording of the week: Elgar's Introduction and Allegro
49. 1 FebNational Life Stories Goodison Fellowship 2020-2021: Suzanne Joinson
50. 1 FebRecording of the week: Where there's a whip there's a will
51. 1 FebRecording of the week: Ntozake Shange
52. 1 FebRecording of the week: 'If Not, Not'
53. 1 FebWaves and resonances: Catherine Smith's adventures in the sound archive
54. 1 FebA Leap Year tragedy
55. 1 FebA Ship-Board Romance: Lucia Green and Captain Luke Dodds
56. 1 Feb17th Century Recipes for Those Feeling Under the Weather
57. 1 FebBaptisms, Barracks, Bazaars: indexing the India Office Records
58. 1 FebFollowing in your late brother’s footsteps
59. 1 FebCiphers and sympathetic ink: secret love letters in the Granville papers
60. 1 FebInternment during the Second World War – Part Two: an album created by a Prisoner of War in Italy
61. 1 FebGarrod Family Papers
62. 1 FebLa Freya – 'artistic visions and superb poses'
63. 1 FebSpotlight on Hedley Sutton, Asian & African Studies Reference Team Leader at The British Library

January 2020

1. 1 JanOne more step along the road I go: Tracking the first three months of my Chevening Fellowship
2. 1 JanSacred images made to be trampled on: kami fumi-e from Japan
3. 1 JanWomen in Buddhism at the time of the Buddha
4. 1 JanDigital Zoroastrian at the British Library
5. 1 JanThe Vessantara Jataka on the move
6. 1 JanThe Royal Library of Bone: Bugis and Makassar manuscripts in the British Library
7. 1 JanHow historians can communicate their research online
8. 1 JanUsing Transkribus for Arabic Handwritten Text Recognition
9. 1 JanBuddhism on the ground
10. 1 JanUsing Urdu Periodicals to Uncover Women's Voices in India
11. 1 JanBeyond Digitisation: Engaging the Community Around The Barbados Mercury
12. 1 Jan‘Foreign Language Printing in London’ online
13. 1 Jan‘Suffering and sweat and tears’: Stratis Tsirkas
14. 1 Jan‘Humble books’: B. U. Kashkin’s wooden artist books at the British Library
15. 1 JanDifficult truths - recent literature on the Holocaust in Poland
16. 1 Jan‘How delightful to be a governess’ [not]: Anne Brontë in Translation
17. 1 JanMysterious, Fierce and Fragrant: a 15th-Century Encounter with a Civet
18. 1 JanWhat's your New Year's Resolution for 2020?
19. 1 JanA week in the life of… Siobhan Thomas, founder of What’s Your Skirt
20. 1 JanNew business services around the Business & IP Centre National Network
21. 1 JanHow to start a business in 2020 if you don’t know what to do?
22. 1 JanMeet our delivery partner: Bang Creations and London IP
23. 1 JanIP Corner: How to choose a trade mark
24. 1 JanUpgrading the Georeferencer
25. 1 JanThe Trees of the Sun and the Moon
26. 1 JanAnimals on coats of arms
27. 1 JanNew year, new manuscripts
28. 1 JanTwo Characters in the Boosey & Hawkes Archive
29. 1 JanHappy birthday, Francis Bacon
30. 1 JanCILIP Health Libraries Group annual conference, July 2020
31. 1 JanRecording of the week: Trude Levi and Holocaust liberation
32. 1 JanRecording of the week: Night in a várzea forest by boat
33. 1 JanA Life Lived and Seen: a tribute to Anna Teasdale
34. 1 JanRecording of the week: Pinglish code-switching
35. 1 JanRecording of the week: Why you should listen to the common eider duck
36. 1 JanHeartbroken on St Helena: the naturalist William John Burchell - Part Two
37. 1 JanSir Francis Drake: the deluded history of an English Hero
38. 1 JanHeartbroken on St Helena: the naturalist William John Burchell - Part One
39. 1 JanGeorge Orwell and the Strange Case of the Three Anarchists Jailed at the Old Bailey
40. 1 JanWilliam Wordsworth: The Poetry of Place
41. 1 JanTragic ice accident in Regent’s Park
42. 1 JanPainting a Thousand Words: Timur and His Mughal Descendants
43. 1 JanInternment during the Second World War – Part One: the diary of a Jewish refugee confined by Britain
44. 1 JanSir Ronald Ross and the Transmission of Malaria
45. 1 JanCache of hidden letters in the Granville Archive
46. 1 JanA New Year card from MI5
47. 1 JanIf Websites Could Talk - Part 3 (this time it's personal)