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December 2021

  1. BL Labs Online Symposium 2021, Special Climate Change Edition: Book your place for webinar on Tuesday 7 December 2021
  2. Bibliographic E-resources: or, how to give up footnote-chasing forever...
  3. Dystopian Fiction & Long Feminist Histories
  4. Celebrating Viola Desmond, Carrie Best and a new philatelic acquisition
  5. Situations of Delicacy and Embarrassment: Ill-considered Favours in 1830s Persia
  6. A farewell to Jerry! J. P. Losty (1945-2021).
  7. Khmer manuscripts at the British Library (Part 2)
  8. Two Centuries of Indian Print: South Asia Seminar Series at the British Library 2016-2021
  9. Textiles in Ethiopian Manuscripts at the British Library
  10. Conservation of the Granville Archive papers
  11. Three crowdsourcing opportunities with the British Library
  12. Intro to AI for GLAM
  13. Legacies of Catalogue Descriptions: prioritising agendas and actions
  14. Digital transformations and the pandemic: the Digital Scholarship view
  15. Open and Engaged 2021: Review
  16. Updated Equipment List for Round 17
  17. Dutch New Year – Portuguese Oil Fritters
  18. Occupied City, 1921-2021
  19. Festive Feasts
  20. Stefan Zweig and the Rival Queens
  21. Vaclav Havel’s Pokouseni - Temptation of a bibliophile
  22. Dante and Esperanto
  23. Book Donation by Roberto L. Bruni (1945-2020): a collection on Italian Studies
  24. From Dositej Obradović with thanks: a donation of the first Serbian books
  25. Celebrating Start-ups in London Libraries
  26. Shop local this festive season
  27. Introducing Fiona Wedderburn-Graham and Jennifer McLean, the co-directors of Amaze Associates
  28. Taking your favourite exhibitions around the world
  29. Library Lives: Rebecca Binnington, Hull
  30. Released online: The 1878 India Office map collection catalogue
  31. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
  32. Christmas gift ideas from medieval manuscripts
  33. A gift fit for a king
  34. Collating Cicero in Cologne
  35. Princess Elizabeth and her governess
  36. Proclaiming Mary’s conviction in London
  37. Beethoven at the British Library – a list of online resources
  38. Exploring the Provenance of Italian Manuscript Editions in the Royal Music Library (2)
  39. Beethoven: Idealist. Innovator. Icon exhibition
  40. ‘You Cannae Eat Ships’: 7 Days and industrial news.
  41. Reflecting on activism and protest around the Disability Discrimination Act
  42. Recording of the week: 'Kuli milimo', there is work in the house of the Lord
  43. Ian Rawes and the London Sound Survey
  44. BL Sports Word of theYear 2021
  45. A Mengelberg discovery – Mengelberg in London
  46. Recording of the week: Recollections from a political activist
  47. Classical Podcast No. 5 Clifford Curzon
  48. Geoff Webb on polio
  49. Documenting Bengali music in Britain
  50. Breaking news on Breaking the News
  51. New Year greetings from a Victorian scrapbook
  52. 18th-century bills of fare for December and January
  53. Gift ideas from 'Beeton’s Christmas Annual' 1873
  54. Clever Christmas Jokes: festive illustrations from 1910
  55. The stork in fable and record
  56. One theft too many?
  57. The story the India Office Records preserve about kasids
  58. Miniature books for children
  59. Elizabeth Polwhele’s taste in reading
  60. The body dissected, drawn and displayed - Anatomy in an album of drawings from Hans Sloane’s collection.
  61. Oysters in the Black-Out
  62. How a web designed for the visually impaired is a better web for everyone

November 2021

  1. EAP Round 17 – deadline extension
  2. E-resources: US historic and contemporary newspapers
  3. Shoot Me with Flowers
  4. The Eccles Centre at 30
  5. Witnessing climate change: COP26 and Oceania book artists
  6. Music and migration, environments and spiritualties – introducing the new Eccles Centre Visiting Fellowship programme
  7. Loyalists, Race and Atlantic Canada
  8. Khmer manuscripts at the British Library (Part 1)
  9. A Tale of Two Enigmas: A Magtymguly Pyragy Manuscript in the British Library Collections
  10. Transcribed from the boundary wall of the universe: Early Dhammasattha manuscripts in the Burmese collection of the British Library
  11. Reunion of Krishna icons: A painting of the Festival of the Seven Svarups in the Johnson Album
  12. BL Labs Online Symposium 2021, Special Climate Change Edition: Speakers Announced!
  13. The British Library Adopts a New Persistent Identifier Policy
  14. Application Portal now open
  15. Book Now For Online Event 'Keep On Keeping On: Celebrating Andrew Salkey'
  16. Andrew Salkey: “Too Polemic. Too Political”
  17. Two new fine editions of Georgia's national poet
  18. ‘The Unknown Feminist of Fin-de-siècle Europe: Lesia Ukrainka’ at the British Library
  19. Elizabeth I and languages
  20. Astrid Roemer - unconventional, poetic and authentic
  21. Tove Jansson’s illustrations for Carroll and Tolkien
  22. Venice: Tales of a Sinking City – an online event
  23. Red Élisabeth: Émigré, Intellectual, Organiser, Communarde
  24. Meet the sustainable speakers of Start-up Day 2021
  25. Sustainability in business
  26. Meet the Maker: Katch Skinner
  27. Library Lives: Mark Freeman, Stockton-on-Tees
  28. Light Night Leeds 2021
  29. Libraries and a brighter climate future
  30. Behind the scenes at the British Library: Caan Walls, Membership Manager
  31. Merlin the magician: from devil’s son to King Arthur’s trusted advisor
  32. Robert Dudley's bindings: ‘A bear muzzled and chained’
  33. The archive of Zenon
  34. 'Strangers' in Tudor England and Stewart Scotland
  35. The Floreffe Bible on exhibition
  36. Investigating the origins of the Cotton collection: call for academic partners
  37. 'Not lawful nor tolerable'
  38. Exploring the Provenance of Italian Manuscript Editions in the Royal Music Library
  39. Climate change resources at the British Library
  40. Bloodletting and leeches, not so ancient.
  41. A time for action, not words
  42. Changing Climate, Changing Landscapes
  43. Six months that launched the Seventies
  44. Football fanzines from print to the digital age: call for academic partners
  45. What can we learn from legal deposit data? A PhD placement at the British Library
  46. Nelson Freire – a great pianist remembered
  47. Recording of the Week: The musical pillars of a medieval Indian temple
  48. Gerry and Paula discuss Paula’s severe social anxiety
  49. Introducing the Collections in Dialogue commission with Leeds Art Gallery and the British Library
  50. Recording of the week: Graham Stuart Thomas on bringing historic flowers back to life
  51. Recording of the week: James Baldwin at the Cambridge Union
  52. Ken Essex - A long life with music
  53. Recording of the week: Preserving the Peruvian jarija
  54. Report of a crash-landing of a Japanese bomber
  55. ‘So Long’ from King Naimbanna II - Manuscripts from an 18th Century African King
  56. Miguel of Mazagon, Mumbai- Part Two
  57. The danger of supporting German Cathedrals during the Second World War
  58. Miguel of Mazagon, Mumbai – Part One
  59. Life on the Home Front
  60. Invalids in the Nilgiri Hills
  61. Fireworks in India for Queen Victoria
  62. Unexpected items found cataloguing Hans Sloane’s natural history drawings
  63. Welsh language websites within the UK Web Archive

October 2021

  1. The Day of the Dead Celebration. A safe space to share the stories and memories of our lost ones
  2. US Fine Presses: a new guide to the Library's holdings
  3. Americas and Oceania e-Resources: An Introduction
  4. The Georgetown-IDP Lecture Series: Following the Silk Roads to North America
  5. Who reads digitised Malay manuscripts?
  6. Chulamani Chedi, a celestial stupa
  7. Khadija Saye’s Art and the ‘Toothbrush Tree’
  8. Thought Bubble 2021 Wikithon Preparation
  9. On Digital Technologies, Our Cultural Heritage and Global Warming. How do they come together in Venice?
  10. Thought Bubble 2021 Wikithon
  11. You Can Now Make Your Own Online British Library Exhibit with IIIF
  12. Open and Engaged 2021: Understanding the Impact of Open in the Arts and Humanities Beyond the University
  13. Webinars for Applicants
  14. The British Library is at the 2021 Thought Bubble Comics Festival
  15. A Bear called Paddington: published 13 October 1958
  16. Lesia Ukrainka at 150: A journey through the British Library collections (Part II)
  17. Lesia Ukrainka at 150: A journey through the British Library collections (Part I)
  18. ‘Writing is a tattoo’ — Kamel Daoud and his work
  19. Investigating German colonialism in the British Library’s collections
  20. 1848 Revolutions: the Czech perspective
  21. How Do We Sell Sustainability to Consumers?
  22. Turn your brilliant idea into a business
  23. An interview with Patrick Hughes
  24. Meet the Maker: Eleanor Stuart
  25. Library Lives: Sally Halper, British Library St Pancras
  26. Library Lives: Thurstan Young, British Library Boston Spa
  27. Library Lives: Hedley Sutton, British Library St Pancras
  28. Library Lives: Caroline Kent, British Library Boston Spa
  29. Library Lives: Stella Wisdom, British Library St Pancras
  30. Afterlives and otherworlds: three ghost stories from medieval Ireland
  31. Into the inferno
  32. More Harley manuscripts online
  33. Treasures on Tour in Cornwall
  34. Antoine de Lonhy and the Saluces Hours
  35. Elizabeth and Mary, Royal Cousins, Rival Queens: Curators’ Picks
  36. The travelling Bibles
  37. Lithography and the satirical song sheet
  38. From Turning the Pages to Virtual Books
  39. Introducing '7 Days': a revolutionary weekly newspaper in the Anthony Barnett archive
  40. Seven of the best Open Access titles to read for Black History Month
  41. Black History Month – Carlisle and Wellmon
  42. The Pinnacle Club: 100 years of women climbing and mountaineering
  43. The wanderings of Blackbud: Preserving Blackbud’s Glastonbury demo
  44. True Echoes: Eric Raff 1924 Efate, New Hebrides cylinder collection (C83)
  45. Recording of the week: Family mealtimes
  46. Recording of the week: Dog team or engine power? Sleds and other subjects in 1940s Alaska
  47. Hauntings at Hinton Ampner
  48. A. A. Milne and Belisha the Hippotish
  49. William Shakespeare’s family in Calcutta
  50. The bombing of Britain
  51. Stanley Cinchona Plantation
  52. Diary of a Lumber Jill
  53. The Rational Dress Society
  54. Gunner George Fish of the Bombay Artillery Part 2
  55. Gunner George Fish of the Bombay Artillery Part 1
  56. Clouds and blackberries: how web archives can help us to track the changing meaning of words
  57. UK Web Archive Climate Change Collection

September 2021

  1. The Masters of Margarita – Anglo-Spanish rivalry, treason and the slave trade
  2. The art of small things (4): Juz’ markers in Qur’an manuscripts from Southeast Asia
  3. Kālāma Sutta and the premise of free thinking
  4. Epic Iran: Manuscripts from the Islamic era
  5. Sisters from the shadows - Lady Akikonomu
  6. Lu Tianjiao: The First Female Stamp Designer of the People’s Republic of China, 1934-2021
  7. Sailing Away To A Distant Land - Mahendra Mahey, Manager of BL Labs - final post
  8. Computing for Cultural Heritage: Trial Outcomes and Final Report
  9. National Libraries Now: Wikimedians Unite!
  10. Call for applications now open
  11. New online - August 2021
  12. Registration opens for Artist, Mentor, Friend, Activist: Andrew Salkey a Man of Many Hats
  13. Two new Daphne Du Maurier acquisitions at the British Library
  14. Angela Merkel - a leadership in books
  15. ‘Ill scratches the bear’, an endangered proverbial species
  16. 700 years of Dante at the British Library
  17. Celebrating 700 years of Dante at the British Library
  18. The Pandemic Business Boom
  19. Revisiting our Reset. Restarters
  20. Meet Chloe Bailey-Williams, Founder of The Breakhouse Café
  21. Behind the scenes at the British Library: Isabelle Reynolds-Logue
  22. Welcoming local friends back through our doors in London
  23. British Library welcomes a special Afghan guest
  24. A figured poem
  25. The Green Knight: the movie and the manuscript
  26. Dragons, heroes, myths and magic
  27. 700th anniversary of the death of Dante
  28. Dante in the British Library online event
  29. Defying the emperor: the ‘Acts of Appian’ in London and New Haven
  30. Digitised music manuscripts update
  31. Postcards from China
  32. Recording of the week: I nearly went bozz-eyed when I saw this!
  33. 400 years of British newspapers
  34. An examination guide for Bombay Army officers
  35. Bury me at sea inside my piano
  36. Landscape in law
  37. Indian soldiers protest about the loss of extra pay
  38. Breakfast in British India
  39. Memorabilia of Captain James Cecil Thornton
  40. ‘An unseemly squabble’ in Aden
  41. Personal Reflections on the Indian Political Service – Part Three: Travels between Britain and India
  42. East India Company appointments by the Prince Regent – (2) Peniston Lamb
  43. UK Communities online - Enthusiasts and Hobbyists
  44. Web Archive Summer of Sport Roundup

August 2021

  1. Follow up: Important information for email subscribers
  2. Americas blog email subscription service ending - Please follow us on Twitter for updates
  3. Two Conflicting Pioneers and their Precursors in the Amazon
  4. Inheritance Books: Rachael Culley, Interim Curator for North American Published Collections
  5. “We Must Speak with Our Bodies”
  6. Epic Iran: Some Zoroastrian Treasures
  7. Important information for email subscribers to British Library's Asian and African Studies Blog
  8. Catch-up: Histories and Archives of Arabic Publishing
  9. Motherhood: A Form of Emancipation in the Turkish Minority Press in Bulgaria (1878-1944)
  10. Real Sultans of the Ottoman Empire
  11. The art of small things (3): Surah headings in Qur’an manuscripts from Southeast Asia
  12. How to Digitise Scrolls: A Step-by-Step Guide from the Lotus Sutra Project
  13. Important information for email subscribers
  14. Dabbling in DCMI
  15. Important information for email subscribers of the British Library's Digital Scholarship blog
  16. Dates to discuss Wikidata at Wikimania 2021
  17. Automating the Recognition of Chinese Manuscripts: New Chevening British Library Fellowship
  18. The Backstory to Digitising the Barbados Gazette
  19. New online - July 2021
  20. EAP blog email subscription service ending - Please follow us on Twitter for updates
  21. New Ted Hughes and Theatre display at the British Library
  22. Follow us on Twitter to stay updated!
  23. Women in Translation Month 2021
  24. Connie Palmen’s Laws, Loves, and Stories
  25. Follow up: Important information for email subscribers
  26. Bears of Bern – Fictional and Real
  27. Important information for email subscribers
  28. Documenting the Belarus Protests, 2020-2021
  29. British Intellectuals and Russian Bears
  30. Introducing Rose Arouca-Claro, Rosy Clean Spaces
  31. Meet Sally Paull, Owner and Managing Director of Positive Signs
  32. The Story Cube: What you do matters
  33. Introducing Shari Bollers, founder of Self Love Club
  34. Libraries (gradually) out of lockdown
  35. Meet the Maker: Pavilion
  36. Elizabeth and Mary: Royal Cousins, Rival Queens
  37. Follow up: Important information for email subscribers
  38. Richard III: fact and fiction
  39. Giant ants, golden apples and a killer cat
  40. Important information for email subscribers
  41. Caption competition August 2021
  42. A mariner's handbook from the library of Sir Walter Raleigh
  43. Important information for email subscribers
  44. Digitised Manuscripts from the Royal Music Library
  45. Keeping in touch with this blog
  46. Important information for email subscribers
  47. Important information for email subscribers
  48. Recording of the week: Mrs Meurig Morris in a trance address
  49. Discovery of a rare Bettini cylinder recording
  50. Recording of the week: Memories of a theatregoer
  51. Free to view online newspapers
  52. East India Company appointments by the Prince Regent – (1) Henry Meredith Parker
  53. Follow up: Important information for email subscribers
  54. Hilda Elizabeth Henry - 'a skilled craftswoman of exquisite taste'
  55. 'A Curious Herbal' inspiring current day creatives
  56. Soldiers’ References in the East India Company Military Department
  57. Old Crop-Ear – JMW Turner’s horse
  58. Important information for email subscribers
  59. Household accounts for Charles and Charlotte Canning
  60. The King, the Queen, his mistress, and the dead Emperor
  61. Cricket matches between England and India 1889-1946
  62. Lady Tricyclists
  63. Important information for our email subscribers
  64. London 2012 Paralympics in the UK Web Archive
  65. If Websites Could Talk - Part 4

July 2021

  1. Columbus and the Idea of Cuba
  2. Shape-shifting: Creative research and 'The Owner of the Sea'
  3. The Paradoxes of Power: Photographic records and postwar nuclear testing
  4. Hazel Daniels: Pepperpot Philosophising
  5. Glorious chariots in Thai manuscript paintings
  6. The Term 'Shater' and its Use in the India Office Records
  7. The art of small things (2): Text frames in Qur’an manuscripts from Southeast Asia
  8. Sisters from the shadows – Katsushika Ōi
  9. Conservation of Thurloe’s State Papers
  10. Building the New Media Writing Prize Special Collection
  11. Subjects Wanted for Soothing Sounds Psychology Studies
  12. Help trace the stories of enslaved people in the Caribbean using colonial newspapers
  13. New online - June 2021
  14. Birds, Bees and Waste in Christina Rossetti’s Nature Poetry
  15. Inheritance Books: Annelies Dogterom, Cataloguer West European Languages
  16. Ten Years on from 22 July: The Cultural Imperative to Remember
  17. Poets and pen-pushers
  18. Euro 2020: Orange Madness
  19. Euro 2020: What to Read (Part II)
  20. The mystery link between The Brass Bottle and Soviet football revealed
  21. Inventor(s) of the month, Alexander Fleming and the story of Penicillin
  22. Waltham Forest Winners
  23. Introducing Authentic Worth, founded by Esther Jacob
  24. Meet Judy Chicangana-Matthews, founder of Delmora
  25. Behind the Scenes: Vaccine volunteers
  26. Researching community online
  27. Meet the Maker: Here. Design
  28. Book bloggers and the British Library
  29. Behind the scenes at the British Library: Sophie Sabin
  30. George III's maps and views: 32,000 images released on Flickr Commons
  31. Adding 1,277 East African maps to Georeferencer
  32. One-Fifth of the World's Surface
  33. Chroniclers of History at St Albans Museum
  34. A letter of recommendation split between two continents
  35. Miniature books
  36. Dürer in the Low Countries
  37. A library under lockdown
  38. The lost miracles of Wulfsige of Evesham
  39. Euro 2020: the medieval manuscript version
  40. Murder most foul in the Cotswolds
  41. ‘Like tripe on a slab’: women’s accounts of reproductive healthcare provision in Spare Rib magazine are now available through the Library’s digital map.
  42. Hundreds of definitions for a big word: The Refugee Dictionary comes to the British Library
  43. Unfinished Business: finally giving black feminist history and contribution its due
  44. Persian choral album surfaces after four decades in limbo
  45. Recording of the week: Louis Moholo-Moholo’s first encounters with jazz
  46. ‘Violence, shock, life’: the sounds of Pierre Boulez’s formative years
  47. Recording of the week: A hibernating dormouse
  48. The NHS at 73
  49. Birdwatching in Assam
  50. A captain goes down with his ship!
  51. Mrs Carthew’s recipe book
  52. Servants sailing from India with the East India Company
  53. Sir William Fraser of the East India Company maritime service
  54. Peter Paul Zohrab: a ‘Secret and confidential Agent’ for the East India Company
  55. Italy v England
  56. JMW Turner’s Daughters - Part 2 Georgiana
  57. JMW Turner’s Daughters – Part 1 Evelina
  58. Theft from an East India Company London warehouse
  59. London’s Olympic Legacy: Local, National and International Aspirations

June 2021

  1. Rod Westmaas: A Hotchpotch of History and Hospitality
  2. Natasha Ramnarine: Doubles Queen
  3. Celebrating Juneteenth
  4. Anselm Berkeley: From Field to Shelf to Plate
  5. Marking 40 years of AIDS activism
  6. The art of small things (1): Verse markers in Qur’an manuscripts from Southeast Asia
  7. Black Sea Noir: Who was Ian MacPherson and Why Was He in Crimea?
  8. Three Qur’an manuscripts from Aceh in the British Library
  9. Portrait of Charles Weston (1731-1809)
  10. Iron gall ink on paper: Saving the words that eat themselves
  11. My placement: Using Transkribus to OCR Two Centuries of Indian Print
  12. The VHS Tapes: Preserving Emerging Formats at the British Library
  13. Adding Data to Wikidata is Efficient with QuickStatements
  14. Libraries & Museums & Archives (Oh My!)
  15. Triangulating Bermuda, Detroit and William Wallace
  16. New online - April/May 2021
  17. Stories and Pictures: Women in Victorian Society
  18. Olive Schreiner: Feminism from the Cape Colony
  19. Charlotte Brontë’s miniature books
  20. Euro 2020: What to Read (Part I)
  21. Portuguese liberal exiles in Plymouth
  22. I libertini - Same-Sex Desire in Italian Baroque Literature
  23. Translating the French Revolution: Italian printing culture during the revolutionary Triennio, 1796-1799
  24. Introducing Katherine Tinoco, founder of ArtPerÚK
  25. A week in the life of Silvia Pingitore, founder of The Shortlisted Magazine
  26. Introducing Pranav Chopra, founder of NEMI Teas
  27. Nurture your ambitions with the Business & IP Centre National Network
  28. Beautiful Ethical's top tips for making your business sustainable
  29. Behind the scenes at the British Library: Eugenio Falcioni
  30. The designers behind the British Library gates
  31. Food Means Home
  32. Behind the scenes at the British Library: Susan Dymond, Interpretation Manager and Cleo Laskarin, Exhibitions Production Coordinator
  33. Prefacing the Psalms
  34. A medieval midsummer
  35. Caption competition June 2021
  36. Medieval killer rabbits: when bunnies strike back
  37. Who should we trust?
  38. Lewis of Caerleon’s eclipse tables in the spotlight
  39. Caption competition time
  40. “Strange Swarms of Insects”
  41. Documenting the Olympics and the Paralympics, 6- 7 July
  42. True Echoes: Cambridge Expedition to the Torres Strait Islands, 1898
  43. Windrush Day: Bristol’s Princess Campbell
  44. Recording of the week: Carol Ann Duffy reads ‘Mrs Midas’
  45. Walk in their footsteps: Windrush Voices, a new digital education programme at the British Library
  46. Recording of the week: A Yanomami ceremonial dialogue
  47. Recording of the week: Efe honey gathering in the Ituri Forest
  48. Outfitting an East India Company employee
  49. Precedence of British officials and their wives in 19th century India
  50. Adopting an alias on board an East India Company ship
  51. Women’s football in the 18th century
  52. Personal Reflections on the Indian Political Service – Part Two: Life in the Gulf
  53. Sobriety and decorum - Passengers on East India Company ships
  54. A Scandalous Annotation Part II: George Francis Grand
  55. Most flattering prospects to perfect destitution – Samuel Benstead’s emigration to New York
  56. The Development of Pakistan
  57. Alternative Sports in the UK Web Archive - Part 2
  58. Scottish Sport in the UK Web Archive
  59. Football Associations in the UK Web Archive
  60. Alternative Sports in the UK Web Archive - Part 1
  61. Curating the UKWA LGBTQ+ Lives Online collection

May 2021

  1. Ranette Prime: Food and Identity in Britain
  2. Sandra Agard: An Ode to Ridley Road
  3. Reading Brood X
  4. Digital resources on the 17th, 18th and 19th century Caribbean
  5. Charlie Phillips: The Story Behind Smokey Joe's Diner
  6. Joe Williams: ‘the need for flavour’
  7. Finding the Humor in 'Sappho'
  8. A comparison between Rustam and Arjuna
  9. Fragments of Abbasid Sciences: From Desert Monastery to Digital Reunion
  10. The Qatar Digital Library’s Two Millionth Image: ‘Isa bin Tarif returns to Qatar
  11. An inspiring Indonesian woman writer: S. Rukiah
  12. "Oyez, Oyez, Oyez": Hebrew Manuscripts Exhibition Re-opens
  13. The many names of the General Treaty with the Arab Tribes of the Persian Gulf
  14. Bollinger Singapore digitisation project completed
  15. Conservation for Digitisation: A collaboration with the Palestinian Museum
  16. Endangered Archives and Notable Women
  17. Two Million Images Inspire Creativity, Innovation, and Collaboration
  18. Making Games In The Woods With Twine
  19. Getting a head start for the online Urban Tree Wikithon
  20. Making Games In The Woods With Bitsy
  21. Laying Down Roots With WikTreePedia
  22. Games in the Library and Games in the Woods
  23. Reflections on a virtual placement with EAP
  24. The Fiery End of the Paris Commune
  25. Start-up Stars: Eco-conscious entrepreneurs
  26. Meet Marjorie Price, founder of Price Management Consultancy Ltd.
  27. Innovating for Growth Diary Part 2 - Sian Zeng
  28. Meet Donelle Grant, founder of The Brave Project
  29. A week in the life of Zachary Pulman, founder of Zachary Pulman Design Studio
  30. Inventor of the Month: Lucean Arthur Headen, 1879-1957
  31. Making two million images freely available online
  32. An interview with Antony Gormley
  33. Reconnecting Oceanic communities with previously inaccessible cultural materials
  34. Behind the scenes at the British Library: Alexa McNaught-Reynolds, Conservation Exhibition and Loan Manager, Zoë Miller, Conservation Team Leader and Amy Baldwin, Book Conservator
  35. New Digital Maps available on Reading Room Terminal
  36. Gold and Glory at Hampton Court
  37. Thomas Becket: manuscripts showing the making of a saint
  38. The Master of Edward IV
  39. Hot off the press
  40. Food scribes, food lives online event
  41. Wiley Digital Archive on history of science now available at the British Library
  42. Recording of the week: On architecture and identity
  43. Recording of the week: The first recording of a complete piano concerto
  44. Eid Mubarak: Celebrations marking the end of Ramadan and the beginning of a new month
  45. Recording of the Week: ‘We showed them that we could do it as good as them’
  46. Games in the Woods: getting creative during the Urban Tree Festival
  47. 'The most important thing is to hear the voice of the Earth': revisiting a Buddhist temple in Fukushima
  48. Recording of the week: Anthony Daniels talks about C3PO and Star Wars
  49. Extending the partnership
  50. The US 2020 election broadcast archive
  51. Sadi, servant to the Sulivan family
  52. A Scandalous Annotation: the story of Madame Grand
  53. Personal Reflections on the Indian Political Service – Part One: An Overview
  54. Introducing Elizabeth Blackwell to Hans Sloane
  55. Racism in the India Office Arab Reports
  56. Accidental poisoning by arsenic
  57. The Women’s FA Cup Final at 50: putting the women’s game on the record
  58. Gout Raptures – a War among the Stars
  59. International Museums Day 2021

April 2021

  1. Ann Husbands: Black Pudding and Roti at Notting Hill Carnival
  2. The View from a Hill: Making Sense of Ras Dharbat Ali in the Archive
  3. Konlabot: Thai poetry from 'Jewels of Thought'
  4. An enigmatic Javanese manuscript in the British Library: Sĕrat Jaya Lĕngkara, Add 12310
  5. An ‘enhanced’ Qur’an manuscript from Madura
  6. Histories and Archives of Arabic Publishing
  7. The Butcher, the Baker, but not the Candlestick Maker
  8. 1Lib1Ref​ Wikidata Online Office Hours
  9. A Novel Approach To Novels That Shaped Our World!
  10. Wrangling Wikidata With #1lib1ref 2021
  11. What makes a beautiful word?
  12. The Gospels of Metropolitan Jakov of Serres
  13. The Toppling of the Vendôme Column
  14. Two women, a lawyer and a book chest
  15. IP and SMEs: taking your ideas to market
  16. How has IP played its part in finding a Covid-19 vaccine?
  17. A week in the life of Edward Draper, founder of Ortheia
  18. IP in the BIPC community
  19. Meet Chuong Van Dang, founder of Yum Seng
  20. Meet the Maker: Claudine O'Sullivan
  21. Maps and the Canals
  22. Caption this
  23. ‘Frenssh’ as it was ‘spak’ in medieval England
  24. A newly discovered manuscript from Byland Abbey
  25. Decorating the Decretum
  26. Easter Sunday in the Sherborne Missal
  27. Alas, poor Hamlet
  28. Introducing the Internet of Musical Events: a project to capture the history of live performance
  29. Recording of the Week: The world’s rarest traditional musical instrument?
  30. Clearing the noise surrounding copyright
  31. Recording of the week: 'It is a great thing nettle beer'
  32. Recording of the week: how to avoid being puked on by a fulmar
  33. Recording of the week: An interview with Ravi Shankar
  34. Guy Brett: Ideas in Motion
  35. Bhicoo Batlivala, Campaigner for Indian Independence
  36. Roshani Begum, dancer turned rebel from Tipu Sultan’s court
  37. The Marital Affairs of Heirs: Marriage Negotiations of Prince Charles
  38. Another scandalous tale from the Down family
  39. William George Sibley of the East India Company - a worthy good man
  40. Treating patients with mineral water at Bath Hospital
  41. Non-essential retail in nineteenth-century London
  42. Records of People on the Move
  43. E. G. G. Hunt
  44. Henri’s April Fool and other recipes

March 2021

  1. Sor Juana's reply: a 17th century feminist manifesto
  2. Tomayto, Tomahto: Identifying Azerbaijani Manuscripts in the British Library Collections
  3. A beautiful Qur’an manuscript from Kampar, Riau, digitised through EAP
  4. An early Tai-Chinese glossary in the Hua yi yi yu
  5. A Malay Qur’an manuscript from Patani
  6. The Courtesan and the Preacher: The Romance of Mahsati, an Early Female Persian Poet
  7. British Library x British Fashion Council Student Fashion Awards
  8. Welcome to the British Library’s new Wikimedian in Residence
  9. The game was ne'er so fair
  10. Competition to Proofread Bengali Books on Wikisource
  11. New online - March 2021
  12. EAP Publication translated into Arabic - مُترجَمًا إلى العربية: برنامج الأرشيفات المهددة بالاندثار يطلق أحد أهم كتبه
  13. Contemporary Poetry at the Library: A Quick Start Guide
  14. Simon Vestdijk, 1898-1971
  15. A Burglarious Attempt to Declaw the Lion
  16. New Slavonic e-resources at the British Library
  17. Rosa Luxemburg: a brief glimpse in five items
  18. Design for a better life – the legacy of William Morris
  19. Meet our delivery partner: Sam Lane
  20. Female patent pioneers you should know
  21. International Women's Day 2021: Meet the wonderful women of the BIPC
  22. A week in the life of James Seager, Company Director of Les Enfants Terribles
  23. Behind the scenes at the British Library: Amber Perrier, Community Engagement Officer
  24. Meet the Maker: Circular&Co.
  25. Towards an action plan on anti-racism
  26. Maps on the British Library's Online Gallery: update
  27. Crowdsourcing in schools: The Land Utilisation Survey of Britain
  28. Great medieval bake off: Lent edition
  29. The colour purple
  30. Fascinating beasts (and where to find them)
  31. The curious AB-script
  32. Rhygyfarch: poetry and protest in medieval Wales
  33. Publishing Patriotism: the Napoleonic wars in musical print
  34. Donald Michie: Interviewing Trofim Lysenko
  35. Three men, a tobacco plant disease, and a virus.
  36. "Just Leave Me Alone": responses to Unfinished Business
  37. History in the Making: 40 years on from the Black People’s Day of Action
  38. True Echoes: Daniels Ethnographical Expedition to New Guinea, 1904
  39. Recording of the week: Women’s lives in pre-war Leeds
  40. Recording of the week: A different kind of national anthem
  41. A Covid-19 radio archive
  42. Recording of the week: Mohamed Choukri at the ICA
  43. Alan Bowness and Artists’ Lives
  44. Recording of the week: Friction drum song from Botswana
  45. Researching short-lived newspapers
  46. Identifying dancing dogs
  47. An Alternative to the Suez Canal?
  48. Eliza Armstrong’s husband
  49. The search for Franklin in the Barrow Bequest
  50. Travel Quarantine in the 1750s
  51. Sources for Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
  52. Hannah Danby – JMW Turner’s housekeeper
  53. Mūzah bint Aḥmad Āl Bū Sa‘īd - The Protector of Muscat
  54. The Garden of Aden: The Experimental Vegetable Garden at Aden
  55. Astley’s Amphitheatre presents ‘Storming and Capture of Delhi’
  56. Shakespeare in the UK Web
  57. University of Edinburgh’s Collecting Covid-19 Initiative: Collaborative Collection Building with the UKWA
  58. British Science Week and the UK Web Archive

February 2021

  1. Two treaties: Waitangi Day in conversation
  2. We're calling for your Caribbean food stories
  3. Curry goat to political rallying
  4. Qur’an manuscripts from Southeast Asia digitised by the Endangered Archives Programme
  5. Patchwork for a Prince: Exploring Persian Anthology British Library Or.13193
  6. ‘Khadija Saye: in this space we breathe’ at the British Library
  7. The Burmese Harp: (3) Heaven and Earth
  8. An Earl, a collection, and a shopping list: Mail-order military manuscripts
  9. Boys, Boys, Boys: Enderunlu Fazıl Bey’s Hubanname
  10. Qur’an manuscripts from Southeast Asia in the British Library
  11. Highlights from the British Library’s Collection of Ethiopian Manuscripts
  12. AURA Research Network Second Workshop Write-up
  13. Investigating Instances of Arabic Verb Form X in the BL/QFP Translation Memory
  14. Legacies of Catalogue Descriptions and Curatorial Voice: training materials and next steps
  15. New online - February 2021
  16. New online - December 2020 and January 2021
  17. The Endangered Archives Programme in a time of change - looking back on 2020
  18. Thinking about Alasdair Gray and Lanark, forty years since
  19. Weetabix and beans: a linguistic take
  20. “Slow” Biography and the Ted Hughes Collection
  21. The Library acquires Theatre Royal Stratford East and Theatre Workshop archive
  22. Georgian Collections in the British Library
  23. Doughnuts and Fools: Some Carnival Traditions
  24. Multi-tasking women from the 1920s to the 2020s
  25. Women's Suffrage in Switzerland
  26. Innovating for Growth Diary - Sian Zeng
  27. Start-up Stars: Taste of Success
  28. Meet the Reset. Restart experts
  29. Meet Yasmine Thomson, founder of YCM Events
  30. Finding a gap in the market. Nicola Lespeare Greeting Cards
  31. How entrepreneurs have Reset and Restarted their businesses
  32. Meet our delivery partner: Rasheed Ogunlaru
  33. Behind the scenes at the British Library: John Lee, Publisher, and Maria Vassilopoulos, Publishing Sales and Marketing Manager
  34. Unfinished Business in libraries across the UK
  35. Meet the maker: Literati & Light
  36. Behind the scenes at the British Library: Nicole Ioffredi Print Room Coordinator and Cataloguer
  37. A roadmap of understanding the term 'roadmap'
  38. Münster’s Cosmographia
  39. Illuminated Canon Tables
  40. Lady Jane Grey’s letters from the Tower of London
  41. Digesting History
  42. Charles d'Orléans, earliest known Valentine?
  43. Love spells in the Greek Magical Papyri
  44. Loan of the Lindisfarne Gospels to the North East of England
  45. Update on Music E-resources
  46. 250,000 sounds preserved by Unlocking Our Sound Heritage
  47. Recording of the week: Breathe in
  48. Remote oral history interviewing at the British Library during the Covid-19 pandemic
  49. On teaching languages
  50. Recording of the week: the swimming songbird
  51. Experiences of women in STEM: working in the scientific civil service
  52. Recording of the week: From feminist utopias to contemporary sound
  53. Sources for Dr B R Ambedkar
  54. Unwitting accomplice or habitual offender?
  55. A British Army route march in India
  56. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: a pioneering writer’s life
  57. Chinese New Year in Canton 1731
  58. Sir Robert Preston and the East India Company
  59. East India Company instructions for keeping records
  60. A 19th century tale of adultery

January 2021

  1. 25 Years of the Moby-Dick Marathon
  2. Beyond the Exhibition: Unfinished Business – Curators' Lunchtime Session
  3. or, The Whale
  4. Moby-Dick;
  5. Digitisation in Asian and African Collections 2019 to 2021: what’s new online and where to find it
  6. Inspiring women writers of Laos: (2) Kongdeuane Nettavong and Phiulavanh Luangvanna
  7. The Gombroon Diaries: a Rich Source on Eighteenth Century Persia and the Persian Gulf
  8. Inspiring women writers of Laos: (1) Dara Viravong Kanlagna and Douangdeuane Bounyavong
  9. Export paintings of Ming and Qing Chinese Interiors and Furnishings
  10. Hacking the BL from home
  11. Identify yourself!
  12. The New Media Writing Prize collection is now available in the UK Web Archive
  13. Happy 20th Birthday Wikipedia
  14. A radical duo and their Italian connection
  15. Beyond the Exhibition: Unfinished Business – Curators' Lunchtime Session
  16. Antonio Gramsci: translator, storyteller and educator
  17. How to trick a lion
  18. A Week in the Life of Meenesh Mistry, founder of Wholey Moly
  19. Meet Annie Gibbs, Founder & Director of Amour Destiné CIC
  20. Meet Alison Cork, Ambassador for the British Library’s Business & IP Centre
  21. New volcanic islands: where science and politics meet
  22. A medical man maps Kent
  23. Bede, The Dig and Sutton Hoo
  24. Merovingian illumination in a manuscript of Gregory's Moralia
  25. Over 4,500 manuscripts now online
  26. A virtual get-away, medieval style
  27. Finding Beethoven: recent work in the catalogue
  28. zbMATH Open - mathematical database now free online
  29. 'Tell the world what was happening': Uprising at Auschwitz
  30. Recording of the week: Amping up Uyghur music with the electric guitar
  31. Recording of the week: Dawn in a Gondwana Rainforest
  32. Grace Robertson, a pioneer of women’s documentary photography
  33. Building a National Radio Archive - in Hastings
  34. Recording of the week: The voice of Robert Browning (1812-1889)
  35. Albert Roux (1935-2021)
  36. Recording of the week: Happy New Year!
  37. Sources for the 1947 Bengal and Punjab Boundary Commissions
  38. Daniel Seton – Magistrate of Surat
  39. Isabella Keiskamma Frend - a challenging life
  40. Richard Walpole and the East India Company at sea
  41. Bibee Zuhoorun: Women’s Voices in the Indian Indenture Trade
  42. The hunt for Syed Mahamad Yusufuddin
  43. Severe weather hits Britain in January 1763
  44. Bevin Trainees now in India Office Family History Search
  45. Rabbie Burns and the UK Web Archive

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