2022–2026

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January 2026

1. 29 JanBlogs in this series

2025 198

September 2025

1. 1 SepRound 21: call for applications, webinars and our new portal
2. 1 SepMaude Nathan, bookbinder (1871–1910)

August 2025

1. 1 AugExample blog
2. 1 AugThe British Library as a Global Archive
3. 1 AugCaring for the Dead: a unique Mon funeral book
4. 1 AugThe Provenance of the Colebrooke Collection (5): Commemorating a Collector
5. 1 AugThe Scrapbooks of the Imprimerie Royale
6. 1 AugTulips: Dutch, Turkish, or Flemish?
7. 1 AugNot lost in translation
8. 1 AugTransporting the Library into a steampunk universe
9. 1 AugBeyond the Bassline: making an impact in libraries across the UK
10. 1 AugFerocious fish
11. 1 AugSamuel Coleridge-Taylor at 150: Overview of British Library collections
12. 1 AugHappy 90th birthday Paul Thompson!
13. 1 AugWitnessing the nuclear age
14. 1 AugThe Radical Act behind your local library: Celebrating 175 years of public libraries
15. 1 AugEngraving the engraver: Sébastien Leclerc I and the Imprimerie Royale
16. 1 AugMaria Harriett Turner – JMW’s Unconventional Cousin
17. 1 AugVJ Day, 15 August 1945
18. 1 AugPapers of Frederick William Thomas, India Office Librarian and Philologist
19. 1 AugCollecting for the Women’s World Cup 2025 at the National Library of Wales
20. 1 AugCollecting Thistles: archiving Scotland at the Rugby Women’s World Cup 2025

July 2025

1. 1 JulA veterinary text between Mongols, Mamluks and Armenians
2. 1 JulThe Provenance of the Colebrooke Collection (4): Accusations of Corruption
3. 1 JulA showcase for the British Library from Göttingen: The Bohairic–Arabic Holy Week lectionary Add MS 5997 dated 1273 CE
4. 1 JulAutomatic Text Recognition in Cultural Heritage Institutions survey: a brief analysis and a published dataset
5. 1 JulA Geographer’s Initiation Into Digital Humanities: Part 1
6. 1 JulBringing the heritage of the Bonpos to the world
7. 1 JulA Newly Discovered Lease by John Milton in the Portland Papers
8. 1 JulPrinted cultural heritage of Slovenian émigré communities in Europe, Americas and Australia
9. 1 JulCelebrating Stanisław Wyspiański at the British Library
10. 1 JulPlanting seeds of possibility
11. 1 JulSharing our Annual Report highlights for 2024–25
12. 1 JulDiscovering unexpected ancestors in the online newspaper collection
13. 1 JulWomen’s voices in football fandom
14. 1 JulThomas Wolsey and the invasion of France
15. 1 JulThe Passion in pictures
16. 1 JulCataloguing the Campbell charters
17. 1 Jul100 years of Mikis Theodorakis
18. 1 JulPostcards from Salzburg: IAML Congress 2025
19. 1 JulWild British Library: From Box to Bees: The story of a wildflower meadow springing up in St Pancras
20. 1 JulHow a British AI pioneer helped to make the 1983 sci-fi classic "WarGames"
21. 1 Jul‘Herstory: 50 Years of Rape Crisis’. A new oral ‘herstory’ archive and podcast
22. 1 JulOral history at Groundswell 2025
23. 1 JulThe varied careers of James Estcourt Atwood
24. 1 JulA potted history of gardening books
25. 1 JulFrom East India Company labourer to gentleman - the life of Benjamin Constable
26. 1 JulAssassination on the beach: The death of Shaikh Khalīfah
27. 1 JulCase of C W O’Donoghue - Destitute in London
28. 1 JulNominations are open for the Women’s Rugby World Cup 2025 collection
29. 1 JulWhat to nominate for Women’s Rugby World Cup 2025

June 2025

1. 1 JunSummer Scholars Lunchtime Talks 2025!
2. 1 JunThe Perfection of Wisdom in 8000 Lines: a Mahayana Buddhist text
3. 1 JunAn Egyptian stela for the highly-born woman Imaw: one of the oldest items in the British Library
4. 1 JunEarly Arabi-Malayalam printed books in the British Library
5. 1 JunThe Provenance of the Colebrooke Collection (3): Colebrooke and the Pandits
6. 1 JunThe Digital Research team at DH2025
7. 1 JunReflections from the IIIF Annual Conference 2025
8. 1 JunNew Italian Literature: Premio Strega 2025
9. 1 JunWorks of Svetlana Aleksievich: editions, translations, interpretations
10. 1 JunGnomes and Gardens
11. 1 JunDeciphering a 20,000-year-old mystery: An interview with Bennett Bacon
12. 1 JunFive outstanding manuscripts acquired for the nation
13. 1 JunFrédéric Kastner’s singing flames
14. 1 JunThe average chess players of Bletchley Park and AI research in Britain
15. 1 JunClod Magazine editors in the British Library studio
16. 1 JunJoseph Fowke’s farewell letter
17. 1 Jun‘Marmion’ design by John Leighton FSA (1822-1912)
18. 1 JunWreck of the American ship 'Squantum'
19. 1 JunSermon notes of a 17th century woman: Lady Anne Harcourt
20. 1 JunUK Web Archive Report on Digital Methodologies for the Study of Religion Symposium
21. 1 JunRESAW 2025: Report from UK Web Archive Colleagues

May 2025

1. 1 MayNew display of manuscript textiles from Southeast Asia
2. 1 MayThe Provenance of the Colebrooke Collection (2): Colebrooke’s manuscripts on Hindu law
3. 1 MayThe Provenance of the Colebrooke Collection (1): The Colebrooke Family and the East India Company
4. 1 MayHeritage under Occupation: The Japanese Commercial Postcards of a Unified Korea
5. 1 MayDiscover Digital Sustainability
6. 1 MayItalian Connections Unearthed
7. 1 MaySeminar on Textual Bibliography for Modern Foreign Languages
8. 1 MayTerror, triumph and resistance: Women in the Yugoslav Partisans, 1941-1945
9. 1 MayRemembering Sacrifice, Celebrating Freedom
10. 1 MayTikTok, activism and archives: the latest from Young Creators Lab
11. 1 May‘News wonderful, weather hot’: a selection of programmes from the wartime National Gallery Concerts
12. 1 MayVE Day: voices from history
13. 1 MayVE Day in the news
14. 1 MayTitwood and Corkerhill Coal Mines
15. 1 MayA village in exchange for recital of a book
16. 1 MayNapoleon’s Travelling Bookcase
17. 1 MayVE Day Celebrations in London, May 1945
18. 1 MayIIPC Web Archiving Conference 2025: Report from UK Web Archive Colleagues
19. 1 MayMarking 80 Years: Documenting VE and VJ Day Commemoration in the UK Web Archive
20. 1 MayDigital Memory and the Militarised Past: Commemorating Britain’s World Wars in the 21st Century

April 2025

1. 1 AprTwo New Eccles Fellowships for Creative Practitioners!
2. 1 AprEccles Institute Visiting Fellows, 2025-26
3. 1 AprPhotobooks and the Creative Journey: An Interview with James Clifford Kent
4. 1 AprNot Fowl: Feathered friends in Coptic and Armenian Manuscripts
5. 1 AprA Priest and an Artist: Tracking Down Who Sold Baybars' Qur'an
6. 1 AprConservation for Digitisation: Arakanese Buddhist Manuscripts from the Murray Collection by Ana C. García Pérez
7. 1 AprDHNB 2025 - Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Conference Report
8. 1 AprWikisource 2025 Conference: Collaboration, Innovation, and the Future of Digital Texts
9. 1 AprP.G. Wodehouse: the Man, the Musicals, the Manuscripts
10. 1 Apr████ is ████. Navigating the Minefield of (Self-)censorship in Putin's Russia
11. 1 AprKnowledge without borders
12. 1 AprInvestigating forebears in the records of the past: An interview with Ken Foster
13. 1 AprCulinary manuscripts at the British Library
14. 1 AprElectronic Legal Deposit – April 2025 update
15. 1 AprReassessing Children's Music with BBC Radio for Schools
16. 1 AprUnlocking Hidden Collections: one year of cataloguing trade literature
17. 1 AprInteractive Listening: Engaging children with testimonies part 2
18. 1 AprChildren in war-time
19. 1 AprWalter Key Haslewood of the Bengal Army
20. 1 AprSir Richard Corbett, East India Company warehouse labourer
21. 1 AprCaptain Leathes Johnston, an 18th-century soldier
22. 1 AprMaggs Bros. Ltd. - the inner workings of an antiquarian bookseller
23. 1 AprJust launched - The Routledge Companion to Transnational Web Archive Studies
24. 1 AprWeb Archives Collections as Data at the Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries (DHNB) Workshop Report

March 2025

1. 1 MarThe deadly women of crime fiction
2. 1 Mar‘America Now!’ continues: True Crime in the USA
3. 1 MarCall For Papers: Twentieth-Century Black Periodicals and Space
4. 1 MarExploring Thai art: Frederick S. Harrop (1887–1969)
5. 1 MarFunded Conservation Internship 2024/25 by Ana C. García Pérez
6. 1 MarHelp us explore Automatic Text Recognition in cultural heritage institutions!
7. 1 MarFantastic Futures 2025 (FF2025) Call for Proposals
8. 1 MarProjects that went online in 2024-25
9. 1 MarHistoric maps of the Slovene lands
10. 1 MarSmall and rare: a Spanish love story
11. 1 MarLearning - and Shouting out for - German over the Centuries
12. 1 MarLidwina van Schiedam: Patron Saint of Ice Skaters and Chronic Illness
13. 1 MarLatest Pay Gaps Report published
14. 1 MarFinding out about service updates – March 2025
15. 1 MarCelebrating World Book Day® with schools and families
16. 1 MarThe Moutier Grandval Bible loaned to Jura
17. 1 MarUnfolding Time: The Medieval Pocket Calendar
18. 1 MarThe Paul Hirsch Music Collection
19. 1 MarRemembering Artists' Lives interviewee Rory Young
20. 1 MarAn experimental weaving station at Benares
21. 1 MarA sailor’s slush fund
22. 1 MarMrs Ellen Evershed, embroideress; a Victorian ‘Dragon’
23. 1 MarStories of Provenance Research: Records and Manuscripts Lost at Sea (Part 2): RMS Titanic

February 2025

1. 21 FebPhD placement scheme in North and Latin American sections at the British Library - applications open until 21 February 2025
2. 1 FebRemembering Velma Pollard
3. 1 FebA Missing Mirror: The British Library's Mir'atü'l-hubûş and Ottoman Ethiopian Studies
4. 1 FebDoctoral fellowship opportunity in African collections at the British Library
5. 1 FebColonel Jayakar's Omani Treasures
6. 1 FebCollaborative Solutions for Digitising Oversized Foldouts: Conservation and Imaging Challenges in the British Library and Qatar Foundation Partnership by Batoul Asgara
7. 1 FebPhD placement opportunity: Curating the manuscripts in the Lady Eccles Oscar Wilde Collection
8. 1 FebFrom the Track to the Page: the Legacy of Zdeněk Koubek and Lída Merlínová.
9. 1 FebKharkiv
10. 1 FebQueen Tamar – the ‘King of Kings’
11. 1 FebFor the Love of Books: European Collections at the British Library Doctoral Open Days
12. 1 FebMedieval Women at the Press
13. 1 FebCelebrating a wedding at the Library
14. 1 FebIncreasing the digital impact of public libraries – evaluating LibraryOn’s £1.5m grants programme
15. 1 FebDesign and rule
16. 1 FebMedieval Women manuscripts now online
17. 1 FebI, Estellina: Jewish women and early printing
18. 1 FebBy your valentine, Margery Brews
19. 1 FebThe first sultana of Egypt and Syria
20. 1 FebElgar’s musical sketches reunited at the British Library
21. 1 FebCataloguing the Paul Hirsch Papers: initial observations and highlights
22. 1 FebThe purser’s journal for a voyage of the 'Rochester' to China
23. 1 FebThe Coldstream Collection in India Office Private Papers
24. 1 FebStories of Provenance Research: Records and Manuscripts Lost at Sea (Part 1): SS Oceana
25. 1 FebMaster Frederick Blomberg and his place within the Georgian Royal Family

January 2025

1. 1 JanThe Inauguration of a New President: Where Will American Politics Go From Here?
2. 1 JanAfrican American short fiction and magazines in the mid-twentieth century
3. 1 JanDelayed Promises and Steadfast Dreams: Mapping Out a Young Black Loyalist’s Fictional Journey
4. 1 JanⲠⲓⲭⲣⲓⲥⲧⲟⲥ ⲁⲩⲙⲁⲥϥ! The Nativity in two Copto-Arabic Gospels
5. 1 JanWhen Textile and Paper Shake Hands: Conservation of Textile Samples in the Instructions on Needle-work and Knitting Book by Gee Roxas
6. 1 JanConservation Treatment and Workshop of oversized textile bunting by Storm Scott
7. 1 JanUniversal Viewer v4.1.0 is here!
8. 1 Jan2024 Year in Review - Digital Scholarship Training Programme
9. 1 JanCelebrating 20 Years of EAP: Highlights from the 2024 Conference
10. 1 JanEuropean Collections: From Antiquity to 1800 – Uncovering Rare Books at the British Library Doctoral Open Days
11. 1 JanA Balm on so many Wounds: Etty Hillesum’s Diaries 1941-1943
12. 1 JanBeyond Traditional Monuments: Commemorating the Lost Jewish Community of Kaunas
13. 1 JanSilenced memories: the Holocaust Narrative in the Soviet Union
14. 1 JanThrough the Eyes of Terezín’s Ghetto Children
15. 1 JanCapturing ancient shadows: Vera Stein Ehrlich and the anthropology of the Western Balkans
16. 1 JanFragments of the Past: Holocaust Legacies and Commemoration. Holocaust Memorial Day 2025
17. 1 JanNew Year, Old Years: a Look Back
18. 1 JanInternational LEGO Day: a history of LEGO and our favourite patents
19. 1 JanBeat the January blues: our best business advice
20. 1 JanMake Matisse your own: public domain and copyright in 2025
21. 1 Jan2024 at the BIPC: a year of business growth
22. 1 JanA unique 16th-century Reformation mandate enters collection
23. 1 JanPursuing hippos through the stamp collections
24. 1 JanBlack Agnes and the siege of Dunbar
25. 1 JanThe mortuary roll of Lucy of Hedingham
26. 1 JanPermission to practise medicine
27. 1 JanTales of Medieval Women
28. 1 JanMedieval Women quiz 2
29. 1 JanCurator of Illuminated Manuscripts
30. 1 JanHolocaust Memorial Day 2025: books presenting personal testimonies
31. 1 JanPapers of Charles Roberts, Under-Secretary of State for India 1914-1915
32. 1 JanJohn Galsworthy – Author, playwright and activist
33. 1 JanLetter by Gandhi written with his left hand
34. 1 JanA Shakespear in the Naga Hills, 1900

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December 2024

1. 6 Dec“Rendez-vous at the British Library”: 6 December 2024
2. 1 DecA Printed Christmas: Images of the Nativity in early Armenian Printed Books
3. 1 DecWithout Remedy: Mysteries of the Provenance of the Divan-i Bîçâre
4. 1 DecThe Lalitavistara, a Sanskrit text on the life of the Buddha
5. 1 DecIOR/F/4/1767: A Curious Case in Conservation for Digitisation by Camille Dekeyser
6. 1 DecAI (and machine learning, etc) with British Library collections
7. 1 DecThe challenges of AI for oral history: theoretical and practical issues
8. 1 DecThe challenges of AI for oral history: key questions
9. 1 DecOpen cultural data - an open GLAM perspective at the British Library
10. 1 DecClosing the language gap: automated language identification in British Library catalogue records
11. 1 DecLooking back on the Data Science Accelerator
12. 1 DecAutomating metadata creation: an experiment with Parliamentary 'Road Acts'
13. 1 DecMIX 2025: Writing With Technologies Call for Submissions
14. 1 DecChristmas in Scheveningen 1942
15. 1 DecDevil in the details: Nikolai Gogol's ‘Christmas Eve’
16. 1 Dec£42 million of unwanted Christmas gifts end up in landfill every year - here's how small businesses are combatting Christmas waste
17. 1 DecCelebrating a year of The Last Word community hub
18. 1 DecStories from Young Creators Lab 2024
19. 1 DecThe Nativity according to St Birgitta
20. 1 DecChoose wisely
21. 1 DecAn unknown leaf from the Poor Clares of Cologne
22. 1 DecThe arrest of Eleanor Rykener
23. 1 DecFrom countess to convent
24. 1 DecElizabeth Poston’s Christmas Music
25. 1 DecUnlocking Hidden Collections: unveiling the past through trade literature
26. 1 DecResearching the welfare state
27. 1 DecSilent Night
28. 1 DecThe voice of W. J. Holloway
29. 1 DecIn memoriam: Patrick Sellar 1929-2024
30. 1 DecMadam Johnson’s Present - ‘a proper New-Years Gift for every Maid Servant’
31. 1 DecStolen Christmas dinners
32. 1 DecMiss M. Marshall, the mysterious bookbinder
33. 1 DecA State Bed’s Journey: From East India Company Cargo to Calke Abbey?
34. 1 DecThereza Dillwyn Llewelyn, one of the earliest female photographers

November 2024

1. 30 Nov30 years of National Lottery support
2. 1 Nov'US Politics Today' A Level Conference 2024: Student Notes
3. 1 NovOn the Road Again: “America Now!” events series continues at the Eccles Institute
4. 1 NovPassports and Identity Documents in the Hands of Artists
5. 1 NovThe Gitagovinda and the Jagannatha temple at Puri
6. 1 NovRevisiting Early Photography: Ethics, Legal Constructs, and the Seligmans’ Legacy
7. 1 NovWorking Together: The UV Community Sprint Experience
8. 1 NovCollaborating to improve usability on the Universal Viewer project
9. 1 NovBritish National Bibliography resumes publication
10. 1 NovDigital Humanities Congress 2024
11. 1 NovRecovered Pages: Crowdsourcing at the British Library
12. 1 NovThe Ashley Library of Thomas J. Wise
13. 1 NovThe wolf children of East Prussia
14. 1 NovMarx versus Kinkel – a tale of two newspapers
15. 1 NovA Lifeline of Books: The British Library and Polish Exiles
16. 1 NovA Sustainable Christmas - BIPC Gift Guide
17. 1 NovWhy should you attend Start-up Day 2024?
18. 1 NovIt’s a wrap: Green Libraries Week 2024
19. 1 NovDelivering a world of ideas and opportunities
20. 1 NovDon't try this at home
21. 1 NovThe Eleanor Crosses
22. 1 NovNot for the British Library
23. 1 NovMedieval Women at the British Library shop
24. 1 NovNunning amok
25. 1 NovEducating Ippolita
26. 1 NovWomen at work
27. 1 NovJoan of Arc at the British Library
28. 1 NovRequesting a raise: the petition of Joan Astley
29. 1 NovBirgitta's marvellous marginalia
30. 1 NovMedieval Women quiz 1
31. 1 NovHighlights from the Royal Philharmonic Society Archive
32. 1 NovA Personal Peal at St. Paul’s
33. 1 NovPaul Stephenson: history maker, in Bristol and beyond
34. 1 NovHappy Birthday to the National Lottery
35. 1 NovSound archive acquires new technology for digitising wax cylinders
36. 1 NovCaptain Samuel Hough of the East India Company
37. 1 NovPapers of Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, Viceroy of India 1876-1880
38. 1 NovLearning from Early Printed Books for Green Libraries Week 2024
39. 1 NovAttending the V&A Connecting Threads Conference
40. 1 NovPapers of Leo Cayley Robertson
41. 1 NovDatasheets for Web Archives Toolkit is now live

October 2024

1. 10 OctRestoring our services – 10 October 2024 update
2. 1 OctThe Eccles Institute Visiting Fellowship: Applications Now Open
3. 1 OctGitagovinda, a 12th-century Sanskrit poem devoted to Krishna
4. 1 OctCelebrating Ten Years of the Qatar Digital Library: Expert Articles
5. 1 OctDigital access to Malay and Indonesian manuscripts in the British Library
6. 1 OctAccess restored to a number of digitised manuscripts
7. 1 OctWelcome to the British Library’s new Digital Curator OCR/HTR!
8. 1 OctHappy Twelfth Birthday Wikidata!
9. 1 OctSoutheast Asian Language and Script Conversion Using Aksharamukha
10. 1 OctResearch and Development activities in the Qatar Programme Imaging Team
11. 1 OctCelebrating 40 Years of Wasafiri Magazine
12. 1 OctDimitrije Mitrinović: From the Decolonization of the Balkans to a United Europe
13. 1 OctHow Bitter the Savour is of Other’s Bread? International Conference on European Political Refugees in the UK from 1800
14. 1 OctHappy Halloween:19th century patents to avoid being buried alive!
15. 1 OctFrom Coca-Cola to KFC: uncovering a spooky intellectual property secret
16. 1 OctHow to set up a food business: hear from the experts this World Food Day
17. 1 OctHow to make your business more sustainable: take your first steps this Green Libraries Week
18. 1 OctSustainability tour of the British Library
19. 1 OctOur new Sustainability and Climate Change Strategy
20. 1 OctMoving Lines: Climate Change, Maps and Boundaries
21. 1 OctMedieval witches
22. 1 OctKeeping a cat and other rules for anchoresses
23. 1 OctMedieval Women events
24. 1 OctMedieval Women well and truly open
25. 1 OctMedieval Women: the items on display
26. 1 OctCountdown to Medieval Women
27. 1 OctMaidens or monsters?
28. 1 OctMedieval Women exhibition book available now!
29. 1 OctOur first 1000 digitised manuscripts return
30. 1 OctTwo Holst events at the British Library
31. 1 OctDigitised music manuscripts made available online
32. 1 OctHakim Adi: three decades (and counting) of reclaiming the historical narrative
33. 1 Oct‘Carry Me Home’- Reattaching to the self: Melodic arrangement in African American spirituals and early 20th century classical compositions
34. 1 OctInteractive listening: Engaging children with testimonies of Caribbean migration
35. 1 OctValete fratres revisited: 100 years of the Librarians’ Memorial
36. 1 OctCelebrating Ten Years of the Qatar Digital Library: Memorable Highlights – Part 3
37. 1 OctFurther digitised India Office Records now online
38. 1 OctCelebrating Ten Years of the Qatar Digital Library: Memorable Highlights – Part 2
39. 1 OctCelebrating Ten Years of the Qatar Digital Library: Memorable Highlights – Part 1
40. 1 OctCaptain John Villier Forbes - a ‘Single-Man’?
41. 1 OctPapers of the Clay and Baylis Family
42. 1 OctDischarge papers for soldiers of the Royal East India Volunteers
43. 1 OctArchiving Social Media with Browsertrix

September 2024

1. 1 SepFrom the Supreme Court to Cowboy Carter: “America Now!” events series launches at the Eccles Institute
2. 1 SepMoving Texts and Individuals between New England and England in the Mid-Seventeenth Century
3. 1 SepRustam's war attire in Firdawsi's Shahnamah
4. 1 SepThe Hidden Mughal Princess-Poet Zebunnisa 'Makhfi'
5. 1 SepSong of Resistance: Iraqis’ Response to British Occupation
6. 1 SepConserving Manuscripts: Insights from My Placement at the British Library Qatar Foundation Partnership by Moda Farfour
7. 1 SepmemoQfest 2024: A Journey of Innovation and Connection
8. 1 SepRound 20: call for applications, important deadlines & more webinars
9. 1 SepWage Peace Not War. Leo Tolstoy and Mahatma Gandhi on Violence, Nonresistance, and Love
10. 1 SepWerther at 250 - an 18th-Century Bestseller
11. 1 SepBulgarian Ethnography: photographic collections of the Ethnographic Institute and Museum in Sofia
12. 1 SepUnderground Publishing in Poland under Communist Regime: Through Female Eyes
13. 1 SepCelebrating women entrepreneurs: A recap of National Women’s Enterprise Week
14. 1 SepGreen Libraries Week
15. 1 SepMedieval Women: 1 Month to Go!
16. 1 SepDan Jones on Henry V
17. 1 SepSIVORI IS DEAD! VIVA SIVORI! The haunting recorded legacy of Paganini’s only pupil, Part 3
18. 1 SepStories of Provenance Research: Henry Beddy, Baptist Missionary
19. 1 SepA white elephant from Mandalay
20. 1 SepJohn Fenwick political radical and journalist (2)
21. 1 SepJohn Fenwick political radical and writer (1)
22. 1 SepBuried Treasure in Oudh
23. 1 SepCreating and Sharing Collection Datasets from the UK Web Archive

August 2024

1. 30 AugRestoring our services – 30 August 2024 update
2. 1 Aug'US Politics Today' A-level conference 2024
3. 1 Aug87 more Arabic scientific manuscripts on the Qatar Digital Library: The British Library/Qatar Foundation Partnership, Phase Three
4. 1 AugOpen and Engaged 2024: Empowering Communities to Thrive in Open Scholarship
5. 1 AugThe Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets 2024 is now open
6. 1 AugEmpire and French Caricature from 1870-1871 (Part 2)
7. 1 AugA short selection of new Ukrainian books to mark the Independence Day
8. 1 AugReligious Metaphors in French Caricature from 1870-71 (Part 1)
9. 1 AugThe Marriage of Sport and Art: Poland at the Forgotten Olympic Art Competitions (1912-1948)
10. 1 AugBasketball: two small Baltic countries punching above their weight
11. 1 AugDivided by Politics – ‘United’ by Sport? The German Unified Olympic Team
12. 1 AugWorld Photography Day: the patents that have shaped the field
13. 1 AugThe power of books: recommendations and the stories that have impacted our businesses
14. 1 AugWho owns the Olympics? How Intellectual Property supports Olympic excellence
15. 1 AugTaking the shilling
16. 1 AugFine along the dotted line
17. 1 AugRoyal Musical Association Papers, 1874-1971
18. 1 AugThe Life Story in Oral History Practice - Freely accessible issue of 'Oral History' Journal out now!
19. 1 AugBeyond the Bassline: Coleridge Goode's diary
20. 1 AugThe Immorality of Dancing
21. 1 AugQueer Lives in Literature – A New Exhibition in the Treasures Gallery
22. 1 AugDigitised India Office Records currently available online
23. 1 AugIndian Warrior Women who fought the East India Company
24. 1 AugCataloguing the Harley Manuscripts ... continued

July 2024

1. 30 JulRestoring our services – 30 July 2024 update
2. 6 JulJoin us for the Oral History Festival on Saturday 6 July 2024 in the British Library Knowledge Centre
3. 1 JulIn Memory of Ismail Kadare (28 January 1936 – 1 July 2024)
4. 1 JulIslam Aly: a new acquisition of contemporary artist’s books at the British Library
5. 1 JulIlana Tahan, 1946-2024
6. 1 JulNarrating Rebirth: an exhibition of Jātaka illustrations from digitised Thai manuscripts
7. 1 JulA Who's Who of Early Saudi Statehood: The British Library's 'Wahhabi' Manuscript
8. 1 JulHenry Alabaster’s “Catalogue of Siamese manuscripts” (2): miscellaneous texts, novels and dramas
9. 1 JulThe Mystery of Swarbreck’s Sketches in Scotland by Eloise Halliwell
10. 1 JulCharting the European D-SEA Conference at the Stabi
11. 1 Jul'AI and the Digital Humanities' session at CILIP's 2024 conference
12. 1 JulEmbracing Sustainability at the British Library: Insights from the Digital Humanities Climate Coalition Workshop
13. 1 JulDHBN 2024 - Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Conference Report
14. 1 JulOne Love and Venceremos: Celebrating the Correspondence of Austin Clarke and Andrew Salkey
15. 1 JulDefiance on the World Stage: Czechoslovak Protests and the Olympic Games
16. 1 JulHow the Polish nobility and a "little Russian [? – Belarusian!] girl" shaped Belarusian sports
17. 1 JulGeorgia’s acclaimed writer Aka Morchiladze
18. 1 JulBulgarian minorities’ culture in the 20th century
19. 1 JulPremio Strega 2024: behind the scenes
20. 1 JulTickets go on sale for Medieval Women exhibition
21. 1 JulNew acquisition: an illuminated charter of Edward III
22. 1 JulDrake’s progress
23. 1 JulSamuel Coleridge-Taylor and the practicalities of performance
24. 1 JulSamuel Coleridge-Taylor: ‘I want to be nothing in the world except what I am - a musician.’
25. 1 JulThe Najd Mission in Paris, 1919
26. 1 JulSporting prowess of Indian marine cadets
27. 1 JulTheft of a safe and money at Agra
28. 1 JulThe Fund For Building a Protestant Church in Alexandria
29. 1 JulJabez Tepper: The cousin who thwarted JMW Turner’s bequest (Part 2)
30. 1 JulJabez Tepper: the cousin who thwarted JMW Turner’s bequest (Part 1)
31. 1 JulIf websites could talk (part 6)

June 2024

1. 1 JunArt Fund New Collecting Award: Collecting Arab Visual Cultures (1960 to Today)
2. 1 JunIIIF Annual Conference 2024: A Journey of Innovation and Inspiration
3. 1 JunJoin the British Library as a Digital Curator, OCR/HTR
4. 1 JunChina trip report – IDP, DH, and everything in between
5. 1 Junblplaybills.org: leveraging open data from the British Library
6. 1 JunWebinars for Applicants — Round 20
7. 1 JunA Horizon Europe MSCA Secondment at the British Library Endangered Archives Programme: Accessing the Textual Literary Heritage of Bhutan
8. 1 JunEURO 2024: The Dutch Legion takes over Hamburg
9. 1 JunMiracles and Fairy Tales: some German Football Stories
10. 1 JunUkraine: A Life in Football
11. 1 JunCan you learn to play football from a book?
12. 1 JunSeminar on Textual Bibliography for Modern Foreign Languages 2024
13. 1 JunThe Supermac vs Big Mac trade mark challenge
14. 1 JunEnjoying Time Together on Family Days
15. 1 JunMin’yō: a cultural heritage of sweat, toil, and joy
16. 1 JunPride beyond June: readings in LGBT+ history, culture and theory
17. 1 JunD-Day: from memory to commemoration
18. 1 JunSIVORI IS DEAD! VIVA SIVORI! The haunting recorded legacy of Paganini’s only pupil, Part 2
19. 1 JunSulaiman al-Baruni: life of an Ibadhi scholar and statesman in North Africa and Oman
20. 1 JunThe last surviving East India Company Chaplain
21. 1 JunCoroner’s records from late 18th-century Bombay
22. 1 JunCase of Edward Murphy, blind orphan at Southampton Workhouse

May 2024

1. 28 MayRestoring our services – 28 May 2024 update
2. 1 MayHelping your research – 1 May 2024
3. 1 MayBurkhard Quessel, Curator for Tibetan, retires from the British Library
4. 1 MayMeet our new Universal Viewer product team
5. 1 MayRecovered Pages: Computing for Cultural Heritage Student Projects
6. 1 MayRecovered Pages: A Digital Transformation Story
7. 1 MayPreservation of Roma historical and cultural heritage in Bulgaria
8. 1 MayContinental cookbooks
9. 1 MayEuropean prose in transformation (Part 2) The European Writers’ Festival returns to the British Library
10. 1 MayEuropean prose in transformation (Part 1). The European Writers’ Festival returns to the British Library
11. 1 MayIn a whirlwind of change. The European Writers’ Festival returns to the British Library
12. 1 MayScarlett Johansson Vs. OpenAI: The blurred IP lines between human and machine
13. 1 MayTwo worlds collide: when your family member becomes your business partner
14. 1 MayStarting up? Here are top tips from business owners to help you on your journey
15. 1 MayTelling Stories That Help Children Learn to Read | User Stories
16. 1 MayGet into the heart of the Library with our new Bloomberg Connects digital guide
17. 1 MayBeyond the Bassline events at the British Library, June
18. 1 MaySIVORI IS DEAD! VIVA SIVORI! The haunting recorded legacy of Paganini’s only pupil
19. 1 MayBeyond the Bassline events at the British Library, May
20. 1 MayThe Victorian Diary of William Fletcher of Bridgnorth
21. 1 MayIndia Office catalogue records added to Discovery platform
22. 1 MayAcross the Great Desert: an unlikely rescue on the coast of Oman
23. 1 MayBridgnorth: A Town of Unique Distinction – Part 2
24. 1 MayBridgnorth: A Town of Unique Distinction – Part 1
25. 1 MayStories of Provenance Research: Charles Masson’s papers in the India Office Records
26. 1 MayIIPC Web Archiving Spring/Summer School and Conference 2024: Report from UK Web Archive Colleagues
27. 1 MayReflections on the IIPC Early Scholars Spring School on Web Archives 2024

April 2024

1. 1 AprA Gastronomic Feast
2. 1 AprAfter three decades of pioneering research, the IDP launches a new and improved website
3. 1 AprRecovered Pages: Digital Scholarship Training Programme
4. 1 AprDH and the International Dunhuang Programme at Ryukoku University
5. 1 AprCurious about using 'public domain' British Library Flickr images?
6. 1 AprThe Hobbit – there and back, or what are you looking for? Braille books in Slavonic collections 2.
7. 1 Apr“The hands want to see, the eyes want to caress”. Braille books in Slavonic collections 1
8. 1 AprHow IP can save the world: creating a sustainable future with intellectual property
9. 1 AprNational Siblings Day: On building businesses together with Cultureville
10. 1 AprSir Roly Keating to step down as Chief Executive of the British Library in April 2025
11. 1 AprA knight's tale
12. 1 AprJane Manning & Anthony Payne: a celebration
13. 1 AprResearching social work in the Social Sciences Reading Room.
14. 1 AprBeyond the Bassline: Two-tone
15. 1 AprBeyond the Bassline: Roots reggae
16. 1 AprBeyond the Bassline: Lovers’ rock
17. 1 AprBeyond the Bassline: 500 Years of Black British Music
18. 1 AprSound Heritage Today: British and Irish Sound Archives event in Glasgow on 9-10 May
19. 1 AprA military wife in India - Deborah Marshall's letters
20. 1 AprUnclaimed packages and post in Bombay
21. 1 AprCase of Gholam Hosain
22. 1 AprA settlement in the Pacific Ocean for growing flax
23. 1 AprRe-Evaluating the Status of Prints at the British Library
24. 1 AprPapers of Sir Hugh Keeling and Colonel Thomas Ormsby Underwood

March 2024

1. 1 MarHandwritten Text Recognition of the Dunhuang manuscripts: the challenges of machine learning on ancient Chinese texts
2. 1 MarCall for proposals open for DigiCAM25: Born-Digital Collections, Archives and Memory conference
3. 1 MarRethinking Web Maps to present Hans Sloane’s Collections
4. 1 MarDigitising The Histories of Islamic West Africa
5. 1 MarThe Endangered Archives Programme: Safeguarding the Private Archive of the Lazic Family
6. 1 MarShe means business: start-up tips from women entrepreneurs
7. 1 MarWrite your own success story. Meet Martha Keith, our new BIPC business ambassador
8. 1 MarGender, ethnicity and disability pay gap reports published
9. 1 MarLearning lessons from the cyber-attack
10. 1 MarHelping your research
11. 1 MarAnnual manuscripts weigh-in
12. 1 MarHenry VIII’s pastry tent
13. 1 MarCurator of Ancient and Medieval Manuscripts
14. 1 MarMedieval Women exhibition
15. 1 MarChaucer at the Bodleian
16. 1 MarHarriet Cohen and Astra Desmond: introducing two newly catalogued archives
17. 1 MarConsulting Official Publications collections after the cyber attack.
18. 1 MarFinding Women's Studies on the shelves: an international turn
19. 1 Mar'Women are up to something': selected readings for Women's History Month 2024
20. 1 MarA letter between female activists
21. 1 MarRescuing a woman from drowning in the Irrawaddy River
22. 1 MarApplications for Trinity House Pensions
23. 1 MarWhat about the East India Company Women? Emma Roberts and the spinsterhood of India

February 2024

1. 22 FebRestoring our services – 22 February 2024 update
2. 9 FebRestoring our services - 9 February 2024 update
3. 1 FebReframing Dominant Narratives: Jewish History on the Island of Jamaica
4. 1 FebResearching and Unraveling Haitian Stories in the Archives
5. 1 FebHello - and moving forward...
6. 1 FebSafeguarding Tomorrow: The Impact of AI on Media and Information Industries
7. 1 FebShow small businesses some love
8. 1 FebInterim ways of working with the India Office Records and Private Papers

January 2024

1. 1 Jan2023: Our business journey continues
2. 1 JanYour Library this year
3. 1 JanRestoring our services – an update
4. 1 JanCelebrating Women Musicians, past and present
5. 1 JanRestoring access to the British Library’s Music Collections (January 2024)
6. 1 JanSound and Vision update
7. 1 JanExploring Alternative Access: Making the Most of Web Archives During UK Web Archive Downtime

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December 2023

1. 18 DecCyber incident update – last updated 18 December 2023
2. 5 DecBritish Library events – last updated 5 December 2023
3. 1 DecUrdu Poetry, Women and Well-being at the British Library
4. 1 DecCelebrating small businesses this season
5. 1 DecKnowledge under attack
6. 1 DecDisruption to Public Lending Right (PLR) service
7. 1 DecBritish Library school services
8. 1 DecInterim information sources for British Library manuscripts

November 2023

1. 1 NovBritish Library Business & IP Centre (BIPC) services

October 2023

1. 1 OctTales from the Philatelic Crypt: The ‘Haunted Canada’ Postage Stamp Series
2. 1 OctCarybé, Mario de Andrade and the Brazilian ‘hero without a character’
3. 1 OctGrenada, 1973-83 | Beginnings of a Revolution, Invasion, Aftermath
4. 1 OctJoseph Gaye (1852-1926) photographic views of the Kathmandu Valley and India donated to the British Library
5. 1 OctNew display of Buddhist manuscripts and block prints in the Sir John Ritblat Treasures Gallery
6. 1 OctDrawn from across the globe: manuscript textiles in the Southeast Asian collections
7. 1 OctA day in the life of a book conservator
8. 1 OctJoin the British Library as a Digital Curator, OCR/HTR
9. 1 OctStrike a Pose Steampunk style! For our Late event with Clockwork Watch on Friday 13th October
10. 1 OctLast chance to see the Digital Storytelling exhibition
11. 1 OctA writer’s war: the correspondence of Dorothy L. Sayers
12. 1 OctRe-reading Ted Hughes' Lupercal
13. 1 OctRepairing the Past: on We Slaves of Suriname
14. 1 OctJon Fosse, 2023 Nobel Literature Laureate
15. 1 OctForgotten stories still to be uncovered
16. 1 OctSonal Keay: A Silk Road to Business Growth
17. 1 OctCreating Art Using the Sound Archive | User Stories
18. 1 OctInterview with Sveta Dorosheva, artist for Fantasy: Realms of Imagination
19. 1 OctUntangling the History of Social Dance | User Stories
20. 1 OctSustainability schemes in libraries across the UK
21. 1 OctNew LibraryOn release showcasing public libraries
22. 1 OctSecond LibraryOn digital grant programme launches
23. 1 OctBehind the Scenes at the British Library: Catherine Ross, Sustainability Manager
24. 1 OctGarendon cartulary acquired by the British Library
25. 1 OctChaucer’s works go online
26. 1 OctCataloguing the Cotton charters
27. 1 OctThe largest Greek manuscript?
28. 1 OctSamuel Wesley’s Fugue for Mendelssohn
29. 1 OctRecording of the week: Things that go howl in the night
30. 1 OctListening to Clara Schumann through her pupils: A pianistic orchestration of tones and rhythms
31. 1 OctOn Pioneering Social Research
32. 1 OctAkyaaba Addai-Sebo on founding UK Black History Month
33. 1 OctRecording of the week: A conversation right up our alley
34. 1 OctRecording of the week: South Asian history and medical practices in Britain
35. 1 OctRecording of the week: Vintage voice notes from a remote island
36. 1 OctListening Desk by Emily Peasgood at the British Library
37. 1 OctRecording of the week: Harold Wilson’s 1963 pledge to harness the white heat of a scientific revolution
38. 1 OctClement Mansfield Ingleby of Valentines
39. 1 OctThe happiest days of your life?
40. 1 OctHenry Harpur – JMW Turner’s Cousin and Lawyer (Part 2)
41. 1 OctHenry Harpur – JMW Turner’s Cousin and Lawyer (Part 1)
42. 1 OctGerald Sidney Wilson, Indian Police
43. 1 OctMapping the Dining Culture at Holland House, 1798–1806
44. 1 OctA case of bigamy
45. 1 OctWhat about the East India Company Women? Emma Roberts and East India Voyagers
46. 1 OctFrançois Frederic Roget - lecturer, historian, ski mountaineer and Huguenot
47. 1 OctUK Web Archive Technical Update - Autumn 2023

September 2023

1. 1 SepOn the Trail of the Contemporary Singing Voice
2. 1 SepVerse and Reverse: Uncovering the work of the Toronto Women’s Press Club
3. 1 SepMachado de Assis, Portinari and the Bilingual Brazilian Book Club at the British Library
4. 1 SepSang Hyang Hayu: an Old Javanese 'Great Book' in three different scripts
5. 1 SepThe Romantic Sufi: an early copy of the Divan of Kamal Khujandi copied by Jaʿfar Tabrizi
6. 1 SepHow Old is the Language of Young Malay Manuscripts?
7. 1 SepJavanese palm leaf manuscripts written in Buda script in the British Library
8. 1 SepLate at the Library: Digital Steampunk
9. 1 SepLet’s learn together - Join us in the Cultural Heritage Open Scholarship Network
10. 1 SepConvert-a-Card: Helping Cataloguers Derive Records with OCLC APIs and Python
11. 1 SepLondon Fashion Week SS24: British Library x Ahluwalia
12. 1 SepWhat's the future of crowdsourcing in cultural heritage?
13. 1 SepConvert-a-Card: Past, Present and Future of Catalogue Cards Retroconversion
14. 1 SepJoin the British Library's Universal Viewer Product Team
15. 1 SepOpen and Engaged 2023: Community over Commercialisation
16. 1 SepICDAR 2023 Conference Impressions
17. 1 SepHuzzah! Hear the songs from Astrologaster live at the Library
18. 1 SepPreserving History: Manaki Brothers' Archival Collection Declared Cultural Heritage in North Macedonia
19. 1 SepThe call for applications to Round 19 is now open
20. 1 SepFor Their Eyes Only – the letters of Ian and Ann Fleming
21. 1 SepPhantom of the Collection: Reaching Beyond the Material in the Theatre Royal Stratford East Archive
22. 1 SepAn Emblem Book without Emblems
23. 1 SepThe Slovenian Age of Enlightenment
24. 1 SepBIPC Local Lewisham's one year anniversary
25. 1 SepTransforming Ancient Remedies into Pioneering Medical Research | User Stories
26. 1 SepA fun festive challenge!
27. 1 SepDesigning a Board Game Using the Collection's Images | User Stories
28. 1 SepPhD Studentship opportunity: Medieval Women's Religious Communities
29. 1 SepRipples of history: Sıbızğı recordings from northern Xinjiang
30. 1 SepRecording of the week: Recalling the 1981 Hunger Strike at Maze Prison
31. 1 SepEmmanuelle Olivier’s ‘Damara-Nama’ recordings and their return to Sesfontein, Namibia
32. 1 SepUnlocking Our Hidden Collections: Sue Steward and Edmundo Ros
33. 1 SepRecording of the week: Chanting
34. 1 SepRecording of the week: Memories of school
35. 1 SepRecording of the week: Architect Kate Macintosh discusses Dawson's Heights in East Dulwich
36. 1 SepThe Battle of Waterloo and ‘the Honourable Company’s business’
37. 1 SepWonderful Rice
38. 1 SepWhat about the East India Company women? Mrs Moore and Raja Chandu Lal
39. 1 SepWilliam Henry Wilson of the Bombay Police
40. 1 SepThe short life of Beatrice Goodacre
41. 1 SepHow to smuggle an elephant
42. 1 SepA Victorian holiday embarrassment
43. 1 SepSanatorium for European soldiers in Western Australia
44. 1 SepWhat can you discover and access in the UK Web Archive collection?
45. 1 SepHow YouTube is helping to drive UK Web Archive nominations

August 2023

1. 1 AugCold War Whiteness: Literature and Race between Canada and Czechoslovakia
2. 1 AugAntislavery Print Culture in Nineteenth Century Canada West
3. 1 AugDrawings of the Taj Mahal and Agra monuments commissioned by Lady Maria Nugent in the early 19th century
4. 1 AugLiterary manuscripts from Southeast Asia on display
5. 1 AugThe British Library Loves Manuscripts on Wikisource
6. 1 AugMy AHRC-RLUK Professional Practice Fellowship: A year on
7. 1 AugWriting tools for Interactive Fiction - an updated list
8. 1 AugStampa Migrante: a Window on Multi-Lingual Egypt
9. 1 AugNew online - July 2023
10. 1 AugTed Hughes’s Expressionism: Visionary Subjectivity
11. 1 AugWomen in Translation Month 2023
12. 1 AugNew light on the earliest ‘professor’ of Spanish in the UK?
13. 1 AugPaul Vincent - 40 years of translating
14. 1 AugBIPC Oxfordshire – helping young people to succeed in business
15. 1 AugAn innovative history of the historic patent collection at the British Library
16. 1 AugA few of our favourite things about the British Library
17. 1 AugPerforming Folk Music Found in the Archives | User Stories
18. 1 AugNew Tippett acquisitions
19. 1 Aug50 years on: Information Retrieval and the British Library
20. 1 AugWild British Library: Experiences of nature: goldfinch, pigeon and magpie
21. 1 AugWild British Library: The woodpigeon: from woods to trees
22. 1 AugRecording of the week: A poem by Jack Carey (1923-2001)
23. 1 AugParkinson in the archive
24. 1 Aug'Breathe in, Breathe out' - a soundscape
25. 1 AugRecording of the week: 40 Days and 40 Nights
26. 1 AugRecording of the week: Cycling
27. 1 AugWhat about the East India Company women?
28. 1 AugThe Use of the Term 'Qafila' in the India Office Records
29. 1 AugSeditious Publications
30. 1 AugThe Hakluyt Society: Publishing in Wartime
31. 1 AugT.E. Lawrence and the Hashemite dynasty: from the Hejaz in Arabia to Clouds Hill, Dorset
32. 1 AugLady Georgiana Grey – the oldest resident at Hampton Court Palace
33. 1 AugHenrietta Anne, Duchess of Orléans, and the Secret Treaty of Dover (1670)
34. 1 AugWilliam Henry Quilliam – the Victorian solicitor who established Britain’s first mosque
35. 1 AugReginald Bult and Operation ZO
36. 1 AugCatherine Shillcock in Agra Fort

July 2023

1. 1 JulSpiritualism, Creatively Reimagined
2. 1 JulBabur the Naturalist
3. 1 JulEdmund Edwards McKinnon: donor of rare books on north Sumatra
4. 1 JulNew display of Islamic manuscripts in the Sir John Ritblat Treasures Gallery
5. 1 JulManuscript Textiles: Weaving the Thread of Faith
6. 1 JulTaking the British Library by Storm Scott
7. 1 JulShare Family: British National Bibliography (Beta) service is live
8. 1 JulOur team at Digital Humanities 2023 Conference, 10-14 July
9. 1 JulMIX 2023 Storytelling in Immersive Media
10. 1 JulTaras Shevchenko display at the British Library
11. 1 JulFrom the Book ‘Wooden Idols’: An Anti-Book
12. 1 JulRemembering Die Weisse Rose
13. 1 Jul50 Books for 50 Years of the British Library
14. 1 JulFollowing in the Footsteps of Adventurous Women | User Stories
15. 1 JulBuilding a Minecraft Gateway to the World of Books | User Stories
16. 1 Jul50 facts about the British Library
17. 1 Jul50th birthday wishes from the world's national libraries
18. 1 JulShowing Elizabeth I in a new light
19. 1 JulHistorical census publications of Africa, the West Indies, and Pacific Islands: 'Unlocking our Hidden Collections'
20. 1 JulAnimals and social justice: readings on animals in literature
21. 1 JulRecording of the Week: Flamenco runs in the blood
22. 1 JulRecording of the week: ‘Who goes down Euston Road?’ 50 years of British Library memories
23. 1 JulRecording of the week: Don McCullin on war photography
24. 1 JulFurther research on the Dessa Family: Ann Elizabeth Dessa and Jacob Rogers
25. 1 JulLord Curzon’s letter from Lausanne
26. 1 JulWomen’s football in the 1880s
27. 1 JulA soldiers’ guide to Bangalore
28. 1 JulDeefholts: An Anglo-Indian Family of Public Servants in Calcutta
29. 1 JulRequest for help in returning to India
30. 1 JulThe Emperor of China’s Sauce
31. 1 JulCharles Daniels – an ex-soldier sent adrift upon the world
32. 1 JulUK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association Launch Event Report from the British Library
33. 1 JulUK Web Archive Technical Update - Summer 2023
34. 1 JulRESAW 2023 Conference Report from the UK Web Archive

June 2023

1. 1 JunOn my desk: Celebrating the Faculty of Humanities of the University of East Anglia
2. 1 JunThe Art and Life of Francesca Alexander
3. 1 JunCall for Papers: Grenada, 1973-1983 | Beginnings of a Revolution, Invasion and After
4. 1 JunEFEO Java-Bali Palmleaf Manuscripts Digitisation Project
5. 1 JunHenry Alabaster’s 'Catalogue of Siamese manuscripts' (1): royal edicts and books of laws
6. 1 JunProvenance histories of Batak manuscripts in the British Library (3): From the BM to the BL
7. 1 JunBollinger Javanese Manuscripts Digitisation Project completed
8. 1 JunExplore Windrush Tales in our Digital Storytelling exhibition
9. 1 JunGeorgian Manuscripts in the British Library
10. 1 JunThe Petit Prince and animals
11. 1 JunThe Library in biscuit form
12. 1 JunFinding Forgotten Women in the Collection | User Stories
13. 1 JunBringing Inspiration from the Reading Room to the Catwalk | User Stories
14. 1 JunDreaming Up a Chocolate Factory in the Business & IP Centre | User Stories
15. 1 JunBecoming One of the British Library’s Most Prolific Authors | User Stories
16. 1 JunLibraryOn grants awarded to 27 public library projects
17. 1 JunBehind the Scenes at the British Library: Jamal Mohamed, Community Project Coordinator
18. 1 JunWild British Library: Snails, Sponges and Oysters – finding fossils at the British Library
19. 1 JunWild British Library: The ant and the three-cornered garlic
20. 1 JunAnimals and the law: readings on animal rights law
21. 1 JunRecording of the week: Death's-head hawk-moth (Acherontia Atropos)
22. 1 JunRecording of the week: Windrush Voices
23. 1 JunRecording of the week: False Lamkin
24. 1 JunRecording of the week: Seabirds in a plastic world
25. 1 JunHarvey's pneumatic dusting machine at the India Office Library
26. 1 JunWhat was so unusual about Charles Marsden?
27. 1 JunThe actor, the fascist, and the reincarnated queen
28. 1 JunCharles Tuckett junior - bookbinder, inventor, author, researcher and … bankrupt
29. 1 JunRemembering Stringer Lawrence & forgetting Robert Clive
30. 1 JunMedical equipment required for a military expedition: doolies, dandies and kujawahs
31. 1 JunNotes on the Birds of Barrackpore Menagerie
32. 1 JunPapers of Sir William Hay Macnaghten and Sir Francis Workman Macnaghten
33. 1 JunSir Stafford Northcote’s voyage down the new Suez Canal
34. 1 JunIIPC Web Archiving Conference 2023 Report from the UK Web Archive
35. 1 JunLGBTQ+ Connections and Community
36. 1 JunReflections on the IIPC Web Archiving Conference 2023

May 2023

1. 1 MayTracked Changes: Looking for Migrant Editors in Publishing Archives
2. 1 MayBetter than a Pearl: a letter to the Bayinkan of Burma from the people of Mergui
3. 1 MayWorld Bee Day
4. 1 MayAnimals in William Marsden’s The History of Sumatra
5. 1 MayDrawings of a gharial, llama and tiger for Lady Hasting
6. 1 MayManuscript Textiles in the Southeast Asian Collections: Project Update
7. 1 MayConservation of Maps in the digitisation project: Qatar Foundation Partnership – Part 2
8. 1 MayWhales, horses and zebras—oh my! Conservation work for the Animals: Art, Science and Sound exhibition
9. 1 MayWebinar on Open Scholarship in GLAMs through Research Repositories
10. 1 MayDetecting Catalogue Entries in Printed Catalogue Data
11. 1 MayEAP Digital Lecture Series
12. 1 MaySounds of the shellac!
13. 1 MayAndrew Salkey Archive – Mapping the Caribbean Diaspora through Letters
14. 1 MayThe William Maskell Chapbook Collection
15. 1 MayRandall Couch's 'Peal' and other literary bells
16. 1 MaySeminar on Textual Bibliography for Modern Foreign Languages
17. 1 MayAnthony Anaxagorou: An out-spoken poet, writer, publisher and educator
18. 1 MayWim de Bie (1939 – 2023)
19. 1 MayLaunching Knowledge Matters – our new strategic vision to 2030
20. 1 MayThe last day of Constantinople
21. 1 MayDeath of the Wolf
22. 1 MayMedieval and Renaissance Women: remember their names
23. 1 MayCaption this May 2023
24. 1 MayMedieval and Renaissance Women: full list of the charters and rolls
25. 1 MayThe Coronation Banquet of Henry VI
26. 1 MayMusic for British Coronations
27. 1 MayAnimals and feminism: readings on the intersection of oppression
28. 1 MayAnimals and the climate emergency: readings on the global impact of industrial animal agriculture
29. 1 MayAnimals: Art, Science and Sound
30. 1 MayRecording of the week: Listening to Sun Ra in the year 4000
31. 1 MayRecording of the week: Lenny Bruce (1925-1966)
32. 1 May‘Bringing up a chicken to peck out their eye’: A niece’s betrayal
33. 1 MayThe wreck of the Arniston
34. 1 MayRobert Clive: From Hero to Villain
35. 1 May100 years in the service of the East India Company
36. 1 MayThe ‘Titanic Omar’ preserved for all time (virtually)?
37. 1 MayThe Papers of Ralph and Penelope Tanner
38. 1 MayGold Stick in Waiting
39. 1 MayMonarchs enthroned: ceremonial iconography and coronations
40. 1 MayMark Hamill of the East India Company
41. 1 MayTax dodging and bribery: the practicalities of trade in the 18th-century Indian Ocean
42. 1 MayRegal Reflections: Exploring a New UK Web Archive Collection on King Charles III

April 2023

1. 1 AprWhy Research is Good for the Artist's Soul
2. 1 AprAnimals: Art, Science and Sound
3. 1 AprThe Lotus Sutra Project: Conserving and Digitising 800 Manuscripts in the British Library
4. 1 AprPreserving Bach’s manuscripts
5. 1 AprRepository Training Day in Cardiff: Research in GLAM and research repositories to facilitate open scholarship activities for cultural heritage organisations
6. 1 AprTopics in contemporary Digital Scholarship via five years of our Reading Group
7. 1 AprJane Austen and the Georgian Social Whirl of Bath
8. 1 AprIn Memory of Murray Melvin
9. 1 AprEOKA pamphlets at the British Library
10. 1 AprPhD Studentship opportunity – The Belarus Collection at the British Library
11. 1 AprSiberian Ethnographic Museums: Indigenous Lives Exhibited
12. 1 AprThe Art of Collecting and the Futurist Avant-garde
13. 1 AprEverything Forever – marking 10 years of digital legal deposit
14. 1 AprBritish Antarctic Survey data available on digital maps viewer
15. 1 AprLost and found: in praise of Cardinal Wolsey
16. 1 AprInventing a royal past
17. 1 AprShakespeare before Shakespeare
18. 1 AprLady Lumley’s literary endeavours
19. 1 AprManaging a medieval household
20. 1 AprCoronations
21. 1 AprPicturing the Crucifixion
22. 1 AprInside a Tudor woman's home
23. 1 AprWild British Library: A feather
24. 1 AprIntroducing the Wild British Library
25. 1 AprRecording of the week: You havin’ a bubble, mate?
26. 1 AprRecording of the week: Herbert Beerbohm Tree as Falstaff
27. 1 AprRecording of the week: The sound designer: the theatre as an experimental stage
28. 1 AprTropical Trials – A Handbook for Women in the Tropics
29. 1 AprMystery of a Destitute Man in London
30. 1 AprMisbehaviour in the Bombay Army
31. 1 AprEliza Cordelia, the daughter of Chaund Bebee and Charles Rothman
32. 1 AprPaul Ferris - printer and publisher
33. 1 AprPreventing revel-rout - musicians banned from an East India Company voyage
34. 1 AprThe disastrous paintings of Richard Greenbury
35. 1 AprExercises for Ladies
36. 1 AprUK Web Archive Technical Update - Spring 2023
37. 1 AprCelebrating ten years of collecting the UK Web Space

March 2023

1. 30 MarBL Labs Symposium 30 March 2023: AI and GLAM data
2. 1 MarReclaiming Fédon’s Rebellion: Identifying and Acknowledging the ‘Rebels’ in Modern Grenada
3. 1 MarThe Diversity of Arabic scripts
4. 1 MarTalipot and ceremonial fans in Thai manuscript art (2)
5. 1 MarMapping Caribbean Diasporic Networks through the Correspondence of Andrew Salkey
6. 1 MarDigital Storytelling at the 2023 BL Labs Symposium
7. 1 MarNext in York - Join us at the University of York for the Repository Training Programme for Cultural Heritage Professionals
8. 1 MarBL Labs Symposium 2023: Programme and Speakers announced
9. 1 MarPhD Placement focussing on Manuscripts from West Africa
10. 1 MarNew online - March 2023
11. 1 MarNew online - February 2023
12. 1 MarEdgar Mittelholzer’s Life in Guyana
13. 1 MarFairy tales and creative campaigns
14. 1 MarCall for Papers for 'Ted Hughes’ Expressionism: Visionary Subjectivity'
15. 1 MarIngvar Ambjørnsen’s rare debut work Pepsikyss
16. 1 MarThe Charta of Greece
17. 1 MarThe Colonisation of Novaya Zemlya through the Photographs and Short Stories of Konstantin Nosilov
18. 1 MarThe revolutionary career of a student drinking song
19. 1 MarDigital Shevchenkiana – a Joint English-Ukrainian Project
20. 1 MarTraders, spies, suffragettes? Women in cultural anthropology
21. 1 MarNew acquisitions: Rab-Rab Press
22. 1 MarLizzie Magie and the history of Monopoly
23. 1 MarIn Memoriam: Maurice Nicholson
24. 1 MarA Tudor autograph book
25. 1 MarShowcasing the latest research on Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks and drawings
26. 1 MarThe bride's journey
27. 1 MarMedieval and Renaissance Women: full list of the manuscripts
28. 1 MarMary had a little lamb
29. 1 MarClaim of thrones
30. 1 MarA deathbed confession
31. 1 MarWhere there's a will
32. 1 MarBringing the Cotton fragments to life
33. 1 MarVenusse was her name
34. 1 MarRemembering Tim Neighbour
35. 1 MarPreserving Bach's manuscripts
36. 1 MarAnnouncing our first Environmentalist in Residence
37. 1 MarWings aren’t just for flying
38. 1 MarRecording of the week: Peter Rickenback on being a fugitive in Europe
39. 1 MarTwo Rachmaninoff Discoveries - Two Knights in 1937
40. 1 MarRecording of the week: Hanns Alexander on being a Nazi hunter after World War Two
41. 1 MarFrom vocal to visual, with family scraps
42. 1 MarRecording of the week: Muzak whilst you work for increased efficiency
43. 1 MarRecording of the week: August Wilhelmj performing Paganini's Concerto No. 1, Op. 6
44. 1 MarWomen travellers on Indian railways
45. 1 MarClose Encounters of the ‘Sea Duck’ kind
46. 1 MarA scandalous elopement
47. 1 MarPatent Preserved Potato
48. 1 MarThe children of Chaund Bebee and John Shore – (3) George Shore
49. 1 MarFrom Chester to Mesopotamia: Thomas Crawford of the Royal Welch Fusiliers
50. 1 MarThe children of Chaund Bebee and John Shore – (2) Francis and Martha Shore
51. 1 MarAddress to Queen Victoria from a student in India
52. 1 MarThe children of Chaund Bebee and John Shore – (1) John Shore

February 2023

1. 1 FebTransatlantic Mormon Connections and Historical Fiction
2. 1 FebWriter's Award winner Philip Clark on the Sounds of New York City: Part II
3. 1 FebOuternational: Researching Black music and its transatlantic connections
4. 1 FebA Panegyric from the Deccan’s Golden Age
5. 1 FebTalipot and ceremonial fans in Thai manuscript art (1)
6. 1 FebAkbar and Alexander the Great
7. 1 FebAlexander the ‘Accursed’ and Zoroastrianism
8. 1 FebAlexander’s origins: a Persian Perspective
9. 1 FebLegacies of Catalogue Descriptions Project Events at Yale
10. 1 FebRepository Training for Cultural Heritage Professionals
11. 1 FebReading Along with Readers Reading Digital Comics
12. 1 FebA Year In Three Wikithons: The Lord Chamberlain's Plays
13. 1 FebArtists’ Books and Fine Press at Small Publisher Fairs
14. 1 FebMarking one year since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine
15. 1 Feb“All the strength I muster to live” – queer voices from Poland
16. 1 FebLa Nuit des Idées
17. 1 FebMikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis: a genius cursed by fate?
18. 1 FebOur exhibitions are delighting people around the UK
19. 1 FebImproving the online presence of public libraries with a new grants programme
20. 1 FebAlexander, Porrus and the peacock
21. 1 FebAlexander, a medieval super-hero
22. 1 FebKnock, knock, knocking on heaven’s door
23. 1 FebAlexander the Great: a life in pictures
24. 1 FebMagic fountains and peacocks
25. 1 FebMermaids, sirens and Alexander the Great
26. 1 FebTime runs out for Alexander the Great
27. 1 FebA newly-acquired manuscript of the Knights Hospitaller
28. 1 FebAlexander the Great, scientist?
29. 1 FebMagnificent margins in the Alexander Romance
30. 1 FebAnd did those feet: did Alexander the Great visit Britain?
31. 1 FebRecording of the week: Leonie Barnett on her brother, Joe Orton
32. 1 FebJelly d’Arányi - The recorded legacy and career of a virtuoso violinist in the roaring twenties
33. 1 FebRecording of the week: A warbler singing in the predawn
34. 1 FebWorking with teachers to develop sessions on teaching Partition
35. 1 FebRecording of the week: Setting up the Athena Project
36. 1 FebRecording of the week: Voices of Partition
37. 1 FebDr David Price – JMW Turner’s Physician
38. 1 Feb'Stay Put' - Second World War Ephemera
39. 1 FebWell-being and living conditions in tropical climates
40. 1 FebAn early Union Flag on a Bombay document
41. 1 FebSir Charles Raymond of Valentines
42. 1 FebPeritas - Alexander the Great’s dog
43. 1 FebThe will of Chaund Bebee or Bebee Shore
44. 1 FebGeorge Edward Dessa: Lord Lytton’s Would-be Assassin

January 2023

1. 1 JanPhD Placement Opportunity – The Pacific Islands in print: surveying the British Library collections
2. 1 JanThe World According to Monty Wedd: Philatelic Comics, Cartoons and Caricatures
3. 1 JanInto the Crucible of Revolution: Hindu Anticolonialism and Radicalism in Early Twentieth Century America
4. 1 JanSculptures, time machines and vampires: items from the Americas collections on display in Leeds
5. 1 JanRotimi Fani-Kayode Transatlantic Vision
6. 1 JanOn my desk: Night Fall in the Ti-Tree by Violet Teague and Geraldine Rede
7. 1 JanAlexander/Iskandar: Ancestor of Malay Kings
8. 1 JanJoin us at the National Museum of Scotland for the Repository Training Programme for Cultural Heritage Professionals
9. 1 JanDigital Storytelling in 2023: A New Year of New Media
10. 1 JanDigitisation of manuscripts from the Blavatnik Honresfield Library
11. 1 JanPhD placement opportunity: Enhancing access to manuscripts and archives in the French language
12. 1 JanThe Photographic Collection of Indigenous Childhood
13. 1 JanGoing into IP battle with Banksy
14. 1 Jan2022: Our Year In Business
15. 1 JanVoyages of discovery: Collaborative Doctoral Partnership projects at the British Library
16. 1 JanLibraryOn: researching collaborations between public and university libraries
17. 1 JanAlexander the Great versus the elephants
18. 1 JanDigital Alexander
19. 1 JanLocating the earthly paradise
20. 1 JanThree Alexander the Great manuscripts newly digitised
21. 1 JanPhD placement on Medieval Women
22. 1 JanRe-imagining the Ebstorf map
23. 1 JanWheel of approval
24. 1 JanAlexander the Great: an ancient horse whisperer
25. 1 JanPrince Henry Frederick: a second Alexander
26. 1 JanJane Segar, an artist at the Elizabethan court
27. 1 JanAlexander the Great: events at the British Library
28. 1 JanRecording of the week: The role of the creator in improvised dance
29. 1 JanIn the words of survivors: what was 'ordinary' about the Holocaust?
30. 1 JanRecording of the week: Bob Cobbing (1920-2002)
31. 1 JanWhy do hammer-headed fruit bats honk?
32. 1 JanRecording of the week: ‘Reggae Fi May Ayim’ by Linton Kwesi Johnson
33. 1 JanRecording of the week: ‘Wayn tkhallīnī’ by Iraq’s Rashīd al-Qundarjī
34. 1 JanAcross the Heart of Arabia (2): H St John Philby, Intelligence Gathering and a Lasting Legacy
35. 1 JanAcross the Heart of Arabia (1): St John Philby’s Mission to Najd
36. 1 JanThe hidden life of Winifred Arthur, fore-edge painter
37. 1 JanCelebrating the Lunar New Year on the front lines in World War One
38. 1 JanJoseph ‘Sunshine’ Todd: the man who bought Turner’s house
39. 1 JanFrom India to destitution in Glasgow Part 2
40. 1 JanFrom India to destitution in Glasgow Part 1
41. 1 JanWalker’s Manly Exercises
42. 1 JanCharles Tuckett Senior and the British Museum Bindery fire of 1865
43. 1 JanHappy New Year!
44. 1 JanUK Web Archive Technical Update - Winter 2022
45. 1 JanChanges in Nature’s Calendar – Early Bloomers

2022 545

December 2022

1. 1 DecTowards a People’s History of the 'Permissible Dose'
2. 1 DecCelebrating the work of Aline Kominsky-Crumb
3. 1 Dec“The Flying Researcher”: South Asians and Indigenous Peoples of the Pacific Northwest
4. 1 DecA beloved in every port: Iskandar's encounters with women
5. 1 DecA Baniya Letter from Surat
6. 1 DecHampi: Photography and Archaeology of southern India
7. 1 DecA book of Malay pantuns from Portugal
8. 1 DecConservation of Maps in the digitisation project: Qatar Foundation Partnership – Part 1
9. 1 DecNew online - November 2022
10. 1 DecAn A to Z of the European Studies Blog 2022
11. 1 DecSongs, games and fortune telling: the story behind Koliada
12. 1 DecPropaganda or Protest? Hans Baumann’s ‘Alexander’
13. 1 DecHe lived as he taught, and taught as he lived: Ukrainian philosopher and poet Hryhorii Skovoroda
14. 1 DecOur highlights of the year
15. 1 DecNorden and Van den Keere: Two seventeenth century atlases digitised and online
16. 1 DecChi-rho pages for Christmas
17. 1 DecThe Lindisfarne Gospels back at the British Library
18. 1 DecFrom Julian of Norwich to Eleanor Cobham: more magnificent manuscripts online
19. 1 DecThe emperor and the Sun King
20. 1 Dec'Jiune Rahara' / Desire to live
21. 1 DecRecording of the week: ‘Rooms above pubs: a nexus of free improvisation’
22. 1 DecBL Sports Word of the Year 2022
23. 1 DecRecording of the week: ‘Acts of protest: Women and the Indian independence movement’
24. 1 Dec'Exercise for all': Challenging barriers to access for disabled people
25. 1 DecRecording of the week: ‘Raising her father’s grave: An interview with Titanic survivor Eva Hart’
26. 1 DecReynolds’s Christmas Fund for Sandwichmen
27. 1 DecChristmas Day petition to the East India Company
28. 1 DecThe Physiognomy of Christmas
29. 1 DecBooks suitable for Christmas and New Year
30. 1 DecExploring the Chinese & British Film Reel
31. 1 DecCharacter, costumes and comedy: Pantomime posters in the Evanion collection
32. 1 DecThe oldest cyclist in the UK
33. 1 DecPrivate trade and pressed men – the voyage of the Houghton to China
34. 1 DecPapers of Sergey and Emilie Prokofieff
35. 1 DecRequests to the India Office for help
36. 1 DecExamining sports history through digitised & born digital resources
37. 1 DecPride and Visibility in the LGBTQ+ Lives Online Collection
38. 1 DecHistory on the move: Curating a collection on the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee

November 2022

1. 1 NovTracing Italian Opera Performers in the Nineteenth Century Americas
2. 1 NovBlack Theatre Makers: Una Marson
3. 1 NovNorth American Indigenous Print Heritage Early Career Fellowship
4. 1 NovOn my desk – On Spirit Lake: Georgian Bay Stories from Church Street Press
5. 1 NovE-resources: Performing Arts in the Americas
6. 1 NovFrench Quebec Imprints, 1764-1990
7. 1 NovBatik designs in a Javanese manuscript: Serat Damar Wulan
8. 1 NovThree northern Thai manuscripts from Carl Bock’s collection
9. 1 NovAlexander, Meet İskender: Turkic Manuscripts on Alexander the Great
10. 1 NovManuscript Textiles in the Southeast Asian collections
11. 1 NovSkills and Training Needs to Open Heritage Research Through Repositories: Scoping report and Repository Training Programme for cultural heritage professionals
12. 1 NovMy AHRC-RLUK Professional Practice Fellowship: Four months on
13. 1 Nov'Expanding Voices, Expanding Access: Social and Community Centered Metadata'
14. 1 NovNew online - October 2022
15. 1 NovEAP Cataloguer Vacancy
16. 1 NovStanisław Wyspiański: Shades of Melancholia
17. 1 NovBritish Library East View e-resources now available remotely
18. 1 NovThe Curious Woodcuts in Hartlieb’s Late-Medieval Adventures of Alexander the Great
19. 1 NovCall for PhD project partners: ‘Postcolonial Discourse in East European Studies and its Application to British Library Collections’
20. 1 NovHow to research your high street business
21. 1 NovA day in the life of Ronke Jane Adelakun, co-founder of Cultureville
22. 1 NovCelebrating small businesses this festive season
23. 1 NovDoctoral Open Days – 15 years and counting
24. 1 NovOur role in building a brighter climate future
25. 1 NovBehind the Scenes at the British Library: Sandra A. Agard, Learning Facilitator for Schools
26. 1 NovThe Lady of Las Huelgas
27. 1 NovReunited! A Russian manuscript of the Alexander Romance
28. 1 NovFlorimont, flower of the world
29. 1 NovThe expenses of Queen Eleanor of Castile
30. 1 NovMary, Queen of Scots: two new acquisitions
31. 1 NovA pharaoh in disguise
32. 1 NovNino Rota’s I due timidi - an opera for radio transmission
33. 1 NovRecording of the week: ‘Is fiction truth or is it fantasy?’ By Anita Desai
34. 1 NovExploring disability during the Covid-19 pandemic through oral history
35. 1 NovRecording of the week: An RAF airman
36. 1 NovRecording of the week: The window seat
37. 1 NovRecording of the week: The Vicinus Music Hall Interviews
38. 1 NovEast India Company discharged soldiers
39. 1 NovThe Attempted Assassination of Lord Lytton: A Letter’s Story
40. 1 NovFootball in the Gulf – some snippets from the early years
41. 1 NovChinese & British Now Open!
42. 1 NovStar Baker or Avid Taste-Tester? – Exploring Evanion’s 19th-century baking ephemera collection
43. 1 NovFinding employment for surplus Indian Army Officers
44. 1 NovThe Collier family of Bethnal Green and the East India Company
45. 1 NovIf Websites Could talk - Part 5
46. 1 NovCalling All Digital Preservers!

October 2022

1. 1 OctReading Eighteenth-Century Enslavers for Sources on the History of Africa and Africans
2. 1 OctGre-nay-dah, not Gra-naah-da. That’s in Spain.
3. 1 OctDelicate Materials - Imaginative Texts
4. 1 OctOn my desk: Double Persephone by Margaret Atwood
5. 1 OctAn Early Modern Khavarnamah from Bijapur
6. 1 OctAlexander the Great in Firdawsi's Book of Kings
7. 1 OctVerhandelingen: a rare 1816 issue of a periodical printed in Java
8. 1 Oct‘Under The Mantle Of Plague’: A British Medical Mission To East Persia In 1897
9. 1 OctFive Centuries of Copying, Illustrating and Reading Amir Khusraw’s Poetry
10. 1 OctLearn more about Living with Machines at events this winter
11. 1 OctOpen and Engaged 2022: Climate research in GLAM, digital infrastructure and skills to open collections
12. 1 OctNew online - September 2022
13. 1 Oct‘The Darker Side’ – Unpublished Arthur Conan Doyle Chapter Acquired by the British Library
14. 1 OctIn Memory of Carmen Callil
15. 1 OctThe spirit of freedom, or an episode in the life of a private person in the time of transformations
16. 1 OctAn Encounter between Knowledge Systems: the Work of Snowchange Cooperative
17. 1 OctAnnie Ernaux’s time in London
18. 1 OctVicente Salgado: a new acquisition
19. 1 OctA week in the life of Amarachi Clarke, founder of Lucocoa Chocolate
20. 1 OctDeveloping a Single Digital Presence for public libraries: our journey so far
21. 1 OctA medieval best-seller: the Alexander Romance
22. 1 OctHow King Henry VIII read the Psalter
23. 1 OctAlexander the Great: The Making of a Myth is now open
24. 1 OctA Pardoner’s Tale
25. 1 OctPanizzi Lectures – Drawing Conclusions: Diagrams in Medieval Art and Thought
26. 1 Oct‘Do you like gold? Use it!’: A golden binding by Pierre Legrain
27. 1 OctHappy Birthday Vaughan Williams
28. 1 OctRecording of the week: A new life, all over again
29. 1 OctBlack History Month – The Cullen Maiden collection
30. 1 OctRecording of the week: Vaughan Williams Symphony No. 6 - the premiere
31. 1 OctRecording of the week: Laughing hyaenas
32. 1 OctClassical Podcast No. 6 Philip Fowke
33. 1 OctRecording of the week: Never you mind!
34. 1 OctBrahms, Vienna and early Hungarian national bands
35. 1 OctRecording of the week: have you ever heard a Billy Hooter?
36. 1 OctMr Trick and Mrs Treat
37. 1 Oct‘Dear old Squirrel’ - Cyril Davenport of the British Museum
38. 1 OctExploring the richness and variety of letters sent to the East India Company
39. 1 OctA lift-the-flap book, 18th century style
40. 1 OctAgreement with Mina Ayah
41. 1 Oct‘True nobility of soul’ - William Blake, the housekeeper of the Ladies Charity School House, Highgate
42. 1 OctCan’t fly to Rio for Carnival? Explore the British Library’s Portuguese Language Collections!
43. 1 OctA 'pest of skolds' and other 'unruly women' (part II)
44. 1 OctA 'pest of skolds' and other 'unruly women': caring for sick and wounded sailors in the Anglo-Dutch wars (part I)
45. 1 OctUK Web Archive Technical Update - Autumn 2022
46. 1 OctThe UEFA Women’s EURO 2022 Arts and Heritage Programme
47. 1 OctWARCnet Special Report: Skills, Tools and Knowledge Ecologies in Web Archive Research, 2022
48. 1 OctiPres 2022 Conference Report from the UK Web Archive
49. 1 OctiPres report: a simple workshop exercise using Robust Links

September 2022

1. 14 SepEAP Regional Hub Event at Jadavpur University, 14 September 2022
2. 1 SepE-resources: magazines and comics
3. 1 SepExploring the Andrew Salkey Archive I: Literary Friendships of the Windrush Era Writers
4. 1 SepElectronic resources for research in Oceania studies
5. 1 SepThe Story of Inabe no Suminawa: Master Craftsman of Hida
6. 1 SepFrederik Jacob Rothenbühler and his wife as collectors of Javanese manuscripts in the early 19th century
7. 1 SepAlexander the Great: The Making of a Myth
8. 1 SepTwo Golden Commissions from the Shan States
9. 1 SepGlimpses from the ‘Golden Land’: Decorative manuscript art in Thailand and beyond
10. 1 SepLearn more about what AI means for us at Living with Machines events this autumn
11. 1 SepEAP video
12. 1 SepNew online - August 2022
13. 1 SepThe Beatles and Hunter Davies
14. 1 SepEast and West with D. M. Thomas
15. 1 SepCassandra by Lesia Ukrainka: a UK premiere
16. 1 SepMaylis de Kerangal and Shumona Sinha in conversation at the Institut francais
17. 1 Sep‘As if some long-since inhabited country had been fished up out of the bottom of the sea’: Travel Literature on Iceland
18. 1 SepRemembering Mikhail Gorbachev
19. 1 SepSewing machines - who really invented them?
20. 1 SepGold and the alchemy of Intellectual Property
21. 1 SepWarm, safe and we also have WiFi - ways to enjoy the British Library for free
22. 1 SepThe First Lady of Ukraine joins us to launch 'Books Without Borders'
23. 1 SepHer Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the British Library
24. 1 SepLindisfarne Gospels exhibition opens in Newcastle
25. 1 SepAlexander the Great exhibition at the British Library
26. 1 SepRecording of the week: Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
27. 1 SepRecording of the week: The Rite of Spring
28. 1 SepRecording of the week: Childhood memories of D. H. Lawrence
29. 1 SepRecording of the week: Oskar Nedbal (1874-1930)
30. 1 SepThe HCLF, chatbots and balancing cats
31. 1 SepSale of jewels and silver by the India Office
32. 1 SepPassport applications in the Kashmir Residency Files
33. 1 SepHenry Trimmer – JMW Turner’s Lifelong Friend
34. 1 SepGranville Archive available
35. 1 SepIntroducing Prime Ministers’ Papers from Robert Walpole to H. H. Asquith
36. 1 SepPercy Bysshe Shelley encounters the mountains of West Wales
37. 1 SepCelebrating Sporting Heritage Day 2022
38. 1 SepGLAM Workbench update

August 2022

1. 1 AugEmpires, Oceans, and Emotions: Unexpected Encounters in the Archive
2. 1 AugIn Search of Vanilla
3. 1 AugBlack Women’s Activism in the Americas
4. 1 AugA Case of "Archive Fever" (Cause: Due to Drafts)
5. 1 AugElectronic resources for research in Caribbean Studies
6. 1 AugTranslating Piracy: On the origin of the Arabic words qurṣān/qarṣanah
7. 1 Aug40 more Javanese manuscripts now accessible online
8. 1 AugStories of the Prophets: an illustrated Persian manuscript by Nishapuri
9. 1 AugDisfigured Ghosts and Gory Tortures in Phra Malai Manuscripts and Thai Cosmological Parks
10. 1 Aug#WikiLibCon22: An International Experience
11. 1 AugBurmese Script Conversion using Aksharamukha
12. 1 AugThe Marvels of the Manaki Brothers
13. 1 AugWebinars for Applicants – Round 18
14. 1 AugWest African Manuscripts Crowdsourcing Project Fellowship: Call now open
15. 1 AugNew online - July 2022
16. 1 AugJob Opportunity
17. 1 AugA new prize for Environmental Poetry - Michael Marks Awards
18. 1 AugWomen in Translation Month 2022 (Part 2)
19. 1 AugWomen in Translation Month 2022 (Part 1)
20. 1 AugRemembering historians of Ukraine on the Day of National Independence
21. 1 AugGraham Nattrass Lecture 2022 - ‘Wittenberg 1522’
22. 1 AugA Bibliographical Mystery Solved
23. 1 AugThe new Roy Military Survey Gazetteer
24. 1 AugHelp us decipher this inscription
25. 1 AugHildegard-go!
26. 1 AugMassacre on the streets of Paris
27. 1 AugThe man with the golden bulla
28. 1 AugGold galore in the Harley Golden Gospels
29. 1 AugBreaking the news of the fall of Richard II
30. 1 AugRecording of the week: Learning garden birdsong with Charles and Heather Myers
31. 1 AugRecording of the week: Sarojini Naidu (1879-1949)
32. 1 AugRecording of the week: Wind in yacht rigging
33. 1 AugRecording of the week: Stockholm 1972: Fifty years on
34. 1 AugRecording of the week: Women’s work on the record
35. 1 Aug200 years of collecting newspapers
36. 1 AugBritish Library Television News Programme-Level List
37. 1 AugCoxwell’s concrete lemon
38. 1 AugPapers of Penelope Chetwode
39. 1 AugRobert Hubert and the Great Fire of London
40. 1 AugRead all about it - Brendan Bracken's letters to Max Aitken
41. 1 AugSources for Indian Independence and the creation of Pakistan
42. 1 AugLiving on a reduced income in 1868
43. 1 AugSanitary technology at East India House and the India Office
44. 1 AugSoldiers’ gardens in India
45. 1 AugPapers of John Frederick Macnair
46. 1 AugCats on the web and in the web archive

July 2022

1. 1 JulUS Radicals in Revolutionary Mexico
2. 1 JulGolden Connections
3. 1 JulRatu Ageng Tegalreja, Prince Dipanagara, and the British Library’s Serat Menak manuscript
4. 1 JulBeneath the glitter: Kinzan emaki, inside the gold mines of Sado
5. 1 JulA Historical Narrative of the Kaʿba and the Hajj Season Reflecting on the Visual Materials Found in the IOR
6. 1 JulUK Digital Comics: More of the same but different? [1]
7. 1 JulAmber Akaunu reflects on her work with the Beryl Gilroy archive
8. 1 JulA researcher's story: using the Robert Aickman Archive at the British Library
9. 1 JulMarking the bicentenary of the death of Percy Shelley
10. 1 JulUkraine Lab: British Library workshop
11. 1 JulReporting Victory
12. 1 JulChristian Boltanski’s ‘Les Habitants de Malmö’ (1994)
13. 1 JulBreaking the News - Breaking the Law
14. 1 JulYour name here: five Spanish bullfighting posters from 1769
15. 1 JulIP Corner: Breaking the News with groundbreaking technology
16. 1 JulA week in the life of Laura Sheeter, co-founder of Chalk & Blade
17. 1 JulThree of our most fascinating collection items from around the world
18. 1 JulLaunching the Green Libraries Manifesto
19. 1 JulA tour of the Tower
20. 1 JulMasters of gold tooling
21. 1 JulThe golden splendour of the Queen Mary Psalter
22. 1 JulAfrican kings on medieval and Renaissance maps
23. 1 JulVirtual private view of Gold on the British Library Player
24. 1 JulGold - why is it so valuable?
25. 1 JulRecording of the week: What does the UK sound like?
26. 1 JulRecording of the week: ‘Living open-handedly’
27. 1 JulPostcard from Dumre
28. 1 JulRecording of the week: Trailblazers in women’s sports
29. 1 JulStarting from here: ‘Interview with Michael Saville’
30. 1 JulRecording of the week: The NHS turns 74
31. 1 JulLuncheons at the India Office
32. 1 JulHadge Biram: A Restoration Renegade
33. 1 JulThe sale of East India Company maritime commands
34. 1 JulLife in Khartoum between Hicks and Gordon
35. 1 JulSanitation at the Fort William Garrison
36. 1 JulMary Ann Ayah accused of theft
37. 1 JulWorld War Two Reception Camps for Indian POWs
38. 1 JulIbrāhīm al-Najjār al-Dayrānī: Doctor of Lebanon
39. 1 JulWeb archiving the UEFA Women’s Euros in Wigan
40. 1 JulWeb archiving the UEFA Women’s Euros in Sheffield
41. 1 JulBirmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games
42. 1 JulWeb Archiving the UEFA Women’s Euro England 2022 tournament in Northern Ireland
43. 1 JulWeb Archiving the UEFA Women’s Euros in Scotland and Wales
44. 1 JulUK Web Archive Technical Update - Summer 2022
45. 1 JulWhat to expect on the UK Web Archive blog during UEFA Women’s Euro England 2022

June 2022

1. 23 JunMeet the Curators: A News-themed Session – 23 June 2022
2. 1 JunThe British Library’s Canadian Copyright Collection: An Introduction
3. 1 JunPublishing in the Colonial Anglophone Caribbean: A New Guide to the British Library's Holdings
4. 1 JunElectronic resources for African American History
5. 1 JunFood and Freedom in 19th-Century Jamaica
6. 1 JunThe provenance histories of Batak manuscripts in the British Library (2): The India Office collection
7. 1 Jun‘I wish to be made free and to remain in this country’: Testimony of liberated enslaved women, girls and boys
8. 1 JunSatyajit Ray's visit to the India Office Library to conduct archival research for Shatranj ke Khilari or 'The Chess Players' in 1976
9. 1 JunIIIF-yeah! Annual Conference 2022
10. 1 JunWorking With Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons: Poetry Pamphlets and Lotus Sutra Manuscripts
11. 1 JunNew online - June 2022
12. 1 JunDigitising Haalpulaar Islamic Manuscripts (EAP1245 Project)
13. 1 JunColeridge and The Ancient Mariner
14. 1 JunIcelandic manuscripts in the British Library
15. 1 JunCeramics and the Avant-Garde: the life of Tullio d’Albisola
16. 1 JunItalian Collections in UK Libraries: Past, Present & Future
17. 1 JunJubilees Habsburg Style
18. 1 JunLibrary Lives: Susan Taylor, Glasgow
19. 1 JunGolden Books
20. 1 JunMp3
21. 1 JunThe Law Code of Alfonso X
22. 1 JunFact-checking ‘Anne Boleyn’s’ girdle book
23. 1 JunGolden scenes from the Life of Christ
24. 1 JunPutting 'AIDS: The Unheard Tapes' in context
25. 1 JunRecording of the week: Sharing Somali sounds and stories
26. 1 JunRecording of the week: Footsteps on gravel
27. 1 JunRecording of the week: More than a headteacher
28. 1 JunChance patrons: Sir Nikolaus Pevsner and the pioneering age of British architectural history
29. 1 JunRecording of the week: One stormy night
30. 1 JunWorld newspaper data from the British Library
31. 1 JunCreating infographics for historical news
32. 1 JunThe new India Office
33. 1 JunDining with style: the East India Company’s communal table at Mocha
34. 1 JunDr Sarah Hosmon and the Missionary Hospital in Sharjah
35. 1 JunThe Cost of Living Crisis, Part 3: The Price of Whale Oil
36. 1 JunBirds, Landscapes, and Letters: Elizabeth Gwillim and Mary Symonds in Madras
37. 1 JunMary Day: Pardoning of a Poisoner
38. 1 JunFive Indian indentured labourers picked up at sea
39. 1 JunSensationalism on steroids: The London Monster
40. 1 JunLetters from the Garrod children to their father
41. 1 JunWhat content should I nominate on the UEFA Women’s Euro to the UK Web Archive?
42. 1 JunBreaking the News - News collections in the Web Archive

May 2022

1. 1 MayE-Resources on European Colonization in the Americas to c.1650
2. 1 MayThe Revolution Will Be Sexualized
3. 1 MayCross-media Research: Searching for Poets, Painters and Photographers
4. 1 MayThe Falklands forty years on
5. 1 MayThe Nomadic Chemist: Alfred Sercombe Griffin (1878-1943) and Burma
6. 1 MayMore highlights from our GOLD exhibition
7. 1 MayBollinger Javanese Manuscripts Digitisation Project: 120 more Javanese manuscripts to be digitised
8. 1 MayFrom Georgian Slave to Safavid Master: Some Possible Additions to the Corpus of Siyavush Beg Gurji
9. 1 MayThree unusual illuminated Javanese manuscripts
10. 1 MayPicture Perfect Platinum Jubilee Puddings on Wikimedia Commons
11. 1 MayNew online - April 2022
12. 1 May‘Breaking the News’: Tajny Detektyw – crimes and sensationalism in interwar Poland
13. 1 MaySeminar on Textual Bibliography for Modern Foreign Languages
14. 1 MayThe Art of Noises
15. 1 MayJohn Cruso of Norwich: a man of many parts
16. 1 MayWhat’s in a name? Update on the Single Digital Presence project
17. 1 MayLibrary Lives: Morgan Wadsworth-Boyle, British Library St Pancras
18. 1 MayBehind the Scenes at the British Library: Janis Black and Ged Prior from the Public Lending Right team
19. 1 MayRemigius Hogenberg's view of Münster
20. 1 MayThe Tudors in Liverpool
21. 1 MayA marvel in gold and ivory: Queen Melisende’s Psalter
22. 1 MayMedieval and Renaissance Women: PhD placement
23. 1 MayHighlights from our Gold exhibition
24. 1 MayCollaborative doctoral studentship: The origins and development of the Cotton collection
25. 1 MayWe’re going on a bear hunt
26. 1 MayHealthy Cities - How do we make London happier and healthier after Covid-19?
27. 1 MayCovid-19 Testimony Project Database launch
28. 1 MayRecording of the week: Oak Apple Day
29. 1 MayRecording of the week: an intriguing description of a legendary media figure
30. 1 MayRecording of the week: On climbing mountains - a woman's view
31. 1 MayRecording of the week: From potato market to sound archive
32. 1 MayRecording of the week: Have you heard a hedgehog huff?
33. 1 MayThe woman who gave birth to rabbits
34. 1 MayCaroline, Byron and Wilde: celebrity scandal in the 19th century
35. 1 MaySpotted: A flying serpent and a record-breaking Trump
36. 1 MayEncountering the news
37. 1 MayThe Adventures of Helen Gloag in Morocco
38. 1 MayMonsieur Roux, the would-be Consul of Baghdad
39. 1 MayHidden Letters: When Documents Contain a Surprise
40. 1 MayHugh Danby – JMW Turner’s Phantom Son
41. 1 MayThe Society of the Double Cross
42. 1 MayThe Cost of Living Crisis, Part 2: Inflation in 1800
43. 1 MayGrants of money made by the East India Company
44. 1 MayThe Ragged School Shoe-Black Society
45. 1 MayCase of a destitute man in London
46. 1 MayCan you help the UK Web Archive preserve football history?
47. 1 MayWhat UKWA did at the IIPC Web Archive Conference 2022
48. 1 MayBuilding Event Collections from Web Archives
49. 1 MayUK Web Archive Technical Update - Spring 2022
50. 1 MayThe Queen's Platinum Jubilee in the UK Web Archive

April 2022

1. 1 AprWriter's Award Winner Philip Clark on the Sounds of New York City: Part I
2. 1 AprElectronic Resources for US Politics
3. 1 AprReunited at last: a classical Thai verse novel from Ayutthaya
4. 1 AprThe provenance histories of Batak manuscripts in the British Library (1): The British Museum collection to 1900
5. 1 AprChristian Bibles in Muslim Robes with Jewish Glosses: Arundel Or.15 and other Medieval Coptic Arabic Bible Translations at the British Library
6. 1 AprAriya Metteyya, the Buddha of the future
7. 1 AprImporting images into Zooniverse with a IIIF manifest: introducing an experimental feature
8. 1 AprMaking British Library collections (even) more accessible
9. 1 AprReframing the Tin Book
10. 1 AprSpotlight On... our IP experts!
11. 1 AprTen Things I wish I knew about Intellectual Property when I was younger
12. 1 AprMeet Nick Hart, founder of Storm Skin
13. 1 AprInventors of the Month: John Waddington and Anthony Pratt
14. 1 AprOur top 10 most unusual collection items
15. 1 AprLibrary Lives: Paramjit Hans, Birmingham
16. 1 AprBehind the scenes at the British Library: Lucy Hinnie, Wikimedian-in-Residence
17. 1 AprMeet the Maker: Museo Design
18. 1 AprThe British Library: building the future at St Pancras
19. 1 AprMedieval Manuscripts Cataloguer and Researcher
20. 1 AprA 2000-year-old postcard
21. 1 AprDiscovering Boccaccio manuscripts online
22. 1 AprMedieval manuscripts and the Art That Made Us
23. 1 AprBeethoven's legacy
24. 1 AprBeethoven and Zweig
25. 1 AprRecording of the week: Everybody has something to offer
26. 1 AprJuliet Pannett
27. 1 AprRecording of the week: Easter egg secrets revealed
28. 1 AprBetween the Orange Tree and the Lime
29. 1 AprRecording of the week: Parsnip wine and an electric organ
30. 1 AprRecording of the week: Elvis on our minds for half a century
31. 1 AprBreaking the News
32. 1 AprThe Soldiers’ Daughters’ Home
33. 1 AprThe Prayer Book of a Queen: Isabella of Castile and Inquisitorial Culture in Late Medieval Spain
34. 1 AprThe Archive of the Hakluyt Society
35. 1 AprThe cost of living crisis - part 1: Bread in 1795
36. 1 AprMary Marshall – JMW Turner’s Mother
37. 1 AprThe early life of painter Sarah Biffen
38. 1 AprRescue at Sea of a Man Overboard
39. 1 AprThe Bookbinders’ Provident Asylum

March 2022

1. 1 MarA welcome return for on-site Doctoral Open Days
2. 1 MarElectronic Resources for Literary Research
3. 1 MarCherokee language printing at the British Library
4. 1 MarIn conversation with Frank Brannon
5. 1 MarPhotographs of the Government Printer in Tanganiyka
6. 1 MarRecent acquisitions in Asian and African Collections
7. 1 MarLost and refound: a Batak note on bamboo to John Anderson
8. 1 MarArabic Manuscripts from Southeast Asia in the British Library
9. 1 MarLooking back at LibCrowds: surveying our participants
10. 1 MarGetting Ready for Black Theatre and the Archive: Making Women Visible, 1900-1950
11. 1 MarThe Lotus Sutra Manuscripts Digitisation Project: the collaborative work between the Heritage Made Digital team and the International Dunhuang Project team
12. 1 MarScoping the connections between trusted arts and humanities data repositories
13. 1 MarBlack Theatre and the Archive: Making Women Visible, 1900-1950
14. 1 MarP. G. Wodehouse Society launches international Essay Prize
15. 1 MarCelebrating Beryl Gilroy
16. 1 MarJohn Berger and the 50th anniversary of Ways of Seeing
17. 1 MarThe Man who Discovered his Homeland; or, a Polymath without Publications
18. 1 MarSwedish Bird Books
19. 1 MarRare editions of Taras Shevchenko’s ‘Kobzar’ in the British Library
20. 1 Mar“Your problems are also my problems” – tracing Ukraine in the British Library's Solidarity Collection
21. 1 MarUkrainian collections in the British Library
22. 1 MarThe Women Breaking Barriers in Business
23. 1 MarInternational Women's Day 2022: women that mean business in the BIPC
24. 1 MarMeet Nicole Tay, founder of Indomitable Beauty
25. 1 MarLibrary Lives: Katie Kinnear, Camberley
26. 1 MarBehind the scenes at the British Library: Tasha McNaught, Marketing and Communications Manager
27. 1 MarMemory of a nation – the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine
28. 1 MarGeoreferencing maps from George III’s atlases and albums
29. 1 MarDeciphering an English exorcism manual
30. 1 MarThe secret of a silver clasp
31. 1 MarMedieval and Renaissance Women — thank you
32. 1 MarIrish voyage tales for the holiday of a lifetime
33. 1 MarTall tales of the medieval ‘holster book’
34. 1 MarGOLD tickets go on sale
35. 1 MarBeethoven and the cellists behind his cello sonatas
36. 1 MarNew Music E-resources
37. 1 Mar7 Days, Culture and the Arts
38. 1 MarRecording of the week: Virginia Woolf's voice
39. 1 MarRecording of the week: George V in 1933
40. 1 MarRecording of the week: A time for nursery rhymes
41. 1 MarRecording of the Week: Filling in the gaps of the feminist movement in the 1980s – Southall Black Sisters
42. 1 MarVisualising Victorian News
43. 1 MarThe travel writer Mary Ann Parker
44. 1 MarThose who Lust and those who Lack: Tyranny and Passivity in Early Modern English writing on the Ottomans
45. 1 MarSources for Madame Cama, Indian Political Activist
46. 1 MarRevealing prints at the British Library
47. 1 MarEmigration of children from the Madras Orphan Asylums to New South Wales – Part 3
48. 1 MarEmigration of children from the Madras Orphan Asylums to New South Wales – Part 2
49. 1 MarEmigration of children from the Madras Orphan Asylums to New South Wales – Part 1
50. 1 MarMary Broad's origins in Cornwall
51. 1 MarLooting of golden bells from the Temple of Heaven
52. 1 MarLetters of James Jackson of the Royal Navy – Part 2

February 2022

1. 1 FebThe Advent of a Newspaper
2. 1 FebThe Value of Libraries: a report from the Hay Festival, Cartagena, Colombia
3. 1 FebE-resources for Women in the United States
4. 1 FebCovers of Batak pustaha manuscripts
5. 1 FebTechnical challenges of digitising Batak manuscripts
6. 1 FebBatak manuscripts in the British Library digitised in collaboration with Hamburg University
7. 1 FebThe art of small things (5): Recitation markers in Qur’an manuscripts from Southeast Asia
8. 1 FebA puzzling fragment from a Thai meditation manual
9. 1 FebPhD Placement on Mapping Caribbean Diasporic Networks through Correspondence
10. 1 FebIn conversation: Meet Silvija Aurylaitė, the new British Library Labs Manager
11. 1 FebA Manuscript Reunited – and a IIIF Viewer Issue
12. 1 FebNew PhD Placements on Enhanced Curation: Hybrid Archives and Emerging Formats
13. 1 FebDigitising Arabic Manuscripts in Mattool, North Kerala (EAP1390)
14. 1 FebLove, like any other - Maria Dąbrowska and Anna Kowalska
15. 1 FebDiscovering Limburgish
16. 1 FebIn Defence of Armchair Travellers
17. 1 FebPhD Placement Opportunity - Contextualising a digital photographic archive of Siberian Indigenous peoples
18. 1 FebPhD Placement Opportunity - Displaced Persons (DP) Camp Publications in the British Library
19. 1 FebA Dutch Poet on ‘Tortured Majesties’: Reactions to the Executions of Mary Stuart and Charles Stuart.
20. 1 FebIn Memoriam: Zuzanna Krzemien (1987-2021)
21. 1 FebMeet Paul Jenkins, founder of Triple Double
22. 1 FebBIPC Style Guide
23. 1 FebMeet the Team: Nigel Spencer
24. 1 FebLibrary Lives: Adrian Edwards, British Library St Pancras
25. 1 FebAn update on the Single Digital Presence Project
26. 1 FebUK wide Breaking the News exhibition opens this February
27. 1 FebThe impact of philanthropy
28. 1 FebBehind the scenes at the British Library: Graham Jevon, Cataloguer for the Endangered Archives Programme
29. 1 FebPhD placement opportunity - Japanese maps
30. 1 FebRadical mapping
31. 1 FebMeaning in the margins of the Theodore Psalter
32. 1 FebMapping Scotland
33. 1 FebThe making of the tombs
34. 1 FebA man on a commission
35. 1 Feb‘The Doubt of Future Foes’
36. 1 FebMr Beale and the death warrant
37. 1 FebMedieval and Renaissance Women
38. 1 FebThe ‘tragedy’ of Lord Darnley
39. 1 FebMurder most foul: how Mary, Queen of Scots, almost avoided the chop
40. 1 FebThe Gallows Letter
41. 1 FebBeethoven exhibition update: some new arrivals from Berlin
42. 1 FebConserving creativity – the case of Beethoven’s ‘Kafka’ sketch miscellany
43. 1 Feb7 Days - Back then and now: a personal recollection by John Mathews
44. 1 FebRecording of the week: A personal jazz mystery solved
45. 1 FebRecording of the week: Dialect in children's play
46. 1 FebPublic libraries in the words of people who use, work in and run them
47. 1 FebRecording of the week: Neville Chamberlain and King George VI's broadcasts regarding Britain declaring war on Germany in 1939
48. 1 FebRecording of the week: When in the trees the rooks build high
49. 1 FebBreaking the News on tour
50. 1 FebJohn Sanderson’s horrible housemates
51. 1 FebLetters of James Jackson of the Royal Navy – Part 1
52. 1 Feb‘A mishap to German aviators’ in Mesopotamia: a tale of engine failure and a small Persian dog
53. 1 FebThomas Richardson Colledge: the missing years
54. 1 FebLeendert Hasenbosch’s diary: the story of a gay soldier marooned on a desert island
55. 1 FebPhD placement opportunity: John Evelyn correspondence
56. 1 FebJMW Turner, Artist and Publican?
57. 1 FebLGBTQ Histories in the Archives
58. 1 FebBenjamin Schultze, Missionary in Madras
59. 1 FebInternational Women’s Day 2022 - save your event ad now!
60. 1 FebThe Queen’s Platinum Jubilee in the UK Web Archive

January 2022

1. 1 JanSheila Watt-Cloutier on the British Library Player
2. 1 Jan"Hope’s ragged symbol": 50 years of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in poetry and prose
3. 1 JanCommemorating Roberta Bondar's voyage into space
4. 1 JanSlavery and the Sugar Trade: cataloguing five bills of lading
5. 1 JanUncovering Free Ports in the Colonial Caribbean
6. 1 JanAccessing West African Manuscripts in the British Library
7. 1 JanWhich Came First: The Author or the Text? Wikidata and the New Media Writing Prize
8. 1 JanNew online - December 2021
9. 1 JanEast African Life-Writing and Colonial History: New Perspectives from EAP Tanzanian Church Records
10. 1 Jan“Only your work will be remembered”: the 150th anniversary of Jože Plečnik’s birth
11. 1 JanWhen Wagner 'met' Beethoven
12. 1 JanArt, poetry and social action – some of 2021’s less conventional Nordic acquisitions
13. 1 JanSmall Business Resolutions for 2022
14. 1 JanEnacting change – rolling out our Race Equality Action Plan
15. 1 JanLibrary Lives: Rosemary O’Hare, Glasgow
16. 1 JanHow to be an effective ruler: the Basilikon Doron of King James VI and I
17. 1 Jan‘As goodly a child as I have seen’
18. 1 JanPortraits of Elizabeth I
19. 1 JanReach for the stars
20. 1 JanDürer's Journeys: Travels of a Renaissance Artist
21. 1 JanOur digitised collection keeps on growing
22. 1 JanCelebrating the New Year Elizabethan style
23. 1 JanDesigning 7 Days
24. 1 JanRecording of the week: On the meditative practice of drawing
25. 1 JanRecording of the week: The memory of liberation in Holocaust survivor testimonies
26. 1 JanRosemary Goad
27. 1 JanRecording of the week: Norman Ackroyd on Henry Moore
28. 1 JanVoices of British theatre design: Explore the world of theatre behind the scenes
29. 1 JanRecording of the week: A new year song from Vanuatu
30. 1 JanIra Aldridge in Ottoman Turkey
31. 1 JanThe 1914 United Missionary Exhibition 'Other Lands in Leicester': a global and colonial aspiration
32. 1 JanA Vignette of Inter-War Anglo-American Relations in the Middle East
33. 1 JanThe man who lost his memory – Part 2
34. 1 JanThe man who lost his memory – Part 1
35. 1 JanMadras Military Male Orphan Asylum
36. 1 JanThe Spy Who Came in from the Circus: Haji Ali Germani
37. 1 JanProtesting Against the Simon Commission
38. 1 JanEarly modern Iran seen through the eyes of G. Hofstede van Essen
39. 1 JanExplore Women’s Football in the UK Web Archive
40. 1 JanUKWA 2021 Technical update