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Latest blog posts

Untold lives blog

Children in the corridors of power

24 May 2013

It is 1825. Imagine you are walking down Leadenhall Street in the City of London. Before you stands the magnificent East India House. East India House - Joseph C. Stadler (1817) You go through the main entrance. This is the...

Medieval manuscripts blog

Of Captions, Clerics, and Queens: Tweeting the Medieval Illuminated Manuscript

24 May 2013

And now for something a bit different: a guest post from one of our most faithful Twitter correspondents, Robert Miller (many thanks, Robert!). From LOLcats to the seductive Hey-Girl-I-Like-the-Library-Too musings of Ryan Gosling, the internet was made for captioning: slapping...

Asian and African studies blog

A Mughal Flower Show

23 May 2013

Since the RHS Chelsea Flower Show is taking place this week, I thought it would be appropriate to post a colourful display of flowers from one of our most significant treasures, Prince Dara Shikoh’s album, exhibited recently in ‘Mughal India:...

Digital scholarship blog

Does crowdsourcing capture the crowd at its wisest? An interview with Nick Hiley

23 May 2013

How best to make the non-textual “stuff” (to borrow Tim Hitchcock’s nomenclature) we digitise discoverable for users is one of the real challenges facing digitization projects. Whereas making printed text available to mining is relatively straightforward, the same cannot be...