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English folksong at the British Library

03 October 2013 Music blog

Delegates of the Full English Folksong Study Day investigate the British Library's audio collections Saturday 21st September saw the London leg of The Full English’s tour of Folksong in England Study Days, which took place in the British Library. Renowned...

Digital Scholarship training in and outside of the British Library

03 October 2013 Digital scholarship blog

On September 25th the second semester of our internal Digital Scholarship Training Programme came to an end. Eighteen months in we have delivered 30 one-day courses, 205 individual colleagues from across the British Library have attended, and 641 seats have...

It's a Busy Life in Camelot

03 October 2013 Medieval manuscripts blog

Those who are familiar with Royal MS 14 E iii, the gorgeous Arthurian manuscript which was in our Royal Exhibition last year and is now fully digitised on our Digitised Manuscripts site, will know that it contains The Estoire del...

The realities behind the social ‘myths’

02 October 2013 Social Science blog

The final event in our long-running and successful series of social science debates ‘Myths and Realities’ (in partnership with the Academy of Social Sciences) takes place on the evening of 15th October. It will be a bit of a celebration...