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British Library blogs

From our curators, subject specialists and guest bloggers

About our blogs

These blogs express the thoughts and opinions of individual British Library staff members. You can subscribe to any blog by email.

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European studies blog

European studies blog

Chiaroscuro of a Croatian master

03 July 2013

Many Croatian artists are hidden under Italian names, one among them Giulio Clovio, more correctly Juraj Julile Klović (1489-1578)

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UK Web Archive blog

UK Web Archive blog

Using open data to visualise the early web

03 July 2013

[Andy Jackson, web archiving technical lead at the British Library, on what the UK web looked like in 1996, and on teaching machines to classify websites.] At the end of May, I attended the BL Labs hackathon event, and was...

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Asian and African studies blog

Asian and African studies blog

A rare, smoked Ahom manuscript from Assam

02 July 2013

One of the manuscripts in the British Library’s Thai, Lao and Cambodian collections is unusual for its distinctive smoky smell, but its real significance lies in the fact that few such manuscripts survive following the Burmese occupation of the Ahom...

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Social Science blog

Social Science blog

Napoleon riding backwards on a donkey

02 July 2013

Jennifer Howes, the British Library's Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs, writes about some of the many different versions of Napoleon. The picture on this medallion shows Napoleon with a rope tied around his neck, seated backwards on a donkey....

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All British Library blogs

Americas studies

Americas studies

What's on the mind of Team America?

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Asian and African studies

Asian and African studies

From our subject specialists and curators

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Digital scholarship

Digital scholarship

Supporting research with digital content

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Endangered archives

Endangered archives

Jody Butterworth and Paul Young on histories in peril

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English and drama

English and drama

On literature and theatre collections from the 16th century to the present day

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European studies

European studies

Exploring Europe at the British Library

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In through the outfield

In through the outfield

Neil Infield on business and intellectual property

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Inspired by

Inspired by

Our fashion, design and film blog

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Maps and views

Maps and views

Cartographic and topographical materials at the British Library

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Medieval manuscripts

Medieval manuscripts

Digitisation and other projects

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Music

Music

News about our music collections and services

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Social science

Social science

Projects, events, resources and research methods

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Sound and vision

Sound and vision

News from the Library’s Sound and Moving Image teams

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UK web archive

UK web archive

Announcements and information about the UK Web Archive

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Untold lives

Untold lives

Sharing stories from the past, worldwide

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