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Latest blog posts
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)
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...
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...
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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English and drama
On literature and theatre collections from the 16th century to the present day
