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An Album of Maratha and Deccani Paintings - part 1

18 April 2014 Asian and African studies

An album in Asian and African Collections of which hitherto little notice has been taken is a large but slim volume, numbered Add.21475. The album contains eight paintings mostly from the Deccan, including five large paintings illustrating verses from Keshav...

St Pancras Intelligencer no. 14

18 April 2014 The Newsroom

Welcome to the latest edition of the St Pancras Intelligencer, our weekly round-up of news about news - stories about news production, publications, apps, digitised resources, events and what is happening with the newspaper collection (and other news collections) at...

Curator's choice: fine art prints from the British Library's archives

17 April 2014 Inspired by...

Malini Roy is our Visual Arts Curator and one of my favourite people at the Library. She looks after an exquisite collection of prints and drawings from South and Southeast Asia. She's chosen some of her favourite prints for our...

What price freedom? An author’s thoughts

17 April 2014 European studies

In a guest post for European Literature Night, featured author Jonas T. Bengtsson from Denmark muses on society and freedom, concepts which inform his latest novel. Has anybody ever met society? Shaken hands with society, yelled at society. Gone on...