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Romeo and Juliet in Thai

24 April 2014 Asian and African studies

If you were in Bangkok about a century ago and you were going to a theatre performance, the last thing you would expect is a play by Shakespeare. But you might be surprised to find out that this was very...

Street Fighting Men

24 April 2014 Untold lives

On the night of Friday 30 June 1727, the East India Company factory and surrounding town of Gombroon (Bandar Abbas) bore witness to the spectacle of two English factors drawing their swords upon each other. Both received wounds before being...

Pathé goes to YouTube

23 April 2014 The Newsroom

The news that the entire British Pathé newsreel archive has been published on YouTube has made a huge impact. There have been news broadcasts, web news and newspaper reports, and the story has spread widely across social media, which is...

More Shakespeare

23 April 2014 English and Drama

To commemorate 450 years since Shakespeare's birth here is a rough list (Download Shakespeare Recordings BL) of live theatre audio recordings of Shakespeare plays held at the British Library. A total of 368 productions from the National Theatre and the...