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A ‘potpourri’ of contradanses

02 October 2013 Music blog

The Music Collections of the British Library offer many surprises. Two small volumes in the Hirsch Collection provide unexpected insights into dancing at the court of the French king Louis XV (1710-1774) as well as some historic dance repertoire that...

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...

Theatre life in Soviet Kharkiv, Joseph Schillinger and Persimfans

02 October 2013 European studies blog

It is not unusual for a big library to have “hidden collections” – items that were difficult to identify or catalogue so that the records of their existence remain vague. Two such catalogue records in the British Library, with the...

Semantic Media

01 October 2013 Sound and vision blog

On 23 September the British Library played host to the Semantic Media Network for a one-day worksop, snappily entitled Semantic Media @ British Library. The Network has been established by Queen Mary University of London to "address the challenge of...