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Recording the Sounds of Nature: a Q&A with Jeremy Hegge

22 July 2014 Sound and vision

Jeremy Hegge is an Australian field recordist, based in Sydney, who has been recording the sounds of nature for just over a year. A new donor to the British Library's sound archive, a selection of Jeremy's recordings will soon be...

Made with the British Library - Illustrator Eleanor Stuart on business and inspiration

22 July 2014 Inspired by...

We love it when illustrators find inspiration in our collections and create new products. Eleanor Stuart did just that with her Alice in Wonderland-inpsired ceramics. Since our last interview with her back in August her business has taken off and...

Tauchnitz and Marinack: the famous and the unknown bringing English literature to the Germans

22 July 2014 European studies

When I started thinking about topics for this series of Anglo-German blogs, publishing and bookselling were naturally on the list, not least the famous Tauchnitz Verlag in Leipzig which published English literature in the 19th and early 20th centuries. I...

Conservation in the 17th Century

22 July 2014 Medieval manuscripts

The ‘Mayerne manuscript’, Sloane MS 2052, is on display at the National Gallery’s exhibition Making Colour and is also available to view on Digitised Manuscripts. Compiled over twenty-six years, it reflects Mayerne’s abiding interest during his middle age in the...