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These blogs from our curators, subject specialists and guest bloggers express the thoughts and opinions of individual British Library staff members and guests.
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Meaning in the margins of the Theodore Psalter
25 February 2022 Medieval manuscripts
The British Library has loaned four manuscripts to an exhibition at the Rietberg Museum in Zurich, In the Name of the Image: Imagery between Cult and Prohibition in Islam and Christianity, which opened on 4 February. The exhibition takes a...
7 Days - Back then and now: a personal recollection by John Mathews
24 February 2022 Social Science
In this fifth guest post about the revolutionary New Left weekly newspaper '7 Days', John Matthews recalls how he came to be a part of the editorial collective. Fifty years on from its publication, he considers the impact 7 Days had, for himself and others involved.
The Advent of a Newspaper
24 February 2022 Americas and Oceania Collections
This is the first of a series of blogs looking at Cherokee language printing. Whilst exploring the British Library’s North American Indigenous language materials as part of my PhD research, I came across Frank Brannon's Cherokee Phoenix, Advent of a...
Letters of James Jackson of the Royal Navy – Part 1
24 February 2022 Untold lives
An interesting new addition to the India Office Private Papers gives a glimpse into the life of a seaman in the British Royal Navy in the late 18th century. Little is known about James Jackson other than he was serving...
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