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These blogs express the thoughts and opinions of individual British Library staff members. You can subscribe to any blog by email.
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Libraries and manuscripts of Laos (1994-2012)
26 October 2020 Asian and African studies
This blog post is written by guest contributor Prof. Dr. Volker Grabowsky, who has been Professor for the Language and Culture of Thailand at the University of Hamburg since 2009, and advisor to the Buddhist Archive of Photography in Luang...
British Library at London Fashion Week 2020
23 October 2020 Living Knowledge
How can the UK’s national collections enhance fashion education and business? The Library’s continuing partnership with the British Fashion Council is highlighting just that. In a recent collaboration for this year’s digital London Fashion Week, designer Nabil Nayal and fashion...
Gianni Rodari, the logic of fantasy (part 2)
23 October 2020 European studies
This is the second blog post in a two-part series to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Italian children’s writer Gianni Rodari (1920-1980). You can read part 1 here. “Tutti gli usi della parola a tutti”: mi sembra un...
BL Labs Public Award Runner Up (Research) 2019 - Automated Labelling of People in Video Archives
23 October 2020 Digital scholarship
People 'automatically' identified in digital TV news related programme clips. Guest blog post by Andrew Brown (PhD researcher), Ernesto Coto (Research Software Engineer) and Andrew Zisserman (Professor) of the Visual Geometry Group, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, and...
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