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World Mosquito Day 2018

20 August 2018 Untold lives

August 20th is World Mosquito Day, commemorating the day in 1897 when Ronald Ross confirmed that the malaria parasite was carried by the mosquito. The Library’s Archives and Manuscript collections contain a wealth of material regarding mosquitoes, malaria, and other...

Recording of the week: working 9 while 5

20 August 2018 Sound and vision

This week's selection comes from Jonnie Robinson, Lead Curator of Spoken English. The Oxford English Dictionary categorises the use of while [= ‘until’] as northern dialect and, as this contributor to the Evolving English WordBank explains enthusiastically, such subtle distinctions...

Caption competition August 2018

19 August 2018 Medieval manuscripts

Regular followers of the Medieval Manuscripts Blog may know that we occasionally run a caption competition, soliciting weird and wonderful suggestions from our readers. This month we'd like you to tell us what's happening in this image. It's taken from...

A Bohemian bicentenary: Václav Bolemír Nebeský and the Národní Muzeum

18 August 2018 European studies

It is a truism that in choosing a name one should consider whether it is likely to date – how many Kylies approaching their mid-thirties regret being given one which marks them out as children of the early 1980s? A...