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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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‘Do you like gold? Use it!’: A golden binding by Pierre Legrain

01 October 2022 Medieval manuscripts

‘Do you like gold? Use it!’ So said the fashion designer and art collector Jacques Doucet (1853-1929) to the interior decorator and designer Pierre Legrain (1889-1929) when he encouraged him to apply his talents to designing modern bindings for Doucet’s...

EAP video

30 September 2022 Endangered archives

EAP recently commissioned a short film, in the hope that it would raise the profile of the Programme and highlight the importance of making digitised content freely available to everyone. The video is now available on the Library’s YouTube channel...

The Beatles and Hunter Davies

30 September 2022 English and Drama

By Greg Buzwell, Curator, Contemporary Literary Archives. ‘Does anyone seriously believe that Beatles music will be an unthinkingly accepted part of daily life all over the world in the 2000s?’ wrote the philosopher and politician Bryan Magee in the February...

Celebrating Sporting Heritage Day 2022

30 September 2022 UK Web Archive

By Helena Byrne, Curator of Web Archives, The British Library This blog post gives an overview of our sports related activities for the year to celebrate Sporting Heritage Day 2022 2022 has been, and continues to be, a really busy...