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The VHS Tapes: Preserving Emerging Formats at the British Library
18 June 2021 Digital scholarship
Researching how to collect, curate and preserve emerging formats is important work for us in the Library. Fortunately we aren't alone in our quest to understand how to manage born digital collections, we are active members of organisations such as...
Portuguese liberal exiles in Plymouth
18 June 2021 European studies
England has a proud history of taking in political refugees, as readers of the British Libray's publication Foreign-Language Printing in London will know. London was the focus of foreign-language printing in Britain, but we have cases of Dutch refugees in...
Walk in their footsteps: Windrush Voices, a new digital education programme at the British Library
18 June 2021 Sound and vision
Reuben Massiah on the Windrush Voices educational programme
Women’s football in the 18th century
17 June 2021 Untold lives
Following on from our post celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first Women’s FA Cup Final, this post delves back further into the history of the women’s game. I was surprised to find a newspaper report of a women’s football...
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