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‘Ill scratches the bear’, an endangered proverbial species

24 September 2021 European studies

To coincide with the British Library's exhibition Paddington: The Story of a Bear, we've put together a series of blog posts about a few other bears (fictional and real) from the collections. Eleanor O’Kane in her collection of medieval Spanish...

The Green Knight: the movie and the manuscript

24 September 2021 Medieval manuscripts

What's the first thing that you think of when you hear the words 'the Green Knight'? Is it the new Hollywood movie starring Dev Patel, Joel Edgerton and Alicia Vikander, which has its UK release on 24 September? Or, if...

Computing for Cultural Heritage: Trial Outcomes and Final Report

23 September 2021 Digital scholarship

Six months ago, twenty members of staff from the British Library and The National Archives UK completed Computing for Cultural Heritage, a project that trialled Birkbeck University and Institute of Coding’s new PGCert, Applied Data Science. In this blog post...

Landscape in law

23 September 2021 Untold lives

Archives on the environment appear in unexpected places. Under the Permanent Settlement of 1792, India’s British rulers fixed the taxes which land-holders in certain regions paid on their land. But land itself was not permanent. Across the Sub-continent, rivers and...