These blogs from our curators, subject specialists and guest bloggers express the thoughts and opinions of individual British Library staff members and guests.
04 February 2023 Medieval manuscripts
As our major exhibition, Alexander the Great: The Making of a Myth, demonstrates, Alexander has been the protagonist of countless legends across the world and from the time of his birth to the present. Perceforest, a mysterious and dramatic 14th-century...
03 February 2023 European studies
Dulwich Picture Gallery is currently holding an exhibition of the works of Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, the best known Lithuanian artist and composer. Over a hundred works are on loan from the M.K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art in Kaunas where...
01 February 2023 Untold lives
In a previous blog post I wrote of an assassination attempt on Lord Lytton, Viceroy of India. I was asked if I could find out more about George Edward Dessa (sometimes written De Sa), the would-be assassin. Contemporary press reports...
31 January 2023 Americas and Oceania Collections
Applications are now open for an exciting new PhD placement working with the Americas and Oceania team. Under the title The Pacific Islands in print: surveying the British Library collections, current PhD students are invited to spend three months (or...
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