Projects

Africa's Sons Under Arms

Exploring the history of the British West India Regiments to understand changes in racial thought

British Library Translator in Residence

A new residency scheme supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council

Chevening Fellowships

Year-long professional development projects for emerging global leaders

Delius, Modernism, and the Sound of Place

Using manuscripts and digital technologies to understand the composer Frederick Delius

English Short Title Catalogue

A comprehensive, international union catalogue listing early books, serials, newspapers and selected ephemera printed be...

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Aims to provide free online access to Hebrew manuscripts from the Library’s collection

International Library Leaders Programme

With 170 million items in the collection, what does it look like behind the scenes of one of the world's largest nationa...

Medieval England and France, 700-1200

The Polonsky Foundation England and France, 700-1200 Manuscript Digitisation Project

National Life Stories: Artists' Lives

Artists’ lives and work in their own words

Shared Research Repository

The beta launch of the Library's shared research repository

Towards a National Collection

British Library involvement in AHRC Programme Towards a National Collection

Transforming Topography

This project aims to transform perceptions of topographical imagery.

Two Centuries of Indian Print

An international collaboration to digitise South Asian printed books