British Library blogs archive guide

All blog posts that were live on British Library blogging platform in September 2025. This includes blogs published from September 2007 onwards from the 18 British Library blog topics:

• Americas and Oceania
• Asian and African
• Collection care
• Digital scholarship
• Endangered archives
• English and drama
• European studies
• Innovation and enterprise
• Knowledge Matters
• Maps and views
• Medieval manuscripts
• Music
• Science
• Social science
• Sound and vision
• The newsroom
• UK Web Archive
• Untold lives

Use the previous link

If you have the previous link for the blog, you can simply use this and you will be redirected to the blog in the archive.

View the full list of blogs

You can look for the blog in our full list of archived blogs.

Use a search engine

You can search for the blog title or key words in a search engine, such as Google. We will also develop a separate British Library site search in the future to make searching easier.

Blog posts from October 2025 onwards, alongside a small number of older blogs, are available in our new blogs section.

This is an archive, rather than a 'normal' website. This means that any content posted directly to our blogging platform has been captured, but much of the functionality will not work.

• Search and any functionality that requires user input will not work.
• Hyperlinks to some external web content will not work because the site may no longer be available and some links to British Library digital content will not work outside the archive. A cyber-attack disrupted many of our services and some digital content is unavailable.
• Embedded content from third party sites is not playable in the archive due to technical reasons. Examples include, YouTube, SoundCloud and other media players.
• Some sidebar links won't work. This is because archiving of blog posts was prioritised, there were multiple versions of some pages, and every filtered page was not captured. Any links that were not archived will take you to this page.
• Some landing and navigation pages won't work, such as blog topic homepages. This is for the same reason as above.
• Some tag links won't work. This is for the same reason as above.
• Some images are missing from older blog posts because they were not online at the point in time when they were archived.
• Some styling is missing from a small number of blog posts These appear as text-only on a white background. This is because this is how content appeared on the Typepad platform during archiving.

Any content posted directly to our blogging platform is included in the archive. This includes text, PDF documents, images, sound, and video, and other files.

If content is hosted externally, for example on YouTube or another external website, you will need to copy the link and open it in a new window.

Sound files that were hosted on our blogging platform will play within the archive page. To listen to a recording:

1. Click the 'play' icon.
2. Wait a few moments for the file to load.
3. The recording will begin playing automatically once it’s ready.

The loading time depends on the size of the file. Longer recordings take more time to load than shorter ones.

Some recordings, especially interviews, also include a downloadable transcript. The length of the transcript can give you a general idea of how long the audio recording is.

External sound recordings

All links to external web content will not work. You will need to copy these links and open them in a new browser window.

Other options

If the link does not load or does not load the expected content, then you can try to retrieve this content on another web archive. Examples of web archives include, Wayback Machine and Arquivo.pt.

Content will also be available in the UK Web Archive in the future.

This is an archive of a website, so search and any functionality that requires user input will not work. Find out more by reading 'What is not in the blogs archive?' and 'How can I find a blog in the archive?'.

We were using an external blogging platform (Typepad), which was shut down at short notice on 30 September 2025.

Our blogs, including posts from several years ago, were still widely used and referenced by many sources.

All blog posts were preserved by the UK Web Archive and made accessible via our archive.

All archived blogs are listed here. If you can't find a blog, or have a question or feedback, please contact us.