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Volumes of Lysons Collectanea (Trades), comprising advertisements, cuttings, and illustrations relating to trades, professions, medical cures. 1660-1825.
The dataset comprises the OCR text derived from four digitised volumes of a collection of advertisements, cuttings and illustrations relating to trades, professions and medical cures from 1660 - 1825.British Library
text, newspapers, OCR, trades, and adverts
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Volumes of Lysons Collectanea (Amusements), comprising broadsides, cuttings, advertisements on amusements 1660-1840
The dataset comprises nine digitised volumes of a collection of broadsides, cuttings and advertisements, relating to public exhibitions and places of amusement from 1660 - 1840 (with OCR-derived text.) Part of the Lysons Collectanea collection.British Library
amusements, text, newspapers, broadsides, OCR, and adverts
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Volumes of portraits and biographies of officers in the South African wars collected by John Malcolm Bulloch. 1900 - 1902.
The dataset comprises six digitised volumes (in PDF) of a collection of portraits and biographical details of some officers distinguished in the South African War (1900 - 1902) (with OCR-derived text.) The collection was formed by John Malcolm Bulloch..British Library
South Africa, text, portraits, war, army, OCR, biographies, and biography
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Volumes of Madden's cuttings, views, and pamphlets about the British Museum. 1755-1870.
The dataset comprises four digitised volumes of a collection of cuttings, views and pamphlets made by Sir Frederic Madden about the British Museum, dating 1755 - 1870 (with OCR-derived text.)British Library
British Museum, text, and OCR
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Volume of Christmas ballads and broadsides. 1750 - 1840
110 page PDF of miscellaneous Christmas ballads and prose broadsides (with OCR-derived text.) The dataset comprises one digitised volume (110 pages) of a collection of Christmas ballads and prose broadsides chiefly printed in London by J. Pitts between 1750 - 1840. The dataset is in Portable Document Format (PDF).British Library
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Digitised Quarterly Lists XML and Metadata
Two Centuries of Indian Print 1867-1947. The files in this dataset are derived from the British Library’s collection of bound volume Quarterly Lists: printed catalogue records of Indian books published quarterly and by province of British India between 1867 and 1947. The dataset comprises text from the collection of digitised...Derrick, Tom
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Digitised Quarterly Lists PDFs and Metadata
The files in this dataset are derived from the British Library’s collection of bound volume Quarterly Lists: printed catalogue records of Indian books published quarterly and by province of British India between 1867 and 1947. The dataset comprises full-text searchable PDFs of 215 volumes as well as the associated metadata...Derrick, Tom
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Research report
Academic Books and their Future. A Report to the AHRC and the British Library
The aim in this report is to provide an account of perspectives from three key stakeholder groups—publishers, libraries, and intermediaries in the supply chain for academic books—and to highlight some key issues that arise from those different perspectives. A central set of perspectives is of course missing here, that of...Jubb, Michael
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Research report
Researchers of Tomorrow: the research behaviour of Generation Y doctoral students
In 2009, the British Library and JISC commissioned the three-year Researchers of Tomorrow study, focusing on the information-seeking and research behaviour of doctoral students in ‘Generation Y’, born between 1982 and 1994 and not ‘digital natives’. Over 17,000 doctoral students from more than 70 higher education institutions participated in the...Education for Change
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Early German Bookbindings in the British Library
This dataset comprises approx. 650 records relating to mainly early printed books (and some manuscripts) in the British Library that have bookbindings from Germany or German influenced or speaking regions. Most were bound from 15c to 17c. Workshops have been identified using standard online and printed resources (see separate document...Marks, P. J. M.
finishing tools, tools, blind tooled, workshop, leather, blind tooled bookbinding, pigskin binding, Einbanddatenbank, German binding, Kyriss, calf, Schwenke/Schunke, and bookbinding