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Journal article
Chinese plates fit for an Acehnese queen
All over Southeast Asia is found a particular type of coarse Chinese export porcelain traditionally known as ‘Swatow’ ware but now more accurately identified as originating from Zhangzhou, dating from the late Ming period, from the end of the 16th to the early 17th centuries. One characteristic type of large...Gallop, Annabel Teh
Acehnese ninefold seal, Zhangzhou, Cap Sikureueng, Chinese porcelain, Chinese plates, Aceh, and Swatow
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Journal article
Deconstruction and ‘Re-Volumization’: The Thomason Collection in the Past, Present, and Future
The Thomason Tracts that arrived at the British Museum as the gift of George III were in a rigorous chronological order, which was mirrored by Thomason’s own twelve-volume manuscript catalogue. Though Thomason boasted that by means of the catalogue even a single sheet could be found ‘instantly’, even more important...Mendle, Michael
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‘Honest George’: George Thomason and London during the Civil War and Revolution
Part of the fascination with Thomason is that he was more than merely a prominent bookseller who collected a vast collection of civil war pamphlets and newspapers. He was also an active participant in public life, in terms of the workings of the Stationers’ Company and in terms of political...Lindley, Keith ; Peacey, Jason
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John Hammond and the Explosion of Print in 1641: Commercial and Political Opportunities
One of the great values of Thomason’s collection of civil war tracts and newsbooks is the opportunity that it affords for analysing the nature of the print trade during a key phase of the so-called ‘print revolution’. Given the so-called ‘explosion’ of cheap print that accompanied the descent into civil...Braddick, Michael J.
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George Thomason and London in the 1650s
Thomason’s involvement in public politics, which had been extensive during the 1640s, brought him considerable personal trouble following the execution of Charles I, an event that he clearly opposed. Like many others who had been active Presbyterians before 1649, he became an opponent of the republican regime, and this chapter...Vernon, Elliot
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Search and Seize: Partisan Publishers and Press Controls in Thomason’s London
The Thomason collection is recognised as being vital for exploring the dramatic developments in print culture that accompanied the English Revolution, not least those that were made possible by the collapse of press censorship in 1641. Less widely appreciated is that it also sheds valuable light upon the attempts that...Como, David R.
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Journal article
The Thomason Tracts and Presbyterian Mobilization
This chapter uses the Thomason Tracts as a collection, as well as the partisan attitudes of Thomason himself, to assess the use of print in the bitter conflicts that divided parliamentarians in the 1640s. It compares the stress on division revealed in printed accounts of two particularly fraught episodes in...Hughes, Anne
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Journal article
Milton’s Sonnet XIV and the poetry of George Thomason
It has long been recognised that Thomason was well connected, and that his friends included men like John Milton. This essay uses the sonnet that Milton wrote in honour of Thomason’s wife as the springboard for a discussion of a neglected aspect of the Thomason tracts: its poetry. It thus...Nevitt, Marcus
Thomason Tracts, George Thomason, Catharine Thomason, and John Milton
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The Politics and Meaning of Thomason’s Tracts
This article takes as its starting point the reputation of Thomason's collection as royalist in orientation. It examines whether Thomason’s collection reflects 1640s and 1650s press output more broadly - offering a quantitative account of this - and whether the items he chose to purchase, and those he did not,...Raymond, Joad
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Scattered about the Streets: George Thomason’s Annotations and Ephemeral Print during the English Revolution
Thomason is rightly famous for his tendency to annotate individual pamphlets, and his notes have long been exploited by scholars in order to trace his connections with various authors, to contextualise individual items, and to enhance our appreciation of writers and the debates in which they participated. This chapter subjects...Peacey, Jason
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From The Queen’s College to Montagu House: The History of the Thomason Tracts after the Restoration
Although the Thomason collection is rightly regarded as one of the treasures of the British Library, its survival was by no means inevitable. This chapter revisits the convoluted history of its fortunes after Thomason ceased collecting in 1661, shedding new light upon his own hopes and expectations regarding its fate,...Stoker, David
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Collecting Revolution: George Thomason and the ‘Thomason Tracts’
The approximately 24,000 pamphlets, manuscripts and newspapers collected by the London bookseller George Thomason are an invaluable source for the study of the political events of 1640 to 1663. This introduction surveys the articles, based on a conference held at the British Library, which are brought together in eBLJ 2023.Peacey, Jason
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Presentation
Improving the Discoverability of Practice Research Processes, Outputs, and Data
CHOSN event: Open access policies and practice research in GLAMs. 5 March 2024 Tuesday 2pm GMT Holly Ranger, Research Data Management Officer at the University of Westminster. Our guest speaker addresses topics of open access policy environment for Galleries-Libraries-Archives-Museums (GLAMs) and diverse research activities & outputs. Holly Ranger presents on...Ranger, Holly
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Presentation
Available, Accessible, Open
CHOSN event: Open access policies and practice research in GLAMs. 5 March 2024 Tuesday 2pm GMT Josie Fraser, Head of Digital Policy at the National Lottery Heritage Fund Our guest speaker addresses topics of open access policy environment for Galleries-Libraries-Archives-Museums (GLAMs) and diverse research activities & outputs. Josie Fraser provides...Fraser, Josie
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Disentangling Digital Preservation Risk: An Interdisciplinary Exploration and Solution
Memory institutions such as the British Library face the important challenge of preserving their digital collections for future generations. Disciplinary efforts to address this challenge are extensive but demonstrate significant inconsistency and uncertainty about how the field understands risk, as well as what it considers to be a valid response....Pennock, Maureen
libraries, risk, risk science, archives, digital preservation, reference model, and design science
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Research report
Publishing updated version of ‘R for Newspaper Data’
My Living with Machines Digital Residency, which I carried out between May and July 2023, allowed me to update and publish an online book on accessing and analysing newspaper data. The goal of the book is to make available an end-to-end set of instructions and tutorials which would allow researchers,...Ryan, Yann Ciarán
digital humanities, Victorian, historical newspapers, and Living with Machines
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Research report
An Etiquette For Minor Time Travel
A report documenting the Living with Machines Digital Residency project called "An Etiquette for Minor Time Travel" by Robert Sherman. Via an open call and running from to July 2023, six Digital Residencies were funded by the Living with Machines project to support researchers and practitioners devising creative approaches to...Sherman, Robert
art, Living with Machines, Victorian, rail, data visualisation, digital humanities, and poetry
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Research report
Visualising press politics in the United Kingdom
This project's main goal, as outlined in the initial proposal, was to develop an interactive, open-source web app that visualizes data from the Press Directories dataset alongside historical general election results. In this report, I will delve into the challenges encountered, the interesting findings uncovered, and the potential avenues for...Bonato, Nicolò
historcial newspapers, digital humanities, Victorian, politics, data visualisation, and Living with Machines
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Research report
The Devils After the Fall
This is a report by Nicola Baldwin of a Digital Residency at Living With Machines, on the dataset: Crowdsourced accidents data from Newspapers, working in line with the LWM aims for Radical Collaboration, New Perspectives, Analysing at Scale. The following document is a personal account of work done, thoughts arising...Baldwin, Nicola
Living with Machines, accidents, Victorian, film, crowdsourcing, newspaper, and digital humanities
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Research report
UK Railway Archive (AR-UK)
Archive The Railway UK (AR-UK) is a comprehensive digital platform designed to enhance the online archives of the UK rail network. This initiative, developed in collaboration with Living with Machines, is primarily focused on research, historical preservation, and providing public access to railway history. As a centralized resource, it caters...Sheppard, Joanne
digital humanities, Victorian, rail, data visualisation, and Living with Machines
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Research report
Circulations and Entangled History in 19th Century Chile
The Living with Machines Digital Residences have offered our research team a remarkable opportunity to experiment with methods for extracting data from historical newspapers dating back 100 to 150 years. This interdisciplinary project aims to expand the scope of digital humanities and historical research by developing automated techniques for data...Hayward, Jennifer ; Valenzuela, Gillian ; Shakib, Khandokar
digital humanities, historical newspapers, Living with Machines, and Victorian
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Presentation
Making the Business Case for Open Access: How the Royal Albert Memorial Museum adopted an open access strategy for digital collections with the GLAM-E Lab
Dr Andrea Wallace, Associate Professor of Law & Technology & Director of the GLAM-E Lab, the University of Exeter Dr Francesca Farmer, Research Fellow, GLAM-E Lab & Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM) Julien Parsons, Collections & Content Manager, the Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM)...Wallace, Andrea ; Farmer, Francesca ; Parsons, Julien
Open Access, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, chosn, Business Case, and GLAM-E Lab
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Research report
Horticultural Collections at the British Library & the National Trust: Project Report
The British Library (BL, or the Library) and the National Trust (NT, or the Trust) each have a rich relationship with the history of horticulture and botany. The aim of this June – September 2023 Doctoral Fellowship was to explore the relationship between gardens and books in the BL’s printed...Murray, Grace
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Research report
Romance Self-Publishing and UK Legal Deposit
This project on romance self-publishing and legal deposit was conducted September 2023 – February 2024 in order to investigate the practices of self-published authors in the UK and their relationship to legal deposit. In particular, the research aimed to support the British Library and other deposit libraries in the identification...Deane, Katie
self-publishing, authorship, British Library PhD placement, legal deposit, digital publishing, popular romance, and publishing
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Research report
Butter Lamps, Natural Disaster, and Climate Change in the Himalayas: Preserving and Accessing the Textual Literary Heritage of Bhutan Through the Endangered Archives Programme of the British Library
In my article “Butter Lamps, Natural Disaster, and Climate Change in the Himalayas: Preserving and Accessing the Textual Literary Heritage of Bhutan Through the Endangered Archives Programme of the British Library,” I provide an introduction to the five Bhutanese collections at the British Library Endangered Archives Programme: (1) EAP 310...Schwerk, Dagmar
endangered archives, heritage, climate change, Buddhism, postdoctoral fellowship, Himalayas, natural disasters, Bhutan, and digitised collections
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Book chapter
The Anglo-German Press in the Long Nineteenth Century
Both Britain and the United States have had a long history of harbouring foreign political exiles, who often set up periodicals which significantly contributed to community-building and political debates. However, this varied and complex journalism has received little attention to date, particularly regarding the languages in which it was produced....Reed, Susan
18th century, 19th century, language, politics, and Foreign-Language Press
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Journal article
A literature review of palm leaf manuscript conservation—Part 2: historic and current conservation treatments, boxing and storage, religious and ethical issues, recommendations for best practice
Abstract The closure of the British Library during the 2020–2021 COVID-19 pandemic allowed the conservation department to undertake a treatment review of the conservation of palm leaf manuscripts in order to make better-informed decisions about the treatment of these complex objects. As part of the review a questionnaire was posted...Wiland, Julia ; Brown, Rick ; Fuller, Lizzie ; Havelock, Lea ; Johnson, Jackie …
traditional preservation methods, palm leaf, ethical conservation, boxing, and long-term storage
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Journal article
Current Issues with Cataloging Printed Music: Challenges Facing Staff and Systems
This paper explores the challenges currently faced by music cataloguers, with particular regard to their training and the systems they work with. It asks whether music catalogers feel they have enough support and training to do their work; it investigates the skills they require, and how they might be taught....Fisher, Meg ; Rafferty, Pauline
cataloging printed music, cataloging training, and Cataloging research
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Blog post
Mapping Caribbean Diasporic Networks through the Correspondence of Andrew Salkey
This is a guest post by Natalie Lucy, a PhD student at University College London, who recently undertook a British Library placement to work on a project Mapping Caribbean Diasporic Networks through the correspondence of Andrew Salkey.Lucy, Natalie
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Research report
British Library Research Report 2021–22
The latest edition of our Research Report, covering the academic year October 2021 to September 2022 is available. This is the sixth issue of this publication, which has become an annual highlight in our communications about our research. It is an opportunity to reflect on and celebrate achievements of the...The British Library
Research partnerships, Research support, Research engagement, Eccles Centre, Visual arts, Postgraduate research, GLAM, and Research projects
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Book chapter
Library partnerships in an age of openness
Librarians are strong collaborators. As we move toward the “next normal,” partnerships and collaboration will play an even larger role. In our post-pandemic world, what does “open” mean in terms of access to libraries, their staff, and their services? National libraries, for example, are still, to some extent, fixed in...Jolly, Liz
public libraries, collaboration, hybrid digital, open libraries, COVID-19 and libraries, library partnerships, national libraries, British Library, library mission, and access
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Journal article
The British Library – rethinking physical storage
Purpose The British Library (BL) faces a significant challenge with storage space predicted to run out within the next three years. However, alongside a plan to create additional capacity, the BL also intends to take the opportunity to rethink the integration of storage and workflows in order to implement a...Appleyard, Andrew H.
storage, library, automated, sustainability, and repository
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Book
Making Miracles in Medieval England
The cult of the saints was central to medieval Christianity largely due to the miraculous. Saints were members of the elect of heaven and could intercede with God on the behalf of supplicants. Whilst people visited shrines and prayed to the saints for many reasons it was the hope of...Lynch, Tom
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Journal article
Vehicularizing the vernacular: using the periodical press to popularize vernacular languages in Soviet Turkic communities
The study of language and script change among the Turkic communities of the Soviet Union often focuses on the switch from Arabic to Latin scripts. Less attention is paid to adaptations of the Arabic script to Turkic vernaculars, and to attempts aimed at convincing the literate masses of their usefulness....Erdman, Michael J.
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Dataset
Publishers’ Plate Numbers 1850-
Publisher’s plate numbers are a crucial element in dating 18th and 19th century music, which very rarely carries a publication date. MacLachlan's list supplements the publication “English music publishers' plate numbers in the first half of the nineteenth century” (London, Faber, 1965) by O.W. Neighbour and A. Tyson. He continues...MacLachlan, David
nineteenth century, music publishers, music, and plate numbers
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Research report
Jane Austen and the Georgian Social Whirl of Bath: Understanding the importance of Provincial Assembly Rooms and Public Social Entertainments in Georgian Literature - Project Report
This report details the experience and findings of the 2023 British Library-National Trust Doctoral Fellow, undertaking the project titled Jane Austen and the Georgian Social Whirl of Bath. This project was undertaken across three months, from 3 January to 31 March 2023. The report is organised into two main sections....Edwards, Joanne
British Library, Bath, Jane Austen, National Trust, and Georgian period
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Presentation
British Library Shared Repository Service: Research Showcase. Royal Botanic Gardens Kew.
This talk outlines the experience of Royal Botanic Gardens Kew with the British Library's shared repository service. The range of research undertaken at Kew is outlined. The reasons Kew was interested in establishing a repository included needing a mechanism to publicly share all its research outputs, to be able to meet their future obligations...Griffin, Anne
research, independent research organisation, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, repository service, and GLAM
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Presentation
Copyright and rights management
Focussing on UK copyright law this talk discusses the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 and how different types of copyright cover different types of output e.g. literary, artistic, dramatic and musical. The complex area of copyright clearance and the different layers of rights within one item is outlined. Who...Davidson, Alison
UK copyright, copyright exceptions, rights management, copyright clearance, and GLAM
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Presentation
Research Data Management
Research Data Management (RDM) is an active process and should be considered throughout the research lifecycle. Ethical principles such as FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reproducible) data sharing and the CARE principles are outlined. Data Management Plans and where to store research data are also addressed.Holt, Ilkay
ethical research data management, GLAM, data management plans, and research data management
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Presentation
Persistent identifiers
This talk outlines the basics of persistent identifiers and some of the activity the British Library is doing around persistent identifiers. How persistent identifiers such as DOIs and ORCiDs are used within research systems is described.Kotarski, Rachael
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Presentation
Repositories to facilitate open research
Description of the British Library's research repository service, how it works, what you can find there and the range of research undertaken at the British Library.Basford, Jenny
research, GLAM, and repository
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Presentation
Research and practice in heritage
The British Library is an example of an independent research organisation and the types of research that is undertaken in GLAM institutions is outlined. Research within GLAM institutions will feed into things like exhibitions, access, assessment and interpretation of the collections. Activities can include providing the metadata for collection items, preservation, conservation, development of...Kotarski, Rachael
PR Voices, SPARKLE, Practice based research, Independent Research Organisation, and GLAM
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Presentation
Opening up heritage research
This module covers the topics of understanding research landscape in GLAM organisations, benefits of openness for heritage research, basic concepts of open principles, value of repositories in GLAMs and the British Library’s Shared Research Repository as an example.Holt, Ilkay
repository, open scholarship, GLAM, and research
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Presentation
Getting started with heritage GLAM repositories
This module covers the topics of open principles and frameworks, policy and legal environments in running repositories, policy development, stakeholder engagement and technical overview of research repositories.Jevon, Graham ; Holt, Ilkay
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Presentation
Exploring the scholarly communications ecosystem
This module provides an overview on the topics of scholarly publishing, rights management and copyright, research data management, persistent identifiers, and digital preservation accompanied with a breakout activity to discuss challenges and prioritise topics for an online follow up session.Holt, Ilkay
scholarly publishing, scholarly communications, persistent identifiers, digital preservation, and research data management
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Presentation
Introduction
The presentations from this first webinar address some of the topics that attendees at the first in person event for the Repository Training Programme for Cultural Heritage Professionals raised. The topics covered in this webinar included: research activities in GLAM, benefits of research repositories, persistent identifiers, research data management, and...Holt, Ilkay
copyright, repository, persistent identifiers, rights management, GLAM, and research data management
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Presentation
Opening up heritage research: research in GLAMs
This session covers the topics of understanding the research landscape in GLAM organisations, benefits of openness for heritage research, basic concepts of open principles and frameworks.Holt, Ilkay
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Presentation
Opening up heritage research: open access to cultural heritage
This session covers the topics on role of repository infrastructure in open access to heritage research and positioning research repositories in an organisation including policy and development.Miles, Susan
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Presentation
Realising and expanding the benefits: Running a cultural heritage repository
This module covers the technical overview and requirements for running a cultural heritage repository including an overview of the British Library’s Shared Research Repository, platforms and software, content administration, technical features.Jevon, Graham
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Presentation
Opening up heritage research: research in GLAMs
This module covers the topics of understanding the research landscape in Galleries-Libraries-Archives-Museums (GLAMs), benefits of openness for heritage research and basic concepts of open principles. This session will help you to: Understand forms of research activities carried out in GLAMs Become familiar with the basics of open access Understand the...Holt, Ilkay
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Presentation
iDAH Programme
Dunster, Joanna
research funding, iDAH, and AHRC
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Presentation
Opening up heritage research: open access to cultural heritage
This module covers the topics of understanding research landscape in GLAM organisations, benefits of openness for heritage research, basic concepts of open principles, value of repositories in GLAMs and BL’s Shared Research Repository as an example.Miles, Susan
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Presentation
Realising and expanding the benefits of heritage GLAM repositories: open scholarship in practice
This module provides a case study of how a research repository can help an institution adhere to open scholarship principles.Jevon, Graham ; Ramsey, Nora
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Presentation
Realising and expanding the benefits of heritage GLAM repositories: running a cultural heritage repository
This module covers the practicalities of launching and maintaining a research repository. It will introduce different institutional repository options and highlight some of the key issues to consider, including a discussion of unique and persistent identifiers.Jevon, Graham ; Ramsey, Nora
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Blog post
Jane Austen and the Georgian Social Whirl of Bath
This blogpost introduces the findings of a Doctoral Fellowship jointly supervised by the British Library and the National Trust, about Jane Austen and Georgian Bath. The Fellowship is linked to National Trust work on the Bath Assembly Rooms, and the blog post situates the fellowship research in that wider contect....Edwards, Joanne
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Journal article
Great Doxology with Miaphysite Trisagion
The article contains the edition and study of three ostraca in the British Library (Ostracon 5878) which join with another fragment in the Metropolitan Museum, New York (P.Mon.Epiph. 607). The join of these pieces helps to date the British Library fragments to the turn of the 6th-7th centuries and assign...Toth, Peter
Monastery of Epiphanius, Liturgical ostraca, Apa Moses, Great Doxology, and Coptic liturgy
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Journal article
Abroad Among Our Kind: Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Spanish Civil War Love Poems
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Sylvia Townsend Warner and her partner Valentine Ackland arrived in Barcelona in the fall of 1936, two months after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. They had come to help with the relief operations being organized...Aguirre, Mercedes
Love Poems, Spain, and Civil War
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Presentation
Getting started with heritage GLAM repositories: Policy development and positioning research repositories
This session covers the topics on role of repository infrastructure in open access to heritage research and positioning research repositories in an organisation including policy and development.Miles, Susan
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Presentation
Getting started with heritage GLAM repositories: Role of repository infrastructure in open access to heritage research
This session covers topics on the role of repository infrastructure in open access to heritage research and positioning research repositories in an organisation including policy and development.Holt, Ilkay
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Presentation
Getting started with heritage GLAM repositories: policy development and positioning research repositories
This session covers topics on the role of repository infrastructure in open access to heritage research and positioning research repositories in an organisation including policy and development. This session will help you to: Understand the benefits of making GLAM collections openly available Understand the value of research repositories Understand policy...Miles, Susan
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Dataset
UK Doctoral Thesis Metadata from EThOS
The data in this collection comprises the bibliographic metadata for all UK doctoral theses listed in EThOS, the UK's national thesis service. We estimate the data covers around 98% of all PhDs ever awarded by UK Higher Education institutions, dating back to 1787. Thesis metadata from every PhD-awarding university in...British Library ; Rosie, Heather
higher education, student, UK, dissertations, PhD, theses, doctoral, ethos, thesis, and research
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Dataset
UK Doctoral Thesis Metadata from EThOS
This dataset has been superseded by a more recent version: https://doi.org/10.23636/rcm4-zk44. If you require access to an earlier version, please email openaccess@bl.uk, including the dataset title, date, and DOI in your request. The data in this collection comprises the bibliographic metadata for all UK doctoral theses listed in EThOS, the...British Library ; Rosie, Heather
higher education, dissertations, PhD, doctoral, and EThOS
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Conference paper (unpublished)
From digital to print: collecting Planet Divoc-91 and its paratexts
What happens when a digital comic has a new context as a print comic? Using the digital comic Planet Divoc-91 as a case study, this paper will examine the role that paratextual elements have in generating community engagement, whilst also contributing to reading experience. This paper will explore the implications...Gebhart, Thomas
paratexts, webcomics, digital comics, web archiving, and Non-Print Legal Deposit
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Dataset
Incunabula Printed Catalogue Dataset: Volumes 1-10 copy of github repository
This dataset includes the github repository used to derive catalogue entries from volumes 1-10 of the "Catalogue of books printed in the 15th century now at the British Museum" (know as BMC). The BMC was published between 1908-2007 and comprises detailed descriptions of the incunabula collection at the British Library....British Library
book history, metadata, catalogues, datasets, incunabula, early printed books, and early printing
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Software
Living-with-machines/MapReader: End of LwM
This release marks the end of the current funding for MapReader during the Living with Machines (LwM) project. @kasra-hosseini @andrewphilipsmith @rwood-97 @kmcdono2 @dcsw2 @kallewesterling @kasparvonbeelenHosseini, Kasra ; Wood, Rosie ; Smith, Andy ; McDonough, Katie ; Wilson, Daniel C. S. …
computer vision and maps
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Dataset
The Newspaper Press Directory (1846-1920) - enriched and structured version
Mitchell's Newspaper Press Directories contained an almost complete list of newspapers published in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. It was published regularly from 1846 onwards and provided a detailed description of the newspaper landscape over time. This version contains a structured, tabular representation of the directories (as CSV or Excel...C. Mitchell and Co. ; British Library
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Research report
Final report of the Doctoral Fellowship titled Creative Networks and Authors’ Houses: Links Between The British Library and National Trust
This report outlines the scope, findings and experience of the British Library and National Trust Doctoral Fellowship called Creative Networks and Authors’ Houses. Josip Martincic undertook a three-month placement to explore the networks and homes of George Bernard Shaw, Virginia Woolf and Rudyard Kipling. The overarching purpose of the fellowship...Martinčić, Josip
George Bernard Shaw, collaborative doctoral fellowship, British Library, National Trust, Virginia Woolf, and Rudyard Kipling
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Presentation
Getting started with heritage GLAM repositories: role of repository infrastructure in open access to heritage research
This session covers topics on the role of repository infrastructure in open access to heritage research and positioning research repositories in an organisation including policy and development. This session will help you to: Understand the benefits of making GLAM collections openly available Understand the value of research repositories Understand policy...Holt, Ilkay
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Research report
Enhanced curation: Interpreting the digital life of Andrea Levy and Will Self
This paper is based on the British Library doctoral placement project, ‘Developing an enhanced curation framework for contemporary hybrid archives’ (2022), which investigated the digital archives of two contemporary British writers, Andrea Levy and Will Self. It aimed to gain a deeper understanding of the writers' material life through close...Li, Xiaozhou
born-digital archives, literary archives, and hybrid archives
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Report
Archive of Tomorrow: Capturing public health discourse in the UK Web Archive
This report provides an overview of the Archive of Tomorrow project, a pilot project and partnership between four UK libraries—the National Library of Scotland, the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries, Cambridge University Library, and Edinburgh University Library. The project was funded by the Wellcome Trust in 2022-2023 with a budget...UK Legal Deposit Libraries
public health, research networks, web archiving, and metadata
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Commercial Break: Imagining new ownership models for cultural heritage institutions
This talk will explore several new and emerging models that represent alternatives to the status quo of libraries as customers of corporate products and services. Libraries, archives, and museums all over the world are creating new models for community ownership both through how they work together and in how they...Westin, Monica
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Collective action for driving the open science agenda in Africa and Europe
This talk discusses EIFL's work in Africa, Asia, and Europe regarding open science policies, strengthening repository developments, and skill-building initiatives. Community-driven efforts in Kenya, Serbia, Slovenia, and Malawi, are outlined, emphasising the role of collaboration for sustainability. A Wellcome-funded project in Africa to promote diamond open access also addressed challenges...Kuchma, Iryna
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Book chapter
Digital Comics and Critical Librarianship: What, Why and How: A Perspective from the UK
Digital comics are at the cutting edge of how imaginative, immediate, and emotionally engaging stories can be told in the twenty-first century. The creators of digital comics harness new and emerging technologies to create and distribute innovative forms of storytelling. The ways digital comics are created, published, and consumed means...Gebhart, Thomas
webcomics, critical librarianship, collection development, digital comics, and web archiving
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Research report
Surfacing the impact of international doctoral research: Working with the EThOS collection
This booklet presents the work of a research team from Durham University who have been working in partnership with the EThOS team at the British Library to build impact from the knowledge and research of UK doctoral theses, making them accessible and actionable for community organisations. Knowledge generated by doctoral...Montgomery, Catherine ; Stewart, Craig ; Poli, Francesca
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Other
Models for MapReader ACM SIGSPATIAL 2023 Geohumanities Workshop paper
Collection of fine-tuned models created during research published in Kasra Hosseini, Daniel C. S. Wilson, Kaspar Beelen, and Katherine McDonough. 2022. MapReader: a computer vision pipeline for the semantic exploration of maps at scale. In Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Humanities (GeoHumanities '22). Association for...Hosseini, Kasra ; Beelen, Kaspar ; McDonough, Katherine ; Wilson, Daniel C. S.
computational humanities, computer vision, maps, models, and image classification
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Dataset
Diachronic and diatopic word embeddings from newspapers digitised by the British Library (1830-1889): North and South England
Diachronic word embeddings (decade-level) trained with Word2Vec (via Gensim) on different geographic subcorpora of the Heritage Made Digital British and the Living with Machines historical newspaper collections: - North England (north.zip) - South England (south.zip) At the moment, for each subcorpus, Word2Vec models are available for each decade in the...Pedrazzini, Nilo ; McGillivray, Barbara
historical semantics, diachronic embeddings, late modern English, word embeddings, word vectors, word2vec, and diatopic embeddings
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Dataset
Decade-level Word2Vec models from automatically transcribed 19th-century newspapers digitised by the British Library (1800-1919)
Word embeddings trained on a 4.2-billion-word corpus of 19th-century British newspapers using Word2Vec and specific parameters. The embeddings are divided into periods of ten years each. Unlike those in this repository, these were not aligned and OCR errors skimmed from the vocabulary. See related GitHub repository for the full documentation:...Pedrazzini, Nilo
historical semantics, British newspapers, word embeddings, word vectors, word2vec, and Late Modern English
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Dataset
Language of Mechanisation: annotated historical newspaper articles
Datasets created through crowdsourcing tasks created on the Zooniverse crowdsourcing platform by the Living with Machines ‘language of mechanisation’ project team. Building on earlier work classifying machines by function, we asked volunteers on Zooniverse 'how did the word x change over time and place?' and presented them with options for... -
Book
Armorial blocks and tools specially cut for the British Museum Library Bindery
In 1866, the British Museum Library’s official bookbinder, Charles Tuckett junior, compiled a catalogue of motifs (created using bookbindings tools) which had been made for the bindery. Books formerly from the libraries of historic collectors were often decorated in a particular style, frequently featuring a coat of arms. When the...Marks, P. J M.
Arms blocks, Coat of arms, Armorial block, British Museum Library Bindery, Charles Tuckett junior, and Bookbinding tools
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Journal article
FAST the Inside Track: Where We Are, Where Do We Want to Be, and How Do We Get There?
This is an overview of the development of FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology) from its inception in the late 1990s, through its development and implementation to the work being undertaken by OCLC and the FAST Policy and Outreach Committee (FPOC) to develop and promote FAST. FPOC members explain how... -
Conference paper (published)
“Webcomics Archive? Now I'm Interested”: Comics Readers Seeking Information in Web Archives
There is a longstanding tradition of understanding information needs and interaction behavior across different user groups to inform the design of digital products and services. There is a gap in such research of comics readers, specifically how they seek and interact with the information and interfaces of web-based archives provided...Berube, Linda ; Makri, Stephann ; Cooke, Ian ; Priego, Ernesto ; Wisdom, Stella
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Journal article
Challenging legacies at the British Library
The British Library established a corporate Anti-Racism Project (2020) designed to encourage participation via six subgroups, with staff recommendations incorporated into “Enacting Change”, the Library's Race Equality Action Plan (2022). The research and recommendations of the Cataloguing and Metadata subgroup fed into a pilot project proposed as a proof of...Danskin, Alan
Caribbean, anti-racism, South Asia, Cataloguing, and Metadata
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Book chapter
The sociability of scientific knowledge exchange in British Farming, 1950-90
This is a single chapter from an edited collection that has the following abstract: In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, agricultural practices and rural livelihoods were challenged by changes such as commercialization, intensified global trade, and rapid urbanization. Planting Seeds of Knowledge studies the relationship between these agricultural...Horrocks, Sally ; Martin, John ; Merchant, Paul
agrciculture, food, and farming
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Journal article
Writing Milan and Turin in the Light of (Failed) Utopia: Luciano Bianciardi and Paolo Volponi
This article examines a series of novels by Italian writers, Luciano Bianciardi and Paolo Volponi, that capture the transformations brought about by the post-World War II economic growth in the urban-industrial society of Northern Italy. The analysis draws on utopia as, in Ruth Levitas’s words, a ‘desire for a better...Brecciaroli, Giulia
Paolo Volponi, Utopia/dystopia, Turin, Luciano Bianciardi, Literary Urban Studies, Milan, and post-war Italian literature
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Conference paper (unpublished)
(Re)investing in a national repository infrastructure for cultural heritage
Since 2018, the British Library (BL) has invested considerable resource in establishing the necessary infrastructure for a national repository service for cultural heritage organisations, using Samvera Hyku. This has entailed working closely with all known Hyku suppliers and developers, as well as collaborating with the University of Virginia on an...Basford, Jenny ; Holt, Ilkay ; Jevon, Graham ; Ramsey, Nora
open access, OR2023, and repository
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Report
Printed Books Selection and Binding Preparation Section at the British Museum / British Library. History and procedures
Historically, the Trustees of the Library always ensured that there were funds to repair and rebind the books in their care. The sums given varied and increased as new preservation and conservation techniques were devised. The latter included deacidifcation and lamination. Treatments were applied by the bindery located at the...King, Ed
lamination, service evaluation report , deacidification, Department of Printed Books, binding contracts, technical report, rebinding, preservation, and British Library Bindery
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Research report
Contextualising a digital photographic archive of Siberian Indigenous peoples: PhD placement report
This report covers work undertaken over six months (part-time) on the PhD placement ‘Contextualising a digital photographic archive of Siberian Indigenous peoples’. The work was carried out between October 2022 and March 2023 under the supervision of Dr Katya Rogachevskaia, Lead Curator for the British Library’s Slavonic and East European...Maslenova, Anna
visual narratives, photographic archive, ethnographic expeditions, Russian colonial practices, and indigenous peoples of Siberia
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Presentation
The Stein Dunhuang Collection: Unravelling its Provenance, history and contemporary significance in a decolonisation context
This talk delivered to British Library staff reported on Doumy's Coleridge Research Fellowship, which investigated the provenance of the Stein Dunhuang collection at the British Library. The talk discusses the research undertaken, key findings, and outputs from the project.Doumy, Mélodie
British Library, Dunhuang, decolonisation, Coleridge Research Fellowship, Silk Road, provenance, and Marc Aurel Stein
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Software
Hybrid Correspondence Network Processing Script
The Python code was developed to to interrogate the ways in which digital and analogue correspondence files (letters and e-mails) function within the Archive of Harold Pinter; reflecting upon what these patterns might mean for archivists, curators and researchers working with hybrid correspondence collections. This code is collection agnostic and...Mckean, Callum
Harold Pinter, data science, hybrid archives, and visualisations
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Journal article
Data Analysis and Network Visualisation as Tools for Curating Hybrid Correspondence Archives
This pilot project uses data analytics in Python and network analysis in Gephi to interrogate the ways in which digital and analogue correspondence files (letters and e-mails) function within the Archive of Harold Pinter; reflecting upon what these patterns might mean for archivists, curators and researchers working with hybrid correspondence...Mckean, Callum
visualisations, data science, hybrid archives, and Harold Pinter
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Dataset
Datasets for toponym recognition and disambiguation for nineteenth-century English newspapers
We present two datasets, one for the task of toponym recognition and one for the task of toponym disambiguation. The datasets are derived from the "Dataset for Toponym Resolution in Nineteenth-Century English Newspapers" (DOI: https://doi.org/10.23636/r7d4-kw08). The toponym recognition dataset consists of two JSON files (ner_fine_train.json and ner_fine_dev.json), whereas the toponym...Coll Ardanuy, Mariona ; Nanni, Federico
toponym disambiguation, nineteenth-century newspapers, named entity recognition, entity linking, toponym resolution, toponym recognition, and dataset
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Dataset
DeezyMatch training set for OCR
Optical character recognition (OCR) is the process of automatically transcribing text from images. The presence of OCR-induced errors in digitised text is a common problem in the digital humanities. OCR errors are usually due to the misrecognition of characters, such as "h" recognised as "b", or "c" recognised as "o".... -
Dataset
Incunabula Printed Catalogue Dataset: Volumes 1-10
This dataset includes the catalogue entries derived from volumes 1-10 of the "Catalogue of books printed in the 15th century now at the British Museum" (know as BMC). The BMC was published between 1908-2007 and comprises detailed descriptions of the incunabula collection at the British Library. The dataset was created...British Library
datasets, catalogues, early printing, book history, early printed books, metadata, and incunabula
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Dataset
Incunabula Printed Catalogue Dataset Metadata: Volumes 1-10
This dataset includes the combined catalogue entries derived from volumes 1-10 of the "Catalogue of books printed in the 15th century now at the British Museum" (know as BMC). The BMC was published between 1908-2007 and comprises detailed descriptions of the incunabula collection at the British Library. The dataset was...British Library
datasets, catalogues, early printing, incunabula, early printed books, metadata, and book history
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