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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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