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Evans, Jenny
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Selected edge painting on British Library printed books: A work in progress
Bookbindings were (and are) sometimes decorated via painting the edges of the leaves, usually but not exclusively, the fore edges of text blocks. The painting can be visible when the book is closed, or hidden beneath a layer of gold, when the edges have been gilt. This dataset covers examples...Marks, P.J.M.
bindings, painting under gilt, foreedge , fanned out leaves, fore-edge painting, foreedge paintings , fore-edge paintings, hidden fore edge paintings, fore-edge, and bookbindings
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Research report
UK Web Archive Annual Report April 2017- March 2018
The UK Web Archive (UKWA) collects websites by two distinct methods. Curators and other authorised people select individual targets (URLs) using the Annotation and Curation Tool (W3ACT). This selection is on-going throughout the year but is of relatively low volume (thousands of websites). In addition, UKWA conducts an ‘Annual Domain...UK Web Archive
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Journal article
A Dataset for Toponym Resolution in Nineteenth-Century English Newspapers
We present a new dataset for the task of toponym resolution in digitized historical newspapers in English. It consists of 343 annotated articles from newspapers based in four different locations in England (Manchester, Ashton-under-Lyne, Poole and Dorchester), published between 1780 and 1870. The articles have been manually annotated with mentions... -
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Beethoven Exhibition at the British Library
Ridgewell, Rupert
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Journal article
Pursuing the Percys: the original owners of the Percy Psalter-Hours
In 2019 the British Library acquired the Percy Hours, a late thirteenth-century book of hours from York. This acquisition reunited the manuscript with the Percy Psalter, acquired by the Library in 1990. Together they originally formed a single volume psalter-hours. The Percy Psalter-Hours is one of a small number of...Jackson, Eleanor
Psalter-hours, heraldry, psalter, social history, book of hours, manuscript, patronage, and York
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Investigating the Properties of Folded Parchment – A Preliminary Study
Parchment manuscripts form an important part of many historic collections. They are often found folded, with some displaying multiple fold patterns resulting from changing uses over their history. Parchment is a potentially fragile medium and folding can increase its susceptibility to damage, as well as hampering access and display. Treatment...Garside, Paul ; Dekeyser, Camille
humidification, folded parchment, FTIR-spectroscopy, and shrinkage temperature
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British Library Television News Programme-Level List
This list provides a programme-level record of all television news and current affairs programmes recorded by the British Library’s Broadcast News service between March 2010 and May 2022. All of the channels featured were receivable free-to-air in the UK and licensed by Ofcom. All of the programmes listed can be...British Library
television, news, and current affairs
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Research report
Alfred Cort Haddon 1898 Expedition (Torres Strait and British New Guinea) Cylinder Collection (C80) – Torres Strait Islands cylinders Research Document
This research document contains the results of historical research conducted on the Torres Strait Islands cylinders within the British Library’s Alfred Cort Haddon 1898 Expedition (Torres Strait and British New Guinea) Cylinder Collection (C80). This research was done as part of the True Echoes project between August 2019 and August... -
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Supporting documentation for A Literature Review of Palm Leaf Manuscript Conservation: Parts 1 and 2
Part 1: a historic overview, leaf preparation, materials and media, palm leaf manuscripts at the British Library and the common types of damage Part 2: historic and current conservation treatments, boxing and storage, religious and ethical issues, recommendations The closure of the British Library during the 2020-2021 Covid-19 pandemic allowed...