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The Stockton Examiner
The Stockton Examiner (1878-1879) was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines project.British Library
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The Cannock Chase Examiner
The Cannock Chase Examiner (1874-1877) was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines project.British Library
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Midland Examiner and Wolverhampton Times
Midland Examiner and Wolverhampton Times (1874-1878) was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines project.British Library
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Shropshire Examiner
Shropshire Examiner (1874-1877) was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines project.British Library
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South Staffordshire Examiner
South Staffordshire Examiner (1874) was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines project.British Library
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Forest of Dean Examiner
Forest of Dean Examiner (1873-1877) was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines project.British Library
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Cotton Factory Times
Cotton Factory Times (1885-1889, 1891-1901) was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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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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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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Journal article
A Gold Girdle Book and its Connection with Anne Boleyn
The miniature prayer book with the shelfmark Stowe MS. 956 has long attracted attention because of a story associating it with Anne Boleyn. According to an oft-repeated account, this tiny girdle book with a gold metalwork binding was handed by Anne to one of her maids of honour on the...Jackson, Eleanor
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Blog post
Character, costumes and comedy: Pantomime posters in the Evanion collection
This blog post explores three pantomime posters within the Evanion collection at the British Library. The blog traces developments in Victorian pantomimes such as costumes, comedy, elaborate sets and celebrity appearances.Solomons, Amy
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Blog post
Star Baker or Avid Taste-Tester? – Exploring Evanion’s 19th-century baking ephemera collection
Developments in baking products in nineteenth-century Britain made baking easier, quicker and cheaper. Using advertisements from the Evanion collection, this blog looks at the revolution of the pudding in Victorian Britain.Solomons, Amy
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Conference paper (published)
Entities, Dates, and Languages: Zero-Shot on Historical Texts with T0
In this work, we explore whether the recently demonstrated zero-shot abilities of the T0 model extend to Named Entity Recognition for out-of-distribution languages and time periods. Using a historical newspaper corpus in 3 languages as test-bed, we use prompts to extract possible named entities. Our results show that a naive...De Toni, Francesco ; Akiki, Christopher ; De La Rosa, Javier ; Fourrier, Clémentine ; Manjavacas, Enrique …
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Journal article
AI training resources for GLAM: a snapshot
We take a snapshot of current resources available for teaching and learning AI with a focus on the Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) community. The review was carried out in 2021 and 2022. The review provides an overview of material we identified as being relevant, offers a description of... -
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The Legacy of Slavery: A 19th Century Newspaper and 21st Century Racial Inequity
This blog post introduces a newly digitised collection of 18th/19th century Barbadian newspapers and commented on the slavery related content of these newspapers within the context of 21st century racism.Jevon, Graham
newspapers, Christianity, resistance, Barbados, racism, empire, Americas, colonialism, Caribbean, slavery, digital images, and British Empire
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Blog post
What’s in a name? The Sovietisation of the Mongolian language and the Challenges of Reversal
This blog post introduces a newly digitised collection of Mongolian newspapers and discusses how the script of the text within these newspapers highlights issues relating to the Sovietisation of the Mongolian language.Jevon, Graham
newspapers, Russia, Central Asia, Mongolia, digitisation, China, writing, digital images, and Russian revolution
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Research report
East and Southeast Asians in the UK Collection Scoping Document
The aim of this special collection is twofold: 1) to capture and record the recent anti-racist political mobilisation by people of East and Southeast Asian ethnicities and backgrounds in the UK; 2) to preserve the digital traces of the history and lived experiences of these diverse and dynamic individuals and...Ma, Xiao
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Learning object
Examining sports history through digitised & born digital resources
This workshop was held on November 11, 2022 as part of the Sporting Irish Lives conference hosted by Ulster University at their Belfast campus. It was aimed at postgraduate students and early career researchers that study the topic of sport. The running time for this session was 70 minutes so...Byrne, Helena
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Presentation
WARCnet Special Report - An overview of Skills, Tools & Knowledge Ecologies in Web Archive Research
This is a recording of a presentation for the Aarhus Closing Conference 2022, 18 October 2022 on the WARCnet Special Report, ‘An overview of Skills, Tools & Knowledge Ecologies in Web Archive Research’ with the accompanying slides. It was presented by Sharon Healy, Helena Byrne, Nicola Bingham and Katharina Schmid....Healy, Sharon ; Byrne, Helena ; Bingham, Nicola ; Schmid, Katharina
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Research report
Skills, Tools, and Knowledge Ecologies in Web Archive Research
This study is part of a collaborative project by researchers from Maynooth University, the British Library, the International Internet Preservation Consortium, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, and the University of Siegen. The research team are all members of Web ARChive studies network researching web domains and events (WARCnet). The study focuses on individuals...Healy, Sharon ; Byrne, Helena ; Schmid, Katharina ; Bingham, Nicola ; Holownia, Olga …
web archiving and WARCnet
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Book
Remote Capture: Digitising Documentary Heritage in Challenging Locations
This is a must-read how-to guide if you are planning to embark on a scholarly digitisation project. Tailored to the specifications of the British Library’s EAP (Endangered Archives Programme) projects, it is full of sound, practical advice about planning and carrying out a successful digitisation project in potentially challenging conditions.... -
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Italian Futurist Books (1909-1944) at the British Library
The Futurist book was instrumental in the circulation of Futurist ideas and represents a very experimental phase in book production, paving the way for the book object, the artist’s book, advertising and design. The purpose of this article is to produce a survey of the Italian Futurist collections held at...Mirabella, Valentina
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Conference paper (published)
Design Patterns in Digital Preservation: Understanding Information Flows
This paper proposes a framework to help understand the different ways digital preservation goals can achieved, and the contextual factors these choices depend on. This is done through a worked example: three different design patterns representing the three possible modes of archival information flow, each illustrated with realistic examples and...Jackson, Andrew N
OAIS, design patterns, community, risk management, and innovation
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Poster (published)
Quality Assurance for Born-Digital Interactive Narratives: The New Media Writing Prize Collection as a case study
The UK Legal Deposit Libraries have been researching and building experimental collections of emerging formats for the past five years, including curated collections of web-based interactive narratives in the UK Web Archive. The New Media Writing Prize Collection is one of such collections, created using web archiving tools to capture...Rossi, Giulia Carla ; Pyke, Tegan
innovation, resilience, quality assurance, New Media Writing Prize, digital interactive narratives, web archiving, and emerging formats
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Journal article
The London Stage 1660-1800: A Short History, Retrospective Anatomy, and Projected Future
The London Stage, 1660-1800, a day-by-day performance calendar spanning 140 years, was for its time a magnificent achievement published in eleven volumes (1960-1968 [recte 1970]) running to 1058 pages of introductory matter and 7182 pages of text, plus 672 pages of volume indexes. A one-volume cumulative index compiled from scratch...Hume, Robert D.
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Research report
Scoping Skills and Developing Training Programme for Managing Repository Services in Cultural Heritage Organisations
The objectives of this study are to frame open research skills and competencies for cultural heritage professionals by identifying their needs and requirements, and to design a training programme that will be easily utilised by those cultural heritage organisations (and specifically those that are IROs) seeking to establish or expand...Holt, Ilkay ; Miles, Susan ; Marples, Alice ; Kaur, Kirrn ; Cope, Jez …
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Closing remarks to Open and Engaged conference 2022.
Rachael's closing remarks summing up the discussion of the 2022 Open and Engaged event.Kotarski, Rachael
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Journal article
Discovering the local in national cultural heritage collections. How web maps can help the UK public engage with their ‘own places’
Identity is a critical influence on the public’s engagement with cultural heritage. This article emphasises the role of geographical scale in this relationship examining how the presentation of local heritage can foster meaningful engagement with collections. The geographical information embedded in digital collections – such as where objects were made... -
Research report
Intersectional Taxonomies: Current to Future Use (V.2)
The methodology below has enabled the author to examine the applied structures of metadata currently employed throughout the Repository Shared layer, as well as with in each partner’s live environment, as well as gain a look and feel of the current UX experience of the Research Repository. 1. Page visits...Kelleher, Ashley
shared repository service, taxonomies, cultural heritage, and GLAM
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Research report
Intersectional Taxonomies: Current and Future Practice (V.1)
This research project has been divided into two phases of completion, the first resulting in V.1 of a Research deck to be shared on Monday, 11 July, and the second, with a written Project report, including Literature review and Bibliography, informing V.2 of the deck to be delivered Monday, the...Kelleher, Ashley
GLAM, shared repository service, taxonomies, and cultural heritage
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Shared Research Repository Service and competency framework for cultural heritage professionals
This presentation covers an overview of the British Library’s Shared Research Repository Service to make GLAM research discoverable and a proposed training programme for GLAM professionals to manage repository services as a result of a recent scoping report conducted by the British Library. British Library’s Shared Research Repository Service features...Basford, Jenny ; Holt, Ilkay
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Climate change approach at the British Library
Maja outlines the initiatives the British Library is taking to reach Net Zero including infrastructure issues to reduce emissions. Collection initiatives include the UK Web Archive curated Collection on Climate Change, Voices of Science, Contemporary Science Collections Guide on Climate Change and highlighting the use of nineteenth century maps to...Maricevic, Maja
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Conference paper (unpublished)
“Forever or 5 years”: Sustainability planning for Digital Research Infrastructure for Arts and Humanities
This short presentation will focus on the requirements for sustainability planning for Digital Research Infrastructure for Arts and Humanities, and more specifically for the federated repositories & data services’ ecosystem as part of the AHRC programme “Infrastructure for Digital Innovation and Curation in Arts and Humanities” (iDAH). From technical choices,...Sichani, Anna Maria
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Climate justice at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Founded in 1670, the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh delivers world-leading plant science, conservation and education programmes. The Garden’s mission is to ‘Explore, Conserve and Explain the World of Plants for a Better Future’ and the new five year strategy, ’Responding to the Biodiversity Crisis and Climate Emergency’, was launched in...Mitchell, Lorna
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Valuing the breadth and depth of skills in the research library
Libraries are centres of technical and specialist expertise, the skills their staff can contribute to the wider organisation and as partners in research have been overlooked. This talk follows on from the RLUK-AHRC event The Technician Commitment and the role of research and academic libraries as centres of technical and...Knowles, Claire
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Journal article
The New Media Writing Prize Special Collection
This article introduces the New Media Writing Prize (NMWP) special collection (https://www.webarchive.org.uk/en/ukwa/collection/2912) created on behalf of the six UK Legal Deposit Libraries and hosted by the UK Web Archive. It is divided into two sections, presenting the perspectives of the archivists and the organizers of the prize respectively. The first...Rossi, Giulia Carla ; Pyke, Tegan ; Pope, James ; Skains, R. Lyle ; Wisdom, Stella
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Research report
Library Dispersal and Acquisition: Links Between the British Library and National Trust
In September 2021 the first round of collaborative Doctoral Fellowships was announced by the British Library and the National Trust. The first round was to consist of two fellowships: “‘Creative Networks and Authors’ Houses’: Links Between the British Library and National Trust” and “Library Dispersal and Acquisition: Links Between the...Blair, Laura
Ham House, National Trust, Belton House, Blickling Hall, British Library, collaborative Doctoral Fellowship, acquisitions, Dyrham Park, dispersals, Oxburgh Hall, and Kedleston Hall
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Journal article
Facts, Fictions, and Fascism: A Life of Actor Mary Taviner (1909-1972)
Despite an acting career spanning both silent film and talkies, as well as London and regional theatre, Mary Taviner was not a household name. In fact she attracted more press coverage for her political views, being an active fascist from the 1930s to the 1960s. She fell in with, and...St John-McAlister, Michael
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Research report
New Approaches to Colonial History using British Library Resources: Reflections from a Three-Month Placement
In this report, I hope to have conveyed a sense of the vast potential for exploring the history and legacies of European colonialism through the British Library’s collections. The material from colonial contexts ranges from maps and stamps to Endangered Archives sources and rare ephemera. These sources do not just...Hanna, Rory
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Journal article
Sir Hans Sloane’s Books: Seventy Years of Research
The library of Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753), became one of the foundations of the British Museum, but was dispersed among other collections within the Museum, and for over 250 years it has not been possible to view it as a whole. The Sloane Printed Books Project aims to provide a...Walker, Alison
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Conference paper (published)
Exploring Software, Tools and Methods used in Web Archive Research
This paper is one part of a larger research project, titled, Web Archives - Researcher Skills and Tools (WARST). In this poster we focus on the data from the WARST study which examines the software, tools and methods used in the web archive research lifecycle.Schmid, Katharina ; Healy, Sharon ; Byrne, Helena
web archiving, web archive research, web archive users, and web archive creators
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Presentation
Identifiers for Practice Research
Evans, Jenny
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Dataset
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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Dataset
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...