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Digitised Books - Images identified as Plates. c. 1528 - c. 1900. JPG
The dataset comprises c. 385,237 images identified as 'Plates' from the British Library's Flickr Commons collections, dating between c. 1528 – c. 1900. The images were algorithmically gathered from 49,455 digitised books, equating to 65,227 volumes (25+ million pages), published between c. 1510 - c. 1900; Plates have currently been...British Library ; British Library Labs
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Journal article
A Hiatus in the Cutting of Buddhist Caves in the Western Deccan
This article places the expansion of Buddhist monasteries in the Western Deccan in its wider context, examining how social, political and economic forces might have impacted on the tempo of Buddhist cave cutting. A framework for dating the caves is outlined and a hiatus in their construction during the first...Rees, Gethin
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Theatrical playbills from Britain and Ireland
The dataset comprises 264 volumes of digitised theatrical playbills published between 1660 – 1902 (mostly 19th century) from England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Digitised from the British Library's physical collection of over 500 volumes of playbills. The dataset in Portable Document Format (PDF). The playbills cover theatres in Bath (Royal),...British Library Labs ; Kirk, Tanya
singlesheet, playbill, and playbills
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Book chapter
Mapping the Jewish Communities of the Byzantine Empire using GIS
The purpose of this paper is to outline the methodology used to map, for the first time, the Jewish communities of the Byzantine Empire. The project Mapping the Jewish Communities of the Byzantine Empire enables specialists, general scholars and indeed the public at large to browse web maps of the...Rees, Gethin ; de Lange, Nicholas ; Panayotov, Alexander
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Research report
Academic Books and their Future. A Report to the AHRC and the British Library
The aim in this report is to provide an account of perspectives from three key stakeholder groups—publishers, libraries, and intermediaries in the supply chain for academic books—and to highlight some key issues that arise from those different perspectives. A central set of perspectives is of course missing here, that of...Jubb, Michael
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Dataset
Digitised Quarterly Lists XML and Metadata
Two Centuries of Indian Print 1867-1947. The files in this dataset are derived from the British Library’s collection of bound volume Quarterly Lists: printed catalogue records of Indian books published quarterly and by province of British India between 1867 and 1947. The dataset comprises text from the collection of digitised...Derrick, Tom