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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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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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National Life Stories Annual Review 2022-23
An overview of the work of National Life Stories in 2022. Includes a round-up of 'An Oral History of Farming, Land Management and Conservation in Post-War Britain', the launch of new web resources, and an article on the journey of the life story interview.National Life Stories
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Newsletter
National Life Story Collection Newsletter 1
An update on the work of the National Life Story Collection (now National Life Stories) in winter 1998-1999. Contains focus columns on 'Architects' Lives' and the early stages of 'Book Trade Lives'.National Life Stories
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National Life Story Collection Newsletter 2
An update on the work of the National Life Story Collection (now National Life Stories) in summer 1999. Features an article on the launch of 'The Century Speaks: Millennium Oral History Project' (now archived at the British Library as 'The Millennium Memory Bank'). Also includes articles on 'Food: From Source...National Life Stories
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National Life Story Collection Newsletter 3
An update on the work of the National Life Story Collection (now National Life Stories) in winter 1999-2000. Includes a reflection from Sir Dominic Cadbury on recording his life story for 'Food: From Source to Salespoint' and a conference review from Rob Perks on 'Taking Testimonies Forward: Oral Histories of...National Life Stories
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National Life Story Collection Newsletter 4
An update on the work of the National Life Story Collection (now National Life Stories) in summer 2000. Includes a reflection from Lord Asa Briggs on the importance of oral history, and a focus article on 'Crafts Lives'.National Life Stories
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National Life Story Collection Newsletter 5
An update on the work of the National Life Story Collection (now National Life Stories) in winter 2000. Articles summarise the progress of various NLSC projects, including the launch of 'Lives in the Oil Industry'.National Life Stories
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National Life Story Collection Newsletter 6
An update on the work of the National Life Story Collection (now National Life Stories) in summer 2001. General updates on ongoing NLSC projects, plus the announcement of two new projects: 'An Oral History of the Post Office' and a corporate oral history of design and branding consultancy Wolff Olins.National Life Stories
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National Life Story Collection Newsletter 7
An update on the work of the National Life Story Collection (now National Life Stories) in winter 2001. Includes updates on 'An Oral History of the Post Office' and the corporate oral history of Wolff Olins.National Life Stories
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National Life Story Collection Newsletter 8
An update on the work of the National Life Story Collection (now National Life Stories) in summer 2002. Includes updates on ongoing NLSC projects, includng 'Artists' Lives', 'Food: From Source to Salespoint' and 'Book Trade Lives'.National Life Stories
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National Life Story Collection Newsletter 9
An update on the work of the National Life Story Collection (now National Life Stories) in summer 2003. Includes updates on in-progresss NLSC projects. An update on the work of the National Life Story Collection (now National Life Stories) in summer 2003. Feature articles take a look at 'An Oral...National Life Stories
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National Life Story Collection Newsletter 10
An update on the work of the National Life Story Collection (now National Life Stories) in winter 2004-2005. NLSC celebrates 15 years of 'Artists' Lives', and offers updates on other ongoing projects including 'Crafts Lives', 'Food: From Source to Salespoint' and 'An Oral History of the Wine Trade'.National Life Stories
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Research report
National Life Stories Annual Review 2006-07
An overview of the work of National Life Stories in 2006. A special edition looking at 'Food: From Source to Salespoint' from various perspectives.National Life Stories
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National Life Stories Annual Review 2005-06
An overview of the work of National Life Stories in 2005. Features a focus on 'Artists' Lives', plus a partner's perspective on 'An Oral History of the Post Office' and the CD publication that arose from it, 'Speeding the Mail'.National Life Stories
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National Life Stories Annual Review 2007-08
An overview of the work of National Life Stories in 2007. This edition takes an in-depth look at 'Book Trade Lives', accompanied by shorter articles on 'Tesco: An Oral History', projects on Haemophilia and HIV, and extracts from an interview with Paul Thompson and Jennifer Wingate reflecting on twenty years...National Life Stories
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National Life Stories Annual Review 2008-09
An overview of the work of National Life Stories in 2008. Spotlight articles include updates on 'Authors' Lives', 'An Oral History of the Courtaulds at Eltham Palace' and 'The Legacy of the English Stage Company', and an article from Mary Stewart on 'Interviewees, their families and the archive'.National Life Stories
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National Life Stories Annual Review 2009-10
An overview of the work of National Life Stories in 2009. Rob Perks examines the legacy of George Ewart Evans, plus feature articles on 'An Oral History of the Water Industry' and twenty years of 'Artists' Lives'.National Life Stories
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National Life Stories Annual Review 2010-11
An overview of the work of National Life Stories in 2010. Contains a feature article on the impact of the digital revolution on oral history at the British Library. Articles from project interviewers look at video oral history, gendered cultures of science, and the interviewee's perspective on recording a life...National Life Stories
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National Life Stories Annual Review 2011-12
An overview of the work of National Life Stories in 2011. 'Crafts Lives' celebrates its 100th interview, plus reflective articles from interviewees, interviewers, users and cataloguers.National Life Stories
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National Life Stories Annual Review 2012-13
An overview of the work of National Life Stories in 2012. A look back on twenty-five years of NLS, plus reflections and perspectives from interviewees.National Life Stories
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National Life Stories Annual Review 2013-14
An overview of the work of National Life Stories in 2013. NLS interviewers recount significant moments in interviews they have recorded, plus reflections from interviewees and project advisors on their contributions to NLS projects.National Life Stories
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National Life Stories Annual Review 2014-15
An overview of the work of National Life Stories in 2014. A special issue celebrating two of NLS's longest running projects, 'Architects' Lives' and 'Artists' Lives'.National Life Stories
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National Life Stories Annual Review 2017-18
An overview of the work of National Life Stories in 2017. Includes sections on Listener Perspectives, the use of interviews in exhibitions, and the public profile of NLS. Also features a reflective article compiled by Dr Paul Merchant on key 'turning points' in life story interviews.National Life Stories
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National Life Stories Annual Review 2018-19
An overview of the work of National Life Stories in 2018. Includes articles exploring the various ways in which users listen to and engage with NLS interviews, including a spotlight on the new 'Voices of art' web resource.National Life Stories
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National Life Stories Annual Review 2015-16
An overview of the work of National Life Stories in 2015. Various authors contribute articles to a section entitled 'In defence of the long interview', plus features on the inaugural NLS Goodison Fellowship, science and religion, and using interviews in exhibitions.National Life Stories
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National Life Stories Annual Review 2016-17
An overview of the work of National Life Stories in 2016. This special edition of the Annual Review reflects on NLS at thirty, looking back on three decades of life story interviewing by the charity.National Life Stories
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National Life Stories Annual Review 2019-20
An overview of the work of National Life Stories in 2019. Contains a series of articles from NLS staff and affiliates on the topic of 'Sharing the collections: going public with life story recordings', which explore the use of oral history interviews in exhibitions, broadcasts, podcasting and on the web.National Life Stories
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National Life Stories Annual Review 2020-21
An overview of the work of National Life Stories in 2020. Features updates on current projects, plus articles from project partners and reflections on interviewing during a pandemic.National Life Stories
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National Life Stories Annual Review 2021-22
An overview of the work of National Life Stories in 2021. Contains updates on NLS projects, with feature articles on 'Voices of Cartier's English Art Works Workshop' and the new web resouce 'Voices of British theatre design'.National Life Stories
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Research report
An Oral History of the Electricity Supply Industry in the UK Final Report
The end of project report for the National Life Stories oral history project An Oral History of the Electricity Supply Industry in the UK, summarising the findings and outcomes of the project.National Life Stories
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Research report
Finding very particular material in oral history collections: a research toolkit and user journey
This research toolkit and user journey offers practical suggestions for finding ‘difficult to find’ material in archived interview collections. Written by Paul Merchant as part of a collaboration between National Life Stories and the Understanding Unbelief programme at the University of Kent, funded by the John Templeton Foundation. The toolkit provides useful tips for searching the Sound...National Life Stories
catalogue, SAMI, sound and moving image, oral history, and National Life Stories
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Conference paper (published)
MapReader: a computer vision pipeline for the semantic exploration of maps at scale
We present MapReader, a free, open-source software library written in Python for analyzing large map collections. MapReader allows users with little computer vision expertise to i) retrieve maps via web-servers; ii) preprocess and divide them into patches; iii) annotate patches; iv) train, fine-tune, and evaluate deep neural network models; and...Hosseini, Kasra ; Wilson, Daniel C. S. ; Beelen, Kaspar ; McDonough, Katherine
maps and ordnance survey
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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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Journal article
A Survey of the Art Works Connected to Adam Gumpelzhaimer with Revelations about his _Compendium musicae_
This study contains the first detailed survey of the art works connected to the influential Augsburg _Kantor_, composer, teacher and music theorist Adam Gumpelzhaimer (1559–1625) and demonstrates that they are much more plentiful and widespread than previously realized. For instance, this survey examines nineteen portraits of Gumpelzhaimer whereas only four...Charteris, Richard
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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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Dataset
Review of Information Studies Courses in Higher Education for Web Archive Provision
This project reviewed the curriculum of information studies postgraduate courses in a number of countries across Europe. The curriculum for Library Studies, Archival Studies, Record Management and Digital Curation/Preservation and Digital Humanities were reviewed to see if there was any reference to web archiving. As these web pages were reviewed... -
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Sir Robert Knolles and the Patronage of the Carmelite Missal (Add. MSS.29704-5, 44892): Assessing the Visual Evidence
This article reviews the question of who patronized the London 'reconstructed' Carmelite Missal (Add. MSS. 29704-5, 44892). This has been raised before, and Sir Robert Knolles (d. 1407), a major patron of London Whitefriars, suggested. However, his connection to the Missal has not been examined in any detail. Through consideration...Collins, Alexander
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Samuel Doody and his Books
The title page inscriptions 'J. Doody' or 'John Doody' in several volumes held in the Sloane Printed Books collection, have typically been taken as indicating ownership by either John Doody (1616-1680) or John Doody (1687-1753), his grandson. In fact, I suggest that these items found their way to Sloane from...Thorley, David
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The 'Continuation' of the Thomason Tracts? The British Museum's 'Political Tracts' Series of Pamphlets Relating to English Political History, 1542–1807
This article examines the history, scope and provenance of the 'Political Tracts' series of 3000 early modern pamphlets that was assembled by the British Museum c. 1790-1807, during the so-called 'synthetical arrangement', when the library of printed books was reorganized along subject-based lines. The series was designed as a repository...Taylor, Edward
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'Everything Curious': Samuel Hieronymus Grimm and Sir Richard Kaye
The British Library's Manuscript Collections contain a wealth of British topographical drawings which reflect the collecting instincts of antiquarians with a passion for recording, in word and image, the urban and rural landscapes around them. One such collector was the ecclesiastic and baronet Sir Richard Kaye, who recorded his thoughts...Dolman, Brett
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William Plate, an Unknown Acquaintance of Karl Marx at the British Museum: A Biographical Sketch
Though much has been written on Marx's association with the British Museum, the circumstances of his admission to that institution have remained undocumented. A recent find in the British Museum Archives throws some light on the subject, and reveals for the first time the name of the remarkable gentleman who...Henderson, Bob
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'A Poet Given to Compulsive Self-Revision': Reflections on Walt Whitman, Hypertext, and the 1855 Edition of Leaves of Grass
A discussion of the iconic first (1855) edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, of which the British Library holds a rare early copy, and its place in the author's literary development. Following the sesquicentenial anniversary of the work's publication, the experience of reading this celebrated volume in print is...Hayes, Dorian
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'Peculiar Circumstances': Catholic chaplains of the Victorian British Army in India
Documents from the Indian Office Records paint a picture of the employment and conditions of Catholic chaplains in the British Army in India, chiefly among the Irish regiments and the Indian Labour Corps (previously known as coolies). Despite opposition from the Protestant Alliance, a live-and-let-live policy was largely followed.Mulvihill, Margaret
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'One of the Most Remarkable Things in London': A Visit to the Lord Treasurer's Library in 1713 by Samuel Molyneux
Between December 1712 and April 1713 Samuel Molyneux (1689-1728) witnessed at first hand some of the finest antiquarian collections in London, Oxford and Cambridge. For the benefit of his learned uncle he described what he saw in seven meticulously written letters, later transcribed into a copy-book and now held in...Holden, Paul
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'I Have Neither Interest nor Eloquence Sufficient to Prevaile': The Duke of Shrewsbury and the Politics of Succession during the Reign of Anne
On 13 April 1710 Queen Anne deprived the marquess of Kent of the office of lord chamberlain and appointed in his stead Charles Talbot, duke of Shrewsbury. Many have seen in this event the opening salvo in Robert Harley's assault on the ministry of the duumvirs, Godolphin and Marlborough, which...Eagles, Robin
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'The Most Important Books which I Would Strongly Recommend to Acquire': Petr Kropotkin and Vladimir Burtsev in Correspondence with the British Museum Library
The community of Russian émigré intellectuals who settled in London in the 1880s and the 1890s continued their scholarly and revolutionary activities in England, congregating around the British Museum. Two leading figures, Prince Petr Kropotkin (1842-1921) and Vladimir Burtsev (1862-1942), made donations to the Library and wrote to the Library’s...Rogatchevskaia, Ekaterina
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The Identification of a Print Study for a Woodcut in Hieronymus Köler’s Album Amicorum in the British Library
A coloured woodcut portrait of Mikolaj [Nicholas] Krzysztof Radziwill (known as Sierotka, 'The Orphan') (1549-1616) is included in the album amicorum compiled c. 1563 by Hieronymus Köler of Nuremberg (BL, Egerton MS. 1184). An uncoloured version of the portrait also occurs in a volume of Greek poems by Martinus Crusius,...Letkiewicz, Ewa
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'In this signe thou shalt ouercome hem alle': Visual Rhetoric and Yorkist Propaganda in Lydgate's Fall of Princes (Harl. MS. 1766)
With its much abridged text and impressive visual scheme, Harl. MS. 1766 (c. 1450-60) is unique amongst the extant manuscripts of Lydgate’s Fall of Princes (c. 1431-38/39). This paper identifies and explores a rhetoric of kingship developed by the rearranged text and amplified through the design of the visual scheme....Pittaway, Sarah
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'I am sending herewith' – First World War Ephemera at the British Library
This article explores two guard books containing First World War ephemera (shelfmark Tab.11748.aa.4) held at the British Library that were catalogued as part of a PhD placement during the summer of 2016. It examines the acquisition of ephemera during the war, what the collection held at the British Library comprises...Foster, Ann-Marie
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