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Catalogue of Burmese Printed Books in the India Office Library
The India Office Library’s Burmese printed books, numbering some 2,800 works, constitute one the largest collections in the West and include many representative examples of Burmese writing from the early nineteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century. They are thus of special value and interest for students, scholars,...Whitbread, Kenneth
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Catalogue of the Pāli printed books in the India Office Library
The present catalogue includes all the Pali texts and translations from the Pali, whether in Sinhalese, Burmese, Devanagari, Thai, Bengali or romanised scripts, held by the India Office Library. (Burmese nissaya books, Pali texts in which each phrase is followed by its Burmese translation, are included in a separate catalogue...Raper, T. C. H.
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Catalogue of the Burney Parabaiks in the India Office Library with an appendix by Evans Lewin, Patricia Herbert and D. K. Wyatt listing the Burney Papers in the Library of the Royal Commonwealth Society
This is the third volume in the British Academy’s Oriental Documents Series dealing with documents preserved in the India Office Library and Records, and the first to be published on the Committee’s behalf by the British Library. Responsibility for the administration and management of the India Office Library and Records...Blackmore, Thaung
Myanmar, Henry Burney, folding books, and Burma
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Collaborative Historical Research in the Age of Big Data
Living with Machines is the largest digital humanities project ever funded in the UK. The project brought together a team of twenty-three researchers to leverage more than twenty-years' worth of digitisation projects in order to deepen our understanding of the impact of mechanisation on nineteenth-century Britain. In contrast to many...Ahnert, Ruth ; Griffin, Emma ; Ridge, Mia ; Tolfo, Giorgia
digital humanities, British history, multidisciplinarity, digital history, and nineteenth century
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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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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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United States and Canadian Holdings in the British Library Newspaper Library
A guide to historic US and Canadian newspapers held in print and on microform. Titles are listed alphabetically and are also indexed by state/province and town.Kemble, Jean ; Das, Pam
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The American Civil Rights Movement: A Guide to Materials in the British Library
This guide includes coverage of phases of the movement, civil rights organisations, participants in the movement, and the Federal Government, alongside a section organised by States.Kemble, Jean
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A chronological check-list of works held in the British Library in or about the Eastern Algonquian languages, 1643-1851
Covers the British Library's early eastern Algonquian language books.Edwards, Adrian S.
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A chronological checklist of works held at the British Library in or about the Northern Iroquoian Languages, 1545-1900
Covers the British Library's antiquarian materials in or about Northern Iroquoian languages.Edwards, Adrian S.
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United States government policies toward Native Americans, 1787-1990: A Guide to Materials in the British Library
This guide explores topics related to interactions between the US government and Native Americans, covering periods of conflict, segregation, removal and assimilation, through to the rights campaigns of the 1960s and policies of self-determination.Whittaker, David J.
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American women in the twentieth century: A Selective Guide to Materials in the British Library
A bibliographic guide providing an introduction to the lives of American women in the twentieth century, covering most aspects of women’s experience and culture, including education, work, family life, politics, ethnicity, and sexuality.Kemble, Jean
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‘For Myself, For My Children, For Money’: Selective Biographies Of Early American Women Writers
Select biographies of American women writers who published single volumes under their own name by 1850.Petrovic, Jean
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The American City in the Twentieth Century: A Selective Guide to Materials in the British Library
A select guide to monographs on the American city in the twentieth century, covering city government, crime and urban unrest, education, housing and African Americans; works on particular geographic regions and individual major American cities.Petrovic, Jean
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The United States and the 1930s: A Selective Guide to Materials in the British Library
This selective guide to material on America in the 1930s includes coverage of government and politics, economics, cultural and intellectual history and foreign relations as well as section organised by region.Sharp Wells, Anne
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The Anglo-American 'special relationship' during the Second World War: A Selective Guide to Materials in the British Library
This selective guide focuses on the high-level diplomatic and military relations between the US and the UK between 1939 and 1945. It also covers the wartime alliance with the Soviet Union and touches on relationships with other allies.Sharp Wells, Anne
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The United States and the Vietnam War: A Selective Guide to Materials at the British Library
It would be difficult to overstate the impact on the United States of the war in Vietnam. Not only did it expose the limits of U.S. military power and destroy the consensus over post-World War II foreign policy, but it acted as a catalyst for enormous social, cultural and political...Kemble, Jean ; Sarvia, Illa
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An Era of Change. Contemporary UK-US-West European Relations: A Bibliography of Materials held at the British Library
A guide to works concerning relationships between the UK, US and Western Europe at the end of the Cold War, covering politics, economics and strategic relations.David and Mary Eccles Centre for American Studies ; Kemble, Jean
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United States Immigration, 1941-2001: A Selective Guide to Materials in the British Library
A select guide to monographs on immigration to the United States between 1941 and 2001. Topics covered include work, illegal immigration, education, and public opinion. There are sections on specific immigrant groups and geographic breakdown by state (although not all states are represented).Kemble, Jean
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U.S. Politics and the Media: A Selective Guide to Materials at the British Library
During the past fifty years an on-going media revolution has transformed political communication in the United States. Yet, despite potential access to political information being at an all-time high, many observers believe that the culture of ‘infotainment’ is preventing a corresponding increase in either levels of political knowledge or political...Petrovic, Jean
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Mormon Americana: A Bibliographical Guide to Printed Material in the British Library relating to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
This guide explores works concerning the Mormon church in America, including sacred texts, histories and cultural topics.Whittaker, David J.
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Imagining the West: A Guide to Printed Materials in The British Library on The Literature of The American West
This guide explores fiction works about the American West and its place in the popular imagination.Whittaker, David J.
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Women in the trans-Mississippi West, 1840-1900: A Guide to Materials in the British Library
Few regions, in any country, at any time, have so indelibly shaped their nation’s identity and its international image as the late nineteenth century American West. For nearly a century this West was portrayed in fiction, film, folklore and art as a vast arena of mythic struggles between rugged individuals,...Kemble, Jean
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Mining the American West: A Bibliographical Guide to Printed Materials on American Mining Frontiers in the British Library
This bibliography provides a basic guide to the printed materials on this important topic in American History as reflected in the holdings of the British Library. It does not claim to be comprehensive, but it will provide the serious student with a window to the literature on Western American mining...Whittaker, David J.
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The American Colonies, 1584-1688. A Selective Guide to Materials in the British Library
A guide to works concerning the European colonization of the areas of North America that later became the United States of America, focusing on the fifteen states bordering the Atlantic Ocean. Topics include politics and government, economy, society, and cultural and intellectual life.Sharp Wells, Anne
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Conserving America: A Bibliographical Guide to Printed Material in the British Library Relating to American Environmental History and Thought
The purpose of this bibliography is to list the significant studies of American Environment History found in the British Library. Because no clear line can be drawn between conservation, reclamation, ecology and natural history, each is included. This bibliography does not contain references to all the holdings on the topic...Whittaker, David J.
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Caribbean Publishing: A Selective Bibliography of British Library Holdings, 1800-1974
This bibliography includes British Library holdings of books that were published in Barbados, British Guiana, Grenada, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, between 1800 and their respective independences: 1966, 1970, 1974, 1962 and 1962. A selective bibliography, there were some important exclusions, crucially, anything that was published by a ‘government printing...Oppenheim, Naomi
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Wikimedia Commons: A Beginner's Guide
A guide written for the Platinum Jubilee celebrations, instructing users how to upload their images to Wikimedia Commons.Hinnie, Lucy R.
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A catalogue of manuscript and printed reports, field books, memoirs, maps, etc., of the Indian Surveys, deposited in the map room of the India office
A catalogue of manuscript and printed reports, field books, memoirs, maps, etc., of the Indian Surveys, deposited in the map room of the India office is the published listing of the holdings of the map collection of the India Office, the working archive used for the administration of India from...Markham, Clements
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US Fine Presses Established after 1945: A Guide to the British Library’s Holdings
This project grew out of a conversation in late 2019 with Phil Hatfield, then Head of the Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library, who had recently pledged financial support towards the cataloguing of a backlog of US fine press publications that had been acquired by our curatorial...Petrovic, Jean
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Early American Science: a selective guide to materials at the British Library
By the early eighteenth century the American colonies were well established along the eastern seaboard. In many respects, their economic development until this point had been remarkable. So, too, were the advances they had made in self-government. By the 1720s trade between the colonies was increasing; transport links were improving;...Petrovic, Jean
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'For Myself, For My Children, For Money': A bibliography of early American women’s writings at the British Library
This bibliography offers readers a guide to writings by American women in the seventeenth, eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Each of the women listed here had their first work published as a single volume, under their name alone, by 1850. The works include novels, collections of poetry, historical monographs, biographies,...Petrovic, Jean
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The Federal Writers’ Project: A guide to materials held at the British Library
The Federal Writers’ Project (FWP) was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on 27 July 1935 as part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). As with so many of the New Deal programmes, the remit of the FWP – and its sister projects in art, music and theatre, known collectively...Petrovic, Jean
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The Harlem Renaissance: A selective guide to materials at the British Library (revised)
The rich surge in African American arts and letters that took place in 1920s was not limited to Harlem, nor even to New York City. However, the intensity of the movement in that city, and the sheer number of black writers, musicians, and scholars who lived and worked in Harlem...Petrovic, Jean
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Catalogue of pre-modern Japanese maps held in the British Library
Japan has a long history of cartography but it was only with the advent of commercial printing and publishing in the early seventeenth century that maps became everyday objects. In the course of the Edo period (1600-1868) an extraordinary quantity of maps were printed for popular sale and distribution, all...Kornicki, Peter Francis
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The Visionary Art of William Blake: Christianity, Romanticism and the Pictorial Imagination
William Blake (1757-1827) is considered one of the most singular and brilliant talents that England has ever produced. Celebrated now for the originality of his thinking, painting and verse, he shocked contemporaries by rejecting all forms of organized worship even while adhering to the truth of the Bible. But how...Billingsley, Naomi
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India Office Library (IOL) Burmese Manuscripts in the British Library
This IOL Burmese manuscript catalogue covers the numbers of Mss Burmese 73-212 (with many inexplicable gaps).British Library
palm leaf manuscripts, Myanmar, folding books, Mon language, and India Office Library
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Quality Assurance Guide for the UK Web Archive: An introduction to reviewing the quality of archived websites through ACT
This guidebook contains strategies that can be used to support Quality Assurance (QA) undertaken with the UK Web Archive’s Annotation Curation Tool (ACT). The guide has several aims: to provide an introduction to web archiving generally and to the UK Web Archive in particular; to provide hints and tips on...Bingham, Nicola ; Byrne, Helena
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A Hand-list of the Manuscripts in Burmese Collection in the British Library
This list contains about 1000 manuscripts from Myanmar (Burma) in the British Library originating from the British Museum collections, and contains not only manuscripts in Burmese but also Shan, Mon, and Arakanese. All items are identified and described based upon a physical examination of the manuscripts, and a collation of...British Library
Pali manuscripts, palm leaf manuscripts, Myanmar, and folding books
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Publications proscribed by the Government of India: a catalogue of the collections in the India Office Library and Records and the Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books, British Library Reference Division
The books, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, handbills and posters proscribed by the British government in India are an invaluable printed archive for the study of the Indian freedom struggle during its last four crucial decades from the 1910s to the 1940s. As such they also constitute perhaps one of the largest...Shaw, Graham ; Lloyd, Mary
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Guide to the National Reference Library of Science and Innovation
This Guide outlines the scope, contents and layout of the National Reference Library of Science and Invention and describes its various aids, services and practices. It is, however, only a brief guide and it cannot give all the details which those who intend to use the Library extensively might find...National Reference Library of Science and Invention
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Foreign-Language Printing in London 1500-1900
The fourteen essays in this volume represent the first systematic attempt to document and to analyse the tradition of foreign language printing in London during the period 1500 to 1900. The surveys and case studies use a variety of approaches to document and describe this particular aspect of London printing...Taylor, Barry