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Journal article
Reading the Way to the Heavenly Jerusalem in the Book of Armagh
This paper examines the series of text-image devices found in the Book of Armagh (Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS 52), at the explicit to the Gospel of John (fol. 103r), the tituli to the Book of Revelation (fol. 159v), and the Revelation explicit (fol. 170r), to suggest how the manuscript...Jackson, Eleanor
John the Evangelist, diagrams, Book of Armagh, manuscript, Gregory the Great, Moralia, art, white martyrdom, Heavenly Jerusalem, reading, eschatology, and meditation
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Journal article
Six Poll-Tax Receipts from Arsinoe
Micucci, Federica
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Book chapter
“Existentialist Hu-ha”?: Censoring the Existentialists in the British Theater
This chapter will look at the censorship of playwrights associated with existentialist thinking in the British theater, from the opening up of the London stage to French writers after the Second World War to the end of theater censorship in Britain with the passing of the Theatres Act 1968. Consideration...Andrews, Jamie
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Research report
Data Study Group Final Report: The National Archives, UK: Discovering Topics and Trends in the UK Government Web Archive
The challenge we address in this report is to make steps towards improving search and discovery of resources within this vast archive for future archive users, and how the UKGWA collection could begin to be unlocked for research and experimentation by approaching it as data (i.e. as a dataset at...Beavan, David ; Nanni, Federico
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Journal article
Design Choices for Productive, Secure, Data-Intensive Research at Scale in the Cloud
We present a policy and process framework for secure environments for productive data science research projects at scale, by combining prevailing data security threat and risk profiles into five sensitivity tiers, and, at each tier, specifying recommended policies for data classification, data ingress, software ingress, data egress, user access, user...Arenas, Diego ; Atkins, Jon ; Austin, Claire ; Beavan, David ; Cabrejas Egea, Alvaro …
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Conference paper (published)
When Time Makes Sense: A Historically-Aware Approach to Targeted Sense Disambiguation
As languages evolve historically, making computational approaches sensitive to time can improve performance on specific tasks. In this work, we assess whether applying historical language models and time-aware methods help with determining the correct sense of polysemous words. We outline the task of time-sensitive Targeted Sense Disambiguation (TSD), which aims...Beelen, Kaspar ; Nanni, Federico ; Coll Ardanuy, Mariona ; Hosseini, Kasra ; Tolfo, Giorgia …
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Journal article
Maps of a Nation? The Digitized Ordnance Survey for New Historical Research
Although the Ordnance Survey has itself been the subject of historical research, scholars have not systematically used its maps as primary sources of information. This is partly for disciplinary reasons and partly for the technical reason that high-quality maps have not until recently been available digitally, geo-referenced, and in color....Hosseini, Kasra ; McDonough, Katherine ; van Strien, Daniel ; Vane, Olivia ; Wilson, Daniel C.S.
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Conference paper (unpublished)
A Deep Learning Approach to Geographical Candidate Selection through Toponym Matching
Recognizing toponyms and resolving them to their real-world referents is required for providing advanced semantic access to textual data. This process is often hindered by the high degree of variation in toponyms. Candidate selection is the task of identifying the potential entities that can be referred to by a toponym... -
Book chapter
How we got here
Wilson, Daniel C.S.
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Book chapter
Text Meets Space: Geographic Content Extraction, Resolution and Information Retrieval
In this half-day tutorial, we will review the basic concepts of, methods for, and applications of geographic information retrieval, also showing some possible applications in fields such as the digital humanities. The tutorial is organized in four parts. First we introduce some basic ideas about geography, and demonstrate why text...Leidner, Jochen ; Martins, Bruno ; McDonough, Katherine ; Purves, Ross
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Abstract
Using smart annotations to map the geography of newspapers
Geographic information is a key component in the description of collection objects, and yet its format is often unsuited for use with methods of geographic analysis. Catalogue entries are often inconsistent, in plain text, and without geographic coordinates (much less coordinates linked to authority records). Georesolution of the relevant fields...Ryan, Yann ; Coll Ardanuy, Mariona ; van Strien, Daniel ; Hosseini, Kasra ; Beelen, Kaspar …
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Journal article
Dunhuang scrolls: Innovative storage solutions at the British Library
The British Library’s Stein collection contains about 14,000 scrolls, fragments and booklets in Chinese from a cave in the Buddhist Mogao Caves complex near Dunhuang in north-west China. This article describes storage and access solutions for the collection in the context of a busy research library and the currently ongoing...Kralka, Paulina ; Muzart, Marya
conservation, storage, paper, Central Asia, Dunhuang, and scroll
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Journal article
Buddhism and trade: interpreting the distribution of rock-cut monasteries in the Western Ghats mountains, India using least-cost paths
Trade is frequently cited as the primary influence on the florescence of rock-cut Buddhist monasteries in the Western Ghats mountains, India between 200 BCE and 400 CE. Yet the monasteries have been foci of art-historical scholarship without detailed investigation of archaeology and geography. The relationship between monasteries, trade routes, ports...Rees, Gethin
trade, rock-cut monasteries, early historic, Deccan, Buddhism, and Western Ghats
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Dataset
UK Doctoral Thesis Metadata from EThOS
This dataset has been superseded by a more recent version: https://doi.org/10.23636/j278-4b96 If you require access to an earlier version, please email openaccess@bl.uk, including the dataset title, date, and DOI in your request. The data in this collection comprises the bibliographic metadata for all UK doctoral theses listed in EThOS, the...British Library ; Rosie, Heather
higher education, student, EThOS, research, doctoral, thesis, PhD, UK, dissertations, and theses
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Journal article
The Croatian Collections in the British Library
The paper discusses Croatian historic collections acquired by the British Museum Library in the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. The results of previous research into the collection are mentioned and the new findings are presented. The paper considers the growth of the Croatian collection to...Grba, Milan
Glagolitic, Slavic, academic publications, Croatia, Croatian books and collections, British Museum Library, manuscript, and Eastern European
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Journal article
Qur’an manuscripts from Mindanao: collecting histories, art and materiality
The study of the writing traditions of the Malay world of maritime South East Asia has been both shaped and distorted by the differing colonial experiences within the region. In particular, a chasmic disconnect can be discerned between the western swathe occupied by the modern nations of Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei...Gallop, Annabel Teh
Maranao, Islamic art, Qur'an manuscripts, manuscript illumination, Maguindanao, and Mindanao
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Journal article
‘How soon was now?’: A retrospective on the popularity of nouveau vintage
Fashion is a product and reflection of time and tantamount to modernity. The promise of which rests in the future, thus fashion is forever looking forward in the ambition to be ‘new’. Vintage fashion, namely clothes from past periods apprehend this perpetual cycle, often adopted by alternative groups of consumers...Brett, Rachel
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Journal article
Sovereign Signs: Titles of Kingship on Malay Seals
The recent publication of a new catalogue of over 2,000 Malay seals—defined as seals from Southeast Asia, with inscriptions in Arabic script—makes available for the first time a substantial corpus of primary source material from the Malay archipelago, dating from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century. The main function...Gallop, Annabel Teh
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Journal article
Collections Within Collections: An Analysis of Tipu Sultan’s Library
The library of Tipu Sultan of Mysore is one of the most important in the history of South Asian Islamic collections. Unlike many collections which can be regarded as dynastic libraries, Tipu’s was relatively newly-formed. Most of the books had not been acquired before the mid-eighteenth century but nevertheless came...Sims-Williams, Ursula
Tipu Sultan, Islamic seals, manuscript studies, and Deccan India
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Journal article
The official and personal seals of Tipu Sultan of Mysore
This article looks at all the known seals of Tipu Sultan of Mysore (r. 1782-1799) particularly those found in the manuscripts which formed his Library collection, disbanded in 1799 after the fall of Seringapatam and subsequently divided between the East India Company London (now in the British Library), and the...Sims-Williams, Ursula
Tipu Sultan, seals, Seringapartam, and East India Company Library
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Dataset
OCR text derived from digitised books published 1900 - c. 1946. ALTO XML.
Unfortunately we are unable to make this dataset available due to copyright reasons. This set consists 1251 volumes, published between 1900-1946. The dataset comprises text from the collection of digitised books created using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology. The books cover a wide range of subject areas including philosophy, history,...British Library ; British Library Labs
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Dataset
UK Doctoral Theses (EThOS) Abstracts and Metadata - 01/03/2015. XLS.
This dataset has been superseded by a more recent version: https://doi.org/10.22021/ETHOSCSV201810 If you require access to an earlier version, please email openaccess@bl.uk, including the dataset title, date, and DOI in your request. The data in this collection comprises the bibliographic metadata for all UK doctoral theses listed in EThOS, the UK's national thesis service. We...British Library ; Rosie, Heather
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Dataset
UK Doctoral Thesis Metadata from EThOS
This dataset has been superseded by a more recent version: https://doi.org/10.23636/ybpt-nh33 If you require access to an earlier version, please email openaccess@bl.uk, including the dataset title, date, and DOI in your request. The data in this collection comprises the bibliographic metadata for all UK doctoral theses listed in EThOS, the...British Library ; Rosie, Heather
higher education, ethos, dissertations, thesis, research, PhD, doctoral, student, UK, and theses
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Journal article
A Royal Manuscript of 1809 in the British Library
The Korean royal manuscript Gisa jinpyori jinchan uigwe (Record of the Presentation Ceremony and Banquet in the Gisa year), a single volume of 94 folios of illustrations and text, was acquired by the British Museum from a vendor in Paris in 1891, having apparently become separated from a group of... -
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Animals, Joseph Dalton Hooker and the Ross Expedition to Antarctica, 1839–1843
In 1839 the Ross Expedition to locate the Southern Magnetic pole was launched from Chatham. Over the next four years, this voyage of discovery would bring into sharper focus the land and seas surrounding the Antarctic region. Official reports and modern accounts of this voyage invariably situate the humans on...Sharp Jones, Cam
animals, HMS Erebus, Ross Expedition, Antarctica, zoology, and Joseph Dalton Hooker
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Learning object
المعرفة الاستعمارية: دليل لوريمر عن الخليج وعُمان ووسط الجزيرة العربية
دليل الخليج وعُمان ووسط الجزيرة العربية من قبل جون جوردون لوريمر قد تم إستخدامه منذ فترة طويلة كمصدر رئيسي لدراسة المنطقة. غير أنه من الضروري فهم سياقات إعداد الدليل من أجل تقدير مضمونه. منذ فترة طويلة يُشار إلى موسوعة جون جوردون لوريمر المكونة من ٥٠٠٠ صفحة بعنوان دليل الخليج وعُمان...Lowe, Daniel
المقيمية السياسية في الخليج العربي, مكتب المستعمرات البريطانية, الزبارة, عُمان, موسوعات, لويس بيلي, الساحل المتصالح, ساحل مكران, الشارقة, الخليج العربي, and بيرسي زكريا كوكس
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Learning object
Colonial Knowledge: Lorimer’s Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Oman and Central Arabia
J. G. Lorimer’s Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Oman and Central Arabia has long been used as a central source for the study of the region. Yet, it is essential to understand the contexts of its production in order to fully appreciate its content. It has long been pointed out... -
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الحبر الخفي: اعتراض البريد في الحرب العالمية الثانية
خلال الحرب العالمية الثانية، صدرت وعُممت تعليمات سرية إلى الوكلاء السياسيين في البحرين والكويت ومسقط تتعلق باعتراض البريد المار عبر الخليج. في أغسطس ١٩٣٩، صدَّقت حكومة الهند - التي كانت تترقب اندلاع الحرب في أوروبا - على اعتراض البريد في الخليج لإجراء أنشطة تتعلق بالفحص والرقابة. فتم تعيين ثلاثة موظفين...Lowe, Daniel
الرقابة, الحرب العالمية الثانية (١٩٣٩-١٩٤٥), وسائل الاتصال, and الخليج العربي
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Learning object
Invisible Ink: Intercepting Post in Second World War
During WWII, secret instructions for the interception of post passing through the Gulf were circulated to Political Agents in Bahrain, Kuwait and Muscat. In August 1939, anticipating the outbreak of war in Europe, the Government of India sanctioned the interception of post for examination and censorship in the Gulf. Three...Lowe, Daniel
communication methods, Second World War (1939-1945), censorship, and Persian Gulf
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Learning object
ثروة الشيخ جاسم بن مُحمد آل ثاني ووفاته
عقب وفاة الشيخ جاسم بن محمد آل ثاني في ١٩١٣، أكتشف البريطانيون ثروته الطائلة عبر التقارير الاستخباراتية التي أرسلها له يوسف بن أحمد كانو. في ١٢ يوليو ١٩١٣، تلقى الرائد آرثر بريسكوت تريفور، الوكيل البريطاني في البحرين تقريرًا عاجلاً من يوسف بن أحمد كانو، التاجر البحريني الذي عمل أيضًا بدوام...Lowe, Daniel
الوهابيون (قبيلة) and قطر
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Learning object
A Considerable Fortune: The Wealth, and Death, of Sheikh Jāsim bin Muḥammad Āl Thānī'
At the time of Sheikh Jāsim bin Muḥammad Āl Thānī’s death in 1913, his great wealth was revealed to the British in intelligence reports sent by Yūsuf bin Aḥmad Kanoo. On 12 July 1913, Major Arthur Prescott Trevor, the British Political Agent at Bahrain, received an urgent report from Yūsuf...Lowe, Daniel
Qatar and Wahabi (Tribe)
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Learning object
وفاة الملكة فيكتوريا: سياسات الحداد الخاصة بالبريطانيين في الخليج
تكشف التعليمات المُرسلة إلى الوكيل المحلي في الشارقة بعيد وفاة الملكة فيكتوريا في ١٩٠١ بشأن كيفية الحداد على وفاتها عن عدة جوانب لبنية الإمبراطورية من خلال ممارسات الحداد الشعائرية. فعلى الرغم من أن الملكة فيكتوريا لم تطأ قدمها أرض الإمبراطورية التي تربعت على عرشها حيث نالت لقب إمبراطورة الهند في...Lowe, Daniel
العلاقات الخارجية, الشارقة, and بوشهر
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Learning object
The Death of Queen Victoria: the Politics of Mourning for the British in the Gulf
Upon the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, instructions sent to the Native Agent at Sharjah on how to visibly mourn her death reveal aspects of the construction of empire via ritual mourning practices. Although Queen Victoria never set foot on the soil of the empire over which she was...Lowe, Daniel
foreign relations, Sharjah, and Bushire
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Learning object
‘Persian Gulf Tragedy’: the Death and Legacy of John Gordon Lorimer
The untimely death of John Gordon Lorimer, acting Resident in the Persian Gulf 1913–14, was seen as a tragedy. Yet, his legacy – in the form of his Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Oman and Central Arabia – emerged forty years later and has remained central to the study of...Lowe, Daniel
gazetteers, intelligence operations, Bahrain, Būshehr, and Persian Gulf
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Learning object
"مأساة الخليج العربي": وفاة وتَرِكة جون جوردون لوريمر
لقد اعتُبِرَت الوفاة المبكرة لجون جوردون لوريمر، المقيم المُفوّض في الخليج العربي ١٩١٣-١٩١٤، مأساة حزينة. مع ذلك فإن تَرِكته المتمثلة في "دليل الخليج وعمان ووسط الجزيرة العربية"، الذي ظهر بعد أربعين عامًا من وفاته، ظلت مصدرًا أساسيًا لجميع الدراسات التي أُجريت عن الخليج منذ ذلك الحين. في صباح يوم الأحد...Lowe, Daniel
المكان, موسوعات, عمليات الاستخبارات, بوشهر, and الخليج العربي
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Learning object
"الملل الإمبراطوري" والقراءة الإمبراطورية
وضّح مسؤول إستعماري بإسم هيكينبوثام الملل اليومي في إدارة الإمبراطورية بنكاته العملية وقائمة قراءة تهَرُّبية. سجلت المطبوعة البريطانية المتخصصة في عرض السير الذاتية والمعروفة باسم "هو إز هو" (Who's Who) في سنة ١٩٤٢ أن إدوارد ويكفيلد وتوم هيكينبوثام، الوكيل السياسي بالكويت، أبحرا حول وربة وهي جزيرة في الخليج تقع بالقرب...Lowe, Daniel
الوكيل السياسي بالكويت, عدن, الكويت, شبه الجزيرة العربية, اليمن, and المقيمية السياسية في الخليج العربي
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Learning object
‘Imperial Boredom’ and Imperial Reading
A colonial officer named Hickinbotham illustrates the everyday boredom of administrating the Empire with his practical jokes and escapist reading list. The British biographical publication Who’s Who of 1942 records that Edward Wakefield and Tom Hickinbotham, the Political Agent at Kuwait, circumnavigated Warbah, an island in the Gulf near the...Lowe, Daniel
Yemen, Kuwait, Political Agent, Kuwait, Aden, Arabian Peninsula, and Persian Gulf Political Residency
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Learning object
صناعة السلطة: أختامٌ "إسلامية" في أيدي مسؤولي الاستعمار البريطاني
لم يكن الاستملاك الثقافي أقل أهمية من القوة العسكرية في صناعة الإمبراطورية البريطانية، ويعد استخدام مسؤولي الاستعمار البريطاني للأختام "الإسلامية" مثالًا صريحًا على ذلك. يقول المستشرق إدوارد ويليام لاين في تأريخه عن المجتمع المصري في القرن التاسع عشر: " يقتني ختمًا تقريبًا كل من يستطيع تحمل تكلفته، وإن كان خادمًا"....Lowe, Daniel
تشارلز دالريمبل بلجريف, المقيمية السياسية في الخليج العربي, وسائل الاتصال, لويس بيلي, مستشار حكومة البحرين, and العلاقات الخارجية
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Learning object
Performing Authority: the ‘Islamic’ Seals of British Colonial Officers
Cultural appropriation was as much a part of empire as military force. The use of ‘Islamic’ seals by British colonial officials is one example of this. In his record of nineteenth century Egyptian society, Edward William Lane wrote that ‘[a]lmost every person who can afford it has a seal-ring, even...Lowe, Daniel
foreign relations, communication methods, Persian Gulf Political Residency, Sir Knight Lewis Pelly, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain, and Sir Knight Charles Dalrymple Belgrave
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Learning object
للملك جورج الخامس مها الملك: هدية ابن سعود الدبلوماسية
كانت هدية ابن سعود في سنة ١٩٢٠عبارة عن أنثى المها وهي أول هدية تمكنت من التغلب على الرحلة الصعبة من الجزيرة العربية إلى لندن. في رسالة بين ملك بريطانيا وأمير نجد في سنة ١٩٢٠م لوحظ أن حيوانًا "فريدًا من نوعه" قد وصل إلى لندن، وفي الواقع "لم يصل آي حيوان...Lowe, Daniel
آل سعود, المملكة العربية السعودية, الحرب العالمية الأولى (١٩١٤-١٩١٨), and سعود بن عبد العزيز آل سعود
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Learning object
The King’s Oryx: Ibn Saud’s Diplomatic Gift to George V
In 1920, a gift from Ibn Saud in the form of a female oryx was the first ever to have survived the difficult journey from Arabia to London. In correspondence between HM the King and the Amir of Najd of 1920 it was noted that an animal ‘unique of its...Lowe, Daniel
Āl Sa'ūd (Family), King of Saudi Arabia Sa'ūd bin 'Abd al-'Azīz Āl Sa'ūd, Saudi Arabia, and First World War (1914-1918)
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Learning object
وفاة النقيب شكسبير
تُسلط رواية غير معروفة حكاها شاهد عيان، وحصل عليها الوكلاء البريطانيون بالبحرين من قبيل الصدفة، الضوء على وفاة وليام هنري إيرفين شكسبير. يعتبر النقيب وليام هنري إيرفين شكسبير شخصية غامضة في تاريخ العلاقات الإنجليزية السعودية. ورغم أنه كان من أصغر الوكلاء السياسيين سناً ممن خدموا في الخليج، إلا أنه من...Lowe, Daniel
آل سعود, المملكة العربية السعودية, الحرب العالمية الأولى (١٩١٤-١٩١٨), الكويت, العمليات العسكرية, سعود بن عبد العزيز آل سعود, and نجد
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Blog post
George Percy Churchill’s Biographical Notices of Persian Statesmen and Notables
In 1906, the Government of India Foreign Department published (and republished in 1910) an index of prominent Qajar statesmen, compiled by George Percy Churchill, Oriental Secretary at the British Legation in Tehran. According to Cyrus Ghani, this collection of notes and genealogical tables, entitled Biographical Notices of Persian Statesmen and...Lowe, Daniel
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Learning object
The Death of Captain Shakespear
A little known first-hand account, that the British Agents in Bahrain garnered by chance, sheds light on William Henry Irvine Shakespear’s death. Captain William Henry Irvine Shakespear is an enigmatic figure in the history of Anglo-Saudi relations. Although he was one of the youngest Political Agents to serve in the...Lowe, Daniel
military operations, Naid, Āl Sa'ūd (Family), Kuwait, King of Saudi Arabia Sa'ūd bin 'Abd al-'Azīz Āl Sa'ūd, Saudi Arabia, and First World War (1914-1918)
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Blog post
Shubbak 2017: contemporary Arab culture at the British Library
The biennial Shubbak Festival returns to London this year between 1st and 16th July with a range of exciting and engaging events on contemporary Arab culture, with an array of literary events taking place once again at the British Library.Lowe, Daniel
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Blog post
Shubbak Literature Festival at the British Library
On Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 July 2015, the British Library will host the Shubbak Literature Festival as part of Shubbak, London’s largest biennial festival showcasing the best in contemporary Arab culture.Lowe, Daniel
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Blog post
Conference on Digital Islamic Humanities
Two representatives from the British Library attended the recent conference, ‘The Digital Humanities + Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies’, hosted by the Middle Eastern Studies Department of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Organised by Dr Elias Muhanna and held on 24-25 October 2013, this conference sought to bring together...Lowe, Daniel ; Sobers-Khan, Nurs