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African Studies in the Digital Age. DisConnects?
African Studies in the Digital Age. DisConnects? seeks to understand the complex changes brought about by the digital revolution. The editors, Terry Barringer and Marion Wallace, have brought together librarians, archivists, researchers and academics from three continents to analyse the creation and use of digital research resources and archives in...Barringer, Terry ; Wallace, Marion
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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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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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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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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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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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Buddhist Rock-Cut Monasteries of the Western Ghats
This guidebook focuses on the rock-cut Buddhist monasteries near Nashik and Junnar, and at Karla, Bhaja, Bedsa, Kondane and Kanheri, all in western Maharashtra. These magnificent shrines and dwellings, known as chaityas and viharas, were cut into the basalt cliffs of the Western Ghats more than 2,000 years ago. They...Michell, George ; Rees, Gethin
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The British Library Stefan Zweig Collection: Catalogue of the Literary and Historical Manuscripts
One of the most significant donations ever made to the British Library, the Stefan Zweig Collection comprises over two hundred remarkable items assembled by the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig (1881–1942) and his heirs. Richly varied in form and content, it offers deep insights into European culture and history over several...British Library
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