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'Making tradition': healing, history and ethnic identity among Otjiherero-speakers in Namibia, c. 1850–1950
For at least the last century and a half, Otjiherero-speakers in central Namibia have engaged in healing rituals played out around the Holy Fire and involving a resolution of tension through appeal to male patrilineal ancestors. These ceremonies are part of traditions that have increasingly come to define Herero ethnic...Wallace, Marion
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Book chapter
Fat truck tyres: the notebook as relay
Bury, Stephen
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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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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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Recent Acquisitions: a Rare Work by Jacobus Tevius
Jacobus Tevius (Diogo de Tieve) is a key figure in the Portuguese Renaissance. This note describes the contents of his Epodon siue Ia(m)bicorum carminum libri tres [...] Ad Sebastianum primum, inuictissimum Lusitaniae Regem (Lisbon: Francisco Correia, 1565) and examines the author's contacts with courtly and scholarly circles in sixteenth-century Portugal...Taylor, Barry
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Emigration, Abolition and the Atlantic World in the Revolutionary Era
The upheavals of the French Revolution not only affected France and Europe, but heralded crucial consequences for the Caribbean. Revolution in Saint-Domingue (modern-day Haiti) led to the collapse of slavery and the creation of Haiti as an independent republic. 'Jacobin' slaves fleeing the island carried word of Revolution to British...Shaw, Matthew J.
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Confiscated Nazi Books in the British Library
The British Library possesses eleven or twelve thousand books seized from German libraries and institutions between June 1944, when Anglo-American forces invaded western Europe, and 1947. Nearly half the confiscated books came from a single library, that of the German Army's Kriegsschule (known in the British Library as the Hanover...Harvey, A.D.
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Sir Frederic Madden and the Battle of the Brass Rubbings
In 1844, brass-rubbings made by Lewis Pryce Madden in the west of England were acquired for the British Museum at the behest of his brother Sir Frederic Madden, Keeper of Manuscripts. No record of them survives in the current catalogues of either the British Museum or the British Library. The...Wright, C. J.
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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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Newsletter
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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Colecciones latinoamericanas especiales – colecciones desconocidas en el Reino Unido
El portal del "National Register of Archives" (http://www.nra.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/) brinda acceso a muchos materiales de posible interés para investigadores sobre Iberoamérica, aunque su enfoque lo constituyen los documentos relacionados estrictamente con la historia del Reino Unido y con personajes británicos. Desafortunadamente, no permite la búsqueda por materia; los índices están basados...West, Geoffrey ; Cazzasa, Julio ; Millum, Danny ; Topp Fargion, Janet
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Conference paper (published)
Issues raised by a 'rap' translation of a poem by Velimir Khlebnikov 'Kamennaia baba'
Chadwick, Brian
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Conference paper (published)
Los libros españoles que fueron del Baron Achille Seillière ahora en la British Library de Londres
West, Geoffrey
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Conference paper (published)
Los libros que fueron de la Biblioteca de Seillière ahora en la British Library de Londres
West, Geoffrey
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Was Elizabeth interested in maps - and did it really matter?
It tends to be assumed that Queen Elizabeth was interested in maps and globes, not least because she was frequently depicted in their vicinity. Investigation strongly suggests that this was not the case. It is argued that this did matter. By depriving her of an independent source of spatial information,...Barber, Peter
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Philatelic research at the British Library
The three key elements of the Curator’s job are: to collect, to preserve and to make available. In many ways that of making available is the most difficult to achieve and so I welcome this opportunity to describe the considerable resources available to researchers in philately and postal history at...Beech, David R.
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Evaluating the impact of People's Network
The People's Network (PN) was launched in 2002. Its main aims were to connect all public libraries to the internet as part of a UK government commitment to provide universal access to the net by 2005, and to ensure that all citizens were able to benefit from the new opportunities...Halper, Sally
public libraries, evaluation, government policy, and People's Network
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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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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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Writing-Tables and Table-Books
On the occasion of the British Library's purchase from the collection of Colonel W. A. Potter of the only known copy of a set of writing tables (or pocket notebook) issued by John Hammond and published in 1618, this paper describes this new acquisition and and surveys references to writing...Woudhuysen, H.R.
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The Potter Almanacs
On the occasion of the British Library's purchase of fourteen items from Colonel W. A. Potter's collection of rare English almanacs, this paper places these new acquisitions on the context of the genre of popular ephemeral publications of the 16th and 17th centuries.Capp, Bernard
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A New Parallel to the Prayer 'De tenebris' in the Book of Nunnaminster (British Library, Harl. MS.2965, f.28rv)
This article studies and edits the text of the prayer 'De tenebris' as preserved in the Book of Nunnaminster (BL, Harl. MS. 2965).Raw, Barbara
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Sarah Jones and the Jacob-Jessey Church: The Relation of a Gentlewoman
Sarah Jones was a leading member of the semi-separatist Jacob-Jessey Church, in trouble with High Commission in 1632. She is here identified as Sarah Hayes, daughter of Thomas Hayes, an Alderman and Mayor of London (1614-15). She married Thomas Jones of Lambeth in 1606 and was the author of two...Wright, Stephen
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Political Verse in Late Georgian Britain: Poems Referring to William Pitt the Younger (1759-1806)
Political verse has been part of political discourse in England since before the invention of printing. It was probably past its peak by the early nineteenth century but still played a significant role in the dissemination of ideas, and provides important evidence regarding contemporary attitudes. This annotated check-list of poems...Johnson, Miles ; Harvey, A.D.
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Conference paper (published)
Atlantic crossings: the trade in Latin American books in Europe in the nineteenth century
West, Geoffrey
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Conference paper (published)
Where are they now? The dispersal of Spanish printed book collections, 1810-1850
West, Geoffrey
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Book chapter
George III and his geographical collection
Barber, Peter
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Journal article
Hejaz: the first postage stamps of 1916 and T. E. Lawrence
Hejaz, more correctly spelt Hijaz, is a region in the Arabian Peninsular that includes both the Red Sea littoral and the holy Islamic cities of Mecca and Medina. It had been part of the Turkish Ottoman Empire since 1517. In 1845 the Ottomans strengthened their influence by taking greater control...Beech, David R.
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Stamp albums in the Printed Book Collections of the British Library
The British Library, through the former Department of Printed Books of the British Museum (one of its component parts), has acquired seventy-three printed stamp albums. These were received from publishers mainly by legal deposit from the United Kingdom and Colonial territories, with a few being purchased from foreign countries. They...Beech, David R.
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New Zealand Philately at the British Library
The British Library Philatelic Collections are the National Philatelic Collections of the United Kingdom. These collections, estimated to be over eight million items, include postage and revenue stamps, artwork, essays, proofs, covers and entires, cinderella material, specimen issues, airmails, some postal history materials, official and private posts, etc., for almost...Beech, David R.
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The Library of Henry Oldenburg
This article presents three hitherto unpublished listings of books in the library of Henry Oldenburg (c.1619-1677), the first Secretary of the Royal Society. The main list is a catalogue of his collection, first drawn up in 1670 and augmented in 1677 by his friend John Pell, who surveyed the library...Malcolm, Noel
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Caricatures from the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and the Paris Commune
This article identifies and illustrates some little-known collections of caricatures on the subject of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and the Paris Commune of 1871.Daniels, Morna
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Thomas Smith, Humfrey Wanley, and the 'Little-Known Country' of the Cotton Library
Although there were many handwritten, often informal catalogues of Sir Robert Cotton's manuscripts and books during his lifetime and in the years afterwards, the desire for an official printed catalogue which could be circulated in the public realm did not really bear fruit until the late 1600s. And when two...Joy, Eileen A.
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Tupaia's Sketchbook
A group of watercolours in the British Library painted during the Pacific Ocean voyage of HM Bark Endeavour has long been attributed to the 'Artist of the Chief Mourner', sometimes identified as Joseph Banks. This article identifies the true artist as an indigenous Polynesian, Tupaia.Smith, Keith Vincent
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George Ellis of Ellis Caymanas: A Caribbean Link to Scott and the Bronte Sisters
A biography and genealogical account of George Ellis (1753-1815), Jamaican land-owner, Whig politician and man of letters, friend of Sir Walter Scott, Richard Heber and George Canning. It is also possible that via Scott he was the inspiration for Emily Bronte's choice of the nom de plume Ellis Bell.Gawthrop, Humphrey
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A Collection of German Occasional Verse, 1701-1743, Mostly from East Frisia
An introduction to some of the noteworthy features of a recently-acquired collection of occasional verse from the former German principality of East Frisia. The collection forms a fascinating resource for the study of this material, its writers and printers, and the society in which its subjects lived. A listing of...Reed, Susan
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Early Eastern Algonquian Language Books in the British Library
A history of printing in the Eastern Algonquian groups of languages of North America, with a check-list of thirty-eight items in the British Library collection printed between 1634 and 1851. The majority of speakers of these languages were traditionally located around the Great Lakes, the north-eastern coast of the United...Edwards, Adrian S.
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Henry Fox's Drafts of Lord Hardwicke's Speech in the Lords' Debate on the Bill on Clandestine Marriages, 6 June 1753: A Striving for Accuracy
Before Hansard, the records of debates in the Commons and Lords were personal ones taken by members or visitors to Parliament. The problem facing historians is the accuracy of these accounts for all necessarily reflected the agenda and views of the compiler. Two drafts in the BL's Holland House papers...Jones, Clyve
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Panizzi, Gladstone, Garibaldi and the Neapolitan Prisoners
This article tells how Antonio Panizzi of the British Museum Library worked with William Ewart Gladstone in the pursuit of Liberal causes in the reactionary Kingdom of Naples, ruled by Ferdinand II, in the 1850s. Their collaboration culminated in the release of 66 political prisoners from the island of Santo...Reidy, Denis V.
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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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Newsletter
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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DCC Workshop Report: E-mail Curation: Practical Approaches for Long-term Preservation and Access, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, April 24 - 25, 2006
A report on the Digital Curation Centre workshop held in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in April 2006 to explore practical approaches for managing, preserving and re-using e-mail records.Pennock, Maureen
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Muqāyasah-i shakṣiyat-i Rustam va Arjun dar Shāhnāmah va Mahābahārāt
مهابهارات اثر حماسی هندوان روایتگر جنگ پاندوان و کوروها بر سرحکومت منطقه ای به نام هستناپور است. در این جنگ که هیجده روز به طول می انجامد پاندوان برپسرعموهای خود پیروز می شوند. ارجن در میان باقی قهرمانان این کتاب از نظرگاه های متفاوت شبیه رستم، جهان پهلوان شاهنامه است....Sedighi, Alireza
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Muqāyasah-i sākhtārī-i khvaishāvankushī va khvaishāvanāzārī dar Shāhnāmah va Mahābahārāt
این پژوهش در صدد است تا با بررسی قصه های دو حماسه ایرانی و هندی، یعنی شاهنامه و مهابهارت، نشان دهد، ساختار این قصه ها تا چه اندازه از نظر طرح و محدوده، شبیه به هم است. بنابراین بخشی از قصه ها با موضوع «خویشاوند کشی خویشاوند آزاری» انتخاب گردید...Sedighi, Alireza
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Conference paper (published)
Archiving web site resources: a records management view
In this paper, we propose the use of records management principles to identify and manage Web site resources with enduring value as records. Current Web archiving activities, collaborative or organisational, whilst extremely valuable in their own right, often do not and cannot incorporate requirements for proper records management. Material collected...Pennock, Maureen ; Kelly, Brian
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Grey literature at The British Library: revealing a hidden resource
Purpose: To explore the changing nature of grey literature, the British Library collections of grey literature and the future challenges of collecting and supplying this type of material. Design/methodology/approach: This article provides an informal description of the British Library grey literature collection and views on challenges in acquiring and supplying...Tillett, Samantha ; Newbold, Elizabeth
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Mad Dogs and Scotsmen: A Plain Tale from the Military Collections of the India Office Records Section of the British Library
The Military Collections of the India Office Records of the British Library document the experiences of four Gordon Highlanders sent to the Institut Pasteur in Paris for treatment for rabies in the summer of 1896.Mulvihill, Margaret
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Who was Mozart's Laura? Abendempfindung and the Editors
Mozart's song Abendempfindung (K523) was written in 1787. This article challenges the editorial decision of the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe (1963) to rename it Abendempfindung an Laura.Paisey, David
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Little Red Riding-Hood
The history of the tale of Little Red Riding-Hood from Charles Perrault's manuscript of 1695, via illustrated editions of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to the present day.Daniels, Morna
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Using a Collection to Discover Reading Practices: The British Library Geneva Bibles and a History of their Early Modern Readers
This paper uses the British Library's entire collection of Geneva Bibles, dating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, to investigate their early modern readership. A survey of both the paratextual material of the vast range of editions in the collection, and of the marks which men and women from this...Molekamp, Femke
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A Knight Hospitaller's Nostalgia for Italy during the 1790s
With the intention of making better known some manuscripts acquired by the British Library in 1987, this article introduces travel journals written by a French Knight Hospitaller of St John in the late eighteenth century and focuses on Goujon de Thuisy's nostalgia for Italy and its past during the 1790s.Allen, David Frank
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Leandro Fernández de Moratín's La Mogigata: The Significance of the Holland Manuscript in the Light of Comments from Elizabeth, Lady Holland's Spanish Journal (BL, Add. MS. 51931)
A comparative study of several manuscripts of Leandro Moratin's La mogigata, with particular reference to that presented by the author in the summer of 1804 to Elizabeth, Lady Holland. Drawing on revelations in the original manuscript of her journal (BL, Add. MS. 51931), which is much fuller than the edition...Kitts, Sally Ann
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God in All Things: The Religious Outlook of Russia's Last Empress
A set of manuscript letters in the British Library (Add. MS. 46721) which consist of the correspondence between Aleksandra Feodorovna, the last Empress of Russia, and the English Bishop William Boyd Carpenter are used with other sources to illuminate the Empress's very personal ideas on religion. These were of considerable...Ashton, Janet
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A Late Renaissance Music Manuscript Unmasked
In the early seventeenth century, the Augsburg church of St Anna owned one of the largest collections of music editions and manuscripts in southern Germany. Most of these materials, a considerable number of which are now lost, were obtained during the tenure at St Anna of the prominent German composer...Charteris, Richard
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A. W. Franks and Armorial Bookbindings: Including a List of British Armorial Bookbindings Contained within the Franks Collection
A list of the British armorial bookbindings collected by Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks (1826-1897) purchased by the British Museum Library in 1900; the circumstances of its acquisition and subsequent cataloguing and an account of the previously unrecorded material associated with it.Marks, P. J. M.
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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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Research report
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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Master's dissertation
The Megiddo Picture Pavement: Evidence for Egyptian Presence in Northern Israel during Early Bronze Age I
The Megiddo Picture Pavement was discovered by the Chicago Oriental Institute expedition in the late 1930's. This pavement is part of a sacred enclosure that belongs to stratum XIX (= Stratum J-2) and dates to the Early Bronze Age IB. The partially preserved pavement of this cultic enclosure consisted of...Keinan, Adi
EBA, Egyptian art, Canaan, slab, Southern Levant, Egypt, Israel, Early Bronze Age, picture pavement, and Megiddo
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Research report
The Present Past of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Israeli Archaeology in the West Bank and East Jerusalem since 1967
As in many contested regions, the past is always present in the Middle East conflict. Here, however, the past has far greater weight than any other region, and archaeologists are those that give the distant past a palpable, physical expression. In this sense, archaeology and politics have always been intertwined....Greenberg, Raphael ; Keinan, Adi
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E-journal Archiving and Preservation Workshop
In March 2007, the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC), the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and the British Library invited attendees to a workshop focusing on the archiving and preservation of e-journals. Speakers from the publishing and library environments came together at the British Library to discuss developments and requirements in...Cass, Emma ; Hockx-Yu, Helen ; Jackson, Carol ; Pothen, Philip ; Tillett, Samantha
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Āshiyānah-i Simurgh az dirakht-i Vispubīsh tā kūh-i Alborz
به سبب شباهتهای متعددی که میان درخت و کوه وجود دارد، سیمرغ شاهنامه از درخت ویسپوبیش به کوه البرز نقل مکان می کند. سیمرغ، سئن یا مرغو سئن اوستا در شاهنامه نیز حضور خود را با تفاوتهایی حفظ کرده است. اگر سیمرغ اوستا چهره ای آیینی و پذیرفته دارد. شاهنامه...Sedighi, Alireza
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Conference paper (published)
Co-operation for digital preservation and curation: Collaboration for collection development in institutional repository network
The digital preservation problem is a series of interrelated technical and organizational challenges that can only be met co-operatively by the many different stakeholders that are involved. The rise of the institutional repository paradigm backs this up with its focus on co-operation within national or subject-based networks and the wider...Day, Michael ; Pennock, Maureen ; Allinson, Julie
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Book chapter
New York
The skyscraper profile of New York was inspirational for the European avant garde, who equated New York with modernity. It was also a refuge for European artists and writers fleeing First World War conscription or, later, Nazism and Stalinism. They mixed with the New York avant garde both there and...Holden, Carole
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Nawrūz va Jamshīd
Sedighi, Alireza
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Great Britain: 1840 Mulready Lord Holland facsimile
Those philatelists interested in Great Britain, especially its postal stationery, are usually aware of the “Lord Holland” facsimile or reproduction. While various references to it have appeared in literature from time to time, its story seems not have been brought together; this article attempts to do just that.Beech, David R.
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Hejaz: The Survey of Egypt book of 1918
Following the entry on 29th October, 1914 of the Turkish Ottoman Empire into the 1914-18 First World War on the side of the Central Powers, including Germany, it followed that war was declared between Great Britain and the Ottoman Empire on the 5th November, 1914. As the territory of Britain’s...Beech, David R.
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Hejaz: the first postage stamps of 1916 and T.E. Lawrence: additional information
Since my previous article Hejaz: The First Postage Stamps of 1916 and T.E. Lawrence in The London Philatelist (Ref.1) some further information has come to light. The Royal Philatelic Collection contains a number of imperforate proof sheets for the 1916 issue. These are listed in Wilson (Ref.2) and include the...Beech, David R.
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Book chapter
The Satow Collection of Japanese Books in the British Library: its history and significance
The aim of this article is to outline the history and importance of the collection of Japanese books which were acquired by the British Museum from the diplomat and scholar Sir Ernest Mason Satow (1843-1929) and which passed to the stewardship of the British Library on its creation in 1973....Todd, Hamish
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Sir Thomas Jewell Bennett (1852-1925)
An account of the personal papers of Sir Thomas Jewell Bennett (1852-1925), editor/principal proprietor of the Times of India and Conservative MP for Sevenoaks. They form an interesting source for politics and other issues in British India in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.O'Brien, John
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A Fragment of the Library of Theodore Haak (1605-1690)
In 1703, as part of his ongoing donations to the Bodleian Library in Oxford, Hans Sloane (1660-1753) sent from his London collection some 95 volumes exclusively in German or Dutch. This article demonstrates that these books were in fact not, like his other gifts, duplicates from Sloane's library, but form...Poole, William
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Effigies ad Regem Angliae and the Representation of Kingship in Thirteenth-Century English Royal Culture
The Effigies ad Regem Angliae is an unusual manuscript depicting images of the Kings of England from Edward the Confessor to Edward I. A deluxe volume, with its brief Anglo-Norman texts and its narrative scenes, it is unlike any other illustrated English historical work produced in this period. The images...Collard, Judith
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A Franciscan Bible Illuminated in the Style of William de Brailes
The decoration in Harley MS 2813, a Bible hitherto unpublished except for an inaccurate three-line description in the Harley Catalogue, is here attributed to the famous 13th-century Oxford illuminator William de Brailes. In addition to biblical texts it contains a selection of masses which show that it was probably made...Kidd, Peter
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Lord Nelson, HMS Victory and Sardinia - A Forgotten Episode?
This article describes the circumstances of Nelson's gift of a solid silver crucifix and two candlestick holders to the church of Santa Maria Maddalena, La Maddalena, Sardinia, in 1804.Reidy, Denis V.
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Hugh James Rose, James Murray and The Foreign Quarterly Review
The identity of the author of the famous article, 'Foreign Views of the Catholic Question', which appeared in The Foreign Quarterly Review in April 1829, gave rise to much contemporary debate. It has traditionally been attributed to the high church cleric Hugh James Rose. However, neither its contents or style...Wright, C. J.
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Robert Harley, Christmas and the House of Lords’ Protest on the Attainder of Sir John Fenwick, 23 December 1696: The Mechanism of a Procedure Partly Exposed*
On 23 December 1696 the House of Lords passed the bill of attainder for treason on the jacobite Sir John Fenwick. Many of the lords on the minority side of the division entered a written protest against the vote into the journals of the House. Because the vote had been...Jones, Clyve
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The Ingenious Mr Dummer: Rationalizing the Royal Navy in Late Seventeenth-Century England
Edmund Dummer (1651-1713) joined the Royal Navy in 1668 and rose to become its Surveyor from 1692 to 1698. His period of service coincided with the 'Scientific Revolution' and efforts made by early Fellows of the Royal Society to apply scientific principles to the processes of navigation and ship design....Fox, Celina
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Most Secret and Confidential': The Pressed Copy Nelson Letters at the British Library
This article reports the contents of nine volumes of the correspondence of Lord Nelson in press copy letter books (BL. Add. MSS 34952-34960). Of these 1099 letters, written from 1796 to 1805, 593 are unpublished. Largely private or personal letters to family, friends and naval colleagues and official letters concerning...White, Colin
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The Keyes Papers at the British Library
This article describes the papers and career of Roger Keyes (1872-1945), one of the most important naval figures of the first part of the twentieth century. The papers cover his long career from pre-World War One submarine service, through active service in World War One, the tense inter-war years, his...John-McAlister, Michael St