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Dataset
EAP031 Catalogue Metadata
This Excel spreadsheet contains the metadata that describes the archival collection digitised in Bulgaria by the EAP031 "The Treasures of Danzan Ravjaa" project team. The metadata was originally created by the EAP031 project team that digitised the archive in 2005. The project team was led by Professor Caroline Humphrey. This...EAP031 Project Team
metadata, manuscripts, and Tibetan
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Handlist of Post-1600 French Literary Manuscripts and Letters in the Department of Manuscripts of the British Library
This list provides an overview of post-1600 literary manuscripts and letters in the French language held in the British Library’s Western Manuscripts Collections. It was compiled in 1996 by Julian Conway, superintendent of the Manuscripts Reading Room. It focuses primarily on diverse manuscript material written by literary figures, with an...Conway, Julian
manuscripts, letters, autograph, French, correspondence, and literary
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Blog post
No Longer in the Garage: The Archive of Galloping Dog Press, Poetry Information and Not Poetry
The small press publisher Peter Hodgkiss begins his memoir essay ‘It’s All in the Garage’ contemplating ‘a tatty cardboard box’ with ‘GDP’ written in fading red felt-tip pen on the side: ‘It has moved from landing to attic to garage 1 to garage 2 in two houses in Newcastle to...Beckett, Chris
literature, poetry, Contemporary Britain, manuscripts, and new collection items
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Blog post
The writing of J. G. Ballard’s Crash: a look under the bonnet
Shock greeted the publication of J. G. Ballard’s Crash in 1973. Cult status quickly followed. Today, the novel is widely considered to be a modern classic, a novel that speaks both of its time – the darkening close of a decade of colourful liberation – and speaks dystopically to us...Beckett, Chris
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Blog post
‘Post-it’ notes in the Will Self archive
'My books begin life in notebooks, then they move on to Post-it notes, the Post-its go up on the walls of the room […] short story ideas, tropes, metaphors, gags, characters, etc. When I'm working on a book, the Post-its come down off the wall and go into scrapbooks.’ (‘Writers'...Beckett, Chris
literature, Contemporary Britain, manuscripts, and new collection items
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Blog post
Archive of Joan Bakewell joins the British Library’s Contemporary Archives Collections
Joan Bakewell’s autobiography, The Centre of the Bed (2003), begins in a white room – a room as white as ‘a fresh sheet of paper’ – at the top of the house in which she has lived for many years. Boxes and packets of papers long-forgotten have been retrieved from...Beckett, Chris
literature, television, Contemporary Britain, manuscripts, and archival research
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Dataset
Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts: Or 74 to Stowe Ch 297
This dataset comprises 32 digitised Hebrew manuscripts (1000 - 1903), with their shelfmarks in alphabetical order (Or 74 to Stowe Ch 297). These manuscripts are out of copyright. These JPEG files were converted from TIFF files using IrfanView, and then further compressed using JPEGMini. They can be used for image...King, Ellie
manuscripts, Jewish, and Hebrew
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Dataset
Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts: Or 1389 to Sloane MS 3173
This dataset comprises 32 digitised Hebrew manuscripts (1200 - 1899), with their shelfmarks in alphabetical order (Or 1389 to Sloane MS 3173). These manuscripts are out of copyright. These JPEG files were converted from TIFF files using IrfanView, and then further compressed using JPEGMini. They can be used for image...King, Ellie
manuscripts, Jewish, and Hebrew
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Dataset
Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts: Or 2518 to Or 5834
This dataset comprises 33 digitised Hebrew manuscripts (900 - 1899), with their shelfmarks in alphabetical order (Or 2518 to Or 5834). These manuscripts are out of copyright. These JPEG files were converted from TIFF files using IrfanView, and then further compressed using JPEGMini. They can be used for image and...King, Ellie
manuscripts, Jewish, and Hebrew