Buscar
Resultados de la búsqueda
-
2017
Blog post
First report from the Will Self archive: family matters
Will Self’s review (for the New Statesman) of Peter Ackroyd’s Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination (2002) begins with the suggestion that his grandfather would have enjoyed the book. Before telling us why (Cockney visionaries both, with a tendency to compendiousness), we are treated to a pen-portrait of grandfather...Beckett, Chris
-
2017
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
-
2017
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
-
2017
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
-
2017
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
-
2017
Dataset
Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts: Add MS 26938 - Add MS 9398
This dataset comprises 35 digitised Hebrew manuscripts (1100 - 1816; unknown date), with their shelfmarks in alphabetical order (Add MS 26938 - Add MS 9398). These manuscripts are out of copyright. We would appreciate it if users could read our Ethical terms of use guide before reusing our Hebrew manuscripts...Keinan-Schoonbaert, Adi
manuscripts, Jewish, and Hebrew
-
2017
Dataset
Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts: Or 2406 - Or 2509
This dataset comprises 41 digitised Hebrew manuscripts (1300 - 1799; unknown date), with their shelfmarks in alphabetical order (Or 2406 - Or 2509). 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...Keinan-Schoonbaert, Adi
manuscripts, Jewish, and Hebrew
-
2017
Dataset
Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts: Add MS 9399 - Harley MS 5708
This dataset comprises 27 digitised Hebrew manuscripts (1200 - 1499; unknown date), with their shelfmarks in alphabetical order (Add MS 9399 - Harley MS 5708). 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...Keinan-Schoonbaert, Adi
manuscripts, Jewish, and Hebrew
-
2017
Dataset
Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts: Harley 5772 to Or 14580
This dataset comprises 42 digitised Hebrew manuscripts (1200 - 1871), with their shelfmarks in alphabetical order (Harley 5772 - Or 14580). 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...Cronin, Catherine
manuscripts, Jewish, and Hebrew
- « Anterior
- Siguiente »
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4